How funny would it be to see 30 people in a wedding party eat a bunch of food and then rush out the door without paying? That's what happened in an Austrian restaurant.
The group, consisting of the newlyweds and about 30 guests, suddenly got up before dessert and left, Austrian broadcaster ORF reported. On Tuesday, authorities succeeded in tracking down the happy couple, who claimed that the food and atmosphere had not been to their liking. For the innkeeper, that's hard to believe.
Before leaving, the group ate up plates of Wiener schnitzel, grilled meat and pork roast, ORF cited her as saying.
I can't imagine how they thought they could get away with that many people. Or that their lame excuse makes any sense if they ate the food. It'd be funny if they get to spend their honeymoon behind bars.
You're telling me that Will Arnett (Arrested Development), Will Forte (SNL), and Jenna Fischer (The Office) are in a movie directed by Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show)?? Sign me up! This trailer is hilarious. There's a version that's probably not safe for work on their website (the 18+ trailer). It only has minor differences, but there's a couple of extra jokes in there (and it's way higher quality).
Update: I almost forgot to mention, the movie comes out September 7th!
Looks like Redux beverages is renaming their "Cocaine" energy drink, at least temporarily. That's because of controversy about how it's being marketed as an illegal drug alternative, and also because of licensing issues.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter last month that said Redux was illegally marketing the drink as a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement. May 4 was the deadline for the company to respond. The FDA cited as evidence the drink's labeling and Web site, which included the statements "Speed in a Can," "Liquid Cocaine" and "Cocaine-Instant Rush." The company says Cocaine contains no drugs and is marketed as an energy drink. It has been sold since last August in at least a dozen states.
"Of course, we intended for Cocaine energy drink to be a legal alternative the same way that celibacy is an alternative to premarital sex," Ivey said. "It's not the same thing and no one thinks it is. Our product doesn't have any cocaine in it. No one thinks that it does. We think it is most likely legal in the United States to ship our product."
Ivey said the FDA did not order the company to stop marketing the drink, but officials were concerned about possible legal action. They will announce a new name within a week and hope to have the product back on store shelves within a few weeks. "What we would like to do is continue to fight to keep the name because it's clearly the name that's the problem," Ivey said. "What we can't do is distribute our product when regulators in the states and the FDA are saying that if you do this, you could go to jail."
Attorneys general in Connecticut and Illinois recently announced that Redux had agreed to stop marketing Cocaine in those states, while a judge in Texas has halted distribution there. The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection pulled 300 cases of Cocaine from state stores on April 23, saying Redux Beverages did not license the product as required by law. As part of the agreement, Connecticut distributors and retailers can return unused product to Redux for a full refund.
The energy drink is the first product marketed by Redux, which wants to keep the name Cocaine because it fits with the company's tongue-in-cheek approach, Ivey said.
"We like to think we have a great sense of humor," he said. "And our market, primarily folks from ages 20 to 30, they love the ideas, they love the name, they love the whole campaign. These are not drug users."
That last statement is ridiculous...it's not like they know if their consumers are drug users or not. Though obviously there's no correlation between the two.
While it's a bit ridiculous that they can't market the drink the way they are (after all, they're very clear that it's a legal alternative without drugs), it's still stupid for Redux to go with something so potentially controversial without making sure they had covered all their legal bases first. And it's obvious they hadn't.
This week we finally got an episode which went back to the basics. Bauer kicks a bunch of ass, CTU people dying, hostage situations, double crosses...just classic 24. Apparently the writers woke up with 3 episodes left in the season. In complete contrast to yesterday's episode of Entourage, I can't think of a single bad thing in this episode.
Well, maybe one. Who the hell does Nadia think she is? You just waltzed into CTU because of your hotness, and then got lucky and became director for something like 2 hours. You can't say no to Jack Bauer! He must still not be back to 100% Jack, because he would have slapped her and taken out the 2 guards without blinking in the old days. Instead he mumbles, "I can run tactical from here." Bullshit. Jack Bauer doesn't run tactical! The only reason tactical exists is to help further Jack's kicking ass. If he's running tactical, does he help himself? "Jack, I need you to open up a socket so I can send Jack the coordinates!" "I'm working as fast as I can Jack...the server's overloaded."
It seems like the plot's blowing up, but there's only two episodes left. Someone really screwed up the writing this season.
