
THIS WEEK:
THUGGIN'...whip-it good...Bueller...Bueller...
• Seal and Heidi Klum are calling it a day after seven years of Seal’s uncontrollable temper. Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are reportedly taking tour buses down the same road.
• Rihanna had “THUG LIFE” tattooed in pink across her $72 million net-worth, white-collar thug knuckles.
• Blue Ivy Carter’s new godmother Oprah Winfrey is actually fairly well-equipped to provide wishes.
• Embattled Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is working on an album with the team that created the ”Megauplaod song”. Following in a long line of hip hop artists, Dotcom has already been convicted of crimes previously and is awaiting trial on current charges.
• Sean “Puffy” Combs a.k.a. P. Diddy, once acquitted of all charges for gun possession, bribery and aggravated assault, is now in talks to launch a cable television network.
• Someone who has never heard Aerosmith invited lead singer Steven Tyler to mangle the National Anthem at the AFC Championship game.
• Demi Moore was rushed to the hospital after inhaling too may whip-its with her daughter at a party.
• In honor of the 74th Hunger Games, Capital Couture opened a Tumblr to discuss District fashion.
• Nominations for Oscar’s Best Picture featured a lot of movies about the past.
• Tracy Morgan passed out at Sundance surprisingly from thin air and not from being intoxicated as expected.
• Matthew Broderick will reprise Ferris Bueller in a Superbowl ad:
• Vimeo’s redesign makes it prettier than YouTube.
• It’ll still never reach YouTube’s newly minted 4 billion hits per day.
• Google consolidated over 60 different privacy policies into one that says you share your privacy with Google.
• The Pirate Bay launched the 3D model bay which should send the SOPA/PIPA/ACTA crowd into fits of rage.
• @CormacCMcCarthy joined Twitter and quickly made “T-pals” with @MargaretAtwood, @SalmanRushdie and @GreatDismal. The account holder was later determined to be an imposter. #litporn
• Disney allowed its hospitality workers to wear beards and goatees in la-la land.
• President Obama had a busy week standing up to religious groups over birth control, substituting shale gas for the XL Pipeline and calling for the establishment of a Financial Crimes Unit during his critically meh State of the Union.
• Author of Where the Wild Things Are and grumpiest old man in the world Maurice Sendak went head to head with Stephen Colbert: