Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video, Wireless Rumors of a brand new Creative music player looking exactly like this are unconfirmed at the moment, but we do have a pretty solid lead on the name: Zen Share. That word comes from the mouth of epiZENter.net, and why would a self-termed Creative fansite lie about something like this? Apparently the player does WiFi sharing, but that's all we've got to go on at the moment, so let your imaginati
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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment It's not like there has been any shortage of deals on HD DVD hardware over the past few months or anything, but now that Toshiba (and almost everyone else on the planet) has officially yanked support for the format, prices are beginning to plummet en masse. First on the docket is the HD-A3 at Circuit City, which now sits at just $99.99 and comes with seven free titles, two of which are 300 and Bourne Identity
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Filed under: Gaming, Home EntertainmentWe're pretty sure there's a load of irony here somewhere, but we just can't put our finger on it. Sony is selling its chip manufacturing facilities -- including ones that build the Cell and RSX chips that go into the PS3 -- to Toshiba, and the $835 million deal goes down April 1. (No, this is not some April fool's joke, just really awkward timing.) Toshiba's also in a $16 billion partnership with SanDisk to
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Amy Winehouse will sing live at the Brit awards in her first public performance since she left a rehab clinic two weeks ago.

The Palestinians should follow Kosovo's example and unilaterally declare independence if peace talks with Israel fail, a senior Palestinian official says, but the Palestinian president said the proposal was premature and pledged to keep negotiating.

I’m a day late linking to an amusing skewering of Obamania by David Brooks in yesterday’s Times. He writes about Obama Comedown Syndrome. Up until now The Chosen One?s speeches had seemed to them less like stretches of words and more like soul sensations that transcended time and space. But those in the grips of Obama [...]

Some followup links reacting to Nick Lemann’s j-school memo. Charlie Beckett: The future of journalism (cue plug: ?as I write in my new book, SuperMedia?) is about how paid journalists work with unpaid citizen journalists, professionals and public sharing the process. We will need fewer hacks churning out the basics and more expert editorial entrepreneurs and [...]

OK, that may be redundant, but now there’s now a site for venting and venting about the venting. A lot of folks are whining about post No. 470, who in turn was asking the angry jouranlists to stop whining. Life is so meta these days. Says No. 470: First off, I?m tired of the bitching. I?m [...]

Motorists who came across a fatal school bus crash here quickly turned into rescuers, helping the driver pull screaming children out of the tipped-over bus and ferrying them to hospitals in their own cars.

Filed under: Motorsports, Ferrari Despite being more than three weeks away from the first Formula 1 race of the 2008 season, Jarno Trulli has already predicted that Ferrari will win the 2008 championship. After testing in the Toyota alongside Ferrari in Bahrain, Trulli declared that "the championship already looks over to me before it has started." The F2008 was noticeably quicker than the competition, posting lap times half a second quicker than
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Filed under: Time Warp, Sports/GTs, Wagons/Estates, Auction Action, Chrysler, DodgeIt's always dangerous to get excited about a car that looks halfway decent in pictures. This creative body project that was born from a very rare 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T SE is just such a car. Yes, the value of this car has been pretty well erased by the addition of an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser roof, and that could cause some outbursts from purists. The thing is,
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Filed under: Motorsports, PontiacWith the cancellation of any D1 Grand Prix drift action in the United States this year, the Formula D season should keep drift-addicts entertained when it gets underway on April 12th in Long Beach, California. Last season closed with Tanner Foust and his AEM Nissan 350Z being crowned champion, and Foust's multiple motorsports wins in 2007 (he also captured the X-Games rally title) garnered him increased attention
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Swiss Hunt for Stolen Impressionist Paintings Leads to Car's Back Seat

Defense Chief says Australian combat troops in Iraq should be withdrawn.

For Kosovo, hints of the future in other fledgling states of the 21st century.

MI6's former head denies assassination of Princess Diana

Oil prices retreat after closing above $100 a barrel; Asian markets rattled.

The six-month cease-fire declared by Moqtada al Sadr is due to end Sunday.