Come Sunday morning, we’ll probably be in bed nursing a hangover, but 38,000 overachievers will take to the streets to run the New York City Marathon.

New York, ever the wild metropolis, will let those runners listen to ipods on the way. Crazy, right?

Well, USA Track & Field has banned headphones from all official races. Last week at the Marine Core Marathon in D.C., runners had to sneak iPods under their shirts.

The main reason the agency wants to eliminate music players is insurance. But running purists insist that music distracts form the marathon experience.

“You want every single sense tuned in to the experience of running the race of a lifetime,” said Mary Wittenberg, the NYC Marathon’s race director.

Don’t worry: no amount of Justin Timberlake can take away from the experience of a herniated disk.

While NBC is desperate to escape the iTunes store's chokehold, Fox is completely dependent on it. The network can’t even give its shows away without help from Apple.

The season premier episodes of seven of Fox’s shows will be available for free on the iTunes store. NBC episodes will be free all season via NBC Direct, but the format is not convertible to iPods.

These are your choices: Bones on your iPod or Crossing Jordan on your computer. Maybe it’s time to read a book.

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• NYC considers fining everyone with an MP3 player, cell phone or pulse.

• The results are in, and women have officially stated that they would choose clothes over sex.

• MTV to shoot a new pilot called "Brooklyn" for that small minority of kids who can't relate to the brats on Laguna Beach.

• Brooklyn apartment complex sells for $1.3 billion.

• Mayor Bloomberg defends the crazy new school bus routes and questions the credentials of everyone who disagrees with him.

Please, dear God, will something please happen? Please? Is this because everyone is off being fabulous and getting ready for the VMA's or because Lindsay Lohan's not in town … or because all the magazines already fired everyone that nothing is happening? Nothing.

We are really, really trying here people. Trying to bring you any sort of relevant and/or interesting information, but it's getting pretty damn close to impossible. We've even resorted to checking random media websites like "iMedia Connection." We know. It's pathetic. But, we found something that we are going to attempt to squeeze a joke out of. Starbucks! The only thing Jim Romenesko has to live for on days like today.

Starbucks is launching a "podcast series" called "Coffee Conversations." And they're airing on September 5.

September 5! The day when the Earth starts turning again and we all are so overwhelmed with Katie Couric and Radar (and something else we just wrote about but can't find in our new obnoxious, messed up archive system) that we will dance and dance in circles until we can't stop and we fall down. Wait, what were we talking about?

Oh, yeah, "Coffee Conversations." They are like these shows with people wearing socks and sandals (together) and probably have actually read Tuesdays With Morrie and well, we picture "Coffee Talk" except with WASPY gay men instead of a Jewish Mike Myers in drag.

The podcast will focus on the promoting the Starbucks brand with recipes, discussions about home brewing, and food and coffee pairings.

In July, Starbucks posted its weakest monthly same-store sales increase since 2001, according toe (sic.) Reuters. The new marketing push is to bring back consumers to the coffee chain.

Really? Starbucks saw a drop in sales? Could it have had anything to do with the fact that everyone just found out their stores are full of mouse poop and maggots? Surely, though, a podcast about how great/boring coffee is will really make us all forget.

Starbucks Serves Up Podcast [iMedia Connection]

In the never ending effort to keep Anderson Cooper's tome Dispatches From the Edge far and above Ann Coulter's latest hate Bible – Vanity Fair cover! Book readings! Larry King! – the Coopster is latching on to iTunes with his very own Celebrity Playlist. Peeking into Anderson's iPod is so much sexier than doing it with President Bush, especially when it comes with footnotes. So what, gay tell, is Cooper listening to? Or, more importantly, where are the homosexual undertones? Lucky you, we've highlighted them.

1) "Summer In Siam" - If you have been lucky enough to have spent some quiet time in Southeast Asia, then you'll really understand this song.

Translation: The deathly silence of an impending tsunami really puts me in the mood.

2) "Set the Ray to Jerry" - In classic Billy Corgan style, he writes a beautiful little love song, and gives it a Dada-esque title but that's part of the charm.

Translation: Julio sings this to me during my naps.

3) "New Year's Day" - You can't say anything bad about U2. Few, if any, bands can stay relevant for so long. I went to their last concert and it was the best live performance I've ever seen.

Translation: May I maintain my youthful look and appearance for years to come.

4) "Feeling Good" - No one's voice can move like Nina Simone. This song make me smile.

Translation: I'm the god damn lead anchor of CNN. I don't need to use correct grammar.

5) "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - Might be tempting fate to pick a song inspired by the mugging of a news anchor.

Translation: It's always been a role play fantasty of mine ..

And that's just the beginning. More gay repression, after the jump.

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Don't you hate it when this happens to you? You know, when you go online to find that special person with their shirts off and a perfect tan … and then you meet in person and they are so gross? Now you don't even have to try to had your superficiality any longer … you can date on your iPod.

Tried other friend or dating sites only to be disappointed? You know the drill. You go on the site, you see a HOT picture, you talk and then…. You meet in person. Turns out that "HOT picture" was a glamor shots photo from 6 years ago and besides it was just a head shot anyways.

Yeah, it's happened to us. That's why we created PodDater. PodDater is a new way to find a friend or a date. You make a video profile, add it to your profile, share it with others and you download video profiles to your iPod.

A good video profile can be a little more… revealing. With video there's movement, there's sound and just more going on.

Totally. In a good video profile you can do a strip tease, make a porno, perform your modern dance or rockin' nunchuck moves. Really, the possibility for fuck-ups to find each other is completely endless nowadays.

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