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Sarah Brandner is one of the most beautiful women on the planet. I ran into her earlier this week while on my way home from a work happy hour. As I was walking down Stanton Street, I noticed somebody familiar. It wasn’t Sarah, it was her boyfriend Sebastian Schweinsteiger.  He’s a German soccer player that currently plays for Bayern Munich.  I went to the 2006 World Cup in Germany and we saw two games: the semi-final between Germany and Italy then the 3rd place game between Germany and Portugal.  Before the Portugal/Germany game, I CALLED the fact that Bastian would score based on his performance in the previous game.  You can ask my dad or my brother… and Bastian actually scored twice.

Sebastian Schweinsteiger has a face only a mother or Sarah Brandner could love

I decided to try the old “yell their name and see if they turn and look”. When he responded to my drunken call of “BAS-TEE-YAN!”, I decided that I would ask for a picture. He begrudgingly obliged and then I realized that somebody had to take the picture. I put my equipment into Sarah’s capable hands and she did the rest. God, I hope I can say that again some time in my life.

The picture that she took is below. I feel like Bastian could tell that my drunk ass was ogling his girlfriend. He also just kind of looks like a gargoyle in the first place. It doesn’t matter now… we’re BFF!!!  That is… until I steal Sarah from him.  Oh yeah, Bastian also said he preferred soccer to sex.   Hear that, Sarah?

I'm smiling AT Sarah Brandner... not because I'm with Bastian

• Awesome portable DirecTV screen/satellite. (Thanks, Mangan)
• AMC greenlights political drama pilot. With the success of Mad Men and Breaking Bad, this probably going to be awesome.
• Michael Phelps and Eli Manning together… NERDICAL!
• Soccer player kills pigeon with ball. (Thanks, Paul)
• Are you watching online videos at work? Of course you are… 65% are viewed between 9-5, M-F.
• Jeremy Piven has “shocking” amount of mercury in his system from sushi and Chinese herbs. Investors in his play (which he dropped out of) cry foul.
• Freakonomics: Indonesia’s Drinking Problem.
• RIAA to stop suing individuals. Cutting edge.
• The visual history of Mickey Rourke’s face.  He may be ugly as sin, but The Wrestler will be awesome.

Jimbo Wales is an innovator. He’s also a big time Google hater and has said that the world’s #1 search engine is severely flawed and lacks openness. Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales is the mind behind Bomis, Wikipedia and Wikia Search. Everybody knows Wikipedia… but people know less about his first project, Bomis, and his most recent project, Wikia Search. You might think he’s a squeaky clean, Silicon Valley nerd… but Bomis was a “babe search engine” and it was discovered that he’s EDITED HIS OWN WIKIPEDIA ENTRY multiple times. The newest project, Wikia Search, was supposed to compete with Google by providing an community-powered search experience. Users could essentially grade the results that they received. Most recently, they added an app platform called WiseAPPS. None of that matters now. Google released “Search Wiki” yesterday and logged in users can do literally the same thing … but with Google. Considering the clout that Google already has by running Blogger, YouTube, and Gmail, it won’t be long until this outstrips Wikia Search. See you later, Jimbo Wales and Wikia Search. Also, has anybody ever noticed how SHITTY the search is within Wikipedia? Unless somebody has created a redirect, you get completely irrelevant results if you mispell anything. Maybe he should focus on that.

Jimbo Wales, we hardly knew ye

• Blackberry Storm gets mixed reviews.
• 50 Cent sues Taco Bell for asking him to change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent.
• Online advertising actually increased in Q3 despite the economic conditions.
• Selling an $11000 truffle isn’t easy with the economy in bad shape…
• Tall Europeans aren’t as good for the environment as medium-sized Americans.  USA!  USA!
• GLC & Kanye West - “Big Screen” … look, ma, no vocoder! GLC & Kanye have teamed up before … check out Akademics Jeanius Level Music Vol. 2.  It’s awesome.
• Ludacris ft. Jay-Z & Nas - “I Do It For Hip Hop” … Kanye, Luda, The Killers, and GnR all drop albums next week.
• George Clooney is down with the stache.
• If you hate Affliction shirts as much as I do… it’s quite discouraging that Wal-Mart is going to start selling an off-brand version.
• Scrubs starts on ABC Tuesday January 6th @ 9PM.
• Here’s the preview for The Wrestler directed by Darren Aronofsky. Marissa Tomei is HOT, Mickey Rourke’s face is NOT.
• Boston College won’t give students email accounts anymore… just forwarding.
• Victoria Secret model Karolina Kurkova has no belly button. It’s funny how her super-perfect body healed a scar well… and that’s an imperfection.
• Flashback: Letterman did a show with no commercials over 10 years ago. Think about it TV, internet, and mobile video producers.