Alyssa Milano wants the Old Spice guy to help her raise money for animals affected by the oil spill.
Originally, Milano had received two personalized video messages from Isaiah Mustafa’s Old Spice guy, in the middle of the viral campaign for the men’s bodywash and deodorant, where they responded to fans from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
In her own video, she challenges him to donate $100,000 to the National Wildlife Federation Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund.
“I always promised my mother, even as a young girl, that I would marry a mostly naked spokesperson for a deodorant commercial who would send me love letters from his bathroom filmed on a flip cam. So, without further adieu, if aideu is really word, here is your next move should you make for our relationship to keep a going on.”
“You must make a $100,000 donation to the National Wildlife Federations Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund. Are you strong enough?”
Milano’s relationship with the Old Spice guy began when she wrote, “GENIUS. Shirtless Old Spice guy replies on Twitter w/ hilarious personalized video.”
Then, she got her own message.
The former ‘Who’s the Boss’ star then tweeted again. “Ahhhh!!! I’m blushing!!! Bwahahahaha! … I’ll be waiting, @oldspice guy.”
But it didn’t stop there. Alyssa received flowers from the man clad only in a towel. “Ummm — Are you sitting down??? Sit down. Ready? The @oldspice guy sent me roses!” she exclaimed, earning her another video from the sexy stud, which prompted her call to action.
I think the idea is brilliant, and he’s not too bad to look at either!
source: Alyssa Milano Throws Down a Challenge to the Old Spice Guy [popeater]
It all started with a campaign on Facebook and Betty White was brought on to host Saturday night’s episode of “Saturday Night Live”.
The 88-and-a-half-year-old actress brought the funny with her monologue, saying that she when she heard about the campaign, she had no idea what Facebook was. And now that she does, she’s found that it’s a huge waste of time.
She went on to say that people have told her that the site is a good way to connect with friends, but if she wanted to do that, she would need a Ouija board.
My favorite part of the evening is when Betty did her “Delicious Dish” muffin segment with Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon. I died laughing when she said that her muffin hasn’t had a cherry since 1939.
I couldn’t contain myself when she unveiled her “giant Dusty muffin”. Ana promised to show off some sweet muffin shots online later. Along with the giant female cast on the show, Betty was absolutely hilarious, it was one of the best SNLs I’ve seen in a long time. What was your favorite part?
“USA Today” must have been watching a completely different show…how could they not appreciate the comedy gold found in this episode?
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source: Betty White in the Mother of All ‘Saturday Night Live’ Episodes – [ny times]
You know how there’s always those people on your Facebook or Twitter that just annoy the hell out of you? But you’re always afraid to remove them because you either know them or else you just feel bad. I have plenty of them, here is a list of 8 types of people you should unfollow on Twitter or defriend on Facebook.
The Overuser:
Their thumbs are practically shackled to their Blackberry and their fingers never leave the keyboard. It’s always some new update about where they are (fucking Foursquare!), what they’re doing, or other similar inanities. It’s like someone tweeting about their work out. Oh look, Bill is on his first set of bicep curls. Now Bill is on his second set of bicep curls. Now Bill is on his…we don’t care, no matter how good his guns look. We don’t want to read the seven million articles about Robert Pattinson someone thought were so revealing they had to be shared with the world in rapid succession. We don’t want to hear a critique of every American Idol contestant’s wardrobe, song choice, and singing ability in separate dispatches. This person is like the cyber version of the guy in the Micro Machine’s commercial. Just shut the fuck up. The noise is drowning out the conversation we’re trying to hear.
The Oversharer:
The minute one of your followees says anything about a bowel movement, it is time to go. Period. Some people use Facebook to share what they’re doing and how they’re feeling in a fun and interesting way. It’s like running into them at a cocktail party and getting the quick rundown. An annoying few use it for their disgusting confessional full of graphic biological, biographical, and sexual information. We don’t want to hear about yellow toenails. We don’t care that this is the heaviest flow that the world has ever seen. We don’t want to hear about every petty slight, bicker, and squabble with a significant other. We’re not a couples counselor, we’re a friend. Sure, if the results of the biopsy come back negative, please celebrate and share it with the world. But a constant stream of gross overshares won’t just make us flinch, it will make us click that little X next to your name.
