AALIYAH: “Queen of the Damned.”

JAMES DEAN: “Rebel Without a Cause”

CLARK GABLE: “The Misfits.”

RIVER PHOENIX: “Silent Tongue,”

JEAN HARLOW: “Saratoga.”

SPENCER TRACY: “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”

BRANDON LEE: “The Crow”

BRUCE LEE: “Enter the Dragon.” and “Game of Death”

NATALIE WOOD: “Brainstorm.”

JOHN CANDY: “Wagon’s East.”

TUPAC SHAKUR: “Gridlock’d” and “Gang Related,”

PHIL HARTMAN: “Small Soldiers.”

CHRIS FARLEY: “Almost Heroes,”

GARY COOPER: “The Naked Edge.”

Of course there are many more too, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

Source [NY Daily News]

The London based artist known only as Slinkachu, is certainly diverse in the way that art is concerned as he launches a new scheme, which is on a small scale, as the canvases that he has chosen to display his skills on are actually snails.

These snails have found their shells being painted and painted in many varying styles before being let loose on the streets of London.

It could be classed as a harmful thing to be doing but he says that no snails are harmed in this process; they just have their homes vandalised!

Source [Metro]

It has been said that the government has been gradually chipping away at the freedom of the people; this may be true or may not be true it depends on your point of view. But the plan for this data base has been called a step too far for the British way of life.

Even the information commissioner has said that these plans will seriously affect the freedom of the people to go about their daily lives as they wish.

But the government claim that they need to monitor the emails, sms, browsing, searching and even online purchases of everyone in their fight against terrorism and crime.

Source [Daily Mail]

Apparently at the time there were some 3.7 million Americans who believed that they were suffering from a problem known as UFO abduction syndrome. Prof. Ted Goertzel at Rutgers University came up with a test, if they recognised four out of the five questions then they may have been abducted.

1. “Waking up paralyzed with a sense of a strange person or presence or something else in the room.”
2. “Experiencing a period of time of an hour or more, in which you were apparently lost, but you could not remember why or where you had been.”
3. “Feeling that you were actually flying through the air although you didn’t know why or how.”
4. “Seeing unusual lights or balls of light in a room without knowing what was causing them.”
5. “Finding puzzling scars on your body and neither you nor anyone else remembering how you received them or where you got them.”

Source [IO9]

But unlike Second Life maybe this time it will be policed in way that makes it both interesting and useful for business and individuals, this where Second Life has maybe fallen down slightly over the past few years.

However Lively.com is not the finished article by a long way, although having taken a quick look the site offers very similar things to Second Life but at the moment is not necessarily any better. The good thing about Lively is that you know Google are behind so one the hand it will get better, but on the other it will eventually turn into a money making machine.

Source [CRN]

Because of the design of these shoes, they offer virtually no support or come to think of it protection from anything that is likely to get in the way of your feet. This can result in a whole variety of foot related problems such as sprained ankles, stubbed toes and even more serious problems like tendonitis.

This is particularly so when it comes to the twenty to thirty age groups, many hospitals and doctors are reporting these problems some patients are turning up with broken heel’s and damaged toenails.

Dr. Stephanie Wu, assistant professor of surgery at the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago believes that flip flops are fine in moderation, but not as a replacement for regular footwear.

Source [Chicago Tribune]

One such product according to the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council (NCRC) is chocolate. Around two thirds of the worlds cocoa beans come from West Africa, but the yields are falling which will cause concern for anyone who has a liking for the brown stuff.

The problem is that the farming of cocoa is not sustainable as it is a plant that grows extensively within the rain forests, but the farmers have to move on from area to area in order for the crop to grow, eventually they will run out of fresh land to cultivate and the production of cocoa will be threatened.

Source [CNN]

The recent launch of the Sex and the City film was such a success that other long running series have seen the light. The latest one to be thinking of returning for a big screen comeback is Friends; the TV series finished around four years ago, and should be ripe for a return.

So far the Sex and the City film is estimated to have made $300 million, which is a good enough incentive for any cast to forget the reasons why the show finished and make a comeback. Of course this rarely happens with UK series, Crossroads the Movie just doesn’t seem to have the same ring.

Source [The Moving Picture]

These are the foods:

Beets
Cabbage
Swiss chard
Cinnamon
Pomegranate juice
Dried plums
Pumpkin seeds
Sardines
Turmeric
Frozen blueberries
Canned pumpkin

But there is always the possibility that a smaller store, like a deli or something will be able to get most of these if you want them all, of course by shopping that the cost is going to rise and this just takes the whole edge off of the whole thing.

Source [NY Times]

The Life hacker List.

