So almost everyone should remember the Virtual Bartender, and the improved Virtual Bartender 2. Well, now there’s something new out there: command the girls at the car wash.
[gallery: Girls at the Car Wash]
Visit: The Car Wash
Advanced Technology Office, LLC has announced that they will be offering a new product called iSee. Measuring a mere 6″ X 3.2″ X 1.1″ and weighing only 6 ounces, this little device will allow users to record analog video content to most fourth generation iPods, and then playback the video on either the larger 3.6″ LCD screen or directly to a TV.
The iSee video recorder for iPod extends the functionality of most Click Wheel iPods to include music, photos, video recording, storage and playback. With the iSee video recorder, iPod users will record and store their favorite shows and movies directly from TV, cable, satellite, DVR or any other analog source. In addition to viewing on the iSee, video files can be played back on any TV with an “analog in” connection at standard 640 X 480 TV resolution.
How cool is that?!
[via Gizmodo and NewLaunches.com]
A whale, yes whale, was spotted swimming in the Thames river in central London this morning.
The 16-18ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale, which is usually found in deep sea waters, has been seen as far upstream as Chelsea.
A rescue boat has been sent to protect the whale and rescuers have been trying to keep it away from the river banks.
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The RNLI say it is the first whale rescue on the Thames. A spokesman said three whales were spotted east of the Thames Barrier on Thursday but only one managed to get upstream.
But at 0830 GMT on Friday, a man on a train called in to say he might have been hallucinating, but he had just seen a whale in the Thames.
I’m surprised it can even survive in that river of toxic waste!
[via The BBC]
Scarlett Johansson’s mom is reportedly upset over the amount of cleavage her daughter revealed at the 2006 Golden Globes; and has called Scarlett like a member of the Baywatch cast.
The stunning actress wore a low-cut red dress to the star-studded event - but her mum, Melanie, says she went too far by showing off her ample breasts.
A friend of Scarlett’s family is quoted in Britain’s Daily Express newspaper as saying: “She said she looked like a member of the ‘Baywatch’ cast.
“Mel feels Scarlett tried a little too hard to show off her figure - to the point where she was almost bursting out of her dress.”
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But Scarlett’s mum is now planning to stop a repeat performance at the Oscars in March - and allegedly intends to pick her daughter’s outfit.
The friend added: “She’ll be choosing Scarlett’s dress - well, she’ll certainly have a say.”
Meanwhile, Scarlett is more than pleased with her sexy figure, and has revealed that it was tennis that gave her a nice body, taut legs and great butt.
She says, “Every day I had to practise on the tennis court - and I’d never held a racket before.
“Tennis is great. You don’t even notice how much you run. You get a nice body, taut legs and great butt. I’ll keep on playing if I find a good partner.
Tennis anyone?
Despite appearing more than just naked in a homemade sex tape and nearly naked everywhere else, Paris Hilton has said that she will never pose naked for Playboy. Why? Because she’s Paris Hilton.
“They’ve asked me a million times,” Hilton said.
“Hef has been after me since I was 17, and I got offered a lot of money.
“But I’ll never do it.”
Asked why she refused the Playboy offer, the star replied:
“Because I’m Paris Hilton.”
Ummm, okay.
[via MSN]
France has nukes, and they’re not afraid to use them. That was the recent warning French President Jacques Chirac gave to any state that would launch a terrorist attack against his country.
Speaking at a nuclear submarine base in north-western France, Mr Chirac said a French response “could be conventional. It could also be of another nature.”
He said France’s nuclear forces had been configured for such an event.
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On a visit to L’Ile-Longue base in Brittany, Mr Chirac said leaders of states who would “use terrorist means against us, just like anyone who would envisage using, in one way or another, arms of mass destruction, must understand that they would expose themselves to a firm and adapted response from us”.
Who would have thought France would be threatening nuclear retribution?
[via The BBC]
In the on-going battle of good vs Intelligent Design, the side of good has struck yet another blow. The official Vatican newspaper recently printed an article saying that the decision by the Pennsylvania courts to not allow Intelligent Design to be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution was in fact the correct decision.
“If the model proposed by Darwin is not considered sufficient, one should search for another,” Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, wrote in the Jan. 16-17 edition of the paper, L’Osservatore Romano.
“But it is not correct from a methodological point of view to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science,” he wrote, calling intelligent design unscientific. “It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.”
The article was not presented as an official church position. But in the subtle and purposely ambiguous world of the Vatican, the comments seemed notable, given their strength on a delicate question much debated under the new pope, Benedict XVI.
While L’Osservatore is the official newspaper of the Vatican and represents the views of the Vatican, it does not, in its entirety, represent the official views of the Church. However, it stands to reason that at the same time, the newspaper does not print articles that stray far from the official views of the Church.
[via NY Times]
