All you want to know about Britney

The Exile of Britney Spears, A Tale of 21st Century Consumption
For post-Disney Britney the money must have been so much more exciting, so much heavier. ... All of these things would make it back into Britney's story yet in a different, manipulative way. By the time they make it back into ...

Cognitive Investing, The Key to Making Better Investment Decisions
One of the major benefits of this methodology is the ease with which it aids decision-making when money is ... there will be another one soon unless markets stop fluctuating, which is about as likely as Britney Spears winning an Oscar.

Britney Spears' heart to heart
Britney Spears makes success look simple.

PC Mag
... Madonna, Britney Spears, George Lucas, Brad Pitt, and so on). Instead of investing so much money in litigation and antipiracy technology (which ultimately punishes the honest and, again, assumes people are criminals) cut that money ...

SPIN
He's a teacher, and he's like, "This is sickening how much you make in a month— I don't make that all year!" Do you get ... Shit, this'll ruin my Britney Spears reputation. Six days! No sleep at all? None at all. That was sooo bad!

The Trivialities and Transcendence of Kickstarter

But this occasionally something occurred to me: What about that Kickstarter thing? Kickstarter has been around online for just over two years, and various artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and designers have employed the site to raise more than $75 million for 10,626 “creative projects,” to use Kickstarter’s preferred nickname. That money has come from 813,205 “backers” — individuals making mostly modest contributions (the most common is $25) to pay for specific efforts. The selling point of “crowd-funding,” as this phenomenon has come to be called, is that it is an alternative to the in clover patron or the grant-giving foundation. Kickstarter has become the most talked-about example of this democratizing technology: an arts classifying for the post-gatekeeper era.

So what kind of “creative projects” does Kickstarter enable? Well, a couple of artists raised $2,181 to send jocose handwritten letters to every household in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill neighborhood; someone pulled in $8,441 to avoid finance the creation of “a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 hip-hop songs”; a couple of people got $30,030 to let something be known a version of “Huckleberry Finn” that replaces Mark Twain’s use of a notorious racial epithet with the huddle “robot.” At times the sums have been a good bit larger: $67,436 to build a statue of Robocop in Detroit; $161,744 to make a computer-lively adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story; and nearly $1 million in pledges to finance a band to friction iPod Nanos as wristwatches. Clearly, the crowd had some spare cash, and if it paid for all those other ideas, why not ours? (It involved artists creating signs advertising imbecilic hypothetical uses for neglected buildings in New Orleans.) We decided to give it a try. We’d turn to Kickstarter: the people’s N.E.A.!

Source: Tuscaloosa News

News

Snooki and Jessica Simpson: How Much Money Will They Make Off of Their Babies?

E! Online - May 20, 2012

I gotta be informed: How much can stars like Jessica Simpson and Snooki make off of their babies these days? Are they earning more than their day jobs by selling out their fetuses? Make no goof: Having a baby while famous can make your richer than rich.

Photo: Contributed - AP

Castanet.net - May 20, 2012

The same gather had previously pranked Bill Gates, Britney Spears, Paul McCartney and Sarah Palin, among others. "We thought: 'why not impersonate Jean Dujardin, one of the hottest people in Hollywood amend now, to see how Charlie Sheen would react?

The 8 Ball 04.02.12: Top 8 Examples Of Music Disowned By The Musicians

411mania.com - May 20, 2012

Being a somewhat reclusive geek who has the social life of John Wayne Gacy with halitosis, I never would have guessed that I'd ever get to do something this audacious, even when writing little music reviews for my own amusement over a year and a half ago.

Britney Spears to judge 'X Factor'?

CNN (blog) - May 20, 2012

Might as well get Lindsey, then, too. LOL That will be the end of THAT show. I assume from Britney and more so, Janet Jackson; they have some years under their belt giving them the capacity to judge. BUT Katy Perry is entirely too new to have that much

Mega-Millions 101: What You Need to Know Before the Mega-Draw

Fox News - May 20, 2012

They're also wondering if the payoff will reminder Illinois to take the next big step: launching online poker, blackjack and other casino games.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) The Mega Millions jackpot is at a in the seventh heaven record $640 million.