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R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Billy Bragg and David Byrne don’t like to think of music as torture, or part of any “enhanced interrogation techniques.” But declassified government documents show that at least some music — notably, Metallica, Britney Spears and some unidentified rap music, according to a 2004 Defense Department report — were used to “create [...]

Hey, what’s up with Apple? First CEO Steve Jobs gives a non-update update on his health – a hormone imbalance? – and then the company announces today it’s going to lower the price of downloading iTunes and lift some of its restrictions on copying the songs, Bloomberg reports.
This is all happening at Macworld in San [...]

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Afghanistan – A friend emailed me to say that all my journalism is for naught if I don’t report what 1st Platoon Hooligans are listening to these days. While I don’t concede the point, I did put the question to the platoon as they waited — in vain, it turned out — [...]