5. Tough Guy Babysitters
Hollywood’s infatuation with putting high profile beefcakes in mothering role is no new phenomenon (see Hulk Hogan in Mr. Nanny or Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop), but it has seen a resurgence this month. Tommy Lee Jones and Vin Diesel each make this returning plot device their own in Man of the House and The Pacifier respectively. Does it get any hotter?
4. Audiobooks.com
Books on tape have been a secret of successful college students for decades. The problem is that cassettes are just so passé. Audiobooks.com solves problems. For a small fee, lazy scholars everywhere can download that difficult text straight on to an iPod. Maybe those cute little accessories do have educational value.
3. iPowerHour
There’s nothing better than spicing up your power hour with a stirring power hour mix CD. The only trouble is cutting those four-minute pop ballads down to one-minute usable chunks. You’re in luck however, because a group of program-happy lushes have created a computer program that snips up to sixty songs in an iTunes playlist into convenient 60-second shout outs. Download this freeware and you’ll be set for life.
2. E!’s Michael Jackson Re-enactments
No cameras in Jacko’s courtroom? No problem. E! has all your trial queries covered by providing re-enactments of all the proceeding’s twists and turns via actors and actresses in all the major roles. Maybe most frightening is that the producers at E! found a dead-ringer look alike to play the pigmently challenged Jackson.
1. House of Cosbys
Have you ever felt like one Cosby just wasn’t enough? Well Internet cartoon star Theo did. So he did what any enterprising young man would do: he built himself a cloning machine and cloned him some Cosbys. As you might imagine the whole scenario runs amok, and you can watch all their hilarious antics on Channel101.com.
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