Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The story behind the Christian Bale video

globeandmail.com: Batman goes Bale-istic <full story

Christian BaleChristian Bale can be heard in newly surfaced audio delivering a
long, profanity-laced verbal thrashing to a cinematographer and anyone
who tried to calm him down on the set of the upcoming

Terminator Salvation.


The three-minute clip was posted Monday Feb. 2 on the website TMZ.com.



In it, the actor who portrayed Batman in

The Dark Knight
rails against cinematographer Shane Hurlbut for apparently walking
behind co-star Bryce Dallas Howard and through Bale's line of sight,
considered a film-set foul.

Link to news story video

Link to the full rant on TMZ.com



Facebook Depression

New Illness: Facebook Depression? - ReadWriteWeb

This may sound like a joke, but it's not: researchers at Stony Brook University
in New York have found that too much Facebook usage can leave you more
prone to anxiety and depression...that is, if you're a teenage girl. In
a study, a group of 13-year old girls were evaluated by psychology
professor Dr. Joanne Davila and her colleague, Lisa Starr. A year
later, the researchers followed up with the girls, testing them for
depressive symptoms.

Doom doom doom! - The Recession and the Flames of Change

Montreal Simon: The Recession and the Flames of Change < read the full post.

... The International Labour Organisation predicts that another 50 million or so will join the jobless queues around the world, out of a world workforce of around 3 billion. The wildcat strikes at refineries and power stations across the UK, and anti-government protests from Latvia and France to China and Mexico, may be just the beginning of much more radical, violent backlash against globalisation.

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