Obama and his middle finger.

Eddy said: After watching one of the episodes of "Lie to me" where the story points out the interesting note that people subconsciously use middle finger to rub/touch their faces when telling lies on views/opinions/feelings about something, the episode interestingly relate this to Obama fingers when he's talking about Senator John McCain amongst others. Check it out below:



And also Hillary?




What is "Lie to Me"?

'House' exclusive: The shocking story behind last night's big death

Eddy said: Another House, but this time the White House. Bravo dude.


DEFCON 1 spoiler alert! If you haven't seen last night's House, stop reading now. Everyone else, onward and downward!

Here are the six things you need to know up-front about last night's House:

• Yes, Kutner was the subject of my "suicide" blind item.
• No, his death wasn't a figment of House's Vicodin-impaired imagination.
• Yes, Kal Penn has left the show for good.
• No, he wasn't fired. He asked to go. (And man, wait 'till you find out where he's going.)
• Yes, this was the "cataclysmic" event that Hugh Laurie has been teasing all year.
• Yes, the trio at the center of this grim turn of events -- exec producers David Shore and Katie Jacobs, as well Kal Penn himself -- spoke to me exclusively about the surprising story behind Penn's exit, the decision to have the seemingly well-adjusted Kutner take his own life, and whether the tragedy will drive House-Cuddy and Cameron-Chase closer together or further apart...

Part I: Kal Penn

I understand it was your decision to leave House. True?
KAL PENN: Yes. I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House. I got to know the President and some of the staff during the campaign and had expressed interest in working there, so I'm going to be the associate director in the White House office of public liaison. They do outreach with the American public and with different organizations. They're basically the front door of the White House. They take out all of the red tape that falls between the general public and the White House. It's similar to what I was doing on the campaign.

Will you actually be working in the White House?
PENN: This particular office is in the executive building. The White House has two buildings: the actual White House and an old Navy building called the Old Executive Office.

Are you there as long as Obama's in office?
PENN: A lot of that stuff is up in the air. This is a relatively recent development.

Safe to say you're taking a huge pay cut?
PENN: Oh, yeah. There's not a lot of financial reward in these jobs. But, obviously, the opportunity to serve in a capacity like this is an incredible honor.

How long has this been in the works?
PENN: I've been thinking about [moving into politics] for a while. I love what I do as an actor. I couldn't love it more. But probably from the time I was a kid, I really enjoyed that balance between the arts and public service. I went to a performing arts high school, but I still took a bunch of those dorky political science classes. It's probably because of the value system my grandparents instilled in me. They marched with Gandhi in the Indian independence movement, and that was always in the back of my head. So the past couple of years I thought about it a little more. And in '06 I started this international studies program at Stanford, where they actually let you do most of the course work online. So it was something I could do while I was acting. And I thought this might be the right time to go off and do something else. The ultimate irony, of course, is that I love being on House. There's not a smarter group of people that I've been surrounded by in television. So I thought about it for a very long time before I went and talked to David and Katie.

What was that conversation like?
PENN: We had a very long discussion. And I remember David saying, "Are you telling me that you're unhappy with the show and that you want to leave so you can go off and do a different show?" And I was like, "Not at all. I'm actually saying the exact opposite, which is I'm having an incredible time, but there's something aching in me to do something completely different and take a break from the acting thing for a while." And with their blessing, we were able to work it out.

Are you retiring from acting?
PENN: Not necessarily. Who's to say where any path leads? I still have a passion for it. But for the time being, I won't be acting.

How did you react when you found out how they were writing Kutner out?
PENN: One of the things I love about our show is you never know what's going to happen. So that news struck me in the same way we hope it strikes the audience: there was a little bit of anger and some depression. You really go through those emotions, especially when somebody dies in that fashion. Ultimately, it was a really interesting choice for them to make. We don't really know why he did it, unless it's resolved in the episodes after [I left], which, of course, I'm not privy to anymore. At least in [last night's] episode, we don't really know why he did it. There's no note. There's no explanation. And as a testament to David and Katie, that's a huge risk. 'Cause it is going to make people upset, and it is going to piss off some of the audience. And, ultimately, in my opinion, that's what art really is -- when you can conjure up those kinds of emotions. And it's rare nowadays to be able to do that on network television, but they managed to.

