Hasbro just launched their new Igor-named online play zone for kids, Monkeybar.

Check it out for games, activities and Zen koans!

Beyond cigarettes, Altria would also like to sell you individually plastic wrapped processed cheese food products and take you for a walk in the woods. Or something like that. The San Francisco Chronicle tries to figure it out.

Beach Boys’ guitarist Al Jardine called me today and left a message on my home phone to say that Tony Bennett had changed his show time and “come on down to Big Sur today it should be a great party! ” He left his home number, so I called him back to accept. Unfortunately he intended the message for someone named Scott. My name isn’t Scott.