HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOUTUBE
Can it really be? YouTube, the video-sharing site that seemingly changed the way we surf the Net (and gave rise to blogs like this one you’re reading), is only 5 years old. Though its domain was registered on Feb. 14, 2005, YouTube’s first video — “Me at the zoo,” shot by Yakov Lapitsky, one of the site’s founders — was uploaded on April 23, 2005. By July 2006, more than 65,000 were being uploaded to YouTube daily, according to Mashable. Google bought the site in October 2006 for $1.65 billion. Watch the original video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw. — Gabe Hartwig
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NOW SHOWING: “Iron Man 2”
Moviegoers start your popcorn munching! The 2010 summer movie season officially kicks off with the return of everyone’s favorite weapons manufacturer turned metallic superhero Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, played once again by Robert Downey Jr. As you may recall, the first installment ended with Stark revealing his heroic alter ego to the world. , he’s enjoying enormous personal and professional success, but his world is soon rocked by the emergence of a handful of new villains, including a fellow tycoon (Sam Rockwell) and a Russian inventor who carries some wicked energy whips (Mickey Rourke). Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson dons a skin-tight leather catsuit as the Black Widow and Don Cheadle suits up as Iron Man’s sidekick War Machine. All too much for one movie, you say? Possibly…but you know you’re going to see it this weekend anyway. — Ethan Alter