Ypulse Essentials

Will Pee-wee be the Jack Sparrow of TV? ("Pee-wee's Playhouse" is returning to television via the Cartoon Network. And if this weekend's "Pirates" box office booty is any indicator, the strange man with a powder white face and pinched lips may find a new generation of fans) (L.A. Times, reg. required)

- Punk rock yoga clothes (because even punks need to relax) (from a press release)

- Voto Latino (new effort to register young Latino voters via text messaging) (Textually.org)

- 'Napoleon Dynamite' finally popular in Idaho town (where it took place) (New York Times, reg. required)

- Generation Next series (this is the home for all of USA Today's "Millennial" stories)

- 'A virtual lifeline to the world of hip' (fun story about the rising popularity of online coolhunters in the UK) (Times Online)

- Colleges going cellular (ditching landlines in favor of cell phones…the days of waiting for someone to get off the dorm phone are over) (USA Today)

- RBD is a BFD for Hispanic teens (Mexican pop group pronounced ""erre beh deh" profiled in the Sunday New York Times, reg. required)

- MySpace grows up (number of teens and twentsomethings declining while moms and dads getting hip to the king od social networks) (The Street)

- Dialing for dresses (Teen People and Lucky experiments with shopping via cell phone) (New York Times, reg. required)

- iPod a lightening rod (teen struck by lightening while listening to his iPod…ouch) (Engadget)

- Rock my network (24-year-old writes about her addiction to social networking in The New York Times Sunday Style's "Modern Love" column)

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