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Last night the girls of the WNBA went wild. Candice Parker, Lisa Leslie and the rest of their teammates let loose at the LA Sparks and Detroit Shock game. Four players were ejected from the game and two technicals were called and to make matters worse - a coach got involved too.

Five seconds left in the game and they are on the free throw line and the throw down begins. Lots of talk about how the WNBA is looking for a little attention. Mission accomplished - we bet they got the attention of the ‘Heads’ over at Smack Down who may be thinking that these girls are fierce and may have great potential in a different arena.

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Amid rumors of discord in the Playboy Mansion between Hugh Hefner’s youngest girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson, and his other ladies, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt, actress Anna Faris, who stars in the upcoming film “The House Bunny,” has been named Hef’s honorary fourth girlfriend.

Faris has been spending a good deal of time at the Mansion and in an interview last week said to watch for the September issue of Playboy.

Meanwhile Wilkinson is said to be planning her exit from “The Girls Next Door.” A friend of the 23-year-old says the rules at the Mansion, which include a curfew and a “no dating other men” policy, are just too hard for her to follow.

    “She’s definitely out,” her friend said. “There are too many rules and Holly and Bridget want her gone. They’re so mean to her.”

    “She goes out all the time really late and parties,” her pal says. “She’s definitely been linked with other guys . . . She likes rappers and sports guys.”

The friend also says that Kendra was never really one of Hef’s girlfriends, but was cast for the show because they needed “a young hot girl’ because Holly and Bridget are “old.” (Holly is 28 and Bridget is 34).

“Holly and Bridget hate her,” she told Page Six. “They’re totally jealous. She has her own empire now. She’s got a clothing line, a modeling career and an exercise empire. They’re just sitting there hangin’ with Hef.”

According to A rep for Playboy, “Hef has always been clear that the girls were his girlfriends before the show was even signed off on. This is all news to me. We’re going to be launching Season 5 of “The Girls Next Door” in the fall and everyone’s happy and having a good time.”

The air was noticeably chilly between Kendra and the other girls at the annual Fourth of July bash at the mansion. According to eye witnesses “They didn’t even exchange glances.”

“I don’t know what happened, but Kendra made sure to keep her distance.”

Kendra was also notably absent from a recent segment with Paul Heyman on “The Heyman Hustle.” Check out Holly’s response when Paul asks if they really hate Kendra!

So who do you believe? The friend who says Kendra was never really one of Hef’s girlfriends or the Playboy rep who says she was? Do you think Kendra is ready to fly the coop?

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I found these videos on Youtube and thought they were spot on. Kinda funny, but makes you think about the future.

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There is at least one secret Gillian Anderson can reveal about “The X-Files: I Want to Believe.”

Anderson and her on-screen partner, David Duchovny, return to the big screen Friday, six years after the seminal TV series about paranormal investigators ended. But never mind the horrors that lurk in the story line - details of which not even alien abductors could pull out of her.

For Anderson, returning to play Agent Dana Scully, the role that made the 39-year-old actress famous, is what was really scary.

“I found it quite tricky over the first couple of days to slide back into it,” says Anderson. “It was kind of unexpected and a bit freakish for me.”

Freakish, that is, until the first scene that reunited her with Duchovny, aka Agent Fox Mulder. It was innocuous - just a brief conversation between the two agents as they walked down the hallway at FBI headquarters.

But the old magic was back.

“It was definitely the moment that [we] got into the same room together that it felt familiar again,” says Anderson.

For Duchovny, the chance to revisit Mulder was more like slipping on a comfortable old trench coat.

It was a far cry from the way he left “The X-Files,” burnt out after nine seasons of spending 10 months a year starting his week at dawn on Monday and ending it in the early morning hours of Saturday.

“I missed the heroic quality of [Mulder] - he’s got a hell of a lot of integrity and he’s a dreamer,” says Duchovny. “And sometimes he made me a better person, just because he was so single-minded and courageous.”

So when director Chris Carter, the show’s creator, called to ask if they wanted to do a second “X-Files” movie, both Duchovny and Anderson leaped at the chance. The first, 1998’s “The X-Files: Fight the Future,” earned $187 million at the box office worldwide.

Almost everything else about the film is shrouded in the kind of secrecy usually reserved for vast government conspiracies.

