Gusts near 50 MPH sent a loose chain crashing into the side of the Trump SoHo tower on Saturday night, cracking windows and showering the street with glass, officials and neighborhood residents said.

This is of zero interest to all Gawker readers, but I just wanted to see if it would go up anyway.

Senator Barack Obama emerged from Tuesday’s primaries leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by more than 100 delegates, a small but significant advantage that Democrats said would be difficult for Mrs. Clinton to make up in the remaining contests in the presidential nomination battle.

MTV will tape a second season of "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila," their dating show in which the archetypical MySpace whore pretends to be bisexual and eventually "chooses" a suitor to unceremoniously dump shortly after the reunion show tapes. Whether you consider this a huge step forward for mass cultural acceptance of alternative lifestyles or are not in fact currently receiving a paycheck from MTV Networks, it's exciting news. [HuffPo]

Oracle co-President Charles Phillips reportedly made $19M in fiscal 2007 through salary and stock compensation, making him "one of the highest-paid non-CEO executives in Silicon Valley." [InformationWeek]

T-Pain, the R&B singer known for his robotic voice, is, according to Slate, the "perfect Web 2.0 pop star." [Slate]

Google's perks extend past the Googleplex. Before tonight's CNN/YouTube Democratic Debate, the press were treated to a "choice of salmon over couscous, bourbon-glazed pork or tenderloin au poivre." Also, Google decked out the press room with a pool table. [Hotline on Call]

C-Span founder Bob Rosencrans and a handful of other angel investors have poured an undisclosed amount of money into Bloggingheads.tv, a site that features webcam interviews with A-list pollitical bloggers like Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan. Now we'll be able to watch even more middle-aged white guys pontificate about Iran and Obama. Continue reading

The Merc buries the lede in its front page poll about the Net. Given the choice between clicking an online "citizen video" of a news event or watching it on the evening news, 70 percent would wait for the MSM report. The rest of the piece is as predictable as an Onion parody. Straight-faced blogvangelist Dan Gillmor deduces that "In a global economy ... innovation could come from anywhere.''

The morning after Angry Volvo Man rammed five cars and injured four people on the streets of SF, the Chronicle begins the healing with a front-page report on PlateWire, a sort of Craigslist Missed Connections for angry angry drivers. Be warned: Five minutes of scrolling through PlateWire's sputtering, impotent posts ("Hey Jerk in the BLK BMW ... you and your ugly girl-friend") are enough to make you get behind the wheel and do something.