From the BBC: The iPod has helped Apple Computer quadruple its quarterly profits.

There will be an announcement from Apple Computer today—it’s rumoured to be either a pink-colored Madonna iPod nano preloaded with her entire catalogue, or a video-capable iPod.

Dolly Parton’s Those Were The Days LP, which features Mary Hopkin on the title song, is now available at the iTunes Music Store.

Some reassuring news from Aardman:

“None of the material from the new Wallace & Gromit film The Curse of the Wererabbit was in storage at the time, but we have lost many original sets from Chicken Run, Creature Comforts, and the three Wallace & Gromit short films, that were used for reference and toured around the world for exhibition.

“This will not in any way affect existing or future Aardman productions as 100% of sets and props are purpose built for each production.”

This is horrible news: the entirety of the Aardman Animations studios have been destroyed in fire—“everything we had done since day one,” including every Wallace and Gromit set, is gone.

The official John Lennon site is here. Mr Lennon would have turned 65 today. The new 2CD compilation Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon is already out, and reissues of Sometime in New York City and Walls and Bridges are due 22 November.