Category: Games
Released: Dec 01, 2008
Price: $3.99

Description:
Experience the Zen of gaming nirvana with this addictive puzzle game. Shoot marbles to match 3 or more and create combos to cause a chain reaction. Advanced features include using walls to ricochet marbles, chutes to guide marbles down winding paths, and swapping shooter locations with a single touch. Bonsai Blast combines simple game play, intuitive touch screen controls, and a beautiful �Zen garden� theme to deliver 90 levels of pure marble blasting bliss. Features: -90 increasingly challenging levels set in a beautiful �Zen garden� theme -Swap between multiple shooters and use chutes to line up the perfect shot -Ricochet marbles for bonus points -Harness the strength of elemental power ups: Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Light, & Dark -Collect treasures in the all new bonus levels -Test your skills in the never ending Survival mode or play Adventure mode Recommended for fans of Bejeweled, Tetris, Wurdle, Trism, Puzzloop and Zuma, or for people who want to reach an enlightened state of being through incredibly fun game play. Press Reviews Top 10 apps for G1 phone � PCMag.com Silver Award 8/10 - Pockergamer.co.uk

Website: http://www.glu.com/noram/pages/produ...r=Bonsai+Blast
Support Website: http://www.glu.com/noram/pages/produ...r=Bonsai+Blast

Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.


Get it on iTunes: Bonsai Blast

from: Haran date: Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:59 AM subject: Three terrorists held at Coimbatore In the aftermath of the Ahamedabad blasts a few Jihadis were arrested and imprisoned in Tamilnadu. After that there is no news about the investigations from the government. The people have also forgotten. Now, in the aftermath of the Mumbai attack, three

Environmentalists criticized the United States and other rich countries Tuesday for failing so far to make meaningful commitments at a U.N. conference on climate change.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorcycles/" rel="tag"Motorcycles/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/aprilia-mana-x-concept/1195748/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/aprilia_mana_x_450.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for more shots of the Aprilia Mana X concept/small/strong/embr //div br /Aprilia went out on a limb when it designed its brand-new a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/10/08/aprilias-850-mana-gods-gift-to-motorcyclists/"Mana 850/a by equipping the standard-style machine with a CVT shiftless transmission. The rest of the bike isn't quite as revolutionary, but interesting features such as a large storage unit big enough to house a helmet where the gas tank would normally sit and an electronic ride-by-wire system that features multiple throttle maps allow the bike to stand out as an excellent commuter. All of that technology, along with Aprilia's first in-house developed V-Twin engine, was most definitely expensive to develop, and parent-company Piaggio surely wants to recoup that money as quickly as possible. br /br /Variations on the Mana's basic theme are to be expected, and the first one is the Mana X concept bike that comes from the EICMA show Milan. While the same basic chassis underpins the X, everything the rider touches has been tweaked or completely redesigned. It's tough to pigeonhole the X with one particular label, as its design seems influenced by dirt trackers, scramblers and supermotos. Whatever the case, it definitely looks like it would be a blast to ride.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/aprilia-mana-x-concept/"Aprilia Mana X concept/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/aprilia-mana-x-concept/1195748/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/aprilia_mana_x_large_6_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/aprilia-mana-x-concept/1195747/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/aprilia_mana_x_large_5_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/aprilia-mana-x-concept/1195745/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/aprilia_mana_x_large_4_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/aprilia-mana-x-concept/1195743/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/aprilia_mana_x_large_1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/aprilia-mana-x-concept/1195746/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/aprilia_mana_x_large_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: Aprilia, a href="http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/12/aprilia-finally-puts-mana-x-in.html"Hell for Leather/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/aprilia-shows-off-its-mana-x-concept/"Aprilia shows off its Mana X concept/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/12/aprilia-finally-puts-mana-x-in.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/aprilia-shows-off-its-mana-x-concept/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1387710/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/02/aprilia-shows-off-its-mana-x-concept/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rs5LT1FaNqHNomVDRs4vlZxjTvQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rs5LT1FaNqHNomVDRs4vlZxjTvQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=WTCDCSVe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=WTCDCSVe" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=BY97SBbh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=BY97SBbh" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/rl0FFtSQK8s" height="1" width="1"/

