Category: Linklog

Faith Hill insists she’s no Kanye West. The country music superstar says she was just joking when cameras showed her screaming “WHAT?” in apparent anger when she lost the female vocalist of the year award to newcomer Carrie Underwood at the Country Music Association Awards ceremony Monday night in Nashville. Judge for yourself…

You can watch and download select NHL games for free on Google Video. Remember Google Video?

A man was killed in Peachtree City after his estranged wife shot him in the car park of his work. The man was Eric Paul Ulrich, my mother’s cousin’s husband’s brother… I’m utterly stunned.

Enron Explorer. Read all the emails of a dying company written by those with their heads in the noose. All nicely tagged and searchable.

How not to end a marathon. As he crossed the finish line of the 2006 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, Robert Cherulyot slipped on a logo at the finish line and cracked his head on the pavement.

An awesome Sony Bravia advert. Shot on location in Glasgow, Scotland.

Following Cory Lidle’s accident, a private plane carrying Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez overran a runway at Bob Hope Airport. If I was a Yankee, I’d avoid air travel for the time being…

Flash Earth. A wonderful site that combines pretty much every satellite aerial imagery site you can think of to show what Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and NASA would show on any point on Earth.

A trailer for Grind House. A case of two movies in one here by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. And it looks SO awesome… It has everything, mindless violence and a chick with a gun for a leg… Yes, a chick with a gun for a leg!

Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community. Damn, just damn… The world HAS gone mad afterall…

A programmable bottle with four flavors and a caffeine button can produce up to 32 unique concoctions. A Cherry Vanilla Lemon Lime Caffeine shot anyone?

American Dad vs. Family Guy Kung Fu. The Smith’s and the Griffin’s battle it out in mortal kombat… Freakin’ sweet!

Google to buy YouTube for $1.6 billion? $1.6 billion for YouTube? Has the world gone mad? If it does prove to be true, I guess Mark Cuban has found his “morons.”

Billionaire investor and dot-com veteran Mark Cuban had harsh words on Thursday for YouTube, the online site that lets people share video clips, saying only a “moron” would purchase the wildly popular start-up. Cuban also said YouTube would eventually be “sued into oblivion” because of copyright violations. “The only reason it hasn’t been sued yet is because there is nobody with big money to sue.”

Europe take the Ryder Cup for a record third consecutive time. Another 18½-9½ points difference as America capitulates.