Social Media is Controlling Everyone's Lives

A study showed that among half or social-media users say that they check Facebook and/or Twitter from bed at night and/or as soon as they wake up in the morning. 16 percent of users say that these social media sights are how they get their news for the day, rather than watching the news. More than 50 percent of social-media users report that they need to check Facebook at least once every day. More than 10 percent say that they have to log on every few hours. One in three respondents will take a message during a meal, and one in fourteen respondents would take a message during sex.

Green Day Coming to Rock Band

Harmonix and MTV have announced that Green Day: Rock Band will be released for PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 will be worldwide on the 8th June. The game includes over 40 minutes of video from interviews and features 47 tracks. Some songs include "Brain Stew", "Jaded", "Hitchin' A Ride", "American Idiot", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams". All 47 tracks can be exported to play Rock Band 1, 2 and the forthcoming third installment, while the six songs already available on DLC on the Rock Band Music Store will work in GDRB, complete with added vocal harmonies and other exclusive material.

ASHKANS A STAR!

Everyone should watch the musical stylings of Ashkan Hashemi. It is beautiful like the main star. His musical talents should at least win a grammy. Here is the best video ever of ashkan:

http://www.youtube.com/user/maftohy

Marvel Comics Television

RTC23 Inc. has now just created Marvel Televisions. Roundtable Concepts Inc is now launching RTC23, Marvel Comic LCD and LED HDTV's. The characters consists of Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Wolverine, Thor and others. The Characters appear on the casing but when you power on the TV, the name and the character appear on the screen for approximately 8 seconds making it the "Ultimate Comic's Fan's TV."

Oscar Winners

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges

Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz

Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock

Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'Nique

Directing: Kathryn Bigelow

Animated Feature Film: Up

TiVo's new remote

TiVo has now come out with a new remote. It's half keyboard, half remote. The keyboard is for when you have to put in a word and to use it for a faster way to enter a name.

Zoolander 2!

Ben Stiller has now confirmed he is doing a sequel for the 2001 comedy hit, Zoolander. He has said before that he had always wanted to do another movie for Zoolander, but never could and is now delighted to be making a Zoolander 2. Stiller said, "I've been trying to get Zoolander 2 together and we've had a few scripts. I feel that the sequel I really would like to do some day because I like the original and I would make sure it was something new and worthy of it first."

Microsoft'S First LG Phone 7 Series

Microsoft just came out with a new LG Windows Phone 7 Series. The Qwerty Slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world has ever seen. The hardware and software are both obviously early though. The Qwerty is a little bit thinker than the iPhone or Nexus One. There is a hardware camera, volume, power buttons in addition to the back, home, and search buttons. The camera is a 5 megapixel camera with a flash on the back, along with a headphone jack.

Olympic Medals

The most medals won at the olympics were from The United States. Then Germany following The US, with the rest in order: Canada, Norway, Austria, Russian Federation, Korea, China, Sweden, and then France.

Olympic athlete dead at 21

A Georgian luge slider competing at the Vancouver Olympics, Nodar Kumaritashvili passed away while training and hit a metal pole. He was only 21. On Friday night's Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, a moment of silence was observed to honor him and his fellow Georgian Olympians wore black armbands in his memory. Before the tragic event, he told his fater that he was terrified of the track. Kumaritashvili was supposedly traveling at speeds greater than 90 miles per hour at the time of the crash.