Some Stuff: Tuesday, August 25, 2009

On this date in 1949, RCA announced it had invented a system for broadcasting color television

Check our Blog for an amazing looking teaser for Christopher Nolan's “Inception” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. (In Theaters July 16, 2010) (Matrix and The Day the earth stood still)

That trailer for JAMES CAMERON'S upcoming flick "Avatar" was watched 4 MILLION times in its first day online. That's a record for Apple.com.

I didn't realize that "Hancock" was such a big hit . . . but it did well enough to warrant a sequel . . . which is in development as we speak. WILL SMITH and director PETER BERG are expected to return. There's no word yet on any other casting.

David Goyer seems to have a lot on his plate. He's currently working on "Flash Forward" for ABC and is lining up other projects like The Invisible Man. He's also still attached to direct X-Men Origins: Magneto, at least for the time being. Fox actively developing a Wolverine sequel, Deadpool spin-off, and X-Men: First Class spin-off

Snow Leopard is here months early it’ll drop on Friday. So here’s the deal… Apple is emphasizing performance over new features, calling this version "refined, not reinvented" and advertising such improvements as faster startup and shutdown times, a smaller disk footprint and a more crash-resistant Web browser.

Apple is also pricing Snow Leopard low enough to make it almost an automatic upgrade from the current, already-good OS X 10.5 Leopard: just $29, $100 less than what Leopard sold for at its debut. (If you bought a Mac from June 8 on, right after Snow Leopard had its first in-depth demonstration at an Apple conference, you can probably get it for just $9.95.)

But people running older versions of OS X aren't eligible for those deals, and many older Macs can't run Snow Leopard at any price.


A pair of Michigan law students have hit the Internet big-time with a website allowing users to share their strange and amusing text messages. Ben Bator and Lauren Leto, both graduates of Michigan State University attending law school at Wayne State University, said the funny texts they received from their friends led them to create their site, TextsFromLastNight.com. Bator and Leto said they go through 10,000 to 15,000 submissions each night to decide what makes it onto the site. Senders are identified only by their area codes. The messages on the Web site include obscene stories, bizarre confessions and existential question. (Warning: Many of the texts on the site are NSFW.)


"JESSICA BIEL" IS THE MOST DANGEROUS CELEBRITY NAME TO SEARCH FOR ONLINE:

Every year, the people at McAfee put together a list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for. In other words, the celebs whose names can get you in the most trouble.ie viruses, spyware, adware and other garbage that'll mess up your computer.


This year, that honor goes to JESSICA BIEL. McAfee says that searching Jessica's name gives you a ONE IN FIVE chance of landing on a site that has tested positive for some kind of online threat.

Here's the complete list of this year's most dangerous celebrities to search for . . .

#1.) JESSICA BIEL

#2.) BEYONCÉ

#3.) JENNIFER ANISTON

#4.) TOM BRADY

#5.) JESSICA SIMPSON

#6.) GISELE BUNDCHEN

#7.) MILEY CYRUS

(tie) #8.) ANGELINA JOLIE and MEGAN FOX

#9.) ASHLEY TISDALE

#10.) BRAD PITT (--He was #1 last year.)