Gangnam style

Gangnam Style (강남 스타일) is a 2012 dance pop single written and performed by Korean pop singer Park Jae Sung, better known by his stage name PSY. Since the release of the song and its highly entertaining music video in mid-July 2012, the video has gained more than 8 million views in the span of two weeks and spawned numerous parodies and copycat dance videos on YouTube.

The song “Gangnam Style” was written and recorded as the title single of the sixth studio album PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 by Korean singer PSY, who is best known for his quick-witted sense of humor and comical dance moves. The song was released on July 15th, 2012, along with the music video which made its online debut via PSY’s official YouTube channel on the same day.The song talks about "the perfect girlfriend who knows when to be refined and when to get wild."

Upon its release, the song took off on virtually all Korean billboard charts, portal search sites and online music stores, but it began garnering international attention after the music video went viral on YouTube during the third week of July 2012. The video continued gained viral momentum at an average rate of more than 9 million views per day in the span of two months, surpassing Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” to reach the number one position on the YouTube Top 100 Music Videos chart during the last week of August. By mid-September, PSY’s “Gangnam Style” overtook LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” as the most liked video on the site with more than 1.6 million likes.

The mass appeal of the music video has been attributed to its signature dance move known as “the horse-riding dance,” which combines the stylistic elements of shuffle dancing and hand movements resembling the posture of a horseback rider.

During its onset, speculations arose in the Korean internet communities that the dance may have been pioneered a year earlier by a Korean pop group Girls’ Day in their 2011 debut single Tilting Head. However, PSY later revealed in interviews that he came up with the dance during a talent contest at a post-concert event in August 2011.
People who are actually from Gangnam never proclaim that they are—it's only the posers and wannabes that put on these airs and say that they are "Gangnam Style" — so this song is actually poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying so hard to be something that they're not.   -PSY

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Hulk Hogan the american wrestling legend (real name Terry Gene Bolle) is suing the parties allegedly behind his recently leaked sex tape for more than $100 million.
He and his attorney appeared at a press conference in Tampa, announcing two lawsuits.
One suit is against Hogan’s pal Bubba the Love Sponge and his ex-wife Heather Clem (Hogan’s partner in the tape) for secretly recording Hogan’s sexual encounter with Clem.
The other lawsuit is against Gawker, which posted a clip from the tape earlier this month.
Hogan is seeking $100 million in damages against Gawker for leaking the footage.
Hogan’s legal team said the recording and distribution of the illicit tape was “illegal, outrageous, and exceeded the bounds of human decency.”

They will go after any other outlets or individuals who display the footage.
Last Thursday Linda hogan ( onetime reality star ) ex-wife of Hulk Hogan was busted for suspected drunk driving .
Hulk Hogan is a 12-time world champion being a six-time WWF/WWE Champion, six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and a former WWE World Tag Team Champion with Edge. He is the second longest-reigning WWF Champion of all time (after Bruno Sammartino) and the longest-reigning of the 1980s, having held the title for 1,474 days from 1984-1988, as well as the longest-reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion of all time, with a 469 day reign from 1994-1995. Hogan won the Royal Rumble in 1990 and 1991, making him the first man to win two consecutive Royal Rumble.
He made his personal life the centerpiece of the television show Hogan Knows Best, which included his wife and two children daughter Brooke and son Nick.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004.
It is owned and operated by Facebook, Inc.
As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users,more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users.In September 2012, Zuckerberg speaking about the drop in his company's market value, described the decline as "disappointing" - the value of Facebook being almost half the $38 debut price in May 2012.

The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.
Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York

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Winsor McCay:Google doodle

Winsor Zenic McCay  was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (begun 1905) and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). He worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.

Google has celebrated the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland with one of the search engine's most elaborate doodles ever.

The doodle recreates the adventures of the main fictional character from the illustrator's comic strips, which first appeared on 15 October 1905 in the New York Herald.

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Felix Baumgartner

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has become the first person to go faster than the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9mph (1,342km/h).
He jumped out of a balloon 128,100ft (24 miles; 39km) above New Mexico, the 43-year-old also smashed the record for the highest ever freefall.
It took just under 10 minutes for him to descend. Only the last few thousand feet were negotiated by parachute.
"Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive," he said afterwards at a media conference.
None of the new marks set by Baumgartner can be classed as "official" until endorsed by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI).
Its representative was the first to greet the skydiver on the ground. GPS data recorded on to a microcard in the Austrian's chest pack will form the basis for the height and speed claims that are made.

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Exit altitude: 128,100ft; 39,045m
Total jump duration: 9'03"
Freefall time: 4'20"
Freefall distance 119,846ft; 36,529m

Max velocity: 833.9mph; 1,342.8km/h; Mach 1.24

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