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TGIF: Hilarious, Geeky Viral Videos

Anna Monette Roberts — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:13:35 PDT

Thank geeks it's Friday! Floppy disks, Facebook, IT, and Mario Bros are just a few of the targets of these five humorous geek videos. Click on the links to watch the videos, and share your favorite geek-themed viral videos with us in the comments.

Star Trek Brings Out A-Listers and Trekkies in Hollywood

PopSugar — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:15:00 PDT

The Star Trek premiere was the place to be in LA last night as tons of celebrities strutted their stuff on the black carpet. Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Eric Bana, Winona Ryder, and the rest of the cast looked gorgeous after many of them have been traveling the world to promote their film. Heidi Klum gave a wink and her best Vulcan salute, and we'll be seeing more when she talks about her pregnancy on Ellen this Monday. Leighton Meester showed off her legs and her new blond hair, and so many other stars like Hayden Panettiere, Neil Patrick Harris, and more celebrated the newest rebirth of the famous series.

To see TONS more photos, including Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Tori Spelling, Emma Roberts, Matthew Fox, and many others, just read more.

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Images include: Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Eric Bana, Winona Ryder, Tori Spelling, Heidi Klum, Leighton Meester, Amanda Bynes, Anna Torv, Anton Yelchin, Mark Valley, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Chris Pine, Christian Slater, Dean McDermott, Frankie Muniz, George Takei, Hank Azaria, Hayden Panettiere, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, J.J. Abrams, John Cho, Jon Heder, Karl Urban, Emma Roberts, Kendra Wilkinson, Kristin Cavallari, Leonard Nimoy, Masi Oka, Matthew Fox, Michelle Monaghan, Neil Patrick Harris, Nicollete Sheridan, Perrey Reeves, Rainn Wilson, Seth Green, Shawn Johnson, Simon Pegg, Sophia Bush, Steve Pate, Sumner Redstone, Zachary Levi, Zachary Quinto, Christopher Mintz-Piasse Source

Sugar Bits - Jolie-Pitts Donate $2 Million to Ethiopian Clinic

PopSugar — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:30:48 PDT

The Jolie-Pitt Foundation made a $2 million donation to establish an Ethiopian health clinic that helps children with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, modeled after their center in Cambodia. Brad released a statement saying they hope Zahara will take it over when she gets older. - Us Weekly
Brad Pitt and George Clooney's Burn After Reading debuted at the top spot in this weekend's box office, earning $19.4 million. The Family That Preys came in second with Righteous Kill at third place. - BuzzSugar
George Takei married his partner of 21 years, Brad Altman, on Sunday at a multicultural ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. - AP
Jennifer Hudson got engaged to I Love New York 2's David Otunga on Friday night in LA; the two have been dating for less than a year. - E! Online
Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace committed suicide and was found dead at his house in Claremont on Friday by his wife. - AP
Oprah is dedicating her show today to a Senate bill targeting child predators, urging people to write to their senators about the bill. - The Oprah Winfrey Show

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Sugar Bits - George Takei To Wed September 14th

PopSugar — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:30:16 PDT

Star Trek star George Takei and his longtime partner Brad Altman received a marriage license in LA yesterday, in preparation for their September 14th wedding. - E! Online
Joan Rivers was kicked off of British talk show Loose Women after using expletives to describe Russell Crowe. She then issued an apology saying she was "f-ing sorry" and hadn't realized the show was live. - People
Thousands of people came to D.C. yesterday to pay their respects to Tim Russert. Today's memorial service will be broadcast on MSNBC at 4 PM EST. - AP
Talk of the Screen Actors Guild strike that might begin July 1st has Hollywood executives delaying the start of movies and TV pilots. - Variety
Katie Holmes' Broadway debut is set for September 18th. - AP

