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Safe to say Thomas Harmon has an eye for great pictures. Check out what this Kansas boy is already capturing with his camera.

The laughs are cheap at the I-74 off-ramp in Davenport, Iowa. When the local comedy club shut down, stand-up comedian Don Hepner took his act to the people–in their cars as they drive by. Guaranteed to bring you a chuckle or two.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen had better watch their backs. There’s a new actress in town and she’s young, blonde, landing lead roles and shares their last name!

Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Olsen is the younger sister to the famous mogul twins (who also have an older brother, Trent, and two younger half-siblings, Taylor and Jake). She was last seen playing small roles in her big sisters’ direct-to-DVD films, but now Star magazine is reporting that the budding actress was asked to play the lead in the independent drama Martha Marcy May Marlene. In it, she stars as a young girl living with her older sister after escaping from a cult.

But that isn’t the only place you’ll see her. The relative newcomer is adding titles to her resume fast. She just finished shooting Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Catherine Keener, Chase Crawford and Jane Fonda.

Let’s hope there’s no sibling rivalry in the Olsen family!

Are you excited to see what Elizabeth Olsen brings to the actors’ table? Chime in below!

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See how the <I>Going the Distance</I> star has changed — from her cherub-cheeked early days to her status as a Hollywood golden girl

http://www.indesec-expo.com/

INDESEC is:

• India’s ONLY Homeland Security show officially supported by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

• Associated with ASSOCHAM who represents the interests of the trade industry and interfaces with the Government on policy issues.

• Proud to announce new country pavilions this year from Sweden, France, Taiwan and China.

(((I’m unsurprised to see Israel, Britain, USA, Sweden and France all burningly eager to soak up some Indian arms-and-security money, but I’d sure love to be a fly on the wall at that China booth. “Hi, we’re the Chinese at the Indian security expo! Salaam Namaste!” What are the Chinese selling there, one wonders? Maybe cheap surveillance equipment to help crush the Indian Maoist insurgency?)))

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05FOB-Consumed-t.html?_r=2

*Nice article.

*Just for the record, I think that human-parseable, human-written “stories” about objects are a rather small subset of a potential world of “spimes.” You’d need a lot of “micro-boredom” to mindfully concern yourself with the origin and destination of every object in your home — or even in your backpack.

*The cool part isn’t watching them all, but having the potential to watch them all.

Sending our thoughts and positive vibes to everyone in New Zealand affected by that awful earthquake!

Ha!

You gotta hand it to her – Khloe Kardashian has no problem telling people what’s what!

The reality star took to her blog earlier to address all of the people who put her down on-line, and in true Khloe fashion, doesn’t hold back for a second!

She writes:

“I am a little confused as to why people who ‘hate’ me so much follow my every move and know every last thing about me (whether it’s fact or fiction). It’s funny to me how these so called ‘haters’ can sit behind a computer screen and all of a sudden have courage. I most likely have seen many of you in person before and you have never said these things to my face. This is because you are a coward. You don’t have the guts. You are the ones that when we come face to face can only stutter compliments. Thank you for the ratings you give me on BOTH of my TV shows because based on the comments you leave on my page, it’s clear that you watch. So thank you to my haters! You truly are making me better. God bless. I hope you are proud of yourself. I am proud of you!”

Well said, bb!

She makes a good point, no?

What do U think?? Do U agree with Khloe’s sentiments about her haters??

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The final chapter of Tiger ’s short life story has now been written — TMZ has learned the aspiring dog model ’s body has been cremated … but not before leaving something special behind. According to Tiger’s owners, they had the Maltese’s adorable paw…

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Ellen Pompeo is putting her foot down over a growing Internet con-toe-versy … claiming a photo that surfaced recently — which appears to show the actress with 6 toes on each foot — is totally bogus. The photo in question ( top right ) seems to be an…

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The Shatner Project interviewed Actor/Producer/Director Jason Alexander on his appearance in Season 2 of Bio’s show “Shatner’s Raw Nerve.” We even got Jason to give us his best Bill impression. Check it out.

Season 3 of Raw Nerve will be coming later in 2010.

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Melissa Joan Hart has officially grown up. Best known for playing a teenager on the ’90s sitcoms Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hart has returned to television on ABC Family’s Melissa & Joey, and this time she’s not only playing an adult, but one who’s also raising two kids.

