The Frog Prince - SethComedy

Kiss a frog and it will turn into a handsome prince. At least that is how the story use to go...

The Tetris Song

2008 Year in Review - JibJab

It must be December - snow is falling, children are writing letters to Santa and we're dragging 2008 through the mud in our all-singing, all-dancing, all-out year-in-review. Baby New Year '08 takes you on a tour of all of the good, bad, and worse the past year had to offer, all at breakneck speed. We're giving society a primo wedgie - everyone watch, point and laugh!

Single Ladies - Lelia Broussard

Single Ladies by the lovely Beyonce. hear more at www.myspace.com/leliabroussard

BUY THE NEW EP Waiting on the 9 NOW!!
www.myspace.com/leliabroussard

HoHoHo Single Ladies Christmas "Remix"

Jesus and Vishnu on Christmas Eve

It is hard to be humble when you have the most popular birthday in the world

Dominick the Donkey

Simply the best Christmas song ever! (put to a lame music video)

For the Geek who has every thing...

Keeping up with the Wolverine trend:

Wolverine Trailer

'nuff said, bub.

Straight No Chaser-12 Days

No matter how many times I watch this, it always makes me smile.

Twas the Dark Knight Before Christmas

Simply a masterpiece. Enjoy!

Jizz in My Pants

TheLonelyIsland's (Andy Samberg's comedy group's) first vid in almost a year!!! :)
Nothing but hilarious!!!

A Look Back at It's a Wonderful Life

A special presentation from www.howitshouldhaveended.com about the Christmas classic

Burglar: I was held captive by ghost for 3 days

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A burglar who broke into a house claims he was held captive by a "supernatural figure" for three days without food and water, officials said.

Police official Abdul Marlik Hakim Johar told The Star newspaper the house's owners found the 36-year-old man fatigued and dehydrated when they returned from vacation Thursday.

The man told police that every time he tried to escape, a "supernatural figure" shoved him to the ground.

Abdul Marlik could not immediately be reached and other police officials declined to comment.

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28205738
Sources: MSNBC, The Associated Press

The Bloody Olive

Dir. Vincent Bal / Belgium / 1996

The classic Christmas short film noir with inevitable twists and turns.

Why God why?

Some cartoons are just too perfect (hella bad in a good 80's nostalgic way) to be made into movies. Here are three such examples:

Dragonball

He-Man


Thundercats
Trailers removed from YouTube??? May be fakes. Still a bad decision to make Thundercats into a live action film.

WOLVERINE!!!

The X-Men's toughest mutant gets his very own movie next year, and we've got new images from "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" to whet your voracious appetite!

Hugh Jackman continues to bring the intensity with his portrayal of the X-Men's resident Canucklehead, as he prepares to drop a bevy of pain bombs on some unsuspecting baddies and finds himself tied up in a very precarious situation!

Also, get your first look at the Ragin' Cajun, Gambit, played by "Friday Night Lights" star Taylor Kitsch in the film!

And don't forget Liev Schreiber, who brings Victor Creed—the man who will one day become Wolvie's arch nemesis, Sabretooth—to life. And from the looks of things, Creed and Logan aren't getting along the best in these photos..."X-Men Origins: Wolverine" hits theaters on May 1, 2009, but until then make sure to keep your eyes peeled for all the latest news, videos and images right here on Marvel.com

Source: Marvel.com

Full article & other images: http://www.marvel.com/news/moviestories.6253.8_New_X-Men_Origins~colon~_Wolverine_Photos

Wolverine meets a young Sabretooth:

FINALLY!!! The Ragin' Cajun... GAMBIT!:

BREAKING NEWS: IL Governor arrested - charged with attempting to sell Obama's vacant Senate seat

WASHINGTON - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama's election as president.

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28139155/?GT1=43001
Source: Associated Press


As a citizen of Illinois, all I have to say is-
a. Merry Christmas.
b. Ding dong the witch is dead.
c. Happy days are here again.
d. all of the above

Words of wisdom & funnies

Making Noise with Stuff : The Lost Art

Once there was a job that was greater and more glorious than any other job, and that was the career of the men and women who made the sound effects for old cartoons. They would come in early in the morning, bright eyed and ready to entertain the world, and they would play with various objects to see what sound they made when they did certain things. They would rub and throw and break and twist and shake different things all day, to make the sound of a dog whimpering or a missile exploding or of a heart being broken. All day long they would pitch ideas to each other, and converge their minds on what particular item had to be used to make a desired sound. "Hey James, Whadd'ya think it'll sound like if I hit this cantaloupe with a tennis racket?" or "Hey Jill, do you think I can make the sound of a laser beam better by rubbing my finger across a half full crystal glass of milk or by running a butter knife across a metal door hinge?"

And then came the computers ... and the world was lost into darkness.

Pictured below are the legendary Skarlaski brothers, who perfected the sound of a horse driven cart crashing by tipping over twenty three empty wooden apple crates simultaneously.

The gift that keeps on giving...

