Stan's List

The Mac Observer reports that the 15-inch PowerBook G4 has quietly disappeared from Apple’s retail Web site, leaving only the 12-inch and 17-inch models. “The two remaining PowerPC-based PowerBooks still show a 24 hour ship time, just as the 15-inch model did on earlier this week. Apple previously phased out the 17-inch iMac G5 in a similar fashion.” More.

Single of the Week

Never have the syllables Ooh La La sounded so menacing as they do when Alison Goldfrapp whisper them on our “free” Single of the Week. Taking its melodic cue from Norman Greenbaum’s 1970 hit, Spirit in the Sky, but adding a darkness from deep electro pulses and minimal distorted, “Ooh La La” bodes well for the US release of Goldfrapp’s third album, Supernature.

Disovery Download

Guitar fans who enjoy gritty Southern blues and six-string pyrotechnics are likely to take air guitar to a whole new level when they hear Tinsley Ellis. Our “free” Discovery Download this week, Hell or High Water shows the established blues man in top form—taking his down-home hard rock back to basics

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