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On the nineteenth anniversary of its release, Nerd World sat down with Billy Joel at his Sagaponack home to discuss the cultural impact of his classic song. NERD WORLD: I just listened to the song again. It’s amazing how well it’s held up. All those things have still happened. BILLY JOEL: Thanks, it’s a really [...]

I’m not old enough to remember Good Bobby Fischer. He beat Spassky in Iceland in 1972, when I was 3. I more got Bad Bobby Fischer — you know, the guy who hated Jews (is that why CNN calls him a “world-class eccentric”? That’s one way to put it) and periodically had passport problems.

It’s being widely reported that Hasbro has asked Facebook to kill Scrabulous, a third-party app for playing Scrabble online.

I didn’t do this interview with J.J. Abrams, producer of Cloverfield, creator or co-creator of Felicity, Alias, Lost and all the stars in the heavenly firmament. The exceptionally sharp interlocutor here is Rebecca Winters Keegan, Time’s Hollywood correspondent. This is for a piece in the next issue of Time about end-of-the-world movies, which is why [...]

I’m covering MacWorld from the relative safety of midtown Manhattan this year, which means compulsively reloading various livebloggers’ websites. Glamorous! I gambled that CES would be dull this year and won. Let’s see how I do with MacWorld.

Elijah Wood said a thing or two to MTV News about what’s going on with the Hobbit movie. Which it turned out means the Hobbit movies, plural. This is Wood describing his conversations with Peter Jackson:

Hey there, it’s me, the Blob. The thousand-pound guy in the unitard. Well, I’m here to stand up for an oppressed minority, of which I am one of them: Giant Fatsos.