posted by xxovercastxx
1 week 1 day ago • 251 viewsPeople mostly sift politics and news videos that reaffirm positions they already have. It's fine to express your opinion, even via someone else's words, but it feels like 90+% of the top videos since the 2008 election campaign started have fallen into this category.
I get it, really. Bush was wrong and Obama is right. The Republicans are idiots and the Democrats are saviors. Fox News couldn't find their way out of a paper bag (because paper bags are all recycled now and recycling is part of the Muslim, Marxist, Liberal Hippie agenda).
You've all made your point, now can't we get some videos that teach/show us something new? Maybe ease off the frivolous news for a while? I could go back to watching TV at this rate.
posted by xxovercastxx
2 weeks 2 days ago • 271 viewsDavid Rhode is a reporter who was held captive by the Taliban after securing an interview with one of their leaders. I wanted to sift this but it's a javascript embed, so no dice. Part 5 will, presumably, be posted tomorrow. video: http://projects.nytimes.com/held-by-the-taliban article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html
posted by Duckman33
3 weeks 1 day ago • 229 viewsFrom: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/14/BAL81A4SU0.DTL (10-13) 15:31 PDT EL CERRITO -- A man stabbed and bludgeoned his sister and her husband to death in El Cerrito in 2006 because he thought the couple were too liberal, were raising their children wrong and because they hadn't invited him over for Christmas, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. Edward Wycoff, 40, of the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights coldly planned the slayings, including getting Lasik surgery and using night-vision goggles so he could find his way around the house where Julie Wycoff Rogers, 47, lived with her husband, Paul Rogers, 48, prosecutor Mark Peterson said. He also purposefully picked the date for the killings - Jan. 31, 2006 - Peterson said in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez. That was 20 years to the day after Wycoff's grandmother, whom he hated, left his home after breaking her hip, the prosecutor said. Wycoff regarded his grandmother as "evil" and thought his life improved considerably after she left, Peterson said. Because he believed the couple had also been making his life miserable, he chose that date to break into their home on Rifle Range Road overlooking Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, stab them repeatedly with a knife and bludgeon them with a wheelbarrow handle, Peterson said in his opening statement in Wycoff's murder trial. Although Wycoff was also armed with a gun, he didn't use it because he didn't want to boost the cause of gun-control supporters, the prosecutor said. Wycoff, who is serving as his own attorney, told jurors that he still hates the couple "a little." "They owe me a life," he said. "This has ruined my life, and Julie and Paul owe me for that." Wycoff agreed with the prosecutor that he resented members of Paul Rogers' family for their liberal politics, and that he thought the couple were at times "too easy" when they disciplined their children. He also said that "it wasn't just Christmas" when he wasn't invited over. It was also Thanksgiving in 2005, the year his and Julie Rogers' father died. "When someone does that, they hate you - they're out to destroy you," Wycoff said. Peterson said Wycoff had planned to adopt the couple's three children after he committed the killings. The prosecutor played for the jury the 911 call made by Eric Rogers, then 17, after the killer broke into the home about 4:30 a.m. The boy's sister, Laurel, then 12, could be heard screaming in the background. The children tried to help their father, who told them, "I love you all" before dying, the prosecutor said. Eric Rogers brushed his father's hair, telling him, "I love you, papa." Peterson said Julie Rogers' last words to police were, "Kids OK?" The children were not harmed. A third child, then 15, was not living at the home at the time. In an interview from jail after the slayings, Wycoff, who is 6 foot 5 and weighs 300 pounds, said he had tried to disguise himself during the killings by wearing a motorcycle helmet and attaching a ponytail with his late mother's hair. In a poem, Wycoff wrote, "My sister, I gutted her like a fish," Peterson said. "And in fact, he did," the prosecutor added, "and he's proud of it." Wycoff was arrested after he turned up at a hospital in Placer County, seeking treatment for a gash on his leg that he probably sustained while breaking into the home, Peterson said. Wycoff is charged with two counts of murder along with the special circumstance alleging that he committed more than one murder. Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty if he is convicted. Wycoff's opening statement indicated he would try to justify the killings to the jury, rather than deny he committed them. At the close of his remarks, Wycoff told the "few fans" in the gallery to contact his advisory attorney, David Briggs, if they wanted autographs.
posted by radx
4 weeks 1 day ago • 243 viewsThe US president, Barack Obama, was today awarded the 2009 Nobel peace prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".
