Did the Black Eyed Peas steal "I Gotta Feeling"?

You decide.

Bryan Pringle, an unsigned artist from Texas is suing the Black Eyed Peas because "I gotta feeling" sounds suspicously like "Take a dive", a song he wrote and sent a demo of to Interscope records -- which handles the Black Eyed Peas.

Listen and let your ears decide.

Bryan Pringle's "Take a dive"



The Black Eyed Peas' "I gotta feeling"

Massa takes one for the team in Hockenheim

Poor Felipe Massa. It looks like Ferrari really loves Fernando Alonso more than it loves him.

Check out how easily Alonso passes him in this video. Prior to this, Massa's engineer had told him: "Fernando is quicker than you". After Alonso had passed, the engineer came back and said: "Good lad.... Sorry."


Definitely team orders, definitely against the rules and definitely against what RACING is all about.

This time it's the Lexus!

Just 2 months after this apology, Toyota may have to do it all over again.

This time: it's the Lexus GS460 which could be having some stability problems. Here's a report:



What a horrible year for Toyota.

Kirsten Dunst is turning Japanese!

There's no shortage of Western stars doing work in Japan to sell products. This one's different.

Kirsten Dunst goes animee and sings "Turning Japanese" in a short film called "Akihabara Majokko Princess". Cute and fluffy, not necessarily art.

(This is the PG version which Youtube allowed. The original, uncensored one is here.)

Taking Brand Love Too Far?

Some people tattoo logos of their favorite brands on themselves as a sign of their devotion. Harley-Davidson has a lot of those kinds of people.

But this guy takes it to a new level by tattooing not just a logo but a model shape: Ray-Ban Wayfarers!

What brand would YOU tattoo on yourself?

The Most Amazing Cinematic Car Crash Ever...

... and possibly the most disturbing and gruesome as well.



Wear your seatbelts.
Drive defensively.
And please, keep a safe distance away from the car in front of you.

Finally, the fight is on: Pacquiao vs Mayweather on March 13, 2010

With the superfight, in essence, all but a done deal except for some 'minor' issues to be ironed out by Bob Arum and Floyd Mayweather Jr., the all-important question is not "Who will win?" or "Will it be an exciting fight?"

Who wins will depend on how Mayweather decides to fight the Pacman. If Mayweather runs from the start and continues to the end, he has a good chance of winning. If he decides to engage in the beginning, before he does any running, Manny Pacquiao has a shot. Look at how Cotto struggled to stay alive once he had gotten a taste of Pacquiao's firepower.

Either way, it promises to be an interesting show, just from the possibility of having Pacquiao chase Mayweather and tag him with a couple of blows. It probably won't have a lot of fireworks, but I'm sure we'll see enough. Trust Freddie Roach, "Master" Roach, to have figured this one out.

At this point, the world just wants to see the guy with the big mouth go up against the guy with the big heart. And if Pacquiao wins, well that would be a fitting cap to a stellar career. If he loses, and we hope he won't, it would have been a great fight anyway.

The big unanswered question is this: what happens now to Pacquiao's run for the congressional seat in Saranggani?

Floyd Mayweather Jr: : I'm in a no-win situation vs Manny Pacquiao

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. gets defensive. Watch the video to hear the lame-o excuses.

He's trying to make it look like the Pacman's avoiding him ... forgetting that Freddie Roach called him out right after the fight.

Plus he's trying to explain why even if he wins, he still loses against the Pacman. Or maybe he's justifying why he doesn't want to fight Pacquiao.

(Pacman has always allowed his promoters and team members to be the ones to iron out who he fights and at what terms. He's not afraid of you, Floyd. He's just being true to form.)

And speaking of being true to form: weren't you the one making noises about wanting a 65-35 split of the purse if you went up against Pacquiao -- supposedly because you're a bigger crowd drawer? Well, not anymore, huh? Now you have to scramble to come up with silly excuses like these to avoid facing your first ever loss.

If you're really that good, Floyd, you could beat Manny Pacquiao EVEN IF the price wasn't right. Agree to a 50 - 50 split and we'll see if you really are the best boxer in the world and the pound for pound king -- see, the only one who thinks and says that it's you is , well, you.

Manny Pacquiao doesn't need to prove anything anymore -- he could hang up his gloves and say goodbye, and he'd still have achieved something much bigger than you could ever do.

And that's not just about achieving titles in seven weight classes. He brought boxing back from the dead. He made boxing worth watching again. Whereas you... you turned it into a snoozefest. You bring boring to the table and who wants to watch that?

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EDIT:

Here's the transcript just in case the video gets removed:

"The thing is with Pacquiao I don't see any versatility as a fighter; he's a good puncher but just one-dimensional."

"When they asked Manny Pacquiao 'would you like to fight Floyd Mayweather' he said talk to my promoter; they didn't ask your promoter they asked you, what do you want to do? Manny Pacquiao was asked the same question 'do you want to fight Floyd Mayweather' three times. This is something the world is trying to force on him. If he wants to fight Floyd Mayweather all he has to do is step up to the plate."

