We remember a time when America Online was the most important thing to happen to the internet since the personal computer. While we’ve long since abandoned the brand for greener, Google-ier pastures, AOL is still around, kids! And in the wake of their spin-off from Time Warner, they’re trying out a new identity as part of an effort to seem younger, hipper, and less like a haven for Dateline‘s sexual predators. More of the new logos, plus a look at some of their previous re-branding attempts, after the jump.
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For the 30th anniversary of the classic sci-fi franchise, designers have been honing in on everything Star Wars with homages that bring us back to our days of Princess Leia lunch boxes and our Han Solo action figures. Old habits die hard, and wanting to emulate your favorite Star Wars characters? Well, that’s something you haven’t been able to stop doing ever since the first time you held up a stick and made a “woosh” sound every time you swung it at your baby sister. Face it, we’re all Star Wars nerds at heart and now we can look the part. The best in 2009′s Star Wars-inspired fashions after the jump.
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Twitter and the blogosphere are starting to go abuzz with a video shot at a Miley Cyrus concert in Kentucky. In it, the pop star replaces a lyric from one of her songs with a gay slur. Innocent mistake? Or yet another example of this girl’s innate prejudices?
This isn’t the first time that Cyrus has been accused of being discriminatory. Last February there were accusations that she was racist after a photo of her making “slanty-eyes” circulated, generating headlines in major news outlets. After apologizing for the photo, claiming that she was just making a “goofy face” and that the media had taken it out of context, the controversy died down and her career survived without so much as a scratch. It seems odd that Cyrus would stir the pot up again intentionally, and risk alienating part of her core demographic.
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It was reported yesterday that Academy Award-Winner Nicole Kidman will be joined by Academy Award-Stealer-From-Cate-Blanchett Gwyneth Paltrow in The Danish Girl, a new movie about the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, directed by the man who brought us our favorite kiddie-vampire movie not starring Robert Pattinson, Let The Right One In.
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So it has finally come to this. No longer content to just have sucked us in with season three’s much touted Chuck Bass gay kiss, season two’s Georgina Sparks Identity Theft Brouhaha, or Serena Van Der Woodsen’s tearful season one confession that she killed someone, the creators of Gossip Girl are making it that much harder to look away with titillating news that tonight the Upper East Side will be rocked by a scandal of epic sexual proportions: menage à trois. Gimmicky ratings ploy? Sure. But, hell, we’ll drink to that! And now so will you!
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Tech Nerds: start your salivating. Multiple sources are reporting that Apple has been shopping around an idea to TV networks which would allow the computer manufacturer to begin offering streaming television via iTunes and Apple TV for $30 a month. Though this is sure to put a crimp into the cable industry’s profits, the idea itself should come as no surprise what with the success of streaming TV already available on sites like Netflix and Hulu. The only questions remaining are which networks, if any, will sign on and *who, if anyone, is willing to pay for a service many Americans don’t associate with a fee? Stay tuned.
* You know those people who are slightly smug now about the fact that they don’t own a TV? Them.
When it comes to finding ways to make sure your new album gets press, Rivers Cuomo is a true master. Yes, you rolled your eyes over the name “Radtitude,” but it became a story. How many album names can you say that about? Then there was the buzzed about Lil Wayne collab on “Can’t Stop Partying.” But what better way to make sure Weezer’s name gets out there to a generation of kids too young to know every word to “Buddy Holly” than bring to their queen — Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester — up on stage for a duet?
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In case you weren’t sure if British TV is better than American TV (as if The Office wasn’t already enough of an indication), the folks over at BBC 1 stumbled upon a video gold mine when Christopher Walken arrived as a guest on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and out-Gaga’d Gaga. Sure, Jude Law may have already done this here in America, but we don’t recall him ever prescribing more cowbell as a remedy for, well, anything.
Point: Walken.
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So your husband has been lying to you for years about his identity, your dad just died, and a man who isn’t your husband just proposed to you. Oh, and did we mention that someone shot Kennedy? Yes, Betty Draper, you are living proof that sometimes it really is hard being so beautiful. Luckily for you, however, you’re not alone. More endorphin-deprived housewives after the jump. Interestingly, most of them come from HBO series.
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Hey, Anne Rice. You may claim to understand why Twilight fans are so die-hard about this fictional love story, but can you explain this? After reading all four books, seeing the first movie about a thousand times, and shelling out millions of dollars on all sort of paraphernalia (DVDs, throw pillows, vampire-inspired sex toys!) it looks like the wait for the sequel to hit theaters has proved too much for some. To cope they’ve developed hobbies to pass the time. And guess what? You can buy the fruits of their labor! From paintings, to jewelry, to footwear, we’ve compiled the very best of the very worst of Twilight fan art.
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