Good Hair Days, More TV Politics...and BlogPulse Link Search!

First, an announcement about new features at BlogPulse. In addition to searching for key words or phrases, BlogPulse users can now take advantage of link search. Simply type a URL into the search box (top of the home page), and BlogPulse will return the posts lining to that URL. Link Search is also available on the advanced search page by using the "Find blogs that link to" function. Search away!

Now to today's Blogosphere: When Sen. John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards as his running mate, he joked about Edwards' healthy head of hair. A short video clip called "Silence of the Domes" appeared as Wednesday's third-most-linked-to item in BlogPulse (it requires Windows Media Player for viewing). He's ready for his cameo now....

For those Republicans who long for the good ol' days of the Grand Old Party, here's an essay by former Michigan Gov. William G. Milliken on why he's a Republican for Kerry.

And over in TV land, comedian Jon Stewart continues to get blog hits all over the place for his appearance last week on Crossfire, bumping him to the No. 3 spot among key personalities. Meanwhile, new on the TV-related blog scene is now-fired John Lieberman, former Washington Bureau Chief for Sinclair Broadcasting. Lieberman was fired earlier this week for describing his employer's airing of a one-hour anti-Kerry documentary this week as partisan politics masquerading as news and a disservice to viewers who expect objectivity and fairness from the newsroom. Sinclair, meanwhile, has stirred the pot on a variety of fronts -- media commentators, stock analysts, government regulators.

On the issue of separation of church and state, this bit of news about the Catholic Church and John Kerry. Do we really want spin.....from the clergy?

But how about those Red Sox? Boston fans are ecstatic at the down-to-the-wire finish for their team...and hoping that curses are soon a thing of the past.

And for the gadget-hungry, here's one called "TV-B-Gone," from inventor Mitch Altman. Seems he's come up with a remote control that can turn off just about any TV from a distance, and he has a special dislike for public TVs (those in restaurants, etc...). The reviewers at Gizmodo.com have special dislike for Altman, while a few other bloggers hint that they'll make sure to hide such a device -- if it ever hits the market -- from their wives.

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