Trailer Bulletin: Shyamalan’s ‘The Last Airbender’ and ‘Shrek Forever After’
Filed under Entertainment, Trailers, Youtube/Vimeo/Videos
Quickpost! And late of course!
1. The Last Airbender
2. Shrek Forever After
Story: After challenging a dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? If you’re Shrek, you wind up a domesticated family man. What’s happened to this ogre’s roar?
Tags: M.Night Shyamalan, Shrek Forever After trailer, Shrek trailer, Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, The Last Airbender trailer
Nice Online Clock!
This is one of the nicest online clocks I’ve come across! Click on the image to head there.
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The illegal downloaders’ Oscar goes to: District 9!
Filed under Entertainment, Internet
Indeed, the most torrented movie among the 10 nominated for an Oscar was “District 9.” Being one of my personal favourites, I’m happy to see that the movie is extremely popular among the general public (contrary to the Academy which didn’t even consider one win for this awesome flick).
At the same time however, imagine the amount of ticket/DVD/Blu-ray sales that have gone to waste. As a consolation to the studio however, it’s to be remembered that on a budget of $30 million, it grossed more than $200 million worldwide.
With 12,639,000 downloads bring it to the top, District 9 is followed by “Avatar,” then followed by “The Hurt Locker,” “Up” (so many naughty downloading 7-year-olds?), and “Inglourious Basterds.” At the very end of the freeloading preference table came Bulllock’s “The Blind Side” and “An Education.”
Source: TorrentFreak
Tags: District 9, District 9 most downloaded movie, Most downloaded movie, Oscar, Oscar 2010, Oscars, Oscars 2010
Blushing Pluto Caught on Cam!
Filed under Science
Funny title eh? Just to catch your attention!
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed some unusual and colourful changes to the surface of Pluto.
Nasa says the dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system is becoming increasingly red. Its illuminated northern hemisphere is also getting brighter. Nasa’s scientists believe these are seasonal changes – as the planet heads into a new phase of its 248-year-long seasonal cycle.
“These changes are most likely consequences of surface ice melting on the sunlit pole and then re-freezing on the other pole,” Nasa’s Space Telescope Science Institute said in a statement. The overall colour is probably a result of ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking up methane on Pluto’s surface. This, scientists say, would leave behind a red carbon-rich residue. But some astronomers have expressed shock at the changes.
Tags: Pluto, Pluto turning red, space
World’s First Recorded Song!
Filed under Interest, Science, Tech
1950s? 1940s? 1930s? Think again.
It’s actually in the 1860s.
In March 2008 a recording by Frenchman Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville of a woman singing ‘Au Clair De La Lune’ was discovered in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. The recording dates back to April 9, 1860 making it the world’s first known recorded song.
It’s practically not decipherable, especially when it’s only 10 seconds long. Nonetheless, you can still listen to it (Click on the image below).
Tags: World's First Recorded Song
Windows vs Mac
Filed under Computers, Tech, Visual Graphics & Images
This is hilarious!
Tags: Apple Mac, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Windows vs Mac
Super AMOLED Explained
Filed under Tech
Samsung’s Super AMOLED appears to have licked the outdoor readability issue while bettering the features that made us fall in love with AMOLEDs in the first place. First off, it’s thinner since the touch sensors are now integrated into the display; colors are more vivid due to the removal of the obfuscating touch sensor layer that sits on top of TFT LCD and traditional AMOLED touchscreen displays; and even the viewing angle has been improved. See the video below to know more.
Tags: AMOLED, Samsung Super AMOLED, Super AMOLED
Audi RS5 Driving Footage
Filed under Automotive, Youtube/Vimeo/Videos
Nice video of a hawt car!
Tags: Audi, Audi A5, Audi RS5, Geneva 2010, Ur-Quattro
Dell Streak Leaked
Filed under Computers, Internet, Tech
I want one!
Finally after all those teases and constant leaks, Dell seems to be getting ready with their first advertisements for the upcoming slate (see below), called Dell Streak (codename maybe?) and while we already knew about the 5-inch WVGA (800 x 480) capacitive touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, capacitive touch front buttons, front-facing VGA camera for video chatting and the 30-pin docking connector, no one thought Dell would offer this sexy tablet with a range of vivacious color options!
Just to recall your memory, the Dell Streak runs a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor with Android 2.0. It has so far gotten very good reviews from critics alike.
The best part is the Amazon deal herein stated, which obviously won’t be available outside US and/or UK. But just for mentioning, the slate will sport a Kindle e-book reader app, Amazon MP3, Amazon video streams and pretty much any other material that Amazon sells in digital form! Cool, right?
Source: Engadget
Tags: Dell, Dell MID, Dell Slate, Dell Streak, Dell Tablet
Oscars 2010!
Filed under Entertainment
I’m a bit late on this, but nevermind 
Winners are highlighted in Bold and placed on Top in the list.
PICTURE:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Pixar’s Up
Up in the Air
DIRECTOR:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels – Precious
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
ACTOR:
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
ACTRESS:
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Mo’Nique – Precious
Penélope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman – The Messenger
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Bob Peterson & Pete Docter – Pixar’s Up
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell – District 9
Nick Hornby – An Education
Armando Iannucci & Simon Blackwell – In the Loop
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner – Up in the Air
ANIMATED FEATURE:
Pixar’s Up
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
Ajami (Israel)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophète (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
ART DIRECTION:
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Mauro Fiore – Avatar
Bruno Delbonnel – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Barry Ackroyd – The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson – Inglourious Basterds
Christian Berger – The White Ribbon
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
The Cove
Burma VJ
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Which Way Home
DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Music by Prudence
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit à la Berlin
ANIMATED SHORT:
Logorama
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
A Matter of Loaf and Death
LIVE-ACTION SHORT:
The New Tenants
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
COSTUME DESIGN:
The Young Victoria
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
MAKEUP:
Star Trek
Il Divo
The Young Victoria
FILM EDITING:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
SOUND MIXING:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
SOUND EDITING:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Pixar’s Up
ORIGINAL SCORE:
Michael Giacchino – Pixar’s Up
James Horner – Avatar
Alexandre Desplat – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders – The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer – Sherlock Holmes
ORIGINAL SONG:
“The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart
“Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog
“Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog
“Loin de Paname” from Paris 36
“Take It All” from Nine
So what you guys think about the winners? I’m not happy with quite a number of them.
Tags: Academy Award 2010, Avatar, District 9, Oscar, Oscar 2010, Oscar Awards, Oscars 2010, The Hurt Locker
