Hock Show Weekend Top Five for June 20th – 26th, 2010
1. Google Me Is Set to Be the Next Big Thing You Ignore. Google wants a piece of Facebook’s market share. I mean…there’s no Google movie filming, after all. But seriously. Nobody is going to give a crap about any of this. Google Me will get as much use as their Digg clone that nobody uses.
2. The New iPhone Is Broken. Or Possibly Not. A lot of people are complaining that they’re having trouble getting reception on the iPhone 4. Apple’s PR department says that people are covering up the reciever with their hand, which is clever. Steve Jobs, on the other hand, says absolutely nothing is wrong. Nope. Not a thing.
3. Chiopotle Giving Back Something Other than Awesome Chicken Burritos. The Chipotle Division of McDonalds is donating $10,000 to school lunch programs for every 100,000 spam messages forwarded to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com. Not that school lunches are very healthy, but it’s nice to see them doing something for the community.
4. Peter Jackson Is Back on The Hobbit. After swearing up and down that he was never going to direct another Lord of the Rings movie, passing the torch to that Del Torro guy (who subsequently dropped out), Peter Jackson is back in talks to direct The Hobbit movies. Look for him to gain 200 pounds and forteen inches of hair within the week.
5. The U.S. Lost. No Reason to Watch the World Cup Anymore. The U.S. lost a few minutes into overtime, 2-1 against Ghana. It’s a huge blow to anybody caring about soccer in the United States again. Ghana’s a pretty big underdog here, but good luck to them for the rest of the tournament.