Wednesday, April 25, 2012
TEEN FICTION: 'Two Peas In A Pod'
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'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' Trailer: Five Kick-Ass Moments
Duke goes early and so does London in the brand-new trailer for 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation,' from 'Never Say Never' director Jon Chu.
By Josh Wigler
Dwayne Johnson in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation"
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Crashing through the sky comes the fearful cry of Cobra, but I feel no fear at the laser-blasting terrorist organization's coming arrival. For one, we all know the Joes have this battle in the bag. For another, there's a second "G.I. Joe" movie heading our way in just two short months, and by the looks of it, it's the movie that fans have always wanted. Bring on Zartan, Firefly and the rest of them, I say!
Cobra Commander and his minions are out in full force in the brand-new "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" trailer that arrived Tuesday (April 24) courtesy of Machinima. Featuring an introduction from leading man Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, the two-and-a-half-minute trailer embraces everything we loved about that first "Retaliation" spot and ups the ante considerably. Keep reading for the five scenes from the trailer we were most excited to see.
The Duke of Hazard
"Just don't kill Duke. That's really my only request," MTV.com reader Adam wrote in response to the arrival of the first "Retaliation" trailer some months ago. Unfortunately, Adam, I don't think your wish will be granted: Rumors have long been swirling about the early exit of Channing Tatum's "Rise of Cobra" hero, and his limited appearance in the "Retaliation" trailer only fuels that fire further. If there's a silver lining, it's that Duke appears to have grown among the Joe crowd quite a bit since last we saw him. He's got a strong relationship with Roadblock, so much so that he happily volunteers to babysit his fellow Joe's little girls for a weekend. Duke might not last long in "Retaliation," but expect his departure — however it comes — to weigh heavily on Roadblock as the film unfolds.
The Country Is at War
There's only one man who could destroy G.I. Joe in one crushing move, and the Rock voted for him. Viewers well know that the president of the United States is Zartan in disguise, using his influence to push Cobra into the public eye and assert its dominance over the globe. If you thought the rise of Cobra meant the death of the former president, however, you'd be mistaken: The trailer reveals that the real president (played by "Pirates of the Caribbean" veteran Jonathan Pryce) is still alive, if not exactly well.
Two Cases of Thin Mints
With few allies left to turn to, Roadblock takes his surviving Joes — Flint and Lady Jaye — and teams up with the reclusive General Joe Colton, the man who started it all. The hero, played by action legend Bruce Willis, has gone from complaining about his high cholesterol to demanding Girl Scout cookies in this newest trailer. And he wonders why his blood pressure is all out of whack!
London Bridge Is Falling Down
"Rise of Cobra" saw the destruction of the Eiffel Tower. It looks like London's going to undergo a similar "everything must go" sale when "Retaliation" rolls around. What, you really thought that President Zartan wanted world peace? He and the Cobra gang are behind the massive terrorist assault on the United Kingdom, and it's going to be up to Roadblock and his pals to prevent further destruction from happening.
Ninja Wrap
So. Many. Ninjas. But never enough ninjas. There is no such thing, as Snake Eyes and Jinx battling an army of sword-wielding Cobra loyalists on the side of a mountain will surely tell you. Recently, Chu revealed that a nine- to ten-minute, dialogue-free ninja battle would occur in "Retaliation," and going by the previous trailer and this latest one, it looks like this snow-covered mountain is where it's all going down. Awesome.
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Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight review
It's a plague against modern marriage, turning husband against wife, and tearing families apart. It's America's number one problem in the bedroom (according to handy stat sheets passed out by Barnes & Noble, at least): light. Spouses are leaving the light on, attempting to read past their designated bedtime, keeping their partners awake and putting a potentially insurmountable strain on their marital bonds. The solution: Divorce? Trial separations? Mariticide? A clunky, clip-on reading light? Until now these were the best -- nay, only -- solutions to the problem of reading after dark.
All of that is about to change, thankfully, as Barnes & Noble readies the release of the new Nook Simple Touch, with the company's patent-pending GlowLight technology. The addition of after-dark reading capabilities is the most significant update to the company's e-reader, which otherwise remains largely unchanged from last year's model. Is it enough to keep the Nook on top of the e-reader heap for another year? Meet us past the break to find out -- that is, if you're not afraid of the dark.
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Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Can You Recognize These People from Just Their Hair? [Art]
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Quen - the City of Crime
Quen is a city perverted by crime; the authorities are easily bribed, those with money possess unlimited power, and to survive? you have to be just as twisted and crooked as the city itself.
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Life consists of choices. If you wish to change your life, all you have to do, is choose to...
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Mela - Member for 0 years
May I reserve the male, please?
I stalk, I hide, I peer outside, But no need to fear, just the SullenKiller.
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Sullenkiller - Member for 0 years
I'm gonna go with yes for both of you... ^^ 24 hours, then your spot is open to others again.
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Mela - Member for 0 years
@ Sullenkiller: quick question... ^^ your character doesn't seem like the kind of guy who'd be part of the Triad... is he supposed to, or is he "just" an assassin? =)
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Mela - Member for 0 years
I figured he would be of the triad. I meen one of the triad could be the son or daughter of a crime lord or dealer of some sort and want to hire "Mr. Smith" and he meets them that way. Or he still has a cmplete othe life as "Alan" and could meet them that way. But if you don't want him to be apart of the triad then you could make him "just" and assassin.
