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America’s newest sex symbol: Marge Simpson?

October 9th, 2009, 4:25 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams

marge-pbPlayboy has announced that their cover model for the November issue will be Marge Simpson. Not only will she grace the cover, she’ll also have a two-page centerfold spread. The magazine coyly won’t say how much will be revealed by the blue-haired mother of three. All they’re saying is that is that it will be “very, very racy.”

I’m curious to see how this will be received. This isn’t the first time Playboy has tried to appeal to the younger set, with previous cover featuring female professional wrestlers and G4’s Olivia Munn. Going with a female cartoon character is a little different.

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Google aliens return!

September 20th, 2009, 10:14 pm by Chris "KeL" Adams

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For the third time in recent weeks, Google has replaced its logo with a scene of rampaging aliens. While the previous two were rather cryptic at best, this time around they’re clear about the purpose. It’s to celebrate the birthday of “War of the Worlds” author and sci-fi trailblazer H.G. Wells.

While I can appreciate the sentiment, Google seems to be getting awfully chummy with UFOS of late. That can only lead to no good. Keep watching the skies, friends.

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Luke beats Vader …

August 22nd, 2009, 11:17 am by Jayson Peters

Who needs Rock, Paper, Scissors — or even Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock — when we now have Luke, Vader, Emperor?

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A disturbing convergence

July 25th, 2009, 11:27 pm by Jayson Peters

We’ve already reported that at least one e-tailer has proved it has both the ability and the guts to snatch back content you thought you wanted (Amazon embraces the Orwellian spirit and UPDATE: Orwell e-books yanked from Kindles were bootlegs, July 17).

Now the U.S. government appears to be on the verge of establishing a squad of truth police if not Thought Police, if Tribune columnist Austin Hill is to be believed (Obama appointee wants control of web speech, July 25).

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School’s UFO hoax gives new meaning to ‘British invasion’

July 21st, 2009, 10:04 pm by Jayson Peters

Children in Britain got the shepherd’s pie scared out of them earlier this month when educators, with the cooperation of local police, staged an alien invasion for the little tykes with the goal of inspiring creative thinking and improving their writing skills.

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As reported in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph, the Sussex students — some as young as 7 — were told a UFO had crashed nearby and were encouraged to follow a trail of debris, whereupon they witnessed a performance that included a school staff member’s “alien abduction.”

Parents were not told of the July 10 exercise beforehand, and one described her daughter as “shell shocked” upon returning home from school.

On the bright side, at least now the kids will have something to put in their journals.

(Via Gawker’s io9 blog)

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Enjoy syncing your Pre with iTunes? Not so fast …

July 15th, 2009, 11:41 pm by Jayson Peters

itunes-logoNo longer will Palm’s Pre smart phone be able to masquerade as an iPhone like a Decepticon.

Apple on Wednesday pushed out an update to iTunes that cuts off Pre users’ ability to load music onto their devices with the free popular software.

A spokesman for Apple told The Associated Press that the update “disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre.”

A Palm spokeswoman called the move a direct blow to users, “who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience.” She suggested Pre users stick with the older version of iTunes or get comfortable with USB cables or third-party applications.

In other news from the Hardware Wars, Microsoft says it will open retail stores “right next door to Apple” this fall. COO Kevin Turner tells The Associated Press the company is “in the game for the long-term.” This follows Google’s recent announcement that it will challenge Microsoft’s dominance in the world of computer operating systems with its Chrome OS for netbook PCs.

See also: 10 iPod games for those who don’t have the Touch

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Grave concerns

July 14th, 2009, 10:39 pm by Jayson Peters

Have you noticed all the strange happenings surrounding graveyards recently?

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First, you’ve got the one in Illinois where workers are accused of digging up bodies so they can resell the plot. And there was some question about whether Michelle Obama’s father is or isn’t buried there. (The White House now insists he isn’t and never was.)

This was followed by a case of vandals toppling tombstones at an historic South Carolina graveyard. Now comes word of a 51-year-old man caught in the buff in an Indiana cemetery.

It’s a little troublesome when the dead start piling up in the bushes to make room for new arrivals, and it’s certainly unsettling, I’m sure, to see headstones kicked over and flashers strutting about.

Maybe it’s nothing to worry about — just Michael Jackson bringing the freak show with him to the afterlife.

Then again …

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‘Lost’ - That ’70s Show?

July 14th, 2009, 2:07 pm by Jayson Peters

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The producer of Baretta and Babes in Toyland has filed a lawsuit claiming that ABC and Touchstone Television took a pilot he wrote in 1977 and turned it into their current primetime hit, Lost.

According to TMZ, Anthony Spinner claims he was paid $30,000 more than 32 years ago to write a 121-page pilot script that he called Lost. The report also says Spinner tried to sue in 2005 but the case was dismissed for “procedural reasons.”

Similarities alleged between Spinner’s concept and the warped reality of Lost include flashback storytelling, a group of island dwellers called “the primitives” (compare to the ABC show’s “Others”) and a sabertooth tiger, which, like the polar bear of Lost, is woefully out of place on The Island.

Source: TMZ, via Airlock Alpha

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A Laurentian fixation

July 8th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters

Star Trek and Transformers screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman seem to have a thing for someone called Laurence. Read the rest of this entry »

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All the signs are there: They are among us …

June 25th, 2009, 10:46 am by Jayson Peters

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This just in: Wallabies high on opium are responsible for crop circles.

And you thought it was plastered grad students and marketing gurus. Shame!

Photo: The Associated Press

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