During filming, Carter and the producers had copies of the full script. The actors were only given pages related to the scenes they were shooting at the time, and they were collected and shredded afterward. And in the spirit of the show’s mantra, “Trust no one,” fake images were leaked on the Internet to throw spoiler sites off the scent.

“I’m already looking over my shoulder [just talking to you],” quips Duchovny.

But the biggest mystery is whether, after six years, the fans still want to believe.

Many X-philes are still recovering from the horror of the way their beloved show ended in 2002. A contract dispute kept Duchovny out most of the last season, and the show buckled under the weight of its confusing back story about a government/alien conspiracy.

“Nobody wanted to see Duchovny leaving the show, nobody wanted substitutes … nobody really liked the direction of the last season,” says Harry Knowles, founder of movie fan site Ain’t It Cool News. “With the mythology I just think they dropped the ball.”

Duchovny bristles at such talk. To him, the show should be remembered for scaring the bejesus out of America for nine seasons.

“I’m just amazed it could stay good for that long,” he says. “I’m not at all embarrassed or ambivalent about it petering out. I guess when we were ending, we kind of wished people had applauded our longevity rather than saying, ‘Well, what happened there? It just ended?’ But it didn’t happen that way.”

Since the end of the series, a lot has changed for Anderson. She has moved on - literally, from Los Angeles to London - performing onstage, in “Bleak House” on “Masterpiece Theatre” and in critically acclaimed films like 2006’s “The Last King of Scotland.”

Next up is a movie about Martha Gellhorn, the war correspondent and wife of Ernest Hemingway, in which Anderson will produce and star. And in the next three months, she will find time for the birth of her third child.

“I don’t think anyone would have paid me any mind at all if I didn’t have ["The X-Files"] behind me,” says Anderson.

After making his directorial debut with the 2004 film “House of D,” Duchovnyfound himself back on the small screen, this time as the star of Showtime’s “Californication.” Duchovny plays Hank Moody, a frustrated writer who gets more action in the first minutes of the pilot than Mulder got in nine years - not counting a tryst with a vampire.

“It’s funny, people’s attitude toward sex is so loaded - if you play a murderer, it’s rare that somebody will say, ‘What does your wife think?’” says Duchovny, when asked about the reaction of his spouse, actress Téa Leoni, to watching her husband’s weekly sex scenes.

If “X-Files: I Want to Believe” scares up enough box office, both Duchovny and Anderson say they are ready to return for more sequels. If not, then at least they had a chance to say goodbye to the franchise that helped launch their careers.

“We’re all willing to jump in there again if that’s what’s called for,” says Anderson. “Or to let it go.”

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The Playboy Cyber Girls launched some awesome new swimwear yesterday at Set nightclub in Miami. In conjunction with InGear, leading supplier of beach, resort and casual fashion, the gorgeous models definitely did justice to the beautiful bikini wear.

The Swimwear Miami 2008 runway show also featured a line of surf boards that are manufactured by Wallin. The models included Playboy Miss October 2005 Kimberly Holland.

Check out all of the photos below.

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WARNING: SPOILER ALERT

The movie opens with a shot of Gotham City, looking noticeably cleaner than last time.  We then see various people in clown masks, a few in a van and two propelling from a window to a rooftop across the street. They’re robbing a bank. A teller sets of the alarm. One of the clowns on the roof shuts it off, commenting on how it’s strange that it didn’t go through to 911. The other clown shoots him. A bank employee (William Fitchner) pulls out a gun and shoots at the robbers. He yells at them, telling them that they don’t know whom they’re stealing from. They shoot him. Meanwhile, another clown was opening the safe. He then gets shot. The one who shot him, then goes into the vault and puts the money in duffel bags, which he and the other clown take out to the main lobby. One pulls a gun and asks if he was supposed to kill him, but the other clown says, “No, I kill the bus driver.” A bus rams through the wall, killing the clown with the gun. They load the money. The bus driver is shot. William Fitchner is still talking. The remaining clown walks over to him and says how whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you stranger. He takes off the mask; it’s the Joker (Heath Ledger, who did a truly amazing job in this role.). He puts a gas canister in his mouth; the pin is on a string. He drives away into a line of school busses; you see gas spilling from the bank.