The Nobel committee said "only rarely has a person such as Obama captured the world's attention and given his people hope for a better future".
"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population," the citation said.
The committee said Obama, who only took up the presidency in January, had been acknowledged for his calls to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons and working for world peace.
"Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play."
The first African American to hold the country's highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process. He is currently considering whether to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan where the US is mired in an eight-year-old conflict.
The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns (£880,000) will be handed over in Oslo next month. Source: Guardian I'm inclined to add it to the parody channel as well, since next to the news was an article about a US threat to Iran.
posted by marinara
1 month ago • 206 viewsIf you don't respect Gore Vidal, one of the giants of commentary, you won't like this. Gore Vidal is a hyper-educated anti-academic, and also controversial. He would be in America's brain trust, if we had one, and .... I hope reading Gore Vidal bashing the USA resonates with you as well as it did with me. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/obama-is-incompetent-and_b_311796.html
posted by enoch
1 month ago • 134 viewsfrom raw story: Federal regulators in the Bush administration blocked attempts by state governments to prevent predatory lending practices that resulted in the financial crisis now stalking the American economy, a new study from the University of North Carolina says. In 2004, the Office of the Currency Comptroller, an obscure regulatory agency tasked with ensuring the fiscal soundness of America's banks, invoked an 1863 law to give itself the power to override state laws against predatory lending. The OCC told states they could not enforce predatory-lending laws, and all banks would be subject only to less-strict federal laws. Now, a research paper (PDF) from UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Community Capital shows that those anti-predatory lending laws had actually worked. States that had stricter regulations on issuing mortgages were found to have fewer foreclosures. "We believe that these findings are remarkable, since they suggest an important and yet unexplored link between [anti-predatory lending laws] and foreclosures," the study's authors state. The study may be the first scientific evidence to back up claims made by many critics that the Bush administration and earlier administrations allowed last year's financial crisis to happen by not enforcing common-sense regulations on lenders. the article in full: http://rawstory.com/2009/10/study-bush-blocked-efforts/
posted by yourhydra
1 month 1 week ago • 1069 viewsRoman Polanski’s fugitive days are over. The Academy Award-winning director is under arrest in Switzerland and vowing to fight extradition to California to face charges in connection with a 1977 sex crime involving a 13-year-old girl. Swiss police arrested Polanski Saturday when he arrived in Zurich for a film festival, where he was to receive an honorary award. The 76-year-old had been living in France for decades to avoid U.S. authorities. You may recall, he declined to attend the Academy Awards in 2003, when he won Best Director for “The Pianist.” That’s because he would have been arrested once he set foot on U.S. soil. Let’s rewind to 1977. That’s when Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a minor. He was 43 at the time. The incident happened during a photo shoot at actor Jack Nicholson’s home. Nicholson was not at home. Polanski fled before he could be sentenced. There have been several attempts over these past three decades to settle the sex case, but Polanski has always refused to come back to the U.S. The movie director started a new life in France. He got married and is the father of two children. Do you think Polasnki should fight extradition or face justice in California? Prosecutors have argued it would be a miscarriage of justice to allow a man to go free who “drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl.” He also has a lot of supporters who think the case should be dropped, including the victim. Now 45, married and known as Samantha Geimer, she made her identity public years ago, because she said she was disturbed at how the criminal case was being handled. She sued Polanski in civil court, which led to an undisclosed settlement. In court documents filed earlier this year, she said, “I am no longer a 13-year-old child… Every time this case is brought to the attention of the court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others. That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of this case.” taken from - http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/28/evening-buzz-fugitive-filmmaker-arrested-fighting-back/ Another perspective- She was not drugged but given some champagne. She was a fully developed model, and he was her photographer. She consented She wasn't a virgin to begin with Anjelica Huston, who was Nicholson's g/f at the time thought the girl was 20. further details here - http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/free-roman-polanski-wtf/
posted by RhesusMonk
2 months 3 weeks ago • 357 viewsApparently the wack-job hairstyle and inimitable nose are not enough to identify this mystery rock legend. Read the hilariously disappointing story below. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090815/D9A30C6G1.html
posted by brycewi19
3 months ago • 354 viewsEDD posted this recently: http://www.videosift.com/video/America-your-president-has-class#comment-828217 But griefer posted this two days earlier: http://www.videosift.com/video/Obama-And-Helen-Thomas-Have-The-Same-Birthday-Wish Same event, but, because it was covered by about two dozen photographers there, it was bound to be caught at different angles. Should this be considered a dupe or do they stand alone?
