Daily Links

• Hollywood screenwriters have returned to the negotiating table, three weeks after beginning strike action. Source (BBC)
• Well, as if the Screenwriter's Guild hasn't suffered enough with the recent strike in the US, Sean Connery has come along and reduced the writers to tears by loftily announcing that he will never make another film again. Source (Holy Moly)
• The major fall update slated for the Xbox 360 now has a set release date and its first significant feature, Microsoft said today. The upgrade is now set to launch on December 4th and will incorporate Find Old Friends, a new service that will let users browse the friend lists of other gamers on the Xbox Live service. Source (Electronista)
• Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least. Source (USA Today)
• Earlier this month, the RIAA announced that it had sent off yet another wave of prelitigation settlement letters to college campuses across the US. This time, the recording industry targeted 16 schools, including almost the entire membership of the Ivy League. There was one notable Ivy school missing from the roster, one that has failed to appear in any of the RIAA's press releases: Harvard. Source (Ars Technica)
• HARRISON FORD is getting sick of the growing number of STAR WARS fans camping outside his doorstep. The Hollywood actor - who plays Han Solo in the hit sci-fi franchise - claims he is hounded by a group of wacky film fanatics praying to him as the leader of the Star Wars-inspired Jediism religion outside his Wyoming, U.S. home. Source (Contact Music)
• Republicans, taking a play out of the Democrats playbook, threaten to cut war funding if better progress is not made by the Iraqi government. Source (Charleston)
• The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote whether or not to extend their gestapo rule on the airwaves to cable television. Source (Washington Post)
• Universal Music Group's CEO is like your cranky, out-of-touch grandpa who happens to run a huge record label. Source (Gizmodo)
• New York's "Vulture" section comes to the correct conclusion about the music biz -- but for the wrong reason. In commenting on the Wired profile of "Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris," the folks at "Vulture" have a yuck-fest over Morris' inability to come to grips with modern technology. Source (Huffington Post)

Finally, here's an old, but highly amusing video accompanied by the acoustic version of Radiohead's "Creep"