'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' Star Jane Russell Dies - The Hollywood Reporter

'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' Star Jane Russell Dies - The Hollywood Reporter: Generally cast in fluff films like 1943’s The Outlaw that showed off her well-endowed beauty, Russell reached the pinnacle of her career with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), starring in the comedy with Marilyn Monroe.

The twisted world of "ex-girlfriend porn"

The twisted world of "ex-girlfriend porn": It used to be that spurned lovers could scrawl an ex-girlfriend's number on a bathroom stall, along with "for a good time" and a couple of choice epithets. Now they can do all that, and much worse, while reaching a vastly larger audience, thanks to the online explosion of "ex-girlfriend porn" or "revenge porn."

2011 Academy Awards: Highlights from the show - Oscar Nominations, Academy Awards 2010 - Salon.com

2011 Academy Awards: Highlights from the show - Oscar Nominations, Academy Awards 2010 - Salon.com: This year's Academy Awards have come and gone. Last night's 3.5-hour broadcast managed to provide plenty of water-cooler fodder -- whether it be in the form of heartwarming victories, cringe-inducing gaffes or that head-scratching "Auto-tune the Oscars" thing. We've collected some of the more memorable videos from the ceremony below:

3-D Photo Booth Uses Kinect to Print You in Plastic

3-D Photo Booth Uses Kinect to Print You in Plastic: "Fabricate Yourself" is like a 3-D photo booth. Using a Microsoft Kinect, anyone can hit a button and have a 3-D model of themselves printed instantly.

Inside Intel's next-gen Core processors | Processors | Macworld

Inside Intel's next-gen Core processors | Processors | Macworld: Intel rang in 2011 with its second-generation Core processors, promising vastly superior performance, better graphics capabilities, and improved energy efficiency. How much of a difference can a new CPU generation really make? The new processors (formerly code-named Sandy Bridge) deliver stronger performance than their predecessors did, and at palatable prices.

Intel's integrated graphics have come a long way, too, with support for 3D Blu-ray and smooth playback of 1080p content. But video game fans shouldn't toss out their discrete graphics cards just yet—the graphics processors built into the new CPUs stumble on many modern titles.

Unity 3.2.0 - High-end game development app.. (Free)

Unity 3.2.0 - High-end game development app.. (Free): Unity delivers a stable and scalable platform for creating captivating content. Content that is efficient to create, and that works on low as well as high-end hardware.
Unity is the only Mac-based high-end game development tool sporting a stylish pro-app GUI, no-friction workflow and top-of-the-line technical features such as extensible graphics, great particle effects, highly optimized scripting, the Ageia physX Engine, skinned character animation and ragdolls, and making standalone games for Mac and Windows (and Dashboard Widgets and web-plugins).

Rob Glaser's SocialEyes: A quirky videophone

Rob Glaser's SocialEyes: A quirky videophone: Glaser's latest venture is a videoconferencing company with an interesting, new social dynamic.

Mac OS X Lion: Drops PowerPC Emulation, Adds QuickTime Pro Features, Much More

Mac OS X Lion: Drops PowerPC Emulation, Adds QuickTime Pro Features, Much More: As developers delve into the early build of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, a large number of smaller features are being revealed.

Oh yes. One of the new 'features', I've found, is that it will no install on the hardware I currently have. And without Rosetta, I lose not only Office, but more importantly Quicken.

FX Gives Greenlight to "Powers" Pilot

FX Gives Greenlight to "Powers" Pilot: The cable network has greenlit the pilot for "Powers," an adaptation of the long-running comic series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. SPINOFF has the details.

Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas. And Plague | Wired Science | Wired.com

Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas. And Plague | Wired Science | Wired.com: There were only two cases of bubonic plague in humans in the United States last year. They were two people, unidentified except for their ages  — 17 and 42 — who lived in the same household in the high desert country of Lake County, Oregon. In August, they both came down with high fevers and hard, lumpy swellings in their groins. The older one, a woman, was very sick, was hospitalized with low pulse and blood pressure, and went into kidney failure.

Charlie Sheen's first draft of letter to Chuck Lorre - Satire - Salon.com

Charlie Sheen's first draft of letter to Chuck Lorre - Satire - Salon.com: Stop trying to use your mind control on me! You disguise it with fancy words like "rehab" and "psychotic," and not only have I been aware of your plans for 177 episodes now (1+7+2 and a half men = 9 and another 2 and half men rounds out to be about 11, 9/11 truth forever, you HEAR ME OBAMA?!), but I have gracefully ignored both you and the chip you implanted in my molars that tells the government what I'm thinking.

