Life after Homicide, MS discrepencies, Weird Al, and ISPs

New York Daily News: Homicide May Have A Movie Afterlife
"Executive producer Tom Fontana and NBC execs are in talks about producing a Homicide TV movie. The film would likely tidy up many of the loose ends left when the show was shut down this spring."

Weird Al: The Saga Begins
The video for Weird Al's new song, a retelling of The Phantom Menace to the tune of "The Day the Music Died." Absolutely brilliant, in the Weird Al sense of the word.

The Register: MS Encarta 'facts' vary, depending on edition
"Careful comparisons of the various international editions of Microsoft Encarta show that in numerous cases the 'facts' are different in different editions... The WSJ gives a couple of examples, noting that in Italy Antonio Meucci, rather than the usual suspect, invented the telephone. The US edition has Edison and Brit Joseph Swan inventing the light bulb simultaneously, whereas the UK edition has Swan first."

Two articles on the changing face of getting online in the next two years:
Time Digital: Yahoo on the Motherboard?
"Today the company announced an agreement to work Yahoo into the system start-up of most new PCs, effectively embedding Yahoo in the PC hardware."

Red Herring: Are ISPs Dead?
"Should a major network, like AT&T, pair up with a major portal, like MSN... and offer free dial up access in the United States, it'd be game over for paid subscriptions. However, such an alliance would propel the growth of e-commerce into the stratosphere."