Internet Deals and X-Men 4 news

First, I won't be able to post upcoming weekend events on Thursday this week or next week, I'll try to post on Friday still.

Here's a nifty online game, Red, in which you are tasked to shoot and deflect objects... Everything is a blood red color. It's a simple game, but I've tried it a few times and it's pretty okay.

DealCatcher has a supreme deal for Buy.com: Samsung Sansa e250 2 GB mp3 player for $79.95 w/ FREE shipping. This is loaded with features: still Image viewing (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF), video playback (VOB, WMV, QT MOV, MPEG, AVI), FM tuner & recorder, voice recorder, and spec'd at 20 hour battery life.

If you don't know what music player will play your music files, this CNET MP3 player compability wizard is a necessity to check BEFORE buying somethin' new.

Don't forget to check Woot! for a great deal every day, you never know when they might have that 'lil sumpin' sumpin' you are just looking for. Overstock.com is another great deals site.

YouTube sure made the news today with Google buying the privately held company. Here is a YT video on obeying the speed limit... Warning, it may make you speed for the rest of your given life (or, uhhh, not obey speed limits, shall we say?). It's worth watching though (hence, included in my post).

Research has shown that laughter has actual health benefits and helps to relieve stress. For the science-minded: it reduces levels of stress hormones like cortisol, epinephrine, adrenaline, and dopamine. Pre-school aged children may laugh up to 400 times a day, but by adulthood, we laugh a mere 17 times a day. Now, that stat just makes me wanna cry (not really!).... Okay, maybe.

I finally watched X-Men 3: The Last Stand on dvd (from Netflix). While it was good, I thought its pacing and some small issues (possibly directoral) diminished my appreciation for the conclusion of this saga of X-Men. It really ought to be a 2 dvd set for sale, not the scrimpy one deeveedee it's sold as. And the bonus features are not that interesting.

So what's next? Magneto as a younger man- not that interesting to me. Wolverine a stand alone film... Okay, this could be interesting but I'm thinking this might also be a big disappointment (kinda like Ang Lee's Hulk), with all the build up and excitement that inevitably will surround this project.

The LA Daily News has a report about the possibility of X-Men 4. The website ComicBookMovie.com has an article about who is signed for X-Men 4 already. It's looking like a late 2008 release would be most likely.

I know many wanna see Gambit, I just wish they'd bring Nightcrawler back from X2... I think Nightcrawler is a more interesting character, and great for screen presence (with teleportation ability and his blueness). Maybe the rumors about Alan Cumming not wanting to work with Ratner were true, maybe they dint wanna have two blue characters in the film (Beast and Nightcrawler). Anyways...

image credits: Sansa E250 from buy.com., X-Men 3: The Last Stand from Amazon.com