The iPhone 4 lock-screen exploit bug that allows anyone to access information on your iPhone even if you have a passlock enabled is hopefully going to be fixed with Apple 4.2 iOS update.
The team over at BGR have been trying to circumvent the security with the new 4.2 developer release installed on an iphone with no success. So it looks as if the security bug has now been fixed.
However Apple has made no official announcement when it will be releasing the new iOS 4.2 update into the public domain. But going on past experience its normally around a week after the update has been released to developers.
If you’ve seen Kill Bill, you’ll know Uma Thurman as the Bride, as she viciously hunts her old allies turned foes down for revenge. God of War III is no exception – Kratos will stop at nothing to take vengeance on Zeus, ripping any opposing deities on Olympus to shreds in the process.
An avid video gaming enthusiast thus conjured up this clever idea. What do you get when you cross God of War with Kill Bill? Kill Zeus!
Simply put, it’s a God of War III fan made movie that mashes together key fights (and deaths) in the game to the main theme of Kill Bill, “Battle Without Honour or Humanity” by Tomoyasu Hotei. Couple that with some slick Kill Bill style freeze frames and effects, and you’ve got a fan movie just oozing with violence and pure coolness – and that’s not including the options for HD viewing. Check it out and drop a comment or two for the creator.
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I don’t think A&M Records knew what to make of Squeeze or how to market them when they first landed in the US in the late 70′s. It was a perfect storm of bad luck and timing that kept them off my personal radar, although my brother Scott was obsessed by them.
At first, they were known as “UK Squeeze,” probably because of some legal hassle, and that was how they were named on their first album. Second, it was the height of the punk movement, they came from the UK, so they were falsely lumped together with that whole lot. The first UK Squeeze album encouraged this image by not showing the band, but a washed out colored-in photo of a circus strongman pushing his thick arms together.
I witnessed America’s reception to them first hand — during my time at university in Buffalo, they were the opening act at the Memorial Auditorium (was it Blue Oyster Cult?) and they were consistently booed, with things thrown at them on stage. I think I even heard that keyboardist Jools Holland got his hand cut open from that nasty welcoming committee. And if Blue Oyster Cult was the headliner, what the hell was Squeeze doing on the bill?
Still, my brother Scott was playing “Take Me I’m Yours” and “Cool For Cats” over and over, and I promptly ignored it. I think the words that came to mind were “cheap” and “cheesy,” was these were low-budget recordings done on basic analog synths.
So imagine my surprise, post-graduation, running around in New York City, as punk slowly gave way to New Wave, that Squeeze got their budget upped and released ArgyBargy. WPIX-FM and WLIR-FM, the two brave local stations that spun a non-stop playlist of all this great new music, added “Another Nail In My Heart” to the roster.
Now, I could not avoid them and oh, they were a pop band! And I could not get that damn chorus out of my head now:
And here in the bar, The piano man’s found Another nail in my heart.
What sealed the deal was the follow-up single, “Pulling Mussels from The Shell.” My hats off to composinig team Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook for coming up with that title and not even bothering to create a rhyme for it. This second British invasion featured lyrics full of English slang, twist and turns (“the cricket’s creepy?”), stories about single punters running into trouble and drinking heavily, all in compact little pop melodies. Were these the same guys who barely survived leaving the stage in Buffalo?
ArgyBargy broke Squeeze and finally we all could see past the misguided attempts to sell them as a punk band or whatever A&M was concocting. From there, Squeeze built upon each successful album — they were a pop band, damn it, one of the best. And at some point, they had better make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
To bring the story full circle, Difford and Tilbrook reunited as Squeeze with two new hires, and toured the States in 2008. I bought tickets to one of their two sold out concerts at the Beacon on the Upper West Side, and my guest was my brother Scott, who had their number down all along.
How much adoration did these guys get? From the moment they hit the stage with “Take Me I’m Yours,” the audience never sat down, singing along to every blessed lyric. The band barely took a break, seguing from one classic to another for more than 90 minutes straight. And who should open up for them? A more appropriate booking — their brothers in pop, Fountains of Wayne.
Below, the official video of “Another Nail In My Heart” from 1980, and then fast forward to that 2008 reunion tour, where Squeeze stopped by the A&E cable TV show “Private Sessions” to do “Pulling Mussels From The Shell.”
Michael Crichton, (born October 23, 1942) is an American author, film producer, film director, and television producer. His best-known works are techno-thriller novels, films and television programs. His works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background.
Michael Crichton is a writer and filmmaker, best known as the author of Jurassic Park and the creator of ER. His most recent novel, Next, about genetics and law, was published in December 2006.
Crichton’s first bestseller, The Andromeda Strain, was published while he was still a medical student. He later worked full time on film and writing. Now one of the most popular writers in the world, his books have been translated into thirty-six languages, and thirteen have been made into films.
Crichton has won an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Writer’s Guild of America Award for ER. In 2002, a newly discovered ankylosaur was named for him: Crichtonsaurus bohlini. He has a daughter, Taylor, and lives in Los Angeles. Crichton remarried in 2005.
The Movie Geeks speak with acclaimed actor Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction, Born on the Fourth of July) about his new film As Good As Dead, as well as the remainder of his career highlights.
Plus, director Jeff Deutchman chats about his new film 11/4/08, a participatory documentary
that assigned various filmmakers from around
the world to chronicle the defining election day.
To stop a dastardly villain named Yaz (more about him later) from destroying the world, Agent Jay will go back to 1969 where he’ll team with a young Kay.
Duh…what? This might as well say… “We spent the last 8 years trying to come up with a valid story plot, and got nothing.”
Apple is even more important than we know.
Not only will a secret time-travel hub be housed inside an Apple Store, but one way to travel into the past turns out to be by shaking an iPhone’s clock app.
This wasn’t well thought out. Unless there’s a detail left out here.. wouldn’t this mean anyone who shakes the app would travel in time?
Regardless of my over thinking this detail. The first person who I see shaking their iPhone clock app making comments about they are about to travel in time..gets slapped.
More celebrities will be revealed as aliens.
A new film means new celebrities unmasked—Jimi Hendrix, Castro, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol and more.
This week we’ve got Jinny, Ross and Ryan joining me in a discussion of the new Scott Pilgrim film. We manage to avoid spoilers, I think! We also discuss the Scott Pilgrim game, the announcement of Bioshock: Inifinite, Fallout: New Vegas voice actors, more Borderlands DLC and a few other video game related tidbits. We’ve even got a track from the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack at the end of the show for you to check out. It’s a pretty great soundtrack overall.
