Just pulled the above box off the new Yahoo front page. They're probably right about Peter Luger's, which serves the best steak I've ever had. But let's be accurate here, people. Prime rib is not steak. The prime rib at Lawry's is quite wonderful but it's wonderful prime rib. It's not steak. Steak is one thing. Prime rib is another. If the guy who made up this chart ordered steak in a restaurant and they brought him prime rib, he'd say, "Hey, this isn't what I asked for."

Has he been to some of the more acclaimed restaurants in L.A. that actually serve steak? Mastro's? Arnie Morton's? The Palm? Taylor's? Porterhouse Bistro? Did he actually sample these and decide that Lawry's The Prime Rib (that's the full name of the establishment) was a better steakhouse in spite of the fact that the word "steak" appears nowhere on its menu? This matters. If I issued a list of the best places to eat in each city in Ohio and put down Burger King for Cleveland, it might be relevant for you to know that I've only eaten one meal ever in Cleveland and that was at a Burger King. Which also, by the way, is not a steakhouse despite the fact that they serve broiled beef.

I expect weasely steakhouse ratings in those in-flight magazines. The ones listed pay to be on those lists. I also notice that are about eleven hundred "Top 10" and "Top 20" steakhouse lists on the Internet. You'd have to serve a pretty lousy steak to not get on someone's "best" list. But you'd still have to serve steak. It would be nice if it was good steak but based on some of the places I've seen on those lists, that's not mandatory.

This has been your Trivial Outrage for today.

As we've mentioned here, NBC did something a bit odd (to me) with last night's Deal or No Deal. Coverage of the speech by George W. Bush took up a bit less than 25 minutes of the show's time on the East Coast so the producers and/or network edited two separate versions of the show. The full, two-hour version which aired in other time zones included the last part of one game (a waitress from New York), a complete and very long game (a woman whose husband is stationed in Iraq and who participated via a live satellite feed) and the first part of a third game (a Blackjack dealer from Hawaii). There were also a few "behind the scenes" segments showing cash being awarded to past winners.

For the East Coast version, they edited out the "behind the scenes" stuff and cut out the gent from Hawaii. Presumably, the next episode will begin with the end of his game and the folks in the East will go, "Hey, where'd he come from?" For them, last night's show ended with the lady whose hubby is in Iraq. (Someone did some quick-and-dirty edits there. As the show concluded out here, Howie Mandel thanked everyone who'd arranged the live feed from Iraq…and the Blackjack dealer was in some of those shots. For the East Coast version, they substituted some tape of the military wife and her family, and laid Howie's lines over those visuals. The end credits on the East also had to be laid over different footage since the Blackjack dealer was in them, too.)

An interesting way of handling a problem. I guess I like it more than delaying all the shows' start times…and it sure beats just joining a show in progress and missing the opening. Still, I think it's kind of an admission that on Deal or No Deal, the first half of every game is pretty missable.

The Los Angeles Police Department is blogging.

The Internet is lousy with homemade video parodies — someone putting funny Flash animation to a piece of music. One of the few I've seen that I've liked was done by someone named Paul Heriot. I don't know anything about Mr. Heriot other than that he's a gutsy guy. You see, to make one of these work, you have to come up with imagery that's sillier than the source material…and the source material here is William Shatner's rendition of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." Not easy to top that one but I think he succeeded…

The folks at DirecTV do more than just send me e-mails about pay-per-view specials I'm not buying. They bring me great movie channels, some of which run great movies. To promote them, they've engaged a great movie critic — my longtime amigo, Leonard Maltin — to host little one minute previews/reviews they call "Maltin Minutes." You can view some of them over on this page…and by the way, there's nothing wrong with your computer. Leonard really does talk out of sync at times. That's what comes from watching too many foreign films.

Hey, it's been a while since we checked to see if Abe Vigoda is still alive.

About two blocks from where I used to live, there's an apartment complex that looks like something transplanted from New Mexico. The buildings are painted in shades of brown and orange, and where you'd expect to find a lawn, there are volcanic rock chips and cactus plants. It all looks very nice — a bit out of place but very nice. Several of my friends will know exactly the location I'm describing and they might be interested in this article about it.

