Britain’s Got Talent – Guy + Monkey = Hilarity

Video: A guy named Damon Scott performing with a monkey on the TV show “Britain’s Got Talent” – HILARIOUS!!

Video: Michael Moore vs. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Live TV

Before a live interview with documentary filmmaker Michael Moore on Monday, 7/9/07, CNN aired a segment entitled “Sicko Reality Check” in which Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the network’s chief medical correspondent, aimed to keep Moore “honest” and fact check his new film, Sicko.

The 4-minute piece concluded that Moore “did fudge the facts,” and implied that Sicko was misleading in portraying health care systems in other countries, such as France, the UK, and Canada, as better than the one in the US.

When given a chance to speak, Moore immediately put host Wolf Blitzer on the defensive and slammed him. Moore argued that CNN has such a lousy track record of reporting the truth about the war in Iraq and asking tough questions, that Americans should be skeptical of their reporting on health care.

Blizter grew defensive and backed up his fellow CNN employee, saying that he would stand behind correspondent Sanjay Gupta’s record on medical issues. Moore, in response, vowed to post a rebuttal to his website, showing that Gupta’s facts weren’t accurate.

“I’m going to put the real facts up there on my website,” said Moore, “so that people can see what he just said was absolutely wrong.”

Well here’s the video:

PSP2 Is Coming!

So with E3 kicked off the rumormill has been going frantic over the coming of the PSP2 in a few months. Rather than a “proper” PSP2, Sony is apparently going to follow in Apple’s footsteps and gradually upgrade the PSP’s features and capabilities while keeping the price more or less the same.

The rumors suggest that Sony will upgrade the built-in memory from 32MB to 8GB of NAND storage based on memory chip industry movement; Others say, the 8GB storage is not gonna happen and the PSP2 will only be the 4GB of NAND variety instead.

It is also said that the PSP2 will feature a new video chat service via a tiny integrated camera which will allow users to stream live video to the PlayStation 3 via WiFi before linking up with that HUB PlayStation service. Sony will add a built-in Eye-Toy-like camera to the PSP2. The off-the-shelf video camera is said to be located directly below the PSP’s screen (where the logo is currently) and presumably of the Motion Eye variety already available in some Sony Ericsson phones and Vaio laptops.
Sony will also retool the UMD drive into a slot-loading drive. Naturally, the upgraded PSP will be slimmer than its predecessor.

The larger memory is expected to be used for Sony’s as-yet-to-materialize scheme for downloadable games and other content (Possibly similar to the Sony Store available currently for the PS3).

Boeing Unveils the 787 Dreamliner

Similar to Apple’s launch of the much awaited iPhone, which is said to change the cell phone industry, Boeing just came out with its dream machine which is supposed to reshape the airline industry – the 787 Dreamliner.

The sleek, new Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its first public appearance yesterday in Everett, Washington, but the event had an international flair befitting a plane built in several countries and bound for several foreign carriers.
More than 100 million people tuned in on Sunday for the launch of Boeing’s most successful aircraft yet – the 787 Dreamliner.

Promising to ease airport woes with more seats and a quieter take-off, the Dreamliner was always going to get a lot of attention, but Sunday’s affair was a debut fit for a Queen – and it is no surprise, the Dreamliner has already amassed $110bn of orders for 677 planes. Boeing plans on turning out a new plane every three days!

Airline customers, supply partners and community officials all turned up to the Washington event, which was six years in the making. The event was broadcasted across the globe in six different languages.

The Dreamliner is scheduled to take to the sky for the first time this August or September for a series of test flights in the lead up to an expected certification date of May 2008.

The aircraft cabin gives a very comfortable environment with higher humidity, wider aisles and seats and larger (48cm x 28cm) windows. The Boeing Interiors Responsibility Center will oversee development and suppliers for the 787 new concept interior.

The current configuration of the interior will feature repeated sweeping arches, dynamic lighting and electronic window shades whose transparency passengers can change during the flight. Diehl Luftfahrt Elektronik will provide the cabin lighting, which will include a ’simulated sky’ ceiling effect produced by arrays of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) which can change in color and brightness.

The 787 will have larger center-mounted overhead luggage bins that descend for easy loading and then pivot upward.

Pictures of the 787 can be found here: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/gallery/787/index1.html