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About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. So why did the deal break down? Well, as is usually the case, over price… Was $500 million worth of Facebook stock actually worth $500 million?

Adam “Pacman” Jones is down to his 4th and final chance as he must strictly adhere to the terms of his reinstatement otherwise any missteps will lead to a lifetime ban from the NFL. Now I sincerely hope he doesn’t get tossed out for something like “breaking curfew”, if he must go out, at least go out in a blaze of glory like Billy Cole at the start of The Last Boy Scout.

ABC cancel Pushing Daisies after Wednesday night’s episode pulled in the lowest ratings of the season. The writers strike of last year killed it’s momentum after 9 episodes, at least they will be airing the remaining 7 episodes instead of dropping it dead (so to speak), so get it while it’s still around.

Back in March of this year, Dr Pepper offered a free can to every person in the country if Guns N’ Roses released the much delayed “Chinese Democracy” album in 2008. Well, as this CD is now dropping any day now, they are doing just that by offering coupons on November 23rd. The twist: The coupon is available for only 24 hours and will expire on Feb. 28 so get it while you can.

Best-selling author Michael Crichton has died in Los Angeles aged 66 after a “courageous and private battle against cancer”, his family has said. He penned Jurassic Park, as well as books like Congo and Disclosure, all of which were adapted into films. His books have sold more than 150 million copies. He also created the long-running US hospital TV drama ER.

Charlotte has the most expensive gasoline in the continental United States. North Carolina motorists paid an average of $3.79 a gallon for regular gasoline Tuesday, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday. That’s 31 cents above the national average and higher than any other state except for Alaska and Hawaii.

Republican White House hopeful John McCain has said he is suspending his campaign and returning to Washington to help deal with the economic crisis. The old man can’t multi task apparently, god help him if he’s thrown in to leading two wars, an economy that’s dying on it’s feet, a housing market that’s long since bottomed out and an energy crisis the likes we haven’t seen since Mad Max 2…

You’d better read this today, because it’s possible the world will end tomorrow. Strictly speaking, the probability of doomsday isn’t any higher than it is on any normal Wednesday, but there’s been a fair bit of kerfuffle and hullabaloo over the CERN Large Hadron Collider and whether it will create a black hole that will destroy the entire planet.

A pretty girl who won national fame after singing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was only miming. Wearing a red dress and pigtails, Lin Miaoke charmed a worldwide audience with a rendition of “Ode to the Motherland”. But the singer was Yang Peiyi, who was not allowed to appear because she is not as “flawless” as nine-year-old Lin. This is the second “fake” story about the opening ceremony after viewers around the world saw a display in which 29 firework “footprints” travelled across Beijing from south to north, but a senior official from the Beijing organising committee confirmed on Tuesday that footage of the display had been produced before the big night.

Broadcaster Skip Caray, who was in his 33rd season of calling Atlanta Braves games, died in his sleep Sunday at his Atlanta home. Caray, the son of former Hall of Fame play-by-play announcer Harry Caray, had several ailments in the last year but had recovered enough to continue calling Braves home games at Turner Field, as recent as 3 days ago. Sad, sad day for baseball…

A wonderfully descriptive account of how 282 TV shows are linked together in a common universe. Everything from I Love Lucy to Heroes, from Gilligan’s Island to The Wire, the entire Law & Order series and even the new X-Files movie… It all takes place inside the mind of Tommy Westphall, an autistic child in 80’s drama series St. Elsewhere.

Batman film The Dark Knight has set a box office record for best opening weekend ever at the US box office, the sequel took $155.3m (£77.7m) surpassing the previous opening weekend record set by Spider-Man 3 last year, which took $151.1m (£75.5m). By comparison, Batman Begins grossed nearly $49 million (£24.5m) in its first weekend back in 2005.

The US brewer Anheuser-Busch has agreed to be taken over by Belgium-based InBev, in a move that will create the world’s largest beer maker. Might we see some real beer coming out of St. Louis for a change?

A teenager was struck and decapitated by the Batman ride at Six Flags Over Georgia. The 17-year-old park visitor was killed after scaling two fences, one of which was six feet tall, around the Batman roller coaster, park spokeswoman Hela Sheth said in a statement. It was unclear how fast the outside-looping coaster was moving when it struck the teen, but according to the park’s Web site, the ride reaches speeds of 50 mph.

Not many surprises in this years NBA Draft. Derrick Rose goes number one, Michael Beasley two and O.J. Mayo three. The draft isn’t as good now there aren’t as many atrocious GMs at work, can we petition to bring back Isiah Thomas and Billy King?