I have no idea who Nick Cannon is but have you seen this ridiculous tattoo? What?!?  It’s Mariah Carey you’re married to – not Beyonce’.   I repeat – it’s Mariah Carey, dude.

Anyways, back to the blog posting. Eminem is on his game once more.  This is the Eminem I choose to remember.  I wish cuts like this would have made (the first half of) Relapse…

Jason, thank you.

P.S.  After a 5 minute hunt to see how the beef began, I guess Eminem’s “Bagpipes from Baghdad” dissed Mariah.  The song sucks.  Nick (as mentioned above, who the fck is Nick Cannon?) got all pissy and spouted off at the mouth.

Then Mariah made a song/video called “Obsessed” – it’s not worth finding on YouTube – where she dressed up like an Eminem look-alike and talked about him being obsessed with her.

Eminem delivered this blow to undoubtedly end the feud.  Wowser.

It’s creeping everyone out.  Seriously, enough is enough.

No, I’ve never seen the bachelor/ette and didn’t know who Ed Swiderski was before seeing the CNN clip.

Click pic below, sit through 15 seconds of a commercial, and the clip (far from entertaining) should load…

P.S.  “I kissed 4 with tongue.”  WTF – is Jillian Harris in high school and/or 1919?  The question was simple – how many did you bang?

Here’s to hoping I don’t get one of those square text messages – WTF? – as I don’t really pay attention to my iPhone at work…

http://www.huliq.com/3257/84257/sms-hack-can-hijack-every-iphone-world

“Cybersecurity researcher Charlie Miller and his fellow researcher Collin Mulliner plan to present research on a huge iPhone security hole Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Not an iPhone virus, but rather an SMS hack, the issue can allow a hacker complete control over an iPhone.

According to the researchers, they will demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS “bursts” that can give a hacker complete control of the iPhone. That control will include dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device’s camera and microphone, and more. The hacker will also be able to send more text messages to facilitate spreading the iPhone SMS hack to other iPhones.

To an end user, the evidence that someone is trying to use the iPhone’s SMS hack on your device will be a text message on your iPhone containing only a single square character. The only way to avoid being hacked would be to quickly turn off the device. In terms of the amount of control, this hack sounds, quite honestly, very similar to how certain Trojans can turn a PC into a bot, and similarly control it remotely.”

Jason, thank you.

Check this out from Meghan McCain’s (@McCainBlogette) Twitter page…

http://twitter.com/McCainBlogette/status/2873064776

Ryan Rolson (@rolson141) is seemingly located in Seattle…

http://myloc.me/show.php?id=enq5

Here’s Meghan McCain’s responses…

http://twitter.com/McCainBlogette/status/2873073703

http://twitter.com/McCainBlogette/status/2873086741

It looks like – per Ryan Rolson’s original tweet and twitter profile (@rolson141) – he possibly may have a terminal disease and just wants prayers. Has the person been considering suicide? I hope Meghan prays and/or is able to contact Seattle authorities.

Here’s an example…

“Thank you so much @ParisIAdoreYou What a beautiful note – Love you http://img194.imageshack.us…“

So, the above tweet is Paris Hilton (@babygirlparis) responding to a fan William Borges (@parisiadoreyou).

What is Ms. Hilton responding to? Here’s what @parisiadoreyou wrote…

As I suggested on twitter and am now blogging, it all seemed a little creepy.  What is wrong with today’s…people?

I’m joking – I’m sure William Borges (@parisiadoreyou) from Brazil is a well-rounded individual.  As he said after all the haters piled on him…

Since January 2009 – Obama was sworn in on the 20th – the international stock indexes are on an up.

It will be interesting to see where the markets are over the next 4 months – 12 months into Obama’s presidency – won’t it? I’m just glad there seems to be somewhat of a global recovery before a World War was invoked.