The Proselytizer:
These aren’t just the people who are constantly sharing Bible quotes with the world, it’s any person who is constantly nagging other people to join their causes, political battles, and groups. Guess what, if we cared about stopping the deforestation of the Florida panhandle, we would seek the group out and join it ourselves. We don’t need you suggesting that we become a part of it every time we log on to the site! And just because we were guilted into joining “One Million Smooches for Gay Marriage” doesn’t mean we’ll have the same magnanimity when it comes to “Make Gay Marriage Happen Or We’ll Stop Arranging Your Flowers,” “A Petition to End Oil Dependence in the Middle East,” or “Save the Owls of Tuscaloosa County.” These people might as well be one of those horrible college kids who stand on the street with a pack of pamphlets and say, “Do you have a moment for environmental rights?” No, we do not. It’s bad enough when it’s something we already agree with. If someone is spreading crazy Christian nonsense, creationist magic, or right wing political propaganda, they’re so dead to us.
The In-Joker:
Have you ever gone to someone else’s high school reunion? Unless you are the world’s most patient partner, of course not, because who wants to sit through hours of people sharing stories that you can’t put into context, understand, or enjoy. But that is just what following an In-Joker’s Twitter feed is like. “Like Mark is totally eating a shrimp taco, wink wink @Mike Totally makes me think of that guy in Cancun: ‘Por favor’ Am I right?!!” We’re glad @Mike chuckled because we have no fucking clue what you are saying. No, we don’t know what is so LOL about a cruller in a Corolla or what is so LMAO about karaoke in Bangkok. (OK, that is kind of amusing.) Sure, those might be hilarious for a small collection of people, but it’s a total confusing bore for the rest of us. And please don’t leave in-jokey comments on our page either. Sure, you just want to show how close we are by reminding us of a great moment we shared. We get it, but we want to propagate an open conversation among people we know and like, we don’t want our little slice of the internet to be the back of a 13-year-old girl’s yearbook.
The Replyer:
There is nothing more annoying than looking at someone’s Twitter page and every burst of characters starts with either an @ or an RT. This is especially true if the response has no context of what the original comment was about. If we don’t follow that other person, we have no idea what the reply is all about. It’s like turning on a David Lynch movie 45 minutes into it. You will be lost, frustrated, and possibly on the verge of an LSD flashback. These are also the people who have something to say about every status update, every picture posted, and every event invitation confirmed. To the casual observer, he is your only or best friend only because he is always there, lurking like two-day-old onion bagel stink in your trash can. He never has anything to say for himself, he’s just feeding and living off of what everyone else has to say. Come up with something of your own or go away.
The Meme Lover:
The only person who should be sending you weird forward chain mail letters is your mom. Some strange neurotoxin must be released when a woman pushes a baby out of her body that makes her send these to her offspring years later. It can’t be helped, only tolerated. However, if anyone other than your mother is bothering you with “25 Things You Don’t Care to Know About Me” or #sometimesiwonder or tagging you in one of those stupid grids of Little Miss characters, then they need to be cut loose from your life. Yes, a Blingee kitten every so often isn’t the worst thing in the world and can brighten a day, but for those people who fall for every retarded Avatar Week tomfoolery the web dreams up, there is a special sort of banishment.
The Fisher:
These are the people whose low self-esteem needs to be bolstered by other people wanting to know the details of their life. “I just feel like crying right now” or “You’re never going to believe what I just bought!” or “Can’t wait to tell everyone the big news.” People who say vague and leading things like that want someone else to say, “What?” or “Why?” or “How Come?” That is what The Fisher makes you do, but what they’re really saying is “Tell me I’m good enough to care about.” You probably are, but you don’t need a bunch of anonymous affirmations to tell you that. And sorry, Al-Anon taught us how to not be an enabler so we’re not taking the bait. We’re just going to ignore you and let some poor Replyer feed your madness.
