MARK HAMILL, the 59-year-old American actor and producer best known for his role as ‘Luke Skywalker’ in the original STAR WARS trilogy, has confirmed himself to provide the voice of ‘The Joker’ in the forthcoming ‘Batman’ video game ‘Arkham City’, reports Screenrant.com
Hamill has worked as a voice actor on a number of high-profile projects in recent years, including a cameo in ‘Futurama’, and he voiced ‘The Joker’ in the highly successful Batman game ‘Arkham Asylum’ in 2009. Speaking about his reasons for working on the game’s sequel, the 59-year-old admitted that he had originally planned to “go out on a high note” following the ‘Asylum’s’ massive success, but suggested that the “powers that be” in Hollywood did not take kindly to him wanting to walk away from the project.
And yet for many decades now, scientists have noticed an extraordinary link between the ratio of two digits on the hand — the ring and index fingers, known in scientists’ jargon as 2D and 4D — and a whole host of seemingly unrelated traits. Evidence is growing that this ‘digit ratio’, especially when applied to the right hand, is a fundamental indicator of sexuality, aggression and diseases suffered by men.
Remember that story we posted last week about Google changing its search algorithm due to a scumbag scammer gaming the system? Well, the feds swooped in today and busted the guy.
Vitaly Borker, 34, was arrested at his home in Brooklyn, New York, and charged with fraud, cyberstalking and harassment, the U.S. Department of Justice said. He faces up to 20 years in prison. According to the complaint against him and a profile that appeared in The New York Times last month, Borker made abusive customer service his signature style. Prosecutors say he shipped counterfeit or defective products and threatened customers with violence if they complained. via
Using Microsoft’s Kinect, researchers at UC Berkeley’s Hybrid Systems Lab have developed what looks like a cross between Johhny 5 and a hunter killer robot from the Terminator movies.
Catherine O’Neill’s future was hanging in the balance until she showed signs of life when a nurse happened to tickle her feet during a wash.
And just four hours later – after doctors gave her fluids and steroids – she was awake, learning to walk again and is looking forward to Christmas with her family.
