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...Five years and about 29 VH1 presidents ago, someone at the channel approached me about creating a show. So I pitched an animated sitcom in which I would interview two celebrities an episode and then build a flimsy plot around them involving a guy named Joel Stein who works at a magazine. If VH1 had wanted imagination, it would have gone to David Lynch...
...real news, however, was made on the Red Planet. The 90-mile-wide Gusev Crater--located about 15° south of the planet's equator--resembles a dry lake bed, one that could easily have been drenched with water from what appears to be a 559-mile-long river channel entering it from the southeast. If there was once Martian water, it should have ponded there. If there was once Martian life, it might have called this great lake home...
...Horn and Hardart's Children's Hour. I longed to be one of the show's talented kids who tap-danced and sang. Of course, that was so far from where I was then. Being paralyzed, I had to night-crawl on my bedroom floor just to change the channel; there was no such thing as remote control...
...Friends episode titled "The One with Free Porn," Chandler and Joey discover to their delight a free pornography TV channel, which they leave on and watch endlessly for fear it will go away. Later, a startled Chandler reports to Joey, "I was just at the bank, and there was this really hot teller, and she didn't ask me to go do it in the vault." Joey describes a similar cold shoulder from the pizza-delivery woman. "You know what?" Chandler concludes. "We have to turn off the porn...
Dialing a number to hear a weather forecast is old news. Several new programs allow cell-phone users to see the weather as well. AccuWeather and the Weather Channel (TWC) both offer hourly and extended forecasts with loads of weather-nerd stats, like barometric-pressure readings, as well as animated Doppler radar views. AccuWeather's zippy charts are easier to flip through; TWC makes users scroll and slog through data. Another new weather program is the eye-catching Weathernews, which displays a photograph of a city of your choosing along with its temperature and conditions. Hit the Down arrow...