Yahoo's Odd News of the Week With Phil Lamarr

This week, a paraglider his hit by birds and it was recorded by a helmut cam, a special Double-Double delivery and an 8 day dive record.

Here's the link:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/oddnews-22772304/odd-news-paraglider-vs-bird-double-double-delivery-8-day-dive-record-27140303.html

Amazon Opens Kindle Lending Library

Today, Amazon.com, Inc. announced the launch of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. With an Amazon Prime membership, Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free - including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers - as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates. No other e-reader or ebookstore offers such a service. With an annual Prime membership, the Kindle Owners' Lending Library is included at no additional cost. Millions of Prime members enjoy free two-day shipping, unlimited streaming of nearly 13,000 movies and TV shows, and now thousands of books to borrow for free with a Kindle.

"Owning a Kindle just got even better. Today, we're introducing a new Prime benefit built for Kindle: The Kindle Owners' Lending Library," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. "Prime Members now have exclusive access to a huge library of books to read on any Kindle device at no additional cost and with no due dates."

The Kindle Owners' Lending Library offers access to a wide array of categories and genres in fiction and non-fiction, and includes popular titles such as Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Big Short and Liars' Poker by Michael Lewis, TheHunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen --plus award-winning books such as The Finkler Question and Guns, Germs, and Steel, memoirs such as Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, and motivational books like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Just as with any other Kindle book, your notes, highlights and bookmarks in borrowed books will be saved, so you'll have them later if you purchase or re-borrow the book. Books are borrowed from a Kindle device, and customers can have one book out at a time. When customers want to borrow a new book, any borrowed book can easily be returned right from their device.

Titles in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library come from a range of publishers under a variety of terms. For the vast majority of titles, Amazon has reached agreement with publishers to include titles for a fixed fee. In some cases, Amazon is purchasing a title each time it is borrowed by a reader under standard wholesale terms as a no-risk trial to demonstrate to publishers the incremental growth and revenue opportunity that this new service presents.

"The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is a great new benefit for Kindle owners and an entirely new growth opportunity for authors and publishers," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. "With the growth in Prime membership and the recent addition of Prime Instant Video, we've been able to broaden our relationships with movie and TV studios such as CBS, Fox, and NBCUniversal and significantly increase their revenue. We're excited to expand that investment to books - with this launch, we expect three immediate results: Kindle owners will read even more, publisher revenues will grow, and authors will see larger royalty checks."

Modern Family Quotes from "Treehouse"

Gloria insists on a night of salsa dancing with Jay; Cameron goes too far when Mitchell and a friend challenge him to get a hot woman's number and can Phil build a tree house?

Here are the quotes:

Phil:  I'm building Luke a tree house.

Phil: Those geese would've followed me to the wetlands.

Gloria: Jay hates the rainbows.

Gloria: Jay also hates running.

Cam: The waitress is floating with me.

Cam: I met Julia Roberts once at an AIDS walk.

Shorty: Hear that Jay, I never stop!

Cam: It's ironic, like the Gift of the Vagi.

Cam: Wham bam, thank you Cam!

Phil:  America was built with nails.

Phil: Racoons will get territorial and will attack.

Haley: Dear college, cheese makes me gassy, see you in September.

Haley: Gabby's mom is a hoarder.  That essay will pretty much write itself.

Mitchell: She had the world's worst Gaydar!

Cam: People at the time said I could go Gerber.

Cam: I want you to have a seat on the Chaise lounge.

Manny: The forbidden dance only makes me want it more.

Gloria: Who doesn't like the coconut?

Mitchell: How did it go, heartbreaker?

Cam: Help me ungay the place!

Manny: You're dancing, not invading Poland.

Mitchell: A gay man who hates dancing lives in a lonely little world.

Phil: Maybe I need a nail gun.

Luke: I think a nail is going to be harder to get out of my hair.

Cam: How fun is that handbag?

Cam: I'm fairly gay.  I'm gay.

Katie: Your theatrical hand gestures.

Cam:  You're the whole package, I just prefer somebody who has one.

Cam: I need a drink a doodle doo.

Claire: Use spell check!

Mitchell: The drug I gave him, baby aspirin.

Claire: He's a bad ass black man who gives me instant street cred.

Google Releases iOS App for Gmail, then Pulls It

It's only taken four years, but Google finally got around to releasing a native Gmail app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.  Then it got pulled from the App Store.

The new app is fast, looks nice, and adds a number of features that you don’t get with the web app.  But there apparently is a security flaw.

The Gmail app supports push notifications and audio alerts — or at least it’s supposed to.  It also allows you to autocomplete addresses by grabbing contacts from your local address book as well as your Gmail account.

The Gmail app includes touch-based gestures including the ability to refresh your inbox by pulling down on the screen. You can swipe from left-ro-right on the screen to navigate through your folders and

Priority Inbox settings. You can also now attach images to an email message.

When you use the Gmail app on an iPad, there’s a split-pane view that lets you get a good view of your what you are reading or writing.

We'll have to see exacly why it was pulled and what changes make take place.

Cheerleader Falls in Pool During Routine

Cheerleader Mariana de Leon made a major splash at the Pan Am Games in Mexico when she fell into a swimming pool while performing a cheerleading routine.

The 21-year-old was among 12 cheerleaders doing a routine to "Lambada" when she lost her footing - and landed in the water.

Despite the mistake that could have soaked their routine, De Leon and her team earned a “10″ for recovery. The rest of the cheerleaders didn’t miss a beat during de Leon’s fall and were quickly rejoined by de Leon in finishing their routine, wet uniform and all.

"I went too far back and just slipped," she told the Associated Press after her routine. "It was a small accident, but I'm fine."

She said it was the crowd's cheers that got her back up again - and quickly back on the routine.

She even returned to the night session of the event - with a dry uniform on.

"I'll be fine," she told the AP. "Maybe the attention will bring me good things."