"The Dark Knight" sets record

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Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in July 20, 2008, 12:03 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood's box-office superheroes.

"The Dark Knight" took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for "Spider-Man 3" in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Will the space elevator rise?

Posted: Friday, July 18, 2008 7:38 PM by Alan Boyle

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Click for video: Get a look at the future, as seen by advocates  of the space elevator concept.

If space elevators work out the way the idea's advocates hope, sending payloads into orbit would become as routine as, say, sending a shipment on a freight train - except that the train would travel straight up for hundreds or thousands of miles, powered by laser beams.

But will such a "railroad to the sky" ever be built? That's the big question hanging over the 2008 Space Elevator Conference, taking place this weekend on Microsoft's Seattle-area campus. And considering that this is an event primarily attended by elevator enthusiasts, you may find some of the answers surprising.
One of the biggest advocates of the concept, the late science-fiction seer Arthur C. Clarke, said back in 1979 that the first space elevator would be built "about 50 years after everyone stops laughing."

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Scientists decode brain farts

We've all goofed up and flubbed up things we've previously done time and again.

It turns out the root of these brain farts may be a special kind of abnormal brain activity that begins up to 30 seconds before a mistake even happens.

The solution to such screw-ups could be a kind of mind-reading hat, a device to predict and even prevent mindless errors that can threaten lives.

When people blunder after performing the same task over and over, scientists had suspected that such lapses were due to momentary hiccups in concentration. Still, little was known about what the brain was actually doing before such errors.

To investigate further, the brains of volunteers were scanned as they performed a monotonous task — repetitively pushing buttons that matched images flashed at them.


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Celebrity's

This just in Britney Spears is Human. Who knew this one was comming.Celebrity's have a very hard life dealing with poperazzies,media,bad choices,bad influences.Back in the day when I was growing up I used love to here about what happens to the movie actors/ singers now I could really give a damb. You could say my give a damb is busted. There are some days I wish I was a kid and having elmo as my hero, and not have to here about this stuff everywhere.

What If ?

           My Question for the week is What if? What if I lost my job due to layoff or unemployment.What If The President OF THE UNITED STATES is Hillary Clinton, What If My teenager got in trouble with drugs,What if my teenager was in an accident.What if my son/daughter has to go to Iraq.These are just some questions we ask our selfs. In today's society that is very common. I am only 29,but I've been through different points of view. The only response I could give is not worry about What if just wait until it happens.It's todays kids that are our future.What If we do not have a future

Michael Vick Hopes Jail Is Like The Longest Yard Without All The Throwing

     

ATLANTA—Recently convicted Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is hoping that the events of his 23-month prison sentence play out similarly to those portrayed in the 2005 Adam Sandler football comedy The Longest Yard except for the movie's emphasis on passing the 
ball, sources close to Vick reported Wednesday.
 

 
"I keep thinking that Mean Machine quarterback dude should just pull the ball down, maybe pump fake it first a couple times, but just pull it down and go around the end when the prison guards show blitz up the middle," Vick told friends and family at a pre-trial screening of the film. "He could always chuck it into dude's nutsack after the play was over." Vick was reportedly distraught to learn that, except for the probable presence of Michael Irvin, an actual prison would be nothing like the one in the movie

Tiger Woods Putts Baby Into Diaper

ORLANDO, FL—Tiger Woods added yet another accomplishment to his already outstanding résumé Sunday when the 13-time major winner successfully putted his baby daughter, five-month-old Sam Alexis Woods, into a fresh Huggies diaper.
Dressed in his signature red shirt, black pants, and black Nike golf shoes, Woods—who has not played competitive golf in three months in order to stay at home and spend time with his newborn daughter—followed the clutch 12-foot putt with a celebratory fist pump before hugging caddie Steve Williams, who was handling the baby's skin ointment.
"The living room carpet was rolling especially fast today," Woods later told reporters, adding that his maid had vacuumed the night before, "so at first I was naturally hesitant about hitting the baby too hard. But Stevie told me to be firm with the putt, since the room goes slightly uphill near the recliner, and we both knew the baby would move slower there. Especially around where we placed the diaper, because of the changing pad."

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