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Buzz News Roundup, 10/3

BuzzSugar — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:34:53 PDT

Zap2It reports that an asteroid has been named after George Takei!
According to Variety, computers, photographs and proprietary information were stolen from the production of the fourth Indiana Jones movie.
There will be a fourth Fast and Furious movie, with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker probably starring again, Reuters reports.
If you want a spoiler on which "House" docs make the new team, you might want to check out this casting news from the Hollywood Reporter.
The season premiere of "Dexter" drew 1 million viewers, writes TV Week, making it the first Showtime premiere to go over a million.
NME has an exclusive interview with Radiohead about In Rainbows.
Molly Shannon will star as Kath, the mother part of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship in the NBC series "Kath and Kim," writes Hollywood Reporter.
ComingSoon reports that Kevin Dillon has signed on for the starring role in National Lampoon's "sword-and-sandal epic spoof" 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas.
According to Zap2It, Comedy Central has picked up a "Daily Show" spin-off focusing on comedian Demitri Martin.
Hulk Hogan will host NBC's "American Gladiators" revival, and the Futon Critic has the details.
Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has sold another script, this one a "female-driven comedy set at a college" titled Girly Style, writes Hollywood Reporter.

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"Heroes" Rundown Chapter 1: "Four Months Later"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:28:08 PDT

"The sun rises on a new dawn."

"Heroes" is so back! This week's season two premiere brought us right back to the lives of Claire, Hiro, Mohinder, Parkman, the Petrelli family and many more old and new characters. If I have any complaint it's that they crammed a ton of storylines into one season premiere. It was getting a little crowded for my tastes. And we didn't even see some of the old familiars at all, like Sylar, Niki, DL or Micah.

If you missed the episode and want to catch up on everything that happened, you can watch the full episode on NBC's website. For some of my thoughts and to share your own in the comments (spoilers ahead), then

So many people and heroes! We've got the Claire and HRG (whose first name we now know, but he will be HRG here) story and now Claire's boy West. We've got the stuff going on with Angela Petrelli and Hiro's father, and then Molly with her two dads, Mohinder and Parkman. Then there's Hiro himself and his "hero," the not-so-Japanese Takezo Kensei, and now there's the swordsmith's daughter to deal with. Next up we have the Honduras siblings, Maya and Alejandro, with Maya possessing a kind of violent power she can't seem to control. And finally, we have the Irish thugs who find Peter Petrelli with a fetching new haircut, chained up and looking frantic. Whew!
Claire and HRG continue to love being father-daughter. This week's episode brought us the scene that was filming when these pictures were taken. Will Claire and HRG’s relationship ever lose that whiff of incestuous desire? I think not.

I was about to write that I think that Molly is probably the most darling child on television... until she went crazy on Parkman. Also there's this: What is it about creepy kid drawings that scare the living daylights out of me?
First use of the word "hero" of Season Two: at minute 10, when Hiro meets Takezo Kensei.
Anyone else notice that Ando and Nathan bump into each other on the street? Were there other brushes between heroes that I didn't catch?
Mr. Muggles is back!
Nathan looks like a lumberjack. And not the sexy kind.
I love seeing Ando and George Takei again. It’s like seeing old buddies after a long absence. What? Do I watch too much TV or something?
HRG’s boss at the copy place has a douchey mustache to go with his personality. Also, this made me laugh: "The paper business is dog eat dog."
God is mentioned more than usual in this week's episode: first from Maya who says "God would not have done this to me without a chance for salvation," and then a Japanese woman leaving her ravaged village says "Is there no God to protect us?"
When I saw that West could fly, I actually thought to myself, "I wish my boyfriend could fly."
This stuff seems important: Hiro's father, Kaito Nakamura, says to Angela that there are nine left in The Company. He states that they are all very powerful and any of them could be leaving the photos with the "Godsend" symbol over the faces. Then, when Katio is attacked, he says "Of all of them, I never expected it would be you." I'm dying to know who it is! And I'm refusing to believe that Kaito is gone for good.

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"Heroes" Recap: Episode 17, "Company Man"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:29:34 PST

Whoa, whoa, whoa ... so much crazy action, my head's spinning. But first, one question about last night's "Heroes": Is Ted the caveman from the Geico commercials? Okay, moving on.

