1000 Ways to Die - Spike TV

1000 Ways to Die appeared on the line 54 of the top Google searches for Sunday, August 3, 2008.

Spike TV announced it has ordered 1000 Ways to Die, a new reality series that will explore various and bizarre ways that a person can perish. Every 30-minutes episode of the show will tell viewers true stories about the strange deaths people have met, using witness testimonials, historical parallels, scientific explanations and CGI effects.

Some of the cases that will be covered include death from eating a jalapeno pepper; a simple scrape-turned-flesh-eating virus; and a man trapped in an avalanche with plenty of food and water, only to succumb to methane poisoning from too much of his own gas.

1000 Ways to Die is executive produced by Thom Beers, the author of Deadliest Catch, Lobster Wars and Monster Garage (Discovery Channel), and Ice Road Truckers (History Channel).

"We may not readily admit it, but we all have a strange fascination with death, particularly all the gruesome details of how it occurs" said Beers. "The bizarre humor in some of these cases is undeniable."

1000 Ways to Die originally aired on Spike TV in May as a two-part special. The show success led Spike TV to order 10 more episodes. Now, 1000 Ways to Die is scheduled to premiere during Spike’s upcoming fall season.

Episode Preview:

1000 Ways to Die - Featured Clips - Semi-cide

Original Show Clips for your Review:

1000 Ways To Die (Part 1 of 2)

1000 Ways To Die (Part 2 of 2)

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Eco-friendly Jeans from Sheryl Crow

Bootheel Trading Co search was pretty popular on Friday, August 1, capturing line 23 on the list of the 100 Not Trends searches.

Sheryl Crow is launching her own jeans line! Sheryl Crow has announced that she is starting her own fashion line with the help of her stylist. The denim label is called “Bootheel Trading Co by Sheryl Crow”. That will not be just any ordinary jeans; they are eco-friendly jeans, as continuation of her eco-closing fashion line. The estimated price is $65.The product will be hitting the stores this Fall and many are already searching for a place to by them. But reports say shoppers are already seeing the Sheryl Crow jeans in some local stores, it doesn’t seem that the exact location of where her clothing line is going to be has yet to be officially released.

Sheryl Crow is a talented singer-songwriter. Her music blends rock, country, pop, folk, and blues into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a political activist. She has performed with the Rolling Stones, and has sung duets with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and Kid Rock, among others.

Quick Snapshot from People:

February 2006 was a rough month for Sheryl Crow. She split with fiancé Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. Then, soon after her 44th birthday, a lump was found during a routine mammogram. But Crow beat breast cancer without missing a note - even returning to her tour after surgery and radiation treatment.
She broke onto the music scene in 1993 with her folksy rock album, Tuesday Night Music Club, which led to three Grammys and sold more than 7 million copies. Eight years later, she went glam at 40 with a sexier look and new pop-influenced sound that rounded her Grammy collection to nine.
Today, Crow splits her time between her music, her cancer and ecological causes

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Monster of Montauk: Is It Real?

Monster of Montauk is one of the hottest topics on Google Trends for the second day in the row, capturing the third line in the top trends list on the last day of July, 2008.

Monster of Montauk

The "Montauk Monster" washed up onshore of a New York beach in Montauk, Long Island. Several onlookers took pictures of it, sending it via e-mail on Wednesday.

According to Newsday, Alanna Navitski, an employee for Los Angeles’ Evolutionary Media Group, was behind the media frenzy. Navitski sent the picture of the "monster" to Anna Holmes, the managing editor at Jezebel, who then sent it to Gawker.

Gawker published the photo with the headline "Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk".

Many believe that it is a sea turtle without a shell or the remnants of a government animal-testing facility nearby. However, no scientific specialist has yet to identify what animal or creature this "Montauk Monster" truly is. And, the fact that the picture itself is real, and not one more falsification, should be still proven. In the age of digital photography and slick graphic artists, it is so easy to make us believe in something that is not exactly a reality.

Additional Reading:

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