New Line’s The Golden Compass, which has a reported budget of $200M+, has staggered out of the starting gate with an opening day of $9M or so, and it will likely muster only an estimated $27M for the weekend.
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He also tried to isolate AIDS victims: (AP) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk."
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Nintendo, the gaming giant, has been forced to pull ads for its Wii console in the run up to Christmas as demand is already too high. The campaign for Wii, created by Karmarama, will be replaced by ads for its handheld console, Nintendo DS.
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Inside (Basra University) you are not, (Christian). Next time I want to see you wearing a hijab or I swear to God the three of you will be killed immediately',” Zeena recalled. Terrified, the girls ran home. They now wear the headscarf all the time.In the past five months more than 40 women have been murdered and their bodies dumped
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What happens when you're smoking hot on facebook? how do users interact with your profile? this is a hilarious satire of the above.
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Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.
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When the Bush administration began enforcing a controversial policy banning photographs of military caskets returning from Iraq, the move provoked outrage -- and now, a film -- from actor John Cusack, who calls the media ban "one of the most cowardly political acts" of his lifetime.John Cusack just defied human reason -- he got cooler.And Pedwidget...that whole "actors don't have a say" thing is so tired...and it's completely illogical. In our democracy, any citizen has an absolute right to speak their minds (and a duty to stand up for their country when its basic tenants come under attack...you know, like a true American patriot?)...so, given that the actors in question are almost always US citizens, it's well within their bounds to do so. And the reason corrupt politicians (and their lapdogs like Bill O'Reilly) are so afraid of Hollywood -- and seek to undermine them by marginalizing their credibility -- is that movie stars (or pop stars, rock stars, etc) get attention in this country...and that country-wide focus can make them a threat to the status quo if they use that attention to spread different ideas than what the news media/government wants. The only way to undermine them is to pull out that ever-so-tired "shut up and sing/dance/act" routine. I would love it if more artists spoke their minds on these topics -- think of the open discourse it would create.And really...when it comes down to it...only a mental midget with an inability to form a cogent, substantive position stoops to that argument. Why not address the heart of what Cusack is saying as a concerned citizen? And, ha, I bet you don't feel that way about Reagan or the current governor of CA.
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Fantastic as alwaysI think it is silly to say that Yahtzee is unbiased. The man goes into every review looking to exploit its flaws for entertainment value. I don't say this as a criticism, but as a complement. Yahtzee is funny and entertaining to watch precisely because he is so cynical about video games. Quite simply, I feel that we watch Yahtzee because of his inherent bias.
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First - That is one hell of a Photoshop job - kudos to the creator.Secondly, great eye-candy.Third, don't give me any of that "Created with Adobe® Photoshop® software" correction shit
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Can't a girl publicly humiliate her boyfriend by dumping him via her Facebook status message anymore without getting harrassed by a horde of social news readers? Nope.If I may throw in my two cents worth...When someone does something bad, and the hordes of diggers dig up personal information and post it for everyone to see (like that girl who stole her roommates' digital camera a few months ago)...I don't condone that, that's over the line. But when a 27 year old woman not only stoops as low as she did, but also posts her own personal information in the process (and others, originally she didn't even bother to censor out her friend's names, much less her own personal information)...I don't know, I have no sympathy for her, that attention-hungry bitch. It's too bad all the comments on that original photo were deleted, we had quite a few users posting amazingly well thought out responses to her post.
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