Daily Links

• Blogger who writes about Best Buy parody t-shirt gets legal threat. Source (TG Daily)
  
• The Games That Pushed The Limits Of The NES. Source (Racket Boy)
• Top 100 Motivational Quotes. Source (Bold Words)
• The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to hold two top aides to President George W. Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors. Source (Yahoo News)
• The Smashing Pumpkins are planning to release some new material on January 1. Source (Digital Spy)
• Blogger/Teacher gets third paper from child saying 9/11 was Iraq's fault. Source (Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk)
• The 10 Most Overpaid U.S. Jobs And the Little Effort They Require. Source (Career Journal)

Finally, here is the first aired commercial for McDonalds, featuring a very creepy, first redition of Ronald McDonald. If I saw this air at my age back then, I'm not so sure I'd be interested in eating McDonalds.

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Kristin Kreuk Pictures From The Partition

Kristin Kruek, well-known actress in the WB series Smallville, was recently in a film called The Partition. Though this movie did not receive a whole lot of attention, these pictures surfaced today of the flick which came out in Feburary. In it, Kruek plays an Indian woman named Suri, along side another well known American actress, Neve Campbell.

You can check out the movie information here at IMDB.

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Hayden Panettiere Announces The 2008 Golden Globe Awards Nominations

Here are some pictures of Hayden Panettiere announcing the Golden Globe Award Nominations for 2008. Along with Hayden are Ryan Renolds and Quentin Tarantino.

The Golden Globes air January 13th on NBC.

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New Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince Sneak Peak

WARNING: Do not view if you do not want the book/movie/story to be spoiled. While there aren't many revealing points in this video, you still may want to refrain.

A new sneak peak video has been released from the filming of the new installation of the Harry Potter series, The Half-Blood Prince.

Everytime a new video surfaces, I get all excited for the release of this movie. It definitely was my second-favorite in the book series behind the last book.

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Claymation Winter Tales with Milo Ventimiglia and Kristen Bell

American Eagle Outfitters have released two claymation holiday clips featuring Milo Ventimiglia and Kristin Bell from Heroes. The first video is narrated and starring Milo about his trip back to home, sporting his Heroes season 1 hair. The second is about Kristin Bell stealing presents from Santa Claus.

Both of these were written by Adam Greene and produced by Milo. Check out the rest of the American Eagle claymation videos at their YouTube channel.

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Daily Links

• Some pretty funny Kids In The Hall clips. Source (Pajiba)
  
• The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics. Source (Yahoo News)
• Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle heats up as Christmas approaches. Source (Ars Technica)
• Imagine that. A lock of John Lennon's hair sold for $48,000 Wednesday in an auction of Beatles' memorabilia collected by the band's hairdresser. Source (iWon News)
• President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program. Source (Yahoo News)
• A Guide to who is on the cover of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Source (Beatles Max)
• Your brain depends on a variety of nutrients to keep itself balanced. Cheetos and beer are not on the list. The scoop on six snacks that will help kick your mind into gear. Source (Men's Health)

Finally, this video isn't new, but it's still funny as hell. It's a Japanese game show that takes place in a library. They each choose a card and the one with the skull and crossbones has to take the punishment. It's pretty ridiculous, especially the slap machine.

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Kristin Bell Photo Shoot In Co-Ed Magazine

The gorgeous Kristin Bell did a photo shoot for Co-Ed Magazine recently. Kristin Bell is of course, popular for her role on Heroes, as well as on Veronica Mars. Enjoy the pictures.

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Kirstin Bell and Heroes Cast Join Writers Strike

Kristin Bell as well as some other cast members and crew came out on the picket lines to join the writers strike today. Here are some pictures of them with their signs, posing for the cameras.

In attendance were Kristin Bell, Ali Larter, Tim Kring, Greg Beeman, Monica Davis, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Jack Coleman, Masi Oka, Christine Rose, Greg Grunberg, and Dania Ramirez

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An Open Letter By How I Met Your Mother's Creator

LETTER TO THE FANS

Hello HIMYM fans. Motherheads? Howsiers? What are you calling yourselves these days? So first things first, thank you for the incredible support you guys have given us over the years. We mean it. When you create a show, you never think you're doing anything more than telling a funny story. But apparently we've created a community, and it seems to be a community of pretty decent people. It's a community we'd probably want to have a beer with. Our fans seem cool and smart and funny, and it drives us to want to make the show better, to never let it stagnate, to always push ourselves to try something interesting and new. So thank you.

