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Teen YouTube sensation Rebecca Black sings gleefully about the weekend in her Web video hit "Friday," – and now the 13 year-old has something even more exciting to crow about. "Friday" has been viewed online more than Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and Justin Bieber's "Pray," Visible Measures, a company that tracks performance of Web videos said on Monday. Black's low-budget video, which the California teen made with a boutique record label, has generated nearly 100 million views on YouTube since it was posted online on Feb. 10. But Visible Measures said that including copies of the video, spoofs and...

The winner for Friday’s video challenge was Jim F on our Facebook who said of the weird Russian wedding where everybody is dressed up as bears: It symbolizes Putin’s dream of Russian reunification. Notice the friendly but resistant Siberians preferring to dance alone? To get your free MRC bumper sticker just email us! Today’s video challenge features two grown men at a hockey game dancing to Rebecca Black’s infamous song Friday. The Daily What thinks it’s staged but they’re Canadians so do they really have anything better to do? Anyway, your task is to find the political analogy concealed within.

No one seems to like the song, except the singer/songwriter and to be honest I am not one of the 30 million views, although I have been fascinated by the viral nature of the story. But When Forbes jumped on the band wagon, well I had to post. Read it and weep my little toiling mobsters. The girl is Rebecca Black, a 13 year old who composed and wrote a song about … umm … Friday? There’s nothing steller about the singing and the lyrics are exactly what you would expect from a 13 year old with all the emotional...