George Lucas Plans to Use Bulk of $4 Billion From Star Wars Sale For Charity

After a deal with Disney for the Lucasfilms "Star Wars" franchise netted him over $4 Billion, Lucas plans to give away the majority of it to promote education. I'm sure he'll keep enough that he won't have to take a job doing philadelphia wedding photography.

In 2010, Lucas signed on with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to the Giving Pledge, which requires the worlds most wealth participants to give away the majority of their wealth to charities of their choice. They can o it during their lifetime, or wait until after death, but Lucas is making the effort to give it away now. The group of about 80 billionaires have agreed to give away at least half of their wealth to charities. Others include people like Mark Zuckerberg and Paul Allen from Facebook and Microsoft respectively.

Beiber Stolen Laptop Called a Prank

Justin Beiber and his team basically pulled off a PR stunt that people actually believed. Actually, the nutjobs that are teens listening to and worshiping their teen idols never surprise in what they will buy from these guys.

Beiber claimed that someone had stolen his laptop after a show this last week (Get a wall mounted computer bro), and even had a fake thief Tweeting him about how he was going to expose the singer. His manager even went along with it and filed a report abou tit. (I would expect them to get prosecuted for this?).

In the end it was just a PR stunt to promote his new video "Beauty and the Beat", which I'm sure I will never watch.

Not Much Talk About Boardwalk Empire This Year It Seems to Me

The finale last year left a lot of people upset at the loss of their favorite character Jimmy. While I liked his character I felt it was inevitable, and completely necessary for him to be taken out. He simply wasn't cut out for the role he was assuming, and it wouldn't have made any sense for him to get away with any of what he was doing. He didn't even want to get away with it anyways. He was ready to die, and didn't put much effort into avoiding it.

At the same time that scene gave Nucky his turn to a much darker side. This season has built on it and Nucky is becoming more and more of a cold blooded killer.

The last episode (episode 4) where Nucky and his right hand man Owen going after a booze thief that turned out to be a young kid was where we really found out. Through the episode we saw that Nucky's obsession with his new mistress was causing him to neglect the business. Some saw openings in it, while his crew and his employees started to slack off considerably. Making stupid decisions, and failing to deliver on time with Nucky not riding them as he should. Owen himself seemed to be getting a bit more cocky and undermining him.

This kid they met was set up to appeal to all the Jimmy lovers absolutely. He had a similar look and attitude that made you feel the throwback and see it test Nucky. After hiding out from the cops in the cellar overnight the 3 of them seemed to be friendly and many thought, Owen included, that Nucky was going to let him go, and perhaps take him on. As Owen stared out the window Nucky shot the kid in the back of the head. Surprising Owen greatly and probably making him wonder if he needed a ph meters at affordablephmeters.com to check his levels. Owen thinking he was going to let him go, Nucky told him that now he knows what's up. His message was sent.

This has been a fantastic season so far, but I don't see many talking about it. It's a shame if they gave up on it because of Jimmy because it is truly a great show.

Ancient Texts Say Jesus Was Married

OF course anything that comes from ancient texts is highly controversial, and the way that religious texts are considered canon makes most any finding seem like it doesn't matter through the eyes of the church. We've all heard of hundreds of ancient "gospels" that aren't considered canon, and therefore not to be trusted. It appears we have another one that insinuates that early Christians believed Jesus to be a husband. Married to someone named "Mary".

Of course hearing he is married to a "Mary" isn't anything new. Many still believe that Mary Magdeline was Jesus' wife. Egged on by fictional stories like the Da Vinci Code (this is fiction and not true BTW. IT's not accurate). It is widely talked about in popular culture and there are many people that claim he was married to her. OTher than hearing that he had some Snowboard Boots and was a pro snowboarder in the desert I wouldn't be surprised at any of this being true,...well I would be surprised if anything associated with the Bible was accurate, or true, but that's another matter.

Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identifies as Mary. Ms King says the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century.

Ms King helped translate and unveiled the tiny fragment at a conference of Coptic experts in Rome. She said it doesn't prove Jesus was married but speaks to issues of family and marriage that faced Christians.