It’s nighttime and we see Lieutenant Gordon standing there with the Bat signal on. Det. Ramirez comments that he doesn’t always show up. He says that it doesn’t matter; it’s a reminder to criminals that he’s still out there. And the fact that he doesn’t show up is good; it means he’s busy. He also asks her about he mother, and she says that she had to put her back in the hospital.

We cut to a parking garage. A man sees the signal in the sky and comments on how that’s why he has dogs. He complains to another man about the quality of some drugs, the man steps out of a van and it’s the Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy). They talk, and you see various silhouettes of Batman. ‘He’ comes out, but it’s not the real thing. There’s a couple more, and they have guns. Real Batman (Christian Bale) shows up, beating up gang members and fake Batmen.  The dogs attack him. He gets them off and jumps on Scarecrow’s van. He gets thrown off, but he just goes over to the ramp and jumps off, crushing the van. We see that he’s tied up those that he’s caught and leaves.

Alfred (Michael Caine) walks into a room, it’s empty. He sighs. The next thing we see is him entering a shipping crate and part of the floor lowering. It’s the secret hideout until they rebuild Wayne Manor. He walks over to Bruce Wayne, who’s stitching up his cut and says how he always makes a mess of it when he does it himself. Alfred finished stitching. Bruce comments on how there were more vigilantes. They talk about Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who’s the District Attorney. He’s also dating Rachel (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

It’s the Wayne Enterprises boardroom. Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) is telling a guy named Lau how his company impressed them, and how they are thrilled to be speaking with him. Everyone looks over to a sleeping Bruce. Mr. Reese walks up to Fox after the meeting to comment on Bruce’s behavior. He tells him to just go over the numbers again. Fox then speaks with Bruce, Lau’s success is shady, and they won’t deal with him. Bruce asks for a new suit, he wants a neck that moves.

We see Gordon in the bank; there were some bills that they’d marked at Batman’s suggestion. Batman shows up and tells him to get a warrant from Harvey Dent to go to five other banks. He then leaves.

Rachel Dawes is sitting in a courtroom, waiting. Harvey Dent bursts in and sits down next to her. They greet each other and he pulls out a coin and says that heads, this is his, tails, it’s hers. He then says that you have to make your own luck. He gets up and questions the man. They’re trying to convict the man who took over for Falcone. The man on the stand denies everything he said previously. Dent approaches him and he pulls a gun. It doesn’t work and Dent punches him in the face. They’re walking through the hallway and Rachel says that she guesses that this means they’re doing something right. Dent says he’s got a meeting with Gordon, she says that he’s a friend, so be nice to him.

It’s Dent’s office now, and he leads a waiting Gordon into a room. Gordon is asking for search warrants for five Gotham banks, but he won’t tell Dent how he knows about those banks. Dent used to work in internal affairs, and he had a nickname that Gordon refuses to say (try and guess it!). He asks if he can meet Batman, Gordon says maybe. Dent asks if they don’t trust him, Gordon says that they do. Dent talks about Gordon’s men, who he doesn’t trust.

We see a few different men sitting around a table (one is the man who was on trial, another is the man with the dogs). A couple guys are setting up a TV. The TV turns on and it’s Lau. They talk about the robberies. Lau says that they have to hide their money; the cops are going to seize it. They eventually agree and it turns out he’s taken it already. (Throughout this scenes of Gordon going into banks only to discover all the money gone.) They hear laughter. Out walks that Joker. He asks them why they trust Lau, since he’ll sell them out. They argue that he’ll be in Hong Kong. Joker simply says that Batman doesn’t have a jurisdiction. He tells them that they have to kill Batman if they want to continue. He’ll do it for half of their money. One man doesn’t like the Joker at all and asks one of his men to kill/beat him. The Joker says he’ll show them a magic trick. He stabs a pencil into the table and says he’ll make it disappear. The man approaches him and he slams his head right onto the pencil, killing him. He tells them to think over his proposition. They mostly just want to kill him. He opens his coat; he’s got a variety of grenades in it, with all their pins attached to one string. He leaves his card (a Joker card) and walks out.

Rachel and Harvey are sitting at a table in a fancy restaurant. He tells her that it took three weeks to get the reservation. In walks Bruce, with the prima ballerina from the Russian ballet company on his arm. He introduces himself to Harvey. Rachel comments on his date and mentions that Harvey’s taking her the next week. Bruce says they should put some tables together and Harvey says that he doesn’t think they’ll be allowed. Bruce says that they should, he owns the place. You see them talking about the Batman, with Bruce’s date saying that Batman shouldn’t be doing what he is. She seems to like Harvey though. Rachel and Bruce share some looks. Bruce says that he’ll throw Harvey a party, if he gets the rich on his side; he won’t have to worry about elections anymore.

