Filed under: Farming, Fish, On the Blogs, America, Shellfish, Health & Medical

Yesterday I wrote about the controversy over whether pregnant and nursing women should eat fish and if so, how much they should eat. If you’ve decided that eating fish is the way to go for you and want to make sure that your choices are grounded in good information, there’s a new service that can help you out via text message.

The Blue Ocean Institute is offering a service called FishPhone. Simply send a text message to 30644 with the word FISH and the type of fish you want to know about and it will get back to momentarily with information about that particular type of fish. You can also search on their website if you are planning dinner and want to check out the safety of the fish called for in your recipe. Unfortunately, the website doesn’t give much info on mercury levels and seems pretty static, so it wouldn’t be helpful in the case of current safety alert.

Via Treehugger

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Filed under: Business, Health & Medical

It seems like every I turn around these days, there’s another food recall being issued. Tonight it’s coming from Campbell’s Soup Company. They are voluntarily recalling more than 72,000 cans of their Chunky Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits Soup because they may contain small pieces of plastic that run a choking and health risk. Three people have reported small injuries around the mouth from consuming this soup.

Consumers who purchased the Chunky Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits soup with the can code JUL 08 2009 07097 are advised to return the product to the store where it was purchased for an exchange or refund.

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All the Madhuri Dixit fans its time to rejoice because Madhuri is back. Well, if you are wondering what I’m talking about, it’s the new movie starring Madhuri Dixit. The movie is a Yash Raj Productions and it is named ‘Aaja Nachle’ it will be great to see Madhuri back in action. The movie is […]

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Filed under: Gaming

Although we knew that Japan would be getting a new pair of pastel-ed Xbox 360 controllers, there’s good news for those camped out in America, too. Starting today, US consumers can snatch up each of the colored controllers for $49.99 apiece, which are indeed of the wireless variety. Thankfully, this blue looks a tad more masculine than the prior version we saw, and if you’re still in doubt, check out a few more angles after the jump.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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Filed under: Blu-ray, New Releases

October has so far been a great month for Blu-ray movie fans. Last week, we were treated to several horror titles, and we’re getting a few more this week.

• 28 Days Later
• 28 Weeks Later
• Surf’s Up
• Robocop
• Edward Scissorhands
• Twilight Zone: The Movie
• From Hell
• Reign Over Me
• Nature’s Journey
• The Fly

Not only are classics like The Fly and Twilight Zone: The Movie heading our way, but we’ll also get to see Tim Burton’s underappreciated Edward Scissorhands in hi-def glory. If there’s one movie you pick up this week, it’s gotta be Scissorhands.

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Filed under: Audio/Video, Advice, Columns, Editor’s Picks

We’re asked all the time what constitutes a great, but affordable home theater package. Unfortunately, ‘affordable’ can mean very different things to different people. So, we’ve put together two excellent home theater set-ups for two different budgets, both of which are still firmly planted in the realm of reality. In other words, you probably won’t need a winning lottery ticket to afford the payments on them.

For the budget-conscious buyer:

VIZIO VX37L 37-inch LCD TV
At just $799 for a top-notch LCD, you really can’t beat VIZIO. Though you might not be familiar with the name, the company has been making some noise lately for offering high-quality sets priced with real people in mind. On this LCD, you get two HDMI inputs for connecting video sources with just one cable for picture and sound — a nice feature at such a low price. The resolution tops out at 720p, but at this size that’s all you’ll need for HDTV broadcasts, DVDs and gaming. (More on 720p versus 1080p here.)

Panasonic SC-PT950 Wireless Home Theater
When putting together a home theater, hardcore audiophiles will tell you to handpick your components and speakers separately. But, that quickly gets expensive and time-consuming. All-in-one systems, or HTIBs (Home Theater In a Box), on the other hand, give you everything you need in one convenient package - like this Panasonic kit, which includes a receiver, amplifier, five-disc DVD changer and speakers. In addition to an included iPod dock and the ability to up-convert DVDs to true 1080p resolution, the $440 system also boasts the convenience and easy setup of a wireless back speaker.

TOTAL: $1,240

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Filed under: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Theatrical Reviews, Fantastic Fest, Cinematical Indie

There’s been a little pre-release buzz on this Postal flick, most of which seems to focus on the assertion that it’s either A) Uwe Boll’s best film yet, or B) Uwe Boll’s first good movie. Well, considering that we’re talking about the guy who directed House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne, “best film yet” doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot. And as far as Uwe’s “first good movie” is concerned, well, I suppose we’ll have to keep on waiting for that one to show up. The only difference between Postal and Boll’s other films is that this one tries to be funny on purpose (and fails), whereas the other three try to be serious while delivering huge laughs.

