This year marks the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (you can see him reading from the novel on The Steve Allen Show, here). Of course, with the celebration comes some controversy. The NY Sun reports: The author of a noted Kerouac biography, Memory Babe, Gerald Nicosia, is holding a press conference in Manhattan today, where he will claim that Viking Penguin has been removing his name from books it publishes on......

We know you hate the exclamation points, but seriously-- this story deserves them. Thomas Hawk tried to buy one of the new Canon 5Ds (retail price: $3000+) from PriceRite Photo in Brooklyn, and had what can only be described as a surreal bait-and-switch experience: "I will make sure you will never be able to place an order on the internet again." "I'm an attorney, I will sue you." "I will call the CEO of your......