Netgear has picked up the Roku XD streaming video player for retail sale. This is a great move for both companies. Roku needed wider exposure to casual consumers, and Netgear needed something to compete with D-Link’s upcoming Boxee Box, which I suspect will have few casual customers. But don’t pay more than $80 for an XD.
Friday’s installment of the radio series Fresh Air had a tribute to John Lennon. The most interesting part is a 1985 interview with Cynthia. Click here to listen. There’s also a segment about the hassle that Nixon put Lennon through. This past week, after all these years, the FBI seized Lennon’s fingerprints before they could be auctioned.
Denro, who should be on his way back from a comic book convention in New York, sent me a promo for a new Broadway musical that has both of us asking, “what is this?” Just when you would be expecting to see Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, or Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we get Spider-Man??
With a score by Bono, and direction by Julie Taymor, the production certainly has credentials, but the fanboy in me can’t help but wonder if they drew some inspiration from Spider-Man’s 1972 Rockomic…!
A 60 Minutes interview with Charles M. Schulz from 1999.
John Lennon, May 10, 1960, age 19
Elaine Staats has forwarded a link to a new item about Lon Van Eaton. You’ll find it here. And on the Amazon link for the upcoming Best of Apple Records CD, that includes Lon and Derrek Van Eaton’s Sweet Music, there’s this promo video.
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Here are Lon and Derrek from after they had moved from Apple to A&M.