What do you get the person who has everything—except adequate health insurance? If you live in Indiana, consider this offering from the state's Planned Parenthood affiliate: gift certificates in $25 increments.
The vouchers, available online and at 35 clinics statewide, can be used for health services or contraceptives. And yes, they can be used to pay for abortions.
Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana, characterizes the response to the gift certificates as "pretty robust, and generally very favorable."
She estimates that "about a dozen" certificates have sold since they became available Nov. 25. Planned Parenthood of Illinois plans to sell similar gift certificates starting Monday.

Source: Chicago Tribune
Full article : http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-talk-planneddec03,0,3497971.story

Adding some Nerd to the Nerd Corner: New Blogger!

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MILF of the Month (December) - Pastor Melissa Scott

December is the season for most major religious holidays, so why not find the hottest religious leader EVER and pick her as this month's MILF of the Month? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the only priest you'd ever want to be molested by- Pastor Melissa Scott.
Melissa Scott (40) is the Pastor and Teacher of the University Cathedral - home of the largest Protestant congregation in Downtown Los Angeles, and televangelist. With command of over twenty languages, she disects and explains the original meaning of what the original writers of the Bible and other Holy Scripture had to say.
Melissa Scott married famed & infamous televangelist Dr. Gene Scott and inherited his congregation and televangelical empire.

You can find her daily televangelical program every weekday sometime after midnight on a local channel.

While I would love to give you a more detailed biography - there hardly is one out there. Which leads to many conspiracy theories over just who Melissa Scott is (WAS). While I would love to offer some of these theories up for discussion - most sites that have discussed her "potential" previous life have wound up being taken off the interwebz oh so mysteriously. Google is your friend. Instead let us all just enjoy some photos of the hottest religious leader EVER...

To view one of her sermons and see her in action (and hear her Canadian accent) click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJ-ZPliCj0

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Best ad ever: Beware the Doghouse!

If you're having trouble viewing this video here's the direct link, well worth the click: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1370868150/bctid3130509001

The Nerd Corner's Game of the Week: Bubble Town

Addictive. That is all.

http://zone.msn.com/gameplayer/gameplayer.aspx?game=bubbletown&instance=default

100 Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes

Bionic woman: not so far off

Three years after losing her left eye in a car accident, San Franciscan Tanya Vlach wants to make her artificial eye more useful: She's planning to put a video camera in her eye socket with the goal of having a bionic eye.

Asked in an e-mail what her inspiration is, Vlach wrote:

"The Bionic Woman and maybe Bladerunner! Ever since I lost my eye I would fantasize about having a bionic eye. So I did research and I realized that as technology becomes increasingly smaller it seemed doable to engineer a miniature video camera small enough to put inside my acrylic prosthetic. And then finally I would have a device as close to an eye as I could get. Also, I love photography and video, this would be a true P.O.V (point of view) perspective."

Work is already under way in various places that could serve as a starting point for Vlach. For instance, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have created a contact lens that contains an electronic circuit and LEDs. And scientists at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, meanwhile, have developed what could be a precursor to a bionic eye, though it's unclear whether that eye has quite the Web functionality that Vlach is seeking. There's also work being done in Boston on embedding chips behind the retina.

In her blog, "one-eyed," Vlach discusses the technical aspects of what she hopes to achieve with her "experiment in wearable technology, cybernetics, and perception."
"I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature camera implant in my prosthetic /artificial eye," she writes. "While my prosthetic is an excellent aesthetic replacement, I am interested in capitalizing on the current advancement of technology to enhance the abilities of my prosthesis for an augmented reality."

Beyond that, Vlach reckons that the eye technology could even incorporate wireless charging, allow the pupil to dilate and constrict as light changes, and use blinking to take still photos, zoom, focus, and turn on and off.

She's currently working on a science fiction screenplay and has several ideas for the technology, including making a documentary, broadcasting an online "lifecast," and doing art installations.

Full article: http://tech.msn.com/news/articlecnet.aspx?cp-documentid=14176836&GT1=40000
Source: MSN

Obvious article is obvious

Fully one quarter of employees who use the Internet visit porn sites during the workday, according to October figures from Nielsen Online; that's up from 23 percent a year ago. And hits are highest during office hours than at any other time of day, reports M. J. McMahon, publisher of AVN Online magazine, which tracks the adult video industry.

Source: Newsweek
Full article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/171279?GT1=43002

If YouTube recommended it...

Happy Turkey Day...

... to everyone!

It's almost like... they're tackling me!

