It seems celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton was assaulted by Will.I.Am around Midnight PST Sunday night. According to his Twitter account, right now he is bleeding outside the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel in Toronto.

After the alleged attack Perez sent out a call for help on Twitter, which apparently is better than calling the police. I’m sure the mounted police are rushing to the scene right now.

From Ze Frank’s new TIME video series ‘That makes me think of…’, the above image breaks down some of the structure of the Iran government. No wonder things are so wonky.

See the video

(via Laughing Squid)

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I like this new service Hunch by Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fink. It takes every day questions and helps you find the answer. It learns about you by asking you a few questions in return. I’ve tested a few queries and found the answers pretty spot on, in fact it even told me that Hunch was indeed the best collective knowledge site for me:

Yes I like this site and here’s why:

• Low Entry Point: Right away I can start interfacing with Hunch. I don’t have to create an account, or worse, go and build yet another social network. I can immediately start asking a question or giving the site input about me.
• Man vs Machine: After a few clicks you can already see there is a very powerful algorithm behind Hunch. However where you find unique computing knowledge, you also find a fair amount of human curation as well. From the questions themselves, to the answer you get back. The experience feels very personal, something that is difficult to find from a search experience today.
• Rich Index: It’s always nice to find a site with a healthy content index right at launch. On Hunch you can explore their topics section and quickly find a question of interest. Where most new search experiences leave the user saying “Uhhhh, What should I search for?”, Hunch makes it easy to discover your next step.

Give it a try yourself and let me know in the comments how it went.

Hunch around the web:

• Search Engine Land
• TechCrunch
• Official Blog

More:

• Marshall Kirkpatrick
• Scobleizer
• CNET
• Memeorandum

Via the official blog, Wordpress 2.8 “Baker” is now available for download. I’m not going to upgrade just yet, but as you can see in the above video, there are some nice new features available.

Congratulations California, you have a new Miss and her name is Tami Farrell. No word yet on her views of equality etc, but she certainly is A LOT hotter than Carrie Prejean.

From Manolith:

Formerly Miss Mailbu, Tami Farrell will now be taking over as the newly crowned Miss California. Former Miss CA Carrie Prejean lost her title today, after month’s of controversy and “breach of contract” issues. We all know the real reason was of because of her politically incorrect answer to Perez Hilton and those risque pictures that leaked out last month.

This much:

2.7 million visitors at the height of its “viral-ness”. Not too bad.

Visit http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com to see why.

The new Apple iPhone was just announced, its name the iPhone 3Gs.

Here are some of the details:

• The S Stands for Speed
• Video, 30 Frames Per Second
• Better Camera 3 MegaPixel, Auto Focus, Auto white balance
• Compass? (lame)
• Voice control? (lame)

Photos via Gizmodo

Silicon Valley mega investor Ron Conway wants to invest in the real time web, big time.

TechCrunch reports he wants to invest in some 40-50 new companies focused on real time data. 

I’ve been thinking about real time web experiences A LOT lately. I look at things like FriendFeed and Twitter and I see the beginning of something very unique. I think Conway does too. If you could create a similar experience for the masses, I think you’d have yourself something great.  

So what are you waiting for?