Hasta La Gadget!

Poor, poor Justin Bieber. He created some music, and all he wanted to do was share it with the world. The teenage Canadian pop star attempted to upload his new song “Pray” to his YouTube account, only to be blocked by the service’s copyright protection software. The Google-owned video sharing site informed him that the content was the property of Universal Music Group–his label.

Bieber was pissed, so naturally he took to Twitter to air his aggressions, writing, “yo youtube…how u gonna block my own song?!?!?!” Oh snap, son.

Scorned, the Biebz turned to the arms of another, “dear youtube…we started this journey and now u r cheatin on me with this vevo chica…i see how it is…i will be over here with facebook,” he followed up in another tweet.

YouTube tweeted back, stating, “sorry about the upload pain around ‘Pray’. That’s between you and your label but we love you [both] so let’s figure this out!” Alas, Bieber would not stick around to find out if the site would make good on its promise. He did indeed upload the video to YouTube. Again, on Twitter, “no one keeps my music from my fans. nobody.”

Larry and Sergey, consider yourselves warned. 

A 36-year-old Bucks County, Pennsylvania resident was sentenced to eight to 20 years in jail for a beating. The judge reportedly gasped upon seeing images of the victim. The man was high on prescription drugs. When the police arrived, he told them that he was Obi-Wan Kenobi.

The man, Milan Marinkovic, apparently doesn’t remember the incident. He told the press, “I woke up in a holding cell at the police station,” his mind a blank. When police arrived at the scene, the faux-Jedi master was standing above Sean Delp, his 30-year-old victim.

Delp says that Marinkovic approached him in a parking lot, seemingly unprovoked. Marinkovic choked him, punched him, elbowed his face, and finally stopped on his head, rendering him unconscious.

“I hope one day that he can function in society without waking up with blood on his hands, but I don’t know when that will be,” Delp told the press.

Upon viewing the images, the judge told Marinkovic, “”This is, without a doubt, the worst case I’ve ever seen involving a beating that did not result in death. This was absolutely an attempt on your part to kill this man.”

So much for the Jedi mind trick.

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Times Square is known for plenty of things–Broadway theaters, the giant, illuminated ads, the New Year’s Eve ball drop. Until fairly recently, it was known for being the epicenter of adult entertainment, as well, until then-Mayor Giuliani “Disneyfied” the space, pushing smut shops to the outskirts of the area.

Dutch Student Justus Bruns wants to make the area famous for another reason: he has gathered a group of art enthusiasts together to help him convert Times Square into a temporary art space. The group is trying to get together enough money to buyout all of the billboards and video displays in Times Square for a day, a feat that will cost them an estimated $24 million.

Bruns launched the Times Square to Art Square effort 11 months ago and is attempting to pull together funds via the Web. He told AOL, “This is about dreaming to make the impossible possible,” adding, “We really want to be a bottom-up movement to show the world what is possible using the Internet.”

Bruns insists that the project isn’t anti-advertising–it’s just pro-art,

It’s a sad fact that you can only see art in museum–that you really have to pay $15 to go see art. To use billboard space for art doesn’t mean we are against advertising. We just think it would be a great way to show art to people.