Okay, so...here's how it worked. The U.S. government provided some funding to these people in Egypt who wanted to use social media to organize protests. But nothing came of it, and nothing would have come of it, until Wikileaks revealed it to the world. The Egyptian people got the message, whether it was correct or not, that U.S. wouldn't support Mubarak, and there you go.The young fellow rotting in prison charged with passing the files on to Wikileaks is pleased with the results of his work, as well he should be.The Israelis, meanwhile, got their yarmulkes in a bunch because Obama isn't calling...
New Superman Henry Cavill for 2012's Superman: Man of Steel
The 27-year-old British Henry Cavill will be Clark Kent on 2012's Superman: Man of Steel. He is best known for his role of Charles Brandon on "The Tudors". The new reboot of the Superman franchise will be directed by Zack Synder, who directed 300. Henry is said to have auditioned for the role as the clark for 2006's Superman Returns, but the role eventually went to US actor Brandon Routh. Cavill also auditioned to play Edward Cullen for the film adaptation of the book Twilight. Author Stephenie Meyer wants Cavill to become the actor for the role of Edward Cullen but by the time Twilight was filmed,...
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Prince William to Wear Military Uniform for Royal Wedding
Prince William is expected to follow royal tradition and marry in military dress like his father Prince Charles and uncle Prince Andrew.His RAF uniform will be most likely be the military uniform selected. Savile Row tailors Gieves & Hawkes, who supplies suits to the royal family, is said to be chosen to make Prince William's outfit. The starting price for a Gieves & Hawkes RAF uniform is £2,800, can take up to ten weeks to make.The prince's father and grandfather, the Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh respectively both wore Royal Navy dress on their royal wedding. Prince William...
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Israel supporting Mubarak, obviously
Now Israel is demanding that people stop criticizing Mubarak. The Zionists aren't speaking publicly about what's happening in Egypt, but they told their embassies in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Russia to demand that their host countries leave Mubarak alone.For years, Zionsist have responded to any criticism of Israel with an accusation of anti-Semitism. "Why don't you criticize Egypt!" If you criticized the blockade of Gaza, they'd say the same thing.Usually Zionists are happy about things like this in an Arab country. They'd point to it as proof that Israel isn't the violent racist state it...
Charlie Sheen, porn stars
I hate to join in the spreading of cruel rumors about someone who's having terrible personal and medical problems, but TMZ is reporting that Charlie Sheen wanted to rent a mansion, have his favorite porn stars move in, and create his own "porn family".I don't remember if they claimed that Sheen actually used the term "porn family" or if it was something TMZ made up. My guess is that TMZ made it up. Sheen's managers rushed in and put an end to it.Well, Charlie Sheen must be nice for the porn stars. My guess is that a lot of them just want to be stars. They went into porn because they wanted to...
Iran, Egypt
There were the last presidential elections in Iran. The incumbant, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had a well funded, well-run campaign. He did a couple of tours of the country. He opposed privatization of the oil industry which gave him the support of oil workers, he provided health insurance for women who worked at home, so he had the women's vote.Mousavi, meanwhile, one of several candidates, hadn't held office in ten years when he suddenly announced he was running for president three months before the election. He barely campaigned, only in two cities. Then, the minute the polls closed, he announced...
Larry Wilcox from CHiPs------pleads guilty to securities fraud!
I always hated that show. I feel vindicated.Wilcox was the William Shatner of the show. Shatner was star of Star Trek and had to cope with Mr Spock's popularity. Wilcox was star of CHiPs and was alarmed at Erik Estrada's popularity. I never knew what Wilcox's appeal was. Why did they make him the star? He didn't seem to have done much before or since.Larry Wilcox, the actor who played Officer Jon Baker on the 1970s TV show "CHiPs," was sentenced Friday to three years probation by a Florida judge for conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Wilcox pleaded guilty in November and had been cooperating...
Foriegn accents
The movie The ODESSA File is on. I'm not sure if "odessa" should be all caps---if it's an acronym or what. Jon Voight runs around Germany speaking in a phony German accent.Is it right or wrong? I don't know.Germans don't speak English with a German accent. But they don't speak German with English subtitles, either. They also don't speak American English. There are things Germans say that wouldn't sound right in a standard American accent. Like:"You are trying to turn me into a cabbage."I'm not sure what Jon Voight meant by this but it sounded authentically German, the way he said it.Speaking in...
