AP - Comedian George Lopez, director Robert Rodriguez and singer Shakira were among the nominees for the 2006 ALMA Awards, which honor artistic achievement by Hispanics in music, television and film.
Reuters - After a stellar 2005, CBS
Sports suffered a steep viewership decline with a
less-than-marquee NCAA men's basketball championship matchup in
which Florida easily defeated UCLA Monday.
E! Online - Another successful sitcom star has tried but failed to
establish a new hit show–and this time, the Seinfeld curse can't
be blamed.
Musicstrands is a music discovery and search engine that I wrote about last December. They launched new features recently (including some today) that make it an excellent side service to whatever music player you use.
Co-founder Gabriel Aldamiz-Echevarria took me through some of their new features last week. MusicStrands works best as a companion to iTunes […]
Reuters - Call it the “Da Vinci Craze.”
Rio writes “Vehicles that are able to parallel park themselves while drivers sit and relax behind the wheel are coming to the United States, according to a Local 6 News report. New Toyota hybrid cars are now available in Britain with a $700 “parking assist” option. Local 6 news showed video of a driver sitting and allowing the car’s steering wheel to turn on its own as it pulled into a tight parking spot on a London street. The reporter never touched the wheel as the car parked itself.Toyota says expect to see the technology pop up in the U.S. soon.” Here is our previous coverage of their release in Japan.
I usually stay out of these, but this one is too weird not to mention. Law Prof Eric Muller, a mostly progressive blogger went after Michelle Malkin today. He tracked the times of her postings throughout the day and evening (actually, for 36 hours) and concluded that she doesn’t write all her material and has other people writing in her name. Michelle responds here.
Eric probably got more comments on his blog from this post than any he’s written in his several years of blogging. Almost all are very critical of his attack. Sure, some readers came over from Michelle’s site, which does not allow comments, but there are lots of his own readers telling him how off-base he was.
Add me to the list. In fact, it’s creepy, almost like cyber-stalking. (Although Michelle goes a little overboard in calling him “insanely obsessed” and “deranged.”) Here’s my comment, which does not yet appear on Eric’s site because it has to be approved:
Reuters - Barry Bonds, the famously combative
slugger at the center of a renewed baseball steroids scandal,
broke into tears in a TV documentary series on Tuesday as he
spoke about the pressure he was under.
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Goldust & Snitsky beat Colt Cabana & Brad James. Great pop for Goldust, whose character is unbelievably still over. There was even a small pop for Snitsky. A few scattered Colt Cabana chants by the many fans in attendance wearing ROH gear. It was a squash, but an entertaining squash…
Randy Orton has been suspended by WWE for 60 days for unprofessional conduct. WWE.com broke the story on their Mobile Alert system, which is a new subscription service for breaking news they are offering…