Some Stuff: July 23, 2009

1904: Some people say the ice cream cone was invented



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Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry appeared in person at Comic-con to unveil the Green Hornet's Black Beauty super car.



Also look for the New Teaser poster for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” which will hit theaters early next year.



And a teaser trailer for the new "Alice in Wonderland" that stars JOHNNY DEPP and was directed by TIM BURTON



My sources report that Frank Miller has "recently completed a draft of the sequel of 300". They also say that no screenwriter and no director has officially signed on yet, not even director Zack Snyder. He's never really said that he's for sure returning, but it sounds like he wants to be involved in some way (since 300 was his so his big break)



Check the blog for a screen shot of what Facebook looked like during it’s first week in operation.



So what is Twitter's media coverage worth? According to VMS, a news-monitoring agency, Twitter coverage over the last 30 days is worth around $48 million! That’s nearly half of what Microsoft plans to spend on marketing for its new search engine, Bing. Twitter received exactly 2.73 billion impressions in the past month-and this doesn't include the huge bounce the microblogging service received in April when celebrities like Oprah and Ellen started tweeting. According to the report, TV contributed to 57% of the PR value, newspapers 37% and magazines 5% and I’m sure we helped out quite a bit.



The Wake County, North Carolina Sherrif's Department is using black Chevy Corvettes as their new squad cars. The Z06 has a sticker price of $74,875, a 505 horsepower engine and tops out at 198 mph. Most of the Vettes are being used to catch speeders.



Veteran spacewalker David Wolf had some advice this week for those wondering how to sneeze in a spacesuit. "Aim low, off the windscreen, because it's going to mess up your view and there's no way to clear it," said Wolf. He admitted being in just that predicament during Monday's spacewalk outside the International Space Station.