The irony? In Sabrina and Clarissa, Hart played a teen who acted like an adult. Now she’s playing an aunt who’s taking care of her niece and nephew and, well, acts like a teen herself. And that’s why fellow former teen star Joey Lawrence is also on the show — to act as her character’s responsible manny.

In her offscreen life, Hart, 34, has the mom role down pat. She and her musician husband of seven years, Mark Wilkerson, have two sons – Mason, 4, and Brady, 2. In an exclusive interview with iVillage, Hart confesses how she’s traumatized her kids (it involves Disneyland) and says which other former child star she thinks should be on the next season of Dancing with the Stars.

Growing up, did you ever have a crush on Joey?

No, because every time I ran into him, he was with a girl. Like a really hot girl that I was kinda like, "Well, he’s got her." I don’t think I ever had a crush on him. Plus, I didn’t see him often enough to be like, "We should date."

Joey’s also a dad. Who’s the stricter parent?

I think he is. I think it’s pretty consistent to the show. I think he’s actually a little bit more disciplined with his kids. He has very straight ideas on what he wants for them. I wasn’t raised in a sort of traditional way, but I think I was raised really well, but it’s hard to duplicate. I feel like I’m more trying to figure it out as the moment comes and he’s a little bit more, he knows what he wants for his kids.

When you were away from your kids during Dancing with the Stars, Mason wrote in a journal for you and you left sticky notes around the house for him and Brady. Is all that still happening?

The journal has kind of changed to me writing in a journal of all the things they say and everything they do that amazes me. They sit next to my bed and at night I write in their little journal about what they’re doing this week or what’s changed in their lives or what they’ve said that’s funny. Mason named all of his sea animals in the bathtub last week so I grabbed the book and wrote down all the names, like Melty the Sea Otter. And I’m actually late on one; I have to write one down that he said the other day. He told me that he loved me to inside the volcanoes of Mars and back, and then the next day he said he loved me to the rings of Saturn and back.

Last August you moved to Connecticut, but you’re filming Melissa & Joey in California, which you called a "killer commute" on Twitter. How are you managing the balance with your family?

I left them yesterday and I’m kind of still a little lost. I’m not really sure right now how this is going to go. And because of the nature of the business, it’s like next week this could all end, but it could go on for years, so you never know which way to plan. So right now we’re kind of taking it week by week.

Now that they’re on the east coast, are your kids excited for the change of seasons?

My son Mason will not wear a coat. It’s zero degrees out and snow’s up to his waist and he won’t wear a coat. Last year his school was like, "You have to send him with a hat and mittens and boots." It’s so funny because we always forgot something. They’d be like, "Um, he didn’t have a hat today. He didn’t have boots today. He didn’t have his snow pants today."

How are you feeling about Brady starting preschool this year?

I’m really relieved that I’m going to be home for that first week when it starts — I have that week off — because I’d be devastated otherwise. I’m really worried about him. He’s not like Mason. Mason’s very independent. If there’s kids or toys, he’s like, "See you later." But Brady is different. He needs an adult that he can lean on and whine to. He’s a little more needy and that worries me with going to school. But I think he’s starting to get over it so I’m really interested to see if it’s going to be as bad as I predict or if it’s going to be a lot easier. It really could go either way. And look, if my baby needs me, I’m going home. The show can wait.

Is Brady experiencing the terrible twos right now?

He is. He’s just got this mischief in his face. It’s crazy how he can look so adorable and yet be so mischievous at the same time. He and Mason just wrestle all the time and of course he usually ends up getting hurt. But he is a tough guy. Mark keeps saying he’s going to be a football player. He goes at things with his head, head first and dives in. Or he does this long jump thing where he jumps with his feet in front of him and lands on his butt. He is afraid of nothing. Mason’s at that age now where he’s afraid of everything. We kind of convinced him at Disneyland to go on Thunder Mountain by just telling him, "It’s just like a train ride." And he got a little horrified. When it ended he had this smile on his face and then it turned to tears and he’s going, "I don’t want to do that again." I feel like we traumatized him a little bit.

