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Check out Jamie Foxx’s new “Blame It” music video, the latest single off his album Intuition. The singer was joined by Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, director Ron Howard, Cedric the Entertainer and Quincy Jones. The vid was directed by Hype Williams, who most recently did Kanye West’s “Heartless” and Coldplay’s “Vida La Vida.”

And in more Jake news, Carrey, Gyllenhaal to do ‘Yankees’ I’m a Yankee . . . oh, the musical. New Line Cinema is playing ball with Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal on “Damn Yankees,” attaching both actors to star in a contemporized film transfer of the classic musical.

Struggline LGBT Filmmakers Receive Grants With subjects mirroring today’s headlines, black lesbian strippers, Olympic scandals, edgy Asian cinema, and gays fighting back hate-crimers are the focus of the four revolutionary independent films receiving funding from Frameline’s 2008 Film & Video Completion Fund.

Buffy’s Amber Benson’s New Book ‘Death’s Daughter’ Nice to know she’s been up to something . . . .

Washington Home of Activist Made Historic Site Franklin E. Kameny, 83, considered by academics and historians to be the father of gay activism, brought the first civil rights claim in a U.S. court based on sexual orientation in 1961. His home was the center of the gay rights struggle.

NYC Gets Greener Gadgets On February 27, 2009 innovators, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and eco-designers will return to New York City to discuss the future of sustainability for the consumer electronics industry

We Could Discover Earthlike Planets By 2013 Scientist Alan Boss, who’s just written a new book called “The Crowded Universe,” says that with NASA launching the Kepler satellite finding Earthlike planets should be relatively easy.

Ed McMahon Diagnosed With Cancer McMahon has been in the intensive care unit and was recently diagnosed with systemic bone cancer.

The Ukrainian Li’l Kim Check out Aza, the self-proclaimed “Ukrainian Queen of Rap” — after hearing her throw it down, you won’t be surprised she writes all her own lyrics.

Geeking Out With Rachel Maddow Over Cocktails, Lip Gloss & Politics One of the gals over at Jezebel sat down with Huck Maddow and asked her all about her lip gloss.