Drake is channeling his inner Rihanna this week … and his inner Chris Brown. The Canadian rapper took part in one of Rih’s favorite pastimes – posting shirtless selfies online – in showing off his athletic body for the world to see. Lame? A little. But hey, if you’ve got it, might as well do a bit of self-promotion. He’s closing in on his former nemesis Chris Brown in the abs department, too … even if only one of the two uses his muscles to crush people and cars. This will be a good test for Chris, who will undergo 90 days in an anger management program after he got booted out of rehab for an anger incident. Seriously. Dude threw a rock at his MOM’S CAR while in treatment. With Rihanna and Drake already back together, or at least hooking up, you know this photo is only going to boost his status in her eyes … and enrage CB. If the workouts persist, there’s no telling what could transpire next.
Over the last few days, members of Reality Television’s First Family have gotten even more naked than usual. There’s been a Kendall Jenner nipples sighting via Instagram, while Kim Kardashian is topless in her fiancee’s latest music video. Might this not be a coincidence? Might Kendall and Kim be giving fans a tease of something very special (and naked!) to come? A panelist on VH1’s “The Gossip Table” claims that Kendall, Kim and Khloe Kardashian are discussing the possibility of posing for Playboy. All at once. Together. In the same spread. There doesn’t seem to be much evidence to back this allegation up, except that Kendall has said many times she wants to follow in the path of her sister and Kim has said she wants to do Playboy again . And Khloe did one pose naked for PETA, so she isn’t adverse to taking her clothes off in front of the camera. But still. Three nude sisters in one pictorial? Is this the greatest idea ever or the grossest? Or some combination thereof? Sound off now: Should Kendall, Kim and Khloe all pose for Playboy together? Yes, it will be a best-selling issue! No… GROSS! View Poll »
It’s the end of an era. The pioneering desktop MP3 player Winamp, which so many of us grew up playing illegally downloaded tunes on, will soon be no more. Yes, it is actually still in existence. But won’t be as of December 20. In a world dominated by iTunes, “the first reaction to Winamp’s closure might be surprise that it still exists in the first place,” says the Wall Street Journal. That it does. AOL acquired it in 1999, just two years after its creation, and when it was as hot as it gets, with its $80 million purchase of Nullsoft. The AOL subsidiary has even continued tending to the once-venerable MP3 player, releasing updates and versions for Mac OSX and Android. Winamp made its announcement as it released its latest, and last, update to Windows. This and other versions will still work after December 20, AOL said. However, “Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available” and “Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download.” 🙁 Winamp became a ubiquitous piece of software when Napster exploded onto the scene in the late 1990s. Once you got your music, that’s what played it. As popular as it was then, it’s that scarce now. The general consensus among fans today is that they didn’t know it was still around. Not shocking, as AOL essentially killed the player a long time ago. When AOL bought Winamp and music-streaming service Spinner, it aspired to be really big in music, and create within its four walls the next MTV. But when AOL threw the two companies together, putting Spinner in charge, the lack of guidance and resulting culture clash handicapped both. Between 2002 and 2007, Winamp was an asset that “AOL knew was valuable but didn’t know what the f–k to do with,” according to one insider. AOL made matters worse by insisting that the entities be subservient to AOL’s email-internet-portal service – not popular with Winamp’s base of fans. Apple’s iPod and iTunes were the final straw. R.I.P. Winamp. R.I.P.
