Internet dieting has become extremely popular in recent years, according to this article from AP. We have seen some of the results here: this post on the South Beach Diet has been gathering comments steadily for nine months, and CW Fisher has just started a series on what he calls …

If you think about it for a moment, the fact that 75% of Americans have access to the Internet from their homes after just ten years is remarkable: In a February telephone survey, an estimated 204.3 million people, or 74.9 percent of the population above the age of two and …

And that dominatrix looks really familiar, too.

Interesting essay by Clive Thompson in NY Times Magazine arguing that the Internet generally makes people more honest: a Cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: We fib less frequently when we’re online than when we’re talking in person. Jeffrey Hancock asked 30 of …

The prosecutor in the Michael Jackson child molestation case may call witnesses from the ’93 case, which ended in a large settlement being paid to the accuser, but no charges against Jackson: The Santa Barbara News-Press, citing sources it did not name, said several witnesses who testified in the 1993 …

Courtney Love is on another rampage: Wednesday she flashed Letterman, then later tossed her microphone stand into the crowd where she was performing, braining a spectator: Singer-actress Courtney Love was arrested in New York early on Thursday after throwing a microphone stand into a nightclub audience and hitting a man …

Paris Hilton was rejected by a horse and Britney Spears danced into herself – is there a plot against famous young blondes? Paris pummeled: Paris Hilton was hospitalized Friday after a horse she was riding threw her off and kicked her in the stomach during the taping of “The Simple …

Hey, we don’t make stuff up without warning you about it. Joining other famous sociopaths, like Jayson Blair at the NY Times, USA Today has found that former star reporter Jack Kelley made up all kinds of shit: USA Today reported the initial findings of an ongoing investigation in a …

As users quickly become aware, the worst part of using the major file sharing services is the crap they clog up your computer with: pop up ads, spyware, even viruses. If you are using Kazaa, this program will help – Kazaa Cleaner: Kazaa Cleaner is a free and tiny Adware …

I am becoming a bit less sanguine about the new “zero tolerance” broadcast atmosphere. Yesterday the FCC went pretty nuts with the fines and the condemnations: The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday overruled its staff and declared that an expletive uttered by rock star Bono on NBC last year was …