Gratuitous Kate Beckinsale Photo #10
Number 10. You thought it was dead at week 4 didn’t you? I did. 10 weeks is a long time for me to remember to do something so lets do something a little special. Lets go a little crazy. Lets…actually put up a picture of Kate Beckinsale. We haven’t done that since week 5! The name sake is back this week. Everyone behave.
Who wants a Diet Coke?
Delmon Young Can Really Swing Throw the Bat
Here’s the crazy video of the #1 prospect in all of baseball possibly ruining is career by throwing a bat at the home plate umpire. If Young, the little brother of ex-Cardinal Dimirti Young, plays again this season, he should consider himself very very lucky. This kid was basically drafted out of the womb, given a huge bonus and was basically killing time (and pitchers) in the minor league until the time was right and space was available for him to be moved up to the Devil Rays. Now he has a stain on his career as “that guy who threw a bat at an umpire” forever. Even if he learns from this and comes out a saint, everytime he makes an appearance at a big league park, especially in his first year in The Show, that video will roll on the tv broadcast and everyone will talk about it. The fact remains, Young is still and incredible talent and this will not really have a true effect on his ranking as the #1 future star of the sport, but it will cause some heistation for any one having to deal with him probably for the rest of his career.
Oh and speaking of that video…click through the jump to see it!
United 93 Reviewed
We’ve already discussed this quite a bit, so I won’t rehash any of my feelings on it, but it is noteworthy that the semi-controversial movie United 93 about the…well you all know what its about…is being released today. Fair warning: Prepare yourself for the onslaught of reviews. My hope is that majority of the review we will all see and read this weekend will stick to reviewing the movie and not drift off into the ever popular and thoroughly beat to death question of “Was this made too soon?” (If you are still talking about if the movie is “too soon”, please stop. The time to discuss that is past. Its out. Deal with it how ever you like, even if you just want to cover your eyes.) The first review I have read seems to stay on the other important question, “Is it a good movie?”, for the most part. Thought it drifts some, and I disagree with a few of the sentiments already, the review is solid and worth reading. You can find that one on Cinematical
The only other review I’m reading is of course, Roger Ebert’s. In the past, Mr Ebert and I have had our differences, but in the past few years I have slid over to his side of the balcony on more and more of his reviews. Ebert’s review on United 93 seems spot on, makes me want to pay to see it and, like the Cinematical review, makes me very happy with the studio’s choice on the director. The only point where Ebert even addresses the “too soon” question is right off the bat:
It is not too soon for “United 93,” because it is not a film that knows any time has passed since 9/11. The entire story, every detail, is told in the present tense. We know what they know when they know it, and nothing else. Nothing about Al Qaeda, nothing about Osama bin Laden, nothing about Afghanistan or Iraq, only events as they unfold. This is a masterful and heartbreaking film, and it does honor to the memory of the victims.
Sounds like this movie has turned out just as I had hoped. You can find Roger Ebert’s review at his website, aptly titled: rogerebert.suntimes.com
Have you seen the film yet? Let me know what you think.
Link: Cinematical review
Link: Roger Ebert’s review
We Screwed Up: No, There’s Not 2 Different Yahoo! Mail Betas
It was bound to happen eventually. I’m actually surprised it took over 800 posts before it happened…but we finally doubled a post. Two posts about how to get the Yahoo! Mail beta back to back. Whoops! Our bad. Like any good editor, I handled it thusly: I posted a little ahead of Dan so my post stays! So there. ppppppfffffffttttttt! Seriously though, I hope no one is out there linking to the second post because I didn’t feel like taking the time to do a redirect.
