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  Finally it seems Michael Lohan is expressing some genuine concern for his daughter’s health and well being. Michael is convinced that Lindsay is addicted to prescription pills and tried to confront the judge who reviewed her progress report from her DUI conviction. Here’s what Michael had to say:  “I’ve been trying to get into court with the judge for a long time. The last time she was in court the judge should have drug tested her. If she had, I know Lindsay would have come up dirty and she would have been thrown into rehab.” Michael also wanted to address Lindsay directly bringing up supposed text messages they have been exchanging some as recently as Tuesday night: “It really pisses me off that when you have trouble or when you’re in St. Barth’s and you have nowhere to turn to and you tell me everything is going awry and your sister [Ali Lohan] is missing…I’m up 6 hours in the night trying to hire a jet to pick you up and take you home…and then you flip the script on me. “Whenever you need me, you call me. Whenever you have a problem, I’m there for you. You can’t backstab people. You can’t turn your back on the people that love you and want to help you. This is about you getting well, you getting healthy, me loving you and wanting you to do the right thing. The prescription drugs are killing you.” I hope that someone can get through to her, because it seems that she is heading down the same road Anna Nicole went down. Lindsay is a great actress but she MUST get her life together before she completely loses her career and her life.

I actually like this Ludacris record. What do you think? HOT OR NOT? Timbaland and Justin Timberlake link up again for “Carry Out”…HOT OR NOT? The video for Dru Hill’s “Love MD”.. the leading single off their new album InDRUpendence Day! INDRUPENDENCE DAY Repost: Rihanna’s Rude Boy Share and Enjoy:

Retired police officer Bill Angus hates speeding almost as much as he loves birds. So he did what any reasonable person would do: design a feeder that looks exactly like a speed camera , and mount it in his front yard. And it seems to be working! At least, the slowing traffic part; there’s no word on how birds have taken to it yet: Mr Angus insists – without so much as a hint of a smile – that the effect on speeders is no more than a happy coincidence. ‘Why does everyone think it’s a fake speed camera?’ he asked. ‘It’s a bird box and has been designed this way to stop people stealing it. It’s a bright colour, too, to attract the blue tits and finches. Since I have put it up, the traffic is keeping to 30mph. If people want to think it is a camera, that is a matter for themselves.’ It may not have the same vigilante cachet as, say, Batman, but bonus points for creativity. And although it’s sneaky, I’d much prefer a birdhouse that looks like a speed trap than a speed trap disguised as a birdhouse. [ Daily Mail UK via Neatorama ]

If you enjoy 33-page camera reviews, today’s your lucky day, friend, with DP Review’s epic page-turner on Canon’s 1D Mark IV . Solid low-light performance, the fastest full-res shooting on the planet, and they’ve fixed the AF. Video? Dicier: [ DP Review ]

We try not to single out auto-translated press releases that have funny phrases in them, but when your English missive promises a laptop with “low-keyed luxury and nobleness,” well, it’s hard to ignore. That’s what’s on the docket with MSI’s GE600, a gaming and general entertainment machine that’s been given a (rather subtle) golden hue for the luxe crowd. More importantly it features a discrete ATI Radeon HD5730 video card with 1GB of memory and DirectX 11 compatibility, Intel Core i5 processors, up to 500GB of storage, and a 720p-capable webcam. At 2.7kg (5.95lbs) it’s not the lightest machine, but few DX11-compatible notes are exactly svelte these days. No word on price or availability, but we’re going to go ahead and guess it’ll cost less than other golden portable offerings . MSI Launches GE600 laptop for gamers who need ‘low-keyed luxury and nobleness’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

I’d be more excited if this special limited edition color was a never-seen-before color, but alas Pentax thinks the camera world can still get excited about silver. Or maybe silver is rare in Japan, where this model is launching? The K-7 has been around since last summer , but only 1,000 of these limited edition model exist. If the new silver color, a reinforced LCD screen and new firmware and image processing software is making your fingers itch at the thought of flying out to Japan to scoop one up, it’s on sale March 13th for the equivalent of $1,420. Apart from those minor changes, it’s still the same old 14.6-megapixel, 720-p-shooting camera which can be picked up for as low as $1,000 on Amazon . [ CrunchGear

