Kirk over at Maxpower continues to investigate the astroturfing being carried out by Jonah Peretti and team at The Huffington Post, even using our own experience as an example, and connecting the spam to the same IP address of the Huff Post tech director who spammed - and was ultimately responsible for - one of their high profile bloggers getting banned this week. Woodward & Bernstein, eat your hearts out. A fascinating read.

UPDATE: Read this too, including the growing comment file. I sure hope we haven't inadvertently caused any trouble for Jonah & Ari :)

- The trailer for the upcoming Borat movie is out. Man, no one fills out a low-cut one piece unitard like that guy can.
- It's guessing time. On a list of the 25 most controversial movies, where do you put DaVinci Code? And what's number one?
- Did you know Hitchcock's Birds was based on a real event? And some hammered Pelicans are ready for the sequel.
- I'll have the nicotine tuna sandwich with a side of nic-o-rings. And to drink? Ummmm...gimme a nic lite. (cough.)
- And it was just another rainy day in Brooklyn. Check out the scenery from the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Flickr.