The Prairies Region is third up in our 2012 Hottest Canadian bracket showdown. After two days, we’re geared up for a couple of surprising upsets and who knows which of the higher seeds might fall next. Anyway, this is the actress bracket because all eight women in today’s four new match-ups all ply their trade as actresses. Continue reading
Month: March 2012
F1 2012 Season Preview: The Rules
Welcome to part two of our 2012 Formula One World Championship season preview. Today, we look at the new rules that have been implemented this season. In the continuous search to lower costs, level the playing field, improve safety and increase the quality of races, the FIA have put into place several new rules for this season. Last year’s rules suited Red Bull quite well as they and Sebastian Vettel dominated the championship. Will this year’s new rules put someone else on top? Continue reading
Wednesday Link-Off: Twitter Wars
It’s a busy week on the blog this week between the Hottest Canadian bracket and our 2012 F1 season preview. But we still have time for the mid-week links. To kick things off, we have… Miley Cyrus? I guess she’s not banking on Disney dollars anymore. And that’s a good thing.
The latest Twitter feud wasn’t so much a fight as an absolute massacre. It was Norm McDonald vs. Rick Reilly. If this was a boxing match, Norm would’ve won by KO in the first sixty seconds. (Awful Announcing)
For such an influential man in many lives, Don Cornelius’ death went by without much of a mention. The Times profiles the man and his fall from grace. (New York Times)
The new purpose of the Gawker Media Group is to out people behind anonymous comedy Twitter accounts. This includes their recent investigation of @DadBoner. (Deadspin)
After the jump, March Madness, the science of video game difficulty and Community returns tomorrow. Continue reading
2012 Hottest Canadian: Arctic Region – First Round
We’re on to day two of the first ever Hottest Canadian. If you thought the competition was fierce (and beautiful) in the Shield Region, you’re definitely in for a treat in the Arctic Region. Among today’s eight competitors are five actresses, one model, one model slash TV commercial star and an Officer of the Order of Canada. Continue reading
F1 2012 Season Preview: Drivers and Teams
It’s that time of year again race fans. We’re days away from the V8 engines of the Formula One World Championship firing up in anger for the first time in 2012. Last season saw Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel dominate the season en route to their second consecutive championship. So to start our look at the 2012 F1 season, we look at the 12 teams that will be in the field and the 24 drivers piloting the cars. Continue reading
2012 Hottest Canadian: Shield Region – First Round
It’s the first day of competition in the first ever Hottest Canadian bracket competition which means it’s time to open up the polls for the first round in our first region. Our first group of eight Canadian women features three models, three actresses, a singer and a professional wrestling legend. Continue reading
Join The Lowdown Blog March Madness Bracket Challenge
In addition to all the other March Madness and bracketology happening here this month, we’re launching our own March Madness Bracket Challenge. If you have an ESPN.com account, signing up is as simple filling out a bracket. Click here to get to our March Madness challenge page.
Remember, this challenge is all about pride and bragging rights.
The Perfect March Madness Bracket [Infographic]
March Madness kicks off tomorrow with the First Four play-in games. Whether you watch NCAA basketball or not, almost everyone fills out a bracket at this time of year for a pool with friends or coworkers. But when you lose to the girl who knows nothing, it shouldn’t come as a shock. The odds of filling out a perfect bracket is more than one in a number so large that you probably think it’s made up.
For that and more fun March Madness facts, we have a handy infographic after the jump. Continue reading
Wallpapers of the Week: March 11, 2012
I like changing up my desktop wallpaper on a regular basis. My wallpaper at work is even a slideshow so I have a new wallpaper every thirty minutes to change things up ever so slightly. So to help you change things up for your work week, I’ve scoured Flickr for five wallpapers that are worth adding to your collection for this week. Continue reading
Sunday Link-Off: Social Media Meltdown
It’s the end of another week so it’s time for another set of links. I was hoping to kick off this post with an as of yet undiscovered woman but the return of Jennifer Love Hewitt is definitely a treat.
Twitter is the current big social network but it has one small problem: Nobody at Twitter had any idea as to how to make money from the damn thing. (Gawker)
Social media has also brought to light LRA leader Joseph Kony. However, the Invisible Children charity that’s taken social networks by storm with their Kony 2012 video have taken care of a tweet first, ask questions later public to distort the facts surrounding their case. Here’s a breakdown of what’s really going on with Kony. (Foreign Policy)
The biggest benefit for Invisible Children from the Kony campaign is the increased fundraising. But that increased money that the charity is raising isn’t likely to support the cause. (Jezebel)
After the jump, there’s a Hulk Hogan sex tape, the greatest TV network seasons of all-time and revenge of the carjacked. Continue reading
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