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Happy Friday the 13th — Michael Jackon’s Thriller music video gets remade, shot for shot, using Legos. Someone had way too much time on their hands…

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This is just another in a series of make your own commercials, but this time you get to drag and drop the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. CMT is hoping their venture into the world of user created content will drum up enough talk about their upcoming reality show, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, where the team searches for the next cheerleader.

In what can only be viewed as an attempt to curb the disastrous results seen in other user created “commercials”, a prize is being offered for the best submission — an all-expense paid trip to see the Cowboys play … which almost hits their target audience. It seems to me those participating in this contest would rather meet the cheerleaders themselves, so toss in one or two of them the team as part of the prize and they just might have something.

Executives over at Disneyland in Paris are outraged over the recently released sex tape showing their beloved characters engaged in questionable acts backstage. The 2 1/2 minute clip shows Disney characters as you’ve never seen them before.

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Fashion gets a hi-tech makeover by designer Hussein Chalayan. During Paris Fashion Week Chalayan introduced a collection of clothing that had the ability to re-design itself using embedded animatronics. With the help of the team who made the hippogriff in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chalayan’s creations morphed, moved, and shifted themselves around the wearer, changing the shape, neckline, and hem of the clothing. One of the pieces even completely retreated from a dress to a frilly hat leaving the model completely naked. But naked is fine, because this is fashion.

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YouTube is the new MySpace, at least that what Google is banking on as is music mogul Diddy. Check out Diddy’s very own channel here where you can watch him order up a Burger King whopper his way — cause you know, that’s cool.

We already knew that Victoria’s Secret Angels like Macs, but what’s better than seeing pictures of Gisele Bundchen backstage with a Mac? Seeing her as a home movie — notice I said “as” and not “in”, although “in” would probably be even better. Gisele makes a great cameo appearance in one of three new Get a Mac commercials, starring as … a Mac home movie.

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Following the sudden departure of Rocketboom’s Amanda Congdon, co-founder Andrew Baron seems to have recovered quite nicely. At a recent expo in California Baron announced that he just sealed a deal worth $80,000 for a week of commercials in what can be considered the hottest videoblog online. Baron also hinted at the possibility of moving towards subscription content. At a suggested $3.50 a month Baron would only need 10,000 people, a mere fraction of the claimed 300,000 daily visitors, in order to generate an impressive $35,000 per month. With that type of revenue Baron states, I could have a family and we could all be happy at Rocketboom.

Consisting of 2,700 ping pong balls in 6 shades of gray, this 2 x 3 meter display driven by a computer with custom software will reproduce a picture measuring 1.8 x 2.4 meters in a mere, wait for it (no, seriously — wait for it) 2.5 hours. The generated image is then visible for a couple of minutes before a new picture is created.

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Burger King reminds New Zealanders that rugby, beaches, ponies, and girls in bikinis are individually good, but even better together; as is cheese, crispy bacon, premium chicken, and barbecue sauce — brought together in the ultimate combination, the Cheesy Bacon Tendercrisp sandwich.

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If you have an unsigned band then YouTube wants to make you famous. In a partnership with Cingular YouTube has announced their latest project — YouTube Underground: Rise up. Be Discovered. Thousands will enter and four will win. The YouTube community will vote on Best Song, Best Music Video, Best Live Performance, and Most Creative. The winners will receive cool gear, fame and fortune … well, maybe not the latter two, but the national exposure won’t hurt.

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