Because the right to name the room is reserved by NASA, they have now decided to name the room “Tranquility”, after Apollo 11′s moon landing site, Sea of Tranquility.

However, they had promised to give voters the utmost consideration and so they have decided name a treadmill that astronauts train on after him. And as NASA is obviously fond of acronyms, COLBERT will stand for Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.

I love Colbert so it’s not surprising to see he has such a cult-like fan following. This reminds me of the time when he asked his viewers to purchase the soundtrack to his holiday video on iTunes at the same time on the same day in order for it to jump ahead of Kanye’s 808s and Heartbreak soundtrack as part of the “Operation Humble Kanye” and it actually worked. LOL

Everyone seems to be in love with Lady GaGa recently, and it’s not just for her music. Though she already has two consecutive number 1 hits, Just Dance and Poker Face, and is fast becoming the next pop princess, it is her eye-catching style that has made her a fashion muse.

Lady GaGa believes that the two come hand in hand. She confessed in a recent interview with MTV that as she is writing her music, she is also picturing what she’s going to wear onstage in her performances. “Fashion is everything … I want the imagery to be so strong that fans will want to eat and taste and lick every part of us.”

Hollywood is quickly taking notice and imitating Lady GaGa’s unique and quirky looks, inspiring celebs such as Christina Aguilera, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton.

Personally, I do like her music but her fashion sense doesn’t really appeal to my taste. She looks like a character who belongs on Star Trek or any other sci-fi show. She also insists on being pants-less most of the time so she is often making public appearances in what resembles underwear. I guess if you really set yourself apart from the others, you can almost guarantee that you can make it big in Hollywood.

Keith Urban and wife, Nicole Kidman are extremely happy with their one-month-old daughter which they named Sunday Rose.

Keith recently explained in an interview with US Magazine why they chose that name for her.

Urban says he and Kidman chose their daughter’s name because “we just love the name of the day. Particularly when you don’t have someone in your life. Sunday in my experience, Sunday was the loneliest day….the day I dreaded the most, ya’ know.

“Everyone goes with their families and if you don’t have a family, you don’t have anybody,” he goes on. “It went from being sort of the most dreaded day of the week for us to being the most joyous day because we just had a family.”

I just had to blog about this because I couldn’t agree more with what he had to say. It’s nice to see celebrities giving their kids unique names that have a meaning to them rather than just trying to create attention by giving their kids crazy names (such as Apple and Pilot Inspektor).

Justin Timberlake recently announced that he was not planning to release a new album anytime soon and is instead, going to be taking a break.

“Right now, I like the idea that things can just kind of pop up and if they feel right I can do them,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “Committing to my own sort of project, that’s like, ‘Okay, let me black out two years of my life and do it.’”

In the meantime, he is busy taking on small music projects with various artists such as Ciara and T.I. He is also producing a show for MTV called The Phone which is supposed to be a reality thriller. Justin hopes to explore other interests in order to make him a well-rounded artist.

His announcement has come to the dissappointment of many of his fans and some wonder if backing out of the limelight for a while will put an end to his career. Although if he does not feel passionately about creating a new album, it probably won’t live up to his last one from 2006, FutureLove/SexSounds. However, I think the mini-projects that he is taking on right now will keep him afloat should he ever decide to make a comeback.

As Facebook becomes the most prevalent social newtworking system, it poses a dilemma for many of its users. As more and more people join, many will soon find that they will be able to connect with their friends, parents, relatives, co-workers, old teachers or professors and perhaps even their boss in the same social network. As a result,  it will become harder for users to keep secrets and maintain separate social realms.

“Uniting disparate groups on a single Internet service runs counter to 50 years of research by sociologists into what is known as “homophily” — the tendency of individuals to associate only with like-minded people of similar age and ethnicity.”

I remember I was a senior in high school when Facebook first appeared and it started as a social networking site for college students only. Everyone knew that, as high school students, joining facebook was considered a rite of passage for moving on to the next phase of your life. I was able to find childhood friends that I had long lost contact with and it was nice to see what they were up to now. I even found a cousin that I haven’t seen in 10 years because he lives halfway around the world.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago and you can imagine my surprise when I recieved a friend invitatation from my 11-year-old cousin and some aunts and uncles who I rarely see. I certainly did not want them to see my old pictures of me partying it up in college.  I am certain facebook is will be detrimental when I am applying for a job and my employers come across photos of my acting like a drunk idiot. I am probably going to delete my account once I graduate, because honestly, I don’t think I want to be THAT connected to everyone. Plus, I kind of miss my privacy.

