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Sunday, December 18, 2011
That's Not a Knife, This Is a Knife—No, Wait, That's a Spatula [Grilling]
Amazon Is Selling the Galaxy Nexus for $150 [Dealz]
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Golden Globe Nominations Led By 'The Artist'
Silent black-and-white film earns six nods, while 'The Descendants' and 'The Help' rack up five each.
Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
Photo: Weinstein Company
The stars woke up early Thursday (December 15), hoping to hear their names when the nominations for the 69th annual Golden Globes were announced. Without many front-runners in the major categories, the Globe nominations gave one of the first serious indications of how the Academy Awards will play out in February. "The Artist," with six nominations, and "The Descendants" and "The Help," with five each, cemented their place at the top of the Best Picture race.
"The Artist," the silent, black-and-white tribute to old Hollywood, wowed audiences during the festival circuit and earned the most nods. In addition to its nomination for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, both Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo walked away with acting nominations for their mostly silent roles. Writer/director Michel Hazanavicius earned mentions for both of his duties on the film.
The big surprise from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ended up being "Ides of March," the George Clooney-directed political drama that found mild success with critics but fell behind in the early weeks of awards season. It scored four nominations in all.
Also on the board with four total nominations was "Moneyball," the true-life drama about the changing world of baseball starring Brad Pitt. Pitt earned a nomination for Best Lead Actor - Drama, while co-star Jonah Hill earned a Supporting Actor nod. "Moneyball" also racked up nominations for Best Motion Picture - Drama and for the screenplay written by Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin.
Two of Hollywood's biggest stars repeated with two nominations in major categories. "The Ides of March" co-stars Ryan Gosling and Clooney both doubled up on awards. Gosling snagged leading actor nods in both the drama and comedy categories for "The Ides of March" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love," which surprised by not getting a Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy nomination. Clooney also walked away with two, one for his directing efforts with "The Ides of March" and one for his lead role in "The Descendants."
"Bridesmaids" earned a nomination in the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category. Actress (and co-writer) Kristen Wiig scored a nomination for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, but co-star Melissa McCarthy, the awards favorite from the film, failed to capture the HFPA's attention for Supporting Actress.
A potential awards dark horse, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" had gained some momentum with an extensive "For Your Consideration" ad campaign, but the HFPA didn't hand out any awards to the blockbuster series' final chapter, as some had predicted.
For television, the biggest story may be the shakeup in both of the Best Series categories. New series dominated both categories, taking up seven of the 10 spots with nominations for "American Horror Story," "Boss," "Game of Thrones," "Homeland," "Enlightened," "Episodes" and "New Girl." "Breaking Bad," a critical favorite, went unrecognized, aside from Bryan Cranston's lead actor nomination. Former awards mainstay "The Office" received no nominations.
For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.
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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1676037/golden-globe-nominations-the-artist.jhtml
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How Did You Miss This Crazy iPhone-Controlled Coffee Faucet?
A friend just sent me this with the disclaimer "THIS IS NUTSO." And indeed it is -- A coffee faucet (!!!) created by Dutch manufacturer Scanomat, that allows you to brew coffee via iPhone app. I don't care if its fake Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZR8S7S4BbO0/
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Famed hotelier taps into lobbies of decades past
PUBLIC Chicago opened for business in October. Hotelier Ian Schrager is hoping its $35 million renovation and focus on "cheap chic" will make the hotel a hit.
By Chris Rodell, msnbc.com contributor
Ian Schrager wants PUBLIC, his "new" Chicago hotel, to entice locals to check out the place travelers check in.
"About 150 years ago, the grand hotel lobbies were manifestations of these great cities," Schrager told msnbc.com. "It?s something hotels have gotten away from. We intend to bring it back. We want the lobby at PUBLIC Chicago to be a 24-hour beehive of city activity."
That means mingle nooks, poetry readings, a library, video installations, performances and ambitions to be the in-demand home to Chicago?s best restaurant and liveliest bar.
PUBLIC Chicago is a 285-room, history-drenched hotel located in the Gold Coast neighborhood ? about one mile north of the Loop central business district. It reopened to the public in October, though it originally started as the Ambassador East Hotel in 1926.
Sound familiar? It was to an eclectic mix of celebrities ranging from a sex symbol to a Sex Pistol: both Elizabeth Taylor and Sid Vicious were fond of the old hotel. Other famous guests included David Bowie, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Redford, Robert Plant and Frank Sinatra.
And now it's popular with a?new crowd.
"The hotel has opened to great fanfare during what traditionally is a slow time of year," said Peter Walterspiel, the hotel's general manager. "Ian's recent hotels have served more niche-type clientele. The name here says it all. It's public."
