What Andriano hadn't waited for was to make the decision to go for the late two-point conversion. It was a decision he had made well before Montini scored on a 12-yard pass from Pechloff to Westerkamp with 32 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter.

Hello my friends. I would very much appreciate it if you took the time to read the following, and to offer any guidance, help, or expertise you may have to share.

The developer program will initially offer tools to write programs for netbooks based on the Atom chip. Later on, the company will extend the program for application development around mobile devices with smaller screens, like smartphones and mobile Internet devices.

This isn't another eBook store--this is something different, something simple: a new story, every day. Free and surprising, CellStories strives to bring you writing that's unexpected.

You have probably heard a lot about this whole app craze, but without having actually downloaded an app, you are not sure where to begin. Fear not! You have come to the right place.

Sun Times music critic Jim DeRogatis updates from Lollapalooza.

Kings of Leon proved to be the other crowd favorite in Friday's line-up, with every non-Depeche Mode fan in the crowd citing the now-superstar rockers as the band to see (DM and KOL play head to head against each other tonight on separate stages - should be interesting to see who …

39-year-old has a heart attack. Sad. And it wasn't even crazy hot today the way it's supposed to be tomorrow and Sunday.

The main syntactic problem is to determine whether the @!$%# is being used as an pleonastic (semantically empty) direct object of shut or as a pre-head modifier of the preposition phrase (PP) headed by up. (Yes, the up of shut up is a one-word PP.

Just a quick announcement that for the third year in a row, this Newsvine writer has secured a press pass for Lollapalooza. I will be seeding links to Lollapalooza-related news leading up to the big weekend at Lollapalooza 2009.

I resisted mightily buying a Kindle. Slave-whore to technology that I am, usually I'm chomping at the bit to get the newest gadget, and being an avid, nearly insane reader, as well as a writer, you'd think I'd have picked one up the minute they came on the market.

You should be so, so ashamed of what you have turned into.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it really make a sound? If a consumer complaint about cell phones is closed but no one has even read it, will any company care?

The question is not rhetorical. If a consumer feels mistreated by his or her cell phone company, federal law offers the aggrieved person only one court of appeal: the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer and Government Affairs Bureau. The process is easy and straightforward. Click here, fill out a few online forms, and your complaint is filed.

Easy does not mean effective, however. A study by the Government Accountability Office released last year found that 9 out of 10 times, the FCC simply closes the complaint without taking any action. Worse yet, the government auditors said last year, the FCC can't say why it closed the cases. It doesn't even track that.

The short answer to the question "How do I complain about my cell phone company?" is "Tell the FCC." That's not necessarily the best way, however. So today, in part two of our "How to Complain About" series, we'll describe the formal complaint process and then the effective complaint process.

From mid-2007 to mid-2008 — the most recent period for which data are available — the FCC received 52,823 complaints about wireless companies. They apparently fell on deaf ears.

There's a simple reason for this, said the auditors. The FCC is far more interested in quickly closing cases and generating statistics than in finding out what's going on.

That was my experience late last year when I decided to submit myself to the FCC complaint process. I felt Sprint was overcharging me on my last bill when I canceled my service. On Dec. 5, I filed an online FCC complaint. In mid-January, I received notice that the FCC had opened an "informal" investigation. Soon after, I received a letter from Sprint saying I was wrong. The FCC, which also received the letter, then declared the case closed.

The experience made the FCC seem much more like a re-mailing service than a government agency ready to protect me. After all, I could have sent the letter to Sprint myself. Of course, there was an avenue to appeal my case, but only if I paid a $190 filing fee.

(You can read more about this in "Sprint: Judge and Jury").

Filing an FCC complaint can feel fruitless, but it's still a good idea. Numbers really do matter. A surge in complaints could have a meaningful impact now, with a set of new faces poised to take over as FCC commissioners. Mignon Clyburn of South Carolina was named last week to fill the last remaining opening on the commission. Clyburn, who was a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and is a former newspaper publisher, might be more sympathetic to consumer issues. Now would be a good time to grab her attention and the attention of Julius Genachowski, who was nominated as FCC chairwoman in January. Both are awaiting congressional confirmation. You can do that by filling out the FCC's online complaint form.

The three topics that lead to the most debate are, according to latest popular Newsvine opinion: Politics; Religion; & Sports. Today, we're going to talk about #1, everyone's favorite: Politics.

Despite my utter dippiness of the last few weeks, the Vinemeet is still happening. Tyler is going to be here, and I believe a few other folks are still in, and if no one else shows up, we're all going to sit in a hotel room with laptops and hunt trolls for sport.

Through this season of Lost you've been contributing original articles, seeds, and asking trivia questions. Whether you realized it or not, you were entering in this year's contest.

PartysOver, a recent banned user who joined us on the last episode of the Vinecast talks about the experience...decide for yourself how accurate her take on the situation is (assuming you've listened to that episode, which can be found on my column, or the show notes article

Got an email today from Wilco. You know, cuz we're like friends and stuff. Or I signed up to get notifications every time they light up a cigarette or put out a new album or go on tour or what have you. Anyhoodle,

It's not so much a Vinemeet as just me traveling to Seattle this weekend, May 16-19 (Saturday through Tuesday), and hoping to meet up with any Viners in the Northwest.

You can find the feed for the podcast over here, or if you prefer, you can listen to the audio directly in an embedded player right on my column, or the Vinecast's Talkshoe page.

OK, everybody has their own version of the ultimate burger. This is mine. It may not be any better than yours, but then again, it's awful tasty. Recipe makes 8 – 12 oz or 5 – 1 lb burgers

This is going to be short and to the point. No jokes today. In fact no seeds today (with one exception) and for at least the next two or three days.

***UPDATE*** The show notes for this episode are up, and the player on my column is updated to play this episode. ***UPDATE*** Tomorrow night at 8pm EST we will be recording episode 22 of the Vinecast.

Tomorrow night at 8pm EST we will be recording episode 21 of the Vinecast.

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