Elvis "The King" Presley's Birthday

Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in a two-room shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi. Vernon Presley, Elvis's father, built the house with the help of his father and his older brother in preparation for the birth. He took out what amounted to a mortgage of $180 from Orville Bean, on whose farm Vernan and his father occasionally worked. The birthplace has been designated a Mississippi landmark.

Elvis would have been 72 years old today.

Elvis was the KING of Rock N' Roll, is the King of Stamps, and its a bit of a s-t-r-e-t-c-h but unconsciously an icon of Internet culture with his understanding of Social Networking when he said, "We can't go on together - With suspicious minds.."

Think of trust as the currency of social capital.
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Draw A House

The way you draw a house says a lot about your personality, according to DrawAHouse.com. After you draw your home answer some quesions based on your drawing - then find out what your house says about you.

Also the best looking, most imaginative houses are added to the Hall of Fame

What is a Building? Is it a Dwelling?

Martin Heidegger wrote an article in 1951 called "Building Dwelling Thinking". The philosophical work ponders - What is it to dwell? - it's translated by Albert Hofstadter, 1971.

We try to fill the need by providing houses, by promoting the building of houses, planning the whole architectural enterprise. However hard and bitter, ... The real dwelling plight lies in this, that mortals ever search anew for the nature of dwelling, that they must ever learn to dwell... Rightly considered and kept well in mind, it is the sole summons that calls mortals into their dwelling

Not every building is a dwelling.

"In what way does building belong to dwelling? A bridge may serve as an example ... The bridge swings over the stream with case and power. It does not just connect banks that are already there. The banks emerge as banks only as the bridge crosses the stream. The bridge designedly causes them to lie across from each other. One side is set off against the other by the bridge."

<-- The "concrete bathtub" bridge over the Elbe River in Germany. Also located in Falkirk, Scotland - A giant wheel lifts and lowers canal boats from one canal to another. The move is about 200 feet.
When you watch the Falkirk Wheel video here is what to expect.

• 1min 30sec the giant wheet starts to turn
  
• 4min 30sec Half way there
  
• 6min 30sec both boats leave the wheel

The Art of Entertainment

Quick press play and check out the Birdy Nam Nam crew. Its a DJ group from France whose members are Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike. I listen to all types of music but saw this on YouTube and just loved the scratch - so I had to share. Is it me or do you hear some Kronos Quartet mixed into the beat?


Also if your looking to read the latest gossip - click over to TMZ.com I find the best way to navigate TMZ is the category toolbars on the left side of the website.

Dueling Videos

Ahh home sweet home, my vacation in FL was excellent. Im slowing getting into the day to day. I viewed an awesome post I wanted to share check it out.

The idea here is that "you have to press play on the following videos (in vertical order) so that they all stream to you at the same time. You may need to adjust the volume on each respective network, though. Press play on the top (YouTube) video, then immediately press play on the second (Google Video), and then press play on the third (Revver). Bam, bam, bam - and you should see ‘em playing back simultaneously."

Show Me The Money

The Aspen, Colorado 56,000 sq ft home retreat of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, from Saudi Arabia is set on 95 acres of land, with two ponds, horse stables and thousands of aspen and evergreen trees. It's close to the slopes, and has 15 bedrooms, 27 bathrooms, a dining room that seats 24 and an indoor swimming pool. It is priced at $135 million.
So why is it so expensive? The house doesn't look all that spectacular. The True Gotham Blog quotes The Rocky Mountain News, with the house value being assessed at $55,953,500. So why is the former ambassador from Saudi Arabia to the US saying - Show Me The Money? It might be that Aspen is one of the top holiday destinations. Opportunities to secure that much land in a desired location are few and far between. Its always about location, location, location.


Speaking of Show Me The Money did anyone catch William Shatner and the Million-Dollar Dancers tryin to bring sexy back. I think the Women's Rights Movement just fell back 50 years.

A correct answer, combined with choosing a dancer holding big money, can catapult the player's winning into the millions. But a wrong answer, and the wrong dancer, can wipe out winnings in an instant.

The Answers and Dancers Show.

But there's more. At any given moment, the 13 Million-Dollar Dancers, as they're called on the show, may spontaneously break into any style of dance and, ABC promises, Shatner spontaneously "boogies with the beauties on stage." Source: washingtonpost.com

Anamaniacs: Yakko's World

Yakko, Wakko And Dot from Animaniacs Sing About The World. Steven Spielberg (<--- check out his house) created this always funny cartoon for children to watch in the early 90's on the WB.

An Open House Get's Punked

Well its Halloween~! So I thought I'd go with a haunting article today - and found an Open House prank that's a tad scary. If you're not scared than surf over to AVF's site and read about the prank they pulled on the Landlord and Realtor as they worked to market and sell a multi-unit dwelling in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. If you've heard em' all than go get a scare here!Selling a rental property and having it occupied by a prankster tenant like the two in this stressful story is a nightmare. If you are selling a multi-unit dwelling its best if one unit is kept empty and used as a 24/7 "showroom" to prospective investors and/or homebuyers. With an empty unit - no rent money will be coming in but it allows access to an example of the current dwellings, without having to worry about a current tenants availability and privacy in their rental unit.