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Lauren Conrad is deulsional, thinks Ryan Gosling made a pass at her

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What would you do if Ryan Gosling hit on you? Would you A) Run straight over to your D-list boyfriend and whine about it or B) Take your clothes off and whisper “Take me, now, Ryan Gosling!”? If your answer was B, congratulations, you’re normal. If your answer was A, then you suck Lauren Conrad. According to Radar, Lauren Conrad was complaining to her boyfriend Kyle Howard that Ryan Gosling was trying to hit on her. Radar even has Lauren saying “Who does he think he is?” Uh... Lauren, honey, who do you think you are? That’s not all, though. Apparently, Kyle and his D-lister buddies got their panties in a wad and started chanting something about going to find Gosling to beat him up. Douchebags.

File this under one of the more bizarre conversations we’ve overheard:
Lauren Conrad and boyfriend Kyle Howard were whipping themselves into a frenzy Thursday night at Deluxe, where we just happened to be an earwitness.

Lauren claims that Ryan Gosling tried to hit on her and she told Kyle, “Who does he think he is? I’m with you. I would never…” At that point we couldn’t stop listening and Kyle said: “I know baby, if I was there I would have set him straight.”

But sadly, that wasn’t the end of it. Kyle then started chatting with a friend and suddenly there was testosterone in the air, and a lot of it. “Let’s go find Ryan Gosling. Let’s beat him up,” one of them said. And yes, it was funny that they kept calling him “Ryan Gosling” instead of just Ryan.

Of course we have no idea if Ryan Gosling did hit on Lauren, we only know what we heard. And there are many who would say if he did hit on her she should be flattered!

[From Radar]

“Suddenly there was testosterone in the air, and a lot of it.” Why do I think Ryan Gosling could have taken Kyle Howard and all of his little friends with very little effort? Oh, right. Because Ryan is awesome. And lovely. I can’t even imagine the audacity of someone complaining because Ryan Gosling might have hit on her. But, you know, I even doubt that. Ryan does seem to have pretty good taste in women, so it’s possible he just asked LC if she knew where the bathroom was and she was all “Oh my God, gross! I have a boyfriend, you know!” What a twit. Instead of wasting any more time on LC and Kyle, let’s just think about how lovely Ryan is...mmm...

Here’s Lauren Conrad leving Bar Delux in Hollywood last night. She looks like the type that’s easily grossed out, doesn’t she? Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline and Images thanks to INF Photo..

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Megan Fox & Zac Efron go on a “date”

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According to Celebuzz, Megan Fox went on a “date” with High School Musical’s Zac Efron Tuesday night. They went to Pace, “an upscale restaurant in Los Angeles’ woodsy Laurel Canyon neighborhood.” It can’t be that upscale if Megan Fox and Zac Efron were there, but nevermind that. There were a few rumors about Zac and Megan back in January, when someone somewhere saw the two of them in the same vicinity. After the rumors were spread, Megan was asked about her opinion on both Zac and Robert Pattinson. She told Elle UK, “Robert Pattinson and Zac â€“ they’re just too pretty with the big hair and the suits. And Rob is, what, 22? Zac is 21? That’s a joke. Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they’re immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.” Looks like Megan has changed her mind, if this “date” is any indication:

Did Megan Fox just go on her ultimate dream date?

The 23-year-old stunner shared an intimate dinner with Zac Efron on Tuesday night at Pace, an upscale restaurant in Los Angeles’ woodsy Laurel Canyon neighborhood, Celebuzz can exclusively report.

A fellow diner revealed, “They were very friendly and their faces were close when they talked.”

It’s no secret that the Transformers 2 actress has had a thing for the 21-year-old High School Musical heartthrob for quite some time. As we reported back in January, the two flirted at the Golden Globe Awards, raising eyebrows at an after-party.

Megan has even said, “What you don’t know is that Zac and I are the same person. It’s like Janet and Michael [Jackson], we are the same person.”