The Nobody:
Face it, everyone’s Facebook friend list is bloated. It includes people from high school you haven’t talked to in eons, people you you met once at a cocktail party and never talked to again, people who you have 90 mutual friends with but have never actually met in person. And you have to listen to all these things that people say. More often than not, these are the folks who are the types above that you have to get rid of. Your real friends don’t annoy you. Well, they probably do, but you put up with it because, as Dionne sings, that’s what friends are for. Just cut out all the fat. If you don’t recognize someone’s name or face, let them go. It doesn’t make you any less of a person that your numbers are dwindling. You are still important, people still know and like you, and it’s going to be OK. Just take a deep breath. These tools are here to keep you connected, share information, and have fun. Just like the winner of The Biggest Loser, life going to be so much easier to do that once you get rid of all the excess.
I would add my own type of people – the spammer, I am sick of logging into my facebook and seeing everybody’s quizes, farmvilles and horoscope pop up. What happened to the good old days of checking your own horoscope in the paper instead of posting it all over facebook?
source: The Eight Types of People to Unfollow on Twitter or Defriend on Facebook [Gawker]
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Whitney Isleib is caught up in a bit of controversy over her chosen Halloween costume this year. Isleib thought it would be a good idea to dress as Lil Wayne this year, and then post the images to her Facebook page.
Because she is a cheerleader for the notoriously strict Cowboys program, someone took notice and decided that maybe they were offended. So they sent her pictures to the sports blog deadspin.com.
Whitney’s two friends look very offended.
Look, I don’t see an issue with this, but in an age where if you aren’t completely politically correct someone wants to sue, beat or ruin you, I can see where this idiotic situation will probably lead. To hell with all the whiny “that’s so rude” douchebags complaining about Whitney’s costume, I have seen 50 images of people dressed as “zombie Billy Mays” and the “zombie Michael Jackson mask” (or is that him when he was alive? I can’t tell). No one is offended? I’m not, I think it’s hilarious. Really, Whitney Isleib’s costume just pisses people way the hell off, but costumes portraying the rotting flesh of dead celebrities are just “clever”?
People make me laugh. Beware, one of the images below has a dude wearing white makeup. Albinos are going to go completely nuts when this gets out.
What do you think… offensive? Funny? Don’t give a damn? Leave a comment!
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source: The Situation Where A Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Appeared In Blackface For Halloween Will Probably Not End Well [Deadspin]
Have you been worried or wondering how the whole internet age has affected people (especially the younger kids)?
Well it seems even our natural instincts to call 911 in an emergency have been ruined in favor of updating our Facebook status.
Well this is not the case with me, however with dumb shits it seems to be, anyway this is exactly what happened on Sunday night when two kids found themselves lost in a storm-water drain in Adelaide, Australia.
The two girls who are 10- and 12-years-old took out their cellphones and instead of calling 000 (the Australian equivalent of 911) they updated their Facebook status to describe themselves as “lost” and “trapped”. Luckily a young friend of the girls was online at the time of the message and was able to contact the emergency services who then helped.
Glenn Benham who was speaking for the Metropolitan Fire Service said “it is a worry for us because it causes a delay on us being able to rescue the girls, If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000, so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway.â€
This reminds me of the time when Perez Hilton asked his Twitter friends to call 911 when he got in a fight with Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. Also a councilman in Atlanta chose to use Twitter instead of calling 911 because he was worried his low battery would die before the call connected.
What do you think, is using social media networks a good idea to get help or would you rather dial 911? I for one am an old fashion guy so I would dial the emergency services .. what would the girls do if the Facebook server was down?
source: Trapped Girls Updated Facebook Status Instead of Calling For Help [Mashable]
Britain’s incoming intelligence chief suffered a case of overexposure after his wife posted personal pictures of him on her Facebook page. The pictures were featured in a report from the Daily Mail of London on Sunday.
