The saddest news ever

Galeo is gone.
Yes, that's right.  Galeo (also known as GOLEO VI), the World Cup mascot which we've all come to know and love (or at least me), is no longer the World Cup mascot.  According to Reuters, the German manufacturer who created Galeo filed for insolvency on Tuesday, thus ending possibly the shortest run of [...]

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Danny Almonte is married

Something's just not right here.
You all remember Danny Almonte right? The little Dominican boy who pitched 70mph fastballs and a perfect game in the Little League World Series. Well, he's now married. Yes: m-a-r-r-i-e-d married. What the hell?
The word came from the NY Daily News who says that Almonte married Rosy [...]

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Free, uninvited Howard Stern

I use Griffin Technology's iTrip to listen to podcasts on the way to work and back everyday on the FM station 87.9. I've heard that 87.9 is the best station to use because, according to iLounge, there are only three stations in the United States that broadcast on that frequency. However, I've noticed [...]

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Mike and the Mad Dog – The greatest sports talk radio ever

If you live in the New York tri-state area and you're a sports fan, you probably know who Mike and the Mad Dog are. If you don't live here, you probably think I'm crazy (after all, what the hell is a Mad Dog?) Introducing, the greatest sports talk duo in the history of sports talk [...]

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Is David Blaine a “real” magician?

Today, I listened to the Penn Jillette podcast from a few days ago and, not surprisingly, the show's main topic was David Blaine. Hosting a radio show is actually Penn's side job; he normally works as a magician, doing mostly up-close card tricks. His guest on the show was Criss Angel ("Mindfreak"), also [...]

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The most colorful commercial ever?

This is a little old, I know, but I just caught another glimpse of the famous Sony Bravia commercial. Basically, it's a very simple ad featuring 250,000 superballs (aka "bouncy balls") bouncing down a typical San Francisco street. The mere sight of such a thing is incredible…it's definitely worth a look. Here's [...]

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Finally bought the Lumix

After my mom complained because she didn't have her own digital camera for use at home (I had taken the family camera to college), she and my dad told me start researching for a new camera for myself. After spending nearly a month trying to figure out which digital camera best suited me, I [...]

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New theme

WordPress.com lets you customize what theme you want to use for your blog, and after realizing that my previous theme looked a little "sky blue" instead of dark blue, I decided to switch to this one (its called Sapphire).  It's a little cleaner looking, and maybe a little more boring, but it has one feature [...]

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Something terrible has happened to Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado has a new video called "Promiscuous Girl" and, well, it's pretty promiscuous. Watch it below:

Does this video strike you as a little odd, especially considering the name of the artist – Nelly Furtado? Remember the song that made her famous – "I'm Like a Bird"? Here's [...]

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The Failure of CBS’ innertube

CBS launched a new part of their website called innertube, a video streaming service obviously created directly because of ABC's successful online show streaming service. However, innertube is a horrible failure for the following reasons:
1. Poor content
The genius of ABC's online streaming service is that it streams what viewers actually want to watch. [...]

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