• IT Crowd antipiracy ad [YouTube]

After pummeling our readers with the endlessly depressing discussion of the ongoing, precipitous decline phase of a once-meteoric show business career, we suppose that it's time to offer them the uplifting stories of those whose dreams of one day having thousands of flashbulbs directed at their accidentally exposed genitalia are still very much alive.

Recounts the Post: "PAMELA Anderson's exes got into a slapfest during the MTV Video Music Awards last night, taking jabs at each other right after their siliconed siren introduced Alicia Keys. Kid Rock and Tommy Lee were sitting precariously close to each other—given their history of rowdy behavior—at the ceremony at the Palms Casino when Rock 'sucker smacked' Lee, the Post's Sandra Guzman reports. The ensuing fight lasted 15 seconds and each man was escorted out separately by security." That fracas, unfortunately, occurred off-camera. Here, however, is our generation's Helen of Troy discussing her hot make-out session with Kanye West.

Also about last night's VMA's: What the hell happened to Sarah Silverman? Either she intentionally walked the room or she just didn't bother to put together anything involving a monologue, but either way it was a completely cringe-inducing performance. We've pulled the only two bits that actually made us chuckle.

A burly bouncer, a middle-aged club-owner type and junior MisShape Leotard Fantastic himself all tried to prevent vidboy Alex Goldberg and Emily from documenting the enormously important event that was The Final MisShapes Ever Of All Time. Leotard Fantastic was such a little bitch about it too. We'd think that if you started a party basically as a marketing device for a brand, you'd eventually realize that attempting to control the way that brand is documented is a) ultimately futile and b) ultimately not particularly beneficial to you, but maybe that's something you learn when you go to college instead of spending the college years picking out your costumes and planning which songs you're going to "DJ" off your iPod. Still, this video is the only way our children's children will be able to know what MisShapes was like. Well, that and the book, the inevitable documentary, and the ads for Jansport backpacks.

We have no words.

Boy meets startup, startup gets sued by the FTC for being a pyramid scheme, startup lays off boy, boy tapes himself playing poker on his last day and dubs in "Take This Job and Shove It." Wikipedia has the short history of this possibly criminal music store.

[*current Copsalyzer reading: simultaneous yellow and red lights]

Thomas Crampton, a former International Herald Tribune reporter turned extremely amateur videoblogger, cornered spunky Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow to discuss how to be a better blogger at a conference in China. Doctorow's advice was rather straightforward: Write headlines as if you work for a newswire so search engines can figure out what you're writing about. (We wish he had offered Crampton advice on shooting video interviews instead — or rather, how to pick up a laptop and type notes for a written blog entry, so search engines can figure out what your interviewee is talking about.) But Doctorow couldn't resist a competitive swipe at Gizmodo, the gadgets blog Boing Boing is now taking on.

We're now officially excited about whatever Britney has planned for the show, and fully expect that she'll try to live up to her MTV legacy by embracing the turbulence of her recent, tabloid-attracting life. When she takes the stage, strips off her breakaway bikini top, and takes a seat in the giant jacuzzi in which a trio of background dancers will alternate turns thrusting their greedy tongues into Spears' mouth and shaving her head with a diamond-encrusted hair clipper—all while a hail of dirty baby dolls rains down from the rafters onto a worshipping throng completely in her thrall—no one will be whooping their approval more loudly than we will.

As was much anticipated, "Inside Edition" aired their Rat Patrol segment yesterday. Did Eddie Hayes' work on behalf of Da Silvano pay off? Pretty much. In fact, every restaurant with rats shown here gets tons of response time—is Inside Edition more afraid of lawyers than of vermin?

[Note: video possibly NSFW] The release of the red-band trailer for Beowulf finally provides a promising demonstration of the powerful motion-capture technology director Robert Zemeckis has been trying to perfect over the last handful of years. While earlier versions of his moviemaking technique were able to produce nothing more impressive than disturbingly dead-eyed, animated children in The Polar Express and somewhat less disturbingly dead-eyed, animated children in Monster House, the director's mainframes can now generate computer-enhanced images of a naked, golden Angelina Jolie so compellingly lifelike that audiences will momentarily forget about all the fantasy-destroying, do-gooding baggage she's accumulated since acquiring her debilitating orphan-collecting addiction.

What better way to enjoy Fashion Week than with a look at the styles of everyday New Yorkers? Videoman Richard Blakeley hits Williamsburg, where he encounters a gentleman who works in the industry. He's not exactly sure where his clothes are from, but he likes to keep it classy, not trashy.

By now we've seen the glamour and majesty of the models strutting down the runways of Fashion Week and the celebrity guests who attend the shows, but what of the media who cover the event? Who are they wearing? We sent Richard Blakeley to Bryant Park to see what the cream of the press corp drapes itself in.

• The Tonight Show: Fred Thompson running for President [YouTube]

Last night "Extra" took a rare tour of P. Diddy's (or whatever he's calling himself these days) elegant Hamptons manse. It's a humble, almost sparse layout, which stuns the perky reporter. "Everything's white!" she exclaims. Well, you know, almost everything.

Unsatisfied by Rosie O'Donnell's disappointingly cursory video review of Whoopi Goldberg's controversial first day on The View ("Whoopi was good," said Rosie in the middle of critiquing the show's new, beige-heavy set), Defamer videographer Molly McAleer decided to take her camera to the sidewalk outside of Grauman's historic Chinese Theater, home to some of Hollywood's most outspoken and insightful media critics, for more penetrating appraisals of the show's new co-host. Unfortunately, her subjects had not yet seen Whoopi's debut, but that didn't stop them from decrying the conspirators who ousted Rosie for her 9/11 truth-telling, holding forth on Elizabeth Hasselbeck's intellect and spank-worthiness, or sharing anecdotes about their second-degree connections to the dreadlocked comedian.

As news broke that Dean Street's most famous inhabitants, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, had decided to end the almost three-year relationship that produced their adorable daughter Matilda, Emily Gould and video boy Alex Goldberg decided to walk around the 11201 zip code and learn about brownstone Brooklyn's emotional response. What they found was a neighborhood left deeply shaken, but not too shaken to eat a panini at an outdoor cafe while nursing.

Were you actually looking forward to the release of the Foleo, Palm's underpowered Linux laptop meant to be a companion to its Treo smartphones? Crushed that it was cancelled? Relive the Foleo's brief glory days thanks to this clip of Jeff Hawkins demonstrating the device on AllThingsD.com.