During his captivity, U.S. marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan. He was also regularly depicted in a similar manner during the TV series.
iPhone 3.0 looks to include a video recording application, more settings options, an accessibility entry, and could even possibly be integrating voice dialing. Not sure if these will be availabe on the current iPhones, or only the new one that will most likely be released this June. Click here for more screenshots.
Don't you hate it when some leathery old cow stumbles into the bar and tries to shove her sandbags in your face and you're like, "Helllllllp! Somebody get this crazy bitch off me!" and your friends are li—oh shit. April 1st was a week ago.
One of the worst things about a 21-hour trip from New York to Tokyo — right up there with the legroom in coach, sinus-parching airplane air and the loose definition of food you are now expected to pay for — is the multihour layover at LAX. Stuck in the world’s sixth-busiest airport, you’ve got little to do and nowhere to rest your weary head. Enter the reLAX Lounge, a new airport club not affiliated with any airline or tied to the class of service you’re flying. This 4,500-square-foot oasis is located in the Tom Bradley International Terminal behind the food court, and has free Wi-Fi, snacks and beverages, and comfy high-back chairs you could easily doze in. To use it, all you have to do is pay: $10 for an hour, $25 for three hours, $35 for five hours or $50 for the whole day.
ReLAX is a quiet and pretty swanky space, with modernist furnishings like those Arne Jacobsen-esque chairs, L.E.D. drop-down lighting and vases filled with feathered orbs, as well as grand views of the tarmac. What’s more, if you think of what you’d pay out in the terminal for the likes of its Douwe Egberts coffee, fresh fruit, chocolate chip cookies, limitless Internet access and various periodicals, you’re probably coming out ahead. Put that way, you might even want to splurge for a $1-a-minute massage — just the thing for your long-hauled nerves.
Apologies to residents of the Lower East Side; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and other hipster-centric neighborhoods. You are not as cool as you think, at least according to a new study that seeks to measure what it calls “the geography of buzz.”
Haven't they done this like 12 times now?
But Robin Kane, the agency’s acting chief technology officer, said that the initial results from pilot tests at some checkpoints at 19 airports in the United States had been so good that the idea of using the machines as the standard checkpoint detectors made sense. Those results included, he said, positive feedback from passengers.
The plan now is that all passengers will “go through the whole-body imager instead of the walk-through metal detector,” he said.
“We’re just finishing some piloting in six airports in the primary screening position,” he said. Assuming tests continue to be positive, the machines will eventually be used at most domestic airports.
The Australian government said Tuesday that it would create a publicly owned company to build a national high-speed broadband network worth 43 billion Australian dollars in one of the largest state-sponsored Internet infrastructure upgrades in the world.Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the eight-year, $31 billion project would create up to 37,000 jobs at the peak of construction, giving a lift to the economy as retail spending slumps and mining companies cut workers amid weakening demand for Australian metals.
The plan is “the most ambitious, far-reaching and long-term nation-building infrastructure project ever undertaken by an Australian government,” Mr. Rudd told reporters.
iPhone OS 3.0 is riddled with hints that video recording is on the way, and the latest is this supposed screenshot of a revised camera app with a video toggle.
Kids think being a hitman is all luxury suites and assembling ceramic rifle stocks on the roof of the UN, but that's just because movies never show the "paying your dues" phase where you have to reuse the same piano wire and leave enough time between garrotings to get the milk into the fridge so Lois doesn't bite your head off.
Where the Wild Things Are is set for release October 16.
Can't. Wait.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind comes to life.The drug blocks the activity of a substance that the brain apparently needs to retain much of its learned information. And if enhanced, the substance could help ward off dementias and other memory problems.
So far, the research has been done only on animals. But scientists say this memory system is likely to work almost identically in people.
As common as it is, scratching to relieve an itch has long been considered a biological mystery: Are cells at the surface of the skin somehow fatigued, in need of outside stimulation? Or is the impulse, and its relief, centered in the brain?
That's right, you can watch the Arcade Fire documentary Miroir Noir for free. Just click on that link!No strings attached, no down payment, no hassle!
The 70-minute movie, directed by Arcade Fire and Vincent Morisset and shot by Vincent Moon, includes live footage from the band's Neon Bible tour, and offers a glimpse into the recording sessions for their sophomore LP. And there's some random artsy weirdness thrown in for good measure, too.
The movie is currently available in digital format, standard DVD, and deluxe DVD (featuring accordion-style packaging) right here. And it'll make its theatrical U.S. premiere at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina at the Carolina Theater tomorrow, April 4.
Apple has announced that iPhone OS 3.0 will support copy and paste. A double-tap auto-selects the text you want with movable "grab points," and a pop-up edit bar display buttons for cut, copy, and paste. Finally! It works in every major app, including SMS and Safari, and what's more, there's also "shake to undo," which is exactly what it sounds like: a quick shake brings up a box that allows you to undo and redo c/p actions.
MMS (multimedia messaging) is at long last coming to the iPhone 3G (sorry, first-gen iPhone owners) after years of dealing strictly with SMS.
Autonet Mobile just notched another one in its belt by scoring a deal to hook GM's Cadillac CTS up with integrated WiFi. Starting this April, folks who splurge on one of these sports sedans will be treated to WiFi (a $499 dealer-installed option) in the car, and best of all, it uses a new, smaller router than can be easily transferred to another vehicle that's equipped with an identical dock. The agreement is a first for Caddy and also the first luxury brand that Autonet Mobile has managed to invade. The monthly subscription will still start at $29.
TiVo has announced plans to add support for Blockbuster OnDemand to its Series3, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL boxes -- plus the older Series2 hardware that Netflix missed. Due in the second half of 2009, the marketing deal will put TiVo's on the shelves of local rental outlets and put Blockbuster's service in front of many new users.
Skype for iPhone is now available in the U.S. iTunes store, free of charge.
Apple and Stanford University this week will begin offering free videos and course materials on iPhone application development. Video recordings of Stanford's 10-week computer science class, taught by two Apple employees, will be freely downloadable through Apple's iTunes U educational channel. The course's syllabus and slides will be freely available on iTunes as well.
With pretty much every other U.S.-based legacy carrier already on board, we were beginning to wonder if American Airlines even got the memo that in-flight WiFi was in serious demand. At long last, the company has made clear that it plans to equip more than 300 MD-80 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft used primarily in the United States with high-speed WiFi capability (over the next two years).
Maybe the extra old-lady boobs throw off their balance or something, but what is it with moms being so so proud of themselves for being able to ride a bike? What else are they proud of, going potty?
South By Southwest was a great success! We're especially happy about all the wonderful press we received, particularly being named 'Best Discovery' of SXSW 2009 by Spin Magazine! Have a look:
