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I've never liked Lady GaGa. Now I have even more reason not to like her.

> And that’s it. As of this posting, I still don’t know specifically what kind of problem she has with the song (obviously I take a few jabs at her, but y’know, it’s *satire* – that’s how it’s supposed to work). And I’m especially confused as to why she waited until I actually *recorded* the song (at her insistence!) before saying no. It’s not like there were any surprises in the finished song that she couldn’t have foreseen by, you know, READING THE…

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Ping: Interesting, but who knows?

So Apple threw its hat into the social networking ring yesterday. I signed up, of course, just to see what it was all about. The jury is still out on this one for me, but there were a few things I immediately liked: No browser. I almost never log in to my Facebook account from my computer. Unless someone asks me a direct question, or I want to check out a photo that someone tagged of me. I never go to the Twitter web site, either. I do, however, use…

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Pink Floyd showing their age

> Indeed, as EMI has discovered, that still appears to be the case, at least when it comes to Pink Floyd. The High Court ordered EMI to pay £40,000 in court costs with the possibility of future damages and EMI may have to pull Pink Floyd’s individual offerings from places like the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3. (As of this writing, the albums with per-track purchases were still available. Get ’em while they’re hot.) In addition, EMI must pay Pink Floyd an undisclosed amount in royalty payments. > > This…

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