I found this company uBreakup,that allows users to avoid the “is it because I’m a half-man overweight circus runaway” awkwardness of most breakup calls. You record your free message and schedule the smackdown for whenever you like. Now all the service needs is the uDrunkDialThemBackHorny service. That’d be a real winner.
Good news for anyone who wants to doff their Sprint shackles but was unwilling to pay an eye-gouging cancellation fee. See, Sprint’s just raised their text-messaging fees to $0.15 per, which constitutes a “material change” to your contract. Any time there’s a material change, you’re capable of canceling your service without facing a fine.
Good news for you, oh disloyal Sprint customer.
Source: The Consumerist
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Borat, the fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan, may have gotten under the skin of Kazakh officials but on Thursday he couldn’t get past the gates of the White House.
Secret Service agents turned away British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the boorish, anti-Semitic journalist, when he tried to invite “Premier George Walter Bush” to a screening of his upcoming movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.”
Also invited to the screening:
O.J. Simpson, “Mel Gibsons” and other “American dignitaries.”Cohen’s stunt was timed to coincide with an official visit by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who is scheduled to meet with Bush on Friday.
Nazarbayev and other Kazakh officials have sought to raise the profile of the oil-rich former Soviet republic and assure the West that, contrary to Borat’s claims, theirs is not a nation of drunken anti-Semites who treat their women worse than their donkeys.
Kazakhstan is expected to become one of the top 10 oil producers within a decade. A U.S. ally with troops in
Iraq, the country has drawn criticism for its deteriorating civil liberties and flawed elections.Shortly after Nazarbayev dedicated a statue in front of the Kazakh embassy, Borat denounced an official Kazakh publicity campaign running in U.S. magazines as “disgusting fabrications” orchestrated by neighboring Uzbekistan.
“If there is one more item of Uzbek propaganda claiming that we do not drink fermented horse urine, give death penalty for baking bagels, or export over 300 tonnes of human pubis per year, then we will be left with no alternative but to commence bombardment of their cities with our catapults,” Borat said.
While searching through the endless pages of Ebay I came across the greatest thing since sliced bread! Hollywood*props is auctioning off the orginal Vanessa Kensington FEMBOT for Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me!
Own your very own FEMBOT and make all your friends jealous… or creap them out. Whatever the result, you will have one awesome prop. Does this make you horney baby??? Yeah!!! Hopely they will sell the SHAGUAR next!
The Remember Ring has a special nagging feature, using its “Hot Spot” technology that warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 seconds, every hour, on the hour, beginning 24 hours before that “special day,” apparently honoring the anniversary of your voluntary servitude. That’s supposed to be warm enough to be uncomfortable but not hot enough to burn you. The Remember Ring converts the heat from your hand into electricity using a micro-thermo pile, keeping that battery charged and its heat-bomb clock ticking away, ready to burn you again next year.
Tell the diabolical proprietors when your anniversary date is when you order the ring, and they’ll program it for you. Available in seven styles ranging from gold to silver, it has a lifetime warranty. We would like the company to add a special voice nagging option, kicking into an hourly whine about taking out the garbage once a week.
You can see Steve Carell every week in NBC’s smash hit “The Office,” but this summer he’s taking the ride of his life in Fox Searchlight’s Little Miss Sunshine. Carell hits the highway in a yellow VW van for one of the funniest and off the wall road trips with his dysfunctional extended family, the Hoovers. Frank (Carell) is a gay Proust scholar who attempts suicide because the man he fell for is in love with someone else; his brother-in-law, Richard (Greg Kinnear), is an oblivious washed up motivational speaker who is waiting for his big break; his nephew, Dwayne (Paul Dano), hasn’t spoken in nine months and hates everyone; the grandpa (Alan Arkin) is a porn loving, heroine addict; his niece, Olive (Abigail Breslin), is a wannabe beauty queen; and his sister, Sheryl (Toni Collette), holds the family together or at least tries to.
Carell superbly plays the melancholic character, but he initially didn’t think he was right for the role. “On the page I was really intrigued by the character and it just was something I wanted to play. I didn’t really know whether I could or not or whether I’d be right for it necessarily, but I felt like I understood the depths of clinical depression that this guy had sort of fallen in too,” he explained to ComingSoon.net
newsvine.com: On Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the online resource Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can read or edit. Colbert praised Wikipedia for “wikiality,” the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you – it becomes reality. Colbert’s subsequent examples to prove “wikiality” would cause chaos on the site, and lead an administrator to subsequently block his account.
In the segment, Colbert logs on to the Wikipedia article about his show to find out whether he usually refers to Oregon as “California’s Canada or Washington’s Mexico.” Upon learning that he has referred to Oregon as both, he demonstrates how easy it is to disregard both references and put in a completely new one (Oregon is Idaho’s Portugal), declaring it “the opinion I’ve always held, you can look it up.”
