The Voices in Frank's Head

Dear Editors of the  Detroit Free Press : Rima Fakih - Miss USA press photo Earlier today, you published a post on your website that invited visitors to vote as to which famous woman had the best cleavage. This, of course, is yet another example of  click bait . I know that the internet age has made it hard to do professional journalism in the 21st century. Many outstanding newspapers have shut down and countless others are struggling simply to get by. The fact that we are both working in an economically challenge city like Detroit certainly does not make things easier for you. I get all of these things. I really do. However, I regret to inform you that rating cleavage is my gimmick, not yours. Please find a new one. Thank you, Frank Nemecek Subscriber and former Detroit Free Press  paperboy

The Women Bringing You Sandwiches page on Facebook is organizing their 3rd annual "Women Bringing You Sandwiches Day" on May 17. The vast majority of people who have found this page appear to enjoy it for the good heartened joke that it was intended to be. However, there is a certain segment of the internet population that have responded with profanity laced insults, not only for the organizers of this but for those who would participate in it. Women Bring Sammiches - And Controversy It's both amazing and, quite frankly, a little depressing that something as simple as woman bringing a sandwich can prompt tirades of profanity and stupidity. I know that there is something about the internet that always brings out the craziest of the crazies. I'm also relieved to note that for every one person who left a such post, there are approximately a hundred other Facebook users who are sensible about it. Still, the anti-women bringing sandwiches tirades are at least a li...

I see the "geniuses" who run Facebook changed the way pictures display when you click on them in your news stream. I guess they were worried that their upcoming IPO would be too successful. Not to be outdone in the "crappy interface category", Twitter changed their layout as well. My news stream is now in the right hand column, where I don't expect it to be. I guess this is their way of getting more people to actually look at the "who to follow" box. If only the "who to follow" box had suggestions in it that were worth following. All in all, I really have to ask: who designs this crap? Update @ 10:31 p.m. I just noticed something unique about the new Facebook photo display. There is now an "featured story" (formerly known as an "advertisement") with every photo that anyone looks at on Facebook. I don't have problem with Facebook, or anyone else for that matter, making money from a product or service. I ...

Who was the idiot who allowed their 8 year old sister to design the latest update to Google Chrome? This new one is batty. The extensions that I had installed have disappeared. The settings are all changed. McAfee's Site Advisor keeps returning, no matter how many times that I uninstall it. And the thing doesn't have any actual improvements to it. It's just a contraption to keep annoying me. I think it's time to switch back to Internet Explorer.

Lindsay Lohan - 40+ Lindsay Lohan's photo shoot with Playboy has found its way on-line . She was supposedly trying to recreate Marilyn Monroe's last known photo shoot. Someone told her that this would revive her career. Unfortunately, no one told her to look in the mirror. Looking at this woman in the Playboy photos, I can't believe that she's only 25 years old. If I didn't know better, I would swear that Lindsay Lohan was in her 40s. The calender says Lindsay Lohan is only 25 years old, but the Playboy photos say she is at least 40.

Justine Ezarik There's a theory that all of us have a doppleganger. That is someone who naturally looks just like us. I believe that I have found Justine Ezarik's doppleganger. She, of course, is more commonly known as iJustine  and she creates videos for YouTube. Her doppleganger's name is Svetlana , although her last name is unknown. She is from Kherson , which is medium sized city (population 329,000) in southern Ukraine. Of course, Svetlana doesn't make videos for YouTube like her double. Instead, she is on-line looking for a husband. She is a 22 year old manicurist and mail order bride. Svetlana All of this makes me wonder if any of iJustine's fans would consider marrying Svetlana and bringing her to the United States so they could have their own Justine Ezarik. I also wonder if Justine Ezarik has ancestors from the Ukraine. If so, Svetlana could be a long lost cousin of hers. You can see more iJustine/Justine Ezarik here . More inform...

I got a press release today from someone who obviously doesn't have a calendar handy. It starts out: New Viral Site Just In Time for Halloween | Courtesy of THE WOMAN IN BLACK The emphasis on the words "just in time for Halloween" is, of course, mine. Did I mention that I received this today ?

Some interesting press releases find their way into my email in-box. I got this one from a group called Fight for the Future. It's one of the more interesting ones that I've received and I will post in its entirety below, without any further editing, just because I find it so provocative. Justin Bieber - Headed to Jail WORCESTER, MA -- Fight for the Future (FFTF), a new organization vowing to fight for Americans' tech freedoms, warns Justin Bieber and his fans that the teen pop sensation could suffer five brutal years in prison if a bill pending in the Senate becomes law. S.978 (text below) by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) would make it a felony for Internet users to stream unlicensed content 10 times in 180 days. The bill is being pushed by the Recording Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, and others who seek to crush to Internet freedoms for the sake of higher corporate profits. ...

Marvel Studios announced on Friday that the trailer for next summer's most highly anticipated movie,  Marvel's The Avengers , has been downloaded over 10 million times in its first 24 hours on iTunes Movie Trailers , shattering the most-viewed trailer record in the site's history. Scarlett Johansson is the Black Widow The trailer, which debuted Tuesday, October 11, exclusively on iTunes Movie Trailers, gave fans a sneak peak at Marvel's The Avengers - the Super Hero team up of a lifetime-based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series The Avengers , first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Marvel's The Avengers  unites the world's greatest super heroes when Iron Man ( Robert Downey, Jr. ), Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ), Captain America ( Chris Evans ), The Incredible Hulk ( Mark Ruffalo ), Hawkeye ( Jeremy Renner ) and Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson ) join S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Nick Fury ( Samue...