posted by blankfist
3 months ago • 225 viewsFrom an article at The New York Times: OVER much of the last four decades, John A. Allison IV built BB&T from a local bank in North Carolina into a regional powerhouse that has weathered the economic crisis far better than many of its troubled rivals — largely by avoiding financial gimmickry. And in his spare time, Mr. Allison travels the country making speeches about his bank’s distinctive philosophy. Speaking at a recent convention in Boston to a group of like-minded business people and students, Mr. Allison tells a story: A boy is playing in a sandbox, only to have his truck taken by another child. A fight ensues, and the boy’s mother tells him to stop being selfish and to share. “You learned in that sandbox at some really deep level that it’s bad to be selfish,” says Mr. Allison, adding that the mother has taught a horrible lesson. “To say man is bad because he is selfish is to say it’s bad because he’s alive.” read the article at The New York Times
posted by Fjnbk
3 months 1 week ago • 479 viewsThe Daily Dish, by Andrew Sullivan, is one of the most popular blogs on the Internet, winning Best Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Anything it links to will get a considerable amount of exposure. Today one of his substitute bloggers linked to the Craig Ferguson rant on VideoSift in a post . Not only did he mention the Sift by name, but he quoted EDD's video description. Congratulations to EDD, and to everyone involved with this excellent site!
posted by Throbbin
3 months 2 weeks ago • 299 viewshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/opinion/26rich.html?_r=1 Check it out. I just read it (last read before bed tonight), and wanted to share it. Thoughts?
posted by NetRunner
3 months 2 weeks ago • 524 views
posted by EDD
3 months 3 weeks ago • 498 viewsThey are fuckers. Via SciFi Wire:  No one was more thrilled than us at the news that Comedy Central was resurrecting Futurama with an order of 26 new episodes, to begin airing in 2010.
But now comes news on Forces of Geek that 20th Century Fox Television, which produces the series, may be considering recasting the voice roles. Say it ain't so!
... more inside ...
