Katy Perry covers Lady Gagas "Born this way"!

Why not? Katy and Gaga are so alike!!

Avril Lavigne covers Ke$ha?

I was early on Ke$ha and this is just good fun! Gotta love Avril!

5 Videos I think you should see

First off, from Cee Lo Green "F**k You"



Then there's DEV with "Bass Down Low"



"Bass Down Low" features the Cataracs and here's their version of the song



and DEV and the Cataracs work with The Far East Movement on "Like a G6"




next up is Garfunkel and Oates "I Don't Understand Job "

Wayne Brady and "Iron" Mike Tyson doing Bobby Browns "Every Little Step"!

Check it out:

Every Little Step with Mike Tyson & Wayne Brady from Mike Tyson

I Finally joined YouTube

I acquired a new camera on Tuesday, a Casio EX-FH20 mostly for it's ability to record video in high speed. From 240 frames per second to 1000 FPS, the videos that you can obtain using this camera are at least interesting if not amazing. I have 2 examples on You Tube (jimdolittle) and on pikshures now and hope to add more.

"Believe" by "The Bravery"

One thing I hate is hearing a song on the radio and the station doesn't tell you the artist or the song name. I've heard this song several times and finally tracked down the song name and the band that plays it. The Bravery are from New York city, formed in 2003. Initially, I thought of "The Cure" but was mistaken. Their website is here.

Cat drinking water in a new way

Dan sent me a link showing a cat drinking water in a way we've never seen before. Most cats aren't going to do this! He(she?) appears a little thirsty. Mary thinks maybe the cat had some Chinese food loaded with MSG!

Rihanna SOS/Soft Cell Tainted Love

Me and Dan were talking today about Rihanna and how she rocks and I couldn't recall the first song or video of hers that I remember. It's "SOS' and it's just below. Then I remembered that it had a hook that I couldn't place and it hit me, Soft Cells' "Tainted Love". maybe it's just me but I hear a connection. I can't find an embeddable video for Soft Cell but I have a link to Last.fm here. Tell me watcha think.

Don't stop make it pop

For anyone trying to figure out that song thats been playing lately on the radio, it's "Tik Tok" by Ke$ha, the lyrics are here. I, like everybody else looked up "don't stop make it pop" and came up with Lady Gaga on you tube. Then youtube took it offbecause Sony claimed copyright infringement. I got this from Yahoo!

Why anyone can and can't edit Wikipedia

I'm going to take a wild guess here about the people that read this blog and further, any potential readers. In addition, I want to include a majority (more than 50%) of the people that use the web for the information available and believe what they read is truthful and unbiased. I believe that this slice of the pie chart doesn't know or care how the information on the web is gathered or governed. In particular I want to discuss the venerable Wikipedia, of which I've quoted and used and admired for years. Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I'm willing to bet that most people don't know or care that they or their neighbors can edit Wikipedia and furthermore, have never done it and don't know anybody who has. This has what you might think of as a "telescope effect". Facebook users understand both ends of the scope of what they're doing. Wikipedia users, on the other hand, don't. Facebook users know that as they edit their own slice of life, they are in control of what users see. Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" may not be free because Jimmy Wales, its founder, is begging for cash and "anyone can edit" doesn't seem to ring true either. I may be the only person I know to have tried to edit a part of Wikipedia (I'm still asking people) and I have never been successful. Once (or more, never kept track) I found typos, like "th" instead of "the", and vainly went back the next day to check out my "contribution" to the internet community. HAH! Gone!  Rescinded! I also added a link to Cleveland Torso Murders (full disclosure: we own it.) to a page on Wikipedia with similiar content, Cleveland Torso Murderer, only to have it pulled the next. This would seem totally self serving and was but was done with some innocence, I assure you. Time to quote "Cage the Elephant": "there ain't no rest for the wicked, money don't grow on trees" (video below).

Anyway, I digress. The point here is there seems to be a shadowy army of "watchers" that keep an eye on articles and if someone has the audacity to change one they just change it back. Wow. That kinda throws mud in the eye of the whole "anyone can edit" thing, huh?
Now I'm not going to use words like "goose stepping fascists" because, first, I'd probably look fascist up on, you guessed it, Wikipedia to make sure I was using the right words for this assault, and I'm not sure anyone "goose steps" anymore either. One thing I didn't do was to register or login or whatever, because I'm a bit of a privacy junky, so I was anonymous, but so was the person who countered my edit, one "Horwendil". This secret society seems to make up a minority who edits for the majority. It sounds like censure to me, but, it is! A weird fact that a lot of people won't care about, is that librarians often are the very group that bans books.

Here, we have information for the people, by the people as long as some of the people approve, and we don't know who those people are. Otherwise nobody will ever know what Bob from Denver added to this article, or how Dorothy from Kansas could have enhanced that article. I understand how some control is needed, especially because of the ever present threat from hackers, but the phrase "anyone can edit" is hard to swallow. Maybe if Jimmy has his hand out the spotlight should swing that way and a little transparency is in order. How about a new catchphrase. I think "the free (that can't exist without putting you on a guilt trip for reading it) encyclopedia that the elitists have determined that only they can edit but you can read" sounds better.

Update

Lately i haven't blogged as much because I've been quite busy. To whit:

• December 10: furnace stopped working, spent all day fixing it. It seems the thermocouple and the gas orifices were the problem.
• December 10: did not go to the Browns/Steelers game. We've had tickets since whenever. Had enough cold with the furnace.
• December 12: had to put an entry door on my house with the help of Eric and my brother Norm. Took about 5 hours or so.
• December 15: helping Al.
• December 16: Bought and installed a Sony Blu - Ray player. Model BDP-N460.
• December 17: Fixed Beckys computer.
• December 18: Had problems with the Sony Blu - Ray player. Model BDP-N460.