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Food Network dynamo RACHAEL RAY made waves in New York Tuesday night as she attended the inaugural "Night of A Thousand Dinners®" benefit, where she revealed all-new secrets about her highly anticipated Fall show!

Sharon Stone and Catherine Tramell, her Basic Instinct character, have many things in common, and among the first shared trait that's detectable in Basic Instinct 2 is their love for looking directly into the camera.

The Wall Street Journal did a roundup of daddy blogs in today's edition. They covered Daddy Types, Rebel Dad, and my buddy MetroDad. And they were insane nice enough to include me as well. I'm assuming all the other daddy blogs were down for maintenance the day they were researching the article.

It was almost as if the Red Sox spent the last few weeks of Spring Training orchestrating an ideal blueprint for Opening Day, and, without a hitch, orchestrated it to perfection once the curtain was raised.

Devin was born in a laundry-mat on the Fourth of July.

Arena: The Finest Wordpress Theme Work on the Web

Why did daylight saving time (DST) start, and why does it still continue? When asking a random sample of people we heard two answers again and again: "To help the farmers" or "Because of World War I ... or was it World War II?"

"We are pleased to license a wide range of songs from Matador artists for the 2K Sports Major League Baseball 2K6 video game. Given that our roster is filled with avid gamers and baseball fans, this was a natural fit."

Mark Conard looks at definitions and the meaning of Film Noir in this excerpt from The Philosophy of Film Noir. A Metaphilm exclusive.

Apple Computer opened its defense in London's High Court on Thursday against charges by the Beatles' company, Apple Corps, that it had violated a 1991 trademark agreement by moving into the music business.

Evolving definition of genre accounts for changes in successful video game marketing tactics

Close listeners coming into musical consciousness in the 1980s were faced with a paradox: while past recordings that had slipped into obscurity had become available once again, the sonic quality and production values that had marked the great age of vinyl had been swept aside by record companies in order to reissue as many albums as possible.

Podcast, interview and free MP3s from the best band's at SXSW 2006

Every year when springtime finally arrives and the world is getting ready to stow away pullovers and thick coats in exchange for looser clothing and more colourful shirts, I start to search for two things that mean the start of the warm part of the year for me: one is an electronica record that has nice beats and a laid-back feeling but enough progressiveness to keep me interested yet enough trip hop or dancefloor easiness to keep me relaxed.

I've been as impressed with the way that the creators of Lost have enabled interaction around the show as with the show itself. Perhaps 'enabled' could be replaced with 'coordinated' or even 'manipulated', but strategically, the call-and-response relationship between the form of the show and the unfolding interaction across varying platforms would appear to indicate a very sophisticated understanding of contemporary media indeed.

On March 29, 2006, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed "Gold Lion" on Late Night with David Letterman.

Jose Gonzalez performed "Heartbeats" (originally by The Knife) on Conan O'Brien on March 29, 2006. Check out the video below.

The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed "neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together.

Years ago, the e-mail delivery chain had just a few links. You loaded your e-mail and hit "send." After a couple handoffs, the message arrived in your recipient's inbox the way you sent it.Today, that chain has many more links. Some block your e-mail, others help it along. Deliverability has become a big issue for many e-mail senders. It even spawned this column.

Apple has published a pretty comprehensive guide on finding, playing, managing, and sharing podcasts with iTunes.

Blogs operate under the premise of having an uncorrupted opinion, free of manipulation or avarice. Take away this independence and blogs risk becoming nothing more than press release mouths for corporations who have long recognized the value of uninfluenced, "nine out of every ten doctor recommends"-type advocacy. Promoters want real fans to talk up bands. Bloggers achieve what a PR release could never do, speak with the voice of a loyal supporter who promotes the music because it's good.

Indie rock will never die, because people keep reanimating it's mid-90's era corpse and dressing it up in progressively more retarded names.

DJ Earworm leads the new wave of bastard pop children

Give her any date, she said, and she could recall the day of the week, usually what the weather was like on that day, personal details of her life at that time, and major news events that occurred on that date.

Scientists Engineer Pigs with Heart-Healthy Meat If I could lower my cholesterol by eating pulled pork sandwiches and bacon, I would weep with happiness.