posted by Tymbrwulf
3 months 3 weeks ago • 491 views![]() http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46053000/jpg/_46053673_cat_bbc_226.jpg From BBC News: Cat owners may have suspected as much, but it seems our feline friends have found a way to manipulate us humans. Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a "soliciting purr" to overpower their owners and garner attention and food. Unlike regular purring, this sound incorporates a "cry", with a similar frequency to a human baby's. The team said cats have "tapped into" a human bias - producing a sound that humans find very difficult to ignore. Dr Karen McComb, the lead author of the study that was published in the journal Current Biology, said the research was inspired by her own cat, Pepo. "He would wake me up in the morning with this insistent purr that was really rather annoying," Dr McComb told BBC News. "After a little bit of investigation, I discovered that there are other cat owners who are similarly bombarded early in the morning." While meowing might get a cat expelled from the bedroom, Dr McComb said that this pestering purr often convinced beleaguered pet lovers to get up and fill their cat's bowl. To find out why, her team had to train cat owners to make recordings of their own cats' vocal tactics - recording both their "soliciting purrs" and regular, "non-soliciting" purrs. "When we played the recordings to human volunteers, even those people with no experience of cats found the soliciting purrs more urgent and less pleasant," said Dr McComb. How annoying? She and her team also asked the volunteers to rate the different purrs - giving them a score based on how urgent and pleasant they perceived them to be. "We could then relate the scores back to the specific purrs," explained Dr McComb. "The key thing (that made the purrs more unpleasant and difficult to ignore) was the relative level of this embedded high-frequency sound." "When an animal vocalises, the vocal folds (or cords) held across the stream of air snap shut at a particular frequency," explained Dr McComb. The perceived pitch of that sound depends on the size, length and tension of the vocal folds. "But cats are able to produce a low frequency purr by activating the muscles of their vocal folds - stimulating them to vibrate," explained Dr McComb. Since each of these sounds is produced by a different mechanism, cats are able to embed a high-pitched cry in an otherwise relaxing purr. "How urgent and unpleasant the purr is seems to depend on how much energy the cat puts into producing that cry," said Dr McComb. Previous studies have found similarities between a domestic cat's cry and the cry of a human baby - a sound that humans are highly sensitive to. Dr McComb said that the cry occurs at a low level in cats' normal purring. "But we think that (they) learn to dramatically exaggerate it when it proves effective in generating a response from humans." She added that the trait seemed to most often develop in cats that have a one-on-one relationship with their owners. "Obviously we don't know what's going on inside their minds," said Dr McComb. "But they learn how to do this, and then they do it quite deliberately." So how does Dr McComb feel about Pepo now she knows he has been manipulating her all these years? "He's been the inspiration for this whole study, so I'll forgive him - credit where credit's due."
posted by marinara
3 months 3 weeks ago • 408 viewshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/arnold-schwarzenegger-tea_b_228795.html This blogger is very upset about the loss of funds to important social programs and blames republicans for refusing to compromise. Hope you enjoy the blog i linked to above 
posted by blankfist
4 months 1 week ago • 423 views San Francisco is probably the most "Democratic" city in all the nation. It is very much a shining example of the warm, caring love that embodies that party so much. To prove to the rest of us how much they love us, they like to take our money and wisely create these wonderful social programs to take care of us. Here's a story about how one of those programs took care of a homeless man who tried to turn his life around. This is progressive change we can all believe in! "He sleeps under a bridge, washes in a public bathroom and was panhandling for booze money 11 months ago, but now Larry Moore is the best-dressed shoeshine man in the city. When he gets up from his cardboard mattress, he puts on a coat and tie. It's a reminder of how he has turned things around. "In fact, until last week it looked like Moore was going to have saved enough money to rent a room and get off the street for the first time in six years. But then, in a breathtakingly clueless move, an official for the Department of Public Works told Moore that he has to fork over the money he saved for his first month's rent to purchase a $491 sidewalk vendor permit." Read the rest of the article here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/04/MNJQ1807UK.DTL
posted by deedub81
4 months 1 week ago • 499 viewsIt's because our Federal Government doesn't know SQUAT about small business. I do. I run one. Did anyone ask me?
Bailing out GM is just treating a symptom. That's just idiotic. Why don't we solve the problem?
"...The stimuli plans were supposed to be job plans. The auto/bank bailouts cum nationalizations were supposed to be about saving jobs, not 'Wall Street'. So given two record breaking stimuli within two years, why isn't America hiring?
America isn't hiring precisely because of government policy. Small business owners, who are usually the first into and the first out of the job pool, are standing by the fence and watching. They are paralyzed by regulatory uncertainty. If they hire someone who ends up doing poorly, will they be able to fire that person? Will they have to pay their health care bills after they've been terminated? If so, for how long? Who will pay for all these stimulus checks? If it will turn out to be small business, why would they hire instead of keeping costs low to prepare for the big tax bill? Where will the market move? Are you in the right business or are your clients in a politically disfavored industry? Are your clients in health care (being nationalized), autos (already nationalized), banking (somewhat nationalized) or any energy production process which uses carbon (pulverized)? Until you know, you don't grow, and until you grow your market, you don't grow your payroll.