Israel, Palestine
Well. It turns out that the Palestinians offered the Israelis concessions which amounted to almost total capitulation. The Israelis turned them down and then blamed the Palestinians for the failure of the negotiations. This according to Palestinian documents leaked to Al Jazeera.The Israelis said that the Palestinian offer didn't meet their demands. Apparently, the Israelis are demanding that Palestinians simply cease to exist and they consider their failure to do so to be an act of anti-Semitism.People of the world are talking about this, at least outside the United States. I don't know how much...
EDSA Buendia Bus Bombing
A bomb caused an explosion of a passenger bus along Buendia and EDSA on Tuesday. The blast killed at 3 people and injured 14 others. The explosion occurred around 2 p.m. while the Newman Gold Liner with plate number TXJ 710 bus was just about to approach the loading bay near the MRT Buendia station on Edsa's northbound lane. The blast destroyed the vehicle's front and side windshields. The explosive could have been placed in the middle of the bus based on the vehicle's damage. said Metro Manila police chief Director Nicanor Bartolome. Victims were taken to the Ospital ng Makati and St....
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Fred Gwynne, Bernardo Bertolucci
One time, I was forced to attend one of those broadway plays, kind of a lousy musical. It was on tour. So I got dragged off to it.And there on stage was Larry from Three's Company.Apparenty Horshack is big on Broadway.But it still comes as kind of a surprise----I'm sitting here with the TV on. There's a Bertolucci movie on. And it's got Fred Gwynne in it---TV's Herman Munster.One time, I saw Ed O'Neill on a talk show. He was still on Married With Children. The audience laughed at poor Ed when he said he'd always seen himself as a Robert De Niro. But it was more plausible than Herman Munster as...
Controlling Humanoid Robot Using Kinect
This is one of many Kinect story surfacing on the web. It usually involves hacking or modifying the Kinect Hardware. This impressive example involves a robot being controlled using Kinect. Watch the video below. The video is titled "Control Humanoid Robot with Kinect"Source: gizmodo.com (Jack Loft...
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Taco Bell's Fake Beef
I eat at our local Taco Bell once in a while. But seeing this article about the meat they use in their taco makes me think again. They don't actually use "beef" in their dishes. They use "Taco Meat Filling" as shown in the picture, which customers can't see. The list of ingredients Water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide...
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Moscow Airport Bombing Kills 31 People
At least 31 people were killed and more than a hundred wounded in a suicide bomb attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport said authorities. The injured were taken to four hospitals in the area. The blast is said to have occurred in the baggage reclaim hall. Moscow police were checking subways and other places to avert possible second attacks Interfax said. International flights arriving at Domodedovo were delayed and security is tightened.Domodedovo airport is one of the Russian capital's biggest in terms of passenger traffic and is Moscow's most up-to-date airport. But it seems like its security...
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Knowing Your Credit Card Numbers
Have you ever wondered how credit card companies come up with those numbers on your card? I always assumed that it was randomly generated. Some people thinks that it depends on your location, bank or the day you get your credit card. Turns out that all credit card companies follow the same rules in generating credit card numbers. There's even a way to know if a credit card is fake or not.The first digit is the Major Industry Identifier(MII). Its the category of the entity which issued the card.1 and 2 : Airlines3: Travel and Entertainment4 and 5 Banking and Financial6: Merchandising and Banking7:...
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Armored Attack, Eyewitness
Years ago, in the early days of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, I guess they didn't have much going on. They kept showing the same movie late at night. It was a World War Two movie called Armored Attack.Its original title was The North Star. Made in 1943, about the people of Ukrainian village resisting Nazi occupation. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were allies at that point, and this was in fact a pro-Soviet film. Written by Lillian Hellman. I don't know how it ended up on CBN. Somebody must have noticed they were showing a pro-Communist movie.And now they keep showing what must be...
Spartacus: Liam McIntyre as New Lead Actor for Season Two
Spartacus has a new lead actor. Starz confirmed to Access Hollywood that Australian actor Liam McIntyre would be playing the role of spartacus. This comes just days after Starz announed that they are recasting the lead role left by Andy Whitfield, who has been battling cancer.Liam McIntyre, born February 8, 1982 in Adelaide, Australia will take over the role of Andy Whitfield for Season 2 of Spartacus, which begins shooting this spring. He is known for his roles on the long-running Australian soap "Neighbors" and had a small role in HBO's "The Pacific." Liam is currently in New Zealand training...
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Hypocrisy---the case for
Didn't Jonathan Swift say something about hypocrisy? I can't remember. In Gulliver's Travels maybe. Someone declares that hypocrisy is the worst possible sin.I just skimmed the book. Couldn't force myself to read it. I paid attention in class and picked up enough to get a "D minus" on an essay test.Anyway, if he did say it, I took it to be ironic. There are far worse things that hypocrisy. In fact, hypocrisy is pretty good. I suggested that as a bumpersticker (I work at a sticker company):IF YOU THINK HYPOCRISY IS BAD, CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVE.Hypocrisy is just easy to attack. It's easy pickin's.Years...