Bat signal’s on. Gordon tells Batman about Lau leaving the country and the money being gone. Batman asks if they can take care of him if he can get him back to Gotham. Gordon says yes.

Bruce is in Fox’s office. He asks him if they can go to Hong Kong to tell Lau that they won’t be accepting his deal. Fox says okay and they go in an elevator down to the old Research and Development area. Fox has made his new Batsuit. He gives him some things to make jumping out of a plane easy, and tells him that there’s an old military tactic that they can use to get him back into a plane. Now he just needs an alibi.

Rachel and Harvey walk up to the ballet only to see that it isn’t running. There’s a newspaper clipping that says that Bruce Wayne pretty much just took the entire company on vacation. Rachel frowns.

They’re all on a yacht. A plane comes down next to them. Bruce tells Alfred to stay there, and jumps into the water. Next, we see on overview of Hong Kong. Fox is walking into a building. He checks in his cell phone and goes upstairs. He tells Lau that they can’t deal with a man who’s being looked into by the police. He leaves and we see that he’s left a copy of his cell phone with security. He walks up to Bruce – who’s outside – and hands him a phone. He’s made it so that it uses sonar to make a 3D picture of whatever’s going on around a particular phone. He gives it to Bruce. Bruce asks about ‘the other one’. Fox tells him that it’s in place.

It’s nighttime and Batman is on top of a building. He shoots a couple of things that are on a timer. The phone that Fox left turns on and causes all the power to go out. Batman jumps and uses his wings to get to a particular window. He beats up some henchmen. The police come, but Batman has strapped Lau to himself. Something goes off and this parachute like thing goes up. There’s a roar, and Batman jumps out. It was a signal. They get into a plane.  The next scene is Lau tied up on the street with a sign that says to deliver to Lt. Gordon.

Rachel is interviewing Lau. He says he’ll give them information on the people he worked with. She leaves to ask Harvey and he says that now they’ll be able to try all of them. She tells Lau okay. We see Gordon walk into a restaurant and arrest pretty much everyone in it. We hear a woman listing the charges (like 600 counts of extortion, things like that). We see the courtroom. As the judge turns the pages, we see a Joker card. She keeps turning.

We see the man who wanted to kill the Joker at the mob/gang meeting. Some people come in, saying that they killed the Joker. They carry in a black bag. He starts to say something, then the bag opens, and the Joker pops out. He grabs him and asks him if he wants to know how he got he scars on his cheeks. He tells him that his father was a drunk and one time he asked him “Why so serious?” as he beat his mother. His father then said “Let’s put a smile on that face!” All the while he’s holding a knife to the guy’s mouth, so you’re just waiting for him to carve him up to. He doesn’t, but he does kill him. He tells his three henchmen that they can fight for a position with him. He breaks a pool cue and throws it to them.

We see Reese (the guy complaining about Bruce) go to Fox. He says that their numbers don’t work. Why are they putting so much money into the R&D sector? He pulls out the plans for the Tumbler/Batmobile and says that he knows who Batman is. He wants $10 million every year. Fox looks at him and says that he wants to blackmail the man that he thinks is the protector of the city? The man who spends his times beating people up and stopping crime. Reese looks at him and takes the plans saying that he’ll keep them. He leaves.

Harvey is in the Mayor’s office, talking about how he’s prosecuting all the criminals. The Mayor warns him to be careful, if they find something bad about Harvey it’ll be all over. A body comes down and hits the window; it’s wearing a Batsuit and has Joker make-up on as well as a Joker card attached to it.

Bruce is in his penthouse talking to Alfred about the party for Harvey Dent. They look over to the TV and see the body and the newscaster says that sensitive people should not watch the next part. It’s the dead man saying that until Batman turns himself in, people will die. The Joker turns the camera to himself and talks a bit, then laughs, saying that it starts now. The camera shakes, but you get that he just killed the man.

