Can someone tell me why the Australasian Performing Rights Association has any reason to order the takedown of a video containing a song performed by American Gloria Gaynor, written by Freddie Perren, American, and released on Polydor Records, British?

We're still as creative as ever! Anytime we don't have enough rainfall for our crops, we were creative enough to realize that we could just spray them with Brawndo. Brawndo has what plants crave!

It takes creativity to figure that out.

Of course we all know Britney Spears, she has a whole team of publicists, and the mutually-dependent parasites called 'tabloid journalists' whose job it is to make sure we don't forget her!

Of course, her star will fade soon... just in time for VH1 to do a "We Love The 00's" and FOX to do "Celebrity Boxing 19", pitting her against Christina Aguilera.

Don't forget "The Final Countdown" either!!!

They told everyone to just go get a case. They didn't know everyone would come back with a court case.

So now rather than having a case for your phone be an accessory, they... are indirectly making you go and purchase one. I mean, not exactly as strong as wording as that, but... if that's how you hold your phone, especially if you're a lefty or something, you kinda need one. Yay accessory sales.

It just occurs to me, though, that if buying a case for it is the way to go about fixing the problem, couldn't they have just... buried the antenna inside the device's actual case? Or put more body around it? Oh, of course not, then the device wouldn't look as lovely. I guess form truly no longer follows function.

Not really, at least not in the sense I mean. Copy-paste had been around well before it.

Come on, don't start coming down on them for no copy-paste yet. It took the iPhone long enough to get it, and we gave them a chance.

Nope, I just went to the Newsweek website and can't get it to work. Apparently the head of their web team must read Slashdot, and put a stop to it already.

What a painful way to segue between the two stories, especially since the second is rather non-sequitur, let alone how the mention of the second story is worded to draw poor conclusions.

"The new game is called Empire & State, and it will be in alpha release by the fourth quarter of this year,"

I would hardly call this "about to launch".

Actually, funny enough, they played that song on BBC 6Music about a week or two ago. Oh wait, they're probably closing that station too... Be right back, I have some weeping to do.

Aside from the obvious problem of people sending lame pictures to your printer all the time, or spamlists getting a hold of your email address, the thing that bothers me the most is:

"rather than merely emailing links around, users can email a photo to a friend's printer."

Am I the only one who sees this as an almost-desperate bid to get people to print more out in an increasingly printless world? Think about all the people you know, and all the random images that you link back and forth. And now imagine if you spent the ink of a full-colour 5x7" on every LOLcats that came to you. And now imagine how much ink you'll be burning through.