How sez, "California hipster artist Shag has created 13 new art pieces commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction. I've collected all the details (and art) known to date about the upcoming event in August of 2009 in one post." What's not to like? Shag's art + the best ride Disney's Imagineers ever built = sheer heaven! Details are still a little sketchy (pardon the pun) at this time, but it appears that a range of merchandise will be created based on the art: at the very least, Shag will be signing prints on Sunday, August 9th at the park. Buyers, however, will get the first opportunity to buy the prints at a cocktail party the evening of the 8th where Shag will be the guest of honor. Here’s hoping that they hold the event in the Mansion itself — Walt Disney World has done dinners in the stretch rooms in the past — what a blast it would be to party where “candle lights flicker where the air is deathly still.” Shag Haunted Mansion art event (Thanks, How!)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=bfdd126286b728dfd820f23264edb033p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=bfdd126286b728dfd820f23264edb033p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=bfdd126286b728dfd820f23264edb033" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

A bomb has exploded on a passenger train in India's north-eastern state of Assam, killing at least three people.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/GODgingermouse.jpg" width="494" height="434" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/ During my a href="http://gizmodo.com/5064854/spaceship-cellphone-makes-all-your-calls-a-blast"visit to Hong Kong/a, Brian showed me to a local design store called G.O.D. (Goods Of Desire), which kind of reminded me of a China kitsch-themed Urban Outfitters. When I get a chance to go back there, I'm definitely saving up some money for these laser mice, a a href="http://gizmodo.com/5046430/fresh-pics-of-collapsible-portable-microsoft-arc-laser-mouse"Microsoft Arc/a and G.O.D. mashup. Man, could you even tell computer mice were in the picture? Fooled me at first glance!/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/GODchessmouse.jpg" width="494" height="357" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"//p pThere's two G.O.D.-designed ARC mice for sale, one with a traditional Chinese tea pottery scheme and the other with an old-timey “mouse” drawing and character. Cute! Both use 2.4GHz wireless technology with a range of about 30 feet. Like the regular ARC, these can fold to half their size. No price was listed, but they're probably a tad more expensive than the $60 the regular ARC goes for. [a href="http://64.233.189.101/translate_c?hl=ensl=zh-CNtl=enu=http://www.qk123.com/content/index.php/pc/806-god-crossove.htmlusg=ALkJrhhd1B46aUC59pVSgkTP2NcRl-rhVA"QK123/a]/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/GODtwomouse.jpg" width="494" height="375" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"//p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9e4fc54b714f872cfcd66b85a4edc630p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9e4fc54b714f872cfcd66b85a4edc630p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9e4fc54b714f872cfcd66b85a4edc630" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=WncXKrAb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=S2DlqYaX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=zXxP39Na"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=zXxP39Na" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=K5fKEkls"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=K5fKEkls" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/Q-_59DvQe6I" height="1" width="1"/

A bomb has exploded on a passenger train in India's north-eastern state of Assam, killing at least two people.

An Indian official says a bomb blast in a train has killed at least two people and wounded 30 in India's insurgency-hit northeast.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=hkZ6o"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=hkZ6o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=Wb0XO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=Wb0XO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=0TpQo"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=0TpQo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=7qgdo"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=7qgdo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=ukXSO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=ukXSO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?a=QOjHO"img src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~f/CBSNewsMain?i=QOjHO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~4/472060393" height="1" width="1"/

Tuesday's blast was not seen as related to the Mumbai attacks.

