So many random things

This is awesome. A first person view of Dutch marines landing on a container ship Somali pirates had captured.

It is like watching Counter Strike, but with less terrorists charging at you with AWPs and Glocks and more terrorists surrendering.

I found this article really interesting. It looks at what the imprisonment rate of black men in America has done to the marriage rates of black women.

Between the ages of 20 and 29, one black man in nine is behind bars. For black women of the same age, the figure is about one in 150. For obvious reasons, convicts are excluded from the dating pool. And many women also steer clear of ex-cons, which makes a big difference when one young black man in three can expect to be locked up at some point. Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences. As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%.

 That's huge. It must have a real impact on so many lives, even indirectly.

Because most seek husbands of the same race—96% of married black women are married to black men—they are ultimately fishing in the same pool. 

Lil Wayne on his way to jail.

Anyway, I ran into Bridget last night and she said I needed more pictures on my blog. So here we go!

Brynne 'Flash' Gordon doesn't do anything by halves. I have no idea why she was invited to the Logies though.

Some soldiers in Afghanistan remake Lady Gaga and Beyonce's Telephone video:

It's great!

Gabriella Cilmi is performing at the Logies at the moment. Her song is super disco. It's kinda good.


More pictures!

LeBron doing his thing

A young Bert Newton with Gra-Gra.

My two favourite morning news presenters.