Jeff Ventura - surprisingly has never been called 'Ace' before.

WSJ to start charging for iPhone content

Say farewell to the free Wall Street Journal on the iPhone.

According to Paid Content, News Corp's Rupert Murdoch announced that readers of the WSJ on the Blackberry and iPhone will be charged $2 per week for the privilege of reading news through the respective apps. Online and print subscribers of the WSJ will only pay $1 a week. No time limit has been set yet, but Murdoch says it will be within the next few months.

via tuaw.com

Translated: one less app on my iPhone.

Little butterball holding up ice cream line

HARRISBURG, PA—According to witnesses who are sweating their nuts off, the line at the Baskin-Robbins is currently 12 people deep, thanks to an indecisive little butterball holding things up at the counter. Sources said the chubster, whose breath has almost completely fogged up the glass display case, already has chocolate on his shirt, and is now regarding the ice cream selection with the sort of glazed look typical of the heavily sedated.
via theonion.com

Thanks to @motersho for further illustrating that The Onion is better than any standard newspaper by leaps and bounds.

PC Magazine kills print version, focuses online.

PC Magazine, a 26 year old publication, has decided to kill its print version and focus its efforts online.
Tech media company Ziff Davis announced Wednesday that it will fold its 26-year-old print publication PC Magazine, with its final edition slated for January. The magazine moved from bi-weekly to monthly earlier this year and a New York judge recently approved a reorganization plan for Ziff Davis to emerge from its bankruptcy protection. It’s online network (ExtremeTech, Gearlog, Appscout, Smart Device Central, GoodCleanTech, DL.TV, Cranky Geeks, and PCMagCast) will be renamed PCMag Digital Network and PCMag.com will be its lead property.
I think this is a necessary move on two levels: (1) the current economic conditions demand harsh decisions in the face of reduced consumer spending, while simultaneously (2) the tenuous fate of print publications and the viability of an online-only existence is moving into what I'm going to call a megatrend-in-waiting. First Christian Science Monitor made the jump, now PC Magazine. There will be many others. So, in other words, this was bound to happen as the media market reshapes itself in the face of macro-level trends, and the shitty economy just got the program in gear faster.

Prescience.

Cover of LIFE magazine from October 2004.  Not photoshopped.

(via Poynter Online)

Georgian Journalist shot during reporting, keeps reporting.

Remind me never to mess with a female Georgian journalist.
This is the dramatic moment a TV reporter was shot by a sniper as she reported live from war-torn Georgia. Tamara Urushadze took a bullet to her left arm in the flashpoint town of Gori as Russian forces continued their illegal occupation. Bravely, or foolishly, the 32-year-old brunette continued her report after a few moments as other journalists and aid workers dashed for cover.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyQ5Maqf80] (via Chris)

I Love The Onion's Headline Writers

Area Senior Remembers a Simpler Time When His Anus Didn't Leak:

CARSON CITY, NV—Looking out his window as the cars zoom by and a jet plane rumbles overhead, 87-year-old Hank Fletcher sees a world far different from the one in which he grew up. In his day, the retired factory worker says, life was simpler. The streets were quieter, people were more polite, neighbors all knew one another, and his anus did not emit oily discharges of liquid stool.

How can you not love this?

Mitt Romney: Depressed Candidate Runs Attack Ad About Self

Where would we be without The Onion?

"Strength, commitment, hope for a brighter future—you're looking at the wrong goddamn guy," asserts the television spot, as a still, unflattering image of Romney is struck with a large red "PATHETIC" stamp-graphic. "Do you know what I did yesterday? No, not campaign. I ate a gallon of ice cream. That's right, the whole damn thing."

"Is this who you want running your country for the next four years?" asks the damaging spot. "Someone who can't even run a simple microwave without crying?"

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Jimmy Carter: I Got What America Needs Right Here

Oh, The Onion. How I love thee:
Sometimes I'm a little stupid, maybe, a little slow in the head, so I'm wondering if you can help me get something straight. Maybe you can help me understand one fucking thing right now, America, and explain to me what in the Christ is going on here. 'Cause, unless I'm missing something, this country is in the middle of a motherfucking shitstorm, and I have no fucking idea what you're gonna do to get out of it. I mean, are you seriously considering voting for one of these shitbags you got here in '08? Fat fucking chance.
More here. It gets even better.

Fake Steve Jobs on Huckabee

I'm in awe of this, because it's exactly how I feel about this guy:
Meanwhile, what's to say about Huckabee, with his corn-pone aw-shucks Gomer Pyle act and his bass playing and his self-deprecating humor? All I need to know about him is that he says he wants to take this nation back for Christ. In my book that's it. Sorry. You're done. Out. Gone. Bye. I mean stuff like that scares the living shit out of me. Funny thing is I'm pretty sure Jesus would hate this asshole just as much as I do.
I seriously think I might have been separated at birth from Dan Lyons. Link