As an avid follower of the Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour, I’m gonna have to nerd-out on this blog post a little bit, so bear with me (yes, I do have a Fantasy Surf team). Mick Fanning just beat out Kelly Slater and Taj Burrow to win the World Championship a couple weeks ago in Brazil. It’s the first time an Australian (dominant in the sport until the reigns of Slater and Andy Irons) has won the title since 1998. What’s amazing is that in the nine contests that have occurred so far this year, Fanning has finished first, second, or third in all but one.

Anyway, here’s a cool little flick from RedBull featuring Mr. World Champion himself. Best of luck to Mick in the upcoming Pipeline contest, but my Fantasy Surfer money is on Andy Irons (home field advantage).

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Betty from Average Betty recently got some great coverage by the local Fox News channel in her hometown of Tampa — check out the video. Congrats Betty, you are as rad as you are talented!!

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Season 1 of Pink concludes with Natalie finally getting that gator-man she’s been tracking, but as has been the case throughout the season, this episode is more about the psychology than the killing. There’s an uneasiness to Natalie that makes it seem almost as if she didn’t like killing people for a living, but that couldn’t be the case. Whatever is bothering her will remain a mystery until season 2 comes around in early ‘08. Catch up on all the episodes at www.pinktheseries.com.

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Ninja Babes from Space drops today, and even though it’s just a “tease,” one thing becomes wholly apparent: ninjas in space dress very differently than ninjas on Earth. I think the Earth ninjas take it in terms of stealthiness and anonymity, but the space ninjas have them when it comes to distractionary tactics. We’ll see how this all plays out on the field of battle.

Oh, and if you want to buy a Ninja Babes sword or lapel pin, you can do so here.

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Amid the swirling debate over how the WGA strike will affect web video, Rudy from Galacticast is complicating the issue even further by going on strike against the person that produces the show he writes: himself (and Casey of course). There’s something wonderfully triumphant and self-congratulatory about this parody of the situation; writers and producers of web video don’t have to deal with the strike because they are DIY superstars and they do it all themselves. So without undermining the plight and cause of TV writers, congrats web video producers for your self-sufficiency.

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Alright, so this one is kind of gross. It doesn’t start off very gross, but it gets gross. And don’t be fooled by the image of the girl in the bikini—soon she’ll be puking. But even with the gross-out-factor it’s worth watching for the lesson it teaches us about sharing cheeseburgers with random people in the street: don’t.

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We just added a checkbox to the upload form for uploading videos to “offline” status. This allows you to upload time-specific videos early, and they will remain offline until you are good and ready to activate them. You can change a video’s status at any time from the video edit page.

With the writer’s strike going strong, will the future of TV be plagued by really bad writing? Yes indeed, as predicted and acted out by the doomsayers at Zoo Milk. Aaactually, that may not be the case; with non-WGA writers as talented as Zoo Milk maybe things won’t get too bad for TV. But then again Zoo Milk are online, not on TV. Sorry TV.

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Facebook stalking is kind of like stalking-lite. Master Zuckerberg and co. have made it pretty difficult to do any kind of serious harassment on their platform. I mean, you can “poke” a girl all day until your finger is sore, but you still won’t know when her birthday is, what her favorite movie is, or what she dressed up as for Halloween unless she chooses to add you as a friend. And if she does add you, and she doesn’t like the wall comment you left, or if your superpoke was a bit too suggestive, friendship revoked. That’s why this video is more cute than creepy. Well, cute until that guy in the v-neck shirt is hiding behind the copy machine in Kinko’s and has to be removed by security. Then it gets weird.

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We’ve been rooting for Charles Trippy on The Next Internet Millionaire all along, and our goat sacrifice must have paid off because he’s a finalist. It’s down to two, and the final challenge is to create a plan for making money online and to market and execute that plan. The finalist with the plan that makes the most money wins. In Episode 12 we learn that Charles is putting together a DVD set and Jaime is writing a book, and now both are marketing the hell out of their products. Charles has done well by writing this catchy end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-esque song and enlisting an array of prominent online creators to lip-synch their endorsements - “better listen to Trippy now.” Trippy FTW!