"You try to keep things interesting, find new ways to tell the story, and unfortunately we wound up repeating ourselves somewhat," David Fury, co-executive producer told TV Week. "I still would claim that regardless of the quality drop-off that people are saying, the show's still very strong. It's still one of the best things on television."
That said, the producer has stated that next season will change-up the formula. While I hope they do that with caution, this season makes it seem needed. At least they're listening to the fans. More on the change-up (with Kiefer's take on it) here.
There's one thing I realized when watching this episode...and I hate to say it, but Entourage is losing it's edge. It's devolving. Before I go on though, I'm still hopeful because with Amanda gone we may get a return to the original dynamic of the show that made it so fun to watch in the first place.
But with that said, I couldn't find a good thing worth mentioning in this episode. Even Ari's frantic behavior failed to entertain (and it's getting tiresome/overdone). I think the writers have got some kind of bet going on who can come up with the most absurd Turtle and Drama adventure in an episode. With the lack of Sloane and Vince acting the way he has been, E is really boring. Vince is unconvincing when acting out of his usual character's persona.
I clicked on the comments section of a blog recently, and it popped a new, smaller window to display the comments. The problem with that was clicking on links resulted in opening new tabs in the mini window, which was annoying. I have a widescreen monitor so I don't leave my browser maximised. I have it at a size I like, so there isn't a way to get the new window to that size without resizing it manually.
I did a quick Google search and found you can prevent Javascript from resizing your window. Thing is, this will only prevent resizing of your current window, not new windows. So then I dug some more and found a way to stop the new window from opening at all. Both of these are browser settings, so there's no need for a plugin. So here's how to do both changes:
Prevent resizing current window
Click on Tools->Options. Click on the Content section, and then click the "Advanced..." button next to "Enable Javascript." Then, uncheck the first box to disable resizing as shown below.
Prevent opening in new window (force to open in new tab)
With this method you can still open a new window by right clicking a link if you want. But it won't allow a new window to be opened when you don't want to, like when clicking on the comments section of a blog. Instead, it will open in the same window in a new tab, and the window will remain the same size.
Type "about:config" into the address bar without the quotes and hit enter. In the Filter box, type "newwindow" without quotes or spaces. The interesting values are the ones for browser.link.open_newwindow and browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction. The browser.link.open_newwindow tells Firefox to open links in new tabs if it's 3, new windows if it's 2, or the current tab/window if it's 1. The browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction is a bit different. If it's 2, it says to follow browser.link.open_newwindow unless the new window specifies how it should be displayed. In my case it was set to this by default. Setting it to 1 will make it allow Javascript to open new windows. And setting it to 0 will force it to follow browser.link.open_newwindow settings. You right-click and select Modify to change the default values.
So I set browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 and left browser.link.open_newwindow at 3, and it worked like I wanted. Everything opens in new tabs, and my window doesn't ever get resized. I can still open things in new windows if I want via right-clicks, but I prefer always using tabs.
It had so much potential, and while I was expecting a mediocre -to-good movie (like the last one), I was still expecting entertainment. It wasn't entirely disappointing, but there was a lot wrong with it.
Basically, there's a reason the percent of people that liked it on Rotten Tomatoes looks like this:
Spider-Man 3: 61%
Spider-Man 2: 93%
Spider-Man : 90%
Here's what didn't work: Apparently Venom makes Spider-man look emo. That was ridiculous. Who thought that would be a good idea?
Spider-man is supposed to be visibly affected by Venom. He acts rude and cocky because of the power and the influence of Venom. But that definitely doesn't mean he starts acting like he's living the 70's and starts creeping everybody out. This part of the movie had the entire audience laughing, and not in a good way. Everything about how his behavior was influenced during this portion (there's a specific part...in the rest of it he does act like he should) was completely ridiculous.
Sandman's sudden confession felt totally wrong. There wasn't enough to compel him to stop all of a sudden. It felt way too artificial. Suddenly everyone's dying/vulnerable and Sandman decides to play nice and give up? Please.
Kirsten Dunst singing? Should have brought some earplugs.
Tobey Maguire can't cry for shit. Seriously, it was laughable. Really, the audience was laughing. It was that bad. It didn't help that they made him cry all the time.
All that said, there was some good stuff that made the viewing worthwhile. Namely, all the CGI with Venom and Sandman was incredible. There is no question that these are some amazing effects.
Spider-man destroying Venom was amazing.
Spider-man's other love interest was hotter than Kirsten Dunst.
