Marc Dion: May I See Your License To Kill? (Creators Syndicate)
So, the CIA doesn't kill you if you screw up? They don't have some suave-suited hair-cream warrior standing around with one hand inside his sharkskin jacket, resting on the butt of his silenced Sauerkraut PP8, just waiting to put a small blue hole in the forehead of some agency flunky who has left a big pile of doo-doo on the flag?
Chuck Norris: "Chocolate: The New 'Superfruit'" (Creators Syndicate)
The research, published in Chemistry Central Journal, concludes that dark chocolate and cocoa powder are better for you than many "superfruits," a term describing fruits that are particularly high in nutritional value, especially in antioxidants.
Still life (Guardian)
When Tim Andrews was diagnosed with Parkinson's, he left his job as a solicitor and turned himself into an art project. Now 128 photographers have taken his portrait. He talks to Sarfraz Manzoor.
The man of many faces (Guardian)
After being diagnosed with Parkinson's, Tim Andrews turned himself into an art project. Now 128 photographers have taken his portrait. Here are some.
Dan DeLuca: Girl Talk is a master of musical mixes (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
When Gregg Gillis, the biomedical engineer turned pop mash-up mad scientist known as Girl Talk, mixes together a mainstream hit like Rihanna's "Rude Boy" with a less well-known song such as Washington, D.C., post-punk band Fugazi's "Waiting Room," he's not doing it to force feed his favorite music to his fans.
David Bruce has 40 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $40 you can buy 10,000 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
Pillows were originally used mainly by wealthy men in Asia, and after were found in Ancient Egyptian tombs. The difficulty of sophisticated dyes and sewing techniques led to the development of pillows as an art form, with highly decorated pillows becoming prized commodities first in China and Persia and later in Medieval Europe. In Tudor England, pillows became widely-used; it was believed only women giving birth and weak men should use one
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
A PIllow
BadtotheboneBob responded:
A pillow... Weak men, eh?... I much prefer the Japanese cultural aspect of 'Pillowing'!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
A pillow.
Charlie replied:
Pillows
Sally said:
In Tudor England, it was believed only women giving birth, and weak men, should use a pillow!
Pillows are good...
PS: So much for the, "Good old days...!"
MAM wrote:
Pillows!
Happy Valentine's Day to All!
Marian answered:
pillows
And, Joe S responded:
Well... my first thought was soap, but I guess the correct answer is a pillow.
Fun with pillows
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'Mad Love', then a FRESH'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'Mike & Molly', then a FRESH'Hawaii Five-0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Tom Brokaw, a Top Ten List with 10 Sports Illustrated swimsuit models, and Theophilus London.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Bob Barker and Melissa Rauch.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Chuck', followed by a FRESH'The Cape', then a FRESH'Harry's Law'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Lady Gaga, Sofia Vergara, and John Legend.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are January Jones, Mike Birbiglia, and Greyson Chance.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/31/11) are Lemmy Kilmister, Ryan Case, and Delta Spirit
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'Castle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Martin Lawrence, Dianna Agron, and Jewel.
The CW offers a FRESH'90210', followed by a FRESH'Gossip Girl'.
Faux has a FRESH'House', followed by a FRESH'The Chicago Code'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'Intervention', another 'Intervention', followed by a FRESH'Heavy'.
AMC offers the movie 'Training Day', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 6 Jackie Chan, Dawn French and Duffy
[9:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 1 Bonapartes
[10:00 AM] Doctor Who - 8 - The Hungry Earth
[11:00 AM] The X-Files - Ep 5 Duane Barry
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Piccolo Teatro
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Lanterna
[3:00 PM] Torchwood: Children of Earth (60) - Episode 3
[4:00 PM] The X-Files - Ep 5 Duane Barry
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - 9 - Cold Blood
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 7 Unification - Part 1
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[10:20 PM] Top Gear - Top Gear Season 16 Special
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[3:20 AM] Top Gear - Top Gear Season 16 Special
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Tabatha's Salon Takeover', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Tabatha's Salon Takeover'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', still another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly', and yet another 'It's Always Sunny In Philly'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Edward Glaeser.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is LCD Soundsystem.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Big Momma's House', then the movie 'Big Momma's House 2'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars', followed by another FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] The Neon Bible
[8:00 AM] Beyond the Sea
[10:30 AM] The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
[1:00 PM] The Grid
[1:15 PM] The Neon Bible
[3:15 PM] Beyond the Sea
[5:45 PM] Delirious
[8:00 PM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[10:00 PM] Arrested Development
[10:30 PM] Arrested Development
[11:00 PM] The Larry Sanders Show
[11:30 PM] A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
[1:45 AM] Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
[3:45 AM] The Grid
[4:00 AM] The Neon Bible (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] This Is Not A Robbery
[7:15 AM] Trolls
[7:30 AM] One Week
[9:05 AM] Of Time And The City
[10:20 AM] Cousin Bette
[12:15 PM] This Is Not A Robbery
[1:30 PM] One Week
[3:10 PM] Short Term 12
[3:45 PM] David Bailey, Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating
[4:45 PM] This Is Not A Robbery
[6:00 PM] One Week
[7:40 PM] Teleglobal Dreamin'
[8:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[8:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[9:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[9:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[10:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
[10:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
[11:00 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Out of the Closet
[11:30 PM] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Til Death Do Us Part
[12:00 AM] LADETTE TO LADY (Episode 1, Season 3)
[1:00 AM] THE DAY BEFORE - DVF
[1:30 AM] THE DAY BEFORE - Versace
[2:00 AM] THE DAY BEFORE - Alexander Wang
[2:30 AM] THE DAY BEFORE - Narciso Rodriguez
[3:00 AM] THE DAY BEFORE - Nina Ricci
[3:30 AM] THE DAY BEFORE - Jeremy Scott
[4:00 AM] A French Gigolo
[5:45 AM] Short Term 12 (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Identity', 'Being Human', followed by a FRESH'Being Human', and 'Warehouse 13'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Justin Bieber, Claire Smith, and the Black Keys.
