Olivia Munn Status Magazine February 2011
January 31st, 2011 | 
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Olivia Munn get her hair cut.
Hair Cut by Jonathan J Hanousek December 23, 2010.
Olivia cut her hair for a movie with Sarah Jessica Parker, the movie title :
I don’t know how she does it
Posted in 2010, Olivia Munn |
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Olivia Munn was shopping at French Connection in SoHo, NY, Jan 29, 2011.
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Facebook tweak reveals addresses, phone numbers
In what is potentially another privacy misstep, Facebook has made a change to a permissions dialog box users see when downloading third-party Facebook apps–a change that potentially makes users’ addresses and phone numbers available to app developers.
The tweak was made known to developers of third-party apps Friday night, by way of a post on the Facebook Developer Blog. Basically, when a person starts downloading a third-party Facebook app, a Request for Permission dialog box appears that asks for access to basic information including the downloader’s name, profile picture, gender, user ID, list of friends, and more. What’s new as of Friday is an additional section that asks for access to the downloader’s current address and mobile phone number.
As mentioned in numerous media reports, the concern among Facebook users and privacy advocates is that users won’t notice the change and will click the dialog box’s Allow button unthinkingly. Further, people are worried that unscrupulous developers could cook up bogus apps with the sole purpose of capturing the private information–apps that wouldn’t necessarily be spotted and taken down immediately. Aside from the potential for outright hacking and identity theft, it’s not unheard of for app developers to sell information on Facebook users to data brokers.
Screen capture of the Friday post on the Facebook Developer Blog, showing the newly tweaked Request for Permission dialog box, with addition of address and phone number section.
(Credit: Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET)
Users of third-party Facebook apps can simply click the Don’t Allow button–which reportedly won’t interfere with a successful download–or they can remove their address and phone number from their Facebook profile.
Graham Cluely, with security company Sophos, suggested in his own blog post that users do the latter. (The post was brought to our attention by PC Magazine.)
“My advice to you is simple,” Cluely wrote, highlighting the following with boldface text, “remove your home address and mobile phone number from your Facebook profile now.” (CNET’s Larry Magid walks you through that simple process here.)
Cluely also wondered if Facebook could have taken a safer approach.
“Wouldn’t it be better if only app developers who had been approved by Facebook were allowed to gather this information?” he wrote. “Or–should the information be necessary for the application–wouldn’t it be more acceptable for the app to request it from users, specifically, rather than automatically grabbing it?”
CNET e-mailed Facebook a request for comment but hadn’t heard back by publication time.
Privacy was a major issue for Facebook last year, with the company provoking the concern of privacy advocates, lawmakers, and social-networking fans alike.
George Lucas reportedly creating Star Wars sequel trilogy (that’s not about the Skywalkers)
Big honking Saturday morning rumor here! According to IESB.net, George Lucas will be creating a new trilogy once the first six Star Wars movies go 3D. This echoes what Lucas did in the 1990s after the original trilogy was rereleased.
When you check the link, IESB.net may be down from a traffic surge, but here are the pertinent details:
George Lucas is plotting to create new Star Wars movies at the ultra top-secret Skywalker Ranch. This is deja vu of the mid ’90s when Uncle George start[ed] tweaking the Holy Trilogy to gear up for the Special Editions. […] These new film will have nothing to do with the live action television series currently in development. That show already has over 50 scripts ready to go and plenty of pre-production time and money has been spent on artwork and storyboards. Once that show goes into production, Lucasfilm hopes to be able to produce at least 100 episodes since that is the threshold for syndication in the United States […Fans] can expect the new trilogy after the entire saga is released in 3D which is expected to be complete around 2015 or 2016.
Also, the trilogy is reported to kick off 24 months after the 3Ding of Return of the Jedi, and the next three episodes (which could be either Episodes 7-9 or 10-12) could possibly “occur as far as 100 years or 1,000 years in the Star Wars universe future.” Furthermore, the IESB source claims that the movie will not focus on the Skywalker clan.
IESB’s broken a couple pretty big scoops (including Joss Whedon being tapped to direct The Avengers and the PG-13 rating of Revenge of the Sith), so it’s a rumor that should be taken with a slightly larger grain of salt.
UPDATE: Underwire reports that Lucasfilm has denied the possibility of a new trilogy, but that’s expected either way.