Was this just a dinner between two mega-hot friends? Or something more complicated?
It could be much trickier for him than for her.

Megan, for one, insists that she’s absolutely unattached, while rumors continue to swirl that the undeniably sexy actress is dating co-star Shia LaBeouf or possibly still together with ex-fiance Brain Austin Green. Zac, on the other hand, is pretty serious with long-time girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens.

[From Celebuzz]

Yeah, in the past few weeks Megan has been photographed in a series of faux-seductive poses or “candid” paparazzi shots with Shia and Brian. Many think that Megan was just doing the Shia stuff for Transformers promotion. Some thought that she was probably nailing both Brian and Shia. And now Zac? It’s too obvious. Even “Bob Hollywood” over at Vanity Fair is calling Megan’s play “the oldest trick in the Hollywood book”, and no, he’s not calling Megan a prostitute:

At the London premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Ms. Fox (who really sets off my wow-meter, let me tell you) denied being romantically involved with Robert Pattinson. A few nights later, she supped with co-star Shia â€˜Don’t Call Me Sleepy’ LaBeouf at Nobu in Manhattan, fueling intense speculation about her love life.

Boy oh boy! This is the oldest trick in the Hollywood book. I feel like I’m back in the days of Hy Gardner, Hedda Hopper, and Louella Parsons! This is how the old studio bosses used to do it. You promote a picture by sending your leading lady out on a “date.” You have her deny something that wasn’t even a rumor to begin withâ€”making sure that the thing she is denying involves another rising star. And you make double extra certain that the tabloids are there to drink it all in.

Frankly, I’m sick of it! Sick of being used! O.K., I’m not really sick of it. I don’t really care, in fact. This is how the game is played. And for all I know, Megan and Shia are enjoying a nice roll in the hay right now in some Malibu bungalow. Which is their right. Hell, I know I would do the other one, if I were either one of them, if that makes any sense.

[From Vanity Fair]

So, basically Megan is still with that loser Brian Austin Green, who doesn’t mind that his girlfriend is pretending to “date” or “bang” multiple guys to promote her movie. Who is the joke on exactly? Oh, right. Us.

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What's Next: Obama gives 'Einstein' the go-ahead, while China gives 'Green Dam' a thumbs-down

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By Angela Gunn and the Betanews Staff, Betanews

What's Now | What's Next main banner Seattle nerds are hereby ordered to appear in costume and with a canned-food donation in Fremont at 6:00 pm PDT today (Friday) to help set the world record for largest gathering of lurching zombies. (Zombies and silly world-record attempts: It doesn't get geekier. Xbox 360's even co-sponsoring, for pete's sake. Also, BRAAAAINS!) The pyrotechnicans among us are enjoined to keep safe.

Federal judge admonished (and that's all) for explicit material on personal site

The 21st century, believe it or not • Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, legendary for concluding his opinion in a certain high-profile free-speech case with "The parties are advised to chill," has been reprimanded after a yearlong investigation for having various explicit (but legal) photos and videos on his family's Web site.

The panel had investigated claims first made in the Los Angeles Times stating, according to the decision yesterday, "the "website" -- http://alex.kozinski.com -- included 'a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows,' 'a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal,' and 'a graphic step-by-step pictorial in which a woman is seen shaving her pubic hair.' Regarding the alleged public accessibility of the 'website,' the article reported that the Judge 'said that he thought the site was for his private storage and that he was not aware the images could be seen by the public, although he also said he had shared some material on the site with friends.'"

Friends? Oh, well...With apologies to the jurist, who once called blogs "hateful things", we link to three for the more interesting coverage of the decision. Law.com explains the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals' reasoning. Ashby Jones at The Wall Street Journal (its Law Blog, in fact, but shh!) reached Judge Kozinski for a quote and reports that he is "pleased that today's unanimous decision reaffirms what I have said all along about my private files: They were kept on a private server and were not intended to be shared publicly." And AmLaw Daily, which does a nice job of explaining how a disgruntled lawyer started this particular ball rolling, links to the 41-page opinion, originally filed last June 5.