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Sullenkiller - Member for 0 years
Well... the general idea is for the Triad to be made up of 3 very powerful people... the types who HIRE assassins... haha ^^ The only reason they're a Triad, is because none of them is more powerful than the other, and so they decided, in stead of battling for power, they'd share it... xD
I'm sorry I wasn't too clear on that. O.O
Edit: I do, however, like your character, and I'd like to at least include him as an assassin. ^^
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Mela - Member for 0 years
Great! ^^ I'l approve him right away.. oh, but I'd like it if you'd add a bigger picture of him in the sheet, if you please. =)
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Mela - Member for 0 years
I look one up right away! :)
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Man's dating spreadsheet goes viral, may have legal consequences
By Rosa Golijan
Thanks to the way embarrassing information spreads on the Internet, you may have already heard about a man who ranked and tracked his online dating prospects in a spreadsheet. What you might not be aware of though, is that one of the women whose name and contact information was publicized is considering legal action ... against one of her spreadsheet sisters.
ABC News' Christina Ng spoke to?Liliana Beidaut, one of the women who appeared on a spreadsheet created by a fella named?David Merkur. This spreadsheet was meticulously maintained and?included notes on Merkur's interactions with women he met on dating site Match.com. This document is now easy to find on the Internet because one of Merkur's dates goaded him into e-mailing her a copy ??a copy she forwarded to her friends.?
Predictably, those friends forwarded the spreadsheet to their friends and so on. The whole thing?? and all the personal information it contained?? went viral in the blink of an eye.
And now?Liliana Beidaut, and the other women whose names appeared on the spreadsheet, are coping with the backlash.
"I've gotten a lot of calls from random people saying, 'Oh, you're the 9.5,'" Beidaut told ABC News,?referring to the high rating Merkur gave her on his spreadsheet. While seemingly agitated by the incident, she isn't upset with Merkur though:?
"I think the guy is really nice," Beidaut said. "I never met him and I don't think he did something that bad. He was nice, and he was trying to keep himself organized. I think he took that seriously and was really looking for a girl."
The object of Beidaut's irritation, instead, is the woman who shared the spreadsheet.
"Why would she send it to the whole world? It was a really stupid move," Beidaut said while speaking to ABC News. "My face is plastered everywhere now. I wasn't looking for that. I was just thinking that I was using Match.com."
Beidaut has spoken to "at least one other woman on the list who is similarly upset" and is considering taking legal action against the woman who shared the spreadsheet.
This certainly wouldn't be the first time that the Internet and romance collided in an explosion leading to legal action.?A man recently sued women who posted reviews of their relationships with him onto a website?called?LiarsCheatersRUs?and a college student was exposed to potential liability when a PowerPoint presentation in which she ranked her sexual partners in detail?in 2010.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Chumby halts hardware sales, long-term support looking mighty unlikely
"The site is closed temporarily." Never a good sign, indeed, and particularly not when it's plastered across Chumby's own webstore. For over two days now, that's the message given to anyone attempting to buy hardware from the company, and it looks as if the Chumby we knew may be counting down its final days. A scrappy upstart attempting to bring its Chumby OS to the masses via injections into larger OEMs, the outfit saw little to no uptake across a wide variety of products; Sony nixed the Dash earlier this year, and Insignia turned its back quite some time ago. To be fair, Chumby had stopped manufacturing its own branded hardware in 2011, with the outfit's Duane Maxwell confirming the outright death of Chumby's store in a forum posting today. According to him, there was "no point in keeping the store around once inventory was exhausted," though hardcore loyalists can still snag a NeTV from adafruit.
Other forum members have noted that all support emails now seem to be headed into the Great Beyond, and while the actual network that Chumby OS relies on remains alive at the moment, there's no guarantee it'll last. Interestingly, at least two individuals instrumental in the building of Chumby are now working at Media Navi -- both Alison Fay and Michael Coleman have moved Chumby-related job listings to "Past" in their LinkedIn profiles. We'll be reporting more as we get it, but in the meanwhile, we'd recommend giving your favorite Chum a warm hug. His / her heart may not be beating for too much longer.
[Thanks, Jonathan]
Chumby halts hardware sales, long-term support looking mighty unlikely originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung adds 20.3-megapixel NX20, NX210 and NX1000 to mirrorless cam lineup (update: now with video)
You probably know Samsung best as the mobile tech giant that it's exploded to become. The Korean company has also unleashed a blockbuster television or two in the past few years, along with some of the most gorgeous tablets to come out of the Far East. One area where Samsung has yet to dominate is the digital camera market, however -- the company pumps out some pretty innovative imagers, that for one reason or another haven't caught on like their Japanese counterparts, including those from the likes of Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and Sony. Sure, Samsung's point-and-shoots could be labeled as gimmicky under-performers, despite their success in Asia, but its mirrorless cameras have been established as viable competitors in the fast-growing ILC market -- from a performance perspective, at least.
What the firm really needs to gain share is a killer model with an incredibly competitive price -- an entry-level cam that comes in at, say, $499 with a decent kit lens. Sadly, there's no sub-$500 ILC in this latest bunch, with the NX20 priced at $1,100 and the NX210 set to retail for $900. The NX1000 has yet to get a price tag, though based on those first two flavors, we wouldn't be surprised to see it hit stores with a $700 sticker. There's more to these cameras than price -- well, there is and there isn't, depending on your needs -- but in a market with offerings as solid as the $600 Sony NEX-C3 and $1,100 Olympus E-M5, what Samsung really needs is a product that drops jaws not because of its high megapixel rating, but rather its very low price tag. The company has built a solid portfolio for 2012 -- all three NX cameras include the same 20.3-megapixel Samsung-manufactured APS-C CMOS sensor with an ISO range up to 12,800, 1080/30p video, an 8fps full-res burst mode, integrated WiFi and a 3-inch display, though body size, user interface and other features will differ. Join us past the break for a closer look at each camera.
(Update: Courtesy of our sister site Engadget Chinese, we've added some hands-on videos.)
Samsung adds 20.3-megapixel NX20, NX210 and NX1000 to mirrorless cam lineup (update: now with video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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