A New York City woman is organizing a 30th birthday party on July 7, 2006, at which she will take off a dress she has worn every day for the past year. Dancer, choreographer and party planner Alex Martin first put on a homemade brown dress on July 7, 2005. At the launch of her project, she wrote in her blog she would "through snowballs in it (wearing additional clothing layers in cold weather for health & safety), garden in it, rehearse in it, travel in it, dance in it, cook in it, prune my pear trees in it, drink wine in it, sing my baby to sleep in it. "

A teacher at the University of Southern California (USC) is getting some unwanted attention after posting topless pictures of herself online. According to feminist theory lecturer, Diana Blaine, students wanted "more of me after our class time has ended. "

A blogger for the Washington Post Web site quit after allegations surfaced that he plagiarized movie reviews in college. Ben Domenech, 24, had recently begun writing the blog when Salon. com made the allegations against him. Jim Brady, executive editor of the Washington Post blog said, "In the past 24 hours, we learned of allegations that Ben Domenech plagiarized material that appeared under his byline in various publications prior to washingtonpost. com contracting with him to write a blog that launched Tuesday. "

Microsoft Corp. has pulled the plug on the Internet journal of a Chinese blogger that discussed politically sensitive issues. The blog, written by Zhao Jing, was pulled last week for its coverage of how journalists at The Beijing News walked out on strike following the firing of its editor.

The author of a federal judiciary blog, "Underneath Their Robes," is a federal prosecutor. The writer of the Web log, which referred to judges as "hotties" and "babes," is Assistant U. S. Attorney David Lat of Newark.