I came across the wonder of EyeHandy.com , which uses beautiful women in bikinis or lingerie to explain how to do certain things. Their most recent one introduces use the beautiful and talented Chelsea who shows us how to clean any mirror spotlessly  without any streaks, lint, or residue left behind. If you'll excuse me, thanks to Chelsea and the team at EyeHandy, I have a sudden desire to clean every mirror in my home. And for any raging feminist who happens to find this blog post, before you post any comments, I will simply ask: when was the last time you came across a bachelor who was suddenly motivated to do housework without any complaints?

Mark Zuckerberg  referred to the Ticker as being part of "frictionless experience" on Facebook during the F8 Conference. Really?!? That's like referring to the Pacific Ocean as a "waterless experience."

I got one of the very first Spotify accounts in the United States. The folks at Spotify actually said, "Frank, we've always been impressed with your incredibly awesome task in music. Will you please open an account with us?" Okay - it might not have gone down exactly like that. Regardless, I did get one of the first Spotify accounts in the United States. As such, I thought it would be fun to share a couple of my music lists. Frank's Fun Mix is an eclectic mix of pop, hip-hop, and rock music that spans the past 20 years. Everyone of the songs on this list makes my day just a little bit better. It includes both national acts as well as a couple of great Detroiters. You can listen to it by clicking here . Irish & Proud is fun mix of music by Irish and Irish-American musicians. For the delightful pop sounds to The Corrs, to the storytelling of Gaelic Storm, to the Celtic Rock of the Young Dubliners. You can listen to it by clicking here . No wonder the folks at...

I originally posted about this over on my neighborhood blog , but I wanted to mention it here as well on my personal one. I thought I would take you behind the scenes on my day job. I run a video production company and we were in Ypsilanti this past weekend to create a pilot for a reality television show called Club Cantina . We'll pitch the show to the various television networks. If that doesn't work, it is still has some great opportunities for an internet based show as well. I'll post more about the show later. For now, though, I wanted to give you a behind the scenes look at life on the set.

I uploaded a video late last night that featured a series of photographs of women in French maid costumes. (The video, of course, is available below.) It was my tongue in cheek toast to Bastille Day, which is today. That video has since received more than 100 views in under 24 hours. To put that in perspective, most of the videos that I put on-line only get 20 - 30 views in a 24 hour time period. ( Philip DeFranco I am not.) Why it's as if the internet is populated by people who enjoy seeing beautiful women dressed up in French maid costumes.

Philip DeFranco , who is one of my favorite YouTubers, posted a question on his Facebook page earlier this week. He asked, what was the best mattress to have sex on? Spring, foam, or water? I chimed in, sarcastically, to say that the best option was neither - a hammock is infinitely superior. I checked back a little while later and noticed that five people indicated that they liked my comment. I was pleasantly surprised. Five people liked my oddball sense of humor. But then I clinked on the link to see who those five people were. And noticed that four of the five were girls - all either currently in high school or just recently graduated from high school. Two thoughts came to mind at that point. First, I felt like a pervert for even looking at the Facebook profile of a girl in high school. Second, and perhaps most importantly, I reminded myself once again that if I ever have a daughter, there will be a moat around our house and her internet usage will be strictly mo...

Back in the 1960s, there were some great political protests in the United States. Ever since then, we've gotten rather lazy at it. A bunch of people, a few signs, a celebrity speaker, maybe a catchy chant if we were lucky. That was pretty much it. Throughout the Middle East, however, we've seen massive demonstrations that put ours to shame, all organized using the social media platforms that were invented in the United States. She Doesn't Like Dirty Rats My personal favorite for a political protest, though, comes from Russia. There have been a multitude of young people over there protesting the political corruption that runs rampant in their country. One group of young women, however, added an entire new twist to the matter by creating a calendar of themselves protesting in their lingerie . Each month features a different young woman in her underwear with humorous but provocative caption. The one at right, for example, reads "Dirty Rats Are Disgusting." Ano...

There's a short video clip of a five year old little girl circulating the internet. In it, she emphatically explains that she won't get married until she has a job. Somewhere in the world, I suspect there is a little boy saying, "Your job is to shut up and gimme a sammich."

She Googled Her Wedding Google launched Google Weddings recently. It's designed to use the existing free Google tools to simplify wedding planning. Google Docs  provides a budget template, Picasa provides photos albums , and so on. They even have partners like Boutiques.com to help find the perfect wedding dress and Google Googles for your smart phone to help brides get more details on things they see in print. Yes, Google Weddings really does do everything possible to simplify wedding planning. My first reaction is that this just seems a bit odd to use Google to plan a wedding. However, I'm also painfully aware of the fact that I'm a guy. As such, my first thoughts about weddings in general are to simplify them by running away as quickly as I possibly can. Unless, of course, there's a cool wedding cake at the reception along with lots and lots of booze. In which case, that's an all together different story. Mmm... Cake...

I found this photo on-line and all that I can say is, "Wow!"

The folks at Del Taco have a series of videos up on YouTube. They're both disturbing and brilliant. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a sudden desire to visit my local Del Taco.