Jobs aren't languishing despite the government's best efforts. They're languishing because of them.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31692578
"...Owning a small business has always been a challenge — half wind up failing within the first few years. But the financial crisis has dealt them a one-two punch, as big banks cut the credit card lines that many entrepreneurs were forced to lean on when a once-abundant supply of loans dried up.
As of April, 59 percent of America’s small firms relied on credit cards to help finance their day-to-day operations, up from 44 percent at the end of last year, according to the National Small Business Association."
"...“The way that the economy is going to come out of a recession is not by big business hiring but by small business hiring,” said Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, who is championing the measure. Denying small businesses access to credit is having “spiraling” effect on the economy, she added."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31445083 Why aren't the stimuli working? "...White House adviser David Axelrod urged patience for President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package in the face of sliding poll numbers. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a past and potentially future presidential candidate, said the spending was ill-designed and served only to expand the size of government.
Republicans have seized on the public's growing unease over government debt and spending to challenge the popular president. Sensing their own vulnerabilities, Obama's top advisers have ramped up their defense of spending that is incomplete and going slower than many had hoped.
"You know, we take the long view on this. Look, when the president signed the stimulus package - the economic recovery package - he said it's going to take a while for this to work," Axelrod said. "And we're going to go through some rough times, and unemployment is going to go up, and ... we have to work our way through this."
Some economists and business leaders have called for a second spending bill designed to help guide the economy through a downturn that has left millions without jobs. Axelrod said it's too early to know if more spending would be needed or if the administration would seek more money from Congress.
"Most of the stimulus money - the economic recovery money - is yet to be spent. Let's see what impact that has," Axelrod said. "I'm not going to make any judgment as to whether we need more. We have confidence that the things we're doing are going to help, but we've said repeatedly, it's going to take time, and it will take time. It took years to get into the mess we're in. It's not going to take months to get out of it."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/29/politics/main5120588.shtml
posted by radx
4 months 1 week ago • 483 viewsHm, didn't see that one coming. STOCKHOLM, Jun 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The listed software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB (publ) (GGF) acquires The Pirate Bay website, http://www.thepiratebay.org, one of the 100 most visited websites in the world and the technology company Peerialism, that has developed next generation file-sharing technology. Following the completion of the acquisitions, GGF intends to launch new business models that allow compensation to the content providers and copyright owners. The responsibility for, and operation of the site will be taken over by GGF in connection with closing of the transaction, which is scheduled for August 2009. "We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site, " said Hans Pandeya, CEO GGF. More:
"The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers 'need faster downloads and better quality, " continues Hans Pandeya. GGF acquires domain names and related web sites, including http://www.thepiratebay.org. The consideration for the purchase amounts to MSEK 60 consisting of at least MSEK 30 in cash and up to the equivalent of MSEK 30 in the form of newly issued shares in GGF (according to valuation in connection with the completion of the acquisition). The stock share of the purchase price is expected to be equivalent to a maximum of three per cent of the total number of outstanding shares of GGF after the acquisition. In the case that three percent of the shares is not equivalent to 30 MSEK, the major shareholder of GGF has declared that he will contribute the equivalent in cash. GGF has entered into an agreement to acquire the shares in Peerialism AB. Peerialism AB is a software technology company with its origin in KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science and which presently is owned by the employees. The owners as well as the employees will continue to work for the company. Peerialism develops solutions for data distribution and distributed storage based on new p2p- technology. The access to the technology is secured by the acquisition. The consideration amounts to in aggregate MSEK 100 consisting of at least MSEK 50 in cash and up to the equivalent of MSEK 50 in newly issued shares in GGF (according to valuation during a period of ten days after the announcement). The share part of the purchase price should not exceed five percent of the total number of shares in GGF after the transaction. In addition GGF has undertaken to