NEW YORK - Comedian Joan Rivers is hired and poker champ Annie Duke is fired on the season finale of "Celebrity Apprentice." In this Jan. 29, 2009 file photo, comedian Joan Rivers ...

A major boardroom decision was made, and a finish line that took 40,000 miles to get to was crossed -- yes, I'd call that a productive Sunday night. On NBC, tenacious ...

Fundraiser key in ’Celebrity Apprentice’ finale as Joan Rivers wins By Frazier Moore, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday, May 10, 2009: Email this article

Comedian Joan Rivers was hired and poker champ Annie Duke was fired on the final faceoff of "Celebrity Apprentice." Rivers beat out Duke on Sunday's finale by planning a better ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Joan Rivers is hired and poker champ Annie Duke is fired on the season finale of ``Celebrity Apprentice.'' These bitter archrivals were the last of 16 ...

NEW YORK -- Comedian Joan Rivers was hired and poker champ Annie Duke was fired on the final faceoff of "Celebrity Apprentice." Rivers beat out Duke on Sunday's finale by planning ...

Since winning his first poker tournament in 1993, Andy Bloch has amassed over $4 million in tournament winnings while also picking up a couple of electrical engineering degrees ...

Not all players on the LPGA Tour work on their games 24/7. In fact, some of the characters on the tour are, well, real characters. Like Laura Davies. Many know her as the long ...

Celebrity Apprentice finalist Annie Duke visited Ellen today to discuss last week's epic Rivers rant , in which Joan compared Annie to Hitler, Melissa coined the term ''whore pit ...

If you tuned in to last night's Celebrity Apprentice expecting to see the fallout from last week's Rivers freak-out, you, like me, were sorely disappointed. After all that yelling ...

Joan Rivers vs. Annie Duke on 'Celebrity Apprentice' - Joan Rivers is the "Celebrity Apprentice" - whether she wins or not. Week after week, the tart-tongued comedienne has been ...

I hope she wins Celebrity apprentice. The dastardly duo… the most frightening pair of individuals I’ve ever witnessed. The only thing funny about Joan Rivers is her face, and ...

Comedian Joan Rivers has been enlisted by business tycoon Donald Trump to take part in his hit TV show Celebrity Apprentice. ... Piers Morgan Wins 'Celebrity Apprentice'

Celebrity Apprentice: Joan Rivers and Annie Duke Battle, Piers Morgan Returns ... KOTU wins and Athena is sent to the boardroom for someone to get fired.

4 wins more. NewsDesk: (90 articles) 'The Celebrity Apprentice' Week 6 Recap: Mr. Trump Fires Two ... Find where Joan Rivers is credited alongside another name. Joan ...

4 Responses to “Episode 8 of Celebrity Apprentice: Joan Rivers, Hitler and ... Mr. Trump is narrowing it down to Annie and Joan Rivers. It is all for ratings and I hope Annie wins ...

Joan Rivers To Compete On "Celebrity Apprentice" - The Huffington Post ... I hope that Joan wins so that she can finally get the plastic surgery ...

... would have to bet $4 to win $1 (the initial $4 is returned if Lambert wins). ... by the number of comments Gambling911.com is receiving in regard to the Celebrity Apprentice Joan Rivers ...

I also believe she would make a better Celebrity Apprentice winner than Joan. ... joan rivers wins. was watching a poker show and annie said " poker was more fun ...

I also believe she would make a better Celebrity Apprentice winner than Joan. ... joan rivers wins. was watching a poker show and annie said " poker was more fun ...

An anonymous reader writes "One day before Amazon is scheduled to unveil its widescreen Kindle aimed at newspaper readers, the e-commerce giant has been awarded its first US patent for an e-book reader. The new patent, D591,741, is a design patent which protects the look and feel of the Kindle shell, not for fundamental technologies. Those patents are mostly held by E Ink Corp., which makes the 'liquidless paper' display. Sony, IBM, and the Discovery cable TV network also have e-book patents. Amazon, though the leading e-book seller, has none, but the patent award indicates they've applied for at least four recently." Also in Kindle news, PC World has a brief article up on the larger-screen Kindle DX (expected to launch Wednesday), including pictures first spotted on Engadget.

Slashdot regular Bennett Haselton writes "The ACLU has targeted a group of Tennessee school districts for blocking websites categorized by a blocking company as 'LGBT.' I hope the ACLU wins, but it may create the mistaken impression that egregious overblocking of websites is easy to fix. On the contrary, the vast majority of errors are hard-coded into the products and cannot be fixed by unblocking a single category." Hit that tantalizingly entitled 'Read More' link to read his essay.

