Will you be seeing Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers in 3D? I wasn’t planning on it, but Disney may have swayed my hand here! Damnit!
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As far as 3D movies go, I’ve dug my heels in hard. It seems pointless to fork out extra cash for most live-action 3D movies unless there’s CGI involved like in Tron: Legacy, or Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Animated features seem to benefit the most from 3D, bringing that type of movie to life.
But there’s very little that can get me to fork out the extra bucks for a live-action 3D movie these days. It doesn’t add anything to the live-action movie. But then again, it looks like Disney has found my weak spot!
Disney and RealD have come up with the concoction of custom designed 3D movie glasses based on characters from The Avengers.
And I have to tell ya, it’s tempting, if for anything else, to have a pair of your own super cool 3D glasses.
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It seems that of all the “social” circles I travel, I seem to be seeing nothing but bad news or poor opinions of this SOPA act.
SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. Its intent is to protect copyrights and defeat copyright infringements. IE: Those internet movie pirates that believe they’re entitled to steal content without paying for it.
So the premise is to protect the major players of the entertainment industry.
But it would seem that the way it was written, there are catches that seem, per so many perspectives being made on the web, to threaten even the smallest web entrepeneur… you.
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The concerns are that websites can be shut down, even if you’ve done nothing wrong yourself. IE: A site visitor leaves a comment with a link out to something… BAM, your site is done!
(Suggestion: I have this site set up to not allow links in comments. They all have to be approved.)
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I got a few pieces of web-bait to chat about, so here goes some movie news for ya all!
Jeremy Renner, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
If you were patiently waiting for the next Jeremy Renner or Gemma Arterton movie to come out, like say the fantasy tale of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters… keep waiting. The Witch Hunters are likely going to be hunting in 3D when it does come out and the production delay could be from that business decision.
Paramount has delayed the release date of this movie by almost a year, to January 11th, 2013. Inside sources say it’s for post-production 3D conversion.
That’s crap. Live-action 3D is a waste of everyone’s money. But hey, someone somewhere will pay the few extra bucks to make it worth their while. At least we’ll get to see Renner in The Avengers!
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Lindsay Lohan
They Say that Lindsay Lohan is in talks to portray Elizabeth Taylor. Seriously? Well, OK, maybe. But that’s a big risk. They’ll have to schedule filming around her community service or jail-time schedule.
And from what I’ve seen, that seems to be a rather serious role for our trouble brewing actress. But hey, maybe she’s turned over a new leaf.
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Kasey Kahne
It looks like NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kasey Kahne encountered something of a surprise in a supermarket and found himself on the wrong end of the Twitter opinion world the other day because of what seemed to be some sociably inappropriate comments about breastfeeding.
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While Kasey Kahne was shopping in a grocery store last Tuesday (12-27-11) when he found himself observing a woman breastfeeding her baby in the store, near the produce section. He commented on how one boob was in and one boob was out and further exemplified his experience by stating his surprise and apparent disgust of the situation with the hashtag #nasty on one of his tweets.
He then claimed he did not feel like continuing his shopping experience at that store after seeing that.
Kasey has around 100k followers on Twitter and as it is with the better looking NASCAR drivers, some or maybe many of his followers are women. His tweet of surprise generated a reply from one of his followers stating that they hope one day he will have someone tell his wife that breast feeding is a nasty event. She finished her tweet with
“Stay classy a**hole.”
Kasey unfortunately, after having taken quite the social beating over this, finally added further to his social internet dilemma by replying a tweet by saying
“And your a dumb b****.”
After the heat of the moment passed him by, Kasey then tried deleting his Twitter posts and later wished everyone a Merry Christmas.
But when you delete your end of the conversation, well, that only works on your end while the other participant of the conversation still has their tweet history of their part of that convo.
Plus when other mainstream media find good “hooks” to spin an article or event, it takes on a life of its own.
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After a bit of frustration with how some website owner/operators run their ancillary feeds these days, I find myself dropping all but their RSS feeds. It’s more about the lack of professionalism in the personalities behind the social feeds vs. a pretty basic RSS feed.
Read on and find out why I think, for some, RSS Feeds is the best way to follow a website.
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In this day and age, every website owner/operator puts their content out in every possible fashion. They scramble to figure out every last trick that Google has for them and how to game it and rank well within that nebulous web ranking system. They also play on the human factor by using bait title tactics, report the news bites or generate interesting opinion pieces.
To get those pieces of work out, they use different venues for getting their content in your face. Some sites stick with the basics of Facebook and Twitter. Others pound out other venues for their regurgitated content.
For you the web surfer, you have to decide how best to spend your time, because your time is a pretty valuable commodity. Period.
Do you want just the info, or do you want to interact and feel like the web author is a human. And therein lies the sales pitch to website admins… to “engage” the community.
