The Superferry, The Nukak, "Do an R. Kelly," Big Brother, and The Highest Paid Actor is...

Well, not him, but this is a Nukak boy with the cutest monkey ever.

1. "Like anything else, you're never going to make everyone happy," said Warren Watanabe, a member of the Superferry advisory panel. Unfortunately the island-bridging Superferry in planning in Hawaii is hardly making anyone happy, pissing off environmentalists, farmers, locals, lawyers and lawmakers. Set to ferry passengers around the islands on July 1, 2007, the $235m project has mainly raised concerns in disturbing the environmental equilibrium, say, injuring humpback whales or transporting species that are not meant to spread across islands, such as the biting ant. But the awesomeness of it lies in the $42 fare and its ability to carry 900 people and 250 cars, which you can just poot poot off onto another island then! (CNN)

2. Troi Torain or Star of "The Star and Bucwild Morning Show" of 105.1 has been fired by Clear Chanel for his disgusting remarks to the 4-year-old daughter of rival, DJ Envy of Hot 97. The comment that got him fired? "If you didn't hear me, I said, I would like to do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle on her." He then offered $500 to the listener that would track the 4 year old down and called Envy's Asian-African wife a "slant-eyed whore wife." Torain (as well as his morning show team) had been fired by Hot 97 in 2001 for playing sound effects of a plane crashing and a woman screaming after Aaliyah's death. Some people never learn. (All Hip Hop)

3. The NSA has been warrentlessly compiling phone information for tens of millions of Americans with the help of three telecommunication companies--AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth (Qwest has refused to provide the info)-- since the 9/11 attacks. Most of the Americans under surveillance aren't even suspected of any crime. Be reassured, the invasive and massive database's purpose is to find and track any terrorist pattern or activity--the NSA does not listen to the phone calls. Nonetheless if you're a customer to the above companies--who isn't?--the government now has detailed records of any domestic calls you made, which is interesting because only a year ago, Bush said that the NSA was interested only in international calls. Thank you Qwest for your lone commendable pushback. (USA Today)

4. Destined to be turned into a movie by a brilliant Hollywood executive, some 80 members, pet monkeys in tow, of the Nukak-Makú hunter-gatherer tribe left their life and home in the Amazon jungle and joined the modern world. They have no concept of money, government, property, the existence of Columbia, or, as the NYT points out, aerodynamics, but would nonetheless "want to join the white family [Columbian society]" but not "forget the words of the Nukak."

5. Completely sweet. Chris Tucker is now the highest paid actor in Hollywood, landing $25 million for reprising his role in Rush Hour 3. Apparently Rush Hour 2 earned the most out of any comedy. Wait a sec...what about Jackie Chan? (Contact Music)