Rihanna's Bruises?

Note the title of the song, and the artist being promoted in the ad directly below the video. This has to have been placed there on purpose, right? No way it can just be coincidence.

My Current Song Obsession

I tweeted the other day that there are two versions of this Taio Cruz song. One features a rap by Travie McCoy. Some Googling revealed that it's the US version. The international version has no McCoy rap. Instead, it's performed as a duet with Kylie Minogue. I'll repeat the question I posed in that tweet: "Which do you think I like more? Hint: I'm gay."

In the three days since I downloaded this, I've listened to it in iTunes 86 times. That doesn't count the many times I played it in Windows Media Player before I moved it into my iTunes library. Nor does it count the times I replayed the video before I downloaded it. (Doesn't YouTube have a repeat function? I couldn't find it if it did. I kept having to click to play it again.)  And I haven't even added it from iTunes onto my iPod yet.

Our National Anthem (And Why YouTube Blows)

Back on the 4th of this month my friend Kurt sang "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch at the Camden Riversharks game. Today, before the game, he sang our national anthem. Both times I used the camcorder on my phone to record his performance. Both times I uploaded it to YouTube, seemingly successfully -- except that the video has no sound when played in YouTube. The sound exists, and you can hear it, but for some reason when it's on YouTube it doesn't work. This was not a problem with the previous videos I posted on YouTube -- the ones from the Riversharks' Gay Community Night and my report on the feeding habits of local ants. Suddenly the videos I upload to YouTube don't include the sound, I have no idea why -- and there seems to be no way to contact any kind of tech support at YouTube.

This is truly pathetic. If you have a website, you should have a way for people to submit reports of problems. I've searched and searched and can't find anything. YouTube has support staff of some kind -- they're certainly quick to pull videos because of copyright issues. I want to be able to upload videos to YouTube with audio included!

So here's the video, uploaded to Facebook -- with audio...