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Some Stuff: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
1969: Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
Joan Alexander, who first played ace reporter Lois Lane, Superman’s girlfriend on the radio in 1940, has died at age 94.
Internet rumors have Hollywood working on a new Daredevil flick. A 2003 Daredevil starring Ben Affleck was a critical bomb. Katee Sackhoff aka Starbuck from BSG rumoured to be interested in playing Typhoid Mary.
A service which lets you tweet and update you Facebook status after your death is about to be launched. WebWill allows users to prepare messages on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace which will be automatically updated if they come to an untimely end. After the system is informed of your mortal demise (from a pre-registered contact) it then updates your services which can include a blog post or spooky email to a list of friends. The service also allows the web profiles of the recently departed to be handed over to a friend or family member.
A device is being launched in the UK which uses a foot-powered air pump to charge a mobile phone. The phone charger attaches to a standard foot pump which drives a turbine. This energy is then converted into an electrical current to charge a mobile. Makers of the device claim you can generate enough energy to make a five minute call in the same time as it would take to inflate a pillow.
A Japanese company has invented a sort of wearable robot to help the paralyzed walk again. The 50 pound suit -- called HAL for Hybrid Assistive Limb -- is attached to the wearer's body. Through a voluntary control system, the robot suit detects natural electrical currents passing over the surface of the skin and interprets the wearer's intended movement. The robotic process occurs a fraction of a second before the muscles actually move. A prototype of HAL will allow a user to carry 100 pounds as if it were only a few. Eventually a robotic suit could be used in heavy labor (think a scaled-down version of Sigourney Weaver's big yellow robot suit near the end of the film Aliens).
Friday, May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Some stuff: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Leonardo DiCaprio is the favorite to play Frank Sinatra in a big screen movie about the singer -- if he can learn to sing. Sources say Leo has hired a top vocal coach to teach him how to mimic Ol' Blue Eyes. Leo has high hopes of landing the coveted part -- even though his singing was deemed not worthy for the starring role in Moulin Rouge that went to Ewan McGregor.
The L.A. Times talked to Dan Aykroyd about Ghostbusters 3. Aykroyd said Sigourney Weaver is on board, as are the original squad of ectoplasmic specialists -- Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson.
The next Terminator movie is in theaters, and along with it, a new theater gimmick: moving seats. At a theater that's showing Terminator Salvation in Bloomington, Minnesota's special seats are shaking up startled moviegoers using patented D-BOX Motion Code to make them move along with the movie. According to the description of D-BOX: Each seat moves "in perfect sync" with the onscreen action, creating an unmatched immersive experience. While audience members will experience motion during action sequences, the seats will remain still during quieter scenes. It also comes equipped with adjustable settings so individuals can customize the experience.
The International Space Station Astronauts celebrated a first yesterday as they drank water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water.
Good news for geeklovers
A survey says technology workers and other professional geeks are less selfish and more adventurous in bed. The poll of over 2,000 adults found that while geeks are great in bed, business owners and gym buffs make the worst lovers because they are too selfish. 82% of male IT workers polled said they considered their partner's sexual needs above their own, compared to just 41% of gym and fitness workers. Office workers and the unemployed came next on the list of most considerate lovers.
Some Stuff: May 20, 2009
Anybody interested in seeing some pictures of HAYDEN PANETTIERE in a bikini,
Check the blog
DreamWorks has acquired the life rights to Martin Luther King Jr. and is bringing a biopic on the slain civil rights leader to the big screen. Steven Spielberg and a couple of people you don't know will produce. The DreamWorks project marks the first film to be authorized by King's estate and gives the producers the right to utilize King's intellectual property -- including his famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the 1963 March on Washington -- to create the definitive portrait of his life.
Gossip Girl actor Chace Crawford will star in Paramount Pictures' Footloose remake. He replaces High School Musical star Zac Efron in the role that propelled Kevin Bacon to stardom 25 years ago.
Easy Rider's getting a sequel. Yep, that Easy Rider, according to move website SlashFilm. The movie revolves around the brother of Peter Fonda’s Captain America and will get a cinema release in September.
It's the coolest phone on the planet, in in July it gets an upgrade. I'm talking about the iPhone. Yesterday the website Apple iPhone Apps posted what it said was information on the next generation of iPhone that comes out this summer. The site says July 17. Some of the rumored features:
-32GB and 16GB storage (up from the current 16GB and 8GB models)
-3.2-megapixel camera (up from the current 2-megapixel camera)
-Video-recording and editing capabilities
-Ability to send a picture & video via MMS
-A better screen (OLED)
-1.5 times the battery life of the current models
-Double the memory and processing power
-Built-in FM transmitter
-The Apple logo on back will glow
-A rubber-tread backing
Built-in compass
The camera, GPS, compass and Google map combined will identify photo and inform about photo locations
Turn-by-turn directions
Some Stuff: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
1310: Shoes were designed specifically for the right and left foot for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holms Trailer, Robert Downey Jr
A lot of Mad Max 4 Rumours are coming out off Australia, I reported a few moths back that the fourth instalment would be in anime however now I’m hearing that producers are scouting location and Road warrior styled vehicles have been spotted.