Colbert goes on to declare that he doesn’t believe George Washington had slaves.
If I want to say he didn’t that’s my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia *taps keyboard* it’s also a fact.
Here’s the fun part – Colbert actually did this. The Wikipedia articles on his show and George Washington were both edited by the user Stephencolbert to reflect the changes he declared on air as he tapped at his computer around 23:35 UTC – which is 6:35pm on the East Coast, during the taping of his show, hours before it aired.
It gets better.
Colbert then urged his audience to find the Wikipedia entry on elephants and create an entry that stated their population had tripled in the last six months, a fact he freely stated to not know if it was “actually true,” with his sidebar stating “it isn’t.” Guess what happened next?
Scores of internet users took Colbert’s bait, repeatedly vandalizing approximately 20 articles on elephants before all being placed under a lock. The move also subsequently caused Wikipedia administrator Tawker to block Stephen Colbert from the website, reportedly to verify his identity. Either Tawker is incapable of checking the above log times that corroborate Colbert, or, more likely, he just wants to be mentioned on Stephen’s show (as evidenced by his notes on the block and blog entry).
All this trouble over a man who, as his user page noted, is a ‘defender of truth.’
MyHeritage, an online genealogy and facial-recognition service, has an addictive little application on its site.
Find the Celebrity in You allows you to upload your own photo, which is then run through a facial-recognition scanner and “matched up” to your celebrity look-alikes.
Keep in mind that you have to enter your e-mail address to use the service. We just came across this app today, so we can’t tell you whether you’ll get a bunch of spam after doing so.
The results are often hilarious, and they vary wildly depending upon which picture you upload. For example, one CNET employee somehow simultaneously looks like Arnold Palmer, Carl Lewis, Ricky Martin, and Steve Buscemi…without really looking like any of them.
Still, it’s a fun little online toy. To test its chops, you can also upload a photo of a celebrity and let the application identify who it is after scanning the image.
Who do you look like? Post your celebrity look-alikes in the TalkBack section below and let us know if you really look like any of them.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
DreamWorks Animation has added more voices for its anticipated third installment, Shrek the Third, hitting theaters on May 18, 2007.
The Hollywood Reporter says the second sequel will feature an elite, ninja-like strike force of fairy tale princesses voiced by Amy Sedaris as Cinderella, Amy Poehler as Snow White, Maya Rudolph as Rapunzel and Cheri Oteri as Sleeping Beauty.
Organized by Princess Fiona, the ladies underground resistance movement fends off a coup d’etat by Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) in the land of Far, Far Away.
Also joining the hit animated comedy’s cast are John Krasinski as Sir Lancelot and Monty Python veteran Eric Idle as Merlin the magician.
The film’s main roles again will be voiced by Mike Myers (Shrek), Cameron Diaz (Princess Fiona), Eddie Murphy (Donkey) and Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots). Justin Timberlake will voice King Arthur, aka Artie, while Ian McShane was previously announced as voicing Captain Hook.
Shrek the Third finds the green ogre married to Princess Fiona, but becoming the next King and Queen of Far, Far Away wasn’t part of his plan. When his father-in-law, King Harold (John Cleese), falls ill, it is up to Shrek to find a suitable heir or he will be forced to give up his beloved swamp for the throne. Recruiting Donkey and Puss, Shrek sets out to bring back the rightful heir to the throne, Fiona’s rebellious cousin Artie. Back in Far, Far Away, Fiona’s jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army of fairy tale villains to seize the throne. But they have a surprise because Fiona, together with her mother, Queen Lillian (Julie Andrews), has drafted her fellow fairy tale heroines to defend their “happily ever afters.” As Shrek, Donkey and Puss work on changing Artie from a royal pain into a future king, Fiona and her band of princesses must stop Prince Charming to ensure that there will be a kingdom left to rule.
Shrek the Third is being directed by Chris Miller, co-directed by Raman Hui, produced by Aron Warner and executive produced by Andrew Adamson and John H. Williams.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Mike Myers is in final talks to write, produce and star in an untitled self-help comedy, says The Hollywood Reporter. The Paramount Pictures feature centers on a self-help guru named Pitka who is called upon to solve a couple’s romantic problems. Like Myers’ groovy Austin Powers incarnation, Pitka was created and workshopped by Myers at several theaters in Manhattan. Myers will co-write with longtime associate Graham Gordy.
In April, Myers signed on to star in Paramount’s How to Survive a Robot Uprising. Myers is also voicing Shrek again in DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek the Third.