Were you disappointed that you didn't get to shoot the requisite good-bye scenes with your co-stars?
PENN: From my selfish perspective, you want one last scene with Hugh, you want one awesome bantering scene with Peter, you want something where you and Olivia [Wilde] are doing a diagnostic together. But I had known a couple weeks beforehand [that Kutner would just abruptly commit suicide], so I was conscious in previous episodes of, 'Okay, this is probably the last time I'm going to get to do a scene with Peter, and this is the last time I'm going to be on screen with Robert.' And, of course, we're all still really close friends, so I've seen them a ton of times since I stopped shooting.

What were your emotions like on your last day?
PENN: It's always emotional when something incredible comes to an end. The feeling would have been very different if I was not enjoying myself, and if I didn't love the job. But because I loved the job and the character and the people I'm working with, I think bittersweet is the probably the best way to describe it. The contrast of knowing that I want to move on and do something completely different, with the incredibly violent and incredibly depressing thing that happens to my character... I think bittersweet is the only way to describe it.

Are you bummed you won't be around to experience firsthand the fallout from Cuddy and House having sex?
PENN: Do they really?

That's the buzz.
PENN: See, I didn't even know that. If that's the case, yeah, it's a bummer to not be involved in an episode like that. It's the emotional stuff that really gets the characters riled up, so if that's actually happening, it would be neat to see. [Pauses] Well, not see. To be part of scenes like that. [Laughs]

Part II: David Shore and Katie Jacobs

When did you first learn Kal was thinking of leaving House?
DAVID SHORE: It was very early in the process that he told us that he might [at some point] want to move on and work in politics. He has been involved in a number of other things [while working on House]. He worked very extensively for the Obama campaign and he's been teaching at Penn. Kal is a man with broader ambitions than the entertainment industry. So he spoke to us and said, 'I love the show and I love working with these people, but there are things that I would like to do.' And you sort of think, 'That's admirable, but there's no way he's going to do it.' This is a good gig he's got here.
KATIE JACOBS: As time went on, it was still on his mind. And then we took a writers retreat right at the beginning of December and David sort of had this "A-ha" moment about how to both free Kal up to pursue other things and, most importantly, service where David wants to go at the end of the season with House's story.
SHORE: The fact that it happened over a long period of time allowed him to pursue his goals as a human being, but also allowed us to make it work within the confines of the show.

So why not just have Kutner take a new job at a different hospital?
SHORE: The suicide was essential to [the story]. The lack of reason behind it -- the lack of answers -- was what I responded to and is what I got excited about. House, the man of answers, doesn't have an answer about this guy who he has worked with for two years.
JACOBS: And he didn't see it coming. It gets under his skin. He is the man who can't rest until the puzzle is solved. So the idea that he worked in such close proximity to Kutner and didn’t see it coming [was an interesting story to us].
SHORE: It makes him question the most important aspect of himself, which is the ability to find answers. It's the one thing about himself that he feels good about.

If anyone on House's team was going to kill him or herself, the likelier candidate would have been Taub (Peter Jacobson). Were you intentionally setting up a bait and switch?
SHORE: A little bit. But also, oddly enough, we wanted it to be a character who didn't make sense -- or didn't superficially make sense. Obviously, there are reasons, but the notion that the reasons are too complicated for even House to figure out is what was drawing us to it. I like the fact that Kutner is almost the least likely guy to do this. And it gets down to the issue of, "Do we know anybody? You work with somebody for two years, but do you really know them?"

There's an opening on House's team now. Will Chase or Cameron fill it?
SHORE: No, there's a different Chase-Cameron storyline coming up. We touch on it, but that's not really where we go with it.
JACOBS: There's fallout in every part of the hospital because of this. This will affect everybody.

