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I think I found the following via Digg: M&M’s ‘Find The Horror Movie’ game. While I’m generally not into horror movies (my eega, in fact, is), I was still able to find 27 out of the 50. Probably peanuts for the movie (horror) buffs among us, but still fairly well for someone who, well, like um. Me.

Some interesting things: I don’t think ‘Alien’ is well-represented, if compared to ‘Twin Peaks’ (which you should be able to find rightaway). There are some no-brainers in there too (‘Pumpkinhead’ for example) or, what that giant fly in the background.

Update: Ha! Make that 30 out of 50!

Deep buried somewhere on the Toshiba site the following (official) announcement:

Sony is one of the suppliers of battery packs used in some Toshiba notebook PCs. We have investigated with Sony whether those PCs that employ the subject batteries are affected with the same problem that caused the recent recalls issued by Dell and Apple, and have found that the system design and the protection system of Toshiba notebook PCs differ from those of Dell and Apple

I’m curious about how the protection system differs. And while this is good news for Toshiba laptop owners, why was this buried down deep in one portion of the US site (Toshiba Direct)? Why not post it on the Press Releases page?

In related news, the company just announced that they’re market leader in shipments of portable harddrives (PDF) (which I mentioned in a previous post).

09/19/06: Toshiba just issued a worldwide recall for some of their battery packs (via Alfons). Toshiba statement (for Canadian citizens) is right here (notice the release date). You can either manually verify your battery or use Toshiba’s tool to find out if your Satellite is affected by the recall (which are the Satellite A100, Satellite Pro A100, Satellite M70, Satellite Pro M70, Satellite M100, Tecra A6, Tecra A7). Apparently the P100 series are NOT affected.

CBC has an interesting article about coffee and fats, which appears to have been based on the US version of a report with the same title (you can find it by clicking here).

Surprisingly, the Canadian version cannot be found on the CSPI Canada site, a site which appears to be way more outdated than its US counterpart. However, you can find the Canadian report at the CBC article mentioned earlier (so presumably newsorganizations get these reports first)

The essence of (both) reports is the same: there’s an obvious correlation between calories and specialty coffees. My favourite line:

A Tim Hortons double-double — with two creams and two sugars — has 160 calories per 10-ounce cup. A black coffee had about 10 calories and no fat.

One could safely claim that drinking black coffee could help the fight against obesity, but then, coffee is not one of the healthiest soft-drinks around.

Oh: my Acrobat breaks in Firefox. Actually, it also breaks when run standalone: apparently version 7 doesn’t like running 2 instances of Acrobat simultanously.

For the first time in months, I decided to watch CNN’s Paula Zahn to discover that CNN has hired many new reporters. Oh Noes!

The first one I didn’t recognize was Melissa Long who’s job was to present the top 10 of most viewed CNN articles on the web. Over 5 segments. No wonder she looks so cranky. And everytime ms Paula thanked Melissa for explaining another 2 popular articles, there was this soft muffled ‘sure’ as an answer. ‘Thanks Melissa’. ‘- Sure…’.

Then there was also this long segment about the Pope’s words on Islam. So much anger. That segment was produced by Delia Gallagher, who was introduced to the viewer as a ‘Faith and Values Correspondent’.

I guess I didn’t really miss anything.