decade in 7 minutes

amazing what happened in the past 10 years–other than september 11 and the wars. newsweek put together a 7 minute video that reminds us that other stuff happened.  remember:

wazzzzzup?
the tsunami?
space shuttle columbia?
the speech at the united nations?
mission accomplished?
martha went to jail?
the east coast blackout?
madonna makes out with brit-brit?
nip slip?
lord of the rings?
3/11?
massachusetts legalizes gay marriage?
p.o.t.u.s. [...]


you really like me (sorta)

by now you’ve probably heard that fed head ben bernanke has been named time magazine’s person of the year.  of course, dude has had a big year and is probably ready for a nap on the federal holiday coming up next week.  what you probably haven’t learned about, though, is the list of folks that [...]


that’s why lizzie grubman* crashed her car

here are some interesting facts about the 15 jobs with the highest stress and the lowest pay (based on median income and the percent of people that said the job is a major stresser). sad news is, these peeps are in the highest need of a drink at the end of the week but they probably can’t afford a [...]


another list

the world is a much better place now that esquire has published a list of the 75 best people in the world. their selection was very scientific, there were two questions each of the selected individuals had to meet: “Would we like to have a drink with this person? And would we trust this person [...]


a little andy to start the week

our favorite silver hair fox, anderson cooper, makes wowowow’s list of sexy-gray haired men from politics, business and hollywood. (also on the list was tom brokaw and ted turner. ) we know it’s been a full weekend you’ve gotten your andy fix so we’re including a clip from last week when richard simmons stopped by. [...]


imelda marcos, not so poor anymore

recently listed as one of the greediest people of all time by newsweek magazine, former first lady of the philippines, imelda marcos, was quite proud of the designation.  she said “For me, greedy is giving. I was First Lady for 20 years; you have to be greedy first to give to all. It is natural.”  [...]


that’s a lot of crap

according to the youtube blog, 20 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute. 1200 minutes of video content for every 1 minute. in mid 2007, it was 6 hours of content for every 1 minute. in january 2009, it grew to 15 hours of video for every 1 minute. it won’t be long [...]