ABOVE: Walgreens put stickers on products around the store to advertise their swine flu vaccines.  Your cunning plan, I don’t believe you thought it all the way through. [via Neatorama]

A compilation of mirror cliches in horror movies. [Filmdrunk]

Favorite comics turned into generic TV show pitches. I’d watch a TV show where Magneto and Professor X live together, and Magneto is never tidying up so Xavier’s chair gets caught on things.  MAGNEEEEEETO! [ComicsAlliance]

Dor sho gha, ten minutes of Star Trek innuendo [WarmingGlow]

The 5 best movies filmed in New Orleans.  They forgot to add The Big Easy to the list.  I remembered that ’cause I was just talking to your mom. [Pajiba]

Picture Gallery: Stormtroopers are just like us. [Unreality]

Hollywood’s best strip scenes. [InsideMovies]

The National Geographic Channel will be airing a documentary about sperm. Okay, Internet, get ready to take screencaps of people with “Sperm Expert” displayed on the screen under their name. [InsideTV]

VIDEO: “Some people ask ‘hey, why do you have a Wynonna Judd poster in your store?’ And to them I say: ‘did you forget the name of the store?’”  I hope they make a series of videos like this. [via UniqueDaily]

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The showrunner of ABC’s “FlashForward”, David Goyer, has left the show with 5 episodes remaining.  ABC stated he will have “some involvement” with the remaining episodes, which means they’ll probably tape a picture of him to a chair at the meetings and offer him donuts. David Chairgoyer loves the ones with sprinkles.

David Goyer co-wrote Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight was based on a story Goyer wrote.  He is now writing the third movie with Chris Nolan’s brother Jonathan “Jonah” Nolan.  His early exit from “FlashForward” may signal that the next Batman script is on its way, or it may just signal that those rumors of infighting and backbiting at “FlashForward” led to another writer quitting (Marc Guggenheim left the show in October).

While we wait for the next Batman installment, I guess we can get our Nolan fix from Inception, the movie Leonardo DiCaprio said didn’t make much sense to any of them while they were filming it.  Seriously.

[Nikke Finke via SciFiCool, banner pic via thisoldshanty]

    This guy inspired the Bruce Willis character in Unbreakable.  Fact.

Troy R. Casey and Charles W. Bamforth of the University of California have published a study on the levels of silicon in different beers.  Silicon strengthens bones, and beer is one of the main sources of it in Western countries.  Most people consume 20 to 50 mg of silicon per day. Casey and Bamforth found that the beers studied contained an average of 29.4 mg/L of silicon (13.9 mg per pint).  Barley beers contained more silicon than wheat beers.  Brews with a large amount of hops contained even more silicon.  Women seeking positions in the adult film industry contained the most silicon of all.  Non-alcoholic beers and light lagers, along with wheat lagers, contained the lowest levels of silicon. 

Then Dr. Tim Byers, deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Aurora, came along to blow up our spot when he told ABC, “To conclude any bone health benefits from this study would require a great leap.”  How about I pour you a big pilsner glass of shut up shut up you’re ruining this with your doctory chicanery.  Maybe I happen to be in a feud with the apple people, and I’m trying to change the saying to “a beer a day keeps killjoys like Dr. Tim Byers away.”  It doesn’t roll off the tongue very well; I’m working on it.  When I get this all figured out, the apple people will rue the day.

[Sources: Wiley InterScience, ABC via FARK]

Nuit Blanche (from Spy Films) is a surreal, beautifully-rendered, partially-CG short film directed by Arev Manoukian. Two strangers see each other for the first time, prompting a reaction so strong (spoiler) that
not-Matthew-Modine steps into traffic and not-Famke-Janssen jumps through a window face first.  She totally wants to have, like, nine million of his babies.  Just don’t ask how they exit the womb with these two as parents. (Spoiler: they punch their way out then jump in front of a bus.  In slow motion. To spectacular music.)

[BoingBoing]

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This one’s been rumored awhile, and Bill Murray finally confirmed it. MailOnSunday got a great interview with Murray, who stated his conditions for returning to the franchise and gave a frank opinion on the second movie:

I’ll come back in Ghostbusters 3 only if I get to be a ghost.  I said to them, “I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.”  So, now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.  The first 45 minutes of the original “Ghostbusters” is some of the funniest stuff ever made.  The second one was disappointing, because the special-effects guys took over.  I had something like two scenes– and they’re the only funny ones in the movie.

Ghostbusters 2, you just got served.  Anyway, the only thing cooler than a Bill Murray ghost would be a Bill Murray ghost who crashes parties.  I would let that guy borrow my car to buy a kilo.  I’d even let him park it outside the Staples Center during Lakers finals.

Being paraplegic just got 69% cooler. ARGO Medical Technologies has made the ReWalk robotic exoskeleton, allowing paraplegics to stand up, sit down, walk slowly, and climb stairs.  It also allows non-paraplegics to stomp around making choosh choosh whirr sounds. The website doesn’t say anything about being able to descent stairs, however, so now you know how to defeat these when they become sentient.

The suit is controlled via upper-body movements using the crutches and also responds to small changes in center of gravity.  The ReWalk is still awaiting FDA approval (expected later this year).  The video below shows people using the exoskeleton.  Now we just need Hugh Jackman to train them to box.

[Sources: ABC, ARGO, NextBigFuture]

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