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Why is it that both Randy and Simon can diss a contestant on American Idol and the contestants and Ryan only go on about what Simon said?

Link to shuttle page on NASA: https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/

One debate that is firing up: these shuttles are about two decades old and the budget for the program has been level for years. Should new vehicles be designed/made?

One of the threads going though the coverage is that a piece of debris came off the shuttle and hit its left wing during the mid-January launch. Might have been part of the problem at re-entry.

Debris is being found all over Texas. Officials warning to not touch it due to the dangers of the various fuels and chemicals.

Another disaster has hit the close-knit family of NASA as the space shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven, broke up over central Texas on its way to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The shuttle’s altitude at the time, over 200,000 feet, makes it highly unlikely that this was a terrorist act according to the White House.

Our hearts and thoughts go out to the families.

The Smoking Gun has turned up evidence that one of the Joe Millionaire finalists, Sarah Kozer, has starred in bondage and fetish flicks.

Umm, the NFL Commissioner Tagliawhatsit just told the Tampa owner that his team were world champions.

World Champions? What other countries were they playing?

Is there a football game on today or something? Or is it a concert with intermittent sports?

Just a quick note to let you all know that this is the sixth year that we’ll be blogging the Golden Globe Awards. Some sites might give you the results but we give that AND minute-by-minute commentary on the kick-off to the big awards season. Join us starting at 8pm.

When I’m not doing the entertainment-related stuff like watching flicks, taking photos and covering awards, you’ll find me elbow-deep in the guts of the site — coding XHTML, writing database backends, and trying to keep DigitalHit.com standards-compliant and accessible to people using a variety of browsers and devices. The fun stuff that requires a lot of coffee, late nights, but luckily no tuxedos.

To keep on top of all this stuff I read a lot of people daily. The great thing about all of them is that their sites don’t just keep you informed, they also exude the humanity of the person behind each keyboard.

My two über-gurus are Zeldman and CodeBitch. Great writers and fighters for standards-compliant designs and browsers that will actually follow ‘em without exploding. In no other particular order, here are the people that help inform, teach and amuse me.

• Mark Pilgrim – dive into mark
• Doc Searls – The Doc Searls Weblog
• Adrian Holovaty – holovaty.com
• Jeremy Zawodny – Jeremy Zawodny’s blog
• Phil Ringnalda – phil ringnalda dot com – a digital magpie
• John Lim – PHP Everywhere
• Scott Andrew – scottandrew.com
• Todd Dominey – What Do I Know
• Dean Allen – Textism