Tuesday, July 20, 2010

People

Mila And Justin Watch People Their Age Head Off To Work

11:51PM Richard Lawson | [Kunis and Timberlake film Friends With Benefits in New York; image via Splash]
Print

The Long Road Back To September Issue Glory

11:08PM Hamilton Nolan | September issues are absolutely the thing for fashion magazines – a few short years ago, they were all competing to see whose issue could outweigh a watermelon. The last couple of years? Not so great. This year? Well…better, at least. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

For Your Consideration: Here Is A Dog Shouting ‘Batman’

4:12PM Jess McGuire | Thanks to reader Nat who has managed to make me feel a lot better about today’s internet connectivity debacle by sending me this glorious video of a dog saying ‘Batman’. More »
Music

Badly Drawn Boy – “Silent Sigh”

2:42PM Jess McGuire | I am such a sucker for this song. In fact, both of Badly Drawn Boy’s first two albums – The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast and the soundtrack to the Hugh Grant film About A Boy – still have a strong effect on me when I remember to listen to them, although I never remember to listen to them enough. More »
People

Oh, Goodness: Lindsay Lohan’s New Lawyer Robert Shapiro Quits

1:15PM Max Read | Lindsay Lohan’s latest lawyer, former O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro – whom she hired when her previous lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, fled screaming into the mountains – met with Lohan’s judge to say he “could no longer represent her”. [TMZ]
Small Screen

Jersey Shore Cast, MTV Near Deal For ‘Close To’ $30k Per Episode

10:58AM Max Read | The heroic Wobblies of Jersey Shore may have just executed a successful strike: MTV will reportedly make a deal for somewhere near the cast’s initial demand of $US30,000 an episode. Solidarity forever! Bread and roses! Bread and roses! [THR]
Online

The Unlikely Rise Of Tumblr

9:17AM Ryan Tate | Microblogging startup Tumblr has cracked the internet top 50, yet remains impossibly twee. Hipster magic!
Flotsam & Jetsam

YouTube Clip Of The Day

8:34AM Jess McGuire | I have one word for you, fans of Japanese celebrity cats… MARU! More »
Print

Hardcover Books Will Now Be Forgotten, Thanks To Your Kindle

7:37AM Brian Moylan | Amazon.com reports that, for the past three months, sales of ebooks for their Kindle device have outpaced sales of hardcover books. They sold 143 Kindle downloads for every 100 hardcover. Yeah, but can you use a Kindle as a doorstop?