Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein, the former fiancee of Nicole Richie) have both been critically injured in a Learjet crash in South Carolina.

FAA Spokesperson Kathleen Bergen confirms that the plane, which was carrying 6 people, was departing shortly before midnight last night en route to Van Nuys, CA when it veered off the runway and crashed on a nearby road before being engulfed in flames.
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A hospital spokeswoman, Beth Frits, says Barker and Goldstein have been taken to a burn center in Augusta, GA.

Trav and AM have been doing a series of shows together recently and were even the “house band” at the MTV VMAs earlier this month. Other musicians, such as Gavin DeGraw and Perry Farrell were among those playing the same show in South Carolina, although it is unclear at this point whether either of those artists were on board the aircraft at the time of the crash. Officials will only confirm that the four dead are two crew members and two passengers.

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Ahh, Britney. I’m so happy to see her functioning and looking decent again. I can even excuse the fact that her new song “Womanizer” is less than stellar. Then again, I guess her music has never been about being “good” per se, more catchy than anything.

“Womanizer” isn’t set to be officially released until next week, but go ahead click here and have a listen.

If this gets stuck in my head as bad as “Piece of Me”, someone’s gonna get slapped

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That might be music to some of your ears. Particularly the rabid X Files fans that dreamed about doing the nasty with him. Don’t lie, you wanted Fox Mulder to abduct you and do “probes” to make sure you weren’t tainted by aliens. (Or something. I’ve never seen the show, to be honest. Sci Fi isn’t really my thing.)

However, Duchovny must think it’s a problem. The actor has entered rehab, releasing this statement:
“I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”

The actor’s publicist, Flo Grace, has confirmed that Duchovny is seeking treatment.

I haven’t seen his latest TV project, “Californication” on Showtime, but apparently ol’ boy plays a character that is sex-obsessed. Life imitating art?

David starred in “The X Files:I Want to Believe” this summer. (Did anyone see that? I had zero desire to. Pardon the pun…)

David has been married to actress Tea Leoni since 1997, and they have two children.

Hm. Either he legitimately has a problem OR his wife caught him running around dipping his wick into everything that moves and she told his ass would stay if he rehab and make a public statement about it so everyone knows he’s a Filthy McNasty. Stranger things have happened, us women can be brutal.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to be one of the Sea World parks. That’s not weird enough? Ok, I’ll keep going…they also want to free to animals inside and replace them with “virtual reality” exhibits.

PETA officials say thay have an anonymous donor willing to back the purchase. (Hm, who could it be? Pam Anderson is a big PETA supporter, but does she have THAT much money? I’m sure she’s pretty loaded, but damn Sea World doesn’t seem like it would come cheap).

Sea World has three parks in San Diego, Orlando and San Antonio. PETA officials have sent a letter laying out their plan to InBev, the Belgian company that is in the process of buying Anheuser-Busch, which owns the Sea World parks.

WTF PETA? Do they really and truly want to buy Sea World and turn it into some kind of creepyland or are they hoping that the press this will get will bring more attention to their cause?

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Yes, that’s a very poor attempt at what Jerry Seinfeld would sound like in a standup routine about computers.

Why you ask? Well, it appears that Microsoft is sick of being painted as a bunch of sucky old people making sucky computers and they’re ready to fight back against the Apple advertising juggernaut. With Jerry Seinfield.

The new ad campaign is pretty hush hush at this point, but the funnyman will be one of the key pitch people, making $10M for his part in the campaign.

Rumor has it that the slogan will be “Windows, Not Walls”, or some variation of it. Let me guess, they’re going to paint Mac users as holier than thou? (Well what? Some are. I’m sorry, it’s just a fact.)

Windows wants to try and do damage control on the negative opion of Vista, their latest OS. Windows is Microsoft’s biggest monekymaker, making up 28% of their 60.4B revenue last year.

Here’s a thought, Windows. Maybe you should have thought about what the damage control would end up costing you before you put out that turd of an operating system.

I’m just sayin’…and I’m not even a Mac snob.

Also, on a somewhat related note, during this post, I typed “Jeffy” Seinfeld on more than one occasion and I sort of like the way Jeffy Seinfeld sounds. It makes me giggle. That is all.

Some of the PC vs. Mac commercials for the one person on earth who might not be familiar with them:

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I can’t believe this! Julia Child, mild-mannered TV chef,  was part of the first centralized intelligence efforts by the United States. Yes, she was a spy!

Child, along with other notables like Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox Catcher Moe Berg were all part of an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services (the ancestor that pre-dated the CIA). The OSS was created by FDR during WWII to help combat Nazis.

Among the 24,000 spies listed in the 750,000 pages released by the National Archives are people form all walks of life. Soldiers, actors, historians, professors, reporters, lawyers, and athletes. Along with: Sterling Hayden, a film and TV actor who appeared in “The Godfather”, John Hemingway (son of Ernest), Quentin and Kermit (seriously, Kermit?!). sons of Teddy Roosevelt, and Miles Copeland (father of Police drummer Stewart Copeland).

They studied military plans, infiltrated “enemy ranks”, and stirred up resistance among foreign troops. Oh, and let’s not forget propganda. And you thought you were just making a souffle you saw on her show. You were actually making a souffle of death.

The release of the OSS files unveils one of the last secrets from the short-lived agency, which was folded into the CIA after being disbanded by President Truman in 1945.

“I think it’s terrific,” said Elizabeth McIntosh, 93, a former OSS agent now living in Woodbridge, Va. “They’ve finally, after all these years, they’ve gotten the names out. All of these people had been told never to mention they were with the OSS.”

Info about the OSS has been so closely guarded that relatives often didn’t know that a family member worked with the group.

Walter Mess, who oversaw covert OSS ops in Poland and North Africa didn’t tell hsi wife of 62 years until very recently about his former job. “I was told to keep my mouth shut”, said Mess, now 93-years-old.

Want to see if anyone you know served in the OSS? You can search the records here.

Check out the spook/chef in action:

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