Dueling Fools: J. Crew Group
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J. Crew is hot right now. Is it too hot?
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More than a hundred thousand fans are expected to descend on the city this weekend to watch some crew races. A playoff game kicks off on Saturday evening
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The rap group Wu-Tang Clan may record together again if its members can resolve their personal differences, member Ghostface Killah said.
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Clothing retailer J.Crew Group Inc.   JCG.N said on Friday that three of its 11 directors were   stepping down, including one who had worked at the company   since it was founded in 1983.
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J.Lo and Beyonce can take another bow.  The booty-shaking stars have shaped the newest generation of  mannequins, with hundreds of well-rounded plastic backsides  appearing in shop windows across New York.
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At least the "Bad Boys" kept their shenanigans on the court when they were wreaking havoc in the NBA. Nowadays there are enough mug shots out there to spawn a new trading card industry. Players are doing and saying things that defy common sense, annoying fans with their high-priced whines. Wins seem to rank only slightly ahead of endorsement opportunities and monster contracts, and those "knuckleheads" Karl Malone once dissed haven't gotten a clue yet.
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To judge New York Fashion Week by the lineup at Thursday night's Fashion Rocks concert, you'd think the mismatched look was in.
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What? No movie crew? See, this is what happens when you win it all under the simple guise of just being the best team, absent the melodrama. You sweep the Rockies and neither Jimmy Fallon nor Drew Barrymore are anywhere in sight.
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Global look-alike cars. ChryslerJeep-Dodge megadealers. What are they thinking.
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Kobe Bryant and Shaquille OâNeal agree on one thing: The NBAâs new marquee team is ... drum roll, please ... âItâd have to be Detroit, wouldnât it?
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Fashion Wire Daily - H&M and Designers Against AIDS are linking up with a gang of creative types, including Rihanna, Timbaland and Jade Jagger, to create a cotton collection for guys and girls.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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One Fool's got a "naughty" list beyond CEOs.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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After Rhythm and Blues (R&B) diva Beyonce Knowles rocked Mumbai with her six-member   all-women band late last month, it is the turn of hip hop singer 50 Cent in his true mobster style to   rap Mumbaikars.
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Life & style: Menswear shows: big-name companies struggle to stay in style without their founding fathers.
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Radical shape seems to be a theme at the couture shows this season