The dispute goes back to December when Warner and Youtube failed to come to an agreement on a licensing deal that would allow Warner to be paid a cut of Youtube’s advertising revenue in exchange for use of its company’s music videos, which led to Warner removing videos from the site.

This would have a huge impact on Youtube, considering that six of its top 10 most popular videos are music videos and it relies heavily on advertising as a source of revenue. While some may argue that YouTube is made of user-generated content and that these users do not profit from it, others may respond that these videos are nevertheless being shown on YouTube, which is a moneymaking enterprise.

The underlying issue of this whole dispute, however, is the interpretation of copyright laws in the digital age. With the arrival of the internet, it has become easier than ever to take copyrighted material, such as a song, and reproduce it in a way to make it into your own unique product.

Barack Obama became the first president ever to make an appearance on a late-night talk show when he sat down on Thursday to discuss his economic recovery plan among other things on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”

There were a few jokes thrown around, in which Obama compares Washington to American Idol and his bowling to a Special Olympics Event. Leno avoided any tough questions and instead asked about the AIG debacle, taxes and what it was like flying on Air Force One.

Perhaps what was most surprising about the whole interview was how unremarkable it was. Though it had never been done before, Obama’s appearance seemed like any other celebrity appearance on the show and was thus, treated like one.

Perhaps the only thing that can be taken from the whole late-night visit is an emphasis on how politics and the president himself, has become so celebritized in the public media. As one Union-Tribune staffer writes, “It’s doubtful the appearance will have any direct political impact. People who like Obama were probably comforted by his relaxed presence, and people who don’t like him will accuse him of schmoozing while the country burns.”

‘Jon and Kate Plus 8,’ a reality show on TLC documenting the lives of Jon and Kate Gosselin and their brood of eight kids consisting of twins and sextuplets, may be coming to an end after four seasons on the air.

The couple may be facing marriage problems that have been highlighted in the media in recent weeks. In an incident on February 6, Jon reportedly showed up uninvited at a college party where he played beer pong with the women’s volleyball team. Then he was spotted the next night dancing and flirting with the same girls at Memories Sports Bar & Grill. There has also been reports that Jon has been spending more time away from home and instead at his mother’s house which is a few hours away.

In addition, the final episode of their 4th season is set to air this Monday and in previews and commercials, the producers show a clip in which Jon and Kate seem unsure about the future of their marriage and of the show serving as a response to the tabloids and to also lure viewers in.

This was actually one of my favorite shows because with all the trashy reality shows that we are bombarded with on TV nowadays, this show is one of the few that is family-oriented with an emphasis on values, morals, family, love and discipline. Not surprisingly, it has become one of the highest-rated series on cable TV with an audience of 3.7 million viewers, most of them consisting of young women.

What has made this show so popular is the cultural fascination with multiples and in watching two parents struggle with raising 8 kids all under the age of 10.  Of course within any family, there is drama and disfunctionalities but most would never have it recorded on camera for the world to see. I applaud Jon and Kate for dealing with all the obstacles that they face on a regular basis and I would hate to see the family split apart. In a way, they were a reflection of the hopes and dreams I had in starting my own family someday.

For example, TMZ published a blog post reporting that Northern Trust, a bank that had received $1.6 billion in government bailouts, had been hosting hundreds of employees and clients at a golf tournament and a string of parties in Southern California. These lavish soirées included Tiffany gift bags and performances by Sheryl Crow.

Also, an ABC producer obtained video footage of Kenneth D. Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America, arriving in a private jet. The video clip was featured on “Good Morning America” along with the amount of taxpayers money it has already received in the form of government bailouts ($45 billion), the total number of jets it owned (nine), and an estimated cost per hour to maintain the jet ($5000).

The tabloid media along with other news organizations hope to expose misuses of taxpayers money in an effort to become more relevant to the economic hardships of our time as they have more of an impact on the country. Not only do they want to inform the public but they also hope to pressure Congress into taking more accountability.

“Some people said, ‘What does that have to do with the larger, overriding issue of the economy?’ I think it reflected their attitude of entitlement and failure to adapt to the times, a kind of a tin ear to what’s going on,” says Mr. Ross, a correspondent for ABC.