AP - NBC Universal said Tuesday that it will shake up its ad sales and take a year-round approach to the television season, which has traditionally been tucked into nine months.

AP - "The A-Team," "Kojak" and other blasts from television's past will be streamed online, NBC Universal said Tuesday.

AP - Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion.

AP - Owen Wilson is going back to work for the first time since his reported suicide attempt last summer.

Two iPhones and a Ninendo DS make up the instruments in this band. The DS game is Electroplankton, and the iPhones are using iAno and Pocket Guitar.

Fans of Futbol (Links to futbol vids) should enjoy this short vid of some amazing skillz. (Scroll down for vid. Yea, it looks like it's part of an ad campaign.)

Ron Patrick does very silly things with cars and scooters

In trademark style, Lawrence Lessig today announced the creation of a congressional exploratory committee. If in the next few days he decides to officially enter the race, he'll be running in the special election on April 8th to fill the CA-12 seat recently vacated by the death of Tom Lantos. A run by Lessig would likely be seen as a new front the the technocratic, post-partisan movement Barack Obama is attempting to catalyze; Lessig was a colle
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Physicist Howard Wiseman has a hobby, history. On his website he has three history subsites, filled with lots of information: 1) Ruin and Conquest of Britain 2) 18 Centuries of Roman Empire 3) Twenty Centuries of "British" "Empires". Especially informative are his many maps. As he says himself: "Drawing historical maps of all sorts has been a hobby of mine since my mid teens. Now I can do it digitally, and inflict it upon the world!"

Dean Kamen's Artificial "Luke" Arm - Segway inventor reinvents the prosthetic arm: "I've been able to do stuff with this that I haven't, seriously haven't, done in 26 years... uh, pick up a banana, peel a banana and eat it without it squishening... I can't wait to get one of these in a real environment, a home environment, and actually my wife can't either. She's going, oh yeah, I got lots of stuff for you to do."

The MashMeet NYC REMIX is quickly approaching, and there are only around 40 tickets remaining with no room for extras. In case you missed our previous announcement, MashMeet NYC REMIX is a whole new spin on the massively popular MashMeet NYC meetups: in addition to the usual drinking and networking, there will be presentations [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "MashMeet NYC REMIX is THIS Friday", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/mashmeet-nyc

Zynga has been the subject of a bit of scrutiny lately. Zynga is (and the general blogosphere has done their research on this thanks to Fred), the 10th largest app company on Facebook. Recently they’ve, opened up their platform so that other game developers can launch their games, utilizing the marketing and monetization abilities [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Podcast: A Conversation with Zynga's Mark Pincus", url: "http://mashable.com
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The Gamers Developers Conference is going on in San Francisco right now, so we’d expect to hear a lot of news in regards to gaming platforms, and integration options for existing social networks. We even got a taste of it last week when Zynga and The Social Gaming Network announced their platforms, extending developing [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Social Gaming Network Expands its Platform", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/sgn-ad

Louis Gray and Kristen Nicole noted late last week that the all-time web statistics had completely disappeared from FeedBurner’s system. Now they’re back. As it turns out, it was a whole big mistake. Product Manager for the FeedBurner team at Google, Steve Olechowski stopped by Louis Gray’s blog yesterday afternoon to try to clear [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FeedBurner All-Time Stats Restored", url: "http://mashable.com/2
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Mobile social network Groovr officially launched this week with a couple of new features, which circles around an improved local search, and other integrated options. The local search has been enhanced with the inclusion of photos and videos that are related to your query, giving you more context to whatever your search may be. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Groovr Officially Launches with New Features", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/
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ONESite, which allows you to setup your own social network, has acquired Social Platform LLC, a company that does much of the same. ONESite claims more than 2,000 customers that have setup social networks, accounting for $5 million in revenue last year. Terms are not being disclosed, although this deal appears much more about combining [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "ONEsite Acquires Social Platform; Two White Label Socnets Join Forces", url:
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A new shopping site called JackpotRewards is launching tonight, with all sorts of goodies to lure in its users. JackpotRewards is backed by Boston philanthropist and famous Wall Street investor Peter Lynch, with a total amount of $16.7 million raised in Series A funding from Lynch and other investors. So what are all [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Peter Lynch Backs Jackpot Rewards, with Weekly $1M Prizes", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/
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Obama's victory -- yet another one -- in an important state primary suggests her coalition is beginning to come unstuck. With his victory in Wisconsin 's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, Barack Obama withstood an aggressive assault by rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and gained new momentum for their high-stakes battle ahead in Texas and Ohio .