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How cool is this? MGM is selling off their Stargate prop department piece by piece... I guess after they've shut down and cancelled productions for Stargate SG-1 after 10 seasons and Atlantis for 5 seasons they've reasoned that these props belong to the loyal fans. All auctions start from 0.99 cents but many of them end up at a few hundred dollars for a hunk of painted artificial metal or wood artifacts. But hey - its as close as you can get to the real thing - you can relive famous Stargate SG-1/Atlantis scenes. As I write this the Stargate SG-1 Props: Goauld Ribbon Device is at USD$690 or AUD$1,018.45.... with a bit under 5 days to go. I'm guessing it will fetch at least USD$2,000+? C'mon, this device is iconic in the Stargate universe... It has been with the franchise since the original Stargate movie (I think). And they say that's its the only one being offered in the eBay auctions. they say its a "Metallic Working Ribbon Device. The device is quite heavy as it’s metal that’s painted silver. It has a switch on the base that when turned on allows the device to be activated by a wireless remote. Using the remote the light on the bottom glows on and won’t turn off till the button is pushed again." If I had some spare cash lying around I would definitely buy this prop...

Ok, before you go messing around with your registry make sure you back up and know how to restore your registry just in case anything goes wrong. This Vista registry hack will show you how to turn off and finally get rid of that annoying User Access Control (or was it User Account Control? UAC) dialog box that keeps popping up. You've probably tried this: Open up Control Panel, and type in "UAC" into the search box. You'll see a link for "Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off".

After you've backed up your Windows Vista registry, open up the registry editor by clicking "Start" and "Search" for "regedit". Once found, open up that registry editor.

Use the "Find" function to search for this: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Then find the key for: ConsentPromtpBehaviorAdmin

Change the DWORD entry from 00000002 to 00000000.

Once you've made this simple change in your registry, you won’t be bothered by that annoying User Account Control (UAC) popup anymore. Good luck!

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Kaley Cuoco or Kaley Christine Cuoco was born November 30, 1985 in Camarillo, California, to Gary Carmine Cuoco, an Oxnard, California realtor, and Layne Ann Wingate, a homemaker. She has a younger sister named Briana. She was schooled on the set and earned her high school diploma at the age of 16. She had many pets, including a Jack Russell Terrier named Raquel.

How tall is Kaley Cuoco? 5'6.5" or 1.69 m. Her last name, Cuoco, translates to "cook" in Italian. Ranked as #78 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement (2005).

Cuoco began modeling and acting at age 6. Her first major role was in the 1992 TV movie Quicksand: No Escape. Her role as Maureen McCormick in the 2000 TV movie Growing Up Brady brought her much attention, as well as a role on the CBS sitcom Ladies Man.

Kaley Cuoco is best known for her roles in ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules as Bridget Hennessy, and as Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory with Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons.

Kaley Cuoco in Bikini from Men's Health

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Sydney had terrible weather yesterday. It was like a cold winter's day, rainy and windy. I received a package yesterday, stuffed by the postman into my mailbox. This yellow envelope was drenched. The envelope was from Rewards Central. RewardsCentral is a new website brand which grew out of EmailCash. It's basically the same company, same website - they just felt they outgrew their EmailCash namesake. Back to their crap rewards.

RewardCentral rewards customers with crap rewards. A MousePad for getting 500 Exp?!? Well, thanks for the mousepad... but is this all we get? I would have preferred a cheap pen. The "With Compliments" slip says: "As one of our highly valued members we are happy to present you with this RewardsCentral mousepad. We hope you enjoy it!" All I'm going to enjoy is throwing it into the bin since the plastic is peeling off the mouse pad from being water damaged and its USELESS. Thanks RewardsCentral and your crap rewards.

Black Friday: The tradition to wake up the day after Thanksgiving and go shopping at 4 in the morning has always been a ridiculous one. All the major stores slash prices, so parents can save money on high School Musical memorabilia their kids will outgrow by next year. Lines are long, and employees have to interrupt their Thanksgiving festivities so they can sleep for a few hours before working this chaotic day (and for no extra pay, usually).

With the economy as bad as it is, people still rushed out in droves this year for the annual Black Friday Sales. Many stores reduced prices so low that even a guy who was laid off from his job could buy presents for his whole family without breaking the bank (which probably is broken anyway). Madness rose to new heights, except tragically. At a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, New York, an employee was trampled to death when a crowd of over 2,500 people rushed in to indulge in the latest sales. Also in Southern California, two men apparently engaged in a duel that left both men riddled with bullets. Who the hell brings guns to a toy store?!?

