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An anonymous reader writes “CNet News has an interesting look at where digital camera technology is headed now that the megapixel buzzword can be put to rest. From the article: ‘In compact cameras, I think that the megapixel race is pretty much over,’ says Chuck Westfall, director of media for Canon’s camera marketing group. ‘Seven- and eight-megapixel cameras seem to be more than adequate. We can easily go up to a 13-by-19 print and see very, very clear detail.’”

AP - The writers of "Brokeback Mountain," the sweeping tale about the longtime forbidden romance between rugged ranch hands, won best adapted screenplay Saturday night at the 58th annual Writers Guild Awards.

E! Online - There'll be cheerleaders, fans and a postgame concert by Bow
Wow.

null_functor asks: “I need to create an ultra-stable, crash-free application in C++. Sadly, the programming language cannot be changed due to reasons of efficiency and availability of core libraries. The application can be naturally divided into several modules, such as GUI, core data structures, a persistent object storage mechanism, a distributed communication module and several core algorithms. Basically, it allows users to crunch a god-awful amount of data over several computing nodes. The application is meant to primarily run on Linux, but should be portable to Windows without much difficulty.” While there’s more to this, what strategies should a developer take to insure that the resulting program is as crash-free as possible?

We opened with Team 3D in the ring. Brother Ray screamed. Devon looked around flexing. Ray said this is TNA Wrestling. Ray said the votes are in and they will face Team Canada at Against All Odds because the fans hate Team Canada just a little bit more than AMW. Ray did a “USA” chant. Devon took the mic and told Canada to strap up their boots tight.

E! Online - He wasn't crazy. He wasn't on drugs. He presented no threat to
Oprah Winfrey's onset furniture.

E! Online - NBC is in the spin control zone thanks to its stunt casting of
Britney Spears on Will & Grace.

Tucked away in a remote valley in Romania’s Carpathian mountains, a tiny ice hotel has opened to try and attract tourists and their cash to the unspoilt forests of some of Europe’s greatest wilderness.

sciencenews writes to tell us that a physicist at Stanford has just recently published a peer review website for several physics lectures focusing on a single underlying idea that “time is not a single dimension of spacetime but rather a local geometric distinction in spacetime.” The science is presented quite clearly and originally uses GPS systems as a point of focus. From the article: “Not too long ago, people thought the Earth was flat, which meant they thought that gravity pointed in the same direction everywhere. Today, we think of that as a silly idea, but at the same time, most people today (including most scientists) still think of spacetime as if it were a big box with 3 space dimensions and 1 time dimension. So, like gravity for a flat Earth, the single time dimension for the ‘big box universe’ points in one direction, from the Big-Bang into the future. A lot of lip service is given to the idea of “curved spacetime”, but the simplistic 3+1 ‘box’ remains the dominant concept of what cosmic spacetime is like.”

AP - Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died after years of failing health. He was 95.

by Last Night in Little Rock

The alleged shooter in the gay bar shooting in Massachusetts was arrested in Arkansas this afternoon after he allegedly shot a cop. The NY Times story is here and the Boston Globe story is here.

Reuters - Al Lewis, best known for his role as
Grandpa in television’s “The Munsters,” has died after a long
illness, a local radio station said on Saturday.