p Plink. Plink. Tink. One billion dollars of up-front investment and it all comes down to this: a slow but steady trickle of milky white pebbles dropping from a funnel into an acrylic jar. The jar is locked inside a glass case that's inside a vault that's inside the high-security Red Area of a prefab aluminum building on the Canadian tundra. Every 24 hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year, miners for the South African company De Beers blast 3,150 tons of rock mdash; enough to fill 80 trucks mdash; from under the earth near this aluminum building and feed it into crushers, scrubbers, sifters, and x-ray machines. It's a lot of effort for a little, but the little is a lot: the equivalent of two coffee mugs a day full of rough diamonds. /p p Running a diamond mine in the Arctic is a mind-boggling undertaking. "This is a camp in the middle of nowhere," says Peter Mooney, manager of the processing plant at Snap Lake, "and a bloody horrible winter's day in Africa is the nicest summer day here. The real problem with diamonds isn't even their scarcity," he says. "It's that getting them takes a lot of science and engineering and lots and lots of money." /p !-- start article photo -- div id="embed"div id="pic" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_air_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_air_f.jpg" alt="" //a div class="zoom" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_air_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/zoom.gif" //a /div div id="caption" An aerial view shows the Snap Lake facility. br /emPhoto: Courtesy DeBeers/em /div/div/div !-- close pic -- p Fipke doesn't work for De Beers mdash; they're competitors mdash; but the Snap Lake project, just like the ones at Ekati and Diavik, is part of the new era that Fipke created. The only way in is by air on company charter flights, except for six to 10 weeks in winter when ice road truckers mdash; just like on the History Channel show mdash; cart in fuel, mining machines and haul trucks, dormitories and parts for generators, conveyor belts, explosives. /p p On a 4,000-foot gravel runway, commuter planes and 737s trade approaches and takeoffs with C-130 Hercules flights full of cargo. After my ATR threads its way to the ground, a yellow school bus picks me up and drops me at a snaking series of linked prefab trailers containing sleeping quarters, offices, and a cafeteria. I fill out forms. I agree to be searched at any time. I agree not pick up any rocks from the ground, even the smallest pebble. Hundreds of closed-circuit cameras watch my every move. /p p Snap Lake is unusual mdash; instead of blowing straight up to the surface, the magma followed a crooked path through fissures in the surrounding granite. Snap Lake's kimberlite is a 9-foot-thick, 2.5-by-1.6-mile seam angling slightly downward. It's also about 200 feet under a lake that's frozen most of the year. So all of Snap Lake's mining is underground mdash; a cold, wet, black world of rising and falling tunnels constantly leaking water from the lake above. /p !-- start article photo -- div id="embed"div id="pic" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_miners_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_miners_f.jpg" alt="" //a div class="zoom" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_miners_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/zoom.gif" //a /div div id="caption"Snap Lake miners work under the lake. br /emPhoto: Andrew Hetherington/em/div/div/div !-- close pic -- p The operation consumes 25,000 gallons of fuel a day mdash; and the work never stops. Miners drill holes in rock faces, insert explosives, and blow out over 1,500 tons of gray kimberlite per blast, twice a day. Trucks carry the ore to a large bin where it's stored. Then it's sent to a crusher that feeds the rock onto a mile-long conveyor belt that carries it to the surface, to the Blue Area, specifically a 5-story building of more crushers and sifters and shakers and screens and heavy liquid cyclone separators that pick out all the heavy ore. It's a roaring maze of steel grates and 60-foot staircases. /p p Eventually the conveyors pass