Robert D Fetrow

A Georgia dog apparently has a taste for the finer things in life. The pooch dined on a meal of $10,000 worth of diamonds. Honey Bun often walks the counters at John Ross Jewelers. He's not much of a guard dog, but he is great with customer relations. "He's been loved," said co-owner Chuck Roberts. Customers sometimes hide treats in their purse for Honey Bun, but the Roberts' recently learned this pampered pooch has more expensive taste. It happened two weeks ago when a customer came in. "A customer came in and I jumped up out of my chair and came out here to wait on him. And I left the chair where you could jump up on my chair and jump up on my desk," said Roberts. On the desk: four packs of loose diamonds, about a carat each to set in diamond earrings, pens, and dog treats. When he returned, only three packs remained, and an empty pouch was lying on the floor. "Looked all over and there weren't no diamonds, so immediately, I knew he'd eaten them," said Roberts.

The Hobbit, which in all likelihood will be shot in 3D, will include two films. Superman will be about Clark Kent as he traveled the world as a journalist, trying to figure out whether he still wants to be Superman, and 'Oz: The Great and Powerful' will likely star Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Bosch Venture Capital, the investment arm of electronics and technology company Bosch, has invested in Ident Technology AG, a small German company in the mobile and gesture-control space.

When the first Sin City came out, everyone was all “Oh hey sick!, Rodriguez is going to be making a sequel! Totally gnarly.” It was so long ago that gnarly was in fashion. Since then we’ve been waiting. And waiting. And waiting. While he makes Spy Kids 4D: Jessica Alba’s Stretched Poon. Well, now it’s really maybe sort of coming. So says Rodriguez.

West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd wasn't even gone yet when posters on right-wing websites were dancing on his grave. At Andrew Breitbart's site, the nastiness was sickening. Among them (reprinted verbatim): * Hasta la vista KKK Birdman. * Funny how old D-rats are falling like flies this year. (Yes that WAS an insensitive statement. Deal with it!)

Forty years ago Ed Catmull, a computer scientist, pioneer of computer graphics and one of the founders of Pixar, created (along with Fred Parke, and Robert B. Ingebretsen) what is believed to be the first digital rendered 3D film

If the Democratic presidential race were a poker game, by now you'd have to suspect that Barack Obama's campaign is dealing from the bottom of the deck: Rarely a day goes by when it doesn't slap another ace down on the table.

Sort of how I imagine it'd go in real life.

The office of Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), 92, announced Sunday the longest serving senator in history was "seriously ill" and had been admitted to an unnamed Washington-area hospital.