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Barbie's Toxic Dream House

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. September 10, 2007

Britney Spears and Un-Embeddable Video Clips

There are some events that celebrity and music bloggers cannot miss covering and Britney Spears' awful performance at the 2007 Video Music Awards is one of these events. September 10, 2007

Organize Magazine Launches

A new magazine for people with too much clutter recently launched called Organize Magazine. September 10, 2007

Joan Didion to Receive Honorary National Book Award

The National Book Foundation has announced the recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Awards. September 10, 2007

Writing Partners Inks Groundbreaking Deal With Fox

In a screenwriting first, nine writers (calling themselves Writing Partners) have banded together to strike a groundbreaking deal with 20th Century Fox. September 10, 2007

Larry Birkhead Sues Over New Anna Nicole Book

Larry Birkhead and Howard K. September 8, 2007

Feedjit Live Web Traffic Widget

Feedjit is offering a widget that provides information about who is visiting your blog or website. September 7, 2007

Manpower Employment Law Blog Includes Music

Manpower Inc. September 6, 2007

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia...Writes A Book

Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia on The Brady Bunch, is writing a memoir in which she reveals her darkest secrets. September 6, 2007

Facebook Makes Faces Viewable to Public

Facebook is making its millions of users' faces available to the public. September 5, 2007

Burning Man Blogs

Burning Man continues to thrive despite one man's successful attempt to burn the Burning Man prematurely. September 4, 2007

Authors To Tour In Place of David Halberstam

A group of authors that includes Joan Didion, Seymour Hersh and Bob Woodward are touring in place of David Halberstam. September 4, 2007

Alafair Burke and the Serial Killer

Author Alafair Burke received a letter from the BTK serial killer when she was working on a true crime novel. September 3, 2007

Google News Now Hosting Stories From Wire Services

Google continues to show signs that it is becoming more of a media company. September 2, 2007

Microsoft Launches Hacker Blog

Computerworld reports that Microsoft has launched a new hackers' blog called hackers @ Microsoft. September 1, 2007

Stephenie Meyers Road to Bestsellerdom

Now that the Harry Potter adventures have ended, publishers and readers are looking to the successor. August 31, 2007

Moving Towards a National Primary

Michigan has just announced that it will move its primary up to January 15, 2008. August 30, 2007

Blogger Spammed With Malware Links

A BBC article says hungreds of Blogger blogs have been spammed with short posts containing a link to booby-trapped downloads that can be used to take over a Windows PC. August 30, 2007

The Horrifying World of Darren O'Shaughnessy

Darren O'Shaughnessy has a new 10 volume series called Demonata and he is surprised that is not more parental outrage. August 30, 2007

Beauty and Author Marketing

As book sales remain flat, a disturbing trend has arisen: prettier authors get better marketing budgets. August 30, 2007

The Misadventures of Larry Craig

Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has been forced to step down from many of his prestigious committee assignments in the Senate because of the shocking revelations that he had been arrested, and then plead guilty to soliciting sexual relations with a male undercover cop in the Minneapolis airport. August 29, 2007