The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. So what's the big news from Macworld? iTunes is going DRM-free, baby! Apple has also given in and agreed to variable pricing. Shiny Shiny has the details on some of the other less exciting (to us, anyway) announcements....

David West scored a career-high tying 40 points--including 15 in the fourth quarter--and grabbed 11 rebounds as the New Orleans Hornets defeated the L.A. Lakers in L.A., 116-105. West shot 14-23 from the field and 12-13 from the free throw line. This victory snapped the Lakers' 15 game home winning ...

On the shore of Lake Isabella, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, a crowd of flight techs, most of them either pierced or tattooed, swarms around a small white airplane. It's called an Icon A5. It's a collaboration between an F-16 pilot and a skateboard designer, and it looks like an odd, rakish ...

Faithful reader E.G., whom I ran into on the street pretty much in front of the house, asks if in fact I have read anything since October. Well, yes. So, to get back on the horse, here we go: books read last year: 210minutes of exercise: 21,260 (took the last week-and-a-half of the year mostly off, ...

The year is off to a great start for WordPress fans with WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia 2009 in Jakarta, Indonesia, a snow-filled skiing and photography WordCamp Whistler, two WordCampED educational WordCamp events in Worcester, Massachusetts and Vancouver, BC, Canada, WordCamp Jena in Germa...

The Digital Cuttlefish: The Evolutionary Biology Valentine's Day Poem But think of this, for what it’s worth: Millennia before my birth That DNA had roamed the earth, In residents thereof; The neat thing is, it’s really true, The feeling that I have for you Although, of course, it feels bra...

Fantastic finish. Though the Buckeyes took the lead with 2:05 to play, a 26-yard touchdown pass from Texas star Colt McCoy to Quan Cosby with 16 seconds remaining left the Buckeyes to end their third consecutive season in defeat, No. 3 Texas taking the Fiesta Bowl over the No. 10 Buckeyes, 24-21, on...

An hour before the tailgating area in Glendale opened Saturday, I met more Arizona Cardinals fans than I'd met in my life. There were three. We were packing the car. You can imagine, then, how overwhelmed I was when we actually arrived and saw thousands of them. Sure, most of them probably didn't ca...

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. An exclusive sneak peek at the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica . Check out this very intriguing exclusive clip from Caprica , the upcoming prequel to Battlestar Galactica. Steve Jobs released...

There is new content on the Forum check it out. Bobby Fischer - b. 1943 - The Wonder Match - Chess - The Lives They Lived - Obituaries - NYTimes.com Before he was secretly buried on a dark winter morning in a lonely Icelandic churchyard at the age of 64 (there were only four people in attendance at ...