Looks Like a Much Needed Video Appearance Upgrade on Youtube this week

After years of using their standard Youtube player, that many have copied since inception Youtube hasn't really changed the look of it over the years. The colors at least anyways with the light gray and red everything else.

Logging on earlier this week I noticed that all the video players are now a black color on the borders and much more sleek than they once were. A refreshing change I must say. An actual "improvement" that makes some sense compared to all the other random improvements they toss out every few months. Like the overly confusing new search system they use, or just the fact that they haven't improved the comments on videos in years. They still are more of a hassle to read on videos with tons of comments than they are worth.

While the new video look is on the Youtube site you can see, I have noticed that it hasn't transferred to embedded videos just yet, although they have changed those too. They now allow you to set the pixel width on embedded videos manually so they don't stretch off the page on places like a golf pda gps...blog posts. :)

Harry Potter World Cup Final Four; No Harry Potter!

Maybe not shocking to most HP fans, but I was a little bit surprised tthat Harry himself did not make the cut of the Final Four in MTV.com's Harry Potter World Cup. Who knocked him off? His most hated professor of course. The sneaky, and not really that bad a guy, Severus Snape.

The Final Four of the tournament has a couple of characters everyone should expect in Ron and Hermione. The other of the foursome is Harry's godfather, Sirius Black. Ron and Hermione will probably make their way to the Finals and face off against each other I predict since they don't face off this round being #1 seeds. Not sure if you get anything like reward cards for getting the bracket right, but maybe you do I haven't looked at the rules.

My personal favorite characters are Harry as #1. I just like how he put up with so much crap from the Dursley's and still came out without being such a bad guy. Fred and George are my favorite comic relief. The book version of Dembeldore is also one of my favorites since he is quite funny himself in the books. In the movies the headmaster is much too serious, and not at all like his character in the book.

Transformers 3 On Pace for $1 Billion at the Box Office Worldwide

To think that a movie where cliches of dialogue and everything being animated could pull in $1 Billion at the box office I guess I just have to remember what sells. Action flicks in the U.S. are the bread and butter of the summer movie going season I suppose so I shouldn't be surprised that every summer something as low brow as one of these movies is taking the top spot at the box office 2 weeks in a row. It may not be the best movie out right now, but it certainly has the box office draw to make more money than any of the other ones.

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" easily held on to first place, making another $47 million this week. That number represents a 52% decline from last weekend and gives "Dark of the Moon" a 12-day total of $261 million. The original "Transformers" had earned $212.3 million at the same point, while "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had pulled in a stronger $293.4 million. What a disappointment I'm sure.

While not blowing anything up and being done with a computer for most of the characters, R Rated comedies are still doing well this summer like they always do. "Horrible Bosses" finished the weekend in second place with a robust $28.1 million debut, continuing this summer's streak of successful R-rated comedies.

The Warner Brothers film had a healthy $9,247 per-theater average, and it opened within the range of "Bridesmaids" and "Bad Teacher," (which looks horrible to me even though Heather Graham is still hot and in no need of diet pills yet) which started with $26.3 million and $31.6 million, respectively.

Casey Anthony Trial Withdrawal Waning

If you are one of the many that watched the Casey Anthony trial everyday as it was broadcast live you probably got so used to watching it everyday that you wonder what you can do now. While the verdict was outright wrong...no, I'm not even going to hide my disagreement...all we have now are a bunch of moron jurors to tell us how poorly they paid attention, and broadcast their lack of intelligence.

By the time I had heard an alternate juror, and a couple of actual jurors talk my withdrawal was about gone. Listening to their excuses was so ridiculous that I wasn't even angry anymore. I just had to laugh.

We now know that they all thought she was guilty, didn't ask to see any evidence while in the jury room, told us that they didn't want to give her the death penalty which they thought was part of the verdict, and considered a fairy tale to be actual evidence. Then had the lack of common sense to claim that there wasn't enough evidence to convince them that it was at least manslaughter. See, if you watched the trial you know there was. Nothing you can do about it now. At least now you know YOU aren't crazy. You know the jurors were just wanted to get out of there and didn't bother even piecing it together.

So enough of it. Make a law that jurors can't get paid for interviews after these cases. Don't subject us to this mind numbing BS. Now we can all go back to watching baseball, or whatever it is we do. I know I haven't watched a game in about 2 weeks, which is insane since I watch almost every Detroit Tigers game there is. After the All-star game this next week I will get myself some baseball gifts and get back into it for good.

Speeds Up To 140 MPH and Alcohol Cause of Ryan Dunn's Death According to Police

According to the toxicology results released Wednesday, Ryan Dunn had a blood alcohol level of 0.196. This is over twice the legal limit. Police also said that the 34-year old Jackass star was speeding along at up to 140 M.P.H. at the time of his Porsche accident that killed not just himself, but Zachary Hartwell, 30.

Dunn wasn't exactly the safest driver as many reports talk about past driving issues. He was probably texting, or Tweeting on his samsung htc at the time as well. As any fan of Jackass can say it probably isn't a surprise to see that any one of those guys was in a situation such as this. Living fast and dying fast.

Dunn was born in Ohio and moved at age 15 to Pennsylvania, where he met fellow “Jackass” cast member Bam Margera on his first day of high school, according to a biography posted on his website.

Margera visited the crash site Tuesday, telling WTXF-TV that he was devastated by Dunn’s death.

“I’ve never lost anybody that I cared about. It’s my best friend,” he told WTXF, weeping. “He was the happiest person ever, the smartest guy. He had so much talent, and he had so many things going for him. This is not right, not right.”

Lindsay Lohan Fails Alcohol Test

Another day, another probation violation for the star (?) Lohan. Does she even have any work anymore, or is she just a trainwreck to talk about? She is in the news so often for having to go to court, spend a couple months in jail, or just plain getting away with something I can't even keep up. Today was just another one of those apparently.

