Love him or hate him, chances are this grey nondescript man (left) has been your default Revver profile image since back when we launched Revver 1.1 in December. You’ll be happy to know that Revver now uses gravatar.com to provide customizable profile images - so you can now add your own beautiful profile image, like the fine folks from spillcrew have done.

A gravatar (or globally recognized avatar) is quite simply an 80×80 pixel image that follows you all over the web, appearing beside your name on gravatar enabled sites. You can upload and update your images at gravatar.com, and they’ll stay up to date on Revver, and all over the web.

To add your gravatar to Revver, just add the email address associated with your gravatar account to the appropriate box in your Revver account preferences. Give it some time to update - any changes to your profile image may take up to an hour to appear on the site.

Share this video

Never in the history of history has a product been welcomed with such reverence and fervor. Today the Apple religion relinquishes Steve Jobs as its messiah (he’s being elevated to God) and chooses a shiny, endlessly manufacturable gadget in his stead: the iPhone. In perfect 2001: A Space Odyssey fashion, iJustine and the rest of the nation will stand around this miniature monolith in awe until tonight’s release time. It’s been rumored that the iPhone will include a button to end the war in Iraq and another that automatically sends Paris to jail, but these functions are peripheral–I just want to hold it.

Share this video

Paranoid but true, and I have a feeling I’m not alone in this, but I’ve wondered before what would happen if a nuclear or dirty bomb went off in my city of residence. Would I be able to make it to my car in time and hop on the freeway in time to beat traffic and get out of dodge? Or would I just be trapped in gridlock, marinating in invisible radiation? Ugh. Morbid stuff - but stuff that isn’t outlandish to think about in today’s crazy world. Watching a girl go through it in Dirty Bomb Diaries is like watching a horrendous disease film like Outbreak - somehow, seeing these nightmares fictionalized and relegated to the realm of fantasy is strangely comforting, helping to reinforce the “couldn’t really happen to me” mentality that keeps us all sane.

Share this Video!

I’m not really sure whether the Banana Lifter truly exists or what it actually does. It looks like there are two AA batteries in there, but no explanation as to their purpose. The website is no help. What this video is really about is the slap, and then the slap, and then the slap again. Does peeing on the seat warrant two slaps from your sister? Maybe. But why another slap after proper use? Little brothers should be kept confused and afraid at all times. That’s why.

Share this video

Back in December, I posted the news about our very first API implementation, brought to you by our favorite gearheads over at GT Channel, the site for GT racing fans around the world. I can’t believe it’s been over half a year already!

Well, GT Channel is out of beta and officially launched version 1.0 over the weekend; some of you may have been having fun with their beta, and their new site is about raising the roof. They’re continuing to offer the same kind of video features that they have been, but with a more powerful set of social-networking and interaction tools (blogs, forums, groups, etc.) than the previous version.

“Auto enthusiasts have a lot of resources on the Internet, but until today there wasn’t a definitive site focusing on automotive video and social networking. We already have a library of car videos and a fan base so GT Channel fills that void,” said Taro Koki, president and CEO of Zigzag Asia. Masaharu Kuji, producer of Best Motoring International commented, “We have some great plans with GT Channel, including original content and special video segments involving our advertisers”.

On a personal note, I have found Taro and Masa to be great partners, really smart and really, really devoted to the community, and that dedication shows. Well done, guys, and for those of you in the Revver community who like the cars that go vroom, I highly recommend that you check it out.

Share this video

Callie and Co. come to us today from a chunk of blacktop in Pennsylvania where they instruct us on geography, remark on immigration policy, and, as always, serve us up with four Revver clips to take us into the weekend. The standout is this strangely wonderful clip of circus bloopers set to an eerily beautiful song. If you’ve got any strangely wonderful videos, or even just wonderful videos, send them along to Callie@theflux.tv.

Share this video

Fresh from their Emmy win (Best Broadband Drama), itsallinyourhands.com is back with Episode 9 of Satacracy 88. This was the first year that online video creators were recognized by the academy, and the encouragement this gives to independent creators is palpable in the acceptance speech given by the Satacracy crew at the awards last week. As usual, stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 of the episode and then vote for what happens next at itsallinyourhands.com.

Share this video

“Man-” is becoming a very productive prefix in the lexical world of masculinized feminine things. It has its roots in metrosexuality, but it’s gone far beyond that. Now you’ve got manscaping, manstrating, manties, manbras, mansages, manwhores, mantits, manorexia, and countless others that pop up daily. “Manny” has been around for a while, but I doubt that it has ever been put to song so deftly. Based on the novel The Manny, the director that brought us The Man Who Loved Lesbians created a little ditty about life on the Upper East Side. If you think it’s funny, feel free to forward it along to all your manpals and manpanions.

Featured video: Biltsurf Surfboards Preview

Footy seems to mean a lot of different things to our international brethren, but stateside, footy tends to refer to footage - video footage, that is, of board sports, like snowboarding, skateboarding, and surfing. Enter Henry and Zach, two guys who live and breathe it, and they’re going to prove it with FootyCS, a labor of love dedicated to the attitude, the rush, and the riders who make the sports what they are - and it’s all powered by the Revver API.

The footyCS is the world’s premier video footage contest. The footyCS holds weekly, monthly, and seasonal footage contests for the sports that we love. Anyone can upload their footage and anyone can vote for the videos that they think are hot. The winners (both riders and filmers) will get hooked up with prizes that will help push their skills to the next level.

The weekly and monthly contests winners will be determined solely by the online community. The seasonal contest will be determined by online voting which will culminate with a live event. The top ten seasonal videos (as voted by the online community) will be aired at the footyCS final and the winners determined by crowd participation and a panel of judges.

Additionally, Footy’s road to Internet stardom is being profiled on a new TLC show called How To Make Millions, which premieres tonight at 8pm on TLC. We haven’t seen the final cut, but we did host a meeting here at the Revver offices that was caught on film, so you might catch a glimpse or two of your intrepid host and crew as we worked with their team to make the site rock.

A site like this is exactly what the Revver API was designed to do, and we want to encourage all of you who board, or who maybe just kinda watch in awe, like me, to go check it out and get involved. There’s cool prizes, up-to-date news, and all kinds of mind-bending video. We’re really proud of what Henry and Zach have done and we hope you think it’s as awesome as we do.

Share this video

A sad irony of parenthood is that a mother’s unconditional love for a son is usually the reason that bad things happen. Mama’s little angel is bad news, but mom keeps baking him macaroni casserole and slipping him twenties, perpetuating the vicious cycle of bad behavior that results in broken hearts and point-blank assasinations. Point in case - Seth Silver from IFC’s first original web series Getting Away with Murder. Mom thinks he’s a vet technician, but really he’s a hitman with a healthy sexual appetite and a seedy second life that is enabled by the fact that he lives with Mom. So thanks, mom, for turning a blind eye and giving us such an entertaining little monster.

The series is top notch, so stay tuned here for new episodes.