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Dec. 28, 2010

Movie Trailer of the Day: The Other Woman, Don Roos’s long-shelved story “of a woman’s difficult relationship with her stepson,” gets its first official trailer.

The film, which stars Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Lauren Ambrose, Charlie Tahan, and Lisa Kudrow, will be available via IFC VOD starting January 1, with a limited theatrical release to follow in February.

[deadline.]

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Dec. 28, 2010

Site is down due to DDoS. We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.—an exclusive club!

moot, via the 4chan status page.

[status.]

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Morning Links:

Dec. 28, 2010

  • Million Dollar Money Drop host Kevin Pollak: “They never had a chance to win that money. Ever.”

[photo: reddit.]

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Dec. 28, 2010

Damn Nature U Pretty of the Day: Lightning researcher Joseph Dwyer of the Florida Institute of Technology used a 1,500-pound homemade x-ray camera capable of snapping ten million images per second in order to capture the first x-ray images of a lightning strike.

The images were used to determine that a lightning bolt’s x-ray radiation is collected entirely in its tip.

[natgeo / thd.]

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Dec. 28, 2010

    • Clutch: Scarlett Johansson Hits The Beach With…Woody Allen?!?

      [photo: reddit.]

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      Dec. 28, 2010

      Nerdy Nesting Dolls of the Day: Homemade Christmas presents are all too often a death knell for joy, unless you happen to be Molly Lewis’s boyfriend, in which case you’re in for a treat: A 12-piece Doctor Who nesting doll set, hand-painted with love.

      [@molly23 / slashgear / h/t: buzzfeed.]

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      Dec. 28, 2010

      Know This:

      • RIP: Elmo Gideon, renowned painter and sculptor, dead at 86. Also: Andy Warhol’s brother John Warhola, at 85.

      Read This:

      Look At / Listen To This:

      The Other:

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      Dec. 27, 2010

      Wedding Invite of the Day: Trevor and Larissa run a wedding photography studio, so when it came time to send out their own wedding invites, the theme was a no-brainer: Handmade invitation film rolls.

      [petapixel.]

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      Dec. 27, 2010

      TV Show Promo of the Day: First official look at the Steven Spielberg-backed, Noah Wyle-fronted alien invasion series Falling Skies, which is set to premiere on TNT in June.

      Synopsis:

      Noah Wyle (ER, TNT’s The Librarian movies) stars as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force.

      [nyp / io9.]

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      Dec. 27, 2010

      Another Tee of the Day: The True Story” by Vincent Bocognani.

      This isn’t normal — but on mushrooms it is.

      [threadless.]

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