What better way to celebrate than with a record dramatizing the novel's steamiest scenes, complete with orchestral accompaniment? Unless you consider “phallus” and “sex” to be obscene words, you'll find yourself quaintly charmed by the idea that this once caused an uproar, even though the anonymous actors do their best to sell the sex with breathless, melodramatic readings.

Both the jacket and the album feature the notation, “Vol. 1,” on all sides, suggesting that this was the first in a series. As the album covers the entire plot of Lady Chatterly's Lover, I must assume that they never found another piece of adult-oriented literature worthy of adaptation.

three hours of galapagos just started on nat'l geo channel.

of course am watching the english beat pledge drive on 13. the zombies actually turned into real zombies and eric burden is a caveman.

this is pretty cool although not exactly the lineup i might have favored. directv is broadcasting shows from sxsw this weekend. the quality of the visuals are excellent.

Vegan Try Fector last week......

Stop 1 Hangawi: went al la cart....wrong move except one amazing dish of a seasonal mountain root salad....rest ok at best:<(
Stop 2 Mandoo Bar: its a dumpling bar 2 w 32nd and sensational,
wish we went here to start...
Stop 3 Kyotufo Dessert Bar, 707?? 9t Ave, very very good, drinks + dessert chef from Japan...

Straight Talk Express can't get it up for a condom

get yer grateful dead-sponsored, lithuanian basketball team shirt. who knew?

Shares of BigBand Networks Spike After Pricing of $139 Million IPO

BigBand is a developer of technology that allows cable TV providers and telephone companies to offer video, voice and data services.

The Redwood City, Calif.-based company has raised more than $100 million from investors, and achieved profitability last year.

Its clients include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox and Rogers Cable.

Nice to see an IPO in this space. Although with $100M in at least some of the VCs got less than the 10-1 pop that they dream of.

Unused TV spectrum eyed for Web service

CBS shoots the NCAA to YouTube

Mark Raby, March 16, 2007 10:42, San Bruno (CA) - Bringing March Madness to the online video forefront, CBS today announced a new advertising partnership with Pontiac to bring NCAA game highlights to YouTube.

Nintendo's Still the One

By Fred J. Aun, TechNewsWorld, 03/16/07 11:04 AM PT -- Nintendo blew away the competition in February gaming console sales, according to an NPD report. The company sold 485,000 DS units and 335,000 Wii consoles in the month. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold 228,000 units, while Sony continued to struggle as its PlayStation 3 lagged with only 127,000 units sold.

and in other news, i will be suing tim conway for not being funny.

Giant ice cap found under the south pole of Mars that, if thawed, would cover the entire planet with 30 feet of water.

i cant even begin to imagine one good thing to say about karl rove but i was just watching a rerun of keith olbermann and during the entire segment while discussing roves involvement in the prosecutor scandal they had "turdblossom" under his picture. seemed a little unseemly for a news organization to go there. but then what do i know of decorum?

Aggressive Intel Quad-core Price Cuts Before "Barcelona"

Intel is trying to steal AMD's thunder by cutting prices deeply. The Q6600 is a Core 2 Quad with 1066 MHz front side bus (connects to the memory controller chip), 8 MBytes of cache, and 2.4 GHz operating frequency. It will be $266 (in quantity) by Q3 of this year. Earlier this year, the retail price of the 2.93 GHz sibling was around $2k.

Four screaming-fast 64-bit processors for $266. Awesome.

garbo speaks!

Blu-ray Outsells HD-DVD For Second Month Running
Sells 2:1 against HD-DVD in February.
by Gerry Block

March 13, 2007 - Trade magazine Video Business reported today that Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD in February for the second month running. According to the magazine's figures, roughly 250,000 Blu-ray movie titles were sold in February compared to only 125,000 HD-DVDs. In January movie sales for each format were roughly the same.

Helvetica - a movie about graphic design.

the faces concert on bbc crown jewels on vh1 classic. tonight concerts by neil young and thin lizzy

the groom reaper

A teaser on MNS, "Signs of Hope in Baghdad", links to this AP article:Early signs of progress in Baghdad crackdown
Yeehaw! Where's that "Mission Accomplished" banner!

Oh, wait ... what's this in paragraph 13 ...

In the 27 days leading up to the operation, 528 people were killed in bombings around the capital, according to AP figures. In the first 27 days of the operation, the bombing death toll stood at 370 — a drop of about 30 percent.

tracy morgan has some fun on morning tv.

the naked city was shot on location in nyc in 1947. much of the action takes place around rivington st. when i noticed the shapiros wine i realized that this was not shot on some hollywood backlot. so, a nice snapshot of the neighborhood. they even have a scene in the essex market. robert osborne said many of the bustling street shots were taken from a truck which preserved the cameramans anonymity and the naturalistic ambiance.

im sure there are a million awful photos related to the war but this one apparently has upset the tender feelings of the warfloggers.

If It's Sunday, It's Still Conservative: How the Right Continues to Dominate the Sunday Talk Shows,