Sort of like a push up bra, only....

(from Towleroad)

Ricky Berens Suffers Splitting Swimsuit Malfunction



U.S. swimmer Ricky Berens swimsuit tore open shortly before a race on Sunday at the FINA World Championships in Rome, but he swam anyway:

As Ricky Berens, scheduled to swim third for the U.S. morning swim squad, bent over on the pool deck for a drink of water moments before the race, his suit — a Jaked01 — split significantly in the back, exposing his rear end. There was no time to change the suit, so U.S. anchor leg Cullen Jones urged Berens to forget the gaping hole and swim. Berens dived in and contested his third leg as scheduled, helping the U.S. team to a fourth-place finish in its heat in 3 minutes, 11.64 seconds — and securing a critical slot in the night’s final for Phelps and his teammates...Berens, the 2009 Big 12 Swimmer of the Year from Texas, was not available to comment on the suit problem. Jones, though, said tears were becoming increasingly common as swimmers sought the tightest-fitting suits possible for the greatest performance-enhancement. 'They’re all splitting,' Jones said. 'We’re all having problems. We want to get it as tight as possible as sprinters.'

A few weeks ago, a female Italian swimmer had the same issue a few weeks ago.

A little camera, a little video, a big talent

Saw this first on my blogger friend Brian Cormier's blog - a one man a capella group.

The video features Sam Tsui on vocals and the amazing arrangements are done by Kurt Schneider. Check there sites out. Truly incredible young talent.



Also check out their College Musical series.

Katie as Judy?

So, what did you think of Katie Holmes version of Get Happy on So You Think You Can Dance?

Whatever you may think of the performance, and I thought it a bit thin; I have to give her and the other SYTYCD team: Nigel Lythgoe, Adam Shankman, & Carrie Anne Inaba (Dancing With the Stars judge & former SYTYCD contestant) props for forming the Dizzy Feet Foundation.

The foundation's purpose is to provide support and improve access to dance education in the US. I can only hope that the Canadian version of the show does something similar when it airs next month.

I love dance because it transcends both language and gravity. It celebrates the human form and reflects its soul. Arts funding cuts have robbed our children of the ability to dance, to sing, to paint and to interpret through art, their voice and their place in the world.

Hedda Lettuce - Botox Face

And this goes out to Fanny!

Hilarious! And you can dance to it...



From Joe. My. God.

Best Buy Goes All Twitter Crazy With @Twelpforce

(from Tech Crunch)

I like the way Best Buy has embraced and really understood the potential of social media as a way of communicating with customers.

This is an interesting one: consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is encouraging hundreds of employees to handle online customer service and company promotions via Twitter, even airing commercials not mentioning their own website but merely the URL of the profile they created on the micro-sharing service (two spots embedded below). The new service, dubbed Twelpforce, was debuted over the weekend but so far hasn’t garnered a lot of online buzz, let alone followers on Twitter (currently at around 1350). I’m sure that will change soon enough.

Fantastic or spamtastic?

If the response is friendly, personal and not clearly coming from someone interested only in trying to make a sale rather than being proactive about giving knowledgeable advice, I wouldn’t mind to be contacted by Best Buy employees on Twitter at all. Judging by the public stream of tweets, I’d say that this is exactly what they are doing, so kudos to them and Best Buy for thinking differently about online customer service.