iCarta iPod Stereo Dock and Bath Tissue Holder

So while surfing the net today, I came across a product listed on Amazon as the iCarta iPod Stereo Dock and Bath Tissue Holder.

I seriously thought this was a joke at first, but no, Amazon is really selling this little piece of machinery. Given, I don't think it's a horrible idea to have some sort of jukebox set up in your bathroom for playing music while cleaning or taking a shower. But do you seriously need a toilet paper holder/iPod dock?

That's just asking to get some kind of illness, essentially making your iPod a farm for germs to travel from your bathroom, to anywhere you decide to bring it with you. You could be giving your friends pink eye as you walk down the street and turn your iPod down to shake their hand. You could also be giving yourself a bad time if you touch your iPod before eating something, say sushi?

Here's my suggestion, bring your iPod docked stereo and plug it into the wall, place it away from any wet spots in the bathroom, or do what I do, set up a set of speakers on a shelf and plug your ipod into that.

The last thing I'd want to see is a large brown stain streaked across my iPod after coming out of the bathroom. That's just gross



Source: Amazon

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Daily Links

• Windows is notorious for having useless features and CPU resource hogging programs/services enabled by default. Today’s post is about removing some of the useless services. Source (Mark Sanborn)
  
• Catholics getting their panties in a twist over "anti-religious messages" in the new Philip Pullman movie The Golden Compass. Source (BBC)
• Google investing in solar power to fuel their massive server farm. Source (Gizmodo)
• Tolkien's great-grandson arrested in the UK for possession of £3,000 worth of marijuana. Source (The Sun)
• 9 Legendary Cartoon Voices (and where else you may have heard them). Source (Mental Floss)
• British music industry major EMI wants to cut its funding to the industry's trade bodies, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday, which could deal a blow to the fight against music piracy. Source (Yahoo News)
• In the November 15 episode of NBC's "30 Rock," Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey, in their roles as Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon, sang the praises of Verizon Wireless before Fey looked right into the camera and asked, "Can we have our money now?" At least in this case, art did indeed imitate life. Verizon said it handed over an integration fee to NBC, in addition to some marketing support, for the mini-commercial within one of the network's hottest shows. Source (Yahoo News)
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• A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction. It is thought the skin was cut from the corpse of one of Guy Fawkes' fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Source (Sky News)

Finally, here's an awesome video that was on Gizmodo today. It's a commercial from Norway promoting growth in the Engineering field, and it uses some sweet special effects, too bad trains don't normally do this, it would make riding on them a lot more entertaining.

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5-Minute Preview Hereos 2x11 "Powerless"

WARNING this video contains spoilers for the upcoming and last episode of this volume/season. DO NOT WATCH if you want to be surprised.

That being said, I was riveted by this video for the full 5 minutes of play. I REALLY hope the episode is as good as I'm anticipating!


EDIT: As a bonus, I added the US/Canadian previews as well as a video of on-set interviews with a few of the actors. Enjoy.

On set interviews:


US Preview:


Canadian Preview:

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Sweeney Todd Promo Pics, Clips and Interview

Last night I saw the trailer on TV for the new Tim Burton movie entitled Sweeney Todd. From what I've found online, apparently this new film, coming out this Christmas, is a murder-musical, with an all-star cast backing.

Starring in the movie is a veteran of Burton films of the past, Johnny Depp, along with many established actors including Alan Rickman, Sasha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter and others. You can read an interview with all the actors here at the IESB website.

The movie is about a barber who transitions into this slasher murderer. From the promo pictures it looks like the movie will have a very typical Burton-esk dark and grey look to it like Sleepy Hallow. Hopefully the movie is as good as it looks, and with a supporting cast as great as this, Burton would have little excuse to fudge this one up.

Clips:

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Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Pics

In long anticipation of the next installment of Indiana Jones, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, here are some pictures I recently aquired online. I pray beyond a prayer that this movie is good. I'm no fan of Shia LeBuff what-so-ever, though I heard Transformers was good I still refuse to see it, but I'm hoping that Harrison Ford will pick up the slack. From the looks of these pictures, hopefully we're in store for another great Indy flick.

