Lawmakers says she learned a lot at Hooters

Rep. Julia Hurley, newly elected to the Tennessee House, credits her work at Hooters with helping her win her seat in what’s regarded as a conservative district.

Fake Robot Baby Provokes Real Screams

Uncanny valley, heard of it? No worries, you're knee-deep in it right now. It's the revulsion you feel to robots, prostheses, or zombies that try, but don't quite duplicate their human models. As the robot becomes more humanlike, however, our emotional response becomes increasingly positive and empathetic. Unfortunately, the goal of Osaka University's AFFETTO was to create a robot modeled after a young child that could produce realistic facial expressions in order to endear it to a human caregiver in a more natural way. Impressive, sure, but we're not ready to let it suckle from our teat just yet.

Sealy Super Bowl After Glow Commercial

The Sealy Super Bowl 2011 Commercial entitled ‘After Glow’ is smart and cute. The couples “enjoy all the benefits of the new Sealy Posturepedic” bed. It isn’t too hard to figure out what these undressed couples were doing!

Lady Gaga Romance Rumor

It can't be easy dating Lady Gaga: When you're not picking glitter off everything you own, or trying to get the scent of bodily fluids off your clothes, you're staring at the meat in the fridge, wondering if it's dinner or designer wear. So color us unsurprised that Life & Style claims the popster's back-on romance with longtime love Luc
Carl has hit a speed bump. "Gaga and Luc are fighting a lot," says a snitch. "Their relationship has never been perfect -- it's always been tumultuous -- but now it's hanging by a thread." Click on for a less depressing romance rumor …

Amazing Art Project from Google

Google launched a terrific service for the naming of Google Art Project. Now you have a great opportunity to not getting up off the couch to run through the galleries and museums around the world, read all the interesting information about the selected objects, and even create your own collection of art objects from the world's masterpieces, which are shown with amazing accuracy and a survey of 360 degrees. And as you can in the smallest detail view images. The quality of each masterpiece - 7 giga pixels!

Google has already said - the project is not commercial and does not bring profits. It is designed for anyone who would like to visit museums in the world, but has no such opportunity. Moreover, it also provides an opportunity to consider the fine details of paintings that, in principle, sometimes unrealistic, even in the museum or gallery.

At this point in the project involved 17 museums of the world:

- Old National Gallery in Berlin (Germany)
- Art Gallery in Berlin (Germany)
- The Hermitage in St. Petersburg (Russia)
- Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Russia)
- Versailles in Paris (France)
- Museum of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid (Spain)
- Centre of Art Reina Sofia in Madrid (Spain)
- Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Italy)
- The National Gallery in London (England)
- The Tate Gallery in London (England)
- Museum Kampa in Prague (Czech Republic)
- Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Reyksmuzey in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Freer Art Gallery in Washington (USA)
- Frick Collection in New York (USA)
- Museum of Modern Art in New York (USA)
- Metropolitan Museum in New York (USA)

No cheerleaders for Super Bowl (Video)

Halle Berry Clashed with Daddy Aubry

 

Actress Halle Berry is a woman who knows what she wants - and what she doesn't want. Reality television star Kim Kardashian meeting her little girl is something she very clearly doesn't want.

Halle Berry, who is going through a bitter custody dispute with ex boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, the father of her 3-year-old daughter Nahla, was very "aggravated" with Aubry when he was seen socializing with the likes of reality television star Kim Kardashian back in November.

Dapper TV Show Dioramas

The Prime Big Series Commercial is on a Miniature Scale

Plastic figurines and creative dioramas have been popping up all over the place, so it’s no surprise that this Prime Big Series promo has decided to hop on the miniature bandwagon. A Belgium TV chain, it has decided to market their hit shows such as ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Lost,’ and ‘Six Feet Under’ in this quite adorable direction.

Unfortunately, there is no information about who created this Prime Big Series commercial, but you can at least enjoy the full clip via the featured video.

PRIME BIG SERIES - SMALL SCREEN from steven huybrechts on Vimeo.

Anderson Cooper beaten

CNN star reporter Anderson Cooper is on the streets of Egypt,covering the political protests. As violence erupted in Cairo’s central Tahir Square in Cairo (see where that is), he and other journalists reportedly became part of the story.

Lake Shore Drive A Disaster; Drivers Stuck For Hours

Lake Shore Drive remained closed Wednesday afternoon, as city workers continued removing stranded vehicles from the roadway in an effort to reopen the road as soon as possible.

Lake Shore Drive was a disaster area overnight, as motorists found themselves stranded for up to 12 hours and ended up in the hospital.

As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, many motorists were just trying to get home, but the blizzard made that impossible.

Initially, Lake Shore Drive was moving smoothly as the evening rush began, but conditions began to deteriorate following several accidents. There were three accidents between Fullerton Parkway and Belmont Avenue 7:15 and 7:45 p.m., one of them involving a CTA bus. Shortly afterward, there were two more accidents in the northbound lanes just south of North Avenue.

The accidents caused cars and buses to back up, and as the snow piled up, vehicles became immobilized and off-ramps became impassable. Lake Shore Drive was closed at 7:58 p.m., and fire and police personnel worked to move as many cars as possible off the highway and remove people who could not get out on their own.

City officials said 700 to 900 cars were involved in the overnight traffic jam on Lake Shore Drive just south of North Avenue. In response, 13 ambulances were dispatched and remained on the scene all night, along with 26 fire companies with 130 firefighters.

Fire personnel were organized into two task forces with 30 firefighter-medics equipped on snowmobiles.

Police also dispatched 30 officers to the Drive, mayor’s chief of staff Raymond Orozco said.

Orozco said first responders tried to get to stranded motorists as quickly as possible, but winds of 60 to 70 mph and snow falling at a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour made that extremely difficult.

Fire crews were unable to see even one car in front of them for a period of time, Fire Commissioner Bob Hoff said.

Before the city shut down the Drive, traffic had been crawling; it took upwards of an hour to travel only a mile. Many cars were without a full tank of gas, and ended up running out.

WBBM Newsradio 780 was flooded with calls from stranded motorists who said they had been stuck on Lake Shore Drive for over seven hours and saw people abandoning their cars.

Newsradio 780′s Lisa Fielding reports Sue Baker left her Hyde Park office around 5 p.m. and nearly seven hours later, she remained in the same spot, “We haven’t moved. It’s kinda scary. There are snow drifts on our cars now.”

Evanston attorney Craig Roeder says he got on Lake Shore Drive at 6 p.m. and headed north. He says he crept and crawled until just south of Fullerton Parkway, when traffic ground to a halt around 9:30 pm.

And there he sat, in whiteout conditions for six hours, until 3:20 a.m. when WBBM Newsradio 780’s David Roe was interviewing him on the phone.

Source: Chicago.cbslocal.com

Super Bowl and PETA ad

 NBC pulled the plug on a PETA pro-veggie commercial planned for the Super Bowl because it "depicts a level of sexuality exceeding our standards," according to NBC Universal's advertising standards executive, Victoria Morgan. The ad, which carries the tagline, "Studies Show Vegetarians Have Bet ter Sex," shows lingerie-clad stunners getting "intimate" with vegetables.