We’ve blogged before about the way OneRiot indexes and ranks. You can read more about it in our (mercifully short) white paper. Broadly speaking, our results reflect the current “pulse” on the web for any subject. We find “the good stuff” that people are buzzing about right now.

Specifically on that “soccer dashboard” idea, here are a few neat tricks you can employ to get the most out of our index and ranking algorithm.

You can do a “multiple domain search” on OneRiot, and add a key word. So, for example, here is a search to find the buzz on Manchester United from the British press.

We can then feed that information to you via RSS, like we’ve done here.

This means you can syndicate and/or present that information how you see fit.

OneRIot also has an API, so you could do server side integration and work with the XML or JSON that we return. This contains a rich set of “social metadata” (such as the ability to see which user shared a particular link on what service on the social web). Do an API call for every team, if you want (but maybe leave out Hull, because they will be relegated before you finish your project

Finally, you could take a stream of our results for a particular team and feed them into a Twitter account. Twitter followers would then see a stream of links to the buzziest content on the web for their favorite team. An easy way to do this is via Twitterfeed (we use this for our RiotFeeds). Here’s one I just made last week that tracks the buzziest stories from the British Press on Chelsea FC - @ChelseaFCBuzz - it’s killer content!

As a football-crazy Brit abroad, I’d love someone to build this. If you do, let me know - you’ll be my homepage in a heartbeat.

It’s called Chic Meets Geek, and it will attempt to connect the dots between high tech and high society amidst a blur of presentations, demos, mixed drinks and mingling. Among the words we shall apparently be able to utter in the same breath while in attendance: Stem Cells, Hackery, Mick Jagger, Android, Dallas Cowboys, MTV and Shark Tank. We’ll certainly be trying to squeeze as many of those in as possible during our OneRiot demo, so if you’ve a free night ahead of you, click on over this way to nab a ticket - we’d love to meet you there!

Where: Automattic, Pier 38
When: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Event Website: http://ow.ly/wI5J

In attendance: Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook; Matt Mullenweg, Founder of Automattic & WordPress; Damon Dunn, Former NFL Football Player of the Dallas Cowboys; Mattin Noblia, Reality Star of Top Chef Las Vegas & Owner/Chef of Iluna Basque & more!

The Summary: Mel Gibson becomes a father of eight children - and OneRiot renames them all.

The Search: Mel Gibson’s Baby

Everyone loves when celebrities have babies, because the names they grace them with offer solid proof that they operate on a whole different plane of existence. However, the latest celebrity couple to a offer a up new piece of offspring, Mel Gibson and Russian girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, steered clear of the whack baby-naming trend with the acceptably normal baby handle of Lucia. While we’re disappointed with Gibson’s inability to shock with his baby-naming skills, we guess his other forms of insanity will have to suffice.  Still, it’s more fun to ask what if - as in, what if Mel Gibson let his celebrity insanity carry over to his children by way of oddball names? What could he have come up with? In honor of Gibson’s eight children, we present you with Top 8 alternative crazy Mel Gibson baby names.

1. Sugartits Plum Fairy Gibson- Mel Gibson obviously has respect for females. Otherwise he wouldn’t have knocked up his wife seven times and drunkenly referred to the cop that pulled him over for DUI as “Sugartits”.  Sugartits alone sounds a little crass to name a baby girl…but by taking after Bob Geldof who just seems to adorn birth names with plenty of pretty words, Plum Fairy should make little SugarT a rather precious addition to the family tree.

2. Riggs Murtaugh Gibson- Named after his and Danny Glover’s characters in the Lethal Weapon series, this name sets an example of racial tolerance.  If Riggs and Murtaugh could work together to bring down Apartheid in Lethal Weapon 2 then the world can be a better place if we all work together regardless of race…unless Jews get in the way.  Because according to Gibson the Jews are responsible for starting all wars.

3. The Boy Without A Face Gibson- One day that boy will grow up to be a “The Man Without a Face…Gibson”.

4. Office Max- There can only be one Mad Max.  Mel names one son Office Max so he realizes he is predestined to run the business side of Icon Productions.

5. Another Hero Gibson- Despite Tina Turner’s contention on the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome soundtrack that “we don’t need another hero” Mel Gibson makes sure we have got one.

6.  Malibu Gibson- Even if Mel Gibson’s claims to own all of Malibu were not true…had he named one of his daughters this, he’d now be able to claim that without him there’d be no Malibu.