The Bible
The Works of Ayn Rand
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
The Stranger
The Works of George Orwell
The Works of Richard Dawkins
The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Ender’s Game
Dune

Clearly some of these titles are personal choice, although the Bible could be one which bucks the trend. Naturally there are thousands of books out there, so which one would you be choosing as the book that has had a change on your life?

Source [Life Hacker]

But there is one thing missing from Google, you can find a store and even go to street view to take a look at what is going on outside, but thing that you cannot do with Google is take a look inside!

With a new service Everyscape.com you not only have the features of Google, but you can also have a look around inside, this works great for retail businesses, bars and restaurants as it gives the user the opportunity to view before buying or booking up for an evening out.

Source [Boston]

Google’s involvement in this only part of the company’s strategy anyhow, which means they would have been pushing this programme whether they were involved in it or not. But any scheme that has Google on their side is going to have so many advantages.

Steadily over the past few years America is actually falling behind Europe and Asia in the way that the quality of the broadband connection has developed and also access to it. If the broadband network in the US does not get up to steam fast, there are going to be some embarrassed faces around.

Source [Google Publicity Policy]

The power assisted suitcase is the idea of a small UK company called Live Luggage, and this could be set to change the whole aspect of travelling, especially as where there is a lot of walking involved like at airports etc.

But this is not a fully motorised suitcase, as there is no button to push which then powers the suitcase away. It actually works on the principle that as the suitcase gets pulled along the motors which are fixed to each wheel offer a small amount of assistance. About time too!

Source [Computer World]

This is probably why there are many different drinking or alcohol related games around which will add a bit of spice to the life of a party goer as if they ever needed any in the first place. Below is a list of these drinking games, some are self explanatory the others may need some research.

Case In A Day
Run The Taps At A Bar
Century Club
Brew Your Own Beer
Pub Crawl
Go To An AA Meeting
Scotch
Learn Something About Wine
Black Out Before Noon
Oktoberfest in Germany

Source [Tasty Booze]

A crop circle has been described as the most complex ever found or seen in the UK, It has been measured at being 150ft in diameter!

But more than that the design is supposed to be a coded version that represents the first ten digits of Pi! This complex crop circle can be found at an Iron Age fort located on a hill at Wroughton in Wiltshire.

Whether these are made by aliens, students or just the farmer looking for some cash when he charges entrance fee to people who want to see them, these are pretty spectacular.

Source [Telegraph]

The Segway Encourages Obesity
The Segway Is Dorky
The Segway Is Too Expensive
The Segway Can’t Go Up Stairs
The Segway Discriminates Against People With No Legs
The Segway Is Too Slow
The Segway Is Too Difficult For Us To Use

Maybe the mistake by the companies is making a single person machine, what’s wrong with a Segway for two?

Source [Jalopnik]

It seems that despite all of the various attempts to make us eat healthily there are products, which are banned in Europe but still widely in use in this country. It is called Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) and is used in many of the products that take us back to childhood.

HVO is a very dangerous product, it has been estimated that two grams per day can increase the risk of heart disease by twenty three per cent; two grams of HVO can be found in one doughnut!

Despite how potentially dangerous this product can be it can be found in many items that are bought on a regular basis, such as Quality Street chocolates, Horlicks, Knorr stock cubes, Angel Delight dessert, Cadbury Heroes, some Nestlé and Mars confectionery, Batchelors Cup a Soups and even Haliborange Omega-3 Fish Oil capsules for children.

Source [Independent]

The great thing about these planes is that there are some changes to the way that the pilots licence are issued, obviously this going to vary in different countries, but for small light aircraft the rules are being relaxed, so that there is less time spent on training and even the medical check has been scrapped.

With technology reaching this level, it is not going to be long before we see low flying aircraft skimming over the roofs of houses and pulling up in the drives of house in small specially built cul de sacs.

Naturally there is an element of cost, and also the running costs of plane, but with so many celebrities earning so much money, it is these people who will be leaving the roads for air!

Source [Popular Mechanics]

But for the owner it would have been simply too much to not watch it, just because the country is turning off the analogue signal.

The TV set belongs to Richard Howard who remembers watching it as boy! Fortunately he is a furniture restorer who went ahead and converted the TV to digital, it is believed that this TV is the oldest TV set to be converted to digital and can now receive up to twenty channels.

Source [Daily Mail]

In the first quarter of the year, gamers spent a massive £418.4 million, which is a huge amount of money for the sector. The most popular platform is Nintendo with their Wii and the DS platforms; these had the top two places, with PC coming in third and the Microsoft Xbox 360 coming in at a low fourth place.

The top game for just happens to be Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, and they say that major sporting events do not have much to do on what consumers buy!

Source [Gamespot]