Scheduled on a FRESHLopez Tonight are cast members from "The Real Housewives of Orange County", R. Kelly, Paul Wesley, James Loney, Bobby Castillo, Tommy Davis, Kenny Landreaux, Rudy Law, Steve Lyons, and Don Mattingly.
Canadian singer songwriter Neil Young accepts his award for Best Rock Song for "Angry World" at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles,California February 13, 2011.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
Academy President Tom Sherak (front L-R), actress and host Marisa Tomei and Academy Scientific and Technical Awards Committee Chair Richard Edlund posewith award winners at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards in Beverly Hills, California February 12, 2011.
Photo by Jason Redmond
In Hollywood's long awards season, even the behind-the-scenes techs have their night.
Nineteen computer engineers, wire-mounted camera developers and other technicians reveled in a rare spotlight Saturday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual ceremony focused on the latter part of its name.
Honorees at what's known as the Sci-Tech Oscars noted the strange feeling of celebrating work that when done right is mostly invisible to movie audiences.
Actress Marisa Tomei hosted the ceremony, handing out plaques and certificates - but no Oscar statuettes - to winners from the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and France. Wearing a white Ferre dress with black band accents, Tomei gave cheek kisses to winners and won praise for her pronunciation of phrases like "interposer layer."
Royal drama "The King's Speech" was crowned the big winner Sunday at Britain's top film awards - a sign that it may reign again at Hollywood's Academy Awards in two weeks' time.
The made-in-England story of King George VI and his struggle to overcome a stutter won seven prizes, including best picture and acting trophies for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush.
It had to share the crown jewels with Facebook-founding drama "The Social Network, which took three prizes including best director for David Fincher. Mind-bending saga "Inception" also won three trophies.
Natalie Portman won the best actress prize for psychosexual dance thriller "Black Swan," its only win from 12 nominations.
Christopher Lee, the aristocratic 88-year-old actor who chilled generations as Count Dracula in a series of Hammer Studios horror classics, received a lifetime achievement award.
Author J.K. Rowling (2nd R), producer David Heyman (L), actress Emma Watson (2nd L) and actor Rupert Grint pose after Rowling and Heyman received an awardfor outstanding contribution to British cinema at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London February 13, 2011.
Photo by Luke Macgregor
Irish pop singer Bono caused a stir in South Africa on Sunday after expressing support for the singing of an anti-apartheid struggle song that includes the lyrics "shoot the farmer".
The song has been at the centre of a politically charged controversy in South Africa, where the firebrand leader of the ruling party's youth league is locked in a legal battle with a white lobby group over whether the song should be banned as hate speech.
The U2 frontman, who is in Johannesburg ahead of a Sunday night concert for the band's 360 Degrees Tour, said in an interview with South Africa's Sunday Times that struggle music like the "shoot the farmer" song has a place.
"I was a kid and I'd sing songs I remember my uncles singing... rebel songs about the early days of the Irish Republican Army," he said, proceeding to sing a song whose lyrics spoke of carrying guns and readying them for action.
"We sang this and it's fair to say it's folk music... as this was the struggle of some people that sang it over some time," he told the newspaper.
There was a time when Sam Keller and his teammates couldn't wait to get their hands on Electronic Arts Inc.'s latest edition of NCAA Football, which included their team and images down to Keller's distinctive visor he wore while playing quarterback for the University of Nebraska in 2007.
EA shares undisclosed royalties with the NCAA for use of college stadiums, team names and uniforms and the players' images in a game that racks up hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales. Because they are amateur athletes, the players don't receive any direct benefit from the appearances of their nameless images in the game.
