Best Brands" Harris Poll for the first time ever.

Pretty amazing that when asked "Which three brands do you consider the best?", anybody would answer Microsoft or even Kraft Foods.

The Moscow Arbitrary Court has ruled that Visa's decision to terminate its contract with Alltunes, MP3sparks, and AllofMP3 was illegal under Russian law because they operate legally according to ROM, the Russian Organization for Multimedia & digital systems.

This is like a never ending story…

Download them here in MP3 format. [via Frank]

Matt wrote:

Fashion or not, trend or not, there's no excuse for riding your success and market share in to the ground instead of innovating. Even if you don't get it right, don't have "The Next Big Thing," you at least have to try.

I saw the ad too, and I don't get it either.

Maddox is in fine form:

No, I'm not going to get an iPhone, quit emailing me about it. I'm not getting one because I already have a phone that's better: it's called the Nokia E70, it's the pinnacle of human achievement, and I love it more than my family…

The lawsuit, filed by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accuses Zuckerberg, Facebook's 23-year-old C.E.O, of stealing the source code, design, and business plan for Facebook in 2003 when he briefly worked in the Harvard dorms as a programmer for their own fledgling social-networking site, now known as ConnectU.

Our living room HDTV died this morning. No lights, no power. I have no idea what's wrong with it, nor do I care at this point. I've already had it replaced once, but it is no longer under warranty.

We had to take an emergency trip to Costco to buy a new one.

I had to enlist the help of a neighbor (Thanks, Paul!) to help carry and set it up upstairs.

I've put the old one on Craig's List, maybe someone is interested in trying to fix it.