Some images are just too amazing for words:

The photo above was taken in Iceland in 1991 when the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead.
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Apparently not satisfied with the pace of its embrace of all things media, Google is rumored to be looking at acquiring Napster. Google reportedly wants to offer a monthly subscription service, which it believes is where the market is headed.
This will be yet another area that Google, Yahoo and AOL will be going head-to-head. Will […]

Wikipedia has put up a wiki entry describing how unknown people using U.S. House and Senate computers have been sanitizing or defacing politician’s Wikipedia entries:
The following is a partial list of U.S. Senator biographies on the english-language Wikipedia edited by Senate employees.

Senator Conrad Burns’ page was edited to remove negative comments as positive comments were […]

We’ve written before about L.A.-based Yucaipa Companies, the investment group run by Democratic mega-contributor Ron Burkle. Some Yucaipa funds appear to receive their funding from CalPERS and other public pension funds based on party affiliation, not performance.
Yucaipa’s investments also have a political tinge to them, such as funding Al Gore’s cable channel (this from […]

Pop start Britney Spears has reportedly been attending “reincarnation sessions” with a top Hindu psychic, according to a published report. The singer has apparently been informed that she was a dog in a previous life and worked on a farm in Virginia.
Evidently she was a darn good dog because in her next life she got […]

323 pounds (against other “heavy weight” opponents who weigh 1/3rd less)
7 feet tall
85″ wing span reach
mean
If you haven’t heard of Nikolay Valuev, you soon will. Don King wants to give him the nickname “King Kong.” In Russia he’s already known as the “Russian Giant.” In the rest of the world it’s the “Beast from the […]

Michael Eisner pissed off Steve Jobs. Now, Disney is buying Pixar. Eisner used Disney’s Strategic Planning group to quash ideas he didn’t like. Now, they’re disbanded. And he once named a professional hockey team after a kid’s movie …
Oops, that’s gone too.
The Los Angeles Times revealed today that the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim — a […]

FactCheck.org tells us that
A liberal, labor-funded group calling itself Americans United for Change (previously Americans United to Preserve Social Security) is running a $1-million national advertising campaign that makes some dubious claims and tries to imply more than it can prove.
Talk about rebranding! They used to be in favor of preserving the status quo, but […]

On the hit show “Survivor”, winner Richard Hatch came off as a conniving, immoral, backstabbing lout. It turns out that in real life he is all these and more. So much for those who point a finger at reality show producers for editing shows in such a way as to distort what is really happening […]

Anti-Bush group The World Can’t Wait (the same people who want to replace the democratically elected administration of this country with … themselves, after the revolution) failed to do much except annoy commuters during their last protest November 2d. Following up on that success, they now aim to bother anyone with a pair of ears.
Protesters […]

E3 moves to take all fun out of its tradeshow:

The video game industry’s 2006 E3 Expo trade show in Los Angeles is getting a make-over — banned are the swarms of sexy, semi-clad “booth babes” that in years past took the unveiling of new games and technology to titillating new levels.
Rules prohibiting the use of […]

Of course we do not really advocate shooting protesters. But when protesters hold a sign advocating shooting U.S. military officers (see picture found on Michelle Malkin’s site):

We can’t help but improve it with a few small Photoshop changes:

Both messages are loathsome, but the difference is that ours is made in jest while theirs is disturbingly […]

Disney’s Bob Iger continues to employ the “what-would-Eisner-not-have-done” strategy, this time by acquiring the very company that Eisner had all but driven away. Look at the difference between these two quotes:
Bob Iger: “As I consider all of the different possibilities of returning Disney animation to greatness, it was clear to me that maintaining a relationship […]

In an astounding article the San Jose Mercury-News headlined “Some activists, politicians speaking openly about impeachment,” Knight Ridder’s Jim Puzzanghera leads with
“The word “impeachment” is popping up increasingly these days and not just off the lips of liberal activists spouting predictable bumper-sticker slogans.” These are “mainstream politicians.”
Who, exactly?

John Conyers, D-Michigan (who received 90 out […]

With L.A. Observed reporting that the Los Angeles Times’ online operation is looking for “a different kind of online news operation,” we’ve got a suggestion: hire Matt Drudge. A look at two years’ data tracked by Alexa shows that Drudge gets 2.5x - 3x the traffic of LATimes.com:

(data from Alexa; “reach” is per million internet […]