No time this morning for a writeup of last night’s second episode of Nurse Jackie, but since the first one generated a lot of interest, I wanted to throw open a thread to your comments. (Mild spoilers for those who haven’t watched the series.) As Alan Sepinwall notes, the second episode followed up on [...]

Over the weekend, as protests over the alleged re-election win of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swelled in Iran, reports on the unrest in the country leaked out onto Twitter. (Even as the government of that country was evidently restricting access to opposition websites and text-messaging.) But in the Twitterverse, a separate uprising took place, as tweets marked [...]

Today, the long-delayed switchover to digital broadcast gets underway, as over-the-air TV stations turn off their analog transmitters over the course of the day. Which means that people who use antennas to pick up a TV signal will have to have a converter box or a digital-ready TV, or they will find their televisions converted [...]

  Earlier this summer I made a semi-vow to try to keep up with this season’s So You Think You Can Dance. Each consecutive episode that I miss, then, makes me feel like a grade schooler who has still not done the reading for a book report due this morning. Here, then, is my report [...]