Wow…sometimes the best way to pay tribute to someone is to say nothing at all. Unfortunately the tools of Coldplay somehow decided that an adult-contemporary cover of the Beastie Boys’ (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) would be a nice way to pay their respects to recently cancer-stricken Adam Yauch. Hopefully by the time you read this Coldplay will have made a copyright claim to remove the video!
“As I indicated before, I think that we’re going to have to have some system where people can buy into a larger pool. Right now their pool typically is the employer, but there are other ways of doing it. I would like to — I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort. But I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out where we’ve got a much more portable system.”
Glenn Beck, who always seems one moment away from imploding into a black hole of stupidity, one-upped himself on Fox & Friends (the morning show for Mensa members)
With Glenn Beck running loose spouting all sorts of crazy-talk, you just knew at some point he’d say something to cause enough of an uproar that the Fox News brass would have to address it. Beck finally did that today.
The incident in question occurred this morning on Fox & Friends when Beck made his weekly drop-in on the folksy vegetables who host that show. In the course of discussing the controversy surrounding the arrest of Henry Louis Gates and Barack Obama’s subsequent comments on the matter, Beck said that Obama has a “deep-seeded hatred for white people and white culture…I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people…this guy is, I believe, a racist.”
Fox News then released this statement:
During Fox & Friends this morning, Glenn Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions.
Gawker cut to the heart of the lunacy: “So in other words, Fox News said this: Glenn Beck is free to use our airwaves to say whatever the hell he wants, no matter how baseless and irresponsible the things he says may be, and will you now please leave us the hell alone.”
Based upon this video, it would seem the late Michael Jackson has been reincarnated in the form of a 1980’s Nintendo video game character, where his dancing and moonwalking skills come in surprisingly handy. Plus, it appears he did make it into heaven – now kids can play with him all day long. (Too soon? Nope!)
Photographer Noah Kalina caused an internet sensation with his Everyday video (13 million views and counting). If you never saw it, do so now. Otherwise, here is the info:
Kalina began taking a photo of himself every day on January 11, 2000, at age 19. The video everyday shows the photos chronologically, six per second, with an original piano score by musician Carly Comando. Throughout the compilation, Kalina’s face remains emotionless in the center of the frame. Kalina uploaded the video to Vimeo on August 8, 2006 and YouTube on August 27, 2006. Everyday was featured on an episode of VH1′s Web Junk 20 and on commercials for Time Warner Cable’s Roadrunner service. In a New York Times article, William A. Ewing, director of the Musée de l’Elysée, was quoted as saying, “Noah’s video represents a phenomenal amplification not just in what he produced and how he did it, but how many people the piece touched in such a short period of time.
Well now Red Label Films has gone and done the same thing for the reddit alien:
When Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz decided to spice up their wedding by dancing down the aisle, they had no idea it would become a YouTube sensation.
Now, more than 6 million page views later, they are well on their way to becoming viral video legends.
The video , which shows groomsmen, bridesmaids, ushers, and Peterson and Heinz grooving down the aisle for the whole four-and-a-half minutes of Chris Brown’s “Forever,” is the most popular video on YouTube right now.