Rachel and Harvey get out of that elevator, and she tells him it’ll be okay, they’re just rich people. He sighs. A helicopter lands and Bruce gets out, with three women. He gives a speech about how he believes in Harvey Dent. It cuts to Gordon; they just analyzed DNA that was on the Joker card pinned to the body. It came back the police commissioner, Harvey Dent, and the judge who was going to prosecute all the criminals. The Joker is telling who his victims will be. They rush off to protect them.  Cut back to the party. Rachel goes outside and tells Bruce that he shouldn’t gave mocked Harvey like that. He tells her that he wasn’t. Harvey is the real knight of Gotham. He wants him to succeed so that he can finish being Batman. They talk a bit, but then go back inside when Harvey comes out. Sometime in here, it cuts to Gordon talking to the police commissioner, who drinks alcohol that has like acid in it. The judge is put in a car with an envelope with directions to where she should go to hide. She opens it and it says UP. The car explodes and Joker cards go everywhere.

Back at the party Harvey and Rachel are talking. Bruce comes up behind him and pulls him into a room and tells him to stay there. He goes through a wall and we cut back to the main room. The Joker comes up the elevator. He asks people if they know where Harvey Dent is. One man says that they’re not afraid. The Joker tells him that he reminds him of his father. He’s about to stab him or something when Rachel says to leave him alone. He goes over to her (saying that ‘hello beautiful’ bit form the trailer) and grabs her face. He asks her if she wants to know how he got those scars. He says that he had a wife who always asked him why he was so serious. One day she got scarred, so he cut his face into a smile to make her happy, but she couldn’t look at him anymore. She kicks him. He says that he likes a little fight in someone. Batman shows up. The Joker grabs Rachel, breaks a window and holds her out. Batman says to let go of her. The Joker replies that that was a poor choice of words. He lets go and Batman jumps out. He grabs her and they land on a cab. She asks if Harvey is okay and he says yes.

There’s two more dead bodies, one who has a last name Harvey, the other with the last name Dent. There’s a newspaper next to them with a picture of the mayor drawn all over. Gordon is there, as well as Batman. Batman takes the bullet in the wall, hoping to take off a fingerprint. He does this by recreating the bullet or something complicated like that. He and Alfred run it through various databases and find four possibilities. One of them lives along the funeral/parade route. He hops onto his motorcycle. They’re honoring the police commissioner. There are a lot of people on the roofs with guns. They’re watching for any suspicious movement. Bruce goes to the address, there’s some guys tied up. They’re police officers, but their uniforms were taken. There’s a timer on the windowsill. It goes off and the blind flies up. The officers on the rooftops fire at the window. We see chaos on the streets. One officer is firing at other officers. Gordon pushed the mayor out of the way, but he doesn’t get back up and a guy checks him and shakes his head. They put the guy who was wearing a police uniform in an ambulance. Harvey goes to him; his nametag says Officer Rachel Dawes. He drives the ambulance away.

Rachel is in the police station. She gets a call from Harvey saying to get somewhere safe, she can’t trust those men. She’ll go to Bruce’s penthouse. We then see Harvey, in a secluded area. He wants to know where the Joker is. He shows the man the coin and says, this side you live, this side you die. The first time it lands he says something like ‘Lucky you”, but he flips it a second time. Batman snatches it out of the air. Harvey can’t do this; Gotham will lose faith in him. He then tells Harvey that he’s turning himself in in the morning. Harvey tells him that he can’t, but he replies that he can’t let more people die.

Alfred and Bruce are in their hideout, burning anything that can lead back to Rachel or Fox. When the floor is going back up, Alfred asks if he’ll have to do time too, Bruce replies that he intends to tell everyone that it was all Alfred’s idea. We see a press conference. Harvey is telling people that they shouldn’t be giving into the Joker’s demands. He tells them that the night is darkest before the dawn. The press demands Batman. Bruce is about to turn himself in when Harvey says that HE is the Batman. They arrest him.

As they walk to an armored vehicle, some cops clap at Harvey’s heroics. Rachel walks up, she doesn’t like this. He gives her the coin and she sees that it’s heads on both sides. He leaves. At Bruce’s place Rachel is talking to Alfred. She can’t believe that Bruce would let Harvey do that. She gives Alfred a letter to give to Bruce at the right time. He asks her when that will be, and she says that it’s not sealed.