And that's just the beginning. Read on...

Xoom 4G Upgrade Requires 6-Day Mail-In Operation

Xoom 4G Upgrade Requires 6-Day Mail-In Operation: The Xoom tablet has a respectably fast Verizon 3G connection, but Motorola promises a free upgrade to Verizon's faster 4G network within a few months. To do that, however, you'll need to ship your Xoom back to the manufacturer for more than a week.

I'd call that a fatal flaw. A shame, for an otherwise promising product.

Mac OS X Lion Roundup: Recovery Partitions, TRIM Support, Core 2 Duo Minimum, Focus on Security - Mac Rumors

Mac OS X Lion Roundup: Recovery Partitions, TRIM Support, Core 2 Duo Minimum, Focus on Security - Mac Rumors: - Mac OS X Lion requires a minimum of an Intel Core 2 Duo, leaving out compatibility for Apple's earliest Intel-based machines offering Core Solo or Core Duo processors.

Charlie Sheen commits career suicide - Charlie Sheen - Salon.com

Charlie Sheen commits career suicide - Charlie Sheen - Salon.com: But there's no denying that somewhere along the way, the mediocre star of one of television's least entertaining shows has become the most dangerous man in comedy.

"30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy -- and its own - 30 Rock - Salon.com

"30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy -- and its own - 30 Rock - Salon.com: Just a few weeks ago, Fey's upcoming book of essays was excerpted by the New Yorker, one of the magazines currently under scrutiny for its paucity of female bylines. Her roaringly unapologetic feminist piece about the scrutiny, pressure and conflicting responsibilities of working mothers included some deep jabs at Hollywood's relationship to aging women, including her acidic assertion, in reference to a generation of older comedic actresses we never see anymore because they've been labeled crazy, that "the definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore."

Charlie Sheen commits career suicide

Charlie Sheen commits career suicide: It turns out there's only one force in the universe crazier and more reckless than hotel room trashing, porn star partying, cocaine enjoying Charlie Sheen. And that's the newly "cured" Charlie Sheen.

Apple gets back to basics in Mac OS X Lion | Operating Systems | MacUser | Macworld

Apple gets back to basics in Mac OS X Lion | Operating Systems | MacUser | Macworld: Another new Lion feature Apple announced, “Resume,” is also an ode to iOS, but it will likely have an even larger impact on the Mac. Just like switching between apps on an iPad or iPhone, or even restarting the device, Resume is Lion’s official support for third-party Mac apps to pick up right where they left off, even after a restart. That’s not merely a good idea in iOS, it’s just a good idea for any reasonably complex computing device—especially one that is designed to multitask and juggle many apps and open windows with ease.

Speaking of recovering your data, a pair of new features will make it easier to continue working with individual documents and recuperating lost data—key requirements of any worker bee who needs more power and flexibility than iOS typically offers. Auto Save will allow apps to automatically save your work as you create it, while Versions brings the continuous backup concepts and interface behind Time Machine down to a per-document basis. You will be able to step back through the history of the current file on-the-fly and easily revert to a previous iteration.

Could Lion bring us closer to a Mac home server? | Operating Systems | MacUser | Macworld

Could Lion bring us closer to a Mac home server? | Operating Systems | MacUser | Macworld: Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion. It’s easy to set up your Mac as a server and take advantage of the many services Lion Server has to offer.

Currently, Mac OS X Server costs $499, or is bundled with a Mac Mini server that costs $999. But with Lion, Mac OS X Server will be provided at the same cost as Mac OS X client, most likely around $129 if Apple sticks with its traditional operating system pricing. To install Lion Server, you would simply choose the Customize option when you run the installer. So every Mac user running Lion will be able to run the server software. And that leads to some interesting speculation about what server features Apple may offer to home users.

Apple’s new MacBook Pros benchmarked: The performance increase is amazing

Apple’s new MacBook Pros benchmarked: The performance increase is amazing: The performance of the new MacBook Pros is amazing...

Feb. 25, 1919: Oregon Taxes Gas by the Gallon

Feb. 25, 1919: Oregon Taxes Gas by the Gallon: Oregon passes the nation's first per-gallon tax on gasoline. It's only a penny, and it's only one state, but you know where things go from here.