Paintball Baby!

For my boyfriend's 22nd birthday I so desperately wanted to take him paintball shooting. So I looked around for some cheap paintball guns and I ran into Pntball.com. There were discount paintball gun, tons of guns to choose from, and even sniper paintballs guns! Do you have any idea how much fun I would have if I had a sniper paintball gun?! I would shoot everybody! I would even hit people with paintballs that I don't even know! Yea I know that all sounds pretty bad but hey, what can you do. Anyway if you are looking for paintballs you should definitely try this place. It's awesome. (Yep that’s my new word, awesome)

This baby is hilarious!!

Have you ever seen anything so cute? This baby is laughing at ripped paper. That's so cute. I will assume that is his father messing with him. The baby falls out laughing everytime he rips the paper. I must admit, I love babies. Well anyway , I watched this like 3 to 4 times and laughed harder and harder everytime I watched. I promise it's like the funniest and cutest thing you will ever see.

Phone Companies are Thieves

Did you know that when you make long distance calls on your cell phone you need a phone cards? Even if you have a cell phone? Well I didn't know this either until i tried to make a long distance call on my cell phone. Well Pinshark.com offers cheap calling cards for everything you may need and everywhere you need to call. It actually saves you a lot of money because when making and international call you have to charge it to a phone card or a prepaid card( which really sucks). I know this from experience. I have to say that phone companies are thieves. But I guess if they weren't we wouldn't have great services like pinshark.

Racial Controversy over LeBron James Vogue cover

There's great uproar about the recent Vogue cover featuring NBA star LeBron James and model Gisele Bundchen – namely that the cover promotes racial stereotypes.

There's been quite a bit of criticisms about the LeBron James Vogue cover; it seems to have hit a nerve with a lots of folks.

Chicago Tribune article quotes someone as saying that "It conjures up this idea of a dangerous black man," and can be likened to a derogative image of King Kong holding onto Fay Wray.

Perhaps the cover also struck a sour note with certain readers because of the significance of the cover – it's the first time a black man has been featured on Vogue Cover.

Let my little light shine!

So I’m surfing today right and I come across this site that is completely and totally about nothing but blinds. Not blind people but blinds that cover your window. I didn't know there were so many different types. I thought blinds were blinds ya know! There are Mini Blinds , curtain looking blinds, and rolling blinds. I think it’s awesome when I find stuff on the net. It’s kind of like finding treasure ya know.

Reggie Bush maybe cheating on Kim Kardashian!

First there is a rumor saying that Kim K is pregnant. Now according to MediaTakeOut.com Reggie Bush maybe cheating on his Kimmy Poo. Damn Reggie that's cold. Kim Kardashian is pregnant and her baby daddy cheating on her already. (Allegedly, this is all speculation but it what be messed up if it were true. We shall see!)

City Hopping

I love to travel. I have been up the whole eastern seaboard and back (of the U.S that is). I have come to found that Chicago has to be my favorite place to visit. I'm from a city that is open 24/7,365 days a year. So when i went to Chicago , i found it to be exciting and lively. I love the city vibe.

TravelUSA.com is a site that has every travelers needs. They have information on cruises like the Holland America cruise line, plane trips, and other cruise lines. You can book hotels and even plan out your whole vacation before you even go. You know us college students though we do everything on a whim. If we feel like going we just pack up and leave. Its nice to know that whenever we do decide to take our time, there is a place that we can go and plane our trip with ease.

The Beat

Heather Mills and Paul McCartney divorce just got uglier

And you thought the divorce settlement between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney was finally over? You read about judge's disbelief, the whole money issue made public, perhaps the former Beatle looking very ragged and sad ....

Well, think again! Heather Mills want to prove that Sir P. McCartney is worth a whole lot more than a mere $800 million. Apparently, Heather says she can prove the amount of money that is being given to look after Bea will not last over the year.

Awk! Us mere mortals survive on less, guess that ain't good enough for her. But really, if she's out to extract more money it will look so bad. (Exposay)


Latest on Lindsay Lohan's Movies

Linsday Lohan looks like she has cleaned up her act after rehab. Signing new movies and recording a new album, good to know she's not going down the Britney Spears Rabbit Hole.

Lindsay Lohan's latest movie is about Charles Manson and she's set to play one of the creepy guy's devout followers - this is a “What does your child do for a living moment”.