To any of you that thought we meant for you to sign up for the beta twice in some fashion, but then you couldn’t because your mail account already had the beta activated which twisted your mind up and while walking outside earlier today your crazed mind thought that you were being attacked by penguins so you grabbed up the nearest stick and began to beat the hell out of the penguins, which was surprisingly easy because you thought that because the penguins were on the offensive that they would be tougher to fight, but come on…they are just penguins. After the battle you thought to yourself that “Man there is enough penguins here to fill a school bus” which seemed like an odd though until you snapped out of the crazed state our double postings put you in and you realized that you just beat the poptarts out of an entire kindergarten class with some stick you found on the ground which you just realized was actually yet another kindergartener, and now you are in jail, we are really sorry.
You Too Can Get the Famed Beta Yahoo! Mail
I just caught a posting on Digg that links to quick and easy way to get access to the Yahoo! Mail Beta that has been the talk around the Web 2.0 water cooler for sometime. They worked great for me…check it:
How to change your content preference:
* log in to Yahoo Mail
* click Options
* select Account information from the left panel
* go to Member Information, General Preferences, Preferred Content
* select, for example, Yahoo UK
* click Finished
* go to Yahoo Mail
* you’ll see a page that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.”
* click on “Try Beta Now”.
* Editor’s note: The above steps forget to tell you that after you have the beta, you can go back and switch the content back to US or whatever other country you are from…Unless you are embarrassed because you are from France, then you can just leave it set at the UK.
UPDATE: Don’t worry about the steps, just click here
Ok, so I have it…now what? Well first off let me fire the first bitch bullet at Yahoo! for not supporting Safari! I understand Safari has some issues with alignment, particularly absolute alignment (I’m currently working on a AJAXed web 2.0 app at work and I ran in to some Safari problems.) But you aren’t a web development department of one, you are freakin’ Yahoo! You can’t figure out some measly Safari problem? Come on.
What else? Honestly the only other problem I have with it is that I have a Yahoo! mail account to simply try out the beta. None of my mail has come through this Yahoo! account in many many years. Which causes two problems: I won’t be able to get solid use out of this great interface daily, and I won’t get a chance to see how it runs full of emails. Those issues aside, I love what I have seen so far from Yahoo! Mail Beta. I’m sure this is where everything else is headed and with the exception of a little OS racism by making OS X users start up Firefox to get a look at it, it is a fantastic mail client. By far and away the best webmail client out there.
*Editor’s Note #2: I know my review is pretty glowing, but don’t get too caught up in it and lose your head. Use discretion when using Yahoo! Mail, because if the shit goes down Yahoo! will dime you out in a heartbeat.
Sources: Digg – Google Operating System blog
Would Someone Really Video-Blog Their Own Death?
Kevin Krutz was a video blogger. Kevin Krutz died recently and it so happened that is friends that found him happened to have a video camera on hand. His friends then posted the video of Krutz, with the consent of his family, to his blog. So what do you think, is this the real deal? Do you think someone would really post the video of finding their friend dead on the web? And if so, would his parents condone it? I’m not sure I by it 100%. From the looks of Krutz’s other videos he has/had a thing for the slightly disturbed. So “faking” his own death might not be all that out there for this guy.
Ok, lets say its real for the sake of argument. How far do we think people would really take their blogs? How many people would die and write a final note with instructions to post it up as a final post on their blog? Or how many people would want something like this video to be posted on the web once they kick the bucket and move on to the big Heaven 2.0? I bet more people than you would think would do such a thing and I bet more than you think already have. Its not exactly something I’m down with, but an interesting topic.
Here’s a direct link to the video. If you want to see it, hurry, I think its already in the Digg queue. Also, there is strong language, and well a guy kinda / maybe dies in it, so its obviously Not Safe For Work. Frankly if a tit somehow made in the video it would be on the list of all time Not Safe For Work videos.
Source: Digg
Link: Kevin Krutz’s blog
Gratuitous Kate Beckinsale Photo #9
(Confused because this isn’t Kate Beckinsale? Click here for all your answers.)