7. Passion of the Christ Gibson- Mel gives the name of his greatest labor of love to a result of hours of laborious lovemaking.

8. Maverick Braveheart Gibson- Mixing these two key Gibson roles would make for one of the most audacious naming attempts in celebrity history.  Suck on that Pilot Inspektor.

While we’re just dreaming “what could have been” with the Gibson clan, there are enough celebrities out there who will keep the outrageous baby names coming.   One thing’s for sure: somewhere in the near future there’s bound to be an upper echelon boarding school with an entire classroom full of children named after inanimate objects and ultimately making an English teacher’s job of defining a proper noun utterly impossible.

The Summary: Learn from the mistakes of Kane Kellett, and get a lesson in cursing with tact.

The Search: Kane Kellett

No matter how much bile and vinegar you’ve got churning around in you, you’ve got to be weary of where it leaks out. Kane Kellett was appearing in court for breaking, entering, and intent to smack victim’s head with flashlight (an oddly common charge in Illinois) when he decided to bolster his bad boy image. Right off the bat, he responded to the judge’s inquiry as to whether or not he had an attorney with a defiant ‘F— no’. His responses to the following questions were all preceded by a strongly toned ‘F—’ shortly after which it was decided that he be treated as a hostile witness, upon which Kellett responded with only the word ‘F—’. This degenerated further while 24 year old was being sworn in. At a loss for words, even his favorite ‘F—’, Kellett decided to express his sentiments to the judge with the ancient art of sign language.

Everyone gets unreasonably hyped about getting flipped off. Parents, teachers, disgruntled drivers, all see that solitary extended finger and feel like you’ve just slapped their mother. It could be argued that this provocation is over-stigmatized as this horrible thing, but Kellett’s intellect lacked the skill to articulate such an argument before the judge decided to hold him in contempt of court and sentence him to 6 months in prison.

For the sake of Kellett and others of his temperament, we at OneRiot have decided to create a code of conduct for young people in this position who are considering using this gesture. The full guide is due out some time next winter, but for now, here are a few samples of our expertise.

F$%&:
F@#$ is a wonderful and expressive word, but it’s percieved as a much larger offense to a judge or a cop than it is to your friend or a sailor. Consider the following two situations.

(1)
Friend: Dude, what the f$&%? You’re like an hour late.
You: Yeah, well, there was traffic. Go f$#& yourself.

(2)
Cop: Sir, do you know why I pulled you over?
You: No. How about you go and f$&# yourself.

Now, try imagining each person’s response to your profanity. See the difference? If the unleashing of strong words is going to get you into trouble, avoid saying them. You might ask “How am I supposed to let out all this anger? This piss? This vinegar?” There are things you can do.

Mute the curse words: Remember when your grandmother would express her racism by greatly reducing the volume of the one word in a sentence that she considers offensive but it’s only offensive because of what she’s saying and how she’s saying it? Ex: “I understand that he’s an excellent accountant, I just didn’t know he was (Mexican)”. Try that with F&%$. Works like a charm!

Replace curse words with regular words: There’s lots of words that sound like F&#$ but aren’t F*%$. ‘Fudge’ is solid because it’s got that hard U in there and it starts with an F. ‘Firetruck’ is good if you want to get all the phonetic sounds in and don’t mind adding some sounds. Create your own!

Mutter under your breath: This way, you get to say it and no one has to hear it. Be careful about your volume, though. There are those among us who have super hearing. F*#$ them, right?!

And thank Kane Kellett for showing us that whatever method you choose, keeping those F$#%s from taking center stage can keep that a$$ out of prison, greatly reducing the probability of getting it repeatedly f—-well, you know.

Is it just us or does the regular world seem to stop for the wide world of sports every weekend?  That was a rhetorical question.  It’s not just us.  The entire world does pause so pigskins can be tossed, fastballs can be launched into the upper deck, and speeding vehicles can repeatedly circle around tracks for hours at a time in anticipation of capturing a checkered flag.  It’s just the natural order of work giving way to leisure as soon as Friday comes around.  This weekend was really no different as several huge sports stories overwhelmed the social web.

