1 Google unveils Google Sky, its celestial partner to Google Earth. There goes your last excuse for being late to the party at Orion’s Belt.
2 Singer Jill Sobule (“I Kissed a Girl”) used her Web site to collect $80,000 from fans to pay for a new album. This financing model gets my endorsement only if you can also pay people not to make new records. Is it “celinedion.com”?
3 Once ballyhooed, now troubled, startup online music service SpiralFrog.com has been given an extra year to pay back $7 million in loans, C/Net News reports. One problem: The name doesn’t bring to mind MP3s so much as Dan Aykroyd with a blender.
4 After using his radio show to appeal directly to Apple CEO Steve Jobs for tech support, longtime “Mac guy” Rush Limbaugh got a company engineer assigned to him, he said, and his e-mails are now archiving properly. This takes “AppleCare” — the company’s name for its extended warranty program — to a new level.
5 So if Rush Limbaugh is a Mac, does that make Jon Stewart a PC?
