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The formula is simple: After laying down an entrance fee, each player makes a list of ten celebs they consider likely to die within the time frame established by the contest. Point values are attached to each pick, largely determined by the age of the celeb and celeb's health profile. Dead celebrities don't count even if you want them to die again. Whoever predicts the most highly weighted celebrity deaths within the given period of time wins. I routinely lose because year after year I PRAY that Madonna, Courtney Love, Barbara Walters, Terri Gross, and Bill Bennett will cease and desist, but they just refuse to kick it. Before Inside, before Cursor, before even Drudge, and certainly before the clunky AJR.org, I go to Romenesko, the journalist's news junkie, whose daily Media News still puts all other meta-media sites to shame. And proof positive that the best sites are put out by lonely guys in their basements, with no VC money behind them. And no damn plug-ins. Dark Passage: Adventures in Forensic Archaeology I've done some extreme things in my life – spend quality time with Dame Annie Sprinkle, live on the road in a motorhome for twelve years, drink the water at a Rainbow Gathering – but these urban adventure cats make a blind game of motorcycle chicken at Burning Man seem like a police escort. I once went on one of these "urban adventures" with the legendary John Law (he of the late San Francisco Suicide Club, the Dogmician Order and DoggieDiner.com, the Cacophony Society, Laughing Squid, and a few other undercover prankster orgs I'll keep under wraps; for a bit of history go to http://www.sfbg.com/Guides/Summer00/index.html). Let's say one's boundaries get pushed fast. Third rails, giant Norway rats, spooky abandoned mental hospitals – that's just the start. The website documents what's happening in the scene.
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