into a more secure building-within-the-building, the Red Area. It's accessible only via a room the size of a closet; when the door behind me locks, cameras confirm that I'm alone. A green light tells me to proceed through zigzagging rooms that would be difficult to, say, kick a diamond through. /p p The ore passes down through another tower of sorters mdash; x-rays illuminate diamonds. A secondary (and secret) process uses lasers to further refine the stream. At the end of the line, past an 8-inch-thick steel door and a set of steel bars, is the vault itself, a small room with half a dozen cameras and a big, rectangular glass box shot with glove-lined holes, like an incubator for premature infants. Stones mdash; some the size of pin heads, others the size of gum balls mdash; drop into a jar. Sometimes five minutes pass with nary a gem, and then two or three tumble out at once. Over the course of a year, there will be 1.2 million carats. Some are opaque; some are as clear as glass. Of the 430 men and women working here, no more than 60 will ever see this vault mdash; or any diamonds. Ever. I slip my hands through the holes and into gloves, and pick up the biggest rock I see, a perfect 5-carat octahedral crystal three times older than the human species, formed during the age of the mastodons. A chunk of pure carbon, beautiful and banal. I ask how much it's worth. "Not allowed to say," Mooney says. "Put it this way: That's a hell of a lot of diamonds." /p !-- start article photo -- div id="embed"div id="pic" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_trucks_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_trucks_f.jpg" alt="" //a div class="zoom" a href="#" onclick="launchWindow('/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_diamonds_sb_trucks_f.jpgimageCaption=imageCredit=','1092','827')" title=""img src="http://www.wired.com/images/zoom.gif" //a /div div id="caption" Dumptrucks loaded with ore exit Snap Lake mine. br /emPhoto: Andrew Hetherington/em /div/div/div !-- close pic -- p Diamond jewelry has never moved me. But suddenly, holding this stone, I can't help it. I want one. The gears in my mind whir. And it's as if Mooney can hear them. "People get very clever," he says, "and very determined. We haven't had any theft here yet, but we check the gloves for holes every day." I gently place the stone back in the pile. /p p Exiting requires an additional turn into a room with an x-ray machine and a glass wall. Under the gaze of a man who says, "Don't worry, I've seen it all," I strip to my underpants, place my clothes and shoes and socks through the x-ray machine. Open my mouth. Show behind my ears. Sit in a chair and show the bottoms of my feet. Stand and run my fingers under the band of my underpants. There's only one hiding place left, which happily they don't check. I'm cleared and allowed to dress. /pbr style="clear: both;"/ a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:d011f686205262c6951fc33685b9bb46:a8pvoY0DF4w6AiLCDaPAxt4vcEJtvr5wJESgvBmhZizGdIwUswHdfQNGT0WMrv4ojgA5yCeDKy7W3Q%3D%3D'img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:1735cba2b691243040d240890798faea:5NRFEhJtG%2F%2F8WaCMCuPS%2F4RjNqb89d3oWFzueVglFjn1wsAbytlpHHl8XzVTjtNg41BQd3NxQV9w'img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:dc8729a9cfdd0557ca41dce4be2e075c:2CxMVa%2F06wsEm0VSsYE%2FCE1SkSz%2BXA1VhsMeuyIIPLpXdjBq3K9BXbQVcJ4ZOEwec2vUcRvFaVES'img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'//a a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:70ffb3fccb1fa0cdf92173d47ab87d7e:2M67At%2B4WlXawKkc8v5qSMyJqs1W%2BmVDtVF1w7XerfxYF1r%2Fc7E49pH6Pz6uWaHwwDnYF5Rlqbzi'img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'//a br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6a832ad5392e6b0ea888adebe9845e82p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6a832ad5392e6b0ea888adebe9845e82p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=6a832ad5392e6b0ea888adebe9845e82" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=1DnDqv"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=1DnDqv" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/472101284" height="1" width="1"/

