Nathan wins Top Design

The kind of bacteria in your gut may be making you fat. So eat your Activia!

Ryan Kwanten gets nekkid again on "True Blood." (NSFW) The more he gets naked, the more I'm gonna post about it.

3G tethering coming to iPhone

Another kind of Butt Bandit

Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton dies

Seann William Scott talks about squirting during sex. (Video - posssibly NSFW)

More Whoopi: We Have Finally Become Part of the Fabric of the United States of America

Tom Ford to direct movie based on Christopher Isherwood book

"Clash of The Titans" to be remade!

I wasn't sure how real this was last night, but will.i.am was being interviewed by hologram. For real. It looks just like when the Star Trek characters would get beamed up. Watch will.i.am's hologram interview in the first video (fast-forward about 20%), and then watch an explanation of the technology in the second video.

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:
That's right -- The MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show in its ENTIRETY. Every single day. My girlfriend Rachel's nightly show is "a smart look at politics, pop culture, and all the day's top stories. It's mind over chatter!" Updated every single day.

NPR:
Fresh Air:
Stories: 1) Seth Meyers' Prime-Time Political Parody 2) '30 Rock': Tina Fey Sitcom Back For a Third Season 3) 'Socialist' Charge Draw On Old Fears

Tell Me More:
Stories: 1) Former Skinhead On Alleged Plot To Kill Obama 2) Count Me Out: Men Tell Of Decision Not To Vote

The New York Times:
The Front Page, 10/30
NYT Tech Talk 10/30

Audio player after the jump. Or click here to launch the player in a new window so you can browse while you listen. Or, head over to The Media Bar and listen there.

A smaller version of Matt Damon than in the picture above talks about the election and the movement in Hollywood to get more involved.
The brilliant Joss Whedon on what happened to "Dollhouse"

Tina Fey to receive $6 million to write a book of comic essays

FA to investigage into anti-gay verbal attacks UK at football games

"The Front Runner" author Patricia Nell Warren calls out the "Yes on Prop 8" crazies

Time Inc. plans to lay off 600

Windows 7 leapfrogs over Vista

After being swung around the dance floor by her arms and legs, 82-year-old Cloris Leachman gives a crazy interview on Good Morning America to talk about the joys of "Cloreography." Why is that just because she's old everything she says is hysterical? The poor girl can't get a word in edge-wise because as soon as she opens her mouth, the people around her bust out laughing.

The View denies backstage screaming matches. That's right. They save their screaming for in front of the camera.

MTV Video Music Awards host Russell Brand suspended from the BBC for prank calls

Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women (The hot guy from Mad Men)
Jerry Lewis likes to call people "fags."

Barack Obama offers Jennifer Hudson some kind words

Zac Efron tops . . . whatever he wants. But in this case, the box office. When, exactly, did he stop being a boy and start looking like a man?

The father of molecular gastronomy gives an interview

SF streetcar to be dedicated to Harvey Milk

Saving you from drowning in a sea of passwords -- a picture

This week's Tennis Ad-in/Ad-out column by Jon Wertheim

Dan Savage hosts HUMP! - the annual amateur porn festival.

Judy Shepard, Matthew Shepard's mother, is honored with Cronkite award

I loved this article on the Antikythera machine, the 2000 year old computer.

Oprah just gave out the new Kindle 2 to her entire audience. The rest of us have to wait for Christmas. That was a hint. To my loved ones.

Now, she just offered a coupon code to give her home viewers a $50 discount. But when I went on her site, the discount was for the ORIGINAL Kindle! She was holding the much smaller and much NEWER Kindle 2. Bait and switch, is what that is. Jeff Bezos went on Oprah trying to clear his warehouse to make room for the new version. Shady.

Via The Daily Beast:

The best gadgets have yet to be released, including:

Amazon Kindle 2
When Amazon announced the breakthrough Kindle electronic book reader, Newsweek proclaimed on its cover that the device was "the future of reading." Now, eleven months later, wired bibliophiles are seeking a Kindle that's even more futuristic—or at least, one that fixes the annoying design and user-interface defects of the original.

Motorola's Android phone
The T-Mobile G1, the first smartphone to run Google's "Android" operating system for mobile phones, is now in stores. But other mobile phone manufacturers are readying their own Android headsets, including Motorola, whose phone BusinessWeek reports "will boast an iPhone-like touch screen, a slide-out qwerty keyboard, and a host of social-network-friendly features."

