On an iCloud

There was a time when, if you said you were under a cloud, all your acquaintances suddenly discovered they had pressing business elsewhere and, come December, you were dead short of Christmas cards.

But with computers, when we talk of clouds we mean somewhere in cyberspace where you can store information or reach for it over the global communications network.

Apple has built a cloud of its own, called MobileMe, an online service that uses mobile phone networks and wi-fi, either hot spots or domestic networks as well as landline broadband, to push emails, calendar events and other information between iPhones, iPod touches, Macs and PCs.

Malaysian opposition chief arrested in sodomy case

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Police arrested Malaysia’s leading opposition figure on Wednesday on suspicion that he sodomized a male aide — the second time in a decade he has faced the accusation that could send him to jail for 20 years and hobble his campaign to bring down the country’s government.

Anwar Ibrahim, 61, dismissed the accusation — made last month by the 23-year-old aide — as a “malicious” fabrication by the same ruling establishment that jailed him for sodomy and corruption in 1998.

“This is not a criminal case but a political case,” said Azmin Ali, vice president of Anwar’s People’s Justice Party.

The arrest will give some breathing space to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s government, which is struggling to cope with internal dissent after recent election losses, and threats by Anwar to seize power by mid-September. Abdullah’s administration has denied any role in the sodomy allegation against Anwar, the only Malaysian politician to face the accusation.

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Celebrity Mole

Here’s a shocking celebrity split.

E! News can confirm that Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker has parted ways with her signature mole.

“Yes, she’s had it removed,” said a source close to the actress today.

While reasons for the removal are unclear, we’re told the procedure was “no big deal.”

In photos taken last night of the actress making a public service announcement with Sheryl Crow at Yankee Stadium for the MLB All-Star game, Parker’s glowing face had a glaring absence: Her beauty mark had disappeared.

Looks like Carrie Bradshaw will be traveling a bit lighter should that SATC sequel ever come around.