We see Harvey being transported. Some roads are blocked off. A police officer is telling a truck that they can’t go through. The Joker leans over and shoots him; the truck drives through. The transport team thing is driving along, but there’s a burning fire truck in the middle of their route. They go underground. A garbage truck attacks them. The truck with the Joker shows up. It says Slaughter on the side, with the S in red paint. They shoot at the armored truck. The bullets don’t go through, so they pull out a bazooka (at least that’s what the drivers say it is). They miss a couple times. The Batmobile shows up, and takes out the garbage truck. There’s some more chasing, and the Batmobile goes through a wall and flips. The screens are showing unrepairable damages. It then morphs into the Batpod, a motorcycle like thing that was pretty awesome. He catches up to the armored truck and the Joker’s truck. Using some cable, he flips the Joker’s truck. He then drives up a wall and flips around. The Joker gets out of the truck and stands in the road. Batman drives towards him. The Joker yells, “Hit me!” but he can’t. He swerves at the last minute, falling off the Batpod.

A clown faced man approaches him but is given an electrical shock when he tries to take off his mask. The Joker laughs at him and pretends to get shocked. He’s acting really happy, and is about to start beating Batman when our good friend Lt. Gordon shows up. He was only faking dead! They let Harvey out of the armored truck. Rachel’s there too. They get ‘taken home.’

Back at the station, they’re throwing the Joker in a cell. Gordon comments on how he has no other aliases, he’s only got knives and lint in his pockets, etc. The mayor tells Gordon he’s commissioner now. Everyone claps. We pan over to the Joker who’s clapping too. A bit later another guy is thrown into the same cell. He complains of stomach pains. The Joker is taken to an interviewing room. They discover that Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes are missing. He asks the Joker where they are. He replies, “What time is it?” Gordon asks what that’s got to do with it. He tells him that it’s the difference between him being in one place, and him being in a lot of places. Gordon uncuffs him and leaves. The lights come on and Batman comes out of the corner. He starts beating the Joker but he just gets happier and happier with every hit. He comments how Batman only has one rule. If he breaks it, he’s just like him. He tells him where Rachel is and where Harvey is and tells him that he’s going to have to choose. Batman goes off to save Rachel while Gordon and his men go to save Harvey.

We see Harvey sitting in a room, surrounded by oil drums. There’s a timer and a phone and he can hear Rachel. He tells her it’s going to be okay, that they’re coming for her. She tells him that that’s what she’s afraid of. She can’t live without him. He knocks his chair over, some oil spills.

Back at the station there’s a guy watching over the Joker. He keeps saying that he wants his phone call. The Joker keeps pushing his guard’s buttons.  He is provoked and takes off his jacket, intending to beat him up. In the holding cells, the guy is still saying that he doesn’t feel good. The Joker has the police officer hostage and when the other officers yell at him, he says that he just wanted his phone call.

Rachel and Harvey are still talking. Batman bursts into…Harvey’s room. The Joker lied. Harvey screams out “No!” Batman grabs him anyways, We see Rachel. Gordon and his men are outside. The timer runs out and the warehouse explodes. So does Harvey’s. He’s not far away enough so one half of his body (the one coated in oil) catches on fire.

The Joker is given a phone. The man in the holding cell is on the ground. Some people are looking at a giant scar on his stomach. His stomach lights up. One man gets out “Is that a phone?” before they explode too. The Joker goes to another holding cell. Lau is in it. He takes him and leaves.

Batman goes to where Rachel died, and finds the coin. He goes to Harvey’s hospital room and leaves it there. Back at the Wayne penthouse, Alfred is preparing breakfast. He reads Rachel’s letter. It says that she’s going to marry Harvey; she loves him. She knows that there will never be a day when he doesn’t need Batman, but she does love him as well. He places it on the tray. He talks with Bruce who is quite upset. He tells him that he needs to endure. When he leaves, he takes the letter with him.

It’s a warehouse, and there’s a giant pile of money with Lau on top of it. The mob guy with the dogs says it’s all there, what’s he going to do with it? The Joker tells him that he’s a simple man. He likes dynamite, gunpowder, and gasoline. A clown face starts dumping gas on the money. The Joker tells the man that fortunately these things are cheap. He takes his cigar and torches the money, telling the man that he cares too much about money. He then kills him and it is implied that he feeds him to the dogs.

