Top Spring Break Featured Destination: Texas’ South Padre Island
March 5, 2007
Texas’ South Padre Island is the destination of choice for spring breakers looking for fun and exposure.
Each spring break season, over 125,000 students flock to the shores of South Padre Island, Texas for sand, booze, communion with fellow youngbloods and semi-legal fun near the Mexican border. The island consists of 34 miles of coastline and five miles of beach-front hotels, which accommodate only college students in the dearest months of spring.
The setting is somewhat chaotic during March and April, but South Padre is a cheap location for college students of the Southern states to run to. Once there, students can expect numerous activities — and mischief — night and day.
Annually, Coca-Cola sets up a 50,000-watt sound stage for daily musical acts and contests, thus creating the largest spring break venue in the nation. MTV is also a yearly participant and films many of its regular shows (such as “Twelve Angry Spring Breakers”) using the bikini clad vacationers. To appease the larger male population of the crowd, Playboy Magazine and Hawaiian Tropic hold weekly contests for talented and endowed women. Everyone can expect to bring home a suitcases full of freebies handed out by the insane number of corporate sponsors on the island.
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Movies to Watch on Valentine’s Day (worst and cheesy)
February 13, 2007
If you’re going to the movies for love, look further than the multiplex, look much further. In fact, just close your eyes all together.
Hey, remember when movie love mattered? When it spoke to the fundamentals of human longing and carnal passion? When the only thing bigger than your baby’s heart was that 30-foot screen? When the power of two perfectly hot creatures’ lust for one another made you deaf to loathsome dialogue because the “bump-bump, bump-bump” of your hearts was just that in sync to the actors’? Ah, the fantasy of romantic truth 24 frames per second.
Well, this Valentine’s Day, forget that. Judging from the crop of films begging for you to drop $14.50 a couple so you can make out in front of them, you’re better off spending your umpteenth night on the futon bathed in the blue glow of “Titanic” from your 19″ Zenith. From Buffy cooing over Young Indy to Batman feeling up Romy’s Michelle, the stars of these inept stabs at love are more uncrossed than Catherine Trammell’s legs.
Those who scoff at Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts and, dear God, even Jennifer Aniston’s forays into big screen romance would be more than happy to slap some sense into the stupid, avaricious executives responsible for thinking Sarah Michelle Gellar deserves a romantic comedy of her very own. And in further attempts to plunder young money clips and Kate Spade change-purses, look for an all-wack-cast update of “Dangerous Liaisons,” also starring SMG. Apparently, all 12-25 years olds are expected to do these days is spend, scream, swoon and spend some more.
But that’s cool — almost three decades ago their parents lined up for weekends on end to behold what was then the dregs of movie romance. The film was “Love Story,” and alas, it’s good to know that as daffy as its star sounded, Ali McGraw wasn’t all that wrong when she exhaled “loves means never having to say you’re sorry.” Which is why none of these movies apologize for how awful they are. To hell with Cupid, and spend the rest of this mini-month celebrating what’s left of Black February. Predictably, it sho’ nuff ain’t at the movies.
Note: All these movies are from the last century. So there is a good probability that most of you might not have watched it.
Message in a Bottle
Starring: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn, Paul Newman and Illeana Douglas
Ever wonder about the back-story for those Nautica ads — the ones with that stubbled creature with the square jaw staring out to sea in a cable-knit t-neck and wool carpenter pants? No? Doesn’t matter. “Message in a Bottle” tells it anyway, with Kevin Costner as Nautica’s unofficial spokesman for its yacht division. The best part is that he barely says a word. It’s the never-been-more-fly Robin Wright-Penn who does most of the talking in this sudsy version of “The Notebook,” Nathniel Sparks’ insufferably insufferably maudlin bestseller. She’s that divorced journalist with no life and no new man Hollywood loves so much. When she finds a bottle with a letter Costner’s boatman wrote to his dead wife, she has to track him down so he can put a message in her bottle.