Moreover, Schrager intends to turn his private venture into a brand. He has plans to open PUBLIC hotels in New York and Miami, and wants to seize on a consumer thirst for what he?s called "cheap chic" with rooms starting at $135 and coffee, an in-room staple that can cost $15 in some luxury hotels, for $5 a pot.
He wants everyone in the city, both the rowdy and the rich, to feel they have a stake in the hotel's success.
"We want the lobby to have a feel of a 1950s coffee house or, really, a Starbucks," he said. "There needs to be an electricity in the air. A great hotel today has to be about more than just a place to get good night?s sleep. The best restaurant and the best bar needs to be right under your roof."
Famed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is overseeing what was and by local edict will remain the Pump Room restaurant.
Chicago Tribune food critic Phil Vettel wrote: "The Pump Room ... has recaptured its mojo as a celebrity-spotting, see-and-be-seen destination. The dining room and its attendant lounges are packed every night, and 8 p.m. reservations are the stuff of legend, in the sense that they may not really exist." Vettel went on to say that the food was "solid," and that "Pump Room is a very good restaurant with the potential to be a great one."
Nilou Motamed, features editor for Travel + Leisure, recently cited Pump Room as a must-stop spot for travelers visiting Chicago.
Schrager says he was urged to change the name of the fabled restaurant so he put it to a vote. "We had more than 28,000 votes and keeping it the Pump Room won in a landslide."
So far, PUBLIC is getting?public approval.
"For me, the best part is to see couples 60 to 70 years old sitting right next to 20-something couples and both of them enjoying themselves," said?GM?Walterspiel. "The neighborhood seems to really have embraced the hotel. It's becoming a gathering place."
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Chris Rodell is a Latrobe, Pa., contributor who blogs at EightDaysToAmish.com
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Russian security council chief wants Web regulation (Reuters)
MOSCOW (Reuters) ? The Internet must be subject to "reasonable regulation," the head of Russia's Security Council said in remarks published on Wednesday, a fresh sign of Kremlin concern about the use of social networks to promote anti-government protests.
Opposition groups and ordinary Russians used Facebook and the Russian site VKontakte to organize protests last week over a December 4 parliamentary election they charged was rigged to benefit Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party.
Tens of thousands of people rallied on Saturday in the biggest anti-government protests since Putin came to power 12 years ago, many chanting "Russia without Putin!"
Opponents plan further protests ahead of a March election expected to return Putin, a former Soviet KGB officer and Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) chief, to the presidency.
"Attempts to stop people from communicating are in principle counterproductive and even amoral," Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, who headed the FSB during Putin's 2000-2008 presidency, told the daily Argumenty i Fakty.
"However, one must not ignore the use of the Internet by criminals and terrorist groups. Reasonable regulation, of course, must be conducted in Russia, as is done in the United States, China, and many other countries," he said.
Chinese government controls on the Internet are far stricter than those in the United States, and Patrushev gave no details in the newspaper interview, but his remarks suggest Russian authorities are considering ways of reining in the Internet.
Putin has publicly said that the state's ability and right to control Internet use is limited, and suggested his government would not try to do so. Analysts say hardliners close to Putin would like to impose controls similar to China's.
Vkontakte, Russia's top social networking site, said last week that it had rejected a request by the FSB to block opposition groups from using it to organize street protests.
A spokesman for VKontakte, used by tens of thousands of people to coordinate support for the December 10 protests, said the company was not pressured or threatened.
Ahead of the parliamentary vote, however, the websites of the independent election monitoring group Golos and at least two media outlets that had aired reports of alleged campaign violations were blocked by denial-of-service attacks.
The head of Golos, a Western-funded group that has a site with a map showing reported cases of electoral violations, said she suspected the FSB was behind the attacks.
Russian officials have expressed concern about the powerful role of online communication in the unrest that has brought down governments in the Arab world in the past year.
A senior FSB officer said in April that uncontrolled use of Gmail, Hotmail and Skype were "a major threat to national security."
(Editing by Rosalind Russell)
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NTSB recommends that states ban all cell phone use in cars
The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that states ban the use of cell phones and other portable electronic devices by drivers of vehicles, except for in an emergency. That doesn't mean you have to immediately stop using your Android smartphone for navigation or music playback -- there's still some legislating that needs to be done for that to happen. But a recommendation from the NTSB certainly holds some water.
The recommendation stems from a crash in Missouri in 2010 that involved a pickup truck, two school busses and a teenage driver who apparently had sent 11 text messages in as many minutes before the crash, which killed two and injured 38.
It's tough to say that phones don't distract drivers -- they most certainly can. But is a blanket ban too much? And would it even be effective?
Source: Associated Press
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