Former Dallas Cowboy quarterback and original “Monday Night Football” broadcaster Don Meredith died over the weekend after suffering a brain hemorrhage and slipping into a coma. He has 72 years old.

The best obit we’ve read on Meredith comes courtesy of Dave Goldberg of Fanhouse, who reminds us that aside from his sporting endeavors, Meredith helped coin the moniker “Tricky Dick” for Richard Nixon. Goldberg also remembers Meredith for his small role as an LA cop on the show “Police Story.” Meredith also played country music with Willie Nelson for a time.

An interesting guy to say the least. RIP.

As you may have heard, country legend Willie Nelson was arrested in Austin, Texas for possession of six ounces of marijuana. He’s looking at six months minimum in jail, but could face up to two years. But Bruce Margolin, director LA’s of NORML, told TMZ Willie has a chance to skirt the charges — if he can convince a jury the pot was California-grown medical marijuana and he forgot it was on the bus. Like to see how the lawyers will play that one. “Ladies and gentleman of the jury, my client was baked out of his mind and completely forgot about that marijuana on his bus.”

Doesn’t really seem like it will fly, but for Willie’s sake, we hope it works.

Larry King acts like he’s surprised one of his guests would opt to do his show high – let alone Willie Nelson. Gee, if he smoked a jay on the roof of the White House during the Carter Administration, you’d think blazing before a cable news show is small potatoes.

Make sure to watch the next clip of them singing. Yes, both of them.

Hat tip Newser

News has broke that pioneering funny man Jerry Seinfeld will be the spokesperson for Microsoft.

Top-notch ad guy Alex Bogusky is the brains behind the operation. The man responsible for making MINI Coopers cool when gas was still $2 a gallon. And perhaps the sole reason guys 18-22 think they have discerning taste by choosing Burger King.

Our insider says the whole campaign is focused on ‘everyday’ people using Windows in real situations. Some of the options the agency has been floating around have been a reporter on Humvee, an Obama/McCain speech writer, a DJ – a blues musician. There was a crew that traveled all over the world filming humanitarian workers.

Not to be out done by ‘real people’ there are tons of celebrities that the campaign may also feature. At the moment the names that have been put into the mix are Sarah Silverman, Willie Nelson, motorcycle rider Travis Pastrana, Matthew McConaughey and Ralph Nadar. Also in what seems like a direct answer to the Mac campaign – Rob Corddry and Stephen Colbert may also do a spot.

Most notable of the names is that of the late great Bernie Mac (insert lame pun ‘burning Mac’ here).

Yeah, it’s bigger than Seinfeld. It’s a $300 million campaign to convince people that the world’s largest software maker is also the coolest. As refugees of the Cola Wars in the 1980′s we think they could take that $300 million and just make Vista not meltdown every couple months. You know, ‘what’s the deal with my operating system needing a major downgrade to be functional?’

Boing Boing TV, which looks a great deal like a mash-up of Archive.org intercut with Mark Frauenfelder and Xeni Jardin as the talking heads, has launched. It’s cute, if not groundbreaking. (Crazy was written by Willie Nelson, ya know.)

Fraudenfelder is hunky, in a wooden dad-like way, and Xeni looks the product of the forbidden love between Jadis and Rip Taylor.