Gordon talks to Harvey (at this point we only see half of his face). He yells at Gordon for having corrupt people in his division. It’s his fault that Rachel is dead. Gordon asks why he won’t get skin grafts. Harvey asks him what the nickname was for him when he was in internal affairs. Gordon gulps and says “Two face”. Harvey turns (the other half of his face is pretty gross) and says ‘Why should I hide what I am?’ Gordon leaves.

We see the man (Reese) from Wayne Enterprises who figured out who Batman is. He’s going to reveal it to the world on TV. The station gets a phone call from the Joker. He doesn’t want to know who the Batman is anymore and he certainly doesn’t want Reese ruining it for him. The people of Gotham have one hour to kill him, or he blows up a hospital.  Bruce sighs, and leaves, taking the Lamborghini (not the Batpod, which is too conspicuous as Alfred puts it). Gordon and another officer are transporting Reese. He’s telling his people to evacuate all the hospitals, but especially Gotham Memorial (where Harvey is). Batman texts him, telling him the names of two officers who have relatives in hospitals (they may try to kill Reese). One of them is the other guy helping him. Gordon tells him to give him his weapon. He doesn’t, but Gordon managed to force him to point it elsewhere when he shoots. We see a man in a truck watching the car with Reese. He accelerates when a Lamborghini flies in front of the car.

Back at the hospital, one of the police officers goes back in, looking for his friend since everyone is out. He walks into Harvey’s room and sees a nurse. ‘She’ turns around. It’s the Joker. He shoots the officer. (At this moment he is wearing a red curly wig and a dress. My friends and I nearly cried from laughing.) He tells Harvey that it’s all the mob bosses fault that Rachel is dead. It was all planned, and the Joker doesn’t plan. He just does. It’s no fun when everything goes well. Chaos is fair, that sort of thing. He lets him out, and gives him a gun. Harvey takes the coin and tells him that one side will allow him to live; the other will lead to his death.

Back at the crash, Gordon is asking Bruce if he was trying to save Reese. Bruce says that he’s sorry he was trying to run the red light. Reese sees him and they share a look. He won’t be turning him over anytime soon. The Joker walks out of the room. Things explode. Once he’s out of the hospital he turns back and hits the detonator a couple of times then tries again. This time the entire thing explodes. He gets into the back of a bus that was transporting patients to other hospitals. Gordon hears the blast and realizes where it came from. He goes there. Someone tells him that a bus is missing and that no one knows where Harvey Dent is or where a local news anchor is.

There is a broadcast from the Joker. Look out for bridges. We see police officers scanning various bridges. Cut to a bar, and the bartender asking why his patron isn’t out there. The man at the bar replies that it’s his day off. The bartender goes to the bathroom and Two Face shows up. He asks who transported Rachel. It was Ramirez. Two Face shoots the man and leaves. We also see Two Face get into a mob boss’ car and shoot the driver. The car flips and the man is killed.

It’s nighttime. They’re transporting the prisoners that Harvey Dent was prosecuting; they think the Joker will target them next. They’re put onto a ferry. We see two ferries and the lights flicker on one. All their communications have been cut off and they can’t move. The same happens with the other. One boat has prisoners and the other has civilians. They go to look in the holds and they find oil drums and a detonator. They’re confused, why give them the detonator?

We see Gordon’s wife. She gets a call from Ramirez, she and her children need to go to a meeting place, the police outside are corrupt. She says okay. We see Ramirez; Two Face is holding her at gunpoint. She tries to explain that it was her mother’s hospital bills that made her do it. He flips the coin and tells her it’s her lucky day. He punches her.

Back on the ferries, the Joker’s voice is heard. They have the detonator for the other ferry. It’s up to them who lives or dies. If neither one is gone by midnight, they’re both gone. One man on the civilian boat is very vocal. They should press it right now and go home. On the convict ferry the guards are pulling out their guns, keeping them at bay.

Fox’s secretary comes in. There’s a break-in in the R&D sector. He goes down and finds Batman. He’s used his sonar technology to convert all the phones to create a model of the city. If the Joker’s voice is heard, they’ll know where he is. Fox says that as long as this machine exists at Wayne Enterprises, he won’t be there after tonight. Batman simply says, when you’re done enter your name. He leaves. Soon it recognizes the Joker’s voice and Fox directs him an address. He also tells Gordon.