With sports fans still getting used to their high-definition television sets, the National Football League is already thinking ahead to the next potential upgrade: 3-D.
Next week, a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will be broadcast live in 3-D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. It is a preliminary step on what is likely a long road to any regular 3-D broadcasts of football games.
The idea is a "proof of concept," says Howard Katz, NFL senior vice president of broadcasting and media operations. "We want to demonstrate this and let people get excited about it and see what the future holds."
The several hundred guests at the three participating theaters Dec. 4 will include representatives from the NFL's broadcasting partners and from consumer-electronics companies. The event will be closed to the general public. Burbank, Calif.-based 3ality Digital LLC will shoot the game with special cameras and transmit it to a satellite. Thomson SA's Technicolor Digital Cinema is providing the satellite services and digital downlink to each theater, and Real D 3D Inc. will power the display in the theaters.
This isn't the first time the NFL has participated in a 3-D experiment. In 2004, a predecessor company to 3ality filmed the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers. When Sandy Climan, 3ality's chief executive officer, shows the footage, "people crouch down to catch the ball," he says. "It's as if the ball is coming into your arms."
Technology has advanced considerably since then, and now makes live transmission possible. Boxing in 3-D, Mr. Climan says, particularly "raises your blood pressure."
Real D, which has rolled out 3-D systems in 1,500 theaters around the world, has long advocated the transmission of live events to theaters in 3-D. "We look forward to giving fans of live events the opportunity to feel like they're in the front row," says Michael Lewis, Real D's CEO.
Some live events, including opera broadcasts and circus performances, already pop up on screens at theaters across the country.
Next week's demonstration will also include television displays, to show what might one day be available in homes. While 3-D television sets are already available in stores, mainly for the handful of DVDs available in 3-D, the industry is still working on technical standards for 3-D.
That process raises the possibility that 3-D TV sets purchased today might not be compatible with programs aired in a few years' time. Just as in theaters, home viewers must wear special 3-D glasses.

Source: FOX Sports
Full article: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8843052?MSNHPHCP&GT1=39002

X-Men sequel turns Girl-y

The Silver Screen X-Men are about to get a bit younger.

This according to an article posted this evening on Variety which states that 20th Century Fox has tapped Josh Schwartz, the creator of “Gossip Girl,” “The OC” and “Chuck,” to write and potentially direct a reboot of the X-Men movie franchise under the name “X-Men: First Class.”

Details of the new production are limited at this hour, but according to the report, Fox has been leaning towards a retooling of the franchise using younger versions of the characters introduced in the previous X-Men films, along the lines of those featured in the Marvel Comics series also called “X-Men: First Class."

No specific date has been announced for the release of “X-Men: First Class,” although it’s expected sometime in 2010. Mutant fans won’t have to wait long to get their next fix, though, as May 2009 sees the release of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” featuring Hugh Jackman in the role he originated in the first three X-Men films. Fox is also developing a stand-alone Magneto feature as well as considering a Deadpool spinoff starring Ryan Reynolds, following the character’s debut in “Wolverine.”

Source: CBR News
Full article: http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18876

When a YouTube Video Cam Direct Upload goes horribly HORRIBLY wrong...

scarlet takes a tumble
(to cut to the hilarious chase go about 2:30 in)

When one man has way too much time on his hands...

Now I've said time and again that I'm obsessed with this Beyonce song and music video. It's just... wow! and addictive multiplied by bad ass-ery. I, however, haven't taken the time to learn every impossible dance move that Beyonce pulls off. This gentleman has...
You must watch it to believe it.

Stephen Colbert finds the perfect lure for President Elect Obama

Stephen Colbert ponders how he can get President Elect Obama on his show. Then he remembers- Barrack Obama is a closet comic book nerd. And who just appeared as himself in a recent Spider-Man comic book...?

SUPER POWERS!

When a young couple tries to save their marriage by dressing up as super heroes in the bedroom, they end up saving much more than their sex life. Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short Film at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

British chicks need sperm

LONDON - Britain is facing a sperm donor shortage after reversing confidentiality laws and limiting the number of women who can use sperm from one donor, fertility experts warned Wednesday.

Britain in 2005 changed the law protecting anonymous sperm donors and allowed children to learn the identity of donor fathers — one reason, fertility experts say, there are fewer donors now.

“The only countries that seem to have enough sperm are those that pay — like the U.S. and Spain — or the countries that retain anonymity,” said Allan Pacey, a member of the British Fertility Society that warned of the shortage in the British Medical Journal.

Sources: Associated Press, MSNBC
Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27683226/wid/11915773?gt1=31037

The Nerd Corner's Game of the Week - BUTT SCAN!

We've all been there... especially in the upcoming Holiday season... enjoy!
(Sadly I'm having trouble embedding the game onto the blog so you'll have to click the link... but it's worth it!)

http://www.gimme5games.com/index.jsp?id=scan

HO HO HO You fat motha f&cka!!!

Our very own Greg Gallows...

Woman killed by dead husband...'s coffin.

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck.
Police said 67-year-old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Barcelos died instantly.

Sources: The Associated Press, MSNBC
Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27666284/?gt1=43001

BREAKING NEWS!!! The McRib is back!!!

'nuff said!

Super Mario Bros. NES - Inexpectable Incident

What happened to Mario?!

Super Monk Bros. Brawl

JERUSALEM - Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.

The clash between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks broke out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

The brawling began during a procession of Armenian clergymen commemorating the 4th-century discovery of the cross believed to have been used to crucify Jesus.

The Greeks objected to the march without one of their monks present, fearing that otherwise, the procession would subvert their own claim to the Edicule — the ancient structure built on what is believed to be the tomb of Jesus — and give the Armenians a claim to the site.

