Literal Barrage

The Onion has a delightful piece this week titled Media Landscape Redefined By 24-Second News Cycle. As an avowed hater of CNN: Headline News and the idiotic 20 minute news spin cycle it has ushered in, I was howling at quips such as

CNN is widely credited with initiating the acceleration of the modern news [...]

Now that the unlimited invite version of Joost, the new Web 2.0-ish streaming "TV" application, has arrived, I have unlimited invites to drop. Anyone looking to get in on the beta, please just leave a comment in the comments section of this post.
It's pretty cool, I must say.

Now this is a doozy. A company called "MRT" has decided to sue Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks because

MRT claims that Vista, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, iTunes and the iPod have been produced “without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American Intellectual Property owners.” The DMCA, signed into law in [...]

The U.K.'s Daily Mail envisions what the world's most beautiful women would look like were they to shave their heads bald.
The short answer? Most of them look like Bat Boy, Gollum or that freaky Six Flags dude. (In the Queen's case, she looks like Telly Savalas.)

Tobias FünkeAnderson Cooper — nevernude? I'll let you be the judge:

Y[ou] can't be too careful, especially when you're high-profile anchorman Anderson Cooper. Cyber gossip Janet Charlton reports the white-haired CNN star regularly works out at the Equinox gym in the Time Warner Center, where he attracts a lot of attention from hard bodies of [...]

Those JibJab cats (the ones that brought you the memorable This Land Is Your Land spoof during the '04 elections) are back with another catchy video called "What We Call The News". Check it out:

The news media's behavior in regards to Anna Nicole Smith's death and the ensuing court battles has been nothing short of disgusting in my opinion. CNN Headline News, for instance, covers the hearings from open to close each day, breaking only occasionally to run commercials and shots of Britney Spears' shaved noggin, while Fox [...]