Canon’s EOS-1D Mark IV has been slinking around at retail availability for some time now, and while we brought you plenty of sample imagery from the camera over a month ago , it’s taken awhile for the thing to get the full review treatment. Digital Photography Review has finally done the deed, dedicating a whopping 33 pages to Canon’s low-light, 1080p wunderkind. It’s that last new feature, video, that the review finds fault in, with the same jellyvision we’ve seen on other HD-shootin’ DSLRs (seemingly no worse here than elsewhere), but the review feels that the movie mode here doesn’t feel sufficiently integrated with the camera. Meanwhile that low-light, high-ISO shooting performance is impressive, but not quite up to the performance of the Nikon D3S . Everything else, though, seems to be a nice evolution over the older Mark III — if you have a similarly advanced budget. Canon EOS-1D Mark IV survives marathon 33 page review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Over at Beyond Binary , Ina Fried’s got a fascinating profile of Omega Timing , the company that’s been managing event timing at the Olympics for over 70 years. Counting seconds now is somehow totally different than it was in 1936. Take the methods for timing skiers: Less than a century ago, the timing of downhill skiing required someone at the top and bottom of the run, each with a stopwatch synchronized to the time of day. Every few skiers, the timer at the top would send down a piece of paper with the start times of the last few skiers and then some math would ensue, eventually resulting in the time of the run being calculated. Or the above pictured replacement for the classic—and conceptually bizarre, because what the hell, a gun?—starter pistol: Among the many Winter Olympics firsts at Vancouver is the use of a new all-electronic starter gun that emits a consistent sound and light. Plus, says Omega’s Christophe Berthaud, it’s a whole lot easier to get through airport security. Or—and this is the most surprising bit—the raw manpower it takes to time the Olympics now , versus the good old days: At its first Olympics, in Germany in 1936, Omega sent a single technician with 27 stopwatches to the Games. At the 2006 Turin, Italy, Winter Games, Omega sent 208 people—127 timekeepers and 81 data handlers—along with some 220 tons of equipment. I’m partial to the classic classic method, by which competitors judged their own finishing times, got in fights about who finished first, and settled the dispute like real athletes: On the floor of the coliseum, with improvised weapons, while running from recently imported, still disoriented exotic animals. Athletes nowadays! [ CNET ]

The 23.6-inch Acer GD235HZ ($399) and Alienware OptX AW2310 ($499) represent the latest gen 3DHD monitors. So which is the better buy for 3D gaming? Tom’s Hardware actually likes them both quite a bit. In their epic review of these 120Hz displays, Tom’s gives Acer points for excellent contrast while praising the Alienware for superior color. Both seem equal in terms of actual 3D (and much improved from the previous generation of 3D LCDs), which makes sense given that two monitors with equal refresh rates and resolution are being driven by identical graphics cards and looked at with identical NVIDIA shutter glasses. For Tom’s, it comes down to amenities, which they feel Alienware nails with extra ports, a nicer build and a swiveling display. I personally just dig that orange finish. Since the OptX AW2310 is on sale for $450 at the time of this post, it certainly sounds worth the $50 premium, should you want to enter that whole 3D glasses lifestyle. [ Tom's Hardware ]

Abbie Cornish packs up her stuff and leaves Ryan Phillippe . To the left, to the left. ( People ) Brad Pitt reportedly brokered a father-daughter reunion between Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight . There are pictures! ( Daily Mail ) Jordan Dawes , the photographer Sean Penn kicked back in October, needed surgery on his knee, his lawyer says. The lawyer said he wanted to avoid pressing charges against Penn for misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor vandalism, but was “stonewalled” by Penn’s attorneys. ( TMZ ) Andrew Koenig , the actor best known for playing Boner on Growing Pains , is missing. He was last seen in Vancouver on Valentine’s Day. ( Zap2it ) Alexa Ray Joel is the new face of Prell shampoo. ( Page Six ) Behind the scenes of a Q Magazine photo shoot, Lady Gaga’s behavior was reportedly pretty bizarre. After saying she hated the photos, she started crying and promptly walked out. She then insisted she would only continue if her boyfriend took the pictures instead. The magazine didn’t go for that. ( Mirror ) Dreams really do come true: Thanks go a grassroots campaign, Betty White may host Saturday Night Live . ( EW.com ) Post from: Crushable

If James Spader and Matt Damon mated, the end result might resemble Matt Czuchry. At first glance, Czuchry looks your card-carrying blonde frat bro but there is  much more to him than that; like a second-generation Spader circa the 1980s, beneath the Alpha exterior and white-collar smarm lies hidden depth and darkness. You may know Czuchry as the following: Rory’s spoiled rich boyfriend Logan on Gilmore Girls Lyla’s conservative boyfriend on Friday Night Lights who she dumped for Riggins (no brainer) Tucker Max in the author’s universally reviled movie adaptation of his crass memoir “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” Tucker Max, ugh. We are going to take this unfortunate bit of career trivia, store it away and never speak of it again. Capiche? Either Czuchry got a new agent or a lucky break because, at this very moment, he’s using his natural smarm for good as a hungry young associate on The Goodwife . He plays Cary, who we initally write off because he’s such a jerk to badass lawyer heroine Alicia Florick (Julianna Margulies). Cary sometimes tries to throw Alicia off her game as compete in their junior roles at one of the biggest defense law firms in Chicago. But just when you want to hate him, he does something noble (assists her in gathering evidence for a high-profile case) or funny (eats a bunch of ’shrooms on his night off, then unexpectedly gets called into the office). All right, but just who is Matt Czuchry the man? Here are some things you need to know, now that he’s on the up and up: He’s 32 years old, born in New Hampshire and raised in Tennessee. He was captain of the tennis team at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and reportedly dated Kate Bosworth after the two met on the set of the WB’s short-lived series “Young Americans.” That show was set at a New England prep school, which is Czuchry’s natural environment. Oh, and his last name is pronounced zoo-crie. Know it, use it, love it — and forget about Tucker Max. Post from: Crushable