Californians gain access to database of lawmakers' votes

June 16, 2009 • MAPLight and the California First Amendment Coalition have prevailed in one of those lawsuits you can't believe anyone would have to file in the 21st century: Announced only yesterday, they've settled a freedom-of-information lawsuit against the Office of Legislative Counsel of California. And what do they win, Johnny Olsen? Why, a machine-readable database of state lawmakers' votes, upgrading the previous plain-text dump on the California Legislative Information site.

The two groups filed suit in December 2008 after repeated requests to the Office of the Legislative Counsel for access to the database used to create the previous plain-text site, which was clunky and very hard to search. Since then, the OLC has stepped up its game, launching a Web site that indeed provides the data -- to the two public-interest groups or anyone else visiting the site -- in a structured and machine-readable format. Thus propitiated, the CFAC and MAPLight.org withdrew their suit. Going forward, MAPlight will combine the legislative database with data on donations to California legislators, in hopes of daylighting the connections between money and political capital. And both CFAC and MAPlight will be keeping an eye on the next big legislative database, known for now as "Inquire."

Conviction stemming from MySpace suicide tentatively overturned

July 2, 2009 • There's a difference between not being convicted of a crime and being found innocent of doing wrong. Daily Kos, covering what appears to be the conclusion of the Lori Drew case, accurately states that the decision is most likely a win for free speech on the Internet... and now, please, may the grown woman who tormented a fragile 13-year-old experience "nothing but pain and anguish for what she's done." Other pertinent words in the piece by AmbroseBurnside include "vile human being," "disgusting," "people we hate or abhor," and "a true victory for all of us who love the freedom the internet allows and want to keep it safe from more government intrusion."

Would Albert have really signed his name to this?

July 2009 > Once again, AT&T is crawling into bed with the NSA to screen computer traffic.

Last May, President Obama made an explicit pledge not to use federal government resources to spy on private Internet users. "Protecting this infrastructure will be a national security priority...[which] will not include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic," the President said at the time. "We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans."

Despite that pledge, as first reported by the Washington Post this morning, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters that her department would proceed with a plan initiated by the Bush administration to screen Internet content, with the help of carriers such as AT&T, but presumably in a manner that would protect civil liberties.

The "Einstein 3" plan would, among other things, route Net traffic from civilian agencies through a monitoring system designed to parse for attacks or other intrusion attempts. The Obama administration has been figuring out which pieces of that system they mean to keep. Privacy advocates have been briefed, and say there's a lot of work to do to make this system work.

Green Dam is offline and China is on the fence

Perhaps no time after July 1, 2009 > The Chinese government hasn't given up on the Green Dam project, but between diplomatic protests, inadequate notice to manufacturers, and no strategy for controlling Mac or *nix machines, Beijing appears to have put the stewpot back on the stove.

The Chinese government has not issued any new statements on the matter since June 30, although multiple sources are reporting that PC manufacturers have been allowed to go ahead with their plans to install the "Green Dam for Escorting Children" filtering software on their systems if they want to.

The question is now, do they really want to, especially in the wake of last month's University of Michigan security report from Prof. J. Alex Halderman and his team, who discovered that Green Dam may not only be un-authentic but could cause a greater security problem than it solves.

"We examined the Green Dam software and found that it contains serious security vulnerabilities due to programming errors," Prof. Halderman's team wrote. "Once Green Dam is installed, any Web site the user visits can exploit these problems to take control of the computer. This could allow malicious sites to steal private data, send spam, or enlist the computer in a botnet. In addition, we found vulnerabilities in the way Green Dam processes blacklist updates that could allow the software makers or others to install malicious code during the update process. We found these problems with less than 12 hours of testing, and we believe they may be only the tip of the iceberg."

