Though most people wouldn’t choose to entertain themselves by watching grass grow, this impromptu herb garden might be an exception. This silly office prank either deserves enshrinement in the passive aggression hall of fame, or some environmental award for repurposing with hilarity.
Everyone knows how gross keyboards can get — how easily white plastic can fall from pristine grace, corroding with spilled coffee, its key crevices clandestinely concealing crumbs of crud.
Scroll For Photos
Mayim Bialik sustained serious injuries in a car accident in Los Angeles this afternoon … and sources tell us the actress is in danger of losing her finger.
A wealthy Republican congressional candidate in western New York has launched a new website in an attempt to parody the source of his opponent’s wealth.
On Wednesday, Republican former Erie County Executive Chris Collins unveiled the website “Who Wants to be a Public Sector Millionaire” to raise money for his campaign and criticize how his opponent, Rep. Kathy Hochul (D), and her husband have made money. It comes a day after Hochul released her tax returns for the last three years, which showed the couple made $259,979 in government salaries in 2011. Hochul’s financial disclosure form says her net worth is between $1.05 million and $2.27 million, according to the Buffalo News.
“This website tells the story of the depth and history of Kathy Hochul’s reliance on taxpayer salaries and her failure to ever create even a single job,” Collins campaign manager Michael Kracker said in a statement. “Kathy Hochul attacks wealth and success achieved by small business owners like Chris Collins, but doesn’t want to acknowledge her own significant wealth that she earned on the backs of taxpayers.”
PPP (D)
8/9-12/12; 1,055 likely voters; 3% margin of error
400 likely Democratic primary voters; 4.9% margin of error
Deborah Ann Woll plays vampire Jessica Hamby on HBO’s “True Blood,” where Bill Compton is her “maker” and she had to break up with her boyfriend Hoyt Fortenberry so she could focus on satisfying her vampire urges. But in her real life, Woll’s love life is much simpler: she met her boyfriend of four years on Match.com.
Woll talked about her relationship with comedian E.J. Scott on “Good Day LA” in an interview that almost sounded like an ad for the online dating site. She even joked, “I feel like we should get some money out of this.”
Scott suffers from a rare eye disease called choroideremia, which has caused him to become legally blind. His honesty and openness about his disease impressed Woll from the beginning. “He put it up on his profile, and I thought that was so brave, that he was so open about it,” she said.
It’s time to make time a weapon with the 30-year action plot behind the upcoming action and science fiction film Looper in two international trailers that all but give away everything. Just as it was, essentially, with Total Recall, we’ve got everything we need to know the beginning, middle, and ending of the movie. What’s missing, and what makes it all worthwhile, is the action as it happens, and the science that explains the whole of the story.
Have a peek first at the international trailer you may have already seen, this one released over a month ago with many details about the plot and moments of revelation. If you’re worried about spoilers, this might be a good time to turn back. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play one man, thirty years between themselves, with both of their goals appearing to be the murder of another for profit.
The second trailer is the newest, having just been released this week. This trailer takes on more than just the plot, it explains a bit more on how time travel works in this particular universe. We don’t yet know the mechanism that allows time travel here, nor do we see any time travel take place other than a moment in which a character is not there one moment, and is there the next – followed by a moment in which they’re blown away with a very rudimentary shotgun, of course.
Time travel here also appears to have the main characters – including Emily Blunt – grabbing anti-gravity powers for one reason or another too. Check out Blunt’s character pushing around a cigarette lighter in the trailer above. Also notice that this day marks the start of a viral campaign which also reveals the timeline in the movie. In the trailer, we hear that “time travel has not yet been invented, but thirty years from now it will have been.” The viral campaign gives us the year 2044, therefor we’ll be watching Looper in present day 2012. Fun stuff!
Stay tuned to SlashGear’s science and entertainment hubs as we interview a real expert on time travel later this week – Dr. Edward Farhi from MIT! It’s only a matter of time!
Looper international trailer spills the beans on time travel is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
WASHINGTON — If the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as vice-presidential running mate to presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has produced a “bump” for the GOP ticket, it is somewhere between small and non-existent. That’s the conclusion from a handful of new polls released on Wednesday.
Gallup released results from their daily tracking poll that showed Romney with a 2 point edge over President Barack Obama (47 to 45 percent) among the 1,863 registered voters interviewed over the four day period since Ryan was selected. That finding represents just a 1 point improvement for Romney since the previous four-day period. Given that results for each of the two samples come with a 3 point margin of error, Gallup concluded that Ryan’s selection “has not done much to change voter preferences, at least initially.”
Gallup’s analysis explains that the “lack of an immediate increase” for Romney is consistent with the “generally tepid reaction to the Ryan pick” as measured in an overnight poll they fielded on Sunday in partnership with USA Today.
One lucky match-made-in-heaven tied the knot under the heavens — and got it on camera.
(Scroll down for photo)
Lakshal Perera, a wedding photographer in Melbourne, Australia, captured one couple under the Milky Way on their wedding day.
Read More…
More on Wedding Photos & Video
Steven Singer was getting ready to start his day Wednesday morning when he got wind of some news: a Pennsylvania judge decided not to block the state’s polarizing new voter ID law.
“I was pretty sure that the courts were going to strike this down,” said Singer, an eighth-grade school teacher in Allegheny County, Pa. “I was really shocked by this verdict.”
Two weeks ago, Singer started a petition challenging local elections officials to declare that they wouldn’t enforce the state’s new law, following similar statements made by other election officials elsewhere in the state.
Read More…
More on Voting Rights
If you think if you have a cool iPhone case, it’s not as awesome as this: Jake Potts, a photographer, converted the glass back of an iPhone to a collodion process wet plate. Meaning, he effectively turned the glass of an iPhone into film and shot a picture onto it. Check it out. More »
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
