By James Johnson
Monster Mash 
Just when we thought the weather up North couldn’t get any worse, we hear that it is apparently raining zombies in Toronto, Canada. More specifically, on the set of the upcoming film, Resident Evil: Retribution. The franchise, which was originally based on the game franchise of the same name stars model / actress Milla Jovovich as a uh… lady who kills zombies. 16 of those said zombies were almost done in by the ultimate monster killer, gravity, when the undead horde of extras reportedly fell 20 feet.
Fortunately none of the injuries were life-threatening, though everyone involved was rushed to the hospital just in case.
Oddly enough, the hospital was said to have a lot of difficulty determining just how injured the victims were due to the costumes that they were still wearing. 16 zombies being examined at a hospital seems like a really wasted opportunity for an elaborate zombie invasion hoax.
Read ‘Em ‘n’ Weep
Singer Amy Winehouse died at age 27 in a manner that was both tragic, but, not terribly surprising. The artist, who climbed to fame with her song “Rehab,” in which she sung about her disinterest in seeking help for her many problems, followed the script laid out for her life almost exactly.
Now, it has been announced that Winehouse’s father Mitch, has reached a deal with HarperCollins to publish a memoir titled Amy, My Daughter. The book, which is set to be released in 2012, will detail the singer’s life from her father’s perspective. This is, of course, another predictable move, but even we cynics must appreciate that the proceeds from the book will be going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which was set up “to support charitable activities in both the U.K. and abroad that provide help, support or care for young people, especially those who are in need by reason of ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or addiction.”
Who saw that coming?
iTurtleneck
The loss of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs on Oct. 5, due to pancreatic cancer have left many loyal Apple users asking questions. What does this mean for the future of their beloved giant evil corporation? Who will bring the world innovative ideas? What was the source of Steve’s powers? Was it, perhaps, his turtleneck?
Probably not – but in the newly released authorized Steve Jobs autobiography, simply titled Steve Jobs, author Walter Iaacson attempts to shed some light on the way Jobs thought, even revealing the truth behind the CEO’s signature look in the below excerpt first published on Gawker.com.
On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony’s chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company’s factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. “I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple,” Jobs recalled.
Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. It was a jacket made of rip-stop nylon with sleeves that could unzip to make it a vest. So Jobs called Issey Miyake and asked him to design a vest for Apple, Jobs recalled, “I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea.”
In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly. He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. “So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them.” Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he showed them stacked up in the closet. “That’s what I wear,” he said. “I have enough to last for the rest of my life.”