make initial investments of MSEK 25 in the acquired business. "Peerialism has developed a new data distribution technology which now can be introduced on the best known file - sharing site, The Pirate Bay. Since the technology is compatible with the existing it will quickly allow for new values to be created for all key stakeholders and facilitate new business opportunities", says Johan Ljungberg, CEO Peerialism. Completion of the acquisitions are primarily subject to GGF obtaining financing for the acquisition, that any necessary resolutions are adopted by a General Meeting of GGF, and that GGF and the Board of Directors consider that the acquired assets can be used in a legally and appropriate way. GGF intends to issue new shares in order to obtain the necessary financing for the acquisition. The acquisition is deemed to be completed in August 2009. In connection therewith, the ownership of, and responsibility for, the acquired assets will be transferred to GGF. "As a result of the acquisitions of The Pirate Bay and Peerialism, GGF will have a strategic position in the international digital distribution market. File sharing traffic is estimated to account for more than half of today's global Internet traffic. The Pirate Bay has a global brand and holds a key position with over 20 million visitors and over one billion page views per month," says Hans Pandeya. A Press briefing will be held on June 30th 2009 at 11.00 at Sparvagshallarna, Birger Jarlsgatan 57 A, Stockholm. Global Gaming Factory X AB (publ) has been listed on Aktietorget since 2006 GGFX has the largest network of Internet cafes and game centers and provides software. GGFX thus has access to the largest group of games players on the Internet. The company's principal shareholders are Magnus Bergman (Chairman), Hans Pandeya, (CEO) and Johan Sellstrom, (CTO) (for more details see attached CV and http://www.globalgamingfactory.com). The Pirate Bay is one of the 100 most visited Internet sites in the world and one of the leading search engines for file sharing. The site has more than 20 million visitors and over one billion searches per month. Peerialism AB develops solutions to transport and store data over Internet based on new p2p technologies. The solutions are capable of large scale media distribution with clear advantages over existing solutions; it makes better use of networks resources whilst reducing ISP traffic and significantly lowering the cost of media distribution. The technology has its origin from research projects within SICS (Swedish Institute for Computer Science) and KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan). The head of research at SICS, Seif Haridi who also is a professor at KTH will continue to be advisor to Peerialism.The company was founded in 2007 and has 14 employees and is based in Stockholm (more information http://www.peerialism.com, http://www.sics.com, http://www.kth.se). Background The market for the consumption and distribution of digital media is characterised by a complex landscape of both national and international legislation with difficult conflicts between different areas of law - not least in balancing copyright law and rights of privacy. This has led to a widespread global debate among opinion-makers, politicians, academics, the general public and business people. In addition to the responsibilities of the individual Internet user, the responsibility for user-generated material is diversely allocated between different market participants and may also vary from country to country. However, both U.S. and European law place certain obligations on Internet Service Providers (ISP) and on Information Society Service Providers (ISSP) to prevent the distribution of unauthorised or illegal material. Time consuming legislative work and costly litigation are taking place in all parts of the world as a result of the demands posed by the technological evolution on the rules that are to apply. All market participants, e.g. technology and broadband providers, various service providers, search engines and rights' holders would all benefit from a clearer legal landscape that enables safe investments and the continued evolution of the information society. GGF wants to accept the challenge to position itself as a respectable participant in the market and contribute to Internet's infrastructure, with the goal to establish working models for co-operation and a clear allocation of responsibilities on market terms, respecting both intellectual property rights and the rights of privacy. Source: MarketWatch, The Pirate Bay
posted by lucky760
4 months 1 week ago • 252 viewsHe may not be as well known as Michael Jackson, though he was born within a few weeks of him, but pitchman Billy Mays has just died also at the age of 50. He was found dead in bed. An autopsy will be performed in an attempt to determine the cause, but it looks like it could be another Natasha Richardson type situation.
He was on a plane whose front tire blew during landing, causing things to fall and hit Billy on the head. He spoke with a local news reporter after the incident saying jovially, "I got a hard head." It was during his sleep that night that he died.
If you'd watched any of his show Pitchmen on Discovery, you might have started to like him as much as I have. So sad.
Rest In Peace.
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