At 39 years old, Jennifer Aniston has finally posed nude. In the January 2009 issue of GQ magazine she wears nothing but a tie: with the headline "Is it just us or is Jennifer Aniston getting hotter?" Talking about the media coverage about her ex-husband Brad Pitt and wife, Angelina Jolie. Aniston tells the magazine: "The funny thing is that people don't realise we all go away to the Hamptons on the weekends." "But can you imagine? That'd be hysterical: I've got Zahara on my hip, and Knox ..." As for Jolie's past remarks about falling for Pitt on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith, Aniston says: "No daggers through the heart. I laugh. Am I surprised? ... Considering the source, nothing surprises me."

But of course Jennifer Aniston isn't really posing nude. She's done something like this before in the movie "The Break Up with Vince Vaughn. Covered up nudity. But teasing is still okay. there are some funny conversations on the forums about this photoshoot with Jennifer Aniston... some are even arguing about which knot she is attempting to do: Grantchester, Hanover or Royal Windsor knot? Photography by Michael Thompson... who shot her multiple times before...

Jennifer Aniston is an American actress famous for her role on the sitcom "Friends" on which she appeared as Rachel Green in 238 episodes from 1994 to 2004. While there she (or rather her character) created a new trend in hairstyling: "The Rachel" (a bouncy, square layered hairstyle). She married her boyfriend of 2-1/2 years, Brad Pitt, on 29th July 2000 in Malibu, California - they divorced on the 2nd October 2005 (Brad Pitt is now married to Angelina Jolie). Since the couple's divorce, Aniston has been romantically linked to actor Vince Vaughn (1 year younger than Jen) , British model Paul Sculfor and singer John Mayer (8 years younger than Jen).

Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, and grew up in New York City. Aniston is the daughter of the actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. Jennifer's father is a Greek American, born Yannis Anastassakis, on the island of Crete, Greece, while her mother was born in New York City of English and Scottish descent.

I've been watching re-runs of the long running Stargate SG-1 and I came across this episode where Teal'c says: "I am leaving. You are about to explode." (Season 10, Episode 17 Talion 1017 Originally aired 1st July 2007) If you want to watch the 20 second Youtube video have a look below. Teal'c has shown his badass side on occasion throughout the ten year history of this sci-fi show. This is probably the best example of Teal'c going nuts. In this episode, some terrorist Jaffa sympathetic to the Ori cause (another false god enemy) set a bomb to explode and kill many other Jaffa. Teal'c goes on the hunt. He finds Ba'Kal, removes his symbiote and replaced it with a bomb. He walks away and KaBoom! You can watch a parody of Stargate too...

This past year has proven to be the year of Anne Hathaway. She played Agent 99 alongside Steve Carell in the film adaptation of Get Smart, in which her and Carell made a stunning on-screen duo. She also received mega credentials for her role in the Jonathan Demme movie, Rachel Getting Married, in which Hathaway plays a drug addict fresh out of rehab. However, 2008 was also a hard year for the brunette actress because her longtime boyfriend turned out to be a crook.

Such personal tragedy has not slowed Anne Hathaway down a smidge, for she is starring with Kate Hudson in a movie entitled Bride Wars, out in theaters January 9. Her performance in Rachel Getting Married has many people throwing the word “Oscar” around, and she also hosted Saturday Night Live in October.

Anne Hathaway is also a rare type of actress for me. She is a Hollywood “it” girl I am not sick of at all. She is a truly talented actress, and her interviews and television appearances leave me charmed, and her authenticity is nothing short of radiant. If she could keep up her momentum, Anne Hathaway will definitely be seen as one of today’s finest actresses.

A New York restaurant waiter, Steve Dublanica, has written a book called "Waiter Rant". The book exposes the restaurant industry, revealing insights into the world of waiting tables in an Italian restaurant in NYC. He writes about waiters spitting in food and about psychological games that wait staff play on restaurant customers who are abusive or arrogant clientele.

Other restaurant waitstaff behaviour described by Dublanica include selling techniues such as the "daily special" or if a customer asks, "what's good?" the answer is usually the dish which the chef needs to move otherwise the stock will go off.

