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X Games 15 started today and runs through Sunday at Staples Center and the Home Depot Center. Watch live 250 of the world’s best athletes competing in BMX freestyle, moto X, skateboard and rally car racing. Still on the bill this afternoon: Skateboard Vert Women's Final, Skateboard Street Women's Final, BMX Freestyle Park Elimination, Skateboard Big Air Final and Moto X Step Up Final. X Games events at the Staples Center require tickets ($20) for entry at 4 p.m. Home Depot tickets range from $10-$20 for all-day entry (starting at 10 a.m. daily). http://espn.go.com/action/news/story?id=4212508

Photo courtesy of Ben Morrison.

Get your cyber punk, Blade Runner and SciFi geekery from 1982 out of your closet because starship Twiistup 5 is getting ready to touch down at Santa Monica airport next Thursday.

Good news for geeks and the unemployed alike: The internet is the place to work this year. Per a poll conducted by Twiistup ahead of their upcoming meetup event:

Fifty-seven percent of the Southern California start-ups surveyed said the health of the Internet industry in Los Angeles in 2009 will be better than 2008. A significant proportion of respondents, 71%, also said that LA is a better place to build a startup in the Web 2.0 and / or digital media space over the San Francisco / San Jose Bay area.

LA's blend of media, entertainment, and technology could well prove to be the glorious threesome our local economy so desperately needs. Need a gig? Well, "nearly 50% of respondents are currently hiring, 43% of which are looking for full time help, 51% need to fill part time or consulting positions and almost half have internship slots open." And, hey, odds are 50% in favor of you getting a paycheck: "Half of those questioned come from companies that are profitable, a quarter from companies that are not profitable. The remainder described their organizations as 'almost profitable.'"

Calling all entrepreneurs, tech startups, and developers -- are you ready to pitch? Venture capitalists, industry execs and investors -- want to swim along with the sharks? Tonight, Dealmaker Media hosts its premiere Dealmaker LA event and it's not going to be just another cocktail party, according to Dealmaker CEO Debbie Landa.

The Community Next conference series comes to LA on Saturday with the day-long seminar “The Next Generation of Media and the Web.” They’ve booked Josh Berman of Slingshot Labs/MySpace as the conference keynote speaker, but there are more than two dozen other speakers (including Peter Pham of Photobucket, Smith Forte of Current TV, Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit, and Robert Scoble of Scobleizer.com/Fast Company) from music, film, movie and print media to talk about the Web, social networks and going mobile.