Archive for November, 2007
November 30th, 2007
How dumb is a dumb blonde?
by: Sarah

This very attractive blonde, Kellie Pickler, was on “Are You Smarter a 5th Grader?” and could not answer a third grade world geography question, Budapest is the capitol of what European country? Now, not many people are that familiar with European geography, but she did not even know if France was a country or not. She also thought that Europe was a country all on its own.

Kellie Pickler: Hungary? That’s a country?
Jeff Foxworthy: Like I’m hungry.
Kellie Pickler: Now I’ve heard of Turkey, but hungary, never heard of it.

Unfortunately she did this for charity, meaning the poor kids she was raising money for did not really get that far with the winnings. But I guess any money is still good in the case of charity.

Kellie Pickler: Like I’m listening to what your saying but I only hear what I want to
Jeff Foxworthy: thats call being a woman
[The crowd boos and after like like 5 solid seconds she chimes in.]
Kellie Pickler: we could just call this show are you smarter than a man, cause I win that one

Oh my god. She seriously has no idea about anything, my question is, HOW DOES SHE MANAGE TO PUT ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER?!

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November 30th, 2007
2 girls 1 cup, My Mom and Grandma
by: Sarah

Everyone has seen the 2 girls 1 cup video, or so I thought… My mom had not seen the video everyone is talking about and she got curious.

There are a lot of reaction videos out there, so what is wrong with one more? Check out my Mom and Grandma!

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November 30th, 2007
2 girls 1 cup
by: Sarah

I have been following the content explosion that has occurred around the 2girls1cup video.

So, everyone has seen the video titled 2 girls 1 cup. Over the past few days it went from something horrifying to see, to everyone has to watch and record their reaction. There are a lot of people setting out to make hilarious documentation of their experience with 2 girls 1 cup.

The two reaction videos I thought were the funniest as of yesterday were “” and “.”

For those with weak stomachs who can not handle the graphic 2 girls 1 cup video or people wanting a video they can post on their blogs, here is my version.

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Info: Posted November 30th, 2007  in Blogging, Infectious Media, Internet, Video, Viral
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November 29th, 2007
Tay Zonday - Cherry Chocolate Rain ft. Mista Johnson
by: Sarah

How could anyone forget the guy? Tay Zonday, the twenty-five year old singer and song writer, has come out with a new song. Check out his new video of his old song with a few added sweeteners!

Cherry Chocolate Rain featuring Tay Zonday and Mista Johnson is on my top favorites now! That means that Tay, T-A-Y to the Z, is a real gangsta with his iced out grills and his ‘funky rhymes.’

Now I’m paid a hefty hefty fee.

Chocolate rain!

Listen to the funky rhymes I weave

Chocolate rain!

Enjoy his gangsta music video!

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November 29th, 2007
Zoey Zane aka Emily Sander is missing
by: Sarah

Zoey Zane Emily SanderThe 18 year young Emily Sander, aka Zoey Zane, has been missing since last Friday.  Emily Sander got her name Zoey Zane from her porn star career.  Although, a short lived porn career, but she did have her own site at ZoeyZane.com which included nude photos of her.

Sander was last seen leaving a bar in  El Dorado, Kansas called the Retreat Bar, accompanied by Isreal Mireles.

Mireles’s has disappeared as well, and when he did not show up to work his manager went to his hotel room to see if he was okay, only to find the room bloodied and vacant.

Pictures of Zoey Zane apparently are still circulating the Internet.  Hopefully Zoey Zane, I mean Emily Sander is found soon and some closure to the case is brought to her family.

Check this out for more information!

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November 29th, 2007
Victoria’s Secret Xmas Commercial
by: Stuart

So does sex really sell?

Apparently so, Victoria’s Secret certainly thinks so with this commercial and almost every other one they have done.

Seasonal pajamas never looked so good plus the playful girl action just makes me want to go buy.

They really only need Adriana Lima in there for me to watch the commercial.

BTW- Sex sells, keep it up.

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Info: Posted November 29th, 2007  in Advertising and Marketing
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November 29th, 2007
Social Networks, where is the downfall coming from?
by: Sarah

FacebookI was looking through the Internet and came across a Facebook article on Boing Boing. Cory made an interesting point, how do you keep the creepies from finding you when everything is out there?

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster are consistently in the news for one thing or another. Whether its good or bad news each network grows daily, and who knows maybe the bad news boosts them even higher. Social Networks of course are great for connecting with long lost friends, keeping up with your college classmates, and meeting new people. There have also been times when people have been hurt by interacting in these communities. For instance, a guy was fired from his job at a bank because his employer found questionable photos of him out with friends. However, there is a new topic being discussed that might actually be the cause of the mass exodus we see from each Network time and time again.

