The Dixie Chicks Are Back!The Eagles, Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban will be touring together for the first time when they hit the road on June 8th for a North American stadium concert tour. Tour dates and lineup is listed below and in the tour section. ● More from: Dixie Chicks
Live from Seattle’s Swedish Hospital: Surgery with Twitter updates
We know. You’re tired about getting tweets about what someone had for breakfast or stepped in.
How about this: Live tweets from the operating room. ● More from: blog.seattlepi.com
The hospital is tweeting the surgery to mark National Kidney month. I am feeling a little squeamish.
Obama predicts Kansas beat Kentucky for title
The First Fan appears to be a big fan of basketball programs from Kansas.
President Barack Obama predicted Kansas and Kansas State to join Kentucky and Villanova in the men’s basketball Final Four this season, with the Jayhawks defeating Kentucky for the title. ● More from: nbcsports.msnbc.com
I bet lotsa fans have this happening in their brackets. The Big O didn’t go out on a limb.
Private school students’ gay-bashing not free speech, court rules
Students at an elite L.A. private school who posted death threats and antigay messages on the Internet site of a 15-year-old classmate can’t claim the constitutional protection of free speech, a California appeals court has ruled. ● More from: Los Angeles Times
Police declined to prosecute. Two courts ruled against 1st amendment claims. Family moved to protect their not gay son. So who won?
NBC, Trump to revive original ‘Apprentice’
Reality series to return in the fall
As part of their economic stimulus plan for America, NBC and Donald Trump are dusting off “The Apprentice.” ● More from: Variety
I watched the first season. Then tired of the concept, the host and whole fabrication. I predict the comeback will tank.
Roger Ebert Makes Pay Play: The Ebert Club
Roger Ebert thrives on the web. Now he’d like to get paid for it but not by blocking access to the site or its 10,000-review archive. Instead the Chicago Sun-Times movie critic—a master blogger and tweeter—is going the value-added route, launching The Ebert Club: annual subscriptions $4.99 through the end of March, $5.00 as of April 1. ● More from: paidContent ● More from: Introducing The Ebert Club :: rogerebert.com
Five bucks a year to get a special RSS feed with lotsa inside movie information. Why not?
Universal 3D Glasses
One of the complaints about 3DTV that is often repeated in the press is that “there are no standards“. I may be the only one who does not see that as a major obstacle. After all, there are a lot of different digital image file formats out there, yet programs like Microsoft Word or most browsers seem to be able to handle all that variety without breaking a sweat. ● More from: HDTV Magazine
Maybe you didn’t notice when you were checking out 3D TVs that each manufactor has different specs for their glasses. That’s right you can’t use your 3D glasses to watch the game at your buddy’s if he has a 3D TV from a different maker. Maybe we have a solution.
Some Key iPad Accessories Won’t Ship for a While
Customers who waited to preorder some of the iPad’s accessories may have to wait until after their tablet has shipped.
The iPad accessories — a keyboard dock, a case, the generic dock, the 10-watt power adapter, the dock connector to VGA adapter, plus the generic wireless keyboard and A/V cables — have ship dates ranging from 24 hours until May. ● More from: PC Magazine
Oh . . . I think there well be plenty to discover on the new iPad before you discover what accessories you need or don’t need. It will be very interesting to see how this new appliance settles in . . . there is really nothing to compare it to.
Theater owners not thrilled about Alice in Wonderlands quick DVD release
Disney’s plan to quickly release the blockbuster “Alice in Wonderland” on DVD is sparking new heat in a debate between Hollywood studios and movie theaters over how quickly films move from the big screen to people’s living rooms. ● More from: HitFix.com
The DVD is coming in about three months. Will this compete with seeing the film in 3D at a theater?
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