http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/rockband http://jezebel.com/tag/rockband Six women's cancer doctors formed a band last spring to play at a conference of the Society of Gynecological Oncology and are now recording an album with the Gynecological Cancer Awareness Movement. The band, called N.E.D. or "no evidence of disease" is made up of doctors and researchers from around the U.S; their new record, which will be released next year, deals with patients and doctors' problems working with cancer. [NY Daily News]

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• Technology is not our friend today, so we'll make this short.
• Dana Perino used the word "puzzled" to describe the Bush Administration's reaction to Scott McClellan's takedown, which is funny because, as we "reported" earlier, he used the word "puzzled" to describe his reaction to President Bush's puzzlement over the fact that people would get upset about him starting a trillion dollar war for no actual reason. [AP]
• The shitty way economic growth begets famine. [NY Times]
• The thing no one mentions about this "Rock Band" game, which I have only experienced as an observer, is how listening to people playing it is sort of like that time Roseanne sang the national anthem, only for hours because it's so "addictive." [Salon]

• "The strange class war that defined Nixonland renews itself endlessly, with different leaders and different symbols, but always with the same dynamic: the striving squares revenging themselves upon the hip and the snooty. Backlash is a chronic condition now, and one of the reasons is that hipness is chronic, too. The '60s culture that infuriated Nixon and his followers is everywhere today, because hipness and 'revolution' have become a default mode of corporate speech. Youth had nothing to do with it: It happened thanks to the need for ever-accelerating novelty, reverence for a supposedly enlightened cyber-vanguard, and the great god 'creativity.'" Sooooo…basically the primacy of such resilient and defiantly unhip pop cultural touchstones as The Hills and American Idol paved the way for Obama? [WSJ]
• Not that he is necessarily a candidate! [Gallup]

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