Loretta Chao and Ting-I Tsai, writing for The Wall Street Journal this morning after weeks of great coverage of the situation, aren't so sure that by "postponement," China's IT ministry means "doing this within our natural lifetimes." Chao and Tsai noted that "obfuscating" by Chinese officials in the press could mean that the project's simply headed for permanent limbo.

Jammie Thomas-Rasset will appeal RIAA case

Apparently until hell freezes over > Think about it: Based on trial outcome, Ms. Thomas-Rasset is a less sympathetic defendant than Lori Drew. Copycense beats its collective head against the desk on our behalf.

Asteroids: The Movie

Coming in 2010 to a theater near you > Cue the Jerry Goldsmith music, and the Genesis effect creating a brightly-colored planet. The "Universal" letters come into orbit and the cloudless planet settles into place. A triangular ship comes into focus, fires little white pellets into it, and blows it into pairs of smaller planets. First two, then four, until the screen is full of them.

How much do you want to bet? Seriously, as The Hollywood Reporter first reported, some of the team who's bringing you the GI Joe movie this year is working on a script for Universal next year for the film adaptation of the immortal Atari 1978 coin-op game "Asteroids." No casting has been done yet, and no plot points have yet been revealed (or probably yet even created).

You think it even needs a theme song? Or just BOM-bom-BOM-bom-BOM-bom-BOM with a siren or something in the background?

Friday's tech headlines

The Register

• Police serving in the UK's Crown Prosecution Service are being encouraged to prep for court testimony by doing research on Wikipedia.

• Apple may just keep coming at Psystar with the lawsuits, but the Mac-clone maker is on its way out of bankruptcy and refuses to lie down: "When life gives you apples, make applesauce." Oh my.

• Apple has applied for a patent for software that'll help bad karaoke singers improve their grasp of pitch and key. Alert Stockholm.

San Jose Mercury News

• The next time someone tells you that bloggers can't also be serious journalists (good morning, Judge Kozinski), you tell them about Alison van Diggelen, the proprietor of Fresh Dialogues. She's not making money from it, but her brand of interview-based environmental coverage is professional in just about every other way that matters. Mike Cassidy tells her story.

• Clean tech took a beating like everything else during the recession, but biofuels, better batteries, and the like saw improvements in venture-cap funding during the quarter just ended -- and confidence in the sector is up too, Tracy Seipel reports.

Washington Post

• Prisons in Maryland hope to cut down on inmates' mobile-phone communications by jamming signals near the facilities, but there are legal and technical consequences. Henri E. Cauvin has details.

Los Angeles Times

• The Performance Rights Act, which would put over-the-air radio stations on the hook for paying royalties to artists (as well as composers, which they do now), is making those stations nervous. More on that in a minute -- but first, 22 straight minutes of commercials and three replays of the latest Beyonce single!

• Some products just don't sell outside the brick-and-mortar environment: Hershey, the chocolatier, will close its online store as of July 31. There are closeout discounts over there if that kind of thing interests you.

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Brace Yourselves! “Asteroids” Headed For The Big Screen

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Universal grabs film rights to Asteroids

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The seventies coin-op is hitting the big screen

It was released in 1979, featured monochrome vector graphics and had no plot or back-story. Yet Universal has just secured the movie rights to Atari's arcade mega-hit, Asteroids - apparently after a four-studio bidding war. According to Reuters, Matt Lopez, veteran of Race to Witch Mountain, will pen the 'script'.

This is, of course, only the latest in a recent spate of bizarre licensing announcements. Films based on seventies toy Stretch Armstrong, classic boardgame Monopoly, bubble gum character Bazooka Joe, and pen-and-paper timewaster, Battleships, are all in various states of production. With rumours currently floating about that a film based on the Viewmaster children's toy is also being planned, it seems no piece of nostalgic ephemera is safe from the Hollywood machine.

So which golden age videogames do you think should be next in line to receive movie immortalisation, and who would star and direct?

Here are three to get you started...