Anyway, we'd like to take a little moment here to come out from behind the desk, cool-11th-grade-english-teacher-style, roll up our sleeves and "rap" at you guys for a bit. We want to talk about the strike. By now you probably know what strike we're talking about, but if you don't, watch this movie: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk

What it boils down to is this: Tonight’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” is the last new one for a while. Starting next week, we grimly trudge off the map and into the desert of reruns and reality TV.

We can’t tell you how difficult this last month and a half has been for us, both personally and professionally. We work with the best people in this business – the best at their jobs, the best at being nice and decent human beings – and the thought of all of them out of work over the holidays is almost too much to bear. We miss them all every day.

That’s by far the suckiest part of the strike – nothing tops that. But there’s other suckiness, such as the suckiness of having to put this story on pause. We love our show. We love the stories we get to tell. And this year on How I Met Your Mother, we think the story is particularly great. A very juicy, breathtaking, funny, and (to use our director Pam's word) yummy story was just starting to unfold as the ax began to fall. We're very excited about the second half of this season, and not bringing it to you right now, factory-direct, sparkling-new, is simply killing us.

But enough with our problems. The reason we’re writing today is to beseech you guys, the fans of this show, to bear with us. The love and support you’ve shown us over the last two and a half seasons has been truly surprising and awesome, and we hope you’ll rejoin us when this whole mess is over with. But for now, this is going to have to be a long distance relationship. We know you’ll get lonely, and Mario Lopez is such a good dancer… but come on, hang in there. Sure, long distance doesn’t ever work for anyone, but we’re different. What we’ve got is special. We can make this work.

But in the meantime, if you want to help us end this strike quickly, please visit www.fans4writers.com. That site explains exactly what the WGA is asking for, exactly why it’s completely reasonable, and exactly how you can show your support.

And just in case the strike goes on so long that the medium of television goes out of business forever and we never get to make another episode, the mother is the coat check girl.

Happy Holidays!

Carter Bays and Craig Thomas

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Sweeney Todd Movie Trailer

Finally the full Sweeney Todd movie trailer has been released. It looks pretty good, I'm pretty excited about it coming out on the holidays.

It looks like it' s going to be another very interesting Tim Burton movie. What do you think?

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Daily Links

• Alex Trebek Had A Heart Attack! Source (D-Listed)
• IESB.net has gotten hold of something called “the Black List”, a compilation of suggestions by over 150 film executives and high-level assistants. Each of these folks gave the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts written in 2007, and one of these scripts was Parker and Stone’s upcoming Paramount project, GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK JAPAN! The movie has been announced for release next year, and all anyone knew up till now is that it would be PG-rated. Source (IF Magazine)
• RIAA files supplemental brief in Atlantic v. Howell; argues personal copies ripped to computer are unauthorized. Source (Recording Industry vs. The People)
• Nasa says its robot rover Spirit has made one of its most significant discoveries on the surface of Mars. Scientists believe a patch of ground disturbed by the vehicle shows evidence of a past environment that would have been perfect for microbial life. Source (BBC News)
• NASA's fleet of THEMIS spacecraft, launched less than 8 months ago, has made three important discoveries about spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of their power. The discoveries include giant magnetic ropes that connect Earth's upper atmosphere to the Sun and explosions in the outskirts of Earth's magnetic field. Source (NASA)
• The new Super Mario Power Up! Energy Drink is a Nintendo marketing executive’s most delicious fantasy. Source (Coolest Gadgets)

Finally, here's a video of a commercial from 1982 featuring a young Jack Black plugging the Atari game Pitfall. It's really funny to see him so young.

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Hayden Panettiere In Teen Magazine

Hayden Panettiere has made the cover of yet another magazine. This magazine is Teen Magazine's Winter '08 issue. Here are the pictures from her spread.

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Dania Ramirez At 50th Annual Grammy Awards Kick-Off Party

Here are some pictures of Dania Ramirez, Maya from Heroes, at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards Kick-Off Party. Not much more explanation needed, so enjoy the pictures of this gorgeous woman.

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