The Armenians refused, and when they tried to march the Greek Orthodox monks blocked their way, sparking the brawl.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police were forced to intervene after fighting was reported. They arrested two monks, one from each side, he said.

A bearded Armenian monk in a red-and-pink robe and a black-clad Greek Orthodox monk with a bloody gash on his forehead were both taken away in handcuffs after scuffling with dozens of riot police.

Six Christian sects divide control of the ancient church. They regularly fight over turf and influence, and Israeli police are occasionally forced to intervene.

"We were keeping resistance so that the procession could not pass through ... and establish a right that they don't have," said a young Greek Orthodox monk with a cut next to his left eye.

The monk, who gave his name as Serafim, said he sustained the wound when an Armenian punched him from behind and broke his glasses.

Father Pakrat of the Armenian Patriarchate said the Greek demand was "against the status quo arrangement and against the internal arrangement of the Holy Sepulcher." He said the Greeks attacked first.

Archbishop Aristarchos, the chief secretary of the Greek Orthodox patriarchate, denied his monks initiated the violence.

After the brawl, the church was crowded with Israeli riot police holding assault rifles, standing beside Golgotha, where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, and the long smooth stone marking the place where tradition holds his body was laid out.

The feud is only one of a bewildering array of rivalries among churchmen in the Holy Sepulcher.

The Israeli government has long wanted to build a fire exit in the church, which regularly fills with thousands of pilgrims and has only one main door, but the sects cannot agree where the exit will be built.

A ladder placed on a ledge over the entrance sometime in the 19th century has remained there ever since because of a dispute over who has the authority to take it down.

More recently, a spat between Ethiopian and Coptic Christians is delaying badly needed renovations to a rooftop monastery that engineers say could collapse.

Sources: The Associated Press, MSNBC
Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27625446/?GT1=43001

Get caught up: With the Angels!

Get caught up fast with these essential episodes...

Ep. 1 Life Of The Party


Ep. 2 Sunset Sunrise


Ep. 4 Welcome Wagon


Ep. 6 Chance Meeting


Ep. 8 Behind the Scenes

LOST announces it's 5th season premiere date

ABC has confirmed the premiere date for the fifth season of Lost, and it's Jan. 21.
Yep, that's a Wednesday, and it's where Lost — which last season aired Thursdays at 10 pm/ET, following Grey's Anatomy — will stay.
More specifically, Lost's regular time slot will be Wednesdays at 9 pm, though the new cycle will kick off with a three-hour event — a clip show followed by the first two episodes.
At this time, sources are unable to confirm if the 17-episode Season 5 will in fact pull off the straight-through feat.

Source: TVGuide
Full article: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Lost-Season-Premiere-58305.aspx

CHANGE is here!

It would be about f*&@ing time!!!

Is a merger in store for The Office? Ricky Gervais, the brilliant mind behind the British original, tells TVGuide.com he'd like to appear in NBC's Americanized version.

Gervais even has an idea for how he could appear: as himself, playing struggling actor Andy Melman on HBO's Extras.

"I'd quite like them to maybe be watching an episode of Extras, and Michael Scott comes along and goes, 'This guy is no good. If they ever do a remake, I think I should do that part."


Source: TVGuide
Full artilce: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Ricky-Gervais-Visiting-55493.aspx

TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 41 HOURS- WITH DIARRHEA

A man is trapped in an elevator for 41 hours, with diarrhea.

Note: This is a spoof of this classic video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bMhNI_TY8

Thank you President Elect Barack Obama!!!

Recently my friend called me to tell me that the Chicago Sun Times edition of Wednesday's paper announcing Barack Obama the winner of the 2008 Election was going for up to $50 on eBay because they've been sold out since going on press. So I decided to check out this little newspaper stand outside of my job and the little old clerk has an entire box of newspapers left. So I snatched up most of them for $20 ($.50 a piece). He had no clue. Now I am planning on selling them on eBay for $40 a pop (at least). Thank you President Elect Obama for making me a cool $1600! :)

See the hype on eBay!

VOTE!

While we here at the Nerd Corner do not endorse any particular candidate (we only proclaim which one we would rather do more), we do urge you to exercise your civil duty and vote in this election.

Vote or die motha fucka, motha fucka vote or die!!!

Marital Troubles - SethComedy

Every marriage has its arguments. Every marriage has its fights. But not every marriage has a situation like this.

Twitter = Terrorism

By Ian Paul, PC World

A U.S. Army intelligence report sent the media into overdrive the last few days with its pronouncement that terrorists might "Tweet" their way through an attack using the microblogging site Twitter. The Army says it "red-teamed" the possible use of Twitter, which means that a team of soldiers or analysts used Twitter to see if they could find weaknesses with the Army's battle readiness. But is a Twitter attack realistic? Should we be Twitterified of Twitter? Let's take a closer look.

The report outlines three possible uses for Twitter as a terrorist tool. They are:

Sending and receiving messages to and from other terrorist cell members.
Detonating a roadside bomb.
Following a soldier's Tweets.

