Justin Bieber Gets Shot and Killed on TV’s ‘CSI’ (Video)
Sorry folks, I could not resist. When Bieber gets the cover of Rolling Stone and gets a blank check to express his vapid, ill-formed, teenage opinions, I thought some people out there might enjoy this…
Justin Bieber Speaks On American Health Care
I believe this requires discussion not because the young celebrity is publicly discussing politics, but the implications it would have on the impressionable youth of the nation and the movement towards national health care. Excerpt taken from Rolling Stone:
The Canadian-born Bieber never plans on becoming an American citizen. “You guys are evil,” he jokes. “Canada’s the best country in the world.” He adds, “We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you’re broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard’s baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby’s premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.
For the rare disinfo reader who is a Bieber fan, here’s some video from the RS shoot:
Article continues at Rolling Stone.
Pranksters Vote Bieber to North Korea
16 year-old Justin Bieber jumped into the music scene as a heartthrob for young girls. His popularity was the first thing that was hard to understand. Then, although he is a teenage white boy, he was nominated for a BET award. Now it seems that the public have created their own “unbelievable” news about him, they’ve voted for him to go to North Korea. AFP via Raw Story reports:
An online contest to decide where Canadian pop star Justin Bieber should go on tour next has been hijacked by a Web prank group that has been encouraging voters to send him to North Korea.
With just a few hours left to vote, North Korea was the top vote-getter on Tuesday in the “My World Tour” contest with more than 625,000 votes, followed by Israel with 608,000 votes and Poland with 513,073 votes.
According to the BBC, the campaign to garner votes for an unlikely…
Something To Like About Twitter: It Killed Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber. Photo: Kevin Aranibar (CC)
For those of you who have a love-hate (or just a plain hate) relationship with Twitter, maybe this will help you feel better: they’ve killed Justin Bieber, reported in the Village Voice:
Death, taxes and Justin Bieber trending on Twitter, right? Not any more, according to Mashable who are reporting that the 140-character empire has shifted its trending topics algorithm to favor what’s “most breaking” and “immediately popular.”
The tech blog confirmed that “on Wednesday [Twitter] made updates to improve the relevancy of trending topics. In the past, trending topics were dominated by consistently popular items (e.g. Justin Bieber) with little regard as to what was ‘hot’ at any given moment.”
But isn’t Bieber is hot at every moment?
The official Twitter explanation goes like this:
The new algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help people…