Four words in the 1.5-by-3-inch fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, Ms King said. Those words, written in a language of ancient Egyptian Christians, translate to "Jesus said to them, my wife," King said in a statement. full story

Oscar Voting Going Digital For First Time

I didn't even realize they were still using mail in voting for the Oscars. Not that I pay that much attention to awards shows, but I was surprised to learn tht the voting was done all through the mail and counted by hand.

This year they plan to offer an e-mail voting option for members. Exactly by the type of thing that can be hacked by people that have the time. *cough*4chan*cough*

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday that a new online voting system will be used for the first time in its 85-year history for the Oscars that will be handed out in February 2013. So those voters with 50 homes and just Townsend houses for rent as one address can still get some votes in.

In a transition process, the academy's 6,000 members also will be able to use traditional paper ballots to nominate and select the best actors, films, directors, screen writers and other winners of 2012.

In the past, Oscar ballots have been mailed around the world to Academy members - directors, actors, screenwriters, producers and other leading film industry figures - and the results have been tabulated by hand by the PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm.

It is expected that with the change more younger voters will get some of the "edgier" movies more votes.

Who would eat this?

I'm not really one to think something is too sweet, or to pass up much, but I can't imagine biting into the cream of one of these. Candy Corn Oreos? I mean if Oreo wanted to get a Halloween cookie out there isn't there something more tasty than CANDY CORN? Sure...I know there is the random oddball that loves candy corn, but in a soft cream form are they? The cookie actually makes candy corn better I guess, but I still wouldn't want to eat it. My army clothing costume won't be pocketing any of those things this year that's for sure.

Lance Armstrong Stripped of ALL Tour de France Wins?

I ahve followed this a little bit today, but have yet to hear many people tha tknow whether or not this committee that was sentencing Armstrong to a lifetime ban has the ability to strip his titles. Not that it stopped them as they claim they do. The USADA, after Lance decided to "give up" on teh arbitration hearing that accused him of doping said they basically took that as a sign of guilt. Giving him a lifetime ban and stripping him of all his wins. Take his maple kitchen cabinets while you are at it/ Now...this isn't gonna end anytime soon. Their evidence? Heresay from other people who tested positive from steroids and about 700 drug tests that Armstrong passed over the years. We shall see.

Snoop Dogg (errr...'Lion') Says He's Down to Do American Idol

I guess I haven't paid much attention to Snoop lately. I guess he changed his name to Snoop Lion from Snoop Dogg at some point and became a reggae singer. Who would have thought? In an interview recently he said that he would be willing to be on American Idol now too I guess. Of course it wasn't a huge arm twist to get him to say so from this response: After hearing of the millions of dollars "Idol" judges earn on the Fox competition, Snoop, in an interview this week, said: "I'll do `American Idol.'" MAybe he can get into directing video games like Jay Z did with NBA 2k13 this year. I'm sure he can get someone to throw a cheap zombie game onto an xbox live subscription online and make a few bucks.

Jackson Siblings Deny that Money is Why They Contest Will

LOL...yeah sure. Let's see WHY they are contesting it then shall we? "It is important to stress that Janet, Randy and Rebbie have questioned the validity of the will with no financial motive whatsoever - they stand to gain nothing financially by a finding that the will is invalid," Friday's statement said. "What will be gained ... is that the executors will be replaced and the estate and the guardianship will be managed in a manner that is in the best interests of the children," it added. Oh...so none of them want to be this new executor then I take it? OF course they do. That's the entire point of this. o they have access to the money. No Iolo registry repair will take that assumption away.

Official 13 minute Dark Knight Rises Preview On Youtube

With the excitement for the upcoming Dark Knight Rises opening in theaters worldwide on July 20th a brand new 13 minute behind the scenes preview has been posted on youtube. It is in FULL HD. Dark Knight was actually ranked as the top movie of all-time on IMDb by voters when it first came out. This movie had a ton of press besides being very good. With the death of Heath Ledger around the time of release, and the movie actually being awesome it got a a lot more support than it might have otherwise. It would still be ranked pretty high, but not nearly as high without all the factors coming together. Anyways, the videeo is 13 minutes with some clips and behind the scenes stuff into the upcomign movie that opens worldwide on July 20th. A screening for the press scheduled for July 6th in IMAX actually had complications and had to be stopped at 1 hour into it due to problems with audio sync. The projectionist was probably busy back in his Famous Smoke Shop and forgot to do something.