Category: Celebrities

For quite a while now, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a prolific tweeter. But apparently the micro-blogging service wasn't enough for the former action star-turned-politician. According to The Los Angeles Times, Schwarzenegger has jumped on the Foursquare bandwagon. That's right; you can now see what restaurants, bars, parks and pretty much wherever else the Governator goes when he ...

It's hard to take Jose Canseco seriously these days. If all that steroid drama, or his recent attempt to become a mixed-martial artist, didn't convince you that he's, let's say, unstable, then take a look at some of his most recent tweets. Nobody knows exactly why, but Canseco unleashed some ultra-explicit rants on the Twitterverse Monday afternoon. Yes, his account is verified, and yes, he's ...

Since joining Twitter in February, late night host Craig Ferguson has been referring to his followers as his "robot skeleton army," "cyber bonies" and "Skellyborgs." The joke has taken on a life of its own as the 'MythBusters' robotic genius Grant Imahara has built, and on tonight's episode will deliver, Ferguson's very own robot skeleton sidekick. The bot, which the Scottish host has already ...

Everybody's favorite vice president and climate-change decrier Al Gore is asking YouTube users for some help this month. According to Mashable, Gore and his organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, are asking people to create videos that both describe the importance of going "green" and urge political leaders to change current climate policies. On Earth Day, which falls on April 22nd, ...

Late night hosts had a little fun at the expense of the iPad last night. David Letterman embraced his role as the crotchety, technologically illiterate uncle. He stared at the device like an ape examining a monolith and shook it like an Etch-a-Sketch before licking it in an attempt to turn on the screen. Later on, Letterman dedicated his nightly top-ten list to "questions to ask yourself ...

If there's one universal opinion about the series of Microsoft ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, it's that they were confusing as all get out. If Microsoft marketing strategist David Weber is to be believed, that was the whole point. In an interview with TechFlash, Weber explained, "We figured that that sort of obscure nature of the communications would make people lean in a ...

In the corporate pond of celebrity product endorsements, there are guppies, and there are belugas. After having already reeled in Ashton Kutcher, location based social networking site Foursquare may have just harpooned the Moby Dick of contemporary celebrities: DJ Pauly D, of 'Jersey Shore' fame. The Pauly partnership will test a new Foursquare feature known as 'Celebrity Mode,' which lets ...

Builder extraordinaire Ben Heck, renowned in the tech world for his amazingly creative and unique contraptions, has just put the finishing touches on a new, hilariously awesome pinball machine. Heck devoted his custom-made gaming masterpiece to actor Bill Paxton, who starred in the sci-fi classic 'Aliens' (although he may be better remembered for his masterful role in 'Weird Science' under ...

What do you get when you throw 'Mad Men,' 'Entourage,' and Steve Jobs into a blender, and hit purée? At best, you just might find yourself with a deliciously cutthroat blend of Silicon Valley satire and comedic (Ari) Gold -- which is exactly the aim of the developers of a new Jobs-based show. The forthcoming series, called 'iCon,' will be broadcast on EPIX, and will feature a lead ...

Congratulations to marketing mavens worldwide. You've gotten us talking. With iamamiwhoami getting international press, and with the viral nature of 'District 9' taking it from obscurity to an Academy nod, sneakily creative advertising methods are becoming the norm. So, at South By Southwest (SXSW), 'Repo Men,' director Miguel Sapochnik spoke about the necessary way films need to "extend their ...

If 2009, with 'Zombieland,' 'The Hangover' and 'Year One,' was the year of the popular awkward guy, then 2010 confirms our suspicions: geeky, comic-book reading, 'Star Trek' quoting nerds are officially cooler than Vince Vaughn's suave in 'Couples Retreat.' At the start of South By Southwest's film festival on Friday, the block-long line forming outside of the premier of Mark Millar's comic-book ...

A New York City Apple Store employee claims she was choked by 'Law & Order' star Richard Belzer. According to the New York Post, police were called to the Upper West Side store because Milan Agnew, 21, alleged that Belzer lunged at her, grabbed her neck, shouted "I need help!" and choked her. But after talking with witnesses and watching the surveillance video, New York City police determined ...

Share For over two months, music bloggers and journalists have been plagued by an intricate, creepy and riveting mystery: the identity of the mysterious and macabre iamamiwhoami. In December, a 55-second clip of a hyper-saturated, eerie (Scandinavian?) forest appeared on YouTube, making its way through critics' circles because of its catchy, pretty sounding music. No information was given, ...

Nothing about William Shatner has ever been exactly subtle. But with one nonchalant tweet last week, the Shat quietly entered into the social networking foray by announcing the creation of his very own site. Shatner's oh-so-originally-named MyOuterSpace.com is geared toward not just Trekkies, but to creative sci-fi aficionados of all shapes and sizes. A self-proclaimed "Sci-Fi Social ...

Share Silicon Alley Insider just published a rather lengthy investigation into the origins of Facebook. Specifically, it addresses the allegations that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for his social network from ConnectU, which he had been hired to help code. The report has also uncovered a pair of unsettling anecdotes that paint a less than flattering picture of its founder, including hacking ...