In a nutshell, the review from The New York Times put it best: "Aesthetically and conceptually wrung out, fizzled rather than fizzy, this latest installment in the spider-bites-boy adventure story shoots high, swings low and every so often hits the sweet spot, but mostly just plods and plods along."
This would suck if it happened to me, but it didn't so it's hilarious. Over 50 people got stopped for disobeying a traffic sign. Except the thing is the "No Left Turn" sign wasn't put there by police, and it disappeared later. Now one of the guys that got ticketed is taking it to court.
Rosen has 115 reasons to be upset. He was one of a dozen people to get a ticket. More than 50others were also stopped. "What I would like to find out is, who put the sign up and who took it down?" Rosen said.
No one knows. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said it's not responsible and the Orange County Traffic Division said it wasn't them. "That sign was installed at an exit to a shopping center. That means it was a private sign," said Ruby Rozier, Orange County Traffic Division. The company that owns the property was bombarded with complaints and put out a letter saying, "We did not give anyone approval to install a 'no left turn' sign."
That lack of responsibility has Rosen saying all the tickets should be thrown out. "If we could figure out who put the sign up and there was a valid reason for the sign to be there, absolutely pay the fine and be done with it," he said.
More infuriating, car after car can now go left with no penalty. "We are just not in a position to do any enforcement activity on it now," said Capt. Mark Strobridge, Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Hmmm...this seems really stupid. What does it matter who put the sign there? It's not like they knew at the time they ignored it. Just because they found out later doesn't mean they didn't obey a traffic sign. And this line: "More infuriating, car after car can now go left with no penalty" is laughable. I'm sure this is the only time a traffic sign has been taken down anywhere ever. How the hell does that have any relevance? If you run a stop sign and they take it down the next week you should get your ticket revoked? Nice try.
Last night the Daily Show did a segment on the retiring of Chief Illiniwek at The University of Illinois. Aasif Mandvi appears in Brothers and on Green Street (puking). He's pretty hilarious as usual... when they said the Chief would not be performing at games, he asked "What if the football team really kicks some ass?" See what I mean? Hilarious.
The Daily Illini has some pictures they took of the filming in this slideshow.
Ah, this is fantastic news. It's no secret that this season of 24 has been well under par as far as 24 seasons go. We've been talking about that on this very site weekly now. Characters have gotten overly soft, plots are getting recycled to such a point that it feels like very little in this season has been original. And I think none of that would even matter if Jack continued to kick ass, but there's been entire episodes where he was barely even a presence! So the fact that the producers have heard the criticism and are not just aware of it, but planning to do something about it is awesome.
After peaking in the ratings last year, Fox's thriller "24" has been getting dumped on by seemingly everyone in this, its sixth season. Critics and fans alike are aiming tomatoes at the stage, carping about the soapy and repetitive plotlines that unspool Jack's unlikely familial past, tiresome romantic triangles in the security bureaucracy and endless bickering among Oval Office advisors.
Last week, with a fresh episode designed to lay the groundwork for what the creators promise will be a typically suspenseful finale next month, "24's" ratings in the key young-adult category swooned to their lowest level in more than three years, with a total audience of just 10.4 million, according to figures from Nielsen Media Research.
More than one-third of viewers have bailed since the special four-hour season premiere that aired over two consecutive nights back in January. The vox populi protests have not escaped the attention of the show's producers, who promise that some big changes are on the way for Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) and other regulars next season.
"It hurts to hear the criticism," said executive producer and writer Howard Gordon, who spoke with me last week by phone as the cast and crew crashed to finish shooting the season's final episode, set to air May 21. "I don't dispute it's been a challenging season to write for us. But it's reinvigorated our determination to reinvent the show. This year could be seen to be the last iteration of it in its current state."
Oh, dear. Reinvention? That does sound ominous. But Gordon says not to worry, as Jack "won't be flipping burgers." "It won't be a musical or a half-hour," he added. "I've got a couple ideas, none of which I could even begin to share responsibly."
"24's" audience is getting noticeably grayer, typically a sign that a show is losing its purchase on the windy crags of pop culture. According to Brad Adgate, senior vice president at the New York ad firm Horizon Media, the median age is 47.4 so far this season, compared with 45.1 last year and 42 in the 2003-04 season.
Well, the fact that they know this season wasn't very good is some welcome news. And it's good to know they want to change it up without alienating the fans. Guess we'll have to wait until next season to see what changes are in store!
Basically, there's a reason the percent of people that liked it on 