Sir John Sawers, a spy and soon-to-be chief of British intelligence agency MI6, is seen spending time with family and vacationing on the beach. In one photo, Sawers plays a game of Frisbee wearing only a snug bathing suit.
Sawers’ wife, Shelley Sawers, had virtually no privacy protection on her Facebook page, according to the Daily Mail. While the photo pages were removed from public view soon after the report came out, speculation about the photos’ impact on security remained.
Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesman Edward Davy called on the British prime minister to investigate the severity of the breach. “Normally, I would welcome greater openness in government for officials or politicians but this type of exposure verges on the reckless,” he told the Mail.
The Foreign Office dismissed the criticism.”It’s not a state secret that [Sawers] wears Speedo swimming trunks,” Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in a television interview. “The fact that there’s a picture that the head of MI6 goes swimming — wow, that really is exciting.”
The statement reflects a new attitude towards state intelligence, the The New York Times noted. The intelligence world is no longer the cloak-and-danger industry of James Bond; Sawers appointment was even openly announced at a press conference June 26.
But while the photos have been largely dismissed as a security breach, they are generating questions about what is appropriate to post on social networking sites. One Daily Mail column declared Sawers’ wife was victim to the “pathetic addiction” of social networking sites and the photos of Sawers were simply “too much information.”
Yes, and they were also “too much skin,” some people really should stay covered up! What do you think, too much information on Facebook?
I love stuff like this, according to PopCrunch the following list of women are “unexpect & accidental celebrity sex icons.”
Lindsay Lohan
Who would have thought that the annoying child star of The Parent Trap would turn out to be so attractive? While she is probably known more these days for her bisexuality and her countless nip-slips, there is no denying that this train wreck is still pretty hot. This should lead to advice to all the young men out there: do not make fun of people because they are ginger; sometimes they turn out attractive.
Monica Lewinsky
“I’m well-known for something that isn’t great to be well-known for,†said Monica Lewinsky. After the infamous Clinton-Lewinsky scandal Lewinsky has made appearances on various television programs such as ABC’s 20/20 and MTV’s Tom Green Show, and had a short-lived stint as the spokeswoman for Snackwells. She has also made a cameo appearance on SNL in 1999, and hosted the short-lived dating show ‘Mr. Personality’. In 2006 Lewinsky graduated from London School of Economics with a Master’s degree in Psychology. It seems like these days, she wants to be recognized for more than just giving the most powerful man in the world a blow job. But it is unlikely that this will happen.
Allison Stokke
Allison Stokke caught the attention of millions during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It all started with one photo surfacing of the young pole-vaulter and soon more and more were popping up all over the Internet, catapulting Stokke to unexpected and unwanted fame. Stokke has expressed her discontent in regards of her newly found fame and wishes she were acknowledged for her hard work and sportsmanship and less so for her appearance. That, however, is not likely going to happen. Stokke currently attends the University of California on a full scholarship and is in the process of making granola heads rethink their collective taste for ‘earthy chicks’.
Tina Fey
Dubbed “The Thinking Man’s Sex Symbol†by GQ Magazine, Tina Fey stumbled into sexual iconography when she joined the Saturday Night Live cast in 2000. Fey is most recognizable for her Weekend Update and Sarah Palin sketches, as well as for her signature black horn-rimmed glasses. Before joining the cast Fey worked as head writer for the SNL program. She currently can be found in her NBC sitcom ’30 Rock’. This picture of her is amazing.
Snorg Girl
Do you recognize this face? If you have a Facebook account chances are you do. Alice Fraasa, the quintessential ‘girl-next-door’ if there ever was one, models for the company Snorg Tees, whose ads can be found plastered all over various networking sites. Before she was the face of Snorg Tees, Alice Fraasa was just your typical college student at Auburn University ,where she currently still attends and is majoring in Communications.
