Astronauts Need Wake Up Songs, Too

It turns out NASA does have a sentimental, entertaining side to their multi-billion dollar space exploits. Since the beginning of the space race, astronauts have been waking up on their various craft to tunes radioed to them from earth such as “Here Comes the Sun”, “Fly Me to the Moon” (various recordings of it), and, of course, the theme to Space Odyssey: 2001. On the most recent mission, Houston played Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind.” If I were going to go on a spacewalk, I would also want to hear Dire Strait’s “Walk of Life”, as the members of STS-114 did. Astronauts also get tunes sent from Earth by their families, a repertoire which has included their children doing covers of “The Rainbow Connection” and “Time Bomb”.
It’s not just people who get musical love from mission control, either. The Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner Rovers, for example, were called upon by such greats as Wagner, Randy Newman, Genesis, and the Blues Brothers. Because machines need love too. If you want to make your own morning mixtape, you can consult a list of all the songs that have been played in astronaut wake up calls (pdf) and listen to what a groggy astronaut sounds like .
Read more at NASA, listen to the wake-up songs of STS-114, and see our heavy-metal-esque documentary on the last night launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Israel Apologizes For Circulating Spoof Video Mocking Gaza Flotilla

The Israeli government has apologized after its press office sent out a satirical video mocking the activists involved in the Gaza flotilla following last week's deadly incident.

The YouTube clip, entitled "We Con the World" and set to the music of the 1980s charity single "We Are the World," shows people dressed up as flotilla activists, some in Arab dress, singing such lines as "we con the world, we con the people. We'll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper," and "there's no people dying, so the best that we can do, is create the greatest bluff of all." The video also includes footage from the actual raid last Monday of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos in which nine activists were killed.
The video was made by a website, latma.co.il, run by Jerusalem Post editor Caroline Glick, who described the clip on her blog as featuring "the Turkish-Hamas "love boat" captain, crew and passengers in a musical explanation of how they con the world." The video has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times on YouTube.
"The contents of the video in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel," a statement from Israel's Government Press Office said, according to CNN.
However, according to the Guardian, a spokesman for the Israeli government said that the video did reflect most Israelis' view of the incident. "I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny," the spokesman said. "It is what Israelis feel. But the government has nothing to do with it."
Here's the video:

Sandra Bullock & Scarlett Johannson Kiss At MTV Awards

Sandra Bullock (looking amazing) made her second appearance in as many days to pick up the Generation Award at the MTV Movie Awards, during which she locked lips with Scarlett Johansson.
Johansson, along with Bullock's former costars Betty White and Bradley Cooper, presented Bullock with her award. Johansson's husband Ryan Reynolds, who couldn't be there, was nominated with Bullock for Best Kiss. They lost, but Scarlett wanted a shot at a sweet kiss of her own.

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Rangers' start building early with 3 new signings.

In a rare move in the close season for Rangers', it seems as if the building ahead of the new season in just over 9 weeks time, with three signings already made and two more looking as if they could be close to completion once a few formalities are sorted out.

The first of the three signings was Jamie Mackie from Plymouth for an undisclosed fee and signed a four year deal.



The 24 year old had a very good season with relegated Plymouth and was the few in that team that came away from the season with their heads held high.
Mackie was linked to a January move to Middlesbrough and Burnley but it looks as if Rangers' have sneaked in to pick themselves up a very promising youngster that is likely to shine even more now that he has better players around him.


Second to arive at W12 was a former loan signing from a few years ago, Leon Clarke.
Clarke played one game in that loan spell and was soon sent back to Wolves after that appearance.



Neil Warnock has admitted that signing Clarke is a bit of a gamble but seing as no transfer fee was involved as Clarke was out of contract it could be one of those that could pay off, we will soon find out.
Clarke has underachieved so far in his career but veteran manager Warnock feels he is the man to get the best out of the 25 year old, and who could doubt Warnock seeing as he has a nack of getting the best out of everyone, this could be a real bargin if Clarke hits the ground running early in the season.


Finally, today the announcement of our third summer signing came this afternoon and is the best signing of the summer so far, Paddy Kenny.

Kenny arrives for a fee of around £750,000 and has signed a three year deal.
He will provide excellent competition for Radek Cerny in the race for the number 1 jersey and its the first time in many a year that I can honestly say that we have two very solid keepers fighting for the slot.



Kenny had spent 8 years at Sheffield United and made 278 games for the Yorkshire club.
This is the third time Warnock has signed Kenny after also signing him during a spell at Bury.

Welcome to our three signings and we hope you all shine during what should be a very exciting season ahead of you.

In other news.....
We are awaiting developments on the potential signings (and well documented they are) of Darren Ambrose and Clint Hill.
Ambrose has agreed terms with the R's and we are now awaiting to see the stance of Crystal Palace's new owners as they will try to inflate the already agreed transfer fee, thought to be around the £750,000 mark.
Hill however is available on a free transfer once his contract runs out at Crystal Palace so we only only assume that we are waiting for this to happen before anything is announced.

Apologies for the lateness of the updates on two of the new signings, work commitments have taken over for the main part of the close season but we shall do our best to be on the ball for the coming weeks in the build up to pre season.

Baby Gaga 'Telephone' Video: Kiera Ladrow Does Lady Gaga

Young Kiera Ladrow's parents have cast her as the star of a remake of Lady Gaga's 'Telephone,' the explicit video in which Gaga is sexually violated by female prison guards, writhes around in lingerie and poisons a restaurant full of people.
Kiera is not the first young girl to channel Gaga.

Miley Cyrus Does Girl-On-Girl Dancer Kiss On 'Britain's Got Talent'

MIley Cyrus threw some girl-on-girl flavor into her live performance of her new song 'Can't Be Tamed' on UK television show 'Britain's Got Talent' Thursday night.
Cyrus, dressed in feathers and fishnets, mimicked a make out with one of her female dancers, seen at about 1:07