Based on the popular video game, Postal is about a generic schlub who gradually loses his cool and eventually explodes into a violent lunatic. Imagine the Michael Douglas film Falling Down, only the screenplay was done with finger-paints, and that’s pretty much what Postal is “about.” There’s a whole lot of mirthless wheel-spinning that focuses on stolen dolls, goofy terrorists and freaky cults, but nothing that really assumes the mantle of “central plot.” Aside from one good gag in the opening scene, a creatively bizarre closing shot, one strong performance and a (very) small collection of slightly amusing (gross-out or shock value) gags, Postal is every bit as awful as Mr. Boll’s earlier output.

Imagine that you’re babysitting for your best friend’s hyperactive 12-year-old. Few things in the world can be as stunningly obnoxious as a hyper-active 12-year-old, so further imagine that you’ve just given the kid 12 cans of Red Bull and a dictionary filled only with profanities. Now give the kid eight candy bars and a video camera before you chain his ankle to a radiator — and that’s what Postal feels like: A sugar-fried 12-year-old boy with ADD who has just discovered the joys of poop jokes, naked parts and annoyingly over-the-top vulgarity. And he screams a lot. Oh, plus you’re paying good money to babysit this kid.

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Filed under: Cellphones

According to wild rumors (and we do mean wild), Canadian “luxury retailer” Holt Renfrew — the Barney’s of the Great White North — will begin carrying a Canuck version of the beloved iPhone in about two weeks, for the deliciously low price of $799. The rumor apparently emanates from an “insider source” at the company, though the store’s reps won’t confirm the news. If you believe the leaker, the retailer will carry an 8GB, GSM version of the phone (obviously, as no other version exists), and it will arrive on store shelves in mid-October. Sure, this sounds enticing, but why would a department store which specializes in high-end goods be the first the carry the iPhone, and where is the announcement (or even rumblings of an announcement) from a carrier in Canada? All intriguing questions which we’ll be sussing out answers to… by force. Just kidding.

Update: One of our readers claims to have been contacted by Holt Renfrew in regards to the iPhone rumors, and here is what they supposedly had to say: “Thank you for your inquiry of the Apple I Phone. I regret that the I Phone, originally planned for our store this fall will no longer be available at Holt Renfrew. In fact, due to other obstacles, the phone will not be here any earlier than January 2008.” Of course, we’re not buying that Holt Refrew’s rep doesn’t know how to spell “I Phone,” but that’s just us.

[Thanks, sculley]

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This device looks so similar to the iPod Nano, DigitalRise figured, why bother trying to hide it with a new name? The Nano III is a clone in many ways. This device takes the Nano for a ride on the copyright infringement highway. DigitalRise even teases Apple by throwing in an FM tuner, a digital voice recorder and an eBook reader, but sacrifices the storage aspect, with only 1 GB models available. More features, same Apple-feel (on the outside), and a un-Apple-like price of $50… hum… tempting but we’re not that shallow, the inside counts too: not Apple software and no iTunes. we’ll stick to the real one.

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Filed under: Products and services, Launches, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)

Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is upgrading its corporate e-mail offering as of this week, and the search company is adding new security tools as well as doubling the online storage capacity. This move probably comes as a response to Yahoo!, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) planned purchase of corporate e-mail provider Zimbra in addition to getting something out the door from the Postini acquisition a few months back.

Now that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is still in the fray with its Exchange corporate e-mail solution and Yahoo! has entered into the dance with the Zimbra buy, Google’s timing here is impeccable. But, are the Microsoft and Yahoo! solutions better than Google just beefing up security and adding more storage to its existing online corporate e-mail offering? That’s up to each customer to decide, although anytime, anywhere, secure and easy access to e-mail is probably at the forefront of each corporate user’s mind these days.

Business software is an area relatively new to Google, but with the company having acquired email security firm Postini for over $600 million recently, it must market and tout that technology to every business customer it can, starting now. A simple explanation of “increased corporate security” is not enough, and if Google is serious about challenging both Microsoft and Yahoo! in the business e-mail space, it has to start making large waves. A doubling of e-mail inbox capacity is a great start, but it’s just that — the start.

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