As you probably know, we have an (multiple) award winning series on our YouTube channel called Manchild Drink Beer.  When you have something with so much prestige and valor, people are going to start copying off your work.

A small, speck of a website called College Humor.com has apparently taken our idea of playing with toys and moved it into the video game world. Although I can’t condone them for ripping off our amazing videos, we do feel that it’s a honor that other, less important sites are noting us as an influence in their endeavors.

Oh, this video is fucking awesome, too.

According to ComScore.com, while new social network users in North America seem to be leveling off, the global trend shows that sites such as Facebook and…well, mostly Facebook, are gaining new members in the parts of the world where I’m pretty thankful I wasn’t born.

From Information Week:

The number of new users in the Middle East and Africa has risen by 66%, while the number of new users in Europe rose 35%. In Latin America, the number of new users on social networking sites rose by 33%.

Facebook.com has held the top spot among social networking sites worldwide since April 2008. The site experienced 153% growth in the past year, due in part to its use of natural language interfaces, ComScore reported. Most of Facebook’s visitors (49 million) still come from North America, although Europe appears to be catching up, with 35 million users. Growth in North America stood at 38%, while European users grew by 303% and worldwide users quadrupled, according to ComScore.

Finally the rest of the world is catching up on wasting their time. YAY INTERNET!

Freeman, who is still hospitalized for the epic car crash he was in, is now seeking divorce from his wife of 24 years. I wonder if this has anything to do with Demaris Meyer, the mystery girl that was riding shotgun in Freeman’s car at the time of the accident.

A spokesman for Freeman - who is in hospital recovering from a broken arm, a broken elbow and minor shoulder damage - told Access Hollywood he is seeking a divorce from his wife, costumer Myrna Colley-Lee.

“(They) are involved in a divorce action,” the actor’s Mississippi-based attorney and business partner Bill Luckett said.

“And for legal and practical purposes, (Freeman and Colley-Lee) have been separated since December of 2007.”

The mystery woman in Freeman’s car at the time it rolled has been identified as Demaris Meyer, a friend of Freeman’s.

The jaws of life were required to cut both passengers from the wreckage when the car swerved off the road and rolled end-over-end on Sunday night, on a highway near a home Freeman has in Charleston, Mississippi.

This is kind of getting messed up. First the poor guy is in some horrific car crash, and then he makes what we can only assume is a slit second decision and drops this bomb on his wife. Granted, they were separated since last December, but it’s not too much of a coincidence the 2 events happened one after another.  I’m kinda confused about it, so I’ll let Dr. Seuss do my talking for me…

Synthesis has seen its fair share of interns. They roll in and out like kegs on back to school week. But every now and then, we’ll hire one that passes this test.

Synthesis Heuristic Intern Test (also known as the SHITs)

McCain, whaaaat? Obama, who?!

I’m telling you, it’s all about Anderson Cooper!!!

If any man can save this nation, it’s The Silver Fox! yeah, staring into those baby blues is so subliminal, it could only result in wold peace right? well, at least a few cents off the gas pump (i hope).

Anderson is not only politically savvy but he’s also keen on pop culture and isn’t afraid to speak his mind. and yes, he too is sick of Lindsay Lohan…

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