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By Andrew Byers

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Heath McNease lays his heart on the line in today's video of the day for his song, "Calls That Never Come." The Charlie Chaplin-inspired black and white video is exactly what you need to get your week started on the right foot... Discuss

 

According to some recent reports, Christopher Nolan is in early talks to direct the next 007 movie. The Daily Mail story says that the “informal” talks with the director, who revived the Batman franchise with the Dark Knight Trilogy, don’t necessarily mean that he’ll definitely be getting behind the wheel of the next James Bond adventure though. Nolan is currently in the pre-production phase of the sci-fi film Interstellar, and may be unwilling to undertake another big project with his busy schedule. But, the story also notes, Nolan is a big fan of the classic spy franchise … Discuss

 

Do you have an epic beard? Well, an advertising firm in Kentucky is now willing to pay you $5 a day to walk around with a mini-billboard in it. The agency behind, “Beardvertising”, Cornett-IMS, will provide you with the signage, all you have to do is apply on their website, clip the ad on your beard, sit back and watch the checks roll in … Discuss

 

This weekend, Pete Holmes’ podcast You Made It Weird hosted its first “non-comedian” guest—author and pastor Rob Bell. Distributed by the Nerdist comedy network, You Made It Weird has become a mainstay on the iTunes top 100 for it’s A-list guest interviews. The podcast from comedian Pete Holmes typically features conversations between fellow stand-up acts and actors (recent guest include Jim Gaffigan, Aziz Ansari, Jeff Garlin, Joel McHale) as they engage in long conversations about life and their careers in the entertainment business. But, as he reveals in the opening to this week’s show, Holmes is a fan of Rob Bell’s books. Bell was also a guest on a recent episode of The RELEVANT Podcast, available here. The entire two-hour conversation between Holmes and Bell is available on iTunesDiscuss

 

According to multiple reports, Yahoo will buy social blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. As CNBC points out, Yahoo has a reputation for making high-dollar acquisitions ($35 million for Flickr, $3.6 billion for GeoCities, $5.7 billion for Broadcast.com) and then allowing the sites to fade from prominence. Even though Tumblr, which is owned by its 26-year-old founder David Karp, has a large user-base, it still isn’t a very profitable enterprise and has struggled to make much money from advertising. Many tech analysts and those familiar with the platform see the move as a major gamble for Yahoo: Best-case scenario, Yahoo improves on a simple, clean, blogging experience; worst-case scenario, they just paid a billion dollars for a lot of funny cat GIFs … Discuss

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