I have no firm opinion of George W. Bush's plans to seal our borders from invading aliens. My suspicion — and this has little to do with Bush or the present administration — is that it's one of those problems that cannot be effectively eliminated. You can put on a show and make it look like you're making a dent in the situation. You can force the violators to take the long way around and not be so visible once they're here. You can even make a few busts, publicize the hell out of them and juggle statistics to argue you're making real progress. That's how "The Drug Problem" has been fought at times, appeasing political constituencies without actually doing much.

I guess I have the feeling that if the Gonzales family in El Salvador wants to live in America badly enough to pick grapes for six bucks an hour — and if some grape growers in the San Joaquin Valley want to pay no more than that to get their crops harvested — a little thing like the National Guard won't keep them apart. Especially since the National Guard is already being strained to the breaking point and this administration ain't so great on the follow-through.

Johnny Carson's home in Malibu. A 7,100 square-foot mansion (with a 2,700 square-foot guesthouse plus a tennis court and God knows what else) on four acres of very expensive land.

Asking price? $42 million and that doesn't include Ed or Doc.

My occasional employers Sid and Marty Krofft will be honored as part of the Makor "Televisionaries" series in New York on Monday, May 22. They'll be present to answer your questions and those of moderator Craig Shemin, plus there'll be clips from Krofft shows like H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost and The Bugaloos. The festivities start at 7:30 and Craig (a fellow Krofft scribe and Mad World enthusiast) says that if you use the discount code "PCM" when you order, you can save five bucks a ticket. Such a deal. I'm sure it'll be fascinating, as everything about the Kroffts is. I think this link will get you there.

The Boardwalk Casino in Las Vegas is no more. It has ceased to be. We told you here of its impending demise and last Tuesday morning, it blowed up real good. On this page, you can see video of the roof and walls being collapsed by explosives. And if you look real hard through the dust and debris, you may be able to see the buffet, relatively unchanged.

Tyler Cowen on that rare creature, the independent bookseller. Many are dying out and some don't deserve to live.

I don't know much (anything, really) about the person or persons responsible for this…and the bit reminds me a lot of one done a few years ago on Conan O'Brien's show. Still, I laughed out loud at this 2-minute spoof of David Copperfield. I'm putting it up here in the hope that you will enjoy it, too.

Many a reader of this site has suggested I mention the following. In the "Weird Al" Yankovic video to which I linked early this morn, the guy in the car at the end is Greg Kihn, who wrote and performed the original song being parodied. It was called "(Our Love's In) Jeopardy." Curt Alliaume suggests this may have been the first time a musician appeared in a video that parodied his song.

Just looked at the other networks. Fox is carrying the Presidential Address live at 8:00 PM (Eastern Time) and has allotted twenty minutes for it. My TiVo guide for the New York Fox affiliate, WNYW, has Prison Break starting at 8:20, 24 starting at 9:20, Fox 5 News at 10 starting at 10:20, a Seinfeld rerun at 11:20…then they have a very odd thing listed: A Simpsons episode starting at 11:50 PM. What's odd about that? It's listed as a ten-minute episode. Reruns of That '70s Show follow at Midnight and 12:30 AM.

Then we go over to KTTV, which is the Los Angeles Fox outlet. They have the Presidential Address from 5:00 to 5:20, followed by a ten-minute episode of King of the Hill. Then everything else after runs its usual length and starts on the hour or half-hour.

Are they really chopping an old Simpsons episode and a rerun of King of the Hill down to ten minutes apiece? Or do they just figure to join them in progress? Bizarre either way.

ABC's Monday night schedule, at least on my TiVo, shows no sign of including Bush's speech.

Neither does CBS's. The oddity here is that Two and a Half Men runs 31 minutes and then the show that follows — The New Adventures of Old Christine — is a 29-minute show starting at 9:31. I wish they'd stop doing this.