Below The Beltway

There’s almost nothing you can’t find on iTunes these days, but there are several gaping holes created by artists who have yet to sign on to Apple’s online music distribution system. One of the biggest is The Beatles, but that may be changing:
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Click on the iTunes music store and punch in [...]

Missing mushroom picker rescued by the glow of his iPod:
An iPod screen glowing in the middle of the night from thick underbrush led rescuers to a mushroom picker lost in the woods.
The search leader said Pini Nou, 25, of Vancouver, Wash., was on his first outing and got separated from his mother, an experienced mushroom [...]

The video content available for download at the iTunes Music Store continues to grow, with Warner Brothers now joining the party:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group on Tuesday became the latest division of a major Hollywood studio to offer television shows, including the hit sitcom “Friends,” for sale on Apple Computer Inc’s [...]

Kevin Drum has a question for iPod users out there:
I have a question for all the iPod owners out there: Would you say that you mostly select specific songs (or albums or playlists) to listen to, or do you mostly set it on shuffle and let the iPod do the work
When I first got my [...]

Colonial Williamsburg bills itself as a “living history museum” and describes itself thusly:
In Colonial Williamsburg?s 301-acre Historic Area stand hundreds of restored, reconstructed, and historically furnished buildings. Costumed interpreters tell the stories of the men and women of the 18th-century city?black, white, and native American, slave, indentured, and free?and the challenges they faced. In this [...]

The Washington Post has an article about the way that the market for music has changed now that more of it is being purchased online:
For years, old recordings have piled up in the archives at Verve Records, including beloved jazz tracks that had no market big enough to justify pressing new discs. But thanks to [...]

It certainly seems so given this story from Variety:
After conquering the digital music biz and taking the lead with TV shows online, Apple is looking to feature films.The computer company is in active negotiations with most major studios to add movies to its iTunes Music Store, most likely by the end of the year, numerous [...]

And they’re using them in interesting ways:
DENVER (AP) — Three hours before a start against Florida, Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Jennings sits in front of his locker, puts on his headphones and stares at his video iPod.
He isn’t watching the latest Coldplay video or catching up on an episode of “Alias” as a way to [...]

Big news from the iPod/iTunes world, and big news for 24 fans:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc.’s (AAPL.O) iTunes has started to sell episodes of shows from News Corp.’s (NWS.N) Fox television network, the latest major U.S. TV network to reach a deal with Apple’s Internet download service.
Shows including “24″ and “Prison Break,” as [...]