Are you planning to fill the position?
SHORE: Not initially. It's not going to happen this year.

There are rumors that Chase and Cameron may be getting married. Care to comment?
SHORE: No. But [Kutner's death] does affect them as a couple. When somebody close to you dies under any circumstances, you take stock of your life and you want to go home and hug somebody. We worked hard to let everyone react [to the tragedy] in a different way.

Does it bring Cuddy and House closer together?
SHORE: The way House reacts ultimately brings House and Cuddy closer.

Any more cast changes looming this season?
JACOBS: This is the only one you'll see this season.

Okay, Ausholes: Take a few minutes to absorb everything you've read before... alright, minute's up -- react away in the comments section! Oh, and be sure to check out the eleborate memorial shrine Fox has erected in Kutner's honor.

Jackson's Neverland ends

POP's Peter Pan, Michael Jackson, has lost his fantasy Neverland mansion due to massive debt.

The controversial pop star, who created his fantasy escape on the sprawling central California ranch at the height of his fame in 1988, has transferred ownership of the property to a company that he owns jointly with the private equity firm which took over his $US24.5 million ($A38.4 million) debt on the property in May.

According to the Santa Barbara County Assessor's Office, Jackson sold the property for $US35 million ($A54.86 million).

Neverland will be renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch in an effort to revamp its image, tinged by the negative press surrounding Jackson's child molestation trial, which ended in his acquittal in 2005, website TMZ.com reported.

Jackson built a mini amusement park on the 1,100ha property, and invited thousands of children to play there before his trial. He has not lived there since his acquittal.

Colony Capital, which bought Jackson's loan after he missed several payments, also owns numerous Las Vegas properties including the Las Vegas Hilton.

The sale of Neverland to the company has fuelled reports that Jackson has signed on to perform his own headlining show in the city.

Kay Tse 謝安琪 - 囍帖街

囍帖街
作曲/編曲: Eric Kwok
作詞: 黃偉文

忘掉種過的花 重新的出發 放棄理想吧
別再看 塵封的喜帖 你正在要搬家

築得起 人應該接受 都有日倒下
其實沒有一種安穩快樂 永遠也不差
就似這一區 曾經稱得上 美滿甲天下
但霎眼 全街的單位 快要住滿烏鴉
好景不會與日常在 天梯不可只往上爬
愛的人 沒有一生一世嗎 大概不需要害怕

忘掉愛過的他 當初的喜帖金箔印著那位他
裱起婚紗照那道牆及一切美麗舊年華 明日同步拆下

忘掉有過的家 小錚沙發雪櫃及兩份紅茶
溫馨的光境不過借出到期拿回嗎 等不到下一代 是嗎

忘掉砌過的沙 回憶的堡壘
剎那已倒下 面對這 墳起的荒土 你註定學會瀟灑
階磚不會拒絕磨蝕 窗花不可幽禁落霞
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忘掉愛過的他 當初的喜帖金箔印著那位他
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Diablo 3

Damn it, we are still waiting for StarCraft2 and Blizzard starts to tease us with another one. :)

Amazon to launch streaming video

Amazon.com, the largest internet retailer, will launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks to augment its digital offerings, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.

Jeff Bezos, speaking at The Wall Street Journal's three-day D: All Things Digital conference taking place north of San Diego, did not elaborate, and a company spokeswoman would not provide more information.

The Seattle-based company has been beefing up its digital media offerings in order to better compete with rivals such as Apple, which dominates the category with the popular iTunes music download service.

Besides recently launching an electronic book reader, the Kindle, Amazon has been building a digital music store and now offers downloadable movies, television shows and videos on its website.

It also has a deal with TiVo, maker of the popular digital video recorder, that allows users to rent videos from Amazon's Unbox service and watch them on their televisions.

Amazon is not alone in looking at streaming online video, allowing viewers to essentially rent movies via the Web rather than download large files to store on personal computers or other devices.

