BUSINESS BUZZ – CBS is buying CNET for $1.8 billion. In a surprise move, the broadcast giant is snapping up CNET’s large network of online sites.

The Best Links:

1. Is This CBS’s YouTube, or Something Worse?
2. CBS Makes Its Offer for $11.50 a Share
3. Why CBS Bought CNET, And Not The Other Way Around
4. “The Internet Suckers Another Old Media Company”

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TV BUZZ – MTV’s spinoff to My Super Sweet Sixteen will send fan “favorites” to third world countries, where they’ll learn truly valuable lessons in how to be less terrible human beings. With The Paper receiving rave reviews across the board, it was only a matter of time before the network reset their focus on the crux of their most successful programming: spoiled brats.

The Best Links:

1. Check Out the Preview Here!
2. “The Premise of the Show is to “Punish” Some of the Spoiled Brats from My Super Sweet 16. How? By Giving Them Each Their Own Camera Crew, TV Show, and Mountains and Mountains of the Attention That They So Desperately Crave.”
3. Expect “Exiled” To Be “Earnest,” Devoid of Chihuahuas
4. Another Example Of “Good Things Happening in a Truly Awful World?”
5. Sweet! An Opportunity for Us to Judge These Kids Even More and Feel Better About Ourselves!
6. Must Be Patient. Must Be Patient…

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CULTURE BUZZ – Cute old lady with a collection of YouTube videos where she lip syncs to songs. If you fetishize the elderly (who doesn’t??), you’ll love Sara Brattman.

The Best Links:

1. “Sara Brattman Has Lip Synced Her Way Into Our Hearts”
2. Elderly Chiquita Banana Woman - How does she not have 9 million views already??
3. YouTube - Sara Brattman Search Results

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STYLE BUZZ – A slew of designers are making jewelry using elements of living organisms. These pieces though cruelty-free are either made from or inspired by parts of actual insects or sea creatures. I love things that pretty yet at the same time very creepy.

The Best Links:

1. “You Are Seriously Starting To Bug Me”
2. Octopus Jewelry Made From Real Octopus
3. Sea Horse in Vial Necklace
4. Real Octopus Ring
5. Sea Urchin Jewelry
6. Bitten By the Jewelery Bug
7. Beetle Wings Necklace
8. Real Mantis Fly (in Water) Necklace

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MUSIC BUZZ – A Photoshop contest where people have taken classic album covers and imagined what could have been going on outside the frame. This bemusing series of photoshopped images takes Sleeveface a step further.

The Best Links:

1. A Few of Our Favorite Picks
2. Extending Album Art Official Site
3. An Offshoot of the Sleeveface “Scene”

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TECH BUZZ – She’s been named as Playboy’s 2008 Cyber Girl of the Year. She loves Final Fantasy because of all the “sidequests.” Which reminds me: RPG porn does exist (and is not safe for work, of course)!

The Best Links:

1. Full Interview - and Slightly NSFW Pics
2. Jo’s Inner Complexity: Prefers Coke to Pepsi, But Aquafina to Dasani
3. Check Out Her Official Photo Gallery, Plus a Video Interview
4. Is That a SheMale?
5. Wow! a Hot Girl Who Likes Video Games?
6. Cyber Girl of The Year Jo Garcia (NSFW Pics)
7. Playboy Model is Human, Likes Games, Gets the “Zodiac Spear”
8. More Photos! A Video!

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POLITICS BUZZ – The state’s Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to overturn the ban. In the opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George, the court says that ultimately, “domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage.”

The Best Links:

1. Judges Make a Good Call!!
2. This Is, Um, Pretty Awesome
3. Does This Get Around Schwarzenegger’s Constant Vetoes?

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Scientists discover the most recently exploded supernova in our galaxy. By “baby,” they mean it exploded 26,000 years ago (Baby Supernova would also make a good band name).

The Best Links:

1. It Practically Just Blew Up
2. “An Unprecedented Opportunity to Watch a Star Dying”
3. Kind of an Unfortunate Name: G 1.9+0.3
4. NASA Announcement Crashed By Nutjobs

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POLITICS BUZZ – Keith Olbermann says “Shut the hell up!” to President Bush in the Special Comments segment. People are saying it’s his best Special Comment ever.

The Best Links:

1. Read the Full Transcript
2. YouTube - Keith Olbermann:To Mr. Bush Shut the Hell Up!

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CULTURE BUZZ – Afrigadget is a website chronicling ingenuity of African inventors who use simple materials to solve big problems. Yay uplifting Bono-free news from Africa. My favorites are the home-made helicopter, the Knife Sharpening Bicycle and the Solar Powered Mobile Phone Charger.

The Best Links:

1. AfriGadget
2. Afrigadget: The ‘Can Do’ Attitude Personified
3. AfriGadget flickr Pool
4. Afrigadget Redesigned
5. AfriGadget - Very Short List

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