The Hawkeyes of Iowa continued to clog up the BCS Bowl picture by remaining undefeated thanks to a splendid 2nd half comeback engineered by QB Ricky Stanzi.  However, Stanzi was not the biggest QB to make a dent on users of the realtime web.  Brett Favre proved to Packers fans that he could still sling the football as he returned to Lambeau Field for revenge against the Green Bay Pack attack.  CBS had a handle on the importance of this event and they oversold it by instituting the Brett Favre cam, which apparently showed everything Brett did all day prior to and during the game against his former mates, bringing new definition to realtime web.  We tuned out during the bathroom breaks but the cam-page has garnered a lot of shares by social web users even still today.  We hope no one is following us that closely when we turn 40 and are overly-glorified bloggers who no doubt will warrant our every move being broadcast to the farthest reaches of the broadband universe.

Not to take anything away from the glory of Favre, but The World Series was in full swing as well.  And wouldn’t you know it the New York Yankees made the Phillies look like “My Little Ponies” bringing the defending champs to the brink of elimination with wins on Saturday and Sunday at Citizen’s Bank Park. While Phillies fans seem optimistic and haven’t let their displeasure over the imminent doom of their brotherly baseball bashers be known, it seems the folks at Macy’s didn’t get the memo either.  They saw fit to put out an ad in Monday’s paper congratulating NL pennant winners on taking their 2nd straight World Series Championship.  Looks like someone wasn’t watching the game or at least monitoring it via yahoo’s live gamechannel feature.  At the very least they could’ve listened to MLB.Com’s audio feed of the live action.

Speaking of the brink of elimination, NASCAR’s Ryan Newman was lucky to not have his breathing functions completely eliminated as he enjoyed quite the dustup at Talladega on Sunday.  His crash immediately became fodder for the realtime web as the fortunate driver of the US Army Chevrolet Impala emerged unscathed after a rather scary collision that resulted in some automobile gymnastics and a very displeased racer who did not shy away from offering his criticism once the debris settled.

While this weekend was certainly full of much athletic ado, this week promises a good deal of hullaballoo.  For one, the Yankees and Phillies will take to the baseball diamond for what could be the last hardball game of the season.  We might even see a ticker tape parade hit Manhattan.  Either that or there’ll be a grand ol’ comeback for Ryan Howard and company to go along with the full slate of NBA and NHL action which always brings its fair share of fantastic dunks and unbelievable icebound trickery. We can’t wait.

To track today’s hottest news in sports with updates from your favorite websites, including ESPN, Fox, Sky and Yahoo Sports, hop on over to @PulseOnSports. Powered by OneRiot.

Welcome to another wonderful week, and a whole different month. While you’re scrubbing makeup off your faces and trying to get that silver Lady Gaga hairspray off your mop, why not settle into November with the first Music-Monday column since daylight savings?

The Week in Music
First off, those Gaga costumes. Millions of college girls nationwide dressed up as the goofy popstar with their sorority sisters, rocketing musician costumes (including Michael and Miley) to the top of the costume popularity/unoriginality list, just behind pale, chain-smoking teen idol vampires.

Another great thing about holidays—especially weird ones like Halloween—is that artists try to do over-the-top things to make their show the best of the night. This year’s honors go to Weezer, who made big waves after bringing Gossip Girl meanie Leighton Meester on stage to sing along with the band’s new single “(If You’re Wondering if I Want You To) I Want You To.”Click here to view the embedded video.In unrelated news, Austinite favorites Spoon have announced their seventh LP, Transference, will hit shelves on January 26. Former indie rock elitists everywhere are secretly jumping up and down with joy from the seclusion of their cubicles.

Weekly Recommendation
Ryan Gosling is best known as a guy who loved a doll, but beyond that he’s got some pretty impressive musical chops. The actor’s debut album as part of the duo Dead Man’s Bones is riveting in its simplicity, eerie in its execution and as memorable as any actor-turned-artist work we’ve heard in the past couple years. Featuring a children’s choir from the Silverlake Music Conservatory, the trebly chatter of little voices adds a dynamic edge to what seems like a record of pre-dawn surf punk songs without the energy to paddle out. The album is on sale at iTunes right now, so grab it—and look out for Gosling’s upcoming tour, especially if you’re harboring some McAdams-loving fantasies that might only come true were he finally out of the way.

For fresh reviews, remixes, interviews and more from the Internet’s favorite music sites, check out @PulseOnMusic.  And to check out last week’s music edition, hop on over here.