Tempest, 1980
In a universe of vector-based infinite space tunnels, experience a journey like no other. Dennis Quaid is the embittered space pilot sent on a desperate suicide mission to save vector-based humanity. Darren Aronofsky directs.

Frogger, 1981
In a world of traffic chaos and natural disaster, why did the frog cross the road? From Pixar Studios comes this heartrending tale of a little critter with a big problem: making his way home over a five-lane highway and an alligator infested swamp. This touching eco-drama features the voice talent of Jack Black as the plucky amphibian hero and Morgan Freeman as the diving turtle.

Q*Bert, 1982
In a world of cube-based pyramid structures, only Q*Bert can change the colours and defeat the forces of evil. Directed by the Wachowski Brothers, with Zac Efron as the fluff-covered bipedal hero.

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The Power Of In-Between Technology

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Fast Company:

Why Redbox is the biggest movie-rental company you’ve never heard of? Its secret: the power of in-between technology.

Redbox — founded in 2002 as a division of McDonald’s and purchased by Coinstar this year — runs 15,000 machines in stores across the country and plans to have about 20,000 in place by the end of the year. Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix, the innovative darling of the movie-rental business, has called Redbox one of his most challenging rivals. “It’s really scary,” Hastings told The Hollywood Reporter in March.

Redbox is convenient and it’s cheap, but the company’s fortunes also rest on a more sophisticated calculation about the marketplace. Ask any entertainment bigwig where the movie-rental business is going and you’ll hear one thing: digital streaming. Amazon, Apple, Netflix, the cable companies, and many startups are gearing up to send every movie to your home on demand.

But Hollywood’s byzantine licensing structure precludes that from happening anytime soon. Redbox has positioned itself as the perfect in-between technology — the next best thing to on demand. It’s winning by being in more places than Blockbuster and faster than Netflix.

What’s surprising, though, is how much wizardry goes into making Redbox work. Each machine is connected to the Internet via DSL or a 3G cellular modem. This lets customers browse and reserve movies at their local Redbox through the Web, and return movies they rent from one Redbox to any other.

Each machine packs a sophisticated inventory-management system that determines how many copies of different new titles to order based on past performance of similar movies at that location. The kiosks send their inventory orders up to the mother ship every week, and Redbox’s technicians fan out to each kiosk to stock it with new DVDs.

“That’s the most interesting part — where technology meets old-fashioned field distribution,” Lowe says.

Continue Reading: “The Power Of In-Between Technology”

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Movies: Public Enemies, Johnny Depp and Bette Davis

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NATHANIEL ROGERS

Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience.

It’s Fourth of July weekend at the movies. What better way to celebrate than with that most patriotic of film genres: the gangster movie. I kid, but it’s definitely true that disreputable types that you would never ever want to associate with in real life have never gone out of style as film heroes. Perhaps it’s the abstracting distance of reel life that makes them attractive?

TAKE ONE: Now Playing

Michael Mann, one of Hollywood’s most relentlessly masculine auteurs, has always been drawn to violent men. He brought us Hannibal Lecter’s debut in Manhunter (1986), colonial savagery in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), corporate thuggery in The Insider (1999) and the gun play of Miami Vice (2006) ...it’s what he does. His new film PUBLIC ENEMIES, recounts the last year of John Dillinger’s life as a notorious bank robber during the Great Depression. It begins with a huge title card stating "1933". Not for Mann, any fears about today's audiences not (generally) flocking to period dramas. But with one of the most dependable superstars in the world headlining, why worry?

Johnny Depp plays this "Public Enemy #1", and Mann surrounds the star with a huge cast of fine character actors as well as other dangerous famous beauties like Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Marion Cotillard and even Channing Tatum as "Pretty Boy Floyd". Don’t get excited about the latter... he isn’t long for this film’s world.

Bang Bang. My Baby Bale shot him down.

