Watch the trailer of the movie Veronica Decides To Die from Paulo Coelho’s book, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and directed by Emily Young:

Veronika Decides to Die is a novel by Paulo Coelho. It tells the story of 24 year old Veronika, who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. This book is partly based on Coelho’s experience in various mental institutions. It is based around the subject of madness. The gist of the message is that “collective madness is called sanity” …

The Los Angeles Lakers got their 4th loss to Miami Heat with just 2 points. The Lakers record is now down to 21W-4L with 3 losses came out of their 5 road games. The Miami Heat on the other hand improved their poor record to 13W-12L after beating the Lakers on Friday night on Miami.

L.A. commits 21 turnovers, misses nine of 19 free throws and can’t stop Dwyane Wade (35 points) as four-game road test starts with a surprising defeat. Kobe Bryant misses shot at the buzzer [via LATimes]
“They seemed …

This place is freezing! It’s so cold, locals say that birds freeze to death in mid flight.

The much-anticipated new U2 album “No Line On The Horizon” will be released on March 2, 2009.
It’s the Irish group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” in late 2004.

Bono and the boys began writing and recording the new disc in Fez, Morocco. Additional sessions took place in New York, Dublin and London.
The album will include tracks “Unknown Caller” and “Moment of Surrender,” and will feature production from regular U2 collaborators Brian Eno (who most recently worked on Coldplay’s Viva La Vida) …

A group of Japanese lawyers and professors led by Sophia University constitutional law professor Yasuhiko Tajima have asked Google Inc. to shut down Google Street View on the grounds that it violates basic privacy rights.
Google’s Street View provides detailed street-level images of Japanese cities on the Internet. It offers 360-degree views of streets in 12 Japanese cities and is also offered for some 50 cities in the United States and certain areas in Europe.

The service allows Web users to have extensive views of selected streets and areas from a pedestrian …

When Obama moves to the White House next month, Favreau will join his staff as the youngest…

Mike “Mad Dog” Bell, the former pro wrestler turned personal trainer has died. He was 37.
Bell whose struggle with substance abuse was featured in the 2008 documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster,” was found dead Sunday at a Costa Mesa live-in rehabilitation facility, his family said.
An autopsy was performed but examiners couldn’t conclude right away the cause of death, said Dan Akin, a supervising deputy at the Orange County coroner’s division. The coroner is awaiting the results of toxicology tests, he said.

Mike Bell, left, with brothers Christopher, center, and Mark, right.
“Mad Dog” …

Those people at Media Takeout are reporting that Michael Jordan and his Cuban model girlfriend Yvette Prieto have decided to get married.

Word is that the couple is set to make it official next week. But so far, there’s been no word from Jordan’s camp.
Michael split with his first wife, Juanita after 17 years and three kids in 2006.
Yvette Pierto used to date Julio Iglesias Jr. and rumors first surfaced of Michael and Yvette dating in July 2008.
Let’s hope MJ is smart enough to get a pre-nuptial agreement that protects him …

Somebody made up a flash game where you can throw shoes at Bush from the comfort of your own home, without worrying about being rushed by the Secret Service!

Mark Felt, better known as “Deep Throat,” has died Thursday after suffering from a congestive heart failure at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa, California. He was 95.
Felt was the associate director of the FBI who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein crack the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in August 1974.
The journalists used Deep Throat’s information to write a chain of exposes on the Watergate scandal, which played a crucial role in uncovering the misdeeds of the Nixon administration.
The reporters continued …

An Egyptian engineering student was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment Thursday after pleading guilty to uploading a 12-minute YouTube video that showed how to convert a remote-control toy car into a bomb detonator.
In June, Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 27, pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to one count of providing material support to terrorists.
U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday said the public needed to be protected from 27-year-old Mohamed, who made the video “to empower others through his teaching to deliver death, destruction and, at the very least, panic.”
Mohamed …