A blast kills at least one Thai anti-government protester and wounds 20 others at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport, officials say.

A blast kills at least one Thai anti-government protester and wounds 20 others at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport, officials say.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed one anti-government protester and wounded 22 others at Bangkok's blockaded Don Muang airport on Tuesday, an emergency services official said.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=V704ToNB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=hJ4DBBhu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=hJ4DBBhu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=RSYfgSSO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=RSYfgSSO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/UkWDMt_Fg4c" height="1" width="1"/

pemsmallPhoto by stronga href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunggnus" target="_blank"Sung Kim/a/strong/small/embr /br /Given all the silly undertakings stronga href="http://www.weezer.com/" target="_blank"Weezer/a/strong have, uh, undertaken in recent months, it's easy to forget that Weezer are, at the end of the day, a band. A band which, like many bands, makes music. Too much music, as it turns out: as Rivers Cuomo stronga href="http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/weezer-raids-vaults-records-xmas-carols-1003917715.story" target="_blank"revealed to Billboard.com/a/strong recently, the veteran power-poppers are cooking up a little odds and ends collection tentatively titled, you guessed it, emOdds and Ends/em.br /br /According to Cuomo, this is "just another fun project. They're great songs, but for some reason they didn't make the final cut for [a] record. They span a vast period of time from the very beginning of our career in the early '90s right up to the present day." There's no word yet on a release for emOdds and Ends/em, but considering Cuomo's own stronga href="/article/news/146861-rivers-cuomo-talks-alone-ii-weezer-that-hair" target="_blank"emAlone II/em/a/strong clearing house comp just hit shelves last week, it may be a minute.br /br /Due much sooner according to Rivers are Weezer renditions of six beloved Christmas carols, including "O Holy Night", set to appear span style="text-decoration: line-through;"on a holiday benefit comp/span as downloadable add-ons for the iPhone game stronga href="http://tapulous.com/taptap/" target="_blank"emTap Tap Revenge/em/a/strong. Because nothing brings good tidings like you burying your face in some electronic gadget.br /br /But wait, there's more: Cuomo spilled the (pork and) beans on what could well prove a career-defining moment for the songwriter. Yes, Rivers has apparently written a song with teen pop sister act stronga href="http://www.alyandaj.com/" target="_blank"Aly amp; AJ/a/strong. Who knows when (or how) we'll ultimately hear it, but as Rivers told Billboard.com, "It was such a blast to remember how teenagers approach songwriting. Their minds just work so fast and they have no fear and no ego." We'll sound the alarm once he starts wondering about the clothes they wear to school, how they decorate their rooms, and, um, stronga href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ise4axZMDxo" target="_blank"yeah/a/strong.br /br /Weezer's camp couldn't confirm any of the above at this time, so we'll just have to take Rivers at his word for now./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/OqYKDPr9V7EAuV-jj66B_aJBbWs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/OqYKDPr9V7EAuV-jj66B_aJBbWs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/UJWZY5R7J4c" height="1" width="1"/

Total, the French oil giant, and four other companies are facing criminal prosecution over Britain's biggest peacetime explosion, the Environment Agency said today.

h4Soon to fry the unfriendly skies/h4 pUS aerospace globocorp Boeing is chuffed as ninepence today to announce the first full-power firing of its jumbo-jet-mounted, ICBM-toasting ray cannon - the Airborne Laser (ABL). The system saw "first light" in September, but this is the first time the big laser's knob has been turned up to full..../p

I guess when two out of three films in a franchise are an absolute blast to watch, you kinda try to get behind the odds that a fourth installment will fall somewhere in the middle between awesome and please don't let me see that again ... ever. After watching Beverly Hills Cop 3, I almost filed a police report convinced the filmmakers had committed some sort of crime against humanity. Now, with the next one, you'd think folks would have learned from earlier mistakes. Well, the fact that Brett Ratner is directing hasn't exactly bolstered anticipation -- but maybe the script is good ...

Speaking of, Latino Review managed to snag a draft of Beverly Hills Cop 4 (one they claim "the studio loves, but Eddie Murphy is not too keen on"), and they've slapped a C+ grade on it. Based on their description (which includes spoilers, so watch out), the flick looks to be a combination of the original Beverly Hills Cop and Hitch, with Axel Foley (Murphy) trying to figure out who killed one of his friends, all while helping his new, fat partner score with some girl he has a crush on. LR says it's a "pretty standard police corruption story", and it feels "like the writers took an Arnold Schwarzenegger script they had lying around and changed the details to make it a Beverly Hills Cop movie. There's no fun in it."

Good news is the script will probably change before a final product is shoveled into theaters. What do you think a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie needs in order to be successful with fans of the series?

Filed under: Comedy, RumorMonger, Fandom, Scripts, Remakes and Sequels

Permalink | Email this | Comments