Well this is interesting: fresh off of buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, Yahoo! is making a bid for Hulu.

Reports Reuters:

Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid told Reuters on Friday.

As someone who once worked at Yahoo!, I think the reaction of Chris Lehmann, my former boss at Yahoo!, sums up my feelings about this perfectly…

Attention all of you people out there who are trying hard to be good at Instagram: just give it up and go back to posting dimly lit photos of the fried frog legs you had at dinner the other night, because DJ Khaled — the man perhaps most famous for randomly yelling “DJ KHALED” in tracks that feature him — is just better at Instagram than you are. Obviously. All I know is that from now whenever anyone asks who I’m on the phone with my default response will be “wit the owner of iTunes.”

With that said, a couple of quick announcements: we’ll be around this weekend, posting sporadically. Of particular note: Josh is going to binge on the new season of Arrested Development as soon as it goes live and will write up a recap/discussion post shortly thereafter that will go up at some time on Sunday. On Monday, I’m going to post my recap/discussion post on the previous night’s episode of Mad Men around noon or 1pm EST. Also, Burnsy may pop in on Monday to toss up a post or two if anything strikes his fancy. Otherwise, we’re going to try to take it a little easy this weekend, just as I’m sure a lot of you are planning to do.

With that said, have a great one.

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To the surprise of no one, there’s a Girls porn parody in the works, because if ever there was a show virtually begging to be parodied by a porno flick, it’s Girls. Here’s how Xbiz.com describes the Hustler-produced film.

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Well of course it’s Florida. It’s almost always Florida!

Scott Simon was arrested Tuesday night for the murder of 33-year-old Nicholas Walker, who was shot while driving his car onto I-95.

It was a butt-dialing blunder that led police to the man they say orchestrated the fatal shooting. Now they’re looking for his co-conspirators.

In the accidental phone call to 911, Simon is recorded telling someone else that he’s going to follow the victim home and kill him.

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According to reports, Simon coordinated the shooting after an argument with Walker at a nearby Waffle House.

Sorry, Ohio, you are not only not in the same league as Florida, you’re not even playing the same sport. Step it up, Buckeyes!

This morning Time magazine published some photos of President Obama taken the night of his senior prom (OMG HIS DATE WAS A WHITE GIRL!!!)  along with a flirty note he wrote in his best friend’s prom date’s yearbook. All of this just confirms what we already knew about our president. Dude was a playa.

The photo above shows Obama with his then-best friend Greg Orme, Orme’s date Kelli Allman (who supplied the pics to Time) and Obama’s date Megan Hughes. About the future president, Allman said: “He was very intelligent and witty. He and I really clicked. We had great vibes between us.”

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