Although everyone was impressed with his skill, for some reason Juan’s Shark Juggling business just never took off. Sadly he is now forced to juggle sharks, and other various aquatic life, in his spare time in the fringe towns of Snorkland and Bikini Bottom for whatever tips he scrounge from the audience.

From Wolfgang Morell comes this animated short film about Voyager II‘s journey through space and its arrival on a strange new world.

planet paranoid

Have you ever wondered who would win in a battle between a Walkman and a Hoover vac? Wonder no more!

Stuff vs Stuff ‘Walkman vs Hoover’

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), Seth Gordon (The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), and Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) bring us the melding of pop culture and economics based off the book by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner in the new documentary Freakonomics. You can start looking for the film in limited release in select cities this November.

Freakonomics Trailer

Three questions:

1. Do you have your own blog?

2. At any time did you install ads on it?

3. Do you live in Philadelphia?

If you answered yes to all three, guess what – you’re fucked!

It seems the City of Brotherly Love is forcing any blogger who has enabled ads on a personal (as in not for business) blog to fork over $300 for a “business privilege license” as well as pay potential future taxes, regarldess whether or not it has ever, or could ever, turn a profit.

The Hush storyline continues. Barbara Gordon and Tim Drake (well, a amalgam of Drake and Jason Todd) made their way into the Batman Beyond universe along with references to other classic characters and many new versions of heroes. This issue give us the death of Calendar Man (and not even in his classic costume! sigh) and a growing schism between Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis.

Although I’m still not sure about this new Catwoman, this issue does give me the one thing I always wanted from Batman Beyond – Dick Grayson. And that’s enough for me…as long as they don’t screw it up. Worth a look.

[DC $2.99]

Cee-Lo Green delivers what may well be the most brutally honest heartbreak song I’ve heard in ages, with the subtly titled “Fuck You” off his upcoming album, The Ladykiller. Don’t let the title throw you; this is straight-up throwback soul with Cee-Lo’s trademark off-kilter honesty.

Yup, you just heard the best song that’ll be butchered on radio this year. It’s about time Cee-Lo really lived up to his potential, and this track makes me damned excited for his October release.

What is it about space that so captures our imagination? Is it the vastness that seems to becon, almost tease us, upward and outwards to explore its seemly endless wonders, or is it simply how it allows us another perspective in order to see how small and relatively unimportant one tiny blue dot is in the grand scheme of things? Whatever the reason, since man first turned his gaze to the sky we’ve been captivated with that final frontier just outside our grasp.

Since it’s launch two decades ago the Hubble Space Telescope has been responsible for several breakthroughs in the areas of astronomy and an increased understanding of the known universe. The new IMAX documentary Hubble 3D gives us a short history on the telescope, and its early struggles, before exploring the final service mission of to repair the telescope by the Atlantis crew.

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This is Australian brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone with their music video for “Hold On” from their second full-length album Down the Way.

Angus & Julia Stone – Hold On music video

Then you know who you need to call…

ghostbusters commercial