But Keller and an increasing number of players, such as former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon, think they should and have filed at least nine federal lawsuits against the NCAA and EA over the last two years.
On Tuesday, Keller will be in Pasadena to watch his team of lawyers urge the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a trial judge's decision that EA and the NCAA appear to owe the former Cornhusker and - by the extension - thousands of other former players millions of dollars for using their images in the video game.
"When you are playing, you are kind of naïve to the idea that you are being taken advantage of because you are so caught up in playing college football," said Keller of his decision to sue long after his college career ended and he failed to make the Oakland Raiders 2008 regular season roster. "They are making billions off of our images."
Spanish actor Javier Bardem kisses his Goya award for Best Actor backstage at the Spanish Film Academy's Goya awards ceremony at Madrid's RoyalTheatre February 13, 2011.
Photo by Juan Medina
Buju Banton checked out some cocaine, put some on his finger and tasted it - all of it caught on law enforcement video inside a Florida warehouse. Now he has another chance to explain why.
The Grammy-nominated winning singer's second trial is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection, five months after a previous jury hung on federal drug trafficking charges that could put him in prison for life.
Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, claims he was entrapped by a confidential informant and got in over his head while trying to impress the man, who implied he could help Banton's music career. The U.S. government says Banton conspired with two associates to buy a shipment of cocaine from an undercover officer.
Banton, 37, was arrested in December 2009 at his Miami-area home.
He remained in custody until November, when another Jamaican singer, Stephen Marley, reggae legend Bob Marley's son, posted his South Florida home as bond. Banton has been on house arrest except for a Miami concert last month to raise money for legal expenses.
David Geffen, left, kisses Cher after she introduces him at the pre-Grammy gala & salute to industry icons with Clive Davis on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Mark J. Terrill
Dee Dee Bridgewater poses with her award for Best Jazz Vocal Album for "Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee" at the53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 13, 2011.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
China has ordered that smoking scenes in films and television series be restricted, amid concern it is failing to deliver on pledges to help its 300 million smokers kick the habit.
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), China's media watchdog, called for "strict control" of smoking scenes and banned minors from being present in shots involving anyone lighting up.
Cigarette brands are banned from appearing in films and television series, and smoking scenes must be kept as short as possible, a circular posted on SARFT's website said Saturday.
According to the official Xinhua news agency, a survey conducted among 11,000 middle school students in Beijing showed nearly 33% wanted to try smoking after seeing actors lighting up on television.
Herbie Hancock poses with his awards for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for "Imagine" and Best Improvised Jazz Solo for "A Change isGonna Come" at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 13, 2011.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
US researchers said Friday they have found that people who used two specific varieties of pesticide were 2.5 times as likely to develop Parkinson's disease.
The pesticides, paraquat and rotenone, are not approved for house and garden use. Previous research on animals has linked paraquat to Parkinson's disease, so it is restricted to use by certified applicators.
Rotenone is approved only for use in killing invasive fish species.
The study examined 110 people with Parkinson's disease and 358 people who served as a control group from the Farming and Movement Evaluation (FAME) Study.
One man posted a message to the White House website threatening to kill the president. "This is not a joke," he warned, and typed in his name.
Another vowed in letters to a federal judge and the Justice Department to "kill your president." He dutifully wrote his return address, a Texas state prison cell, on each envelope.
These threats led to federal prosecutions, but only after the accused virtually clapped investigators on the shoulder and said, "Arrest me!"
Just making a threat against a federal official - whether it's a worker at the local Social Security office or the president, even without any intent to follow through - is a federal crime.
But only a few dozen threats a year result in prosecutions, often because it's impossible to identify a suspect, Justice Department officials said.
A reveller from the Florencia ballet of Brahma participates in the annual Carnaval Encarnaceno in the city of Encarnacion February 12, 2011.
Photo by Jorge Adorno
The Valentine's Day weekend was a close one as Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston's romantic comedy, "Just Go With It," debuted with $31 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
That was just ahead of the concert documentary "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," which opened a close second with $30.3 million.
Sony's "Just Go With It" and Paramount's "Never Say Never" were close enough that the rankings could change when studios release final numbers Monday.
Another love story, Disney's animated adventure "Gnomeo & Juliet," opened solidly at No. 3 with $25.5 million. The movie features the voices of Emily Blunt and James McAvoy in a twist on "Romeo and Juliet" told with garden gnomes.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Just Go With It," $31 million.
2. "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," $30.3 million.
3. "Gnomeo & Juliet," $25.5 million.
4. "The Eagle," $8.6 million.
5. "The Roommate," $8.4 million.
6. "The King's Speech," $7.4 million.
7. "No Strings Attached," $5.6 million.
8. "Sanctum," $5.1 million.
9. "True Grit," $3.8 million.
10. "The Green Hornet," $3.6 million.
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