Check out these numbers…

World: The Global Dow – YTD % change +14.5

DJ World Index – YTD % change +14.8

DJ World ex U.S. – YTD % change +18.7

MSCI EAFE – YTD % change +12.1

Americas: DJ Americas – YTD % change +13.8

Sao Paulo Bovespa (Brazil) – YTD % change +13.8

S&P/TSX Comp (Canada) – YTD % change +18.9

IPC All-Share (Mexico) – YTD % change +19.1

Caracas General (Venezula) – YTD % change +30.7

Europe: DJ Stoxx 600 – YTD % change +11.6

DJ Euro Stoxx (Euro zone) – YTD % change +7.0

Bel-20 (Belgium) – YTD % change +11.9

CAC 40 (France) – YTD % change +4.5

Tel Aviv (Israel) – YTD % change +39.8

FTSE MIB (Italy) – YTD % change +3.6

AED (Netherlands) – YTD % change +12.3

IBEX (Spain) – YTD % change +13.5

SX All Share (Sweden) – YTD % change +30.4

Swiss Market (Switzerland) – YTD % change +4.1

FTSE 100 (U.K.) – YTD % change +3.2

Asia Pacific: DJ Asia-Pacific – YTD % change +17.9

S&P/ASX 200 (Australia) – YTD % change +9.9

Shanghai Composite (China) – YTD % change +85.2

Hang Seng (Hong Kong) – YTD % change +38.9

Bombay Sensex (India) – YTD % change +59.4

Nikkei Stock Average (Japan) – YTD % change +12.2

Straights Times (Singapore) – YTD % change +43.8

Kospi (South Korea) – YTD % change +33.6

Weighted (Taiwan) – YTD % change +51.9

I noted on twitter yesterday that I can’t sit through an 8 minute long online video clip.

Well, then there was this clip.  Wow, something WAY cooler than the iPhone…

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”

Uncle Richard, thank you.

UPDATE: Video of DeWayne Wise’s catch that saved Mark Buehrle’s perfect game is below.

In due time, there will be videos online of the best catch I’ve ever seen given the circumstances.

In the interim, here are 3 low resolution screenshots from my slingbox.

P.S.  If our building didn’t require that we have DSL at work, these would be a lot clearer.  I love the slingbox!

Video from a fan at the game!

This is all over the internet thanks to TMZ. But, below is a slightly newer/better version from Ebaum Nation. Check out the :35 and 1:03 second marks.

I wonder how much more TMZ paid for their shiat video – woops.

Sick…

Burchie, thank you.

Thank god there’s finally something to talk about again.

Unfortunately, there’s officially no other reason to attend Lollapalooza 2009.

http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2009/07/beastie-boys-cancel-lollapalooza-date-mca-announces-he-has-cancer/

Get well soon MCA…

Time Out, thank you.

P.S. Ok, I would pay money to see Of Montreal and Ben Folds. Worth noting: I’m a Snoop Dogg fan but I’ve seen him solo and it’s a nightmare. The Up in Smoke Tour – when he wasn’t solo – was unbelieveable. Regardless, compared to the 2008 lineup, this year’s show is DEPRESSING.

For no real reason, I rarely open emails from QuickPWN.  But, this one caught my attention.

The total cost – as of July 2009 – to own all 55,732 apps currently listed in the App Store is $144,326.06 with the average cost being $3.34 for a paid app if you exclude the 12,538 free apps.  I think I’ve spent half that much that I might as well just go for all of them.  Ugh.

Here’s more – including a pricing trend graph.  Enjoy…

http://bustedloop.com/blog/2009/7/7/how-much-does-it-cost-to-buy-every-iphone-app.html

So, the GOP is attacking Obama on the jobs number as seen here and here – which, nobody expected to improve in June.  But, it looks like the bleeding has stopped at 9.5%.   We’ll see – maybe it climbs slightly higher next month.

Regardless, some jobs from the recovery act have been created and many more to come over the next few months – as seen in the following BccList.com blog posting…

https://bcclist.com/2009/06/06/fox-news-fail/

Moreover, the $787 billion from the recovery act is just starting to “trickle-down”…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31548130/ns/business-personal_finance/

So, as I mentioned back in February, the GOP needs to start rallying behind the President or be completely stuck out in the cold when the tide turns.  Should the tide not turn, we’ll be taking a hard look at the damage done 2000-2008.

All of this said, the GOP literally has one of two options – support the agenda and come up with some sort of new ideas on the future of America OR look like fools and destroy their party more.  They are falling right into the administration’s and democratic party’s trap.

Side Note: If you watched Meet the Press last week, you saw Romney and Graham (sort of) support the stimulus plan/recovery act.  Those two have (sort of) moved in the right direction.