Donning full makeup, but dressed down a bit from the usual, the reality-TV star gals both sported cute workout get-ups of spandex and tennis shoes as they stopped for a java jolt at the Newsroom Café.
Earlier in the day, the Armenian sisters stopped by KTLA’s morning news show to promote weight loss product, Quick Trim.
And according to Kim’s Twitter page, because of Quick Trim, “Khloe has lost 25 lbs! I lost my last annoying 6 or 7 lbs!”
The newly dating couple looked loved up and happy to be together as they shared an intimate embrace before heading to the bow of the boat to catch some rays.
Just yesterday, the “Mad House” singer and her Los Angeles Dodgers beau were spotted in town checking out various shops, and even purchasing some authentic Mexican sombreros and masks.
In other news, Rihanna is looking to the future. She recently explained, “There is so much I want to do. I would love to try my hand at acting. I’ll hopefully be making movies and having something to do with fashion as well as making music in years to come. I just want to keep getting better.”
Leaving their brood of six children at home with tenders, the “Fight Club” stud and his “Wanted” lady headed out for a swanky dinner date in the Big Apple.
As previously reported by Gossip Center, Miss Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, recently dished out quite the pleasant gift to Brangelina’s children Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh.
Each little one got $100,000 in her will, although Pax, Knox, and Vivienne were left out – as Miss Bertrand hadn’t updated her will since 2006 and hence hadn’t included them.
Sometimes it’s the little things that count.
The most prominent feature of Firefox 3.6 is Personas, which let you reskin the browser with thousands of different looks. But my single favorite change is a subtler change to the open-source browser’s user interface.
Specifically, when you open a link in a new tab, it appears immediately to the right of the active tab. Before, the new tabs would appear to the far right of the strip of tabs.
Yup, that’s it. For those of us who spend hours a day in a browser, though, the new tab behavior helps group related tasks together. I constantly shuffle among dozens of tabs, and the new approach automatically brings some organization to my cluttered life.
However, I know it’s not everybody’s favorite browser behavior. So along with explaining why I like it, I’ll also take some potshots and share instructions on how to get the old way back.
Why it’s better
The more things I do with a browser–and the number has increased steadily for years now–the more important it becomes to be able to find different tasks amid the chaos. Microsoft and Apple understand this, as evidenced by the new taskbar features in Windows 7 and dock expose in Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. Those features make it easier to pluck out the one window you need from among the many you may have open.
There’s a pattern to how I spawn the dozens of tabs I use as a day progresses. On a variety of pages–Gmail, Google Reader, Yahoo Finance, somebody’s blog post–I’ll encounter a host of links to other pages. I’ll middle-click my mouse button to open interesting pages as background tabs, then use Ctrl-Tab to switch to the new pages when I’m ready. I repeat this pattern many times a day.
With the old behavior, each tab appeared to the far right of the tab strip. That’s fine when getting started, but when I’ve moved halfway across the list and want to open another batch, I want the new ones–call them children–to open next to their parent tab. When I go away and come back, or when I lose place juggling tasks, it’s easier to find my bearings again.
It’s like being in a library. When you’re in the European history section, you don’t want to find books on rewiring your house and on vegetarian cooking.
As a longtime Firefox user, I didn’t realize tab positioning could be better. When I started using Google’s Chrome, which introduced the new tab behavior to me, the scales were lifted from my eyes. I immediately could get to the next tab with a quick press of Ctrl-Tab on the keyboard rather than have to use the mouse to click over to the far end of the list. I use both browsers daily, but until the Firefox 3.6 beta arrived, the new-tab position had become a sore point for me when in Firefox.
The change is actually a big deal in a couple ways. First, even seemingly minor changes in software can be disruptive. Old habits die hard, and computer users wrestling with constant change can get angry when more is foisted upon them.
Second, though, browsers are assuming an ever greater role in what people do in their personal and professional lives, and keeping one’s bearings is commensurately important. That’s especially true for those people for whom a gaggle of browser tabs represents a collection of chores going on in parallel.
How the competition handles it
Tabs are now universal among browsers, but new-tab behavior isn’t. Firefox and Chrome handle it the way I like best, but how do others tackle the issue?
First, let’s look at Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft showed it understands some of the challenges of tab management in its latest version of its browser by coloring child tabs the same hue as their parents, but I have a gripe with how it works. Specifically, although child tabs get the same color as their parents for easy grouping and arrive to the right, grandchild tabs are the same color as child tabs. Similarly, grandchild tabs appear to the far right of the whole group of child tabs.