Clara Bow, Jane Russell
http://cinemasmear.blogspot.com/2011/02/jane-russell.htmlI was awake in the middle of the night watching a young Clara Bow in a 1932 movie. It was pre-production code. And it was quite evident that she was not wearing proper undergarments. In one scene, she wrestled with a large dog. The camera angle on the dog was rather immodest, too.Contrast that with Jane Russell in The Outlaw, made eleven years later and banned in a number of jurisdictions because of an ill-fitting top:I had a teacher in high school who told us that he and his friends drove across state lines to see The Outlaw. They were...
What did I say about Ricky Gervais?
Once again, I was way ahead of the curve. I knew Ricky Gervais was a bad, bad man! I wrote about it here. There was something rather cruel about a successful comedian playing a terribly unfunny office worker whose whole self-image is wrapped around the idea of himself as a comic.When he hosted The Golden Globes, Gervais first joke was something about how it would be "a night of drinking and partying, or as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast."Well, no, that's not very clever.I read a parody of Bob Hope's humor. He says a restaurant wanted to get Dean Martin as a customer, so they made Vodka the...
Plastic surgery, John Wayne
There's a website. What's it's name? Awful Plastic Surgery. It turns out pretty much ALL the celebrities have had cosmetic surgery. Even the kids. Ali Lohan has breast implants, her lips have been plumped and she has veneers on her teeth.They say Ashlee Simpson has had two nosejobs, breast implants and a bizarre chin implant.Miley Cyrus got veneers and also, they think, something called a gingivectomy which makes your gums smaller. She was showing too much gum when she smiled.Zac Efron had a nosejob and got his teeth fixed.This has been going on since the '20s!...although it is widely accepted...
Breaking Dawn Part 1: Photo of Bella and Edward on Honeymoon
Photo Credit: Andrew CooperThe first official photo from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is here! Yes, that’s Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattison) sharing a bed as man and wife on their wedding night. Anticipation for the Twilight series’ fourth movie (due in theaters Nov. 18) is running high, and director Bill Condon tells EW that this was the one scene in particular he spent a lot of time thinking about.~sou...
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Classical music
Here's the thing about classical music. You have Amy Chua, the abusive Chinese-American Yale law professor mother who gloats about having forced her daughters to practice for three hours a day. She forced them to play the violin and the piano. I don't know why Chua picked those two instruments. But I think I understand why she insisted on classical music.It's because classical music requires zero creativity. You're playing the same music that has, in some cases, been played for centuries, and you're trying to play it the same way everyone else played it. If you're in an orchestra, you try to sound...
Kate Middleton Picks Her Wedding Dress Designer | Video
Prince William's fiancee, Kate Middleton, has made her biggest decision since accepting Prince William's marriage proposal. The future princess has picked the designer who will make her wedding dress. However... it's not known to the public who will design Middleton's dress.The creative team at KK Outlet in London were so uninspired by the official merchandise that they came up with some alternative designs to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29, 2011....
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Bourgeois Chinese mother Amy Chua
Abusive nutjobSo there's a new book out by someone called Amy Chua, a Chinese-American Yale law professor married to a Jewish Yale law professor. They agreed that their children would be Jewish for some reason, and they also agreed that they would be raised in what they thought was a Chinese manner. Their two daughters had to be "#1" in every subject but P.E., she considered an "A-" to be a "bad grade", she didn't allow them to do anything unless they could win an award for it, and they had to spend hours a day practicing a musical instrument, which had to be either a violin or a piano. She bragged...
Elderly directors
I recently read that Kenneth Anger made his first film, "Fireworks", when he was 22 and in college, not when he was 17 and in high school as he claimed.I always wondered about that. Seemed strange that a high school kid would make an art movie. When I was in high school, I made kung fu movies.Anger claimed that he was in high school, his parents were out of town so he and his friends stole a backdrop from a movie studio then coaxed some sailors into coming to his house to make a homoerotic art film.There are other directors who've lied about their age. Steven Bach, in his book about the making...
British Police New All Black Uniform
British policemen are well known for their white shirt and clip on black ties. But it seems like they are dropping the traditional uniform for a more comfortable outfit which is said to be more breathable and lightweight.They will still retain the protective body armour vests worn on top of the new black shirts. Officers are saying that the old uniform is impractical, restrictive and uncomfortable under their vests. The new black uniforms received good criticisms but failed to impress Britain's most senior policeman. They have recently launched attack on the ‘paramilitary style’ uniforms....
