By Chris Yuscavage, Complex Sports
Apparently, Dwight Howard forgot how to box out during his long layoff recovering from a back injury.
By Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor:
Dung beetles can use balls of poo much like air-conditioning units to cool themselves, researchers say.
Author Jackie Collins thinks gay Hollywood actors have difficulty landing “macho” roles once they come out and she points to hunky actor Matt Bomer, who she claims lost out on the role of Superman simply because he is gay, as a prime example.
Collins spoke with Gaydar Radio about Bomer being overlooked for the role of Clark Kent in the defunct 2003 project “Superman Flyby,” The Advocate reported.
“Matt Bomer, who is the most gorgeous looking guy and the star of ‘White Collar,’ he had not come out of the closet, but people in the know knew he was gay,” Collins tells Gaydar Radio. “His audition tape went in and he called up the agent and somebody didn’t like him and told [the producers] he was gay. They said, ‘No, no, we can’t cast you.’ The reason he didn’t get cast was because he was gay.”
And then there were three.
In August, The Huffington Post UK introduced us to baby best friends Peggy the wombat and Anzac the kangaroo. “Hairless, quivering and outrageously cute,” the delightful duo were reportedly taken in by the Wild About Wildlife Rescue Center in Victoria, Australia, after their mothers were suddenly killed.
Now, ZooBorns writes, another adorable creature has been added to the mix.
Back in 1951, the Soviet Union started the construction of the Tangansky Protected Command Point, a secret 75,000-square-foot (7,000 square metres) military complex located 213 foot (65 meters) under Moscow’s streets, near the Taganskaya subway station. More »
If you were one of the unlucky ones to not get the chance to pre-order a fancy Surface tablet from Microsoft, you’re only option is to wait in line at your local Microsoft Store. However, it seems Microsoft is expecting a dim crowd for the launch, so they’re giving the first 100 people in line at every Microsoft Store one year of Xbox Music service.
One year of Xbox Music costs $99, so you’d essentially be getting paid a hundred bucks for waiting in line for a Surface tablet (assuming you’re one of the first 100 people in line). However, that $100 will obviously have to be used for Xbox Music, but it’ll give you the chance to try out the revamped service if you’ve been feeling skeptical about it.
The offer is good at any of the 29 Microsoft Stores across the country, as well as the additional 32 temporary pop-up stores that Microsoft will have on launch day. All you have to do is show up extremely early to the store and just plop down out front until it’s time to buy, and obviously you’ll have to buy a Surface tablet while you’re there — you sadly just can’t take the free Xbox Music and run.
Of course, in order to use the free Xbox Music voucher, you’ll need a Gold subscription to Xbox LIVE, which is $60 a year, but you can usually find them for around $45 at various online retailers and auction sites. However, the generous offer from Microsoft (which will cost the company just over $600,000) should indeed bring a few people to wait in line that were hesitant to do so in the first place.
[via The Verge]
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Windows 8 is being released to the masses later this week, and companies are scrambling to get their apps ready for the deluge of users. Skype popped a new version earlier today, and now Hulu has followed suit. Hulu released a Windows 8 app today, so although it would be easy enough to access Hulu through a browser, you can now access Hulu through the Windows 8′s Modern UI. This isn’t simply a case of redudant functionality–the Modern UI app has several features that more than make up for the fact that you’ll have to pay for content that’s available for free through a browser. The Hulu Plus Windows 8 app allows you to use “snap view,” which means you can snap a small video box to the side of your window and work in the other half of your screen. Also, you can pin a favorite show to the Start Menu–so, for instance, you can be reminded that there was a new Daily Show when you boot up your Windows 8 rig.
If you’re already running Windows 8, you early adopter, you can download the Hulu Plus app through the Windows Store now.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Bill Gates: Surface is “unbelievably great”, Skype for Windows 8 announced,
That meteor shower was a bust. I’ll never get back the five minutes I spent waiting to be awed. Anyone similarly impatient will be in gratification heaven for the next week, as the biggest cosmic bodies in the tech cosmos streak across the sky with announcements, device releases, price shifts and earnings reports.
Tossing astronomy aside for its failure to bedazzle, I turn to astrology to illuminate the upcoming eventful days. From a This Week in Astronomy blog: “A Venus-Pluto-Uranus T-square will be testing relationships and finances. The Sun enters Scorpio and aspects every slower planet except Pluto, and there’s an intense Mars-Jupiter opposition.” I don’t understand most of that, but I know about opposition. That fits. The energy of opposition crackles in the ecosystem warfare waged this week by Apple, Microsoft and Google.
Switching now from inscrutable astrology to fables (because next to cosmic messaging I like simple allegories to explain life), we can see that the slow-but-steady tortoise is placing the most audacious bet.
Continue reading Editorial: Turning point for the tortoise and the hare
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The annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade took place in New York City over the weekend, and if we were judging, this guy would have gotten a ribbon.
Simple, flawless pet costume.
Via The Daily What
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