anderson cooper.. with glasses (not so good)

anderson cooper debuts his new glasses


oh hell…

here’s an interesting item from yahoo.  the american people (who are these people?) were asked to evaluate certain groups’ attitude toward religion.  not surprisingly, hollywood is not seen as very god-fearing and scientists, the obama administration, and the democratic party didn’t do much better. regarding the democrats the report says that ”Only 9% of conservative Republicans say [...]


souped-up ipod touch*

most of you have probably already made up your minds on whether to buy the highly anticipated apple ipad or not so i’ll keep this brief and let you get to video of steve jobs introducing the product today.  the wifi version will be available in 60 days (mid march) and the 3g version will [...]


presenting.. your favorites

it’s been an awesome year at sb and before we jump into new year, we thought we’d take a look at your favorite stories from 2009. here are the top 5, in order by page count:

omg sharon, you’re … huge is the story of one man’s love … for his pumpkin.
not sure I want [...]


the big ball dropping event

like everything else, the times square ball is going green this year with the replacement of some older halogen bulbs with new led lights. rain is in the forecast this new year’s eve so if you were planning on heading to see it in person, you might want to rethink it and choose one of [...]


another busy holiday news weekend

while you were out doing your last minute shopping, stuffing your face with holiday fruit cake and trying to come up with some last minute lame excuse on why you couldn’t go visit family, the holiday news anchors (cause all the A-list folks were on vacation) were busy.   here’s what you might’ve missed (in chronological order):

the [...]


it’s just bloody good business

the news media is getting everyone in trouble these days. a reporter that provided an abrabic translation of a chinese advertisement for the artificial virginity hymen kit got conservative members of the parliament in egypt all up in a tizzy. according to the distributor’s website, for 29.90 us dollars, you get a “artificial hymen” which [...]