| Skaters getting younger, careers getting shorter
Of these top four finishers, only Wagner is old enough to compete at the World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, in March. (By ISU rules, a skater must have turned 15 by July 1, 2007 -- Flatt misses the cutoff by 20 days.) What happened to last year's medalists? Age and infirmity. Such is the state of figure skating in 2008, where female competitors seem to grow older by dog years. The defending U.S. champion, Kimmie Meissner, who won the World Championships in 2006 as a 16-year old, was posing as the grand old dame of the championships at the ripe old age of 18. But she's grown several inches since 2005, when she became the first U.S. woman to land a triple axel since Tonya Harding, and no longer can land her triple axel or even her triple-triples with consistency. Certainly she was unable to do so Saturday night, falling three times before landing her first triple and finishing a distant and shattering seventh.
Gates' CES Swan Song, Intel Investigated, 'Spam King' Dethroned
Gartner analyst Van Baker told ECT that all this business with Warner and Paramount doesn't make a whole lot of difference unless and until Universal turns away from HD DVD, which it has backed since day one. A late-week report in Variety, though, says Universal is about to bail, which would pretty much seal the deal in favor of Blu-ray and give lots of people an excuse to buy a PS3. Be a Rockstar to Your Marketing DepartmentThese days, IT staffers work to fulfill a lot of requests. Like finding an email marketing solution for your marketing department. Lyris ListManager is the robust, scalable, and easily integrated solution your team needs. Download your free trial version today. .
Blog: The Hit List
Mike Moreu has a passion for using funny pictures to make serious points. His blog is a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a professional newspaper artist, adding observations about political cartooning, plus reviews and discussions of everything comics-related. .
4th Annual BallerStatus Year-End Awards
It's been a gradually different, yet more charismatic year for the hip-hop culture in 2007. While several new stars and one-hit wonders have been spawned, it appears like some seasoned rappers have lost the edge they once had. Most notably, G-Unit is on life support and the Houston movement lost the spotlight the industry set up years back (but shouts to UGK on debuting no. 1 on the Billboard 200 and R.I.P. Pimp C). Basically, veteran artists haven't done the "Shoulder Lean" as much.
Kids have actually dominated the culture... and every facet of the media this year, for that matter. Chris Crocker claimed YouTube.com celebrity status when his freaky-looking ass cried over a bloated Britney Spears and Jeff Foxworthy proved that fifth graders are indeed smarter than the average Hollywood A-lister.
Police: DNA link leads to man's arrest for 1997 rape, killing of ...
Chase's family praised investigators in a statement issued at the Sunday news conference. "As you might imagine our emotions have run the gamut since we first heard of the DNA match with Susannah's case. We are delighted that a suspect has been identified and apprehended," the family said. Chase was walking home alone early Dec. 21 after an argument with her boyfriend when she was beaten with a baseball bat and left for dead in an alley a block from her home. Police believe the intended motive of the attack was sexual assault. Police never gave up on the case, and interviewed more than 100 people to try to find Chase's killer, Beckner said. DNA taken from seminal fluid found on Chase's body that was entered into a national DNA database, apparently recently, matched Olmos-Alcalde's, Beckner said.
The Curse of Zog?
Won't Get Fooled Again? Zogby's poll right before the New Hampshire primary showed Obama with a 13 point lead. ... Zogby's poll for Saturday's South Carolina primary shows Obama with a 13 point lead. And falling. I'm just sayin' ... P.S.: Remember, a "Bradley effect" is possible among black voters as well as white voters. ... Update--Would you lie to a robot? I would! Mark Blumenthal analyzes the diverging (but not all that much) S.C. polls, including the Clemson poll with its huge (36%) undecided result. He's skeptical of a Bradley Effect, noting that if voters lie to polltakers when they say they're going to vote for the black candidate, you 'd expect them to tell the truth to automated polls: If the Bradley/Wilder effect is operating, we would expect to see it on surveys that use live interviewers, but in this case, the lack of an interviewer seems to work in Obama's favor.
Sean Lamothe's toy story
Sean Lamothe's set-up is a bit of a head scratcher. The former punk-band drummer known as Sean Shameless has morphed into a toy-wrecking noise maker called Squelchbox. When he plays live, you'll find him flipping knobs on a giant board full of old playthings. His "instruments" are ripped-apart Speak & Spells, robot toys, old Casio keyboards and anything else with simple circuiting. He takes the toys apart and solders wires to various points and to a switch, creating a modified instrument. .
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