Wake Up With These:

The New York Times
The Front Page, Thursday 10-23-08 (4:34)
Tech Talk 10-23-08 (22:51)

Tell Me More (45:00)
Stories: 1) 'Wilder (Bradley) Effect': Polling Myths or Truths 2) Can Vouchers Help Failing Public Schools? 3) Rachael Yamagata Writes To Overcome

Fresh Air:
Stories: 1) Steve Martin On Being 'Born Standing Up' 2) Taking Measure Of 'Dear Science'

Audio player after the jump. Or click here to launch the player in a new window so you can browse while you listen. Or, head over to The Media Bar and listen

Janice Dickinson's models get a Parke and Ronen gig.
More Maddow. Rachel Maddow doubles the audience for her cables new show

Gruesome new show from Survivor's Jeff Probst. The show, Live Like You’re Dying, will feature a person who has been given a terminal diagnosis with a finite amount of time to live and “take them on the last adventure of their life,” according to Probst.

Top 10 most underappreciated horror movie deaths

Hollywood adjusts to new economy

Palin failed on SNL? According to these women she did.

AskMen.com's Top 49 Most Influential Men for 2008. . . Makes me wonder if there's going to be a Bottom 49. Nothing wrong with flipping.

The Torchwood boys make out off set . . . too.

It's not the radiation. Nope. It's the nickel that'll get you!

And, yeah, Madonna and Guy are fighting. Madonna likes to watch, apparently.

The lost Madonna tapes via The Daily Beast
Calling all smartphones! You need a new name.

Vampire Bill naked! (NSFW)

Mr. Blackwell dies at the age of 86

Thousands attend funeral of right-wing gay Austrian politician Joerg Haider

Sizing up gay celebrities' boyfriends

Traveling exhibit explores Nazi persecution of gays

Hustlaball catches fire (site NSFW)

The new search engine - SearchMe

Computers getting closer to passing the Turing test

Tennis's Jon Wertheim reviews the past week in tennis in his weekly
Ad-in/Ad-out

on Vimeo.
Via Gizmodo: "[T]his Fin-Fish R/C blimp floats so gracefully through the air that it is liable to hypnotize you at your office desk until quittin' time."

From After Elton's Angry Puppy Video Blog (Your Gay Guide to Sci Fi, Horror, Gaming, Tech, Comics, and Stuff We Like)":

"In this week's Angry Puppy, Marc and Lee try to talk about Heroes and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but end up in a discussion on when and what they can forgive in sci fi writing. Also in this episode, they review the gay horror short In the Closet and Milo Ventimiglia's gore-iffic Pathology (now on DVD)."

These guys give really funny, really smart, and really dead-on critiques of all the best TV shows. They love "True Blood!"

And I learned that Milo Ventimiglia shows his butt in "Pathology."

Check out their vlog after the jump!

I included a mention of this in the Bar Snacks section, but, after thinking about it, I've decided to gather together an entire post.

Arts Technica has an exhaustive review of the phone.

Engadget has a review with pictures.

And then Gizmodo has an exhaustive review and really great pictures: "There is a lot riding on the shoulders of T-Mobile's G1 Android phone. In some ways, it carries the collective hopes of Linux, open source and Google fans everywhere. It's open, collaborative and community-based, in other words, everything the iPhone and Windows Mobile aren't."

Jay Leno embarrasses Zac Efron.
TV networks off so slow start

Andy Roddick auctions off nude tennis lesson

Jon Wertheim's weekly Tennis Mailbag

Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Nastia Liukin to appear on Gossip Girl

Interview with Project Runway's Jerell Scott

Google crushes the iPhone?

Lost's JJ Abrams talks about his version of Star Trek."I think a movie that shows people of various races working together and surviving hundreds of years from now is not a bad message to put out right now."

Ellen DeGeneres tees it up Wednesday in Las Vegas adJustin Timberlake's charity golf event

Angelina Jolie on The Today Show

The Soup on Miley's Inappropriate Birthday Offer, via I Am A TV Junkie
"My Own Worst Enemy" getting even worse ratings

Anne Hathaway's ex had good intentions

Gale Harold, of Desperate Housewives and formerly Queer as Folk, is in stable condition after a motorcycle accident yesterday

Aravinda Adiga wins the Man Booker prize for his debut novel about the dark side of the new India

The Leather Festival was in the West Village? When?


The NYT's David Pogue discovers the almost perfect charger

Tennis columnist Jon Wertheim's weekly Ad-in/Ad-out

It is perhaps the last great Antarctic expedition - to find an explanation for why there is a great mountain range buried under the White Continent.

Gay schools the answer?