Uncertain whether you’ll buy Wright-Penn in this film, the makers go extra lengths to give her blonde locks that saucy Julia! corkscrew. It works. With Costner back in prime, charming-Neanderthal form (he’s silent not because he’s dim but because he’s healing), the two have chemistry that makes the cowardly four-hanky ending something to tear up over.
# Best explained as: Princess Buttercup stalks The Postman.
# The redemptive (horny, gay or black friend): Agedly-horny Paul Newman as Costner’s practical dad. Workplace-horny Illeana Douglas as Wright-Penn’s lunch break gal.
# The moment they know: When he tracks her down at her hotel just to return her strategically-forgotten jacket.
# What makes her so special: Her super-huge Chicago brownstone.
# Would Julia?: Absoltely.
# Would Meg?: With a different ending. Sure.
# Would Jennifer?: She’d leave her “Friends” for a piece of this.
# Line that says it all: “She’s gonna smell like haddock for the rest of her life.”
Top 5 Mozilla Firefox ad Campaigns
January 6, 2007
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Established in July 2003, The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet. Firefox users and fans were always at the forefront in their effort to speak out for their favorite browser and express themselves in front of a worldwide audience.
The ad campaigns are usually promoted by Spread Firefox, a volunteer run Mozilla advocacy site, with over 50,000 registered members. During this phase of Firefox 1.0 promotion, community marketing into the mainstream was mainly through written testimonials.
#5: NY Times Spread Firefox Ad:
The Mozilla Foundation, places a two page ad in the December 16th 2004 edition of the New York Times. The ad, coordinated by Spread Firefox, features the names of thousands of people worldwide who contributed to the Mozilla Foundation’s fundraising campaign to support the launch of the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser.
A year later after the NY Times Ad, Firefox 1.5 was released and during this phase, the Mozilla Foundation started a contest, promising prizes for users who submit the best homemade 30-second Firefox advertisements.
Build your own Death Star of Star Wars
December 30, 2006
Every geek worth his salt remebers the torpedo which Luke Skywalker used to destroy the Death Star of the Evil Empire. Now, here is your chance to build your own Death Star of the Star Wars movies.
You are now a weapons engineer and the responsibility for the completion of the Empire’s ultimate weapon has fallen on you. Some of you might ask, what is the full form of Death Star or why the name Death Star. Well, the project is officially known as the Expeditionary Battle Planetoid Development Initiative but the Ministry of Propaganda like to call it “Death Star”.
The 5 attributes needed for your Death Star are
* Power Output - The energy output of the station’s reactors
* Firepower - The destructive potential of the station
* Defense - The station’s protection against capital and fighter craft assault
* Personnel Capacity - The station’s habitability and crew capacity
* Naval Capacity - The extent of the station’s harbors and docking bays
Click on the picture below to build your own Ultimate weapon, the Empire’s Death Star
The new Simpsons Movie Trailer
December 27, 2006
The new Simpsons movie is coming out next year on July 27th 2007. Watch the trailer below.. ENjoy!!
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December 27, 2006
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Brand new Fantastic Four 2 trailer: The Rise of the Silver Surfer
December 26, 2006
The Silver Surfer’s is easily one of the greatest villain-to-hero epics in the Marvel universe.he trailer debuted over the weekend with Night at the Museum; it won’t make it online in beautiful Quicktime/HD until Fox releases it, probably sometime this week.
The Rise of the Silver Surfer continues the adventures of the Fantastic Four. The release date for this movie is set for June 15th 2007.
Based Upon: This is the sequel to the 2005 superhero hit, Fantastic Four, which was of course based upon the long-running Marvel Comics title once subtitled “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine.” Specifically, the premise of this movie is loosely based upon “The Coming of Galactus” in FF #48-50 (1966), which introduced the cosmic characters of the Silver Surfer and Galactus. This movie may also pave the way for a future spin-off movie for The Silver Surfer, whose own movie adaptation has been in development nearly as long as the Fantastic Four’s has been.
Premise of the Rise of the Silver Surfer: “The Fantastic Four meets their greatest challenge yet [as] the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.” (quoted from official premise)
Watch the brand new trailer below
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