Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Jake and Amir: Beer
Jake and Amir is an online sketch comedy series featuring the lives of the two title characters, Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, two dope ass playa pimp, co-workers who sit across from each other at the CollegeHumor offices in
They have made nearly 150 videos at this point and I think they are hilarious so I am going to take time this week to show my top six favorite.
For more videos check out jakeandamir.com
Beer from Amir on Vimeo.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Music Mash-up: A Little Less Stronger
A mash up with Stronger by Kanye West and A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me by Fall Out Boy.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Mom Accused of Stealing Girl's Identity
GREEN BAY,
Wendy Brown, of
According to the complaint, Brown wanted to get her high school degree and become a cheerleader because she didn't have a childhood and wanted to regain a part of her life that she'd missed.
Brown allegedly attended cheerleading practices before school started, received a cheerleader's locker and went to a pool party at the cheerleading coach's house.
The $134.50 check Brown gave to the cheerleading coach for her uniform bounced, the complaint said.
A high school employee, Kim Demeny, told authorities that the woman, posing as the teen, seemed very timid. Demeny said she told her she was not good at math and even cried when she talked about moving from
A school liaison officer started investigating after Brown only attended the first day of classes last week, the complaint said.
Assistant Principal Dirk Ribbins later learned Brown's daughter was enrolled at
Brown made her first court appearance Friday by video conference. The judge set bond at $8,000.
If convicted, she could face up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
There was no attorney listed in Brown's online court records. Her home number could not be found.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wife Kills Husband With Folding Couch
The couch, which doubles as a bed, folds up automatically in order to save space. The man fell between the mattress and the back of the couch, Channel Five quoted emergency workers as saying.
The woman then walked out of the room and returned three hours later to check on what she thought was an unusually quiet sleeping husband.
Police refused to comment.
The St. Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said a private rescue service removed the man's body.
Video on the television channel's Web site showed emergency workers sawing away the side panels of a couch to remove a man in his underwear lying headfirst between the cushions.
Emergency workers said the man died instantly.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade: Why Bob Marley Should Not Have Acted As His Own Attorney
Everyone knows that Bob Marley shot the sheriff and the time has come for the police to finally take action.
From the mind of Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad comes a comedy too big for your T.V. Welcome to Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Mega64: Parappa The Rapper
Derrick takes the role of the hip-hop-hero and spreads the joy of rapping about everyday life.*
*not for people on cell phones mega64.com
Friday, September 19, 2008
Woman mistakes skunk for a cat, gets sprayed
MOUNT CARMEL,
Police spent hours at the home before leaving the scene, but there was no immediate word if they were able to remove the animal.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Best Buy eyes Apple, Microsoft with Napster purchase
Rumors have been circulating for some time that Napster, which has been losing money for years, had placed itself on the market in the hope of attracting a buyer. Today, electronics retailer Best Buy announced that it would buy Napster for a total of $121 million, a significant premium over the company's value based on either stock price or assets. Napster had hoped to trade on its brand recognition in any sale and it appears to have succeeded: Best Buy put a $54 million value on the name.
Napster shot to prominence as one of the first P2P music file-sharing services but never seemed to have a strong business plan, a problem exacerbated when lawsuits eventually forced it to get out of the P2P business. The company has tried to stay in the music field, primarily by offering a subscription service both to individual users and to college campuses. Its executives swore that Napster's leftover brand recognition would help it find a following, but the business itself—a subscription-based music service—proved to be both highly competitive and less popular than purchased music. As a result, the company has been hemorrhaging money for years.
With the record labels coming around to the idea of selling unprotected downloads, Napster saw another option for moving music and opened its own MP3 download store. The à la carte music market is also highly competitive, one that Apple dominates despite its mostly DRMed music and where Amazon brings significant brand recognition to its DRM-free store. Napster's success with the new venture was anything but guaranteed, but it appears that offering the MP3 store may have been key to finding a buyer.
Best Buy makes its money by moving hardware, and it isn't particular about who makes that hardware. In fact, its home page features a banner ad for the iPhone 3G, made by one of Napster's competitors. DRM-free MP3 files have the advantage of working with any music player out there, and so may have seemed like a good match for Best Buy.
Still, it appears that, like Napster itself, the retailer is hoping that the name recognition hangover from the P2P days will be worth something. Best Buy actually offers MP3 downloads currently, but the fact has barely registered in the marketplace. A clear indication comes on the company's download web page, which now offers a prominent link to eMusic and the page where Best Buy sells iTunes gift cards. That could change, however, if the company decides that the Napster brand gives it an opportunity. Best Buy's extensive retail presence and marketing budget would give it an opportunity to push the Napster brand in a way that the formerly-independent company could only dream of and make a run at other players in the online music business.
In a further reason to be skeptical of the deal, Reuters is reporting that the existing Napster management, which never managed to do much with the company, have all signed on to work with Best Buy. Best Buy's purchase price of $2.65 a share is nearly double Napster's Friday trading price, making the deal a rare bit of good news in today's troubled financial markets.
Holiday Parade - Slam Crunk
This is the song Slam Crunk by Holiday Parade, it is a Rap Mash-Up cover. The video only contains one image, with no lyrics. But everyone should know the songs that they sing in this, so you don't really need lyrics.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Police: Man blames bad driving on spilled beer
Not surprisingly, the man was arrested just before midnight Saturday, said state police officer Kurtis Ward, who said he initially thought the driver was joking.
"He was so matter of fact about it, like it wasn't a big deal," Ward said.
The 31-year-old man was allegedly too drunk to perform field sobriety tests and was arrested on aggravated drunken driving charges, court records said.
Ward found four opened bottles of beer in the car, court records showed.
It was the man's sixth DWI arrest. He had been found guilty of four of five previous drunken driving charges and has paid $1,750 in fines, the
Monday, September 15, 2008
Music Mash-up: Dirt Off Your Bittersweet Shoulder
Dirt Off Your Shoulder by Jay- Z and Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve all mashed-up
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Paul and Storm - Randy Newman Theme Songs
Paul and Storm live at The Cutting Room in NYC demonstrate why the think every movie would be better if Randy Newman did the theme song.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Is iTunes' new shuffle 'Genius'?
Along with today's announcement of new iPods, Apple also revved its flagship music player softwareiTunes to Version 8. The update comes with a variety of features, including an additional grid view for displaying your music collection and a new visualizer (does anyone still use visualizers?)
The biggest add for the software, however, are the new "Genius Shuffle" and "Genius Taskbar" features. Both aim to provide more music-discovery options toiTunes 8 users. Select a song in your library, click the Genius option under your Playlists, and iTunes creates a playlist from your library with songs that are similar to your selection.
The Genius Taskbar is less exciting. When activated, it analyzes the music you listen to and finds and recommends songs from the iTunes Store that are related. If you're an impulse shopper, that might be a boon or a bane.
Unfortunately, both the Genius Shuffle and Genius Taskbar are only available with a functioning iTunes account, which likewise requires sharing your active Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, or validated PayPal information with Apple. So where is the Genius love for us poor scrubs without credit cards? No child left behind, indeed!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Boyce Avenue: Coldplay - Viva La Vida (acoustic)
Song available worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, or Rhapsody. Search "Boyce Avenue"
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Louis CK: Chewed UP
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Michael Phelps 100M Butterfly Victory!!!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
A fresh take on the browser
So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.
All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.
On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff -- the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.
Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.
This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done. We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.
We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.
The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.