Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Jake and Amir: Burp

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 New York City. Jake's character is the traditional straight man in the comedy duo, with Amir playing the role of the funny man, much of his act being centered around his character's stalker-like obsession with Jake. 

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, Wis. - A 33-year-old woman stole her daughter's identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad, according to a criminal complaint filed against the woman. 

Wendy Brown, of Green Bay, faces a felony identity theft charge after enrolling in Ashwaubenon High School as her 15-year-old daughter, who lives in Nevada with Brown's mother. 

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 Pahrump Valley High School in Nevada. Demeny said she looked older than a student but had the demeanor of a high school girl. 

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 Pahrump Valley High School. Ribbins also spoke with Brown's mother, who told him she had custody of the girl. She said Brown has a history of identity theft crimes, the complaint said. 

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.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Wife Kills Husband With Folding Couch

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - A Russian woman in St. Petersburg killed her drunken husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported Wednesday. 

St. Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall. 

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, Pa. -A Pennsylvania woman who thought she was petting a neighbor's cat got a smelly surprise when it turned out to be a skunk. Not only did the skunk spray the woman before dawn Monday, but it ran into her Mount Carmel home. 

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

Show Me Your Genitals 2: E=MC Vagina

Another song for the ladies by Jon Lajoie. www.jonlajoie.com

Show Me Your Genitals

A song for the ladies by Jon Lajoie.

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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -A man with four previous drunken driving convictions who was stopped for weaving in and out of traffic on Interstate 40 was ready with an excuse for his poor driving: his passenger spilled his 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 DWI Resource Center said.

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)

Alejandro Manzano and Fabian Manzano of Boyce Avenue acoustic cover of Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Song available worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, or Rhapsody. Search "Boyce Avenue"

Monday, September 8, 2008

Music Mash-up: 99 Red Problems

99 Problems by Jay Z mashed with Nena's 99 Red Balloons

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Louis CK: Chewed UP

Three clips from Louis CK's new hour standup special "Louis CK: Chewed Up" which will premiere on SHOWTIME on October 4th, at 11pm.


Saturday, September 6, 2008

Summer Of Tears in the movie Teen Wolf!

A new sketch by Summer Of Tears.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Michael Phelps 100M Butterfly Victory!!!

Michael Phelps' victory by .01 of a second was amazing. Here is the EXCLUSIVE UNSEEN camera angle of 2nd place, Milorad Cavic.

While You Were Sleeping

Friends can be assholes.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

A fresh take on the browser

At Google, we have a saying: "launch early and iterate." While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

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.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Awkward Rap

A hip-hop tribute to life's most uncomfortable moments.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Bowser's Minions

Mario's enemies have something to say.