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The New York Post recently had an article entitled WHEN IT COMES TO WEIGHT LOSS, CUT 100 – CALORIES, THAT IS!
The article points out one simple fact: if you eat 100 fewer calories a day for an entire year and change absolutely nothing else about your exercise or diet plan, then you will be taking in 36,500 fewer calories over the course of those 365 days.
100 fewer calories a day. That should be easy.
One less fat-free Jell-O Pudding Cup.
One less slice of bread.
One less bottle of original VitaminWater (the full caloric version).
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Post Modern Barney has compiled the WORST PLOT SUMMARIES EVER WRITTEN, and summed up a few dozen movies and books into bite-size nuggets.
The twist is that these are not your traditional plot summaries, but rather a synopsis of the more lurid details of the story. Unfortunately, many of the hundreds of commenters on the original post think that the idea is to write about how the story ends. This is not always the case.
I’ll give you the plot summary, all you have to do is guess the name of the story it came from. Click the link for the answers.
Visible Measures, a company that measures online video usage, has released a report that they’ve entitled THE MOST-VIEWED VIRAL VIDEOS OF ALL TIME.
They determined that this particular listing is the first one to compile videos solely based on being viewed more than 100,000,000 times each. Their sample size is based on 100 million different videos that appear on 150 different video sharing destinations, as opposed to just counting those videos that were viewed directly on the YouTube website. Those “embed” tags really proved their worth here.
18 videos made the list. Here are nine of them, including the top five most viewed videos:
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Just in time for the Kentucky Derby in Louisville running later today, here is just one of many different recipes you may find for KENTUCKY DERBY BOURBON BALLS.
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You’re getting married this month, but haven’t given a thought to what you’re going to about your name.
Do you have the paperwork? Do you even know what to do?
Some friends from Canada have setup a service where they will handle most of the heavy lifting for you: I’M A MRS. For a small fee, they will provide you with a package containing all government forms, including forms for passport, SSN, voter registration, driver’s license, and more. For a few dollars more, you’ll also be able to access information that would cover many of your financial contacts: retail credit cards, utilities, insurance, etc.
While this service currently only services Canada, they are expecting to expand into the US soon (if they haven’t done so already by the time you read this).
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Rated PG-13 for action movie violence, some language, a bit of blood, and one or two scenes of Hugh Jackman running around butt-ass naked.
Rating: B-
As a movie fan, I have really enjoyed the way the X-Men franchise has been run so far. There’s enough story background in each film to give the casual movie-goer enough information about who’s who and what’s what, and there’s also lots of little things that would appeal to a diehard X-Men fan who knows these characters inside and out.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is no exception to that philosophy. There is no need to know any of the previous X-Men films to enjoy this one. Does it help to have some background? Sure, but it’s not required here. Besides, guessing as to who the good guys and the bad guys are is part of the fun. But if you are already an X-Men fan, you won’t leave this film disappointed. Whichever type of fan you are, it is a fun popcorn action film, perfect for the beginning of the summer movie season.
My theater was packed with comic fans, and they seemed to enjoy the film immensely, cheering whenever a new Mutant would make their initial appearance on the screen. It was hard not to get caught up in the audience’s enthusiasm during the film.
There were a few good laughs scattered throughout, and the action scenes, while fewer in number than I would have liked, were well done. The scenes that existed to provide character motivation (for this film, as well as insight into Wolverine for the previous X-Men films) didn’t drag the film to a crawl.
Marvel already knows where they want the X-Men Origins series to roll to. Based on the characters shown in this movie, I would love to see a film centered around Gambit.
Oh, and this film qualifies for a CLOSING CREDITS ALERT: be sure to stick around through the very end of the closing credits. While it is not unusual for Marvel to have special post-credit scenes in their films (Iron Man, anyone?), there have already been reports that different prints of the film contain different closing scenes. While I felt the scene I saw was relatively benign, others in the theatre let out a happy “whoop”. I’ll assume that they know more about where the Wolverine story goes next than the average person does.