Friday, March 5, 2010

People

Photographic Evidence Suggests Tiger Woods Still Plays Golf

9:13PM Adrian Chen | TMZ has the EXCLUSIVE photographs of Tiger woods hitting a golf ball with a club, as he is wont to do. According to TMZ, he practised at a course near his home from 8.30am to 5pm yesterday. More »
People

A Black Man In The White House

5:55PM Adrian Chen | Jay-Z and Beyonce, meeting Obama. “Now you could choose ta Sit in front of your computa/Posin’ with guns Shootin YouTube up/Or you could come with me to the White House get your suit up” -”What We Talkin’ About”
Big Screen

See Johnny Depp Looking Crazy In Alice In Wonderland

5:26PM Adrian Chen | Alice in Wonderland will make a lot of money. Deepak Choprah is pulling a Sarah Palin. Pet Sematary is back. This trade round-up not built on an Indian burial ground. More »
Music

Rockpile – “Heart”

1:38PM Jess McGuire | This song is just rad, and I can’t think of a better reason to play it for you. I will also be playing it tonight on Triple R at some point after 7pm, so that’s nice…. ISN’T IT? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day II

12:15PM Jess McGuire | Here is the kinda weird (in an endearing way) actor Crispin Glover behaving in a kinda weird but endearing way. Did you know he had a music career? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Is This The Lamest Namedrop Ever?

11:34AM Jess McGuire | I always get excited when commenters take the time to tell me, in a very casual way, that they happen to know someone I’ve written about on Defamer Australia. But surely we can all agree that namedropping the Chk Chk Boom girl almost ten months after we last gave a flying fornication about her is a bit lame? More »
Online

Is The LOLcat Empire Built On Exploited Humans?

10:31AM Ryan Tate | Ben Huh’s Cheezburger Network has been crowned the largest “meme aggregator” on the internet and gleans more than $US4 million in annual revenue from other people’s animal pictures. So why can’t Huh throw more bones to his humans? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

9:38AM Jess McGuire | SO! Did anyone else manage to catch the Bollywood film Salaam Namaste last night on SBS Two? It’s set in Melbourne and stars Tania “Yes, I support the troops, but not with my vagina” Zaetta and I started watching it in a sceptical, smarmy way… and by the end, I LOVED IT. I think I want to buy it on DVD. Here is a nice song from the film (and look at all that Melbourne scenery!)
Print

Director Threatens To Sue Variety Over Oscar Shakedown Scheme

9:12AM John Cook | Joshua Newton, the director of Iron Cross, forced Variety to spike a critical review of his film from the web because he’d purchased a $US400,000 Oscar campaign in the paper. But that wasn’t enough – now he’s considering suing. More »
People

“Kevin!”

9:09AM Richard Lawson | [National hero Kate Gosselin realises she's forgotten something, or eight somethings, as she leaves "Dancing with the Stars" practice in this, our New York City; image via INF]