Quick, fire up the aggregator! Angela from Spellbound has a weblog! Where we're hoping she'll blog about spelling! And words! And spelling words! You read it here first: this is the tipping point the blog world has been waiting for. ...

It probably says more about us than we care to admit, but in line this morning at Starbucks we couldn't help but notice the front page story on Trixie (aka Jennifer, aka Stephanie), the 6' 3" (with heels) Vegas stripper with "a fake blond ponytail, fake eyelashes, fake green eyes, a fake tan and fake breasts." Sure, the story was below the fold (insert your own joke involving the words "below" and "fold" here), but there's something fitting about the fake breasts being alongside stories about a fake government, fake health and fake intelligence. ...

You may not be old enough to remember the big scare that had musicians crying fowl when synthesizers reared their heads in the 70's and 80's. "We'll be replaced!" they cried, and threatened to stop playing music altogether if these machines of loving grace that could replicate nearly any instrument started taking over where orchestras used to be. Well, here we go again. Synthesizers never replaced musicians, of course, but they did make it easier to have really bad haircuts. Now comes a new system that can follow the beats, synthesize instrument voices and augment a live performance by filling in...

In case you hadn't see it, there are now 13,703 signatures to the "Remove Rush Limbaugh from American Forces Radio" petition. Written by Republican turncoat David Brock, the petition cites Rush's comparison of the abuse at Abu Ghraib to "good old American pornography," and argues that the broadcast "undermines the military�s command structure and endangers our troops." We're still Googling for Mel Karmazin's "Add Howard Stern to American Forces Radio" petition; we're sure it's out there somewhere. ...

Alexandra Polier, the reporter accused of having an affair with John Kerry, has tracked the story down and written up an excellent article about how a rumor on a blog somewhere can escalate into international news. I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that I once heard a rumor that someone somewhere was possibly looking into a story about George W. Bush having sex with his dog while high on illegally prescribed hydrocodone. ...