Andy Sternberg

We trust that all Angelenos had a better Valentine's Day than Cleveland's 19 Action News weatherman, Jon Loufman. While the LA metro area saw clear blue skies, temps in the mid-70s, and no reports of fat, dancing naked men, it seems a blizzard was hardly the most blinding part of Loufman's live on-the-street report. This, of course, begs the question, WWDRD (What would Dallas Raines do?)...

A live rehearsal and news conference to announce the Police Reunion World Tour is set for 11 am at Whisky a-Go-Go. Click here to watch the live webcast. The Police will start a world tour in Vancouver in May 28th, continuing through North America through the first week of August, then to the U.K. and Europe, returning to North America in late October. They will then continue on to Mexico, South America, Japan, Australia...

We were certain that the ol' suits at Viacom were just out for cash when they demanded that YouTube take down 100,000 videos last week. But it seems the Big 'V' has something else up its sleeves. If you've already got a destination site with regular programming, (as Comedy Central does), who really needs the Tube? And what to do if you don't have TiVo? ShareTV presents torrents of your fave shows, downloadable soon after...

Fox reports that a paparazzi company sold video of paramedics working on Anna Nicole Smith for the outrageous price of $500,000. Splash News & Picture Agency quickly sold the video a few hours after Smith's death in a media bidding war. It aired this morning on German television. (Vid may be slow-loading as everybody is checking it out.)...

Anna Nicole Smith's mother told Good Morning America: "I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny (Smith's late son)." The video is here. Also, check this cool interactive slideshow from Yahoo! An autopsy is under way. LAist full coverage and reactions. photo from the 2006 film Illegal Aliens....

For as long as Pete Carroll's been head coach, the USC Trojans have consistently attracted the top high school football recruits. But Leinart and Jarrett shared a castle, Bush got his God-knows-what, and now this:Southern California is looking into whether it may have violated NCAA recruiting rules while pursuing highly rated recruit Joe McKnight, a university official said. McKnight signed a national letter of intent with USC on Wednesday and made comments during a...

The original Super Bowl ad (which Snickers has now pulled after receiving complaints from Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) after the jump....

spotted outside Chango in Echo Park....

Enjoy this excellent and inventive video short on recent evolution of the Web by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Web 2.0 Files is a series of occasional posts highlighting the added value aspects of so-called Web 2.0 land. Enjoy your ride on the InterTubes™ and let us know what we're missing......

The first in an occasional series of posts in which we highlight some added value aspects of so-called Web 2.0 land. Enjoy your ride on the InterTubes™... To better understand the Web 2.0 world, one must be in touch with the specific feelings across online content-generating demographics at a particular point in time and place. Enter WeFeelFine.org, the excellent real-time visualization developed by Internet artist Jonathan Harris and Google personalization tech Sep Kamvar. Basically,...