Bike Hero

One of my favourite songs, one of of my favourite computer games, and one of my new favourite past times combine into one mountain of awesome. I just wish I had thought of it first, but then I'm waaaaay too lazy to do all the work to make it happen.

Jacko a Muslim?

BELEAGUERED pop star Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel, according to UK reports.

The 50-year-old singer, who was once photographed wearing a traditional Arab women's veil, reportedly became a Muslim in a ceremony at a friend's house in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, a London court was told that an Arab sheik showered Jackson with money, cars and trips worth millions of dollars in return for the singer recording and performing new songs.

Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the second son of the King of Bahrain, is suing Jackson for about $10m.

The singer claims the cash was a gift.

The court heard that Jackson was a long-term guest in the sheik's palace. Al Khalifa says he lent Jackson millions of dollars to help shore up his finances and subsidise his lifestyle.

AdelaideNow... Jacko a Muslim?

New MTVMusic Website

MTV has a music video website, which is very nicely organised, and a lot easier than trawling through youtube for music vid clips.

Mobile phone salesman sings opera on Britain's got talent

This is amazing. Interesting to see if he can keep this up.

Britain's got Talent : Paul sings Opera
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CPDRC Thriller

Inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Phillipines practicing a routine to Michael Jackson's "Thriller". How did they manage get a chick into a male only prison? Watch to find out!

Bad Rap Music

Somehow we started talking about bad rap music today. The usual ones like Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer came up, but one from the past that I had forgotten was Snow, with his song Informer, with the only lyric I could remember being "a licky boom boom down". As usual, the glorious Youtube threw up some gems:

Vanilla Ice, Ice Ice Baby vs Jim Carey, Ice Ice Baby

Snow, Informer vs Jim Carey, Imposter

Marcopedia trivia: In one of the Survivor series, one of the contestants is famous for being able to sing "Ice Ice Baby" in its entirety and is goaded into doing it by his other contestants during the final immunity challenge. He loses his balance and falls off doing the "white boy rap hands", which doctors tell me is an involuntary spasm usually encountered by caucasians when singing rap music.