"My parents would kill me if someone ate my brains." --Spider (Andy Dick) on The Ben Stiller Show (in a sketch called "Melrose Heights 90210-2402")...

An episode of “Big Love,� the HBO series about a polygamous Mormon family has courted controversy with the Mormon church....

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...

To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Allergies Run In The Family, It Seems The Wedbush Morgan Securities annual conference kicked off today and while many of the talks were a little bit dull, the Activision folks came prepared to dish. Dish info about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and DJ Hero. The whole talk...

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...

Creative Commons: DaveTrainer In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George Monbiot calls it "bunkum" and worse. The whole thing i...

Bacn: Email you want, but not right now. Thanks JoeCascio on Twitter for this one. You have the problem with Spam, which we all hate.. but then you start to get all these email notifications from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, that start to clog up your inbox.  They are not emails you don’t w...

I don't know what's worse, getting a low-rent version of a Brazilian Butt Lift™ in Knoxville Tennessee, OR getting a low-rent version of a Brazilian Butt Lift™ in Knoxsville Tennessee and having the local news laugh at you on TV. Laugh hard. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...

San Diego BTW Crocodiles evoke Jesus & Mary Chain, VU, and the Spacemen 3 with their stripped-down, dark noise-pop, but the duo is one of our favorite new bands because they write super songs, not because I'm obsessed with Darklands: It's one thing to own a good set of influences, another thing enti...

Give credit to Jim DeRogatis for being a relentless pain-in-the-ass to Bono in the middle of a glad-handing radio event last night in Chicago. While I imagine Bono would have preferred to discuss whether the new U2 album is just a great 2009 album or the greatest, DeRogatis decided to ask a series o...