Duh: Michael Jordan goes into Basketball hall of fame

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In the most obvious selection in history, the inevitable MJ induction is no longer getting held off by Naismith. source

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06 Apr 2009 12:17

Things are going tremendously. It has never been this good.
Darren Johnson • A “real estate owned” foreclosure agent from Detroit, talking about how well the foreclosure industry is going at the moment. Glad to know that someone’s doing OK. • source

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Badger badger badger badger … rescue RESCUE. NOW THEY’RE ALL SAFE. NOW THEY’RE ALL SAFE! source

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$2 million amount Facebook reportedly spends each week on buying new servers for all of its fresh social networking data to keep all you annoying, fat users happy with them.
850 million number of photos that get uploaded to Facebook each month, the biggest bandwidth-killer; they’re trying to stem the cost with a new system called Haystack. source

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one German garage act King Khan & The Shrines (a killer live act) finally brings their blazing “What Is?!” to the U.S. (April 21).
two UK act Art Brut’s “Art Brut vs. Satan” (out May 12 Stateside) promises to be high-concept (in a really good way).
three Jason Lytle, the former lead dude of Grandaddy, goes uber-twee with solo debut “Yours Truly, the Commuter” (out May 19).
four Also on May 19, Eminem, long out of the game, tries to remind everyone that he’s still alive and still worthy with “Relapse.”
five Perhaps the most anticipated indie release of the Spring season? Grizzly Bear’s highly-hyped “Veckatimest” (May 26).

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It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer.
Roger Friedman • Fox News entertainment columnist, in a mini-review of the leaked version of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” the film being released by 20th Century Fox. Uber-boss Rupert Murdoch saw the review, apparently was livid and Fox News promptly fired Friedman. Good job, goober. • source

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