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If you liked Christopher Guest’s mockumentary Best in Show, then you might like this upcoming TV show…Project Pooch:

“Seeking Dog Grooming JUDGE to CRITIQUE DOG GROOMERS as they compete for $50,000 and title of Top Groomer of the Year!!”

Not quite a dog show, but close enough.

It is being casted through Craig’s List in Los Angeles right now for Animal Planet.

(Thanks Ed)
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Wakerupper.com is your personal wake up call.

All you have to do it go to wakerupper.com, enter the time you want the service to call, your phone number and you get a wake up call.

You can even stop the call from coming through email.

Jay Lee has news on International Comment on Blogs Day.

So leave some comments on a blog near you.

YouTube On the Go
The company unveiled a new mobile service at m.youtube.com that it said will carry most of YouTube’s catalog, or tens of millions of videos.

The Coming Wave of Gadgets That Listen and Obey
Now, devices that incorporate speech recognition are starting to hit the mass market.

Target Tells a Blogger to Go Away
Target to the blogosphere: you’re irrelevant.

NotchUp.com Arranges Pay for Job Interviews
If you have a gold-plated resume and are beating recruiters off with a stick, here’s a new twist: Companies will pay you to talk to them. You set the price.

Growing up online
Jessica Hunter was a shy and awkward girl who struggled to make friends at school. Then, at age 14, she reinvented herself online as Autumn Edows, a goth artist and model. She posted provocative photos of herself on the Web and fast developed a cult following.

Christine over at bigpinkcookie.com has declared January 31, 2008 to be International Comment on Blogs Day
No more blurking, you guys! Leave the feedreaders behind, hop on into the browser and say something.
Blurking…it’ a perfectly cromulent word….
I have taken it upon myself to modify this to be International Comment on Blogs and Trackback Day. In […]

Ahhh, you have to love live TV:

Local news guy reports on the Canadian Brown Finch overpopulation in town now. The birds don’t like being called an infestation and let us know by totally dropping a deuce in dude’s mouth! So funny!

WATCH THE VIDEO

(Thanks Ed!)

UPDATE
Gawker says we were all fooled. LEARN MORE

The deadline for comment on the FEIS for the proposed Grand Parkway Segment E is tomorrow, January 31, 2008

City of Houston has begun a process to produce a “Houston-style” general plan

Stephen Warley, a friend of mine, has launched BostonKnows.com. It’s a community based site that hands over the keys to the users:

Ever wonder what’s on the mind of Boston? BostonKnows has.

To find out, we’re allowing anyone to edit the homepage of BostonKnows. After all, who knows Boston better than you?

We’ve created a set of tools to enable you to submit, vote and comment on recommendations about anything and everything having to do with life in Boston. It might be an article, a book, a website, a business, a photo, a video clip, a review or any other tidbit of information you thought was worth sharing to make life in Boston even better.

As the BostonKnows community grows, you’ll be able to discover what’s on the mind of your fellow Bostonians at any point in time, on any topic imaginable.

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I’ve been on Continental Airlines’ planes for many hours in the last year and the news of live TV and Wi-Fi coming on board is awesome:

Continental will offer various channels from DirectTV Group Inc. that are expected to include CBS, NBC, FOX News, CNN Headline News, ESPN, Animal Planet, The History Channel, Food Network, Nickelodeon and MTV. The inflight entertainment system will also offer a moving map and other stored informational and entertainment content.

Continental will continue to install satellite television and Wi-Fi equipment on aircraft through 2009, and expects to have 225 aircraft able to provide the entertainment package by the end of 2010.

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It will be free for business class, $6 for the rest of us.

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