"In His Own Words"

Barack Obama wrote a book called "In His Own Words."

After his plagiarism troubles, there's a joke in there somewhere.

Film - "Incredible Hulk" Videos Leaked Online

Some intrepid folks in Toronto filmed the final battle scene from The Incredible Hulk and a whopping 23 other videos of the film's shooting. Find a link to them here.

It's not out until June but after the disaster that was the last Hulk movie, we're excited that the new cast looks totally promising. It's hard to beat: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt. We can't wait!

Oh yeah, and get this! Edward Norton actually wrote the screenplay for The Incredible Hulk himself! WTF? Check for yourself on IMDB. We totally approve. He says:

"I came into this and I wrote the screenplay. I was the Marvel kid. I had subscriptions to a lot of the marvel comics. I loved Hulk, the early incarnation of Hulk and then the television show when I was a kid."

We <3 him even more now that we know he's a writer!

16GB iPhone For Germany?

Will there be a 16GB iPhone in Germany come November?

Leaked advertisements online would have you think yes, but it could all just be an elaborate hoax.

Knowing how Apple likes to operate, we don't think it's at all unlikely that the computer and marketing geniuses will be dropping a new double capacity version of the current 8GB iPhone one the market only a few months later.

The real question is, will Steve Jobs have to issue another apology + partial refund for a whole new group of outraged early iPhone purchasers?

TV - "Bionic Woman" Premiere

With producers from Battlestar Gallactica and The X-Files, how can NBC's newest Sci Fi series fail?

We're pretty stoked about a new female superhero and what looks like it will be a really neat new show.

Q: What's at the heart of Jaime that made you want to play her? Do you want her to be all science or more of a human being with her pregnancy, her having to take care of her younger sister and the emotions of having to readjust to a new life?

Ryan: I think it is absolutely the human side... Yes, she has these super abilities, but at the core of it, there is a woman's journey of self discovery and her right to empowerment. I feel like I am on that journey. I just felt an instant connection. I know this young character (Vivian), who also has sudden abilities, she comes along farther down the series and Jaime takes her under her wing immediately. She is very compassionate and she questions every step of the way when Jonas and Antonio say, 'We are the good guys.' She questions everything. I love that. She is just this very grounded multi-layered character and person. That's why I felt, yeah, there is so much potential to play with her character, aside from the action sequences. The sci-fi element at the core of it is this human being who has got so much depth. That's the woman I want to be like. I want to find my voice and I want my voice to be strong and confident. I feel playing Jaime is helping me get there.

Check out the trailer above and read more of the cool interview with Michelle Ryan here.

The Bionic Woman premieres September 26th on NBC.

News - Civil Liberties In UK On Decline

We lived in the UK for a year and were quite disturbed that even in the tiny town of St Andrews, we couldn't go anywhere except possibly the middle of a field without being on one if not several CCTV cameras.

We were a law biding visa holder but being on a surveillance camera all the time tends to make one feel like a criminal or at least like an undesirable.

Now, there is serious talk in Britain about possible "compulsory DNA testing of the entire population and all visitors to the UK."

This article looks at arguments from both sides. We are very decidedly anti Big Brother and very anti the overwhelming bureaucracy in place in Britain as it is. We very much hope that our beloved Brits will shout down these new policies and prospective changes with the righteous vigor they deserve.

We would be super sad if we couldn't visit our favorite country again because of a clash of ideals regarding civil rights.

We would cry, but we would rather forgo ever seeing the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond again than be DNA tested for the privilege.

News Update - PM Abe Denied WWII Forced Prostitution

We posted about the departure of Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, a while back but we just read that among the many other scandals of his time in office he denied Japan's role in forcing as many as 200,000 women in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines, into prostitution for the Japanese military. These "Comfort Women" are widely recognized by historians and the Japanese government has apologized for the WWII practice in the past.

While the Japanese government apologized in 1993 for its role in trafficking women during the war, it has refused to provide government compensation to victims. In June, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution aimed at urging Japan to take responsibility in "a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces’ coercion of young women into sexual slavery."

This is big, folks. This is like if today the German president denied there was a Holocaust. "Comfort women" aren't just a rumor; their existence is an extremely well documented fact.

Like many things of this nature, it is believed he denied it because to this day the Japanese government has refused to pay these women - its victims - reparations. (The same thing is still kind of happening with the German government and the Romani or 'Gypsy' survivors of concentration camps from WWII.)

PS. The image above is from the Wikipedia article on the subject.

Halo 3: Ready, Set, Release

Halo 3 New Trailer - The most popular videos are a click away

The highly anticipated next step in the Halo franchise - Halo 3 is set to be released on September 24th. That's only four days away, nerdboys.

Although we've never been a Halo fan, even we have to admit, the site is pretty neat, the video kinda rocks, and hell, we even like the music.

So if you like pretending you're a - tee hee - "space marine" and fighting aliens, get in line early. This Bud's for you.

News - Student Tasered For Questioning John Kerry

Bringing back strong memories of this incident, John Kerry has released a statement about the University of Florida student who was tasered for vigorously questioning Kerry during a speech at the university on Tuesday.

Police used excessive force on the unarmed 21-year-old man who was heard to yell, "Don't tase me, bro!"

Most of the audience sat still and watched as police tasered him and dragged him from the room. We would have thought liberal college students would have yelled or protested the use of excessive force the way students in the library at UCLA did when a student who'd forgotten his library card was tasered by campus po-po there.

We are in fact, very concerned that they did absolutely nothing. In fact, many members of the audience aplauded when the man was carried away by the police and were laughing as he was tasered. One woman in our posted video called the man "an idiot" - how sad to think that we're viewed as idiots when we try to change our world.

The guy was asking a lot of questions even heckling Kerry, but he was not violent and he was exercising his right to free speech - something that is often made a joke out of (like the guy at our school who wanted to post homemade porn on CCTV that was piped into patients at the local hospital,) but when freedom of speech regarding political opinion is violently repressed like this we freak and rightfully so.

John Kerry was heavily criticized on MSNBC's Tucker and elsewhere online today for his lack of outrage on the student's behalf and on the behalf of free speech. We aren't surprised - this is a man who has committed war crimes. Like a little taser action is going to bother him?

Kerry was heard to ask the officers to let him answer the student's question; we think totally knew how bad this was going to look for him.

The student has yet to release a statement.

Click here to watch the disturbing video of the incident. Six officers were on one guy. Amazing.

PS. Did you know John Kerry is from one of those dynasty families that are what's wrong with the world? Again, we're so naive but it was total news to us. "His first cousin Brice Lalonde, a future Socialist and Green Party leader in France...ran for president of France in 1981." We are so sick of familial nepotism. And not just in Hollywood and in politics - it's everywhere!

PPS. This article on Kerry in CounterPunch is amazing. We think it's a must read.

PPPS. The moral of so many of these lessons is 'Don't go to Florida.'

Heidi Montag Is Delusional, Epileptic

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ that was bad. Has someone lost control of her arms?

We just can't like The Hills' Heidi Montag. Videos like this don't help.

Emmys Worst Dressed: Kristen Bell

Heroes has several of its blond beauties on our list - and at both ends of the spectrum. Unlike Ali Larter's to-die-for red ensemble, newcomer Kristen Bell's sky blue dress looked exactly like a terrycloth shower wrap my mother used to own.