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This week, our heroes walk us through the entire McMahon Family/Shawn Michaels/Marty Jannetty/Chris Masters/Carlito Cool/Whoever Else saga, discussing the past couple weeks worth of storyline advancement there, including Stephanie McMahon’s miracle, Virgin Mary-like pregnancy! Dusty and Jeremy also discuss the WrestleMania lineup as it stands now, Jeremy makes an impassioned plea for WWE to use a storyline idea of his relating to the Sprit Squad, Dusty uses his American Idol time to make an impassioned plea to Torch Editor Wade Keller, and so much more in just 38 minutes!

Om Malik thinks Silicon Valley based Writely, an online Ajax word processor, and Google may be getting cozy. Unlike me, Om tends to really dig before posting on acquisition rumors, so this one may be for real. I’ve also been hearing endless stories of the imminent acquisiton of Writely - given the difficult business model […]

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Live.com rolled out a new toolbar and website feature today, and the site has a somewhat better look and feel. New features include the ability to have multiple pages (a good thing), enhanced search, new themes to choose from and more. Richard MacManus has more details.
Search has also been significantly enhanced. Live.com clearly has the […]

Arianna is as enthusiastic as I am about Instapundit Glenn Reynold’s new book, An Army of Davids.

The book is a powerful paean to how changes in technology are empowering the little guy to take on the goliaths of Big Media and Big Government. “Small is the new big,” says Reynolds….Reynolds also nails how the blogosphere has become an invaluable tool for holding the mainstream media’s feet to the fire: “Where before journalists and pundits could bloviate at leisure, offering illogical analysis or citing ‘facts’ that were in fact false, now the Sunday morning op-eds have already been dissected on Saturday night, within hours of their appearing on newspapers’ webites.”

Markos and Jerome’s book, Crashing the Gates, also is getting great reviews. Here’s another one at Slashdot.

Aaron Stanford, who plays the avenging family man Doug in the upcoming Hills Have Eyes remake, told SCI FI Wire that he and the cast endured rough conditions shooting last summer in the Moroccan desert, which doubled for New Mexico.

Emilie De Ravin, who plays Claire on ABC’s hit series Lost, admitted to SCI FI Wire that she and her castmates are as eager as fans to know what’s going on with their mysterious island.

SCI FI Channel announced that its hit original series Battlestar Galactica will return in October with a full 20-episode third season.

Comic-book creator Stan Lee told SCI FI Wire that his newest company, Pow! Entertainment, is developing TV and film projects featuring an entirely new slate of comic characters in 2006.

Multiple award-winning British SF author Ian McDonald, whose Hugo Award-nominated novel River of Gods speculates on the future of India, told SCI FI Wire that it’s the job of a science fiction writer to be slightly ahead of the curve.

SF author Linnea Sinclair told SCI FI Wire that she recently sold three new “science fiction romances” to Bantam. “[The deal will include] one totally original novel, one sequel and one compilation/remix of a previously published book,” Sinclair said in an interview.

Vadim Perelman has signed on to adapt and direct a film based on Lois Lowry’s Newbery Award-winning fantasy novel The Giver for 20th Century Fox and Walden Media, according to The Hollywood Reporter.