pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=4876861f796c7a8300a144d6maxX=319maxY=238" border="0" alt="Jerry Reuters head down.jpg" title="Jerry Reuters head down.jpg" width="319" height="238" /We're thankful the Dow closed over 8,000 this week -- just barely. Even Yahoo (YHOO) is well below $10, with a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/jerry-out"the resignation of Jerry Yang/a failing to help YHOO buck everything going south. Of course, there's a good argument to be made that at least some stocks like Apple (AAPL) are a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/buy-apple-now-get-company-free-in-7-years-aapl-"ridiculously cheap/a right now./p pSo what else is going on? Things you may have missed:/p ul liSo in a collapsing market, who's well positioned? Microsoft (MSFT), who's a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/microsoft-s-revenge"sitting on a mountain of cash/a while everyone else scrambles. The company a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/microsoft-poaches-yahoo-s-top-search-engineer-"poached Yahoo (YHOO) search honcho/a Sean Suchter./li liWe got a a giggle from this: Google (GOOG) advertised its maps now feature subway directions. One problem: the subway directions are a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/google-s-directions-in-nyc-subways-wrong?Haha="completely wrong/a./li liSirius XM hit a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/sirius-xm-keeps-tanking-now-14-cents"14 cents/a? Doesn't mean it's cheap -- it can certainly a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/yes-sirius-siri-can-certainly-go-to-zero"go to zero/a./li liPC Magazine, once 600 pages thick and full of ads, is going a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/pc-magazine-goes-out-of-print"out of print/a./li liThe new World of Warcraft came out, and it's as big as everyone thought: the queues to play were running a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/world-of-warcraft-frenzy-two-hour-lines-for-lich-king"two hours long/a./li liNot as popular as WoW: Google's Lively, a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-google-could-have-made-lively-work"headed for the grave/a.br //li /ul pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WmPPkkj_Jn-Gy1HadTWzr-1eeWI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WmPPkkj_Jn-Gy1HadTWzr-1eeWI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=HaARHj5I"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=HaARHj5I" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=sxRZS4v8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=LGGDpMIo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=p3Cxkjxk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=p3Cxkjxk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vYPN6jHu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=9INrV6hU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=oULNn1Wd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=9munlJUw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/mEpf5uixn3Y" height="1" width="1"/

A brand new song from reactivated late '80s/early '90s technical-thrash metallers BELIEVER entitled Medwton received its world premier on Monday, November 17 on Radio Bam, skateboarder and TV personality Bam Margera's weekly radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio 28 / XM Radio 52.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/multimedia/" rel="tag"Multimedia/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/rumors/" rel="tag"Rumors/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/iphone/" rel="tag"iPhone/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/app-store/" rel="tag"App Store/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/ipod-touch/" rel="tag"iPod touch/a/pimg vspace="8" hspace="8" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/11/3siriuslove.png" alt="" /Subscribers to a href="http://www.siriusxm.com/siriusxmcom/" target="_blank"Sirius XM satellite radio/a have reasons to be thankful on Thanksgiving Day next week: it appears that an iPhone app called "StarPlayr" will be coming soon.br /br /There's a thread in the a href="http://www.sternfannetwork.com/forum/showthread.php?s=dfda79ba3491fbfcc7cc19a56f9e46c0amp;threadid=412615amp;perpage=15amp;pagenumber=1" target="_blank"SternFanNetwork forums/a about receiving Sirius XM on the iPhone, and forum member JJRousseau, who is apparently an employee of developer a href="http://starplayr.com/ourproducts.html" target="_blank"NiceMac, LLC/a, pointed everyone to the StarPlayr website. StarPlayr currently makes a Mac player and is hard at work on the iPhone app. JJRousseau noted in the forum that "[t]he iPhone is our first priority, but it has taken longer than expected getting licensing worked out for the iPhone Client. As soon as the business side of iPhone version is worked out, you'll be able to purchase StarPlayr for iPhone at the App Store."br /br /The feature set sounds impressive, with Sirius and/or XM content streams, album art, iTunes WiFi purchase links, lyrics, and favorites lists. No release date or pricing has been set for the app at this time.br /br /emThanks to Rymon for the tip!/embr /br /[via a href="http://www.iphonesavior.com/2008/11/new-starplayr-screenshots-may-mean-sirius-xm-iphone-app-launch-is-near.html" target="_blank"iPhoneSavior/a]p style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/launch-of-sirius-xm-iphone-app-starplayr-coming-soon/"Launch of Sirius XM iPhone app 'StarPlayr' coming soon?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.iphonesavior.com/2008/11/new-starplayr-screenshots-may-mean-sirius-xm-iphone-app-launch-is-near.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/launch-of-sirius-xm-iphone-app-starplayr-coming-soon/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1379704/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/21/launch-of-sirius-xm-iphone-app-starplayr-coming-soon/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iwRd0S9Y1oQjpdfvRBNa3hSeBOg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/iwRd0S9Y1oQjpdfvRBNa3hSeBOg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=ej8pokx4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=ej8pokx4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=WAfXJpOQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=WAfXJpOQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/5-yxjM6AE80" height="1" width="1"/

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Former PANTERA and current HELLYEAH drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott and his father, Jerry Abbott (see photo below), will join Sirius XM host Jose Mangin tonight (Friday, November 21) at 6:00 p.m.