Apple recently made headlines here on TC for depriving an individual of 16 .com domain names that contained some of the company’s brand names, including MacBook and iPod.

Microsoft saw that move and then played an even better hand: the company was granted no less than 23 .com domain names in one fell swoop earlier this month.

Of those, 22 relate to the software giant’s desktop operating system, Windows, while one contained the trademark-protected term ‘XBOX’.

Gov. Paterson doesn’t plan on leaving office any other way. “The only way I’m not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box and the only way that I’ll be leaving office before is in a box,” told reporters at a packed news conference.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a blatant shot at former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today. You could say it was an open-handed slap of sorts.

Robert Gibbs addressed the press corps this afternoon with a mini grocery list on his hand. The ingredients: Eggs, Milk, Bread (crossed out), Hope, Change.

This was a response to Palin using crib notes while reciting her speech and laying into President Obama at the National Tea Party convention in Nashville.

Because you really need to write down “I’m proud to be an American!” – her #1 political position – on your hand. Is memorization that hard? You betcha!

Robert Gibbs mocks Sarah Palin’s “notes” from Sunday night.

Pretty funny, really, when you consider she rips Obama for using a Teleprompter. Also funny? In her Q&A, she really went off-message … or off-English.

Make no mistake, the White House didn’t appreciate Palin’s cheap shots, and the administration isn’t kidding when it talks about fighting back harder.

After all, Palin hates their agenda even more than Levi Johnston!

If this continues, it’s going to get pretty stormy in D.C., and not just because the city’s about to get slammed by a second blizzard in less than a week.

Should Sarah Palin run for president?

Filed under: Performance, Ferrari

Purists who’ve given up hope with Porsche amidst their sedan and SUV shenanigans aren’t going to like this one bit. After all but completely phasing out even the option of a manual transmission in Ferrari road cars (in favor of robotized sequentials and dual-clutch gearboxes), Ferrari’s management says it can’t rule out the possibility of a V6 in the near future.

The quote comes from Ferrari’s chief executive Amadeo Felisa, who said that while the prospect would have been entirely dismissed as recently as a year ago, today’s climate – in terms of the environment and customer conscience – precludes its being ruled out now. The last time Ferrari built a V6 (also used in Fiats and Lancias) was with the Dino 246 (pictured above) that went out of production in over a quarter century ago. The Dino is, however, fondly remembered as a classic, despite its relatively small engine.

Felisa did, however, rule out the possibility of taking future Ferraris electric-only. The Maranello-based exotic automaker is presently working on a hybrid system.

[Source: Autocar]

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The full autopsy report on the late Michael Jackson shed light on the King of Pop like never before – and the results are probably even stranger than you’re thinking.

If you’ve seen any Michael Jackson pictures from, say, the last 20 years, you knew there was weird stuff going on there. So weird we don’t even have to elaborate.

The pop icon’s death last June not only ignited waves of new and rekindled interest in his musical legacy, but posed dozens of questions about his bizarre lifestyle.

Some notable items gleaned from the 51-page coroner’s report, which was released Monday and is based on both MJ’s autopsy and a postmortem home search:

1. Jackson was telling the truth when he said his odd skin color shift stemmed from Vitiligo, a condition resulting in white patches appearing on dark skin.
2. While his Vitiligo was real, his hair was not. MJ’s hair “was sparse” and connected to a wig. His real hair was short and curly; the wig long and straight.
3. Michael had eyeliner, lips and eyebrows permanently tattooed.
4. There are 61 photos were taken of Jackson’s body before and during the procedure – way more than you see taken by examiners on CSI or NCIS.
5. Most significantly, in light of the charges against Dr. Conrad Murray, standards for administering Propofol were not met: “recommended equipment for patient monitoring, precision dosing and resuscitation was not present.”

You don’t have to be a coroner to have figured #5 out.

Shame on you, Kendra Wilkinson. You’re a mother now. It’s time to set a good example.

Not a week has gone by in 2010 where Kendra has not been featured on the cover of a supermarket tabloid. She’s not exactly talented. She needs to make money somehow. We get that.

But the latest issue of OK! Weekly continues a disturbing trend by magazines across the nation, most notably this pathetic rag: the focus on post-pregnancy weight loss.

Even Kourtney Kardashian acknowledges that it’s perfectly acceptable to not return to a size two immediately upon giving birth. One is tired, one is taking care of a newborn, it’s quite alright if one’s figure shows the signs of new motherhood.

But is Kendra willing to take a stand against the unhealthy message that women must go on a strict diet as soon as a baby is no longer in their womb? Not if she can get paid for promoting it!

Wilkinson says she goes through “45 minutes of hardcore training and weightlifting,” followed by the treadmill until she’s tired. She also does squats and lunges. Hey, it’s easy to find time for this routine when you have no actual job and can pay a nanny to look after your son.

Kendra’s goal? To look like Kim Kardashian.

“She can be my motivation to try and get the best booty in Hollywood!” she tells the magazine.

THG’s goal? For everyone to boycott OK! Weekly. Will you help us make this into a reality?

Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers’ trust. Behind the scenes, the carmaker is trying to learn all it can about congressional investigations.

A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.

Amber Forrester will make you drool like a fool (Click here)
Anne Hathaway looking like a sexual explosion (Click here)
Wow, Brooklyn Decker is this year’s SI cover hottie (Click here)
Say hello to the cutest College Babe of the semester (Click here)
Selita Ebanks shows off her shwingtastic side cleavage (Click here)
Jennifer Aniston puts the booty in bootylicious [...]