On Friday night, I had one of those family emergencies that set off a whirlwind of activity, one of the keys components being a five hour drive that started @ approximately 10pm. After an exhausting day, it was the last thing I wanted to do, but it’s family. What it did afford me was plenty...

Allison Iraheta is on her way to becoming one of the more successful fourth-place finishers of American Idol. Of course, it will take a lot (and we mean a lot) of album sales to stack up against Season 5’s Top 4 finalist Chris Daughtry. But from what we’ve heard on Allison’s debut album...

Baseball Jesus Stephen Strasburg debuted today against the Tigers and pitched two scoreless innings. He gave up back-to-back two-out singles in the second, finished with a strikeout, and transubstantiated into Miguel Batista. [ ESPN ] More »Source : Deadspin (subscribe)Explore : Baseball,...

Today marks the thirteenth anniversary of the death of the Notorious B.I.G., so we thought we’d take a break from Right-Click ’s regularly scheduled programming of fresh hot jams and throw up a classic instead. (If you’re really fiending for new music, click here and here ). We’re going...

Jude Law told us about his small, but pivotal , role in Steven Soderbergh's epic pandemic film Contagion . Law's playing a "fear-mongering blogger." One of us! One of us! More »Source : io9 (subscribe)Explore : Actors and Actresses, Jude Law

Jude Law told us about his small, but pivotal , role in Steven Soderbergh's epic pandemic film Contagion . Law's playing a "fear-mongering blogger." One of us! One of us! More »Source : io9 (subscribe)Explore : Actors and Actresses, Cinema, Directors, Jude Law, Steven Soderbergh

In today's Remainders: tomorrow's news! Cisco's ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss's futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; dual core Atom processors; HTML 5 drawing apps;...

With less than two weeks to go until Kate Gosselin makes her big "Dancing with the Stars" debut, she and her fellow competitors are going glam! Watch as the stars and their professional partners are transformed through "DWTS" trademark glitzy looks as they pose...

We have the intersection between famous people and crazy people to thank for no small amount of entertainment. Take the lawsuit filed by Dannez Hunter, who claims that in 1999 he submitted a story treatment to Miramax about a character named Ren. Hunter claims that Ren became O-Ren Ishii in Kill...

It's a Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart scene!Source : L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (subscribe)

The Prophet Blog is quite right in their assessment: R&B veteran Toni Braxton has gotten a little Mariah style retouching done for the glamorous artwork to her new album Pulse. I love it. Now let’s hope it’s as much of a comeback as The Emancipation proved to be for Mimi.Source :...

When an actor wins an Oscar, all bets are off, including the ones he's made with David Cronenberg . Last December, Cronenberg revived The Talking Cure and had recruited Michael Fassbender , Keira Knightley, and Christoph Waltz to psychoanalyze one another in the name of love and medicine. But...

The Yankees, along with the Big 12 and the Big East Conferences, ESPN and the New Era Cap Company, announced today that Yankee Stadium will play host to the New Era Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 30, 2010. The game, set to be broadcast nationally on ESPN, will feature the third-best Big East team and...

Toxoplasmosis, a common food- and pet-borne illness linked to hallucinations, personality alteration, and, since it's often carried by house pets, the stereotype of the crazy cat lady, infects around 15 percent of the US population. More »Source : io9 (subscribe)

The L.A. Times reports that Disney has changed the title of its forthcoming Rapunzel to Tangled in the interest of distancing the project from its "princess" brand and attracting more boys to theaters. The move comes after last year's The Princess and the Frog grossed a...

We've got an exclusive image from what people are calling the "The Latin District 9 ," or Gareth Edwards' Monsters . Is this street art a representation of the possible octopus aliens that have been quarantined in Mexico? Plus a new clip. More »Source : io9 (subscribe)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive director of the film academy says Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.Source : Chicago Tribune (subscribe)

I'm embarrassed to admit that I still haven't seen the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove despite all the huge acclaim and buzz (I hope to finally see it later this week). Louie Psihoyos' film follows a group of activists, led by renown dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, who use...

The Arecibo Message isn't some new Spanish sportswear label - it's the binary message that SETI researchers transmitted into space in 1974 to converse with extraterrestrials. Nonetheless, you can rock the Arecibo Message sartorially, with this retro-chic SETI scarf. More »Source : io9 (subscribe)

The Arecibo Message isn't some new Spanish sportswear label - it's the binary message that SETI researchers transmitted into space in 1974 to converse with extraterrestrials. Nonetheless, you can rock the Arecibo Message sartorially, with this retro-chic SETI scarf. More »Source : io9 (subscribe)