And it is a very nice work of art from Vladimir Putin, too! He painted a portrait of a beautiful, smiling woman, seen just to the right of that auction hall window in this photograph. [Telegraph]

According to some Philadelphia CityPaper blog post we don’t really believe and can only half comprehend because the HTML is all broken because a million people must be trying to read this same important scandalous story right now, Barack Obama was seen in a gym somewhere using the failed Microsoft music player called “the Zune” — instead of the Apple Mac iPod, which is what fancy people use, because they are so classy with their taste and money. UPCOMING REVELATIONS: Obama wears Old Navy jeans, likes Coldplay, loved The Da Vinci Code, and thought Return of the Jedi was the best of the original trilogy, because of the Ewoks. [CityPaper & CityPaper]

This is freaking ridiculous: There are about a dozen video streams for this Dem candidate forum in Carson City, Nevada, that just started, but they’re all Windows Media Player or Real Thingy or Vista XP-Superb, and the only option for Mac users (all the Dem primary voters, basically) is to download Internet Explorer and Real Player and Windows Media Deal and other such stuff that will take three hours and break the computer. MORE »