Full article: http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=11838092&GT1=40000

Sources: MSN, PCWorld

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Happy Halloween from all of your nerdy friends at the Nerd Corner!!!

Tis the season...

... to start watching this series!



http://www.myspace.com/whoschadbaker

info@campbreezybeach.com

On behalf of everyone at Camp Breezy Beach we wish you a very Happy Halloween!

-Everyone left!

Behind the curtain news from Eldritch Errors

From: http://www.schmeldritch.com/2008/10/before-the-screaming-commences.html

Long time, no schmeldritch ... how the hell are you supposed to tell when we're being quiet on purpose and when it means something is kicking, you ask? When I feel compelled to get a quick laundry list out of details out, I guess. Bad puppetmaster!

Even more important, though, is a bit of pre-announcement on the Eldritch 3 Reboot. One of my goals for the Eldritch universe was always to have a structure flexible enough that we could have "guest puppetmasters" conduct entire Books in the sequence, much the way guest directors might helm an episode of an established television series. In this case, that means the best I'll be able to credit myself on this Book is as "series creator" or maybe "executive producer". Who's helming it then, you ask?

Brooke Thompson and Jan Libby. Boy are you guys in for a (trick or) treat. See you in the intermission ...

Joe the Plumber's Greatest Hits

Move over, Sanjaya, and tell William Hung the news: Joe the Plumber is being pursued for a major record deal and could come out with a country album as early as Inauguration Day.

“Joe” — aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, a Holland, Ohio, pipe-and-toilet man — just signed with a Nashville public relations and management firm to handle interview requests and media appearances, as well as create new career opportunities, including a shift out of the plumbing trade into stage and studio performances.

Source: Politico
Full article: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15072.html

What To Do In A Zombie Attack

A 1950s educational film showing how to survive a zombie attack.

MILF of the Month (November) - Sarah Palin

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Iron Man 2 and Avengers Update

As part of his four picture deal with Marvel Studios, Robert Downey Jr. is appearing as Tony Stark in "The Avengers" motion picture, as well as reprising his starring role as the larger-than-life leading character in "Iron Man 2." Jon Favreau will return to direct the sequel to the blockbuster "Iron Man," which to date has grossed over $578 million worldwide, as well as executive produce "The Avengers."
Marvel Studios is pleased today to confirm that an agreement has been finalized with award-winning actor Don Cheadle to take on the role of Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes in Marvel's "Iron Man 2" due in theaters on May 7, 2010. In casting Cheadle, Marvel replaces Terrence Howard who appeared in the role of Rhodey in Iron Man.
Cheadle is also signed on to perform the same role in "The Avengers" and subsequent installments of the "Iron Man" franchise.
Based on Marvel's iconic Super Hero, "Iron Man 2" continues the story of this summer's box office blockbuster IRON MAN, the first feature film produced independently by Marvel Studios. "Iron Man 2" will be produced by Marvel Studios' President, Kevin Feige, and executive produced by Louis D'Esposito, Jon Favreau, Stan Lee, David Maisel and Denis Stewart.
In a movie event, "The Avengers" will bring together the super hero team of Marvel Comics characters for the first time ever, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk and more, as they are forced to band together to battle the biggest foe they've ever faced.
The highly anticipated sequel to "Iron Man" will be released in theatres on May 7, 2010 and "The Avengers" will be released July 15, 2011. Both films will be distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Source: Marvel.com
Full article: http://www.marvel.com/news/moviestories.5719.Iron_Man_2_and_The_Avengers_Update

Night of the ZOMBIE! - MediocreFilms

An homage to the classic B-movie horror flicks of the 1960's. Directed by Greg Benson, written by Joseph Limbaugh and starring Julie Wittner, Greg Benson, Joseph Limbaugh, Noah Korda and Brian Spillane.

Online divorce leads to online death

TOKYO - A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher's sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.
She used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo City said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.
The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, and killed the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his beloved online avatar was dead.
The woman was arrested Wednesday and was taken across the country, traveling 620 miles from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sappporo, where the man lives, the official said.
The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.
She was charged with illegal access onto a computer and manipulating electronic data, police said. If convicted, she could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine up to $5,000.

Sources: MSNBC, The Associated Press
Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27337812/?GT1=43001

The truth is out there

LONDON - An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain’s National Archives on Monday.

The fighter pilot said he was ordered to fire a full salvo of rockets at the UFO moving erratically over the North Sea — but that at the last minute the object picked up enormous speed and disappeared. The account, first published in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper more than 17 years ago and to this day unverified by military authorities, was one of many carried in the 1,500 pages the archives made available online.

The unnamed pilot said he and another airman were scrambled on the night of May 20, 1957, to intercept an unusual “bogey” on radars at a Royal Air Force Station Manston, an airfield at the southeastern tip of England about 75 miles from central London.

“This was a flying object with very unusual flight patterns,” the pilot said, according to a typed manuscript of his account mailed to Britain’s Ministry of Defense by a UFO enthusiast in 1988. “In the initial briefing it was suggested to us that the bogey actually was motionless for long intervals.”