You’re doing the My Sweet Sunday Moment campaign with Pillsbury to help families reconnect on Sundays — what’s your favorite thing to do as a family?

In my life, everything is so all over the place that we try to have some consistency and breakfast is usually the way we do it. At dinnertime everyone is tired and a mess and you can’t get the kids to eat. But breakfast time everyone is hungry and mellow from waking up so it seems like breakfast is our best way as a family to spend time together. My husband’s a big cook.

How do you and Mark stay connected, especially with all of your traveling?

We actually found time on my last hiatus, four weeks ago — which was right before our anniversary — to go away to Rhode Island for like three nights, which is the first time we’ve gone away on a vacation together since we had the babies. We spent three days doing whatever we wanted. Eating a lot, sleeping a lot, watching movies, just kind of hanging out in a beachside cottage. We find our moments. Usually it’s at night after the kids go to bed.

What did you learn about yourself from Dancing with the Stars?

I think I learned that I’m not as competitive as I wish I was or thought I was. It didn’t mean as much to me as I thought it would. But I was pretty upset when I got booted off because of the way it happened and the week that it happened and who it was up against. I was a little disappointed. But I also knew I wasn’t doing my best. I knew I could do better. And it’s one of those things you don’t get a chance to ever prove yourself again. But at the same time I was glad it was over. I was ready to go home.

If you’re a parent, are you stricter than you thought you’d be? Chime in below!

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*These Greg J. Smith articles in CURRENT INTELLIGENCE have got it going on.

*Shipping containers are beloved objects in Architecture Fiction. Until you actually start hanging out and trying to live in shipping containers, that is. You know those metal mesh cages that people use to ship cats on airlines? Yeah. As dwelling places, shipping containers are a lot like that.

http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2010/9/2/shipping-containers-and-the-future-internet-of-things.html

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“Interaction designer Tom Igoe describes the dawning era of “networked objects” – the widespread deployment of simple electronic devices, “modules with simple, easy to understand interfaces” that can be used to build anything: “object-oriented hardware.” We need only look as far as the innards of an average smart phone for electronics components that are now being used to network shipping containers.

“ConLock and ContainerSafe are examples of a new breed of snap-on “peripheral devices” that offer a range of tracking, security and monitoring functionality. (((One wonders how many of these “breeds” there are, and if they can get any cheaper than radio-frequency ID tags for five cents each.))) These devices are equipped with onboard photoelectric sensors to monitor changes in the light level within a container (indicating that a container has been opened or breached), accelerometers that detect impact and GPS modules for location tracking. They’re also able to access GSM networks and SMS channels to send text or email alerts when waypoints are reached or anomalies occur. (((”Blogject.”)))

“All the sensor data is available to customers via proprietary web and mobile interfaces. This is presumably the direction that container tracking is headed: real-time logistics informatics, traditional supply chain management information dashboards. However, there are substantial technical challenges that stand between current methods of container tracking and the robust, universal solutions required to meet the needs of several disparate groups – labour, retail, international law and security.

“Over the past decade, there’s been speculation that a lack of standards for RFID usage has been a major stumbling block within the logistics industry. The ISO addressed these concerns earlier this year by standardising tag usage on freight containers, returnable transport items, transport units and product packaging. Presumably they will become the global standard in coming years, but given the rapid development of sensor and related web technology we can’t help but wonder whether they aren’t already antiquated. (((There ought to be some term of art for a “singularity” when technical innovation advances so fast that it becomes impossible for anybody to do anything practical. We may have already reached this state in American politics.)))

“For the future ‘internet of things’ and the real-time web, one initiative to look to is EPCIS, an information standard developed in 2007 by EPCglobal, a consortium of heavy-hitting manufacturers, retailers and defence contractors interested in data interoperability across various industries….”

We had SO MUCH good stuff to talk about!

In part two of our exclusive chat with Nicole Scherzinger, we talk about what went wrong with the Pussycat Dolls – in terms of the fighting amongst the girls and their somewhat acrimonious time together.

Plus, we talk Britney Spears, whom PCD opened for during her Circus tour!

And more!

Check it out (above)!

P.S. Damn you Scherzinger for bringing us those chocolate-covered macadamia nuts! We ate the whole can – and the other too as well!!!

A LOT of extra cardio for us!