We see Gordon and some SWAT guys. They’ve found the Joker in a building overlooking the river. They see hostages and men in clown masks. Batman shows up, and demands time with the Joker. He flies over. He sees that the real hostages were put in clown masks and the real bad guys are dressed as doctors and patients. He turns on the sonar thing. His eyes turn like white. He can now pretty much see through walls. He goes up. The SWAT teams come in and he has to prevent them from hurting the real hostages, so he fights them and the doctors. Eventually SWAT figures it out.

Back on the civilian ferry, there’s a vote, they’re going to use the detonator. The captain says something about how he can’t do it since the other boat hasn’t killed them yet. On the convict boat one man walks up to the chief guard and says to give it to him. The guard can’t take a life, but he’ll do what needs to be done. He can tell his superiors that it was taken by force. On the civilian ferry, the vocal man walks up and says he’ll do it. The guard hands the man the detonator. He then throws it out the window and walks back to his seat. Back on the civilian ferry the man picks it up and is about to do it, but puts it back and walks back to his seat.

Gordon gets a phone call from Two Face. He has Gordon’s family and he wants him to meet him where his family died.

Batman finds the Joker, who now has the dogs. They attack him, but he fends them off. He and the Joker fight. They end up on a construction thing. The Joker tells him that it’s too late. The fireworks will be starting any second. Midnight comes and neither boat explodes. He’s shocked and Batman pushes him off the building. The Joker laughs as he falls, but Batman shoots a cable and catches him. He still can’t break his one rule. The Joker tells him how it’s still too late. He’s changed Harvey Dent. Once Gotham finds out what he’s done, it’s all over. Batman leaves him swinging.

Gordon goes to the warehouse where Rachel died. He sees his family and Two Face standing over them. He blames Gordon, so which member of his family does he love most? That’s who’s going to die. He finally selects his son. He flips the coin. Batman is there. Two Face can’t do this. It wasn’t the boy’s fault. It was theirs, Gordon, Batman and Harvey’s. They gave the city back, but there was a cost. They have to face it. Two Face agrees. He starts with Batman. He flips the coin. He tells him too bad and shoots him. Then moves onto himself. He lives. As he flips for Gordon’s son, Batman tackles him (good ol’ bulletproof suits). Gordon runs to the side that they went over. Batman’s holding on to the edge and his son. He passes him the son and lets go. He falls next to Two Face. Gordon runs down. He’s still alive. They look at Two Face. They can’t let Harvey’s vision die like that. Batman reaches over and turns his face so the normal side shows. He tells Gordon that Gotham needs their White Knight, their hero. He tells him that he was always meant to be an outcast. Batman will take the blame for the cops’ murders.

Gordon tells him that he’ll be hunted. He understands. He pushes Gordon’s walkie talkie to him and tells him to call it in. The police come in and he runs. This is then interspersed with clips of Gordon reading a eulogy (Harvey Dent was the man that Gotham didn’t deserve but the one that they loved. Or something like that.), Alfred burning Rachel’s letter, Fox typing in his name (which destroys the machine), and Gordon destroying the Bat signal. Gordon tells his son that Batman is the Knight that Gotham deserves, but that one that it will hunt (it’s the opposite of what he says about Harvey); he’s their Dark Knight.

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In case you haven’t heard, there’s this little movie coming out on the 18th called Dark Knight. Just FYI.

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Girl is in demand. Here she is in the latest GQ magazine posing topless and bottomless. So basically if you add them together girl is practically nude, and not to mention damn hot. Good job GQ and enjoy fellas. It doesn’t get much better than this.
 
 
 
 

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Nika Smith wrote a post on the Google blog today showing the evolution of Google chat before it launched in early 2006. Google does extensive testing of new products using employees as guinea pigs (see our post on the pre-launch evolution of Gmail) as well as outsiders brought in to test software and interfaces in their usability lab.

I had a chance to see the lab a few weeks ago. It’s a small room with a large flat screen monitor, along with a desk and computer. It also has a number of discrete cameras (and a microphone) that keep an eye on the user herself as well as the screen.

Around the corner is a second room where Google employees can watch people interact with the software real time. The room has a couch and a chair along with two screens and speakers to monitor the lab. See the image to the right.

The Gmail Labs team took us through some of the pre-launch iterations of Gmail chat that were tested in the lab. Most of these weren’t included in the Google post, so I’ve added them below. All of these were eventually abandoned as the team moved towards the much more low profile chat window at the bottom right of the Gmail screen we see today.

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