Ordered to fly at full throttle in cloudy weather, the pilot said he was given the order to fire a volley of 24 rockets at the mysterious object.

Retired U.S. airman Milton Torres told Britain’s Sky News on Monday that he was the pilot and has spent 50 frustrating years attempting to uncover the truth of his aerial encounter.

Speaking from his home in Miami, Torres said he never saw the UFO with his naked eyes, but watched in awe as it appeared on his jet’s radar and sped off before he had chance to fire.

Sources: The Associated Press, MSNBC

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27279684/?gt1=43001

The World's Most Wanted Weiner

Eldritch Errors - just in time for Halloween

Just in time for Halloween, I have just been informed that Eldritch Errors is about to begin a new chapter in its player encompassing story. I have also just been informed that a certain ARG/chaotic fiction MASTER may have a hand or two in this chapter's tale that you will not want to miss! ;)

http://www.eldritcherrors.com/

Eldritch Errors is an immersive horror series playing out in real time --
on the Internet, in the real world, and in your nightmares. It will speak to you
and ask you to speak in return. It will feed off of you just as much as you feed
off it. It is as old as the fears of H.P. Lovecraft and as fresh as the horrors
he died never having imagined. Those horrors already lurk, grinning, waiting for
you to be the first to discover them, but at least you won't face them
alone.

James Rhodes (Iron Man) recast!

Terrence Howard played hardball with Marvel Studios, and boy did he lose. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Howard thought he had leverage when negotiating his fee to reprise his role as Col. James Rhodes in "Iron Man 2," but the recently cash-flush studio thought otherwise. Now, arguably a better choice to play the role, Don Cheadle will appear in the sequel to last summer's No. 2 flick.
In the comic-book series, Rhodes is a trusted confident of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr., obviously) and eventually becomes another armored hero, War Machine. The plan, which Howard openly discussed during my set visit in June 2007, was for Howard's part to grow in the expected second and third installments. The picture even featured a scene where Rhodes sees a duplicate, unpainted Iron Man suit and says, "Next time."
As for "Iron Man 2," the script is currently being hammered out by "Tropic Thunder" screenwriter Justin Theroux. Director Jon Favreau, Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are all expected to return when production begins next spring.

Sources: MSN Movies, The Hollywood Reporter
Full article: http://movies.msn.com/movies/hitlist/10-17-08_4/?silentchk=1&

My personal hero

CLEARFIELD, Pa. - It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is.

The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds. The mountain of beef is the product of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Clearfield.

For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate “and a burger hangover, as I call it,” Liegey said.

Source: The Associated Press & MSNBC
Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27228081/?GT1=43001

Sarah Palin set to appear on SNL!

Saturday Night Live will have a special guest this Saturday, Governor Sarah Palin. What could Sarah Palin be doing over at 30 Rockefeller you may ask? Well she'll be playing the role of Tina Fey in a skit. WATCH IT!

Epic blog is fail

Slate just ran an interesting article on the origins and definitions of the word 'fail' as we use it in the internet world, and now the real world. MUST READ!

Read the full artilce here: http://www.slate.com/id/2202262/?GT1=38001

Here's some highlights-

What's with all the failing lately? Why fail instead of failure? Why FAIL instead of fail? And why, for that matter, does it have to be "epic"?

It's nearly impossible to pinpoint the first reference, given how common the verb fail is, but online commenters suggest it started with a 1998 Neo Geo arcade game called Blazing Star. (References to the fail meme go as far back as 2003.) Of all the game's obvious draws—among them fast-paced action, disco music, and anime-style cut scenes—its staying power comes from its wonderfully terrible Japanese-to-English translations. If you beat a level, the screen flashes with the words: "You beat it! Your skill is great!" If you lose, you are mocked: "You fail it! Your skill is not enough! See you next time! Bye bye!"

Normally, this sort of game would vanish into the cultural ether. But in the lulz-obsessed echo chamber of online message boards—lulz being the questionable pleasure of hurting someone's feelings on the Web—"You fail it" became the shorthand way to gloat about any humiliation, major or minor. "It" could be anything, from getting a joke to executing a basic mental task. For example, if you told me, "Hey, I liked your article in Salon today," I could say, "You fail it." Convention dictates that I could also add, in parentheses, "(it being reading the titles of publications)." The phrase was soon shortened to fail—or, thanks to the caps-is-always-funnier school of Web writing, FAIL. People started pasting the word in block letters over photos of shameful screw-ups, and a meme was born.

The highest form of fail—the epic fail—involves not just catastrophic failure but hubris as well. Not just coming in second in a bike race but doing so because you fell off your bike after prematurely raising your arms in victory. Totaling your pickup not because the brakes failed but because you were trying to ride on the windshield. Not just destroying your fish tank but doing it while trying to film yourself lifting weights.

Why has fail become so popular? It may simply be that people are thrilled to finally have a way to express their schadenfreude out loud. Schadenfreude, after all, is what you feel when someone else executes a fail. But the fail meme also changes our experience of schadenfreude. What was once a quiet pleasure-taking is now a public—and competitive—sport.