The theory is that as these Networks grow the rate of exposure to non-friends increases which directly is related to increases in annoyance in your network. Lets take a look the following scenario: A friend request shows up from the kid who bullied you back in school, or the person who screwed you over years ago. Typically Social Apps have either Add or Reject buttons for handling this. In this situation you would normally be inclined to click the Reject button, however when the Network displays that you have rejected someone as a friend this socially becomes a taboo behavior. Regardless of the past, socially people feel obligated to add any one that requests to be their friend. This leads to a giant list of friends that ends up being annoyingly unmanageable, thus leading to key influencers to leave the network for a new Social App.

I find this to be a very interesting idea and hope to see more insight into the social ramifications of this type of behavior in applications.

The following people are commenting on the original Boing Boing article with their thoughts and feelings on the issues brought up with various Social Networking sites.

Kraquehaus, one of the people who commented on the article, made a good point,

The “user experience” I am referring to is purely with regard to the UI of the sites. The companies are delivering UIs based on heightening page reloads and page views in order to ramp up profits. This reward system does not feed a positive return for good UI.

What I would like to see is this: Take the ads out of the system and use a subscription based model.

However, his argument was for the banners that are on the site, not many of the people who go to the networking sites pay attention to the banners, at least I don’t. When I go to Facebook it is simply just to see who has poked, prodded, nudged, attacked and messaged me. I am rarely seen at any of the other sites that are advertised on Facebook or MySpace.

More people went on to complain [or rather piss and moan] about its lack of privacy. zFactor, another of the posters had put his ideas out there plain and simple.

The solution is so retardedly simple that I’m shocked no one has patented it: Take a page from real life and give users the ability to create multiple “views” of their profile. For each “friend,” specify which views they are allowed to see, and for each new bit of content you add, specify where it belongs.

So, let’s say I create 3 views:

1 - work/academic

2 - family

3 - drunken debauchery

His idea of a perfect social networking site would allow you to have different levels for each category. But! Doesn’t Facebook already do that with a Limited Profile option? Hmm I do not think this kid did his homework.

Another person, Freshacconi had said, “Facebook can be fun, mainly to be nosy, I guess. But beyond that, it just doesn’t seem that important.” Making me laugh with that I read on to see, “The simple solution is for Facebook to let us do exactly what we do in real life: Tell them they’re our friend. But lie,” posted by a Jay Levitt. If those solutions do not work for you, try what Hooray said, “Just leave them in limbo––that in between, waiting for confirmation or rejection stage before you click the buttons. That’s what I do, and it works great.”

How sad and unfortunate, Facebook is full of mean kids with the power of clicking no. In RealLife you can just ignore people that are not friends with you, there is no magical link between the two of you that says “HEY I AM THIS PERSONS FRIEND” as there are in Online Social Networks. So my question is this, just how different are the Social Networks from RealLife networks?

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Info: Posted November 29th, 2007  in Social Networks
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November 29th, 2007
Verizon Wireless Opens Network | We Add The Pony Commercial
by: Stuart

Verizon has done some very good commercials over the years (many posted here just search Verizon in the upper right) but it’s about time they did something outstanding with the mobile business model…open it up .

I’m not sure what this will end up doing to the mobile market but it’s over due that a large carrier like Verizon made the move.

They sell time and service, why restrict that to just the people that buy your plan and discounted phone. That is short sighted and will end up the same way as long-distance service, dead.

The pony commercial has nothing to do with the story but it’s another good spot from Verizon. Just like mobile service, be careful what you ask for, you might just get it.

More on Miniature Horses here at: L’il Beginnings Miniature Horse International

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November 29th, 2007
Fiat | Cleaning dad’s car after a date
by: Sarah

I am not going to lie about this one, I love European commercials.

European commercials are, how should I put this, funnier and more outrageous than American commercials… Either that or I just do not prefer the American adverts.  The European commercials seem to go over the top, meaning they are more risque.

America doesn’t like risque, America likes plain cut and dry commercials where men fight over beer.  I know I’m generalizing, but seriously think about the possibilities Europe invokes.

Here is a Fiat commercial crossing some boundaries with a little hanky panky.

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Info: Posted November 29th, 2007  in Advertising and Marketing, Infectious Media, Marketing, Transportation, Video
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November 28th, 2007
$1 million bill lands a man in jail.
by: Sarah

1 million dollar billAlexander D. Smith, 31, of Augusta, Georgia was arrested by the Aiken County Sheriffs department, of South Carolina, for disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery.

This man tried to use a $1 million dollar bill to open a bank account at a local bank. When the teller refused the man became angry, cops were called and come to find out he used fraudulent checks to buy several cartons of cigarettes at a nearby grocery store.

Check out for the original story.

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Info: Posted November 28th, 2007  in Government, Stupid People