Paparazzi spend so much time following her that we have images of her doing just about everything. Well everything except videos with eotech 552 night vision of her having sex with 10 men I suppose. Do we have one of those of her yet?

Anyways, her failed booze test. She has been on house arrest for however long, but still parties down at her place. Surprisingly we don't have videos of monkey reporters filming this for some reason. It's not like they aren't dangling off balconies to get pics of these events right?

She is supposedly going to be asked to get sent to jail again. Seems like every time something happens they just give her more probation, or some slap on the wrist. I am guessing this time she serves 30 days and then she is on probation again where she has no reason to follow it and we have to hear about her failing drug tests again for a couple more years.

Lady Gaga to Likely Sell 1 Million Copies of "Born This Way" During First Week

Say what you want about Lady Gaga, but she knows how to market. She certainly has made herself into an icon after just one album, and I think many will compare her to Madonna in her influence. I think it is still a bit early to say her career will follow the same success with this being just her second album, but you have to admire her ability to put on a show. She just seems to have that same type of charisma Madonna did in her early years, and we all know how huge Madonna became eventually. I expect Lady Gaga to be right next to her a decade from now, but I suppose she has to keep putting out decent tunes still, which I am pretty sure she is capable of considering her background.

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I'm not professing my fandom of her by any stretch. She still sings pop music and I find it to be one of my least favorite genres. I do admire her ability to market though and give her a lot of credit for designing this larger than life image and taking the world by storm.

As for her new album...another marketing genius ploy. She had her album on sale on Amazon.com for 99 cents one day only and it got so much traffic Amazon servers went into shock. Still thee were over 330,000 units processed on that day. She got the buzz from the price, and the Amazon servers getting shut down, and she will likely sit atop the Billboard charts as #1 her first week. Something a 99 cent release is a bit of a cheat to get eh? It is projected that 1 million copies will sell week one, so it isn't like she wasn't going to be there anyways right?

'The Hangover 2' Not Much of a Hit With Critics

'The Hangover 2' opens this weekend, and critics feel like they are being cash-cowed. Another sequel made to try and squeeze money out of the success of the first movie, but bringing little to the table to get viewers excited. Sounds like critics would rather treat get body acne treatments than watch this film.

While 'The Hangover' was a decent comedy, and better than most in recent years, I didn't feel like I was watching anything special when I saw it. It got a lot of hype, and people seemed to enjoy it, but I still felt it wasn't an instant comedy classic by any stretch. It was sort of like Zombieland to me. Full of hype with very little payoff, and trying way too hard to appeal. Like the people making it had some references to what is cool, but didn't really "get it" with what they were referencing. Just trying too hard.

Times critic Betsy Sharkey, accusing the film of existing purely as a crass cash-grab without any good comedy to justify itself. She writes, "Me, I'm left with morning-after regrets. Lost is the fresh, perverse, painfully politically incorrect R-rated pleasure that came when 'The Hangover' ate up the summer of 2009."

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times: "If you superimposed a diagram that mapped out all the narrative beats, characters and jokes in 'The Hangover Part II' over one for 'The Hangover,' the two would align almost perfectly."

Roger Ebert's two-star review gives the film credit for having a few laughs (mostly because of Zach Galifianakis), but Ebert takes offense at one photograph, seen during the film's closing credits. Like the first one, "The Hangover Part II" saves the final revelations of the boys' wild night out for a montage at the end. "It's not that I was shocked. This is a raunch fest, yes, but not an offense against humanity (except for that photo, which is a desecration of one of the two most famous photos to come out of the Vietnam War). The movie has its share of laughs."

Apparently Rebecca Black is NOT Pregnant

I have no idea where this rumor came from, but I'm sure it was just someone trolling the interwebs. That someone picked it up and ran with it is laughable. Actually I don't even know if there was a story about this, but TMZ mentioned it earlier today so that we all knew she wasn't.

Actually, Rebecca Black herself mentioned it on her Twitter page that she isn't preggo. You remember her. She's that SSDI expert, or I mean the singer of the greatest song ever made "Friday" the day before Saturday.

From her Twitter (how cute...DAR)

"I thought it was May 15th...Not April Fool's Day. I'm absolutely NOT pregnant!"

Oh sorry. Why so ashamed of me?

Thor Still a Top The Box Office Charts

I don't knwo about any of you guys, but when a new comic book movie comes out I am immediately skeptical. Unless it is one of the big names like Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc. that I was a fan of growing up I tend to think it will suck. Of course I am looking forward to Green Lantern this year, but again that was one of my favorites growing up.

Thor on the other hand. I am really not that familiar with. I wasn't that familiar with Ironman either to be quite honest, but I had heard more about him than Thor at least. Another thing with comic book movies is that you really have to sift through some random fanboy reviews to get any idea what the movie quality is. There are the diehards that will say it is amazing no matter what. Then you have the angsty fans that will call it blasphemous no matter how good it is. I want to hear from non-comic book fans to know, and frankly I have heard good things about Thor fromt hem so I can only assume that it isn't a complete abortion.

Thor withstood the arrival of Universal's well-received female comedy Bridesmaids and Screen Gems' 3D sci-fi/horror flick Priest to claim the top box office spot for the second weekend in a row.

Thanks to a wide screen count (3,955) and higher priced 3D and IMAX 3D tickets, Thor held onto its box office throne quite well in its second weekend as lightning struck twice for the godly superhero. Takign a bit of apidexin it was off 47.5% from its opening, the Kenneth Branagh flick earned an estimated $34.5 million to bring its total to $119.2 million. With nearly $200 million in ticket sales from overseas markets, the film's overall total now stands at $320 million.