It wouldn't be the first word to owe its ascendance to the Internet. The exclamation w00t—an interjection expressing joy—gained mainstream recognition when Merriam-Webster crowned it Word of the Year in 2007. The phrase pwned, a perversion of owned used by online gamers, made it into an episode of South Park—not quite the OED but still authoritative—and enjoys broad ironic usage. And of course, Google is no longer just a noun.

Unlike those words, though, fail has the luxury of pre-existing forms. It already exists as a noun in the phrase "without fail." It's therefore likely to gain quicker entry into most people's lexicon than, say, a word that includes digits.

In other words, fail will win.

Mommy's little girl...

MILF of the Month (October) - Salma Hayek

Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of Diana Jiménez, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek, an oil company executive. Hayek's father is of Lebanese descent while her mother is of Spanish descent. Her first given name, Salma, is Arabic for "peace" or "calm". Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve. While there, she was diagnosed with dyslexia. She was also an accomplished gymnast aspiring to compete in the Olympics, but her father prevented her from being recruited by the Mexican national team. The religious sisters running the Academy ejected Hayek, citing behavioral problems, so she returned to Mexico. She was later sent to live with her aunt in Houston, Texas, where she stayed until she was seventeen. She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana. To the surprise of her family, she dropped out to pursue a career as an actress. At 23, Hayek began her acting career by landing the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to study acting under Stella Adler, hoping for a career in Hollywood, despite limited fluency in English, attributed to her suffering from dyslexia. Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek the break she needed, a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado.
Around the year 2000, Hayek founded production company Ventanarosa, through which she produces film and television projects. Hayek is an executive producer of Ugly Betty, a television series airing around the world since September 2006. Hayek adapted the series for American television with Ben Silverman, who acquired the rights and scripts from the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea in 2001. Originally intended as a half hour sitcom for NBC in 2004, the project would later be picked up by ABC for the 2006–2007 season with Silvio Horta also producing. Hayek guest-starred on Ugly Betty as Sofia Reyes, a magazine editor. She also had a cameo playing an actress in the telenovela within the show. The show quickly became a ratings hit and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series in 2007. Hayek's performance as Sofia resulted in a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants and has spoken in front of Senate committees regarding these issues.

Munchhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!

VERO BEACH, Fla. - A McDonald's cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana.

Sources: The Associated Press, MSNBC

Full Article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27167122/?GT1=43001

My Own Worst Enemy: Must See TV

Thanks to iTunes' advance download of the series premiere of NBC's new show "My Own Worst Enemy," I had an opportunity to catch this show before it aired. I am not usually one that will endorse or promote a show, especially it's premiere (as most series premieres tend to fall short of the mark and don't really do a good job at explaining what the series is about), however I was very amused and intrigued by this show and its premise. If you like spy thrillers I believe that you will enjoy this show. Christian Slater sort of rocks the shit out of this role! Check it out! It airs tonight at 10pm EST on NBC.

The ULTIMATE Doom weapon

Another video falling into the category of "old but I just saw it."

Spider-Man & Stephen Colbert Team-Up!

Spider-Man and acclaimed television personality Stephen Colbert will join forces in an all new eight-page story featured in the extra-sized AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573! Acclaimed writer Mark Waid and fan favorite artist Patrick Olliffe present Stephen Colbert, a candidate for the U.S. Presidency in the Marvel Universe, teaming up with Marvel's most iconic crime fighter. What could bring these two together? And what will it mean for both their futures?
Don't miss out on Stephen Colbert's first full Marvel Universe appearance—in continuity!—and the team up that'll have everyone buzzing! It's the extra-sized AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573—and no comic book fan can afford to miss it! OUT TODAY!

Source: Marvel Comics
Full article: http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.5119.Spider-Man_%26_Stephen_Colbert_Team_Up

EDIT- The comic was pushed back another week. Check it out NEXT Wednesday!!

If All Movies Had Cell Phones

Your favorite films just got a lot shorter.

I hate you all...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was barking up the right tree with movie-goers, who put the Disney comedy at No. 1 for the weekend with a $29 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Um... what?

Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart

Bruce Campbell is GOD!

Bruce Campbell's latest B-movie romp ("My Name is Bruce") will be hitting selected theaters this month, with an anticipated DVD release in January. Bruce Campbell himself will be appearing in selected cities to promote the movie and have a Q&A after previewing the film (hopefully yours truly will get a chance to record some of his Q&A). To see if Bruce is going to be in your hometown go HERE.

Trailer for the movie

I Kissed a........ NO!!!

KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- A Kuwaiti official says authorities abruptly ended a music concert by an Egyptian singer in this conservative Muslim country when a young female fan jumped on stage, hugged the male singer and gave him a kiss.

Qanas al-Adwani, who heads the government department that monitors public entertainment, says the girl's behavior at Friday's concert "defied the conservative traditions" of Kuwait.

Al-Adwani also said Sunday that the fan's behavior broke controls on public entertainment, which were imposed by influential Muslim fundamentalists after they failed in 1997 to ban concerts altogether. Concerts have to be licensed by the government, and monitors from the Information Ministry watch the crowd to make sure nobody stands up to dance.