BRADLEY COOPER may have accidentally confirmed that he's playing "Face" in the upcoming movie version of "The A-Team". A reporter actually tricked him into spilling it by asking him if he was excited for the role. Cooper replied, quote, "That's out already?"
Hasbro’s board game Battleship is being turned into a movie . The flick is said to be "an epic naval action adventure" loosely inspired by the game.
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt saw the new "Star Trek" movie last Thursday . . . aboard the International Space Station. The movie was sent via uplink from Mission Control in Houston. Barratt . . . who watched the original series back in the day . . . says he was, quote, "inspired by the idea of people from all nations coming together to explore space."
NEW PAPER AIRPLANE FLIGHT RECORD _ A Japanese engineer has set the world record for the longest flight for a paper airplane, keeping his design aloft for 27.9 seconds. After his record flight, Takuo Toda said his next goal is to launch a paper plane from space. Because really what is there left for him to achieve.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Some Stuff: Tuesday, May 12, 2009
On this date in 2002, On Fox's "Celebrity Boxing." Tonya Harding beat Paula Jones, Danny Banaduce whipped Barry Williams and Todd Bridges defeated Vanilla Ice.
In a recent article I read about Activision's Guitar Hero being turned into a TV show there were also a few sentences about Call of Duty the first person shooter video game being made into a movie
Christian Bale: recently commented on the daily 10 about the now infamous blow up on the set of T4.
We’ve posted a 4 min preview of Terminator Salvation
Coming to DVD two weeks from today is "MEGA SHARK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS"!!! What's it about??? How dare you even ask.
It stars LORENZO LAMAS and DEBBIE GIBSON . . . yes THAT Debbie Gibson!!!
Space shuttle Atlantis was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesteday on a 11-day mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, which was deployed on April 25, 1990. This mission is expected to extend its life through at least 2014… and for the first time The Space Shuttle Endevour is on stand by in case a rescue mission is neccesary
Japanese director Takasi Miikehas gotten the funding and producers needed to finally make Thirteen Assassins, his samurai film. Based on Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film of the same name the film is set in the shogun era and follows 13 assassins who come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Some Stuff: May 11, 2009
On this date in 1951, computer memory was invented
We haven’t heard much about the A-Team Movie, here’s the latest IESB is reporting that Common is Fox's top choice to play B.A. Baracus in their upcoming movie adapt. Of Course Mr. T played Baracus on the original show. Late last year, we were hearing that it could've been Tyrese Gibson who was going to play Baracus. But that was before director John Singleton left the project and Smokin' Joe Carnahan stepped in to replace him. Common did say that it "would be an incredible character to play" in an interview with IESB, however he didn't completely confirm (or deny) the rumor.
With superhero movies as popular as they are, it's about time somebody came up with a formula to actually rank the heroes themselves.
--MTV came up with some kind of pseudo-scientific formula that uses several criteria to rank the heroes. They include . . .
--Opening weekend box office receipts for every movie . . . post-1978 . . . that the character has been in.
--Oscar nominations
--The Tomato Meter Ratings
--The number of times the character has topped the comic book charts in the last 13 years.
--Taking all that into account, Batman is THE most powerful superhero . . . as far as Hollywood is concerned. And he won it by a mile . . . with a power ranking 18 TIMES higher than that of his runner-up, Spider-Man.
#1.) Batman
#2.) Spider-Man
#3.) Superman
#4.) Wolverine
#5.) The Fantastic Four
#6.) Iron Man
#7.) The Hulk
#8.) Hellboy
#9.) Blade
#10.) Daredevil
THEY WERE IN STAR TREK?
KIRSTIE ALLEY: 1982
On Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan as Lt. Saavik
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: 1988-1993
On Star Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan
TERI HATCHER: 1988
On Star Trek: The Next Generation as Chief B. G. Robinson
KIM CATTRALL: 1991
On Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Lieutenant Valeris
ASHLEY JUDD: 1991
On Star Trek: The Next Generation as Ensign Lefler
KIRSTEN DUNST: 1993
On Star Trek: The Next Generation as Hedril
SARAH SILVERMAN: 1996
On Star Trek: Voyager as Rain Robinson
VANESSA WILLIAMS: 1996
On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Arandis
ANDY DICK: 1998
On Star Trek: Voyager as EMH-2 Dr. Bradley
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