Ms. Wheelchair stripped of title for standing up APPLETON, Wisconsin (AP) — Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin has been stripped of her title because pageant officials say she can stand — and point to a newspaper picture as proof. Fine – interesting enough human interest kind of story, I suppose. But I found in the CNN.com top stories section. I was going

DENVER, Colorado (AP) — Colorado Gov. Bill Owens apologized for saying “the natives are getting restless” during a conference on tribal gambling. Owens made the remark at the Western Governors’ Association Summit after a participant’s microphone wouldn’t work and he urged it be fixed quickly. Some attendees told the Rocky Mountain News the audience fell silent, then groaned and chuckled.

Among other things, XM and Sirius have announced plans to merge. XM, SIRIUS TO MERGE With an unanticipatedly quick technological breakthrough allowing interoperablity for Sirius and XM receivers, the two companies will announce later today that they are merging to form Your Satellite Radio (YSR). “They were the technology leaders,” Mel Karmazin, Sirius’s chief executive, said of XM. “We were

Item of note: State of the Blogosphere: Increase in post volume mostly Josh Marshall on Social f#@king Security Blah Blah Blah As we drilled a little deeper into David Sifry’s excellent State of the Blogosphere report, we discovered that the numbers aren’t as encouraging as we first thought. While Sifry found that Technorati is logging about 500,000 posts a day