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...Alicia Silverstone appeared on stage together for no better reason than that each of them has an NBC drama debuting this week. Wanda Sykes - whose sitcom Wanda at Large appears on Fox, which aired the Emmys - plugged her show incessantly. The Emmy Awards do not need to become one giant commercial for the wonders of television. We're watching the Emmy Awards - we're already interested in television. If not, why would we sit through those lifetime achievement awards? On the bright side, the awards brought a promo that millions of Americans were anxious to see - that...
...despite the $25 million bounty Washington has put on bin Laden's head. "Do you know how much money Osama has?" asks tribesman Mehfooz Ullah. "Over $200 million. How could anyone hand him over for $25 million?" And, he adds, "we can't betray a Muslim brother." Painted in giant letters on the rock faces that run along Waziri roads are the slogans LONG LIVE OSAMA and WE LOVE OSAMA...
...that Ball, whose contract expires in May, wants out for his own reasons. Possible noncompetition clauses permitting, Ball would be a prime candidate to run the soon-to-be-merged Telewest and ntl, the two cable-TV companies that have suffered the most from BSkyB's success. Telecom-giant BT might also take an interest in Ball as it moves into broadcasting through mobile-phone and broadband technologies. What's curious about the bouncing Ball story is that it appeared almost out of thin air. Several British papers - including Murdoch's own Times - reported the ouster last week as nearly...
MEANWHILE IN VENEZUELA ... Jurassic Pet Scientists announced the discovery of a giant guinea pig weighing 300 kg that roamed South America 8 million years ago. Goya, as it was nicknamed by paleontologists who excavated its 3-m long skeleton, is the largest rodent ever found - 700 times heavier than its fluffy modern-day cousin. Experts speculated that Goya died out because it was too slow to escape predators and was too big to dive into burrows like its more petite relatives...
There is promise, however, at the intersection between technology and social capital, where flash mobs were born. Telephones and the Internet, unlike the passive medium of television, are both used actively and could potentially knit us more closely together. Our society is in a giant period of experimentation, and we may be inventing the technological building blocks of new social connections. For example, Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs—organized in the same way as flash mobs, but with more serious intentions—details how these active technologies helped Philippine and Seattle protesters redeploy themselves...