Muahaha, Spooky greetings OneRioters!  Here we are on the cusp of yet another Haunted All Hallow’s Eve ready to gorge ourselves on Candy corns (yechh!) and Fun-sized Nestle Crunch (yum!).  Are you with us? Well, before you secure enough sweets to last you the next financial quarter, you’re going to have to stop stomping around the neighborhood in your everyday gear, because no one wants to give M&Ms to a banker or a dad casually dressed in Eddie Bauer gear, unless you can convince them that your costume is “1995 Man.”  So if you’ve waited til the last minute and have yet to secure a quality costume for Saturday’s big costume party or trick or treat trek, we here at OneRiot have a few suggestions to help you stand out amongst a sea of balloon boys and Jon and Kate Plus Eight impersonators. So without further ado, the OneRiot last minute Halloween costume guide for those who have yet to decide:

• Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger- Dust off that old sport coat and procure a pair of pilot wings, a nifty hat and a sweet white stache.  Carry with you a tupperware labeled “Hudson River” filled with water and a mini toy plane.  Throughout the party keep landing your toy plane safely in the tupperware.  Everyone at the party will consider you a hero.  If you don’t want to carry around the tupperware you can just keep dropping your plane in other people’s drinks…but we suspect that could be annoying.

• Halloween 2008 - Last year Sarah Palin costumes were all the rage.  You probably even dressed as the former Alaska governor. You’re so creative. So why not pull that power suit out with the American flag lapel pin out of the closet, make your hair look all sexy librarian-ish and slap on that pair of New Year’s 2008 glasses you’ve held onto hoping to somehow get another use out of.  For good measure grab yourself a piggy bank and slap some lipstick on that thing and maybe glue some old candy wrappers to your person. Voila!

• Joe Francis-The sleazy mail order video king who got young girls to act uninhibited on camera may have landed a jail stint, but when you don an orange prison jump suit and walk around the party beckoning fellow revelers to “go wild” whilst training your video camera on them, you’re sure to be the hit of this Halloween, (while at the same time giving you plenty of memorable footage for years to come.  Just don’t sell it in monthly installments for the low price of $9.99.)

• Unsexy Cat- Every halloween, like clockwork, a bevy of impressively endowed ladies make it their duty to prove their sex appeal by showing that every possible profession looks better with less clothes on.  This also extends to portrayals of Satan and domesticated animals.  The fact of the matter is this: “Sexy Cop” or “Sexy Oncologist” are not real jobs and not all men are turned on every time a Siamese cat walks by.  So in order to bring a dose of reality to halloween, we find the “Unsexy cat” to be a welcome change from the usual come hither costumes.  All it takes is an unattractive baggy pair of sweats, a tail and some cat ears.  Once you get to the party just start rubbing up uncomfortably against people and asking for food or water.

• Veiled Insult- (or the, this is what I’m going as special) Let’s face it, a lot of people show precious little creativity on halloween.  Couples will try to be cute and dress up as Raggedy Anne and Andy or whatever adorable duo costume they found at the costume shop.  Ladies will try to be super sexy (slutty) and some guys will try to toss it off like they don’t care enough to get dressed on Halloween and just pop in some vampire teeth or a hint of fake blood.  This is your chance to get back at them by going all conceptual.  All you’ve got to do is get some lacy material to fashion a veil…affix it to a hair clip.  Next, all you have to do is attend a party and tell people how awful their costume is.  They’ll either get your concept or they’ll want to fashion a new “person with a bloody head” getup for you. The key is to criticize sparingly and effectively, whilst enjoying their poorly dressed company.

Alright, Onerioters. Have a happy and safe Halloween.  Don’t eat any apples with pins in them and if you’re giving out candy at your house don’t be the weirdo who also pawns off pennies.

The funeral business in America has been a racket ever since an undertaker figured out that folks in grief are easy marks. This legacy of opportunism has been passed down for generations, which is why you see funeral homes touting on their awnings just how long they’ve been disposing of the lifeless. Well, mom and pop are getting another royal screw job from Wal-Mart, as the megastore has just rolled out a line of caskets for today’s approaching-death patron on the go. While most of the small businesses Wal-Mart drives into the ground are honest people trying to make a living, this just might be one scheme that has great value for the customer. In fact, why not plan your entire funeral through Wal-Mart!?

