I’m not usually so easily fooled, but the VW polo ad mentioned earlier is a hoax. A brilliant one, however.

The Badfinger Apple catalogue is being rereleased in Japan in cardsleeve replica LP sleeves in a few weeks. One I may not be able to resist: The Iveys’ Maybe Tomorrow.

The opening bid for a near mint copy of the original 1969 Japanese LP in red vinyl is just under US$1,000.00.

Brian tipped me off to this treatise: is the iPod razor or blade?

This is more like it: “Captain Scarlet has undergone a £25 million overhaul but this new incarnation may prove too dark for children.” When you consider how dark the original 1967 series could be, it’s an achievement.

Cover art for Agent of Evolution is up. Kevin Booth says the long-awaited Bill Hicks bio will “be on store shelves in the UK, Canada and Australia on March 21.” The publication date for the US edition is still to be announced.