Hasta La Gadget!

Weird terms trend all the time. On occasion, however, we get some true gems. Remember “Bear Gall Bladder Uses?” How about “Why Won’t My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea?”

“Is Kevjumba a heterosexual bear wrestler?” certainly follows in that proud tradition. The odd phrase pretty much dominated Google search last night, carrying into this morning, leaving folks who follow such things generally scratching their collective search engine optimizing heads.

So, how does a phrase like “Is Kevjumba a heterosexual bear wrestler?” make it to the top of the Google heap? Simple. A popular YouTube video. Kevjumba is Kevin Wu–a former Amazing Race contestant. Upset that Google auto-suggests “Is Kevjumba Gay,” the reality show star suggest a more…manly search phrase. 

Wu has more than one million followers. The aforementioned video has 180,000 views and counting at the moment. The rest, they say, is viral. Video after the jump.

What better way to demonstrate the reach and speed of your 3G network than broadcasting a bear giving birth? You’ve got to hand to Verizon Wireless. At the very least, the company deserves some credit for originality.

The North American Bear Center and Whitewolf Entertainment Inc. is utilizing Verizon’s 3G service to offer worldwide video of a black bear named Lily give birth in a remote northern Minnesota cave.

Says Verizon exec Seamus Hyland,

We are thrilled to be part of such an amazing educational project. Because our 3G network service is available throughout Minnesota, we have been able to help researchers and people around the world witness this rare event.

Those interested in witnessing the miracle of 3G and, er, birth, can do so over here.

Or, rather, without a view of any of the catches. $200 is the price that Cowboy Stadium is charging football fans to stand outside. That’s $200 to stare at a TV screen in the plaza outside the east side of the stadium for the duration of the game.

“Several thousands” are expected to watch the game that way, which may well put the total game attendance (the stadium itself holds 93,000) at over 100,000–a number the Super Bowl hasn’t hit since the game was held at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium in 1987. That stadium also holds the record for highest Super Bowl attendance–103,985 in 1980.

Brian McCarthy, a spokesman for the NFL, confirmed with the Associated Press that the set up was a first time event for the Super Bowl. Let’s just hope they can see the commercials from there.

It sounds like something out of a dream: you ask for $1 million, your phone rings, and a millionaire offers you exactly what you asked for. Well, it seems that dreams really do come true — thanks to YouTube. A few months ago, 27-year-old Craig Rowin, a comic who does improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, posted a video on YouTube asking for any millionaire to come forward and give him $1 million.

Besides his work at the UCB theater, he also is a contributor to The Onion and its TV show, Onion SportsDome, and is the head writer and director for the ESPN.com webseries, “The Pretty Good Sports Show.”

Rowin’s “Please Give Me One Million Dollars” video starts with Rowin saying that the video is only for millionaires or people who know millionaires.

“Please give me $1 million. Now you have millions and millions of dollars. Give me one million. I don’t need it for anything specific, but I think it would be awesome.”

After a comical video, shown below, he asks the millionaires to e-mail him at PleaseGiveMeOneMillionDollars@gmail.com.

So, what happened after the video went public? Rowin received lots of e-mails, and finally, a man named Benjamin called to make him an offer. Really. It worked. Rowin will receive the check for $1 million live onstage at the UCB theater on February 2. Advance tickets are sold out, but there will be some available the day of the show.

You can check out the second video with a clip of Benjamin the Millionaire’s call after the jump.