Source: The Associated Press

Science & Strippers

BOSTON - Deborah Anderson had heard the urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years.
So she and her colleagues decided to put the soft drink to the test. In the lab, that is.
For discovering that, yes indeed, Coke was a spermicide, Anderson and her team are among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize, the annual award given by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for oddball but often surprisingly practical scientific achievements.
The ceremony at Harvard University, in which actual Nobel laureates bestow the awards, also honored a British psychologist who found that foods that sound better taste better; a group of researchers who discovered exotic dancers make more money when they are at peak fertility; and a pair of Brazilian archaeologists who determined armadillos can change the course of history.

Geoffrey Miller's work could affect the earning potential of exotic dancers everywhere.
Miller, an associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, and his colleagues knew of prior studies that found women are more attractive to men when at peak fertility. So they took the work one step further — by studying earnings of exotic dancers.
In the 18 subjects Miller studied, average earnings were $250 for a five-hour shift. That jumped to $350 to $400 per five-hour shift when the women were their most fertile, he said.
"I have heard, anecdotally, that some lap dancers have scheduled shifts based on this research," he said.

Armadillos helped win an Ig Nobel for Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, archaeologists at the Universidade De Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Pesky armadillos, they found, can move artifacts in archaeological dig sites up, down and even laterally by several meters as they dig. Armadillos are burrowing mammals and prolific diggers. Their abodes can range from emergency burrows 20 inches (50 centimeters) deep, to more permanent homes reaching 20 feet (6 meters) deep, with networks of tunnels and multiple entrances, according to the Humane Society of the United States' Web site.
Araujo was thrilled to win. "There is no Nobel Prize for archaeology, so an Ig Nobel is a good thing," he said in an e-mail.

Here's the full list of winners, with links to the research if available:

• Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence for demonstrating that food tastes better when it sounds better (report from The Guardian).
• Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
• Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino for showing armadillos can scramble the contents of an archaeological dig (report from Natural History).
• Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc for discovering that fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than fleas that live on a cat.
• Medicine: Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive fake medicine is more effective than cheap fake medicine (report in Stanford GSB News).
• Cognitive science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro and Agota Toth for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles (report in Math in the Media).
• Economics: Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tyber and Brent Jordan for discovering that exotic dancers earn more when at peak fertility.
• Physics: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle.
• Chemistry: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu and B.N. Chiang for proving it is not (report at Snopes.com).
• Literature: David Sims for his study “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations” (report from The Boston Globe).

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26996167/?GT1=43001

Sources: MSNBC, Associated Press

Toon Tang (Ep. 1)

The best thing about cartoon prostitutes is that they only accept fake money.

The Life & Times of Tim: Movie Night

Now on eBay - MI6 secrets!!!

LONDON - Britain's MI6 intelligence service is investigating how a camera holding sensitive information about al-Qaida suspects came to be lost by one of its agents and then sold on eBay, police said on Tuesday.

A 28-year-old Briton bought the Nikon Coolpix camera for 17 pounds ($31) and discovered the secret material when he downloaded pictures after a vacation in the United States, the Sun newspaper reported.

A document stored on the camera's memory card was marked "top secret" and detailed an encrypted computer system used by intelligence officials, it said. The buyer was not identified.
Its memory had names of suspected al-Qaida members and suspects' academic records as well as pictures of rocket launchers and missiles, the Sun said.

Source: MSNBC

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26958931/?GT1=43001

I'll Sing You a Song - RactalFece

Post a video or send me a link to a video (john@totalvom.com) and I'll sing you a song to help you with your doomed suffering.

ZOMG!!! Soulja Boy Wants To Make Games!!

Rap impressario Soulja Boy is our greatest national resource. The platinum selling artist has renewed the hopes of a nation with his inspirational "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" song and probably some other songs as well. Now that he's both captured the pop charts and superman'ed dat ho, He wants to make video games!

According to the video below on JoyStiq, Soulja Boy says he "Wants to get into things like video game design and web site design." He also wants to go to college, but he sadly "can't experience that right now because I'm a superstar."

Soulja Boy also pronounces Barack Obama's name as "Barack Obamo," which is cool. XD



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Space Experts Plead With UN For Asteroid Plan

In an address to the UN recently, the Association of Space Explorers pleaded with the international body of leaders to develop an asteroid impact plan so that if we see one coming, the world can pool its resources and come up with an answer before it strikes.

Sure, it's been 65 million years since an impact supposedly removed the friendly and cuddly creatures known as the dinosaurs, and just recently there was talk about the Apophis asteroid, which in 2004 was said to have a 1 in 37 chance of hitting the earth. It was later refuted with more research but it is certainly a reality that we may need to face someday.

NASA is watching 209 "near earth objects" and the advancement of telescope technology is moving at such a clip as to create newer and better ways to survey the sky for moving objects. Still, Astronaut Rusty Schweickart of the Apollo 9 mission stated that, "Until we have a response in place, we're as vulnerable as the dinosaurs."

Source: Discovermagazine.com