Producer Brad Wyman confirms everyone's queries about Lohan in a cult movie - by saying, "Yes, I am doing it with Lindsay." (People)


Robin Williams Marriage on the Rocks

Sad news for Robin Williams – Marsha Graces Williams, wifey of 19 years has filed for divorce. They also stuck to the “irreconcilable differences” stance, as do most celebrities.

I don't want to go with the norm and say oh, by the way not only is his personal life going down the drain but he has not done any great movies for a while now. Right! As if those two points had to be linked.

So let's say we hope he starts new movie projects, throws himself into his work to get over this phase. He's an awesome actor and a great comedian so here's to more future projects.

Well, unless they are divorcing 'cos his wife found out he was a creepy alien who ate pets or something. In that case, someone please call the cops. (Daily Mail)

Prison Break Season 4 Spoiler – about Sarah Wayne Callies' head !

There's an addition to the cast of season 4 of Prison Break .... or rather someone from the past didn't really get the chop, if you know what I mean. That's right, Sarah Wayne Callies didn't really die!!

Dr. Sara Tancredi is alive and perhaps, not doing brilliantly but at least she's not a ghost – unlike that Nearly Headless ghost from Potter movies. Yea, it's none of that “she's in this episode but as a figment of your imagination or time traveling” kind of disappointment. Not that those are bad storylines ... but at least you don't get your hopes up about a favored character. (E!Online)

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Diddy Combs is innocent: LA Times' Shakur Story is fake; fooled by con artist?

You heard about the great uproar about the Diddy Combs link to the Tupac Shakur Shooting, now hear this one. That whole LA Times story of “Combs knew about Shakur ambush” might just be big bag of nonsense. ; At least according to a compelling article by The Smoking Gun.

TSG has written an in-depth and well argued article about the LA Times expose on Diddy's link to Shakur's death. Basically, they claim that the Times were fooled by a con artist, someone who also might have forged the FBI documents used as a source.

Apparently, the man in question is called James Sabatino and, judging from some of the mismatching claims from his side, he just might be a bit delusional.

Here are some interesting points of TSG article:
- The FBI docs (302s) referred to in the Times article are nowhere to be found on FBI database
- The 302s might have been written on typewriter; reality check – FBI agents stopped using them years ago. Coincidentally, it has spelling errors similar to those made in other documents submitted by Sabatino.
- Sabatino also claims he was supposed to meet Christopher Wallace on the night of his murder in 1997. According to TSG: While he enjoys repeating the "theory" that he mysteriously bailed on a planned meeting with the rapper that fateful night, Sabatino was actually 2400 miles away from the crime scene. He was imprisoned in Miami's Federal Detention Center, where he still had six months to serve on a two-year sentence for separate felony convictions

Apparently, after reading evidence provided by TSG, LA Times is going to launch its own probe into the truth of the FBI docs. I would hope so; their reputation would be at stake here. And if it was false, Diddy Combs might take it up with them for defamation.

Update: What do you know! Associated Press reports that LA Times apologizes for Shakur Story.

E-Z

Ever been looking for a Small Business Loan but found it almost impossible to get it? Good credit? Bad Credit? No problem! (Man that was such a commercial). Just like me people are always looking for someone to give them a head start in life. You know that person that you are always looking to pop up and say " Hey, because if this, that, and that and your a good citizen, were going to give you money!" PPSSSSHH, and then you woke up. Well even though you can only find this type of person in a magical land with rainbows and pixie dust, you can find people that are willing to give you a break because you work hard to re-establish the credit that you messed up in the first place!

I personally referred someone who was trying to get their business off the ground to ezunsecured.com. Not because they had bad credit, but because they had no credit. This place is reliable, has an easy process, fast funding, and excellent service. If you are a young entrepreneur such as myself, please don't hesitate to go to this site and take a look around. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Britney Spears Doesn't Sing Alone

Wait, you say, someone sings along with her or is it over her voice or what? Well, according to Henry Rollins, it's not like the other woman sings the entire song and Britney just lip syncs. Whichever way you consider it, it makes her look quite bad:

"Britney apparently isn't actually the worst singer, she just has no feel. So
they bring in this older black woman who sings the song, then Britney sings to
it, and they kind of make a mix of the two voices, and that's what you hear on
the records."

So Britney doesn't have a bad voice but can't sing to a tune? Is that it? Then might as well launch our careers and have someone else purr their melodious voices over our off-scale ones.

And does this other person get royalty from the moolah they make off her songs? Or is that out of bounds of intellectual property?

On the other hand, makes you wonder why she lip syncs on stage – is it so no one will know she can't sing?