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Doctors Misdiagnosed Pregnancy with Menopause
Anita Arora, 46 gave birth to a baby boy two days after she knew she was pregnant. She repeatedly asked doctors 5 months before that she had suspicions that she was pregnant but were ignored and doctors said that she was going through menopause. She has already two children so she is familiar with the signs of pregnancy, but instead of offering to take a pregnancy test, they misdiagnosed her with early menopause.Her new born son, Matthew, was delivered in a life-saving operation on Christmas Day. Just two days after knowing she was actually pregnant. The baby was two months premature and would...
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Starbucks New Logo
The Seattle-based coffee chain, Starbucks Corp. just debuted a new logo last Wednesday that remove the words "Starbucks Coffee." The change is said to be for its 40th anniversary this year. They have only changed their logo 4 times since they started. Just few hours after the debut, there were backlashes against the change on Starbucks' website and other social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. "Throughout the last four decades, the Siren has been there through it all, Now, we've given her a small but meaningful update to ensure that the Starbucks brand continues to embrace our...
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Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding Details
Prince William and Kate Middleton released new details Wednesday about their upcoming royal wedding. This includes the route they will travel on April 29 and the churchmen taking the service."Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton have made more decisions on their upcoming wedding," Royal officials said on the Twitter.Middleton will travel to Westminster Abbey by car through some of London's most historic sites including The Mall, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall and Parliament Square, before the service starts at 11:00 am (1000 GMT). Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will marry...
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MySpace Redesign and Possible Layoffs
MySpace is rumored to make layoffs that could affect up to 50% of its 1,100 employees because of decreased in revenue and traffic. MySpace is based in Beverly Hills, California and also in international locations. While the details of the layoffs have not been finalized, almost all of the MySpace staff was given the last week of December off from work to save money. MySpace even partnered up with its former foe, Facebook, making it possible for users to log in with Facebook.The social networking site MySpace has been struggling for years now and now faces huge problems. Despite this,...
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Contraceptive Implant Caused Birth Control Failure
Hundreds of women have become pregnant after a long-term contraceptive implant failed. The NHS paid compensations to seven women who were unexpectedly became pregnant amounting to an average of more than £28,000 each. A lawyer said that many women were left traumatized and some decided to undergo abortions when the implants failed.The hormone-filled rod implant called Implanon is a £90 device is a flexible rod that is inserted under the skin of the upper arm. It releases the hormone progesterone which stops the ovaries from releasing eggs. It provides protection against pregnancy for up to three...
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Eclipse and the International Space Station
In a partial solar eclipse yesterday, our Moon partly covered the sun. Photographer Thierry Legault found something interesting while taking pictures of the eclipse, The International Space Station.Source: gizmodo....
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Nintendo 3DS: Glasses No More
Nintendo 3DS is finally launching in Japan on February 26 next year and will be available in the US the following month. So what's new with the new Nintendo DS? Nintendo 3DS will have new functions like a slide pad, a motion sensor and a gyro-sensor. It will have parental controls like in the Nintendo DSi series. The Nintendo 3DS is compatible with game cartridges in the Nintendo DS So why or how can Nintendo show 3D games without 3D glasses? Parallax barrier is Nintendo 3DS's secret. A parallax barrier is one of the more popular ways for showing 3D without glasses. Nintendo worked with...
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Nintendo 3DS Games Bad for Children's Health?
Nintendo has issued a health warning on their hand held console 3DS. They say that a specialists revealed that eyesight of children under six years old could be harmed by playing 3D games which present different images to the right and left eye."Younger children should only play 2D versions of 3DS games", said Nintendo.Warnings on 3D movies and games are not new. Sony and Toshiba has also started warning people of the side effects of watching 3D movies or playing 3D games. Sony has even went as far as telling parents to get medical advice first before letting children watch 3D contents on any...
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Birdemic
It was made for less than $10,000. Good. It was on a "ten worst" list for movies of 2010. It actually got a theatrical release. Didn't go straight to video.Pretty amazing.Here are action scenes:Well, yes. The movie has some shortcomings. But if it had been any better, the director would probably be sharing a cell with Julian Assange right now.Note that the people are being attacked by eagles and vultures, representing U.S. imperialism and corporate capitalism. The movie is presented as an anti-global warming movie. In fact, it's pro-Iraq, pro-Afghan and anti-imperialist.I'll give away the ending...
