Thaaaaaaanks, Johnny!
Even though he disappeared from the public spotlight more than a decade ago, so dominant a figure was NBC's Johnny Carson that his death on Sunday dominated the Blogosphere. In today's BlogPulse results, Carson leads both the top people category and bursty people lists, is mentioned in three of today's top five phrases, and news of his death captured 9 of today's top 40 links, including this link to the official Tonight Show Web site and a few touching tributes as well.
The weekend also provided plenty of action, including blog references to the snow storm that plastered the Northeast and the NFL playoffs that will pit the Philadelphia Eagles against the New England Patriots.
On the politics front, bloggers are provding plenty of links to a Knight-Ridder statistical analysis that shows the U.S. is steadily losing ground to Iraqi insurgents, while the Washington Post reports on a new intelligence arm that's been set up by the Pentagon under the eye of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfled. (Hello? Congress? Anybody home?) Meanwhile, MSNBC offers this interesting insight into the recent testimony of Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, always defending his boss' back, apparently, while veteran speechwriter Peggy Noonan analyzes Dubya's second inaugural address.
In movie land, the trailer for Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" is making the rounds.
In spiteful commentary land, BuffaloBeast lists the 50 most loathesome people of 2004.
And for a throwback to Mr. Wizard land, if you ever wanted to build your own portable rotary cellular phone, here's the plan, from SparkFun electronics.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Seems as if the Aviator has steadily worked its way up in the movie ratings, while all the other action flicks are on their way down.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at January 24, 2005 03:46 PM
