18,000 people lined up in Indonesia to be actor Ari Wibowo's live-in maid for a "reality " TV show. Sure, Mr. Wibowo is one of Indonesia's top-rated stars and, sure, everyone wants to be on TV and vie to be the servant of some ego-driven soap opera "actor," but what's really got everyone hot and bothered is the cash prize -- 10 million rupiah! That's around $1,000 to you and me. A typical Indonesian maid makes $30 a month plus room and board. One women's rights activist there calls the job "modern-day slavery," since there are no legal protections, no regulations and...

Stealing Music Hurts Everyone. (Except people who sell it.) ...

Did you know that according to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, there's a 1-in-3 chance that the next CD you buy is an illegal copy? This is assuming that you're buying your CDs from market vedors in Brazil, China, India, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain or any of the other "worst countries for the sale of illegal music," or the best countries if you look at it another, less legal way. 85% of the music sold in China is illegal. Then again, I think the government there considers about 95% of legal music illegal anyway, so no big whoop. Best part...

Leonardo DiCaprio filed a police report that he was attacked by a woman with a broken bottle at a party, requiring 12 stitches in his neck! Now that's a party! Sure beats the hell out of what Leo, David Blaine and Tobey Maguire do for entertainment when all they have is a tea set, a telephone and a friend with mad Photoshopping skillz. ...

All those freaks who supported Peter Pan Jackson during his trial for Jesus Juicing a young boy may get to see their hero perform live this Saturday at an invitation-only party which may turn out to be more of a concert, judging by the set up. The sound and lighting crew at The Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez will all be reporting to work on Saturday, and the casino security is being beefed up to handle the evening. No plans have been made public, but sources close to the Nosed One hint that in addition to food and drink, there'll be...

We try to keep up, we really do, but one can only visit so many websites in a day! So please forgive us for pointing out that on the official Family Guy Blog, there was a tiny little debate between a cartoonist who said that when another cartoonist blew his own brains out on July 4th, 2001, it was completely understandable, because cartoonists lead lives of quiet desperation leading, apparently, to a need to kill one's in-laws and then speed down Ventura Boulevard chased by cops until, cornered, the only natural outcome is to shoot oneself in one's head, despondent...

Michael Jackson has learned his lesson. Or a lesson, anyway. According to his lawyer, the entertainer and freak will no longer be sleeping with small boys. Instead, he'll only sleep with middle-sized and larger boys, chimps, kangaroos, piglets, pictures of Diana Ross, Rev. Jesse Jackson (every other weekend), a small box of cream-flavored Gummi Boys, a video of himself screaming "Ooh!" on a continual loop, Tito and Jermaine but not LaToya, John Hurt but only when in full make-up as The Elephant Man, and the cast of Alterboys now on Broadway, but fully clothes and singing about Jesus. Additionally, small...

Remember what I said about California? You can add yet another chapter to that book, because a jury in Santa Maria thinks that 46-year-old men sleeping (and only sleeping) with adolescent boys is apparently just fine and dandy, as The King of Pop and the President of Odd was found not guilty of all charges in his child molestation trial today. In a trial filled with more absurdities and freakishness than a Michael Jackson slumber party, accusations of drunken children on flights, holding mothers against their will so that all they were allowed were lengthy visits of having their nails done...

Tom Cruise can deny that he's a lot of things (insane, gay, short, gay, weird, gay... gay) but one thing's for sure, as a Scientology guru he's doing pretty good. After dating Katie Holmes and throwing a batshit batty hullabalu on Oprah about how batty in love he is, she's now saying that Cruise's wacky, way-out, sci-fi religion is the road for her. She can now join Cruise, John Travola (also not gay at all), Kirstie Alley, Isaac Hayes, Karen Black (not cross-eyed) and Sonny Bono (definitely dead) on the train to Looneyville, where they can all enjoy not using drugs...

Rich Karlgaard gives us the rundown on the future of computing, tracking the state-of-the-art from IBM's first successful business mainframe, the 360, up to tomorrow's "military-caliber supercomputers disguised as (a) toy," the XBOX360 and comes to the conclusion that with IBM's future providing chips for desktops and laptops all but dead, the company should do its shareholders a favor and buy up Electronic Arts. Don't scoff, his logic bears closer scrutiny. Keep in mind that most of tomorrow's workforce spends a lot of its time playing video games. Also, both Microsoft and Sony are relying on IBM to make their next-gen...