• The Suit - You want to look good when you go down. And I mean you, specifically. I’m into the cremation thing, personally. But you. You need to look stylin’ when you’re descending into the earth. Now, Wal-Mart doesn’t have much by way of suits, but these handsome Dickies Big Men’s Bib Overalls are equally classy, and far more rugged. For an extra bad ass look, have someone leave one of the shoulder straps undone for a looks that says “Yeah I’m dead, but this carburetor isn’t going to fix itself”. $30.50

• The Preservative - Do you know how much a bottle of formaldehyde costs? If you’re planning a funeral, you know the answer is ‘way out of your budget’. Instead, locate a Wal-Mart equipped with a supermarket and buy a dozen jars of pickles at a bargain price. After all, pickle brine is nature’s human flesh preservative. $28.44

• The Party - Go out with a bang and get party hats for your funeral goers. Everyone loves party hats, don’t you agree? You don’t!? Well, then I’ll kill you. And we can plan your funeral through Wal-Mart! Yeah! $8.99

• The Plot - While crooked undertakers are only out to swindle you, the guys selling you the hole in the ground are right in bed with them. The joke will be on all of them when they find out that you used Wal-Mart’s Micro-shovel to dig your own plot in their cemetery by night. When they alert the police, the joke will be on you again. $10.00

Along with the affordable $895 budget casket model, your entire Wal-Mart funeral will cost a grand total of: $953.48!

Not bad…unless you still can’t afford the casket. Well, not to worry. Wal-Mart also carries garbage cans.

Fun Fact! An anagram of ‘Funeral’ is ‘Real Fun’

It’s fall in Philadelphia, and this year, it’s special.  The Phillies get a chance to beat New York at their own game (baseball, invented in Cooperstown, NY in 1839). Last year’s World Series victory saw an uproarious city with a reason to celebrate violently, and that they did. As a city not used to such occasions, there were some disastrous outcomes, mainly for Robinson’s Luggage at Broad and Walnut, the only store in downtown Philly to be looted that night (people just wanted quality suitcases…for free). A day before this year’s NL championship game, the city had workers grease up all the poles along South Broad St. This cartoonish precaution was taken as an honest attempt to protect Philadelphians from themselves.

Rather than concern, users in the realtime search realm are showing excitement at the potential of a riot. And not just the glory of one riot (sorry, couldn’t resist), but several. Game 1 win last night got loud. Game 2? Riot. Game 3? Riot even if it’s a loss…nay, especially if it’s a loss. There will be gatherings. But they’re not really as violent as you would guess. At least they’re not until the police show up. It’s never a fight until there are two sides, and before Philly’s finest show up in cars, on bikes, and on foot, people are usually having a good time. Though that good time will eventually turn violent in conjuntion with alcohol, police presence simply expediates the process. After the NL championship last week, people did the traditional thing and started marching up Broad St. from the stadiums to City Hall. Within ten minutes, I saw a girl get dragged into the back of a police van, all the while screaming that the cop escorting her was breaking her arm as other cops dumped her purse onto the street and kicked through the contents. Ah. Baseball.

This morning the social web was abuzz with the phrase “This Will Be Huge.” Those four words are applicable to so many situations that what it may have been referring to was  a mystery to us.  Perhaps, everyone on the Interweb was partaking in a worldwide pizza making contest and had used entirely too much dough prompting them to announce “This will be huge,” or maybe they were celebrating National Viagra Day.  Either way, further investigation was warranted.  What we came upon was neither food nor Erectile Dysfunction related.

It seems that Internet industry monster Google has released a new beta application  called “Google Maps Navigation.”  The free GPS turn-by-turn navigation system has made such an immediate impression, the stock of GPS makers such as Garmin and TomTom more or less have hit the deck, and Mashable’s article on the release was passed around like hotcakes at a Sunday brunch buffet.  While we have no doubt that Google’s new beta map app will change the face of humanity forever, this announcement prompted us take a look at other web innovations that have revolutionized the way we interact with the world around us. While we think that Google Maps Navigation will certainly be huge, it might never eclipse the following five internet advances.

1. Online Fantasy Sports- Prior to the widespread availability of the Internet, true sports nerds would check the box scores the day after a sporting event and tally statistics before mailing out weekly results to fellow dedicated geeks .  Online Fantasy Sports leagues hosted by Yahoo!, ESPN, and CBS Sports now give millions of less dedicated people worldwide the opportunity to partake in the sports version of Dungeons and Dragons, by wielding the sword of immediate updates on any given Sunday, Monday, Tuesday….etc.

2. Emoticons- Winking and making overt tongue motions at your friends was never really widely accepted in most social circles, mostly because winking is a bit creepy.  Thanks to emoticons women and flamboyant men can give cutesy responses to their friends and straight men can have their sexuality put in question when they use an emoticon to react to the news that their fantasy football trade has been approved.  Grammarians though tend to frown upon this practice, as it’s an easy way out of self expression via the eloquence of words.

