If you missed it, Grey’s Anatomy this week had a subplot on Don’t ask Don’t Tell, including a scene where two soldiers kiss. It was done very well. ABC.com has the episode, called ‘The Becoming’, up on their site for a little while. Check it out. ...

If you’re one of the many who suffer AT&T DSL, you already know that you cannot use your own outgoing (SMTP) mail server. You also know that SBC Global (before AT&T bought them) couldn’t handle running its own mail servers, so they outsourced it to Yahoo! (and AT&T carried on the tradition of incompetence). Recently, AT&T’s mandated outgoing mail servers stopped working. Macworld discovered that AT&T changed the names of its SMTP server from smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com to smtp.att.yahoo.com and added the requirement of user authentication and SSL. If they had bothered to tell their customers, that would have been a ...

hey hey! next month the 20th annual world's ugliest dog contest will be held at the sonoma-marin fair located in petaluma, CA (on june 20th) although there really is no such thing as an ugly dog...beauty is in the eye of the owner and although some of the candidates pictured below aren't the most attractive looking canines - they're cute in their own little doggie ways plus i bet they all have loads of spunk & spirit! the winning dog will walk off with $1000 cash prize along w/ a trophy! voting is open now ...

i started writing it in texasi finished it here this morning after not dying from an airplanehttp://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid54137.aspalso now you can comment and let the advocate know that 'YOUR NOT FUNNY!!1! DIE YOU MORUN!!!!"or maybe how I'M A GOD OF IDOL-RECAPPING ...

Breaking News! World of Wonder has unearthed an answering machine message Barbara Walters left for Senator Edward Brooke, dating back to 1972. Who knew this acclaimed journalist had such a potty mouth? ...

Thank you Grey's Anatomy for one of the greatest gay moments on television:SHUT UP! I KNOW! However, now I have to go watch the final scene of Terms of Endearment, just to put a smile on my face... ...

Cute couple Sandra Bernhard and Mitch Kaplan promote album Gems of Mystery. At Sundance, Robin Williams playing a gay is edgy. The L Word stars Leisha Hailey and Katherine Moennig set the record straight, and Christian rock band, The Adored, always have time for a manicure. (Click here) ...

Ed had this notion today that you'd like to see Tom Waits at a press conference for his "Glitter and Doom" tour, Anderson Cooper color announcing a visit with a couple of bears, a guy back-flipping into his jeans, and the trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Was he right? ...

Eduardo Magaña's 1-minute tribute to celebrity shoplifters. ...

Life has been hectic. 3 midterms in a week, I now have to start 4 term papers, and do a whole lot more for school. I'm way overloaded.Work has been hectic too.One more hour left of my shift for today.And I just won the 2008 Quarter 1 Winners Circle for LA North Division for being the top seller for Time Warner Cable LA North. Whooo hoo! :) That comes with a nice plaque, letter, and bonus gift card. Yeay! :) ...

The Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," icky from the moment Paul conceived it, is enjoying a very painful rebirth thanks to those Target commercials. How many versions of the song have been used to sell toothpaste and housewares so far? It's getting to the point that we're afraid to turn on the television. Is the retail emporium attempting to win a Guinness Book world record? ...

James and fellow queer author Christopher Rice talk about Rice's latest novel Blind Fall, which made the NY Times bestseller list. They also share insights into the writing process, dealing with bad reviews, and turning 30. The son of Anne Rice even offers James some surprising advice on how to beat writer's block. ...

• San Francisco former priest and host of God Talk radio show admits to distributing kiddie porn via email. • Arkansas woman, 41, gives birth to 18th child, who joins Joshua, Jennifer, Jana, John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jeremiah, Jedidiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, and Johannah. • A Minnesota principal suspends three eight-graders for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance. • Katie Holmes has "the itch" for another baby. • A 37-year-old illegal immigrant is charged with the rape of a 10-year-old Idaho girl, who gave birth last month. • Fashion addict Sarah Jessica Parker claims ...

→ lindsay lohan is like a leper - nobody wants to deal with her! webster's is my bitch → what?!? britney spears and kevin federline are having phone sex w/ each other?!? celebslam → mariah carey & nick cannon made their first public appearance as a married couple popsugar → paris hilton 'extended' her reach with hair pieces for sally beauty supply... dlisted → hugh hefner is leaving the door open for miley cyrus to pose in playboy i'm not obsessed → mischa barton is totally delusional - you can't add cellulite to pics ...

Yup, it's the red clay season in tennis. Roger Federer lost today to Radek Stepanek 7-6(4) 7-6(7) at the Roma ATP Master Series tournament, a few days after Rafael Nadal suffered a shock loss on clay. It was Federer's sixth loss of the year; in 2007 he lost nine matches.Dinara Safina defeated World #1 Justine Henin and Serena Williams in consecutive matcheson consecutive days at the German Open. Henin had made the finals of this tournament 6 years in a row (winning 3 times) and Serena was on a sixteen match winning streak. Safina beat Serena ...

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We must have dozed off during the scene in Return of the Jedi when the Ewoks died for our sins. Unless we simply missed some Lucasian metaphorical subtext. (t/y Jason) ...

After an earthquake struck Illinois on April 18, appearances of a mysterious lady making pronouncements have been reported, the phantom said to resemble Tammy Faye Bakker, who died almost a year ago. The mysterious lady, whoever she is, has conveyed messages to witnesses, such as “The Zadokite Temple is the True Temple” and “Pray for Zimbabwe.” But some sneer at Illinoisans and call them half-baked. These do not credit as factual the appearance of any “mysterious lady,” be she Tammy Faye Bakker or otherwise. (ShoutingGround; t/y Chris) ...

Earlier this year my mother found a box of poems I had written to her as a child. Here is one I wrote to her for Mother’s Day. I must have been 7 or 8 years old at the time. In the poem there are references to the tropical fish tank we had, my fights with my brother and my mother's love of Pepsi.To MomTo a nice Mother on a nice dayWho likes to have her own way.She bakes a lot of cakeAnd she is the last one awake.She likes to buy fishesAnd does not like to wash dishes.She ...