Kevjumba is a Heterosexual Bear Wrestler - When your YouTube channel has more than a million subscribers and you have close to 300,000 fans on Facebook, you can sort of own the Internet for a little while. The above explains why the phrase "Is Kevjumba a heterosexual bear wrestler" was the most-searched thing on Google for a few hours Thursday night (Jan. 20). It's in response to the YouTube star and former "Amazing Race" contestant's latest video. In the video -- after he apologizes for a relative lack of new posts and does a bit with his dad -- Kev (real name: Kevin Wu) explains that he's noticed if you type "Is Kevjumba" into Google's search bar, the auto-complete suggests "Is Kevjumba gay" (although that was only the second suggestion when we tried it; "Is Kevjumba a jerk" came up first). He wants to project more of a tough-guy image, so he suggests that his fans type "Is Kevjumba a heterosexual bear wrestler" instead. Thus is a meme born Although we would've been more convinced if there had actually been some bear wrestling in the video.
Woke up this morning to see "Is Kevjumba a Heterosexual Bear Wrestler" as the top google search of the day. Immediately I thought, well that's silly, is there any other kind of bear wrestler? After my initial curiosity faded and I searched around I thought, God damnit, why didn't we think of that. Owning the internet for a little while is this sites mission statement (if we were to have one anyway). Is it really as simple as coming up with an outrageous title and hoping it spreads? If you google The Alt-Tab right now we're still not the top choice and we're over 300 posts in. This is frigen embarrassing. I'm going to spend the rest of the weekend thinking of a title for Mondays first post. We're going viral or I'm dying trying.
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Anne Hathaway to Play Catwoman - Anne Hathaway has nabbed the coveted female lead opposite Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Hathaway was on the the list of actresses which tested for the role in recent weeks, along with Jessica Biel and Keira Knightley, as revealed by Heat Vision.
Boom, let that be a message to all aspring actresses trying to make it, or B actresses trying to make it to the top. Show your goods and talk about how embarrassing it was for you (to maintain credibility) and land a leading role in the sequel to one of the biggest movies in history. It really is that simple. She beat out Jessica Beal! Jessica Beal basically auditioned for the role of Catwoman in Chuck and Larry. This is like the upset of all actress upsets.
India and Hindus Everywhere Upset with NBC, Jim Carey - Hindus are disturbed over the portrayal of Lord Ganesh as a sex act on NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL) and want apologies from all those responsible for it, including actor Jim Carrey and NBC. In a skit on NBC's SNL (January eight) titled "The Wrath of Ganesh", Jim Carrey (as erotic shaman Lee Licious) and Kenan Thomson (as Grady Wilson) demonstrate a sexual technique, mocking elephant-headed Lord Ganesh and his trunk in the process. Grady has traveled the world to find new sexual techniques to spice up the bedroom, the tagline of the episode (1587) "Grady Wilson''s Tantric N''Tasty" says.
This is what India is upset at NBC about? Not the hilariously stereotypical sitcom Outsourced? Really? I mean at one point they made a joke asking if the red dot on Hindu's foreheads was a piece of saffron that got stuck during a food fight. But this is what upsets them. Additionally, I always thought a part of Hinduism was basically ignoring all things you can't control to achieve inner piece. Am I confusing it with Buddhism? Is that offensive? I have a lot of questions.
Microsoft Taking Steps to Block Unapproved Use of Kinnect - Bearded, clad in a hoodie, and with a mouthful of swear words, hacker Kyle Machulis took the stage last month at San Francisco music joint Rickshaw Stop. He was there to deliver a Nerd Nite talk about his latest love: Microsoft's Kinect, a gesture-and-voice-recognition accessory for the Xbox gaming console that lets people play video games without having to hold a controller. "This thing costs $150 and is sold at GameStop," Machulis told the crowd. "Oh, s—t! We live in the future!" Machulis serves as one of the leaders of the Open Kinect project, an ad hoc effort backed by thousands of hackers and DIY enthusiasts. They've cracked open and studied Microsoft's latest device and are now putting it to unexpected new uses, ranging from commanding robots with hand motions to performing sex acts on avatars. Microsoft responded to Open Kinect as one might expect of a company long suspicious of hacking. In statements, Microsoft said it "does not condone the modification of its products" and vowed to work with law enforcement "to keep Kinect tamper-resistant."
Hey Microsoft, you guys haven't exactly been thought of as the cool guys in the tech geek crowd for quite some time now (which is really saying something, that's epic-ly nerdy), maybe you wanna just let this one slide. Try being excited that techies are excited about one of your products for once. So what if they're using the XBOX Kinnect in ways that would make any normal person shiver a little (seriously, virtual sex acts with avatars, way to remove yourselves even further from society people). Fact is, you need this Microsoft. You need an in with a group other than up tight accountants and business managers. Plus, it can't be a bad business model. Have you seen the internet? Like 73% of it is porn. It's in demand and apparently you've created every porn-addicts dream come true. Just roll with it.