"I'm in a no-win situation. If I beat Manny Pacquiao, do you know what they are going to say? 'You are supposed to beat him, you are Floyd Mayweather, you are the bigger man'. If I knock him out they'll say 'you're supposed to knock him out he's been knocked out before'."

"I'm in a no-win situation and when I beat him no one is going to be surprised because he's been beaten before; whatever I do to Pacquiao has been done before - he's been beaten on three occasions. And if I knock him out I don't want the world shouting because he's been knocked out twice before."

"If I go out and make $60-75 million in one night; come on - I'm not losing. Can Manny Pacquiao beat me? Absolutely not."

"The world's going to go 'wow' if Floyd Mayweather gets beaten. That's what everyone is looking to see. What's going on now at the world of boxing is they're trying to build a fighter, make a fighter that can beat me."

"I don't get no respect in the world of boxing. I do my interviews, you got different fighters that disrespect me, and come in on my interviews, which is not fair. Now Manny Pacquiao when he does his interviews, he can do his interviews for 20 minutes, then they go interview his trainers, and the rest of the people in his team. Now, with me, they interview me, they got guys jumping in, being very disrespectful."

"I'm not saying Cotto is not a good fighter, flat-footed, been in a lot of wars. There's nothing cool about taking punishment. 'Oh, I beat this guy up he beat me up. I got a swell eye, a rip lip, bloody nose, a broken rib, made a few million, and my hand got raised.' There's nothing cool about taking punishment."

"Floyd Mayweather beat 13 world champions, 6 time world champion, in 5 different weight classes, and won official belts. I beat fighters at official classes, and I move up to 130. No different than Manny Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao weigh 106 when he was 16, just like Floyd Mayweather."

"My career is fine, what's so cool is I can take no punishment, no bumps, no bruises. When my career is over I have a job as a commentator, and I will be a great promoter. That's the great thing about my career, I can't speak for other fighter."


-- this is actually a better video since it's more complete and shows more of Mayweather's side than the previous one I posted. Nevertheless, I stand by what I said in the post.

Freddie Roach vs Manny Villar

Everyone wants a piece of Manny Pacquiao, even Manny Villar.

Willie Revillame Objects to Showing Cory's Funeral Cortege

You see, Wowowee is way more important than anything else.

What do you guys think?

From Dora the Explorer to "Sexy Dora"?

This is a video, supposedly from CNN,, discussing the recent announcement that Dora the Explorer would be revamped to a tween version.

The prospect of a "Sexy Dora" predictably raised an uproar on the Internet -- after all, Dora the Explorer as she is right now is a good role model for kids: smart, spunky, and still a kid -- not rushing to become a teenager, wear makeup, meet guys, etc.

Theories about the tween Dora being "sexy Dora" in the mode of Barbie and obsessed with fashion ala Bratz were of course (come on, right?) unfounded.

Tween Dora will be just a bigger, older Dora -- one more suited to the tween market. No idea what happens to Boots, Backpack and the rest of the gang. I assume Diego will also get the same treatment.

The truth -- and this is really where the concern should be -- is that this is an attempt by Mattel and Viacom to keep their hands in our wallets. "Keep the parents buying Dora toys and accessories hooked until they turn twelve" seems to have been the mandate. And this is the response.

And this was pretty obvious, at least to me, since my child grew up with Dora (and Blue and Diego) --- but of late has been preferring Disney Princesses. And no, we wouldn't want that now would we, right guys from Mattel / Viacom?

In my case, that's five more years of money that could have helped finance Disneyland --- that's now apparently going to the Viacom empire.

(Showed the tween Dora to my daughter and she said "she looks good -- but I like the old Dora better". Will keep y'all posted.)

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By the way, the ladies interviewed in the clip seem a bit off their rockers, don't you think? What kind of moms are these? Tried to find them on the net and they don't seem to exist.

Also, the video appears to have been made by CNN but it feels like a video from The Onion. It doesn't matter though since the ruckus WAS real even if the video might not be.

Have you seen the new Colt 45 commercials?

These are not those.

Sabi nga ni Pablo Picasso:
Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.

Or is it more apt to say, "Great minds think alike?"

What do you guys think?

(If anyone can produce links to the Colt 45 TVCs I'm referring to, I can post them here for a proper comparison. Thanks in advance.)

The controversial Youtube video

A spectator shot this video of Lewis Hamilton "driving erratically" behind the safety car at the Japanese Grand Prix.

As a result of Hamilton's driving, Vettel crashed into Webber's car.

Was Hamilton unprofessional? Or did he just lose control?

The FIA said he was not at fault and didn't penalize him for the incident.

What do you guys think?

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On an aside, this incident was never caught on TV. Isn't the rise of camera phones and Youtube amazing? In the old days, this would never have come to light!