Monday, October 11, 2010

Happy Monday

Just wanted to post some quick tidbits of stuff I found over the weekend...Hope you had a great weekend. More later!

                                               photo by Garry Melendez,  --The State.com

Microsoft is unveiling a new mobile phone operating system today. Unlike many other phones, pretty much all providers will be able to be used.

New research shows that 7% of babies and toddlers have their very own email address.

More research indicates that watchign too much television: whether it's programming or game wise, can be harmful to kids psychologically. Read about it HERE

How about those Tarheels? Congrats to the Gamecocks as well for knocking off The Bammers. USC has the singular historic distinction of knocking off the Number 1 ranked opponent in Basketball (Kentucky in January), Arizona (in baseball September), and now in football in less than a year. The Gamecocks (4-1, 2-1 SEC) are ranked 10th in this week’s Associated Press poll and 12th in the latest USA TODAY/Coaches poll, both released Sunday. Ohio State is No. 1 .

40 year old American from Denver and his drill have made it possible for the Chilean miners to be rescued in a couple of days after a couple of months underground.

As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year (the 2nd consequetively) without an increase in their monthly benefits.

Kim Jong Il's presumed heir, Kim Jong Un made a brief appearance during a parade Sunday. Boy is he fat.

Facebook co-founders Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz have donated a total of $170,000 to back Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana in California. Neither, however, is still working at Facebook.

The "King of Rock 'n' Soul" Solomon Burke has died while on tour in Europe. He was 70 years old.

A set of John Lennon's fingerprints being auctioned for at least $100,000 was seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday 30 years after the singer's death. This weekend would have been his 70th birthday. In a week-long discovery, Siegel said the FBI, "with a sense of urgency," was concerned with whether the card had been part of Lennon's file and was lost or missing.

Leona Gage, who in 1957 was named Miss USA but had the title stripped the next day when pageant officials learned she was married and a mother of two, has died in Los Angeles, her son said Saturday. She was 71

Ten people were injured when two rollercoaster cars collided at at Knott's Berry Farm. All have been released from the hospital. A spokewwoman from Knott's Berry Farm says the.

This is like a Robin Cook novel. Hungary's red sludge reservoir is "very likely" to collapse, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday, as many cracks have developed in its northern wall. The town of Kolontar was evacuated because the wall is in such bad shape, and officials have started building dams around populated areas to slow the toxic ooze if the reservoir dumps its remaining 500,000 cubic meters into the countryside. That flood of goo would be about half the size of the first leak, when 184 million gallons of poisonous waste killed seven people and injured 120. The owners of the metals plant whose reservoir burst, flooding several towns in western Hungary with caustic red sludge, expressed their condolences Sunday to the families of the seven people killed, as well as to those injured.

Somali pirates have seized a Japanese-owned cargo ship with 20 Filipino crew members onboard

and finally...

This weekend at the Box Office:

1 The Social Network

2 Life as We Know It

3 Secretariat

4 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

5 My Soul to Take

6 The Town

7 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

8 Easy A

9 Case 39

10 You Again

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