Noteworthy Net-Worthies: Best description of the Troubled Assets Relief Program yet — “an unaccountable secretive national hedge fund which buys lousy assets at inflated prices from banks mismanaged for personal profit by multi-millionaires, and makes non-consensual capital calls on unin...

1. Twister. Michael Clayton and Duplicity director (and Bourne screenwriter) Tony Gilroy gets the full New Yorker treatment. He seems to hate nearly everyone he's worked with! ["For the next 'Bourne,' Universal invited back Damon and Gilroy but looked for a new director. The studio offered the write...

Daily Search Coverage: AdSense wants you to add news widgets to your site. Google sends traffic spikes? Google sends horny guys to office building. Google Analytics should include image referral data. SEMs weathering the recession. Yahoo beats Google in Japan. Google does behavioral targeted ads. Ma...

New iPod Shuffle - Apple has quietly released a new, smaller shuffle with more memory. It’s about half the size of the 2G shuffle with twice the memory (4gigs). It is sleek looking with a few caveats. One is price ($80, considering cost of memory should be $50 or less), and another is control is d...

Night Train '09 By Exile Cycles - Mean as can be. Beautiful Photo of Kalmar Museum of Art - View from the bottom of a staircase Martin T. Focazio's Blog: I hate your computer too - So funny, so true, and exactly why I'm so expensive. Underwater Armageddon - What a great video! Floating House / Tezuk...

This is why you're fat. (I have to say the deep-fried grill cheese sandwich looks pretty damn good to me, and out of place on this page. Especially if that's hot sauce and a pickle behind it. (tags: food health gross funny humor photo)...

Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams got married. (PopSugar) Who the fuck is going to buy Lindsay Lohan brand tanning crap? (DListed) Paris Hilton is desperate to join the Twilight sequel. Also, just plain desperate. (Pink is the New Blog) Emmy......

GOOD » Making Sense of the Financial Mess» - We tried to make sense of the financial mess we’re in. As you can see, we couldn’t come up with anything satisfying, so we want your help. We’re offering $500 to the best global finance infographic we receive, as judged by a ...

There were many things I loved about the anachronistic medieval romp The Knight's Tale , and the use of stadium rock to create the atmosphere of a jousting tournament was only one of them. For a start, the cast was exceptionally well chosen. Heath Ledger, bless his soul, played an earnest, ambitious...

Doom and gloom has got the best of us The recession clearly has worsened in the first quarter Earnings expectations continue to plunge for both 2009 and 2010 Unemployment rate to reach 9.4% Current wealth prospects for the baby boom generation If you want to know what’s going to happen to commerci...