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...Golden Compass expired after one episode; and the first two films based on C.S. Lewis's Narnia novels became so expensive that Disney ditched the idea of making a third. (It has been picked up elsewhere.) Hard to say whether Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, will flourish on screen, but it has a hopeful start, for which director Chris Columbus deserves some credit. On his own, Columbus is no hit machine: his last two features, Rent and I Love You, Beth Cooper, earned only $29 million and $15 million, respectively. But as the launch deliverer for kids'-movie series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Wrap: America Hearts Valentine's Day | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

...different. The regular spots to enter username and password were missing when you directed your mouse to where you should have been able to log in. What the heck?! Google fail? Impossible. Recognizing that Google must be up to something, you must have reluctantly directed your gaze towards the screen and seen this golden message: “Go beyond status messages...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What’s the Buzz about Buzz? | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

...catapulted over the low outer wall of the track, into an unpadded steel support column. His sled was traveling at 88 m.p.h. The ghastly replay of the accident was shown several times on Canadian national television. Viewers screamed when they saw the clip on one downtown Vancouver television screen. (See pictures of the tragic luge crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics Open with Restrained, Respectful Celebration | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

...feel so superior that, when I drive it, she tells me I'm driving it wrong. My primitive method of accelerating to speed up and braking to slow down does not maximize miles per gallon, as she can show me on an annoying bar graph on that center screen. Prius owners work very hard to get as many miles per gallon as they can to win a game they like to call Getting in an Accident While Staring at a Screen with a Dumb Graphic. (See the top 10 product recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: My Prius Problem | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...people don't exist. But I got excited when Toyota recalled the 2010 Prius. It's not that I dislike the Prius. My lovely wife Cassandra has one, and it is an excellent vehicle. Except for its need to constantly tell you how excellent it is. There's a screen in the center of the dashboard with an animation that shows how much energy the car is recycling as you drive it. If one of your employees were really efficient but throughout the day kept standing up in his cubicle and yelling, "I am really efficient!" you would fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: My Prius Problem | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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