Thursday, April 29, 2004

Apple: Pepsi iTunes promo pulled in 5 million songs. Pepsico Inc.'s promotion of Apple's iTunes Music Store fell well short of Apple's expectations, according to the company's Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Communications, Katie Cotton. Cotton told Cnet that five million songs have been redeemed thus far. According to the terms of the promotion, which expires Friday, up to 100 million songs could have been given away. [MacCentral] It's hardly surprising the promotion didn't do well, since it took so long for the caps to start showing up in major cities like Los Angeles. 2:09:25 PM    comment () Where are we now?. Salon's headline story says it all: "The Bush administration is arguing that it has the right to lock up U.S. citizens forever -- without evidence, witnesses, lawyers or trials. If the Supreme Court agrees, will this still be America?" How did we get this far? (Apparently, Congress no longer needs to declare war. But can Congress declare peace to free enemy combatants? Or are enemy combatants confined at the pleasure of the president? Wasn't there an entire war fought over this issue, back around 1776?) [Mark Bernstein] It's a silly question. This hasn't been America for a very long time--based on this criteria, since 1861, when the Lincoln administration locked up U.S. citizens without evidence, witnesses, lawyers, or trials. 11:55:53 AM    comment ()

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