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Daily Links

• Hollywood screenwriters have returned to the negotiating table, three weeks after beginning strike action. Source (BBC)
• Well, as if the Screenwriter's Guild hasn't suffered enough with the recent strike in the US, Sean Connery has come along and reduced the writers to tears by loftily announcing that he will never make another film again. Source (Holy Moly)
• The major fall update slated for the Xbox 360 now has a set release date and its first significant feature, Microsoft said today. The upgrade is now set to launch on December 4th and will incorporate Find Old Friends, a new service that will let users browse the friend lists of other gamers on the Xbox Live service. Source (Electronista)
• Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least. Source (USA Today)
• Earlier this month, the RIAA announced that it had sent off yet another wave of prelitigation settlement letters to college campuses across the US. This time, the recording industry targeted 16 schools, including almost the entire membership of the Ivy League. There was one notable Ivy school missing from the roster, one that has failed to appear in any of the RIAA's press releases: Harvard. Source (Ars Technica)
• HARRISON FORD is getting sick of the growing number of STAR WARS fans camping outside his doorstep. The Hollywood actor - who plays Han Solo in the hit sci-fi franchise - claims he is hounded by a group of wacky film fanatics praying to him as the leader of the Star Wars-inspired Jediism religion outside his Wyoming, U.S. home. Source (Contact Music)
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• The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote whether or not to extend their gestapo rule on the airwaves to cable television. Source (Washington Post)
• Universal Music Group's CEO is like your cranky, out-of-touch grandpa who happens to run a huge record label. Source (Gizmodo)
• New York's "Vulture" section comes to the correct conclusion about the music biz -- but for the wrong reason. In commenting on the Wired profile of "Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris," the folks at "Vulture" have a yuck-fest over Morris' inability to come to grips with modern technology. Source (Huffington Post)

Finally, here's an old, but highly amusing video accompanied by the acoustic version of Radiohead's "Creep"

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Alyson Hannigan in Page Six Magazine

Alyson Hannigan, of the very funny CBS show How I Met Your Mother, recently did a spread in Page Six Magazine. Here are some pictures of the 33 year old looking better than usual outside of the show.

How I Met Your Mother airs on CBS, Monday at 8pm EST.

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Kristin Bell Photoshoot

Here are some pictures I found online of Kristin Bell of Heroes. I'm not sure what these photos are from, regardless Kristin is looking fine as hell in them. They're definitely lit well, and show a nice change from her cold yet sexy persona in Heroes. If anyone knows where these are from, give me a heads up and I will credit them properly.

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Hayden Panettiere Looking Good In Boots

Okay, lets start today on a good note. Here are some recent pictures of the ever-beautiful Hayden, somewhere doing something. Whatever that is, it's irrelevant, ha-ha. Enjoy the pictures.

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Oh Guitar Hero 3, How I Want You To Rock My Face Off

So I've heard nothing but rave reviews about this Guitar Hero 3 game. I was hanging out with a friend this weekend and he went on about the songs and the difficulty, so I'm intrigued.

Given, I have 1 and 2 already, and the only reason I haven't gotten the 80's edition is because of the reduced number of songs and the lack of extras. But I will once it's a bit cheaper. But this one is supposed to have a great track listing, including one of my favorite bands, Tenacious D.

I'm going to head out to Best Buy in a bit to finally join the craze that is this Guitar Hero phenomena, but in the meantime, how is everyone else liking this game? And how does it compare to Rock Band, though I'm not that interested in dropping all that money and devoting a room to one game.

I'll post again later on with my review.


Guitar Hero 3 Track list

"3's and 7's" - Queens of the Stone Age
"Anarchy in the UK" - The Sex Pistols
"Before I Forget" - Slipknot
"Black Sunshine" - White Zombie
"Cliffs of Dover" - Eric Johnson
"Closer" - Lacuna Coil
"Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Cult of Personality" - Living Colour
"Devil Went Down to Georgia" - Charlie Daniels Band
"Even Flow" - Pearl Jam
"Generation Rock" - Revolverheld
"Go That Far" - Bret Michaels Band
"Helicopter" - Bloc Party
"Hier Kommt Alex" - Die Toten Hosen
"Hit Me with Your Best Shot" - Pat Benatar
"Holiday in Cambodia" - Dead Kennedys
"I'm in the Band" - The Hellacopters
"In the Belly of a Shark" - Gallows
"Knights of Cydonia" - Muse
"Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth
"La Grange" - ZZ Top
"Lay Down" - Priestess
"Monsters" - Matchbook Romance
"Mauvais Garcon" - NAAST
"The Metal" - Tenacious D
"Minus Celsius" - Backyard Babies
"Miss Murder" - AFI
"Mississippi Queen" - Mountain
"My Name Is Jonas" - Weezer
"Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden
"One" - Metallica
"Paint It, Black" - The Rolling Stones
"Paranoid" - Black Sabbath
"Pride and Joy" - Stevie Ray Vaughn
"Radio Song" - Superbus
"Raining Blood" - Slayer
"Reptilia" - The Strokes
"Rock and Roll All Nite" - Kiss
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" - Scorpions
"Ruby" - Kaiser Chiefs
"Sabotage" - Beastie Boys
"Same Old Song and Dance" - Aerosmith
"School's Out" - Alice Cooper
"The Seeker" - The Who
"She Bangs the Drums" - The Stone Roses
"She Builds Quick Machines" - Velvet Revolver
"Slow Ride" - Foghat
"The Story of my Life" - Social Distortion
"Stricken" - Disturbed
"Suck My Kiss" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
"Take This Life" - In Flames
"Talk Dirty to Me" - Poison
"Through the Fire and Flames" - DragonForce
"Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
"When You Were Young" - The Killers

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