On Wednesday, the chief executive of DVD-by-mail company Netflix, Reed Hastings, said the company is currently funding streaming video in order to "give us years of subscriber and earnings expansion." Hastings spoke at the company's investor day in San Francisco.

"Once we're in streaming ... we can attract well beyond 20 million subscribers worldwide," Hastings said.

Reuters

Stiletto sales go sky high as Paltrow kick-starts craze for towering heels

I like it :)




Gwyneth Paltrow was rarely seen out of a pair of towering heels in an effort to secure maximum publicity for her new movie Iron Man

By Jonathan Brown
Thursday, 8 May 2008


The actress Gwyneth Paltrow has made a career combining extraordinary glamour with equal measures of clean-living, down-to-earth charm. She is perhaps as well known for her appearances in films such as The Talented Mr Ripley and The Royal Tenenbaums as she is for her love of macrobiotic food, penchant for bizarre names (she and her husband, Coldplay's Chris Martin, called their daughter Apple) and her determined refusal to play the Hollywood superstar.


However, a recent spate of public appearances has shown the star in a new and distinctly edgier light as she has stepped out in front of the world's paparazzi sporting some of the highest heels known to mankind.

Her endorsement of six, seven, and even eight-inch elevations crafted by the design house Pacini has not only generated acres of coverage for her new film Iron Man, in which she plays the superhero's secretary Virginia "Pepper" Potts, but has spawned an unlikely boost for Britain's shoe shops as they fight the impact of the credit crunch. The phenomenon is already being described by some as the "Gwyneth-effect".

Selfridges said yesterday that it had seen a 35 per cent boost in its sales of so-called super-high heels, with stilettos now outselling flats by five to one. It is a similar story at Harvey Nichols, where well-heeled customers are reportedly willing to part with up to £1,000 for shoes of the appropriate dimensions.

Yet it seems that the screen siren is merely reflecting a deeper trend in the world's changing taste in footwear – one for ever more vertiginous heels.

Mike Bird has run Xtreme Footwear in Redditch for four years, selling everything from eight-inch ballet-heeled fetish shoes to comparatively demure three-inch silver strappy sandals. He also does a roaring trade in size 16 stilettos of the type favoured by much taller than average transvestites.

Mr Bird said he had seen his turnover double in the past 12 months. "The High Street shoe multiples have started to copy the heel heights we have here – chains like Schuh or Faith. There is no specific group buying these shoes. It is anyone aged 16 to 50 – anyone who is a follower of fashion or an extrovert personality." And he insisted that the stylish shoes were not just being bought for use in the bedroom.

It is a similar story in the United States, where the introduction of orthopaedic and athletic shoe technology has allowed women to walk in ever higher creations, though eight inches appears to be the outer limit .

It also seems that the wearing of high heels is no longer the feminist issue it once was. Dr Katherine Rake, of the Fawcett Society, dismissed suggestions that there was anything inherently controversial about what a woman wore on her feet.

"When you still have rape and the pay gap we really don't feel qualified to comment on a matter of such national importance," said Dr Rake.

With some commentators pondering the link between higher heels, shorter skirts and the worsening economy, it seems high heels are firmly back in fashion. And with the imminent arrival on our cinema screens of the eagerly–awaited Sex and the City film all matters shoe-like look likely to be standing tall for the foreseeable future.

Do...

* Take a taxi, or the Tube.

* Balance bigger calves with a chunky heel.

* Wear wedges to work. They are less likely to trip you up.

* Try before you buy. There's nothing worse than a blister.

* Carry plasters.

* Practise. On your own, where no one sees you fall on your face.

* Shift your centre of balance forward – you're less likely to stalk.

* Take a pair of flats. Just in case.

* Tower over the men. And enjoy it.

Don't...

* Walk further than 500 yards at once.

* Cycle. You'll become a traffic hazard.

* Walk on uneven surfaces. Especially grass, cobblestones and grates.

* Run. You're 99% certain to fall.

* Go over six inches if you want comfort.

* Go over eight inches if you need to walk at all.

* Team with a mini-skirt and low-cut top.

* Stride. Small steps are much easier.