Adventures in College

Well I am I college student as I have probably stated on more than 1 occasion. As we all know it’s hard trying to get your feet off the ground and it the world of credit and finance when you’re just getting your foot out of high school. So as I look back into my personal finance archives , which isn't that deep might I add, I would say aside from 1 bounced check and a couple of overdrafts I have been doing pretty good. I seem to be though having difficulty with this whole credit card thing. You know us college students; we get a credit card and say to ourselves " I’m gonna pay it back or pay it off." Ha! Yea right you know what we do. We constantly fulfill that minimum amount requirement and once we get hungry or need something, which is quite often, we spend it! I know that’s not how it’s supposed to go but hey, these are the best years of our life right?

Rick Astley talks about “Rickrolling”

The 80's song “Never Gonna Give You Up” is something of a legend in the 21st Century.

It's used at protests, most notably the Anti-Scientology ones. And the up-beat song is also subject of a new media phenomenon. You've probably experienced it a few times, it's known as Rickroll.

What I gather from Wiki's definition on the topic, it refers to being diverted to the song in question - when reading posts on the internet, you click a link for more info and wham! you're watching a video of Rick Astley's chirpy song.

And now, LA Times have arranged an interview with the man himself. Rick Astley talks about the phenomenon that is “Never Gonna Give You Up” and is frankly, quite surprised at it's long-lasting success.

In his own words:

“If this had happened around some kind of rock song, with a lyric that really
meant something -- a Bruce Springsteen, "God bless America" ... or an
anti-something kind of song, I could kind of understand that,” Astley said. “But
for something as, and I don’t mean to belittle it, because I still think it’s a
great pop song, but it’s a pop song; do you know what I mean? It doesn’t have
any kind of weight behind it, as such. But maybe that’s the irony of
it.”

Check out his full interview here.

It's one of the best examples of an artist's work taking on a life of itself. You develop of it as a pop song and let's face it, didn't think it was ground breaking. Yet somehow it 'evolves' to take on different meaning for different groups. It becomes the rally point for various causes (in this case the protesting 'Anonymous' group).

There are other works that follow the same pattern. I'd suggest Frankenstein but that would require a lengthy explanation. Suffice it to say that the original 'monster' didn't have bolts in neck, wasn't called Frankenstein and was quite an articulate fellow. In fact, close your eyes while listening to him and he'd be a dead ringer for your 5rd grade English teacher.

Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” and “We Will Rock You” by Queen are other examples of 'evolving' works.

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Obama related to Pitt, Jolie related to Clinton

I thought this was a funny little story. It seems as though Brad Pitt is the 9th cousin of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton is the 9th cousin of Angelina Jolie.... Yea your right... there was now good news today... See the photoshopped pictures at TMZ.COM. Haha,it's funny.

Kettering

Well I personally think this is one of the funniest and most interesting promos for a college I have ever seen. This one is my favorite. It tells you about the college but the narrator still uses a little humor with it. Well this one is just 1 of the few webisodes that's out there about Kettering University. When I say this school is awesome, this school is awesome. It not only is a college that gives you hands on experience, but it also gives you a chance to work on co-op and get real world training while still in college. And you get paid for it! I went to a high school like this college for my senior year and I must say I was impressed. Kettering University has been ranked by US News and World Report as "the #1 University in the nation for Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering" in its annual "America's Best Colleges Guide for 2008".


Feel free to look at the site. Here is the link to it: US News Best Colleges. If you are looking to go into mechanical engineering, from what the news is saying, this place would be your best bet. Engineering is, in fact, a hands on experience.

So check the place out and give the site a try. I know from personal experience that co-op education is definitely the way to go.

Facebook hacked again?

You occasionally hear about Facebook being hacked – I remember an instance last year which was apparently just a technical hiccup – and now, it's happened again! And this time, it's none other than Paris Hilton's account that's being probed and violated.

Apparently some guy found a loophole in Facebook that allowed him to access Paris' personal pictures!Yikes! And once he was done browsing, he dipped his sticky fingers into Mark Zuckerberg's account. Nasty.

In fact, if you check The Gossip Rag, they've published some of the personal pictures of Zuckerberg, the ones that were accessed by Bryon Ng. At least they implied as much in their post.

You also wonder about publishing personal pictures that was accessed without consent of owner or institution – do you get in trouble for that or does it stop with the original hacker? How does this play into the digital rights arena? Remember that story from last year about Warner Bros shutting down a blogger's flickr account on ground of DRM?

