TECH BUZZ: Is Andy Dick ripping off Sixty Days with his new house arrest web series? Like House Arrest with Andy Dick , this one chronicles a dude's life while stuck in an apartment on house arrest. He's in for doing “aerosol art.” Its got way less Dickage and more cats, so y'all might like this one.

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. Sixty Days
2. Sixty Days - Day 31
3. Sixty Days on Vimeo
4. About Sixty Days
5. Sixty Days - Day 30
6. iamglenn thinks so
7. House Arrest with Andy Dick

POLITICS BUZZ: The Illinois governor was arrested for corruption, including charges that he tried to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. The federal complaint, filed by none other than Patrick Fitzgerald (of Plame/Libby fame), is delightfully long and expletive-ridden, including the observation from Blago that a Senate seat “is a f—-ing valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.” Prosecutors also allege that Blago screwed over the Tribune Company and accepted many a bribe during the course of his tenure. It is a new dawn for Chicago politics.

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. A Senate seat “is a f***ing valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.”
2. Illinois governor arrested for corruption
3. Pronunciation guide: BLAH-go-YAY-vitch
4. Blagojevich’s COS was also arrested
5. Blagojevich witheld assistance from the Tribune Company because of critical coverage
6. Blagojevich career retrospective
7. Blagojevich’s Governor homepage
8. Obama’s Senate seat for sale
9. Blagojevich: “Feel free” to tape me
10. Blagojevich is a former Congressman for parts of Chicago
11. Chicago Tribune held the story at the request of the prosecution
12. Rahm Emanuel may have tipped off the Feds
13. Political junkies will be thrilled to hear that Patrick Fitzgerald is on the case!

CULTURE BUZZ: Police in Chicago have arrested Balfour, Jennifer Hudson's brother-in-law, for the murders of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Balfour is the estranged husband of Hudson's older sister, was previously a “person of interest.” He's refused to take a lie detector test.

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. William Balfour’s History With The Hudson Family
2. Balfour Reportedly Confessed to his Girlfriend
3. William Balfour’s Arrest on the Associated Press

CELEBRITY BUZZ: West was arrested at LAX for “felony vandalism” after grabbing a paparazzo’s camera out of his hand and smashing it on the ground. Do not make Kanye angry. You will not like him when he’s angry.

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. Video Of The Dust-Up
2. How the Kanye Arrest Went Down
3. Kanye Arrested, Still Blogging
4. The Full Story On The Kanye West Arrest

POLITICS BUZZ: Among the dozens arrested on the eve of the RNC was Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman. She intervened after police arrested two producers for Democracy Now! and was put in cuffs herself.

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. Video of Goodman’s Arrest
2. Amy Goodman Violently Arrested at RNC
3. CNN Story Strangely Doesn’t Mention Goodman’s Arrest

CELEBRITY BUZZ: While filming W , Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic in which he plays the Prez, Brolin and co-star Jeffrey Wright were arrested in a Louisiana bar following a barfight. With that level of character commitment , dude’s got the Oscar nom locked.

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. Josh Brolin, W. Crew Busted After Last Call
2. Dubya Got Arrested!
3. Brolin’s Out $334
4. The Mug Shot

A Google Maps car with a giant camera gets pulled over by the police. In case you had no idea how conspicuous the Google Maps cars actually are….

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. Google Maps Car Busted - a set on Flickr

TECH BUZZ: A graduate student named James Karl Buck helps free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone. The post was broadcast using the micro-blogging platform Twitter . He is currently trying to save his translator Mohammed Maree , who is still being held. Apparently Twitter has other uses besides broadcasting pithy thoughts and mundane activity lists to your friends. It just goes to show that if it weren’t for web 2.0, we’d probably all be jobless, in jail, or dead.

Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

The Best Links:

1. James Karl Buck’s Twitter
2. WSJ: Twitter Saves Journalism Student Who Was Able to Mass Text “Arrested” to His Friends
3. Give Cell Phones the Credit, Not Twitter
4. James Karl Buck’s Website: “Free Mohammed Maree”
5. Student ‘Twitters’ His Way Out of Egyptian Jail
6. Why Twitter Isn’t Pointless
7. Info on How to Help Mohammed Maree, James’ Translator
8. Politicians, Corporations Learning That Twitter Is Actually Useful