Natalie Gublis
Golf is probably the sport least known for having attractive female participants. Natalie Gublis, was sent to the PGA by God to change this. Known for her participation in numerous calendars, and spreads in FHM, Gublis also has several tour wins under her belt…or bikini bottoms. The PGA still, however, has determined that the sale of any media featuring her scantily clad in it, will not not be sold at official events.
Florida State Girl
“15,000 young red-blooded American men just signed up to go to Florida State next semester,†stated announcer Brent Musburger upon seeing the nationally televised shot of Jenn Sterger at a 2005 Florida State – Miami football game. Sterger’s brief debut launched her into stardom. Since, Sterger has reveled in her new found fame and is certainly not ready to give up her 15 minutes. She has since posed for Maxim and Playboy magazines and she will be seen in the upcoming mainstream film scheduled to be released this year, The Tenant.
Sarah Palin
From Saturday Night Live (performed by her celebrity doppelganger – above) parodies to sex dolls made in her likeness – not to mention the porno, Nailin’ Pailin – Governor Sarah Palin garnered more than political attention during her 2008 vice-presidential campaign. Though speculation lingers regarding whether Palin will run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 , she has denied all such claims. It is only a matter of time before she poses for Playboy.
Chloë Sevigny
Chloë Sevigny grew up in Darien, Connecticut in a strict Catholic household. She moved to New York City at the age of 18 and was spotted in the East Village by a fashion editor of the now defunct Sassy Magazine. Sevigny began interning modeling for Sassy, and eventually for Kim Gordon’s (Sonic Youth) fashion label ‘X-girl’. Sevigny quickly found herself the New york “it-girl†and landed roles in such independent films as Kids, Trees Lounge and Gummo, and in 2000 landed a supporting role in American Psycho. Sevigny is perhaps most well remembered for her infamous/wonderful role in Brown Bunny in which she performs fellatio on co-star and director Vincent Gallo.
While Jennifer Aniston admits to being technically challenged, she’s still wise to when someone’s secretly snapping her photo.
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“My favorite move is when people pretend that they’re on the phone,” Aniston, 39, says in next Sunday’sThe New York Times Magazine, “and they kind of dial and take the picture at the same time. You hope they’re doing it for themselves – that they’re not thinking, ‘I’m going to dine out on you.’”
Yet the actress also admits to being in awe of the tech-savvy. “I’m really computer illiterate,” she says. “When I see people on their BlackBerrys, working them like some girls work a hairdryer, I’m just stunned. People have sent me clips from FunnyOrDie.com or YouTube, but I never seek it out.”
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So don’t expect the Friends star to be friend-ing you on Facebook anytime soon. Asked if she uses the online social network, Aniston replies,
“It’s not for me. I’d be opening myself up too much. I don’t want to sound like a complete innocent – I’ve looked at things, of course. But it’s such spewing. If I look at it, I’ll be affected. It’s like dancing with the devil.”
What does the star like about the Digital Age: computer Scrabble and Wii.
Usually walls are used to keep things out, you know, like the wind, or bugs, or barbarian invaders.
Ironic, then, that Facebook’s iconic Wall, the thing that helped to set it apart from MySpace and grab a huge share of the online social networking space, is actually being used by some to spread malicious software capable of turning your machine into a zombie, so that others with bad intents can control it and make it do their bidding online.
The “attack” is actually rather unsophisticated — just a link posted to the wall to a site that supposedly has a video of, what else, a celebrity caught in a private moment doing naughty things with a special someone. Naturally the site doesn’t have any such video, just a fake version of the Flash plugin that is actually the malware itself. You’re prompted to install it to view the video and, once installed, your machine is theirs for the taking.
So, as always, be careful where you click, keep your virus scanner up to date, and only install plug-ins like that from official sources, like Adobe.com.
Usually walls are used to keep things out, you know, like the wind, or bugs, or barbarian invaders. 
