• Martha recevied a teensy little bit of news coverage.
• Local kids make it big.
• Am I living in New York or Beverly Hills 90210?
• Matchbox Cars 5-Pack Vehicle Gift Set: $4.47
  14kt Gold "I Love You" Locket: $19.96
  Getting arrested at your local WalMart for trying to drop a cool million: Priceless
• New Jersey's new tourism campaign: New Jersey is for Mobsters.
• Archbishop of Boston says Catholics can't eat Fenway Franks on Opening Day. What is he, a Yankee Fan?
• DangerMouse breaks it down for the amateurs.

DJ Dangermouse, of Grey Album fame, gave an interview to MTV News about how exactly the Grey Album was made. He was planning to keep the process under wraps but he did not enjoy that throngs of wanna-be djs out there thought making the Grey Album was as easy as just laying a Jay-Z track over a Beatles song. Here's what he said about creating 99 Problems, which includes riffs from Helter Skelter:
"My whole thing with this was I didn't want to mess up the Beatles song either," he said. "I don't want to disrespect the Beatles. A lot of people thought it was sacrilege in the first place. I knew that would be something, but I didn't know it was going to be [distributed] on a wide scale. I knew my friends wouldn't think it was sacrilege, so I just made sure it was something I would dig myself."

Standard Deviance's favorite song on the Grey Album is probably Dirt Off Your Shoulder as I've always had a soft spot for Julia, which it samples. This song is definitely a testament to DangerMouses's mixing capabilities, as the final product barely even sounds like Julia anymore but you can still tell that it's Lennon singing back there.

Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He Did It [MTV via Eybeam reBlog]

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Well, it looks like I don't have to fear the Weblogs, Inc./Gawker Media catfight ending anytime soon. Calacanis, who wanted to make peace yesterday, lays a smackdown on Denton today.

As seen in BuzzMachine comments:

Nick plays down the business of blogs for one reason: to pay people less. Trust me, Nick is not doing blogs just for the fun of it, or because he loves the medium. He is hiring people, putting up tons of google ad words, and spending money on expensive logos for a reason: he wants to make money. If he just wanted to do blogs for fun he would post to his personal blog and not be doing highly targeted, highly- profitable (read: porn and gadget) verticals.
That being said, there is nothing wrong with making this into a business. Who wouldn't want to work from home blogging and make a living?! Nick is a great businessman and he is going to be very, very successful and I commend him, even if we have different styles.

Well, if Gawker Media is the Shannon Doherty of the blogosphere, then Weblogs, Inc. is Kelly when she slept with Dylan while Brenda was in France. Play all nicey-nice on your blog and then sneak in a punch in the comments of another blog. I love it.

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Blog Drama: Episode 3

• Bunsen has by far the best Apprentice blog entry ever. I knew there was something going on with Carolyn but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
  
• In the past Standard Deviance has been known to refer to Gawker Media as the Shannon Doherty of the blogging world, but I would never say that they are bringing on the demise of the universe, as one Jack Shafer did over at Slate this week [via Old Hag]. Just as Shannon Doherty used her Minnesota charm to turn Beverly Hills upside-down, Gawker and Wonkette have added spice and zest to our otherwise boring Burbury-wearing Prada-carrying lives. Would you ever refer to Shannon Doherty as a heaving puke? I rest my case.
  
• I'm going to go WAY out on a limb here and say that an aspiring weblog titan is going a little bit overboard when he starts blogs for video game stations that yet to even exist. I think I'm going to start a blog for the Mars Spacestation. I know it may be a while before it exists but I really want to be ahead of the curve.