In my mind, I consider grandchild tabs a separate group from the child tabs. But with IE, grandchildren get the same color and position treatment as children. The only way to get a new color is to start a fresh empty tab There’s no easy way to give grandchildren a new color without causing some confusion, though–should the child be the same color as the original parent or change color to be grouped with the grandchildren?
Next is Opera, which gives users a choice. By default, it opens new tabs to the far right, which I don’t like, but in the Advanced|Tabs section of the preferences dialog box, you can check “Open new tab next to active.” Huzzah!
There’s a subtle change here I don’t care for, though. Tabs always appear immediately to the right of the active tab. I’d rather have all one tab’s children appear in sequence to the right. For example, if a parent tab is in position 1, then the first child would be in position 2, the second in position 3, and the third in position 4. Opening three child tabs in Opera leaves the parent in position 1, the third child in position 2, the second child in position 3, and the first child in position 4.
Last, there’s Safari. It does it the old way I loathe with no option to change. Too bad.
Neither a sequel to Bad Lieutenant nor a remake of it, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is, in fact, an entirely different animal than Abel Ferrara’s 1992 indie hit. And oh, what a strange, fascinating, ferocious animal it is. Take a film noir version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, run in through a kitchen garbage disposal, and you’ll get a sense of what this surreal comic masterpiece holds in store.
Directed by Werner Herzog, that German mad scientist whose varied oeuvre includes the underrated 2006 drama Rescue Dawn and the heartbreaking 2005 doc Grizzly Man, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, takes its predecessor’s premise of a corrupt, decadent cop operating on both sides of the law and uses it as a gateway to a frenzied world of unmitigated depravity.
Our chauffeur on this manic joyride through Hades is Nicolas Cage, showing utter contempt for subtlety in the title role of New Orleans detective Terence McDonagh. After suffering a painful back injury during the Katrina disaster, McDonagh graduated from prescription opiates to their illegal counterparts within months, and is a fully-functioning drug addict by the time we meet him. Twitchy, sweaty, occasionally delusional and prone to angry outbursts, he’s still the best damn cop in the entire Orleans parish — albeit one who steals items from the prop room, tortures elderly invalids for information, fixes college football games and shakes down perps for crack.
It’s a difficult enterprise, juggling a full-time police job, an all-consuming drug addiction and a temperamental hooker girlfriend (Eva Mendes), and the stresses of such delirious multi-tasking begin to wear on McDonagh. But even as his descent into madness gathers momentum (evidenced by nagging visions of imaginary iguanas), his determination to deliver justice the beleaguered citizens of New Orleans remains unfettered.
Any doubts that Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans is meant to be taken as a comedy will disappear during its climax, which features perhaps the most hilariously collection of rapid-fire deus ex machina moments in cinematic history. It’s the perfect capstone to this endlessly bizarre, wildly entertaining film.
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year is an upcoming Bollywood film directed by Shimit Amin and starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sharon Prabhakar and Gauhar Khan.This is Shimit Amin and Jaideep Sahni’s second film, after their debut film Chak De! India. The two worked together in that film as well. Ranbir Kapoor is playing the role of a Sikh in this film. The film is slated to release in December 11, 2009
Directed by Shimit Amin
Produced by Aditya Chopra
Written by Jaideep Sahni
Starring Ranbir Kapoor
Shazahn Padamsee
Gauhar Khan
Distributed by Yash Raj Films
Release date(s) December 11, 2009
Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, Madhavan and Boman Irani has gone on the floors. The film is loosely based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel Five Point Someone. The first teaser poster of the film is out and has a huge blackboard with mathematical formulae scribbled on it.
Work in progress
Sources reveal that Hirani doesn’t want to give away the look of his protagonists soon, which is why the teaser doesn’t have any of the actors in it. However, work on the film is underway and Hirani plans to wrap 3 Idiots by December.
Begins September
The source adds, “The shoot of the film with the supporting characters has already begun, Hirani and his team are in Simla and the film is scheduled to be shot in Ladakh, Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai as well. Aamir and rest of the cast will begin shooting in early September.”
Shantanu Moitra has given the music for 3 Idiots while the lyrics are by Swanand Kirkire.
Class is on
Apparently, author Chetan Bhagat was the first to see the poster and quite liked the final result. “Since the setting is that of an engineering college campus the poster had to have elements of a classroom.”
The poster has been designed by Rahul Nanda.