John Hunt, an atheist, has won the right to have his baptism removed from Church of England records after arguing that he was too young to give his consent to the ceremony. John was baptised at the age of five months but by the time he was eleven the oppressive nature of elementary school, and the inherit unfairness that comes along with picking soccer teams had convinced him that there was no god. After the church told him that his baptism could not be deleted because it is a matter of historical record, John secured a "de-baptism" certificate produced by the National Secular Society (NSS), rejecting "superstitions" or the idea of original sin. The certificate reads: "I reject all its creeds and other such superstitions in particular the perfidious belief that any baby needs to be cleansed of original sin." This week the church finally agreed to remove the record saying the entry would be "corrected."

mr_sifter writes "Three years ago, celebrity gamers such as Fatal1ty were bagging millions in prizes, and TV channels were queuing up to broadcast games on TV. Professional gaming looked set for the big time. It never happened, and in the current economic crisis, sponsors and media organizations are cutting costs, resulting in the closure of many pro gaming competitions (as we recently discussed) and a down-scaling in prize money. This feature looks at whether pro gaming can bounce back, and whether it will always be a PC sport, or if pro gaming on consoles is the future."

The next installment in the Fonera router family is set to make its debut in a couple of weeks, and the additions to the hardware are relatively impressive. Promising full support for networked storage, automatic downloads, sharing of a USB 3G connection, and a few other perks in addition to the normal range of functionality found in the Fonera routers this package packs quite a punch. "Like the original Fonera and Fonera+ routers, the principals of this hippie-love-in-styled product still apply. You buy the router and hook it up to your internet connection as normal. The trick is that the router shares a part of your bandwidth on a public-facing connection. Other Fon owners can log in and use this public network for free. In turn, you — as a Fonera owner — can travel the world and use other Fon hotspots. It's a neat idea and everybody wins, except the money-grabbing telcos."

suolumark writes "The CSIRO has won what could be a landmark settlement from Hewlett Packard over the use of patented wireless technology. The settlement ended HP's involvement in a four-year lawsuit brought by the CSIRO on a group of technology companies, in which the organisation was seeking royalties for wi-fi technology that is used extensively on laptops and computers worldwide. CSIRO spokesman Luw Morgan earlier said legal action was continuing against 13 companies: Intel, Dell, Toshiba, Asus, Netgear, D-Link, Belkin, SMC, Accton, 3-Com, Buffalo, Microsoft and Nintendo."

Following up on the "sexting" case we've discussed in recent days, oliphaunt sends word from the Times-Tribune that a New Jersey federal judge has ordered the prosecutor not to file charges in the cases of three teenage girls whose cell phones were confiscated. "Wyoming [NJ] County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. cannot charge three teenage girls who appeared in photographs seminude traded by classmates last year, a judge ruled Monday. US District Judge James M. Munley granted a request by the American Civil Liberties Union to temporarily stop Mr. Skumanick from filing felony charges against the Tunkhannock Area School District students."

As we speculated a couple of weeks back, it has come to pass. Reader mknewman writes to tell us that comedian Stephen Colbert has won the vote to have his name immortalized (or at least until it crashes) as the moniker on NASA's newest addition to the International Space Station. We can but wonder what NASA will do now. "NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, 'The Colbert Report' to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time the contest ended Friday."

enactd writes "I feel life is a constant juggle, for every task in hand you have another to react to or let drop. The Age of Speed helps you chart your tasks to keep the important goals in sight while recognizing and reacting to distractions. Being a geek on the cutting edge of technology gets one acquainted with speed quickly, but being able to handle it is another matter and streamlining is an ongoing effort. The goal of the book is to help you decide what is important in your life and extract as much pleasure from those things while minimizing the time spent on the mundane." Keep reading for the rest of Chris's review.

Some people care about bags; obsession is a better word. (See the Bags subforum of the Every Day Carry Forums for evidence.) How are the straps attached? Is that 1050 denier, or 1600? Makers like Crumpler, Ortlieb and Maxpedition inspire impressive brand-loyalty, but probably no bag maker has customers more enthusiastic than Tom Bihn's. (There really is a Tom Bihn, too -- he's been designing travel bags since he was a kid; now he has a factory with "all the cool toys" to experiment with designs and materials.) When I started looking for a protective case for my MacBook Pro, I discovered that a few of my coworkers were part of the Bihn Army, and after some Tupperware-style evangelism I was convinced to buy a few items from the Bihn line-up: a backpack (used); then a messenger bag (new); then a mid-sized briefcase, used, which is now my portable filing cabinet. (Take this bias for what you will; I stuck with my previous messenger bag for more than a decade.) For a just-completed trip to Israel, which I couldn't quite make in true one-bag travel fashion, I brought along one of the newest Bihn Bags — the Checkpoint Flyer — and found it to be worth its (considerable) price. Read on for my review.