3. Ebay- Before Ebay you had to hope to find that rare A-team mug you never knew existed at a yard sale or flea market.  Now with this internet auctioneer, you don’t have to leave your house to find buried treasure and you can get that A-Team mug for the low price of $3.84 plus shipping, unless that bastard in Dubuque, Iowa continues to up his bid.

4. Email- Prior to the advent of email, horses had jobs.  Postmen rode around the country on thoroughbreds racing against time and postal vans to get urgent final notice bills to people with rapidly declining credit scores.  Now a simple online notification in your inbox alerts you that you should probably pay your bill or someone’s going to repossess that sweet new race-car bed you pretended to buy for your kid, even though you’re single. Also, thanks to its easily archived nature, Email allows you to keep track of all of the dumb things your friends say over the years and offer them irrefutable evidence of it later.

5. Youtube/Blogs- Everybody thinks they have a great sense of humor or that they have something important to say. This is probably the most fatal assumption made by human beings. Before the existence of Youtube/Blogging, the only place you had to deal with people on the negative side of the funny or importance spectrum broadcasting themselves was at a friendly gathering, political rally, or a Dane Cook show. Now anyone can air their grievances or bring the “funny” by showing off their wacky personality or misguided opinion via their own web channel and reach millions!  Talk about being huge.

Since the emergence of social media, people have been positively vibrating about its potential. The possibility for growth is endless. But, until there’s a tangible benefit to its application, it’s understandably hard to justify investment in this sort of promotion. With a distinct formula developing for social media success, the question is not ‘Will it work?’ but rather ‘What’s it worth?’ Oliver Blanchard of The BrandBuilder Blog breaks it down into simple terms, giving citizens of the realtime web something to chew on.

From Blanchard’s presentation and Mashable’s elaboration on the idea of measuring ROI of social media, it’s clear that the end goal is to justify the profitability of social media. Metrics for popularity laid over a corresponding increase in, say, online sales is pretty good proof that it’s working.

The caveat to this is how a brand will be received by those who make up the ’social’ part of social media. There’s no measure for how individual users who are promoting only themselves (or nothing at all) will respond to instances of marketing in their online world. How direct, how patronizing, how interesting a brand’s message is will affect how it is received.  In general, consumers are more discerning now than ever, and individuals feel a strong personal connection to the venues in which they spend their time interacting with others. It’s a safe place. Explicit advertising can feel like an attack in such a space. Allowing an idea to carry itself can yield immense popularity, but once the ad is tied in, reactions can change.

Thus far, great ideas have become hits, but few of them were obviously tied in to a brand. Garfield Minus Garfield was hugely popular, but would it have been as loved if it was promoting one of those awful Garfield movies? The danger here is insulting the intelligence of your target. So far, the world of realtime has remained somewhat exclusive to users. Sure, there are bots dropping status updates now and then, but for the most part, users are deeply involved in using social media apps. Each action taken online yields an immediate benefit for a user; something useful, informative, or entertaining. Advertising on the new platform of social media popularity needs the actual advertising campaign to yield this sort of benefit. Blogs are the first step in forging a connection of this sort with your target, and as more brands see the dollar value it, such tactics will become more commonplace. The bad ones will be recognized, culled and tortured before being disregarded. The good ones, well, you might not even realize you’re being advertised to.

In a triumphant posthumous return to the trending topics, Michael Jackson reared his beautifully-singing head on the social web when chatter about the release of his film biography reminded everyone just how influential his passing was. The new picture documents the life of the icon, along with (very) recent footage of Jackson prepping for his massive one-city stand in London (which this writer had tickets to, dammit).

In addition to several relevant celebrities, the premier of This Is It drew over 1.8 million online viewers which, at the price of $11 a move ticket (yeah, that’s what they cost now), translates to almost $20 million in revenues alone. It seems that the film will likely put a miniature dent in the debt left to Jackson’s family, and based on reviews, will give the public a chance to remember the pop icon in a positive light–Which is obviously the goal of Joe Jackson, the world’s first and only altruist.

While plenty of more “mature” updates were sent out representing an older era, the 80’s soon took the center stage.  (After all, it was the decade that gave us “Top Gun,” and 80’s Rock…)  Amongst all the chatter was this little gem, and we couldn’t help but to share it with you.  Without further adieu, may we present to you your California Raisins!