The internet has fuelled many new industries, one of which is the online forex trading industry (forex = forex exchange i.e. currencies). Once the domain of institutional traders, the internet has opened up forex trading to many public retail traders. Because of the structure and potential rewards of trading successfully, it has attracted quite a few scammers and spammers. Forex trading has been labelled as gambling - and it is (it is only detrimental to your finances if you don't act like a professional gambler by controlling the risks taken), and it has also been classified by some as a get rich quick scheme (which depends on your perspective - if you are trying to get rich from forex trading quickly then it is).

The forex trading spammers merely do the underhanded marketing technique of spamming multiple email boxes for the forex scammers. Watch out for programs and teaching packages which promise extraordinary returns. Remember: "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." If they can make 1000% each week, why are they sharing the trading strategy? if I can make that much money, do you think I'll I'd be sitting in front of a computer sharing the information through the kindness of my heart? I'd be in the Bahamas relaxing on a beach. Another consequence of sharing information like effective trading strategies may have a detrimental effect to the overall strategy.

I was trying to find an English saying today and I found this list. Here's a list of English proverbs or English sayings which are commonly used in English speaking countries.

Top 10 list of commonly used English Sayings (i.e. overused English proverbs):

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
2. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
3. Walk the walk and talk the talk.
4. Actions speak louder than words.
5. Love is blind.
6. Money cannot buy happiness.
7. Never judge the book by its cover.
8. Prevention is better than cure.
9. Simple minds think alike.
10. Monkey see, monkey do.

Celebrities are mostly idiots. Celebrity news is written mostly of idiots. Celebrity news programs are mostly watched by idiots. This idiocy has a cycle. Without the celebrities, there would be no celebrity writers. Without the celebrity writers, there are no shows on celebrity news. Without the shows, that leaves no one to care. Without people caring (viewers), however, the show gets cancelled; the writers are out of a job and without the masses caring, that leaves no celebrity. All that leaves is an empty shell.

Therefore, in order to stay even slightly relevant (or not completely doomed to obscurity), Britney Spears has to neglect her kids, Amy Winehouse has to keep smoking crack and getting arrested, and Paris Hilton needs to have a new boyfriend every six weeks. When Mary Lou’s pension is disappearing, and her 401K is being swindled by Wall Street crooks and tycoons, what else is going to dull her pain? A crossword puzzle? Too cerebral. Let’s watch Lindsay Lohan drive into

By far one of the funniest sitcoms to grace television in the last decade, Lucky Louie was an unfairly short-lived sitcom on HBO, lasting only one season in 2006. It starred comedian (and source for all of Dane Cook’s jokes) Louis C.K. as a father raising a child in Boston with his wife. He works in a muffler shop part time, while his wife Kim (Pamela Adlon), a registered nurse, is the main breadwinner in the family. Together they raise their precocious 4-year-old daughter, Lucy (Kelly Gould).

However, this isn’t the Cosby Show. The subject matter on Lucky Louie deals with serious, adult-related themes such as sex, and the language used in its dialogue is nothing short of raunchy. I don’t fully believe that raunchy humor is funny, but the context in which this show used it, it was realistic, and not used mainly for shock value or cheap laughs. Louie’s two best friends, Mike (Michael G. Hagerty) and Rich (played hilariously by shock comic, Jim Norton), provided the show with some of its most comical moments, like when Rich pretends to be mentally retarded to get a free slice of pizza. The tension of Louie’s homelife, namely the sexual frustration he endures with his wife and the frustration of raising a young kid who acts up with his daughter, also provided the show with comedic brilliance.

Many Australian uni students like to associate themselves with the stereotype of a struggling student living on a small amount of cash. But Ross Gittins, the Sydney Morning Herald economics columnist doesn't buy into it. There isn't such a thing as a poor uni student. He says that these "self-pitying university students" are "middle-class kids pretending to be poor and deserving, whereas they're actually setting themselves up for a life of well-above-average earnings. The few years of their life they spend having to scrimp and save won't do them any harm. It might teach them to have some concern for the genuinely needy." He also notes that "on average, the lifetime earnings of graduates are about 70 per cent greater than for those who went only to year 12." But all in all, he concludes that most under 25's live at home anyway, plus some would get Youth Allowance from the government and more than 60 percent have some form of work to subsidise whatever expenses they have...

Gittins goes on to talk about HECS repayments by uni students - which affects all graduates after they leave uni and start earning a REAL income (HECS is the Australian system of deferring university/college fees, where accumulated fees have no interest but is indexed to inflation).