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The average web surfer spends maybe around 90 seconds on a blog/website, skittering along looking for or at things that might catch your attention. If nothing does, you either move on or never land there.
And you have good reason for skittering through a website… In 2011, there were roughly around 150 million blogs out there. And you only have so much time.
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As a runner, you know a lot depends on your gear… and I’m guessing non-runners are wondering exactly what gear a runner needs? It’s complicated, once you get into the thick of it. Like any sport, once you graduate beyond the casual or guilty holiday running, that good gear can make or break your day.
There’s actually a lot to running as far as gear is concerned.
First and foremost involves having shoes that fit you properly. Someone with a keen eye towards your individual biomechanics is a good place to star. These folks can be called the experts who know what to suggest to compliment your walking/running style. If you have weak arches or ankles, or strong ankles… there are shoes designed for each kind of runner.
Then there’s proper garments, proper support gear if needed, and what not.
As a runner, jogger or what not, you’ll find out fast enough that not just any shoe will do. And the wrong apparel could chafe you into a good, bloody mess.
Having the right people backing you from a good running store is incredibly important. That’s where Fleet Feet of Menlo Park comes in.
When I first went in the store, they lined me up with new running shoes that complimented my personal technique. The staff had me walk across the store in my socks and saw how I walked. They then chose a shoe that was designed to support my strengths and/or weaknesses in how I would run.
With the right shoes chosen for me, I cut an entire minute off my pace the very first time out… so yea, shoes do matter.
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Looking for a Christmas gift idea for that special person in your life? Or better yet, for yourself? Enter this BruSimm contest for a chance to win the new Blu-ray version of the entire series of Farscape!
Update: CONTEST CLOSED, 12/14/11
Farscape, the entire series is now in one happy package on Blu-ray that came out on November 15th! A&E has done a great job with the new packaging and remastering the source material from the episodes. The sound, in a 5.1 mix, comes at you in a new way and totally immerses you in the story.
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Despite being cancelled before its time, the franchise lives on in conventions each month and any time we see Ben Browder or Claudia Black, it’s hard to not recall the science fiction TV series.
Created by Rockne S. O’Bannon and co-produced by Jim Henson Productions, throughout the expanse of the Farscape series, we followed John Crichton (Browder) after getting sucked through a wormhole and ejected into a universe that’s not his, and followed him in his quest to find a way to return home.
All the while, he finds himself taken in, aboard the living ship called Moya and its crew. And while he tries to find a way home, we also watch Crichton’s relationship ever so slowly develop with former Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun (Black).
Some of the Blu-ray details:
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I’ve now had my Motorola Droid X from Verizon Wireless for close to a year and half or so. I love it. And it being a Unix-based OS, on it’s own, it never needs rebooting. On its own that is. But it’s funny as you add apps, how the thing gets a bit flaky on you. But as I’ve learned through the years, the more software you add to your computing platform, the more likely it is you will start to develope issues amongst competing drivers and what not. It seems to be the name of the game.
Over the many months, I’ve tried, played and deleted many an app on the phone.
I tread wearily when I tried apps so I can avoid some of the horror stories I’ve seen, IE: bricking the phone, etc.. Treading carefully means means that when I hit up the Droid App Store, (the Market), I look carefully at the reviews. A lot of reviews are not from the greatest minds on the planet, so I weigh them out and ponder the sources, but if I see a pattern of issues from multiple reviews, I tend to go on my merry way and ignore the app. Of course, there are those apps that come from outside the Market, but I only install those apps from trusted sources, or huge name companies, etc.. Organizations that I have had good dealings with.
But even large name orgs sometimes have problems, as, you will see.
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- Kyle Busch‘s NASCAR weekend has been an eventful one, with a huge impact on Kyle Busch and all his teams, from his NASCAR Truck Series team, his Nationwide racing endeavors and his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team with Joe Gibbs Racing.
And to think, all he had to do was just show a little bit of displeasure and leave a little paint on the back bumper of Ron Hornaday’s truck. But instead, Kyle Busch did what, well, what the Busch’s do, and that’s lose it.
And now, M&M’s has pitched in their two cents on the situation.
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As almost everyone knows, during the NASCAR Truck Series race Friday night, Ron Hornaday Jr.‘s truck got a little loose and slipped up into Kyle Busch’s truck.
At that point it was just a racing incident. Nothing more. A few fenders were scuffed up but nothing that was a show stopper. It was all repairable damage and would have been a small sound byte from the weekend. But Kyle got mad and took retribution by hooking Hornaday’s truck into the outside wall, destroying it.
Had Kyle not driven the truck into the wall, this might have been a slightly different story. But Kyle’s own quote was that he had been tired of getting wrecked every weekend and snapped.
Bad call Kyle.
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