international players
daily dos
thu 6/26/2008
- Check out hip hop videos (Rihanna, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne) made in the video game The Sims. (via Kotaku)
- Pedro Zapeta, a Guatemalan man who had $49,000 in cash confiscated by federal authorities, has won an appeal to have some of his money returned. In 2005, Zapeta was detained by Florida airport officials for not declaring $59,000 in cash – the legal limit is $10,000 – he planned to take to Guatemala. According to Zapeta's lawyer, the dishwasher should have been fined $5,000, not $49,000.
- Daddy Yankee's new film, Talento de Barrio, is set to premiere next month at the HBO Film Festival in New York.
- The U.S. military needs $100 billion to repair and replace damaged and destroyed equipment, vehicles and weapons, according to members of Congress.
- Entertainment Weekly's 25 Perfect Movie Posters features a virgin, two gay cowboys and a killer robot.
- In a radio interview, Snoop Dogg revealed that Detox, Dr. Dre's long-awaited follow-up to Chronic 2001, is finished: "You know me, I was starting to doubt it myself and then I went up in there and he played so much music for me it knocked my head off." (via The Daily Swarm)

