New feature on Google Maps

Now offering virtual street view. Watch the goofy demo here.

Stock your bar for $300

Three hundred clams will, allegedly, get you through the summer.

Unless any of my friends and relations come to visit you.

Paul or John?

Well, Paul's all we got left, so... Sir Paul!

For $326

The set from the Family Feud could be yours.

Plus $5000 shipping.

QUIZ: Reverse image album covers

Go here and see whether you can tell which images from famous album covers have been reversed and which are the real deal. (Franko favorite Steve Miller is represented.)

I got 13 out of 15 correct.

All hail Two Buck Chuck

The story of cheap wine.

In Rememberance

Washington Post columnist on losing his son in Iraq.

Charles Nelson Reilly is no longer with us

The "Match Game" superstar is dead at age 76. In his later years, Reilly showed his versatility with a guest spot on "The X-Files."

Happy birthday, "Star Wars"

Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of the original "Star Wars." I still remember standing in line at Fashion Square theaters to see it.

Watch the trailer to recapture those bygone times. Read about what happened to the cast. And continue efforts to pretend the prequels never happened.

From the WTF files

• Iraqi kindergartners want to blow you up. It's all about hearts and minds....


• The 2008 election may already be stolen.

Precious Photos

• Pulp Fiction -- Insanely cool book art; use the arrows around the "view" tag to scroll through.


• Deep sea photography -- some vicious fishes.


• Proof of alien life forms -- Scott & Mona get a ... dog?

"Lost" recap

The season finale has come and gone, with a flash-forward replacing the flashback. Here's a quick, fragmentary review of key moments:

• Bakunin as Rasputin.
• Jack and Juliet.
• Kate: "Kiss me — not her!"
• Blast 'em, Bernard!
• Got Oxy?
  
• Desmond: diver down.
• Bloody, bloody Ben.
• Hurley's heroics.
• Sayid's scissor-kick stranglehold.
  
• Rousseau's reunion: "Help me tie him up."
• Sawyer's spite: "''That's for taking the kid off the raft."
• El loco Locke.
• Driveshaft is dead.

DULLARD RATING: Rocked!

Trent Reznor hating on the record industry

Gotta love Trent Reznor. Not too into the music, but he's a great interview.

POP QUIZ: Live albums

Match the live album* with the venue. Answers are in the comments area.

1. "Live at Leeds" — The Who
2. "Stop Making Sense" — Talking Heads
3. "Frampton Comes Alive!" — Peter Frampton
4. "Secret World Live" — Peter Gabriel
5. "The Song Remains the Same" — Led Zeppelin
6. "Alchemy" — Dire Straits


a. Palasport Nuovo, Modena, Italy
b. Madison Square Garden, New York
c. Pantages Theater, Los Angeles
d. Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
e. Hammersmith Odeon, London
f. University of Leeds, Leeds England

* "Live" is a relative term. The liner notes for the Dire Straits album claim "no re-recordings or overdubs of any kind." Peter Gabriel, on the other hand, admits to plenty of post-show tinkering.