Isn't it interesting that this site seems to downplay the significance of Facebook being hacked? While I am in no way doubting his abilities, I find it amusing that the article prefers to highlight Byron Ng as a computer technician who was checking for security weaknesses after the popular social networking site announced the security upgrades. They make it sound like he was working on the side for them doesn't it? Wonder if this is to tone down the severity of security issues.

On the note of hacking, I tried to find article about various accounts being hacked using keywords “facebook” and “hacked”. I'm not sure what was more worrying, the number of times people mention accounts being hacked or some schmuck used an outside app. to access friend's details or simply no-life bunch who claim to tell you how to go about hacking Facebook.

Car Magnets Are Awesome

Don't you love it when you see magnetic car signs and they say crazy things? It kind of makes you want to go and find the craziest one that you could possibly find so people can say "Man I wonder where she got that from?" Well that’s what happened to me on more than 1 occasion. I had just brought my car and there was something on the back of it that said "Get the____ off of me" Of course I was still in high school when I got this car and my father was cleaning it for me one day and saw it on the back of the car and scrapped it off! I was irrtated. Furthermore my boyfriend came behind him and finished the job..... ahhh! The irrtation!



It was just a little story that I wanted to mention because in my spare time I like to make magnets (please... I know it’s weird... don't judge me). I like to change up the magnets on my car from time to time. Who likes to keep the same ole boring stuff? Not me! I also make like business cards too because I'm awesome. But at the top there is a preview of one of the cards I made. It's a little to girly for me but I think it’s cute. Yes I am a girl; no I am not a lesbian. Just had to put that out there to justify the statement I just made.

Amy Winehouse: Going to Rehab and/Or Holland Drug Circuit?

Amy Winehouse might head off to rehab soon. Oh wait, and she's also performing at club in Rotterdam. How's that for two conflicting reports?

First, Perez Hilton pointed out an article in The Sun which hints at rehab treatment for troubled singer. All good and well; you might even say it's about time! You even hope she kicks her habit and embraces life without the help of dodgy substances.

The article sounds so promising:

“Amy has admitted she needs to check into rehab again”.

“There are
too many temptations for her in the UK — people around her in London are making
it impossible for her to stay clean for any length of time”.

Management is checking out a clinic in Cape Town in South Africa.

And then you read the next article – Exposay learns that Amy Winehouse might perform in a club set in the heart of the biggest drugs circuit in Holland.

Does that honestly sound like she's moving away from temptation?

Well, it seems like management and family are keeping an eye on her money, probably to make sure she doesn't splash out on drugs. So this offer of $700 000 was just too hard to resist? Even if it's in a club which sounds like it gets its energy from urine and sweat from the visitors.

Prison Break coming back for Season 4

So many shows are getting the chop -Jericho and the ironically named The Return of Jezebel James – that it's good to hear about shows that are coming back. And guess what? Prison Break has got the nod for a fourth season!

According to PrisonBreak Manhunt site, Yvan Attal might be appearing in the 4^th season. Other than starring in a whole lotta movies with French names, he also grabbed people's attention with Rush Hour 3 and the Interpreter.

So it is one more season of prison jokes, soap bar jabs and of course, people breaking out.

Batman: Change we can't believe in

Alright, The Batman didn't say that! /Film features what looked suspiciously like a publicity stunt for the upcoming Batman movie. Apparently a group of creepy clown-faced men were 'protesting' the Dentmobile presence, a campaign gimmick for one of the Batman villains.

Their cardboard signs read “Dent is Two-Faced”, “Your Future Decided With a Coin Flip” and “Change We Can’t Believe In”.

A bit of satire at the real world as well as the movies perhaps? Wonder how real world candidates would react if these guys showed up at a rally?

RUMOR!! Kim Kardashian Pregnant?

Man it seems like you can, in fact, make a ho into a house wife. According to Mediatakeout.com, "allegedly, allegedly " Reggie Bush may have scored a touch down in more than one way. Yea he sure is trying to keep up with the Kardashian. From what Mediatakeout is stating, Kim's red pill didn't show up on time and still hasn't shown up. But according to her "pal"(what da hell kinda friend is she to put this girl's business out on the street) Kim doesn't want to worry Reggie so she is going to stay hush hush about it and see what happens.WELL IF HE READING THIS HE KNOWS NOW! HA! If she is pregnant she knows for a fact that it's his because he is the only one that she has been seeing. Okay, now go back and read that last sentence and try and believe it yourself... please without the laughter...