So Mr. Bennet - who was not Horn Rimmed Glasses up until three years ago, according to his flashbacks - joined the "paper company" thinking he was "comfortable with morally gray." To find out whether he really is, and for other spoilers,

read more HRG, turns out, has a heart and a conscience. To keep normals like Mr. Bennet honest, they are partnered with "specials" (aka heroes), so Mr. Bennet's first partner was actually Claude, the Invisible Man! Mr. Bennet and his boss, Thompson, discussed how people are fragile "like teacups" and don't want to know what's happening to them as a species. Thompson added that people certainly don't want to know the measures they take to keep people safe. Simone's dad's roof is a pretty important place, apparently. This is where Mr. Bennet took baby Claire out of George Takei's (!) arms 14 years ago and became changed "as a man." Hiro's dad is highly involved in whatever operation Thompson's got going and likes to wax poetic about the joys of fatherhood. Mr. Bennet was instructed to raise Claire and return her to the company when she "manifested." But once she got an indestructible hold on his heart, he just couldn't give her up. However, he didn't seem to mind killing off the Invisible Man when the Invisible Man was found to be "hiding" one of "them." Maybe this is that gray moral space he said he was so fine with. I wonder which hero the Invisible Man was hiding? And I wonder how he's not dead anymore? I guess Mrs. Bennet would have to believe in a God with her life the way it is: radioactive guys in her living room and a daughter who comes back from the dead. Miracles indeed. Now that we know people are killed when they know too much or when they are "hiding" heroes, it turns out Mr. Bennet having his wife's memory erased was for her protection. Huh. I never once believed that before. Also, I love how Mrs. Bennet is the only Texan in the show who has an accent. The others don't even try. At the Bennets' house, it's either give Ted answers and a cure, or face a nuclear disaster. He threatens to kill Mrs. Bennet if Mr. Bennet doesn't tell him the truth. In an intense, screamy showdown, Mr. Bennet "thinks" to Parkman to shoot Claire instead because she can regenerate, so he does! They carry the "body" upstairs, and Mr. Bennet explains to Claire that if anyone had known about her powers, he'd have had to bring her into the company; he really was protecting her. Parkman and Mr. Bennet go to the "paper company" and bring back some files for Ted to see, along with some tranquilizers. Mr. Bennet tells Ted that everyone was ready to kill him, but Mr. Bennet let him live. As Ted's pouting about how Mr. Bennet "should have killed" him, Thompson strolls in and shoots Ted! Then Ted freaks out, nuclearly, and Claire faces the blast and gives Ted the tranquilizer. I know, logically, that Hayden Panetierre is a pretty girl, but that Claire-with-radiation-burns made me puke a little in my mouth. The Haitian says he answers to someone higher up than Mr. Bennet in Claire's life. I wonder if it's Nathan or ... maybe Linderman is her grandpa! In the end, the Haitian and Claire run away together, and Mr. Bennet makes a major sacrifice for his Claire Bear - by getting shot and having his memory erased. This is particularly sad, because we got to glimpse his memory of when he first donned the horn-rimmed glasses, asking Claire how he looked, and Claire said, "You look like my dad." Ted is strapped down in what looks like Sylar's old cell, and Parkman will apparently now be a "special" partner for someone at the Company. Previews for next week's episode: Simone's NOT dead? But why???
UPDATE: I'm serious about this Ted/Geico Caveman thing.

Gay Star Trek Alum Tells Tim Hardaway: I Like You

GiggleSugar — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:00:00 PST

Former NBA star Tim Hardaway recently got into some hot water for proclaiming (and later apologizing for) a statement in which he baldly declared: "I hate gay people...I'm homophobic." In this PSA, George "Sulu" Takei more or less says he hates the sin, but he luvvvs the sinner.

Daily Tech: George Takei Wants to Be Spiderman

GeekSugar — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:58:51 PDT

George Takei auditions to play Spiderman on Broadway - The Mary Sue
Man finds kidney donor on Facebook - Switched
It's Ke$ha, sans autotune - Urlesque
Revisiting the mixtape - Unplggd
Sprint's HTC EVO View 4G to run Honeycomb - Crunchgear

Daily Tech: George Takei Offers Star Peace

GeekSugar — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:01:22 PST

George Takei asks Star Trek and Star Wars fans to join forces against Twilight - GeekTyrant
Inspirational photos adjusted for honesty - Cracked
Nintendo 3DS users get free WiFi in 42 airports - Tecca
Are your Facebook messages in hiding? - Newser
Virginia considers tax incentives for space burials - Geekosystem
Reverse sunglasses counteract SAD symptoms - Dvice