YouTube Tuesday: Where did I just go? Edition

Hello, happy end of June, and welcome to the Where did I just go? edition of YouTube Tuesday, your weekly video countdown. Here goes…
Number 5:
Workers everywhere go through the frightening experience of “performance reviews,” those anxious encounters with middle management that leave you wondering when the pink slip will arrive. Well, now they’re taking a [...]

YouTube Tuesday: Get Normal Soap Edition

Hey there everyone, and welcome to the Get Normal Soap edition of YouTube Tuesday, your weekly web video countdown. Let’s get started…
Number 5:
Some people ride motorcycles. Some people fly. Some, like this guy, can do both. We recommend you play some intense sports-video music while you watch this…

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Number 4:
Diving into water can go so [...]

Overheard in Rhode Island: Inaugural Edition

WBRU wants to hear what you overhear! We’re collecting funny, weird and spontaneous overhearings from people. Let’s face it, RI is a goldmine for stuff like this. Send us your quotes, and we’ll feature them every Sunday here on the blog!

Weekly Blog Round-Up: Flying Chihuahua Edition

Hello, and welcome to the Flying Chihuahua Edition of the Weekly Blog Round-Up. As always, we’ve got five great articles from our news blog to share with you, plus five awesome things from those other websites on The Internets. You know the ones we’re talking about.
From the News Blog
1) Definitely the weirdest story on our [...]

New Harry Potter trailer is awesome, freaky

Harry Potter fans will, of course, be delighted by this new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. However, after we posted this article a few days ago, the WBRU newsblog rocketed to #1 on Google among people searching for “Hermione Granger Brown.” So, you know, I wouldn’t be surprised if this video makes [...]

Star Trek movie to boldly debut when no film has debuted before

It’s been a while since William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were young men. So the new Star Trek film is making accommodations for its gracefully aging fanbase.
Normally a midnight screening of a new film happens at or around midnight. But the midnight screenings for Star Trek, which opens on May 8, will be at, erm, [...]

Older relatives joining Facebook

When it was new, Facebook appealed to young people in part because it was so simple. But as social networking sites get easier to use, everyone’s logging on–maybe even your parents and grandparents.
Facebook now has some 200 million registered users, according to this article by CNN’s John Sutter. If the networking site were a country, [...]

Leaked footage of X-Men Origins: Wolverine uploaded to YouTube

You might have heard tell that the new X-Men prequel, X-Men Origins: Wolverine had been leaked onto The Internets by some no-good hooligans. The leaked version lacked any CGI or other special effects, but those who downloaded the movie report that even without those effects, the movie still managed to be terrible.
As an upstanding, law-abiding [...]

FBI: No, Oprah does not want to give you a million dollars

The FBI has a very important message for anyone who is using the Internets. If you get an email from Oprah saying she wants to give you a million dollars, it might be a scam.
The phony emails said you should send them money in exchange for a chance to appear on the Oprah Millionaire Contestant [...]

YouTube, Universal plan new music video site

YouTube is teaming up with Universal Music to launch a new video site.
Apparently, Universal has decided that high-class music videos just don’t belong in the same league as clips of sneezing pandas and skateboarding dogs. The new site, Vevo.com, will launch later this year and will contain every music video ever released by Universal.
I’m not [...]