Aside from the title card, costumes and the recurring use of the classic "Bye Bye Black Bird" song, there's not much that feels period about Public Enemies. Mann's swift footed digital camera work is jarring at first but once you’ve adapted, it reveals its own distinct harsh beauty, lending the film a strangely modern feel. Plus the antihero (and also Johnny Depp) hold timeless appeal.

MORE, AFTER THE JUMP...
...on Public Enemies, new lesbian films, gay superheroes and the enduring appeal of Bette Davis

Public Enemies has a couple of thrilling action setpieces but it's a little too detached emotionally for a drama. If you don’t like Mann’s other movies, you should steer clear. It’s a bit opaque in its characterizations, purposefully I think, with all of these dead-eyed men staring at each other with spoken (or unspoken) threats. The dialed back emotion is a huge plus for Christian Bale who’s been leaning too hard on the intensity lately --he's finally effective again as the quiet agent in pursuit of Dillinger -- but it doesn't always work for the movie as a whole.

Henchman: Who cares what the public thinks?
Dillinger: I do.

Despite its heavy tone, there is some light riffing on celebrity and the business of going to the movies itself. Public Enemies has two substantial scenes set within movie theaters and both are a lot of tense fun. If Michael Mann cared as much about entertaining the masses as John Dillinger by way of Johnny Depp seems to, this film would probably have a good chance of breaking out. As it is, it will find both ardent fans and bored detractors.

Which will you be?

TAKE TWO: Bonus Features

What's that you say... Alice in Wonderland has two mommies?

Mia Wasikowska, the "Alice" in Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland, can now call two of Hollywood's greatest actresses "Mommy". Julianne Moore and Annette Bening will play life partners who've raised two children in the new feature The Kids Are All Right. Mark Ruffalo will play the sperm donor their now teenage kids want to meet. Out filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art) is writing and directing. Both Moore and Bening have played lesbians before onscreen, albeit suicidal ones. Hopefully 'The Moms Are All Right' this time around.

Have you seen the West Side Story spoof Web Side Story yet? It'll be out of date any minute what with all its twitter, Facebook and Pandora references, but it's funny and they even get a dig in about e-Harmony's rejection of gays.

Two more superheroes have come out of the closet in comic book pages. Shatterstar and Rictor are both part of the (heavily populated) X-Men universe. Apparently Shatterstar's original creator is not pleased with the outing and plans to undo it if given a chance. There are so many superhero movies these days. How long until we get a major gay character in one of them?

San Diego Comic-Con is holding a "Slave Leia Squad" (for girls only), in which hundreds of women will be donning Princess Leia's famous gold metal bikini costume for a photo shoot. Why deny drag loving or transgendered Star Wars fans their due? Leia is legion at conventions and if more is truly merrier let the boys and the MTFs play, too.

Movie stars talking about the King of Pop. Steve Martin remembers moonwalking and Jane Fonda pontificates on the icon, his fear of aging, and her own confusion about their 80s friendship.

Did he want me to be his â€˜older women’ friend. He gravitated to older women. For solace? Succor? A beard? ...I never could quite figure it out.

Olympia Dukakis is going to headline the roadtrip comedy Cloudburst, about lesbians who escape their nursing home. One assumes the producers are hoping that Steel Magnolias fans everywhere turn up en masse. I'll give them a tip: Get Shirley Maclaine for a cameo and the reunion of Ouiser and Claree ought to do the trick.

Tonight in San Francisco, they're premiering a new documentary called Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis. We hope no critics declare it "a dump". Gay fans, film historians and drag entertainers like Peaches Christ are interviewed in the film.

And here comes the awkward tie off to this week's cinematic roundup! Bette Davis was a contemporary of John Dillinger himself (Public Enemy #1). While he was robbing his last banks in 1933 she was beginning her ascent to legendary stardom in Warner Bros pictures (the studio then celebrated for gangster pictures). She won her first Oscar a year after his death for Dangerous. Like the famous bank robber now embodied by Johnny Depp, she knew how to sell the public on her criminal cool. They wanted her to get away with it.

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