News Flash: Obama’s School Speech, Hair Solar Panel, Ludacris Gives Cars

Obama’s School Speech, Was Just a Speech?

OMG Obama is going to turn our kids socialist with his words! Turns out, not at all. Obama’s speech to the students of Wakefield High School in Arlington County was televised on C-SPAN today and most students in America watched. He spoke of staying in school and doing your best and just the basic thing any students is told to do in school, but this time the president is saying it. Conservatives just had a field day with this thinking that Obama would spread the wrong kind of message to their kids. But the speech has come and gone and there aren’t a bunch of newly brainwashed socialist running around, so yeah crisis averted i guess.

Teenager invents £23 Solar Panel Using Hair!

Milan Karki, an 18 year old teen from Nepal, just wanted to provide electricity for his rural village. The young inventor has replaced the expensive silicon conductors in solar panels with human hair. What Karki made isn’t anything more than a science fair project that can produce about 9V of electricity, but researchers could take this idea further and make cheaper solar panels to provide electricity to poor third world countries. So yeah give a kid a medal or something.

Luda Pulls an Oprah on Fans

Rapper Ludacris gave out 20 new cars to deserving fans after an essay contest talking about people’s struggles in a failing economy. He says he was taken back after reading thousands of essays. This was done in the Atlanta area through a partnership between The Ludacris Foundation (funny name) and Nissan South. So does this raise or lower his street cred?

New Game for the Dreamcast?

Actually yes, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Dreamcast, Redspotgames will release a new racer called Rush Rush Ralley Racing. You will be able to buy it for $22.10 on Amazon and eBay stores. And gamers will buy it, cause if you bought a Dreamcast, we know you never threw it out or sold it.

Beatles Not Coming to iTunes

After getting everyone’s hopes up with rumors that the entire Beatles catalog would be available for download on iTunes. Peter Kafka disagrees with these rumors. Tomorrow will mark two other definite Beatles releases on 9-9-09 with The Beatles: Rockband and a rerelease of the catalog on compact disk. Apple will however be announcing their new iPod lineup tomorrow and possibly other new products.

Rapid Fire News

-David Beckham wants to play in the future Montreal MLS team in 2012

-UFC Fighter Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson will play Mr. T’s famous B.A. Baracus character in the A-Team remake movie

-A woman fell off a cliff after accepting a marriage proposal, but she’s in a hospital and is doing ok

-Germany has AIDS awarness ads with Hitler in them (riiiiiiiiiight)

-Janet Jackson will be opening this Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, question is, whhhyyy?