You didn’t really think I was going to leave you hanging out to dry for the weekend with Topanga being the hottest chick gracing this site did you? In fact just because Topanga made up here today, I’m going a little dirtier than normal. This week I give you: Jenna Jameson! Jenna Jameson’s esquire spread to be exact. Coincidently, this also marks the first time butt-crack has appeared on Hell Yeah Bitch! and I’m going to go on record saying that I’m OK with it.
Jenna is remarkably hot, but if you ever get the chance to hit that…and lets face it, its probably better than you think…remember the words of the wise Drew: “Make sure you wear a rubber dude.” More pictures after the jump!
Pictures from Save Manny
Topanga Comes Out of Hiding
Ever woder what the hell happened to Topanga from “Boy Meets World”? Well Yeeeah! found her. Apparently she was at the Lakers game downing some concession stand food.
When Boy Meets World first started, the kids where too young and there was no hottest in Topanga. Then when they hit high school Topanga began the 2 peak years of her life where she was kinda hot. Then as the show started to take a nose-dive straight through weirdness and in to the crapper Topanga started…well I think thats when she went to her first Laker game and discovered a love of nachos. Really, besides Topanga taking the slow climb to ugly, that show really got weird in the last few seasons. Dumb-ass Shaun ended up at the same college as genius Topanga and middling Corey?! Mr Pheeny jumps from high school principal to dean or something?! Topanga and Corey get married and move into the “married dorm” at school? What the hell is a “married dorm”? Who has those? Hell the only one of the cast that climbed out of the sink-hole is the ex-bully, ex-fat kid, Frankie who is now known as the scene stealing, brother in My Name is Earl.
Is ANTM’s Brooke on HotOrNot.com?
Maybe you just discovered Brooke tonight on America’s Next Top Model as she was last seen with Tyra’s boot up her ass, but if you searched hard enough you might have been able to discover her sooner. Ok! Enough sudo-coy article authoring. I think I found Brooke from ANTM’s HotOrNot.com “Meet Me” profile! Check out the composite picture I made (below) with the picture from the profile along with one of Brooke’s better photo’s from the show. What do you think? Pretty damn identical right?
To take this to the next step, and subsequently further from my sanity, lets inspect the short wording that goes along with the Hot Or Not profile.
She states: “In a relationship with the guy of my dreams but hes in the marines over in Japan for 2 yrs. Just lookin for some friends.” Along with the keywords: “120lbs, 5’8, alabama, blonde hair, blue eyes, chocolate, country, cowgirl, mudding”
That information kind of sprinkle’s some doubt in the speculation because according to Brooke’s official UPN stat sheet she is: 22 years old, stands in at 5’11″ and lists her home town as Corpus Christi, Texas.
Maybe was trying the old ballplayer trick of listing herself as tall as she could get away with for that last drop of advantage, but right off the bat the Hot Or Not listing conflicts: 5’8″ is close to 5’11″, but not really. Maybe this is an old listing though… Next up is the difference in the states listed: Alabama and Corpus Christi, Texas. Either of those locations would explain the “country”, “cowgirl” and “mudding” keywords, but they don’t match up. But there is always that interesting topic of if someone asks you your hometown: Do you say where you live now, or where you were born? Moving on, I can’t remember off hand any mention of a boyfriend on the show, but like I said earlier, who knows how old the profile is.
After all that analytical crap above it still comes down to this: Thats got to be her right? I mean come on…thats Brooke! That has to be her. Please chime in with whatever you think in the comments, I’m interested to see if I’m just wacky like the voices in my head tell me I am or if I’m on to something here.
Links:
- Brooke’s America’s Next Top Model page on UPN.com
- (Possible) Brooke’s Hot or Not.com profile page
Bonus Links (Because you’re just as special as you mom says you are.):
- If you are clueless about America’s Next Top Model go to FourFour for some recap goodness for each episode and catch up on this season and last.
lookatmebeingserious.com
The short story is when a guy left town for a meeting, his friends (though I’m not sure they are still friends) filled his office with balloons. When the guy came back, he…well…he became serious…very serious. Check out the clip on lookatmebeingserious.com.