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Who’s ready for a Sugar Ray reunion? Anybody? Hello?

Well, ready or not, you’re going to get one. Mark McGrath, the Sugar Ray frontman-turned-entertainment-reporter is leaving Extra. Some reports say he’s been fired, but The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that he really just wanted to get back to the band.

McGrath has been on hiatus from Sugar Ray for the past three years as he hosted Extra, but now the band is heading back to the studio and Mario Lopez is stepping up to take his spot behind the anchor desk. Lopez’s much lauded muscles are apparently too big to share the stage, though. McGrath’s co-host, Dayna Devon, has been demoted to Special Correspondent and backup host for Lopez.

I will always look at Lopez as A.C. Slater, so the idea of him becoming a “journalist” kind of makes me laugh. But then again, it’s not like Mark McGrath was exactly the second coming of Cronkite. Besides, anyone who could stand 6 inches away from Miss Teen South Carolina as she rambled on about “The Iraq” without completely losing it obviously has some talent.

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Prickly, acerbic TV chef Gordon Ramsay has probably racked up his share of enemies. However, I doubt that even he would have guessed that the one that would nearly lead to his demise would be the great and powerful … uh, puffin. That is exactly what happened however, as Ramsay had a very close call while in Iceland shooting scenes for his British series, The F Word.

Ramsay was out hunting puffins when he fell into icy water as he was making a 280 foot descent. His crew threw in a line after he failed to surface after 45 seconds. The experience had Ramsay thinking he was a “goner,” saying, “My boots and my waterproofs were dragging me down. I’m an extremely good swimmer, but I couldn’t get to the surface. I was panicking and my lungs were filling with water. When I got to the top after getting my boots off I was dazed and my head was totally numb.”

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Are you effing ready?

Something wicked this way comes and yes it’s Harry f***ing Potter.  HELL YES!  Check out the new trailer HERE.  It’s pretty epic/amazing.  I just hope it sort of follows the book…with a lot of prayer it’ll be better than Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Who the hell put the shrunken heads in there? They should get fired.

Anywho, I cant wait to see this shit-I’ll be pissing my pantalones.

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Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong have reportedly broken up.The “Fool’s Gold” actress and the cycling champion - who started dating in mid-May - mutually decided to end their relationship, it has been claimed.

A source told Us Weekly magazine: “There was no drama or ugliness - they just decided to end things. There is no hatred, just sadness.”

Kate, 29, and Lance, 36, had been seen at various events together, including his three-day Lance Armstrong Livestrong Summit in Columbus, Ohio, last weekend - where they finally decided to part ways.

They spent Father’s Day (June 3, 2008) together, and were accompanied to lunch by Kate’s son Ryder and his father Chris Robinson.

Kate had also introduced Lance to her mother Goldie Hawn.

Since splitting from Chris in 2007, Kate has been romantically linked to Owen Wilson and Dax Shepard.

Lance was previously engaged to singer Sheryl Crow and was also reported to have dated Ashley Olsen.

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The tape dispenser’s one of the most common office tools to have which often goes unappreciated. In order to increase the usefulness of this device, why not throw in an integrated 4-port USB hub as well? This results in the aptly-named Tape Dispenser USB 4-Port Hub that features a trio of ports behind that can be rotated up to 90 degrees for you to connect just about any USB devices without clashing. The front portion has a solitary USB port to complete the entire look. It will retail for $23 a pop.

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Filed under: Before the bell, Earnings reports, Deals, Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), Starbucks (SBUX), General Motors (GM), Motorola (MOT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Market matters, Walt Disney (DIS), Aetna Inc (AET), Altria Group (MO), Kellogg Co (K), MasterCard Inc’A’ (MA), Economic data, Unilever ADR (UL)

U.S. stock futures were mixed Thursday morning ahead of the government preliminary report of U.S. second-quarter gross domestic product to be released at 8:30 a.m. EDT. Compare to the first quarter, where GDP grew at an annual rate of 1%, analysts are expecting an annual growth rate in the second quarter of 2.3% according to Briefing.com. Another wave of earnings will also wash Wall Street over this morning, while it’s still digesting Wednesday’s ones. The market will likely take a clearer direction once GDP is out.

[Update: GDP grew at a 1.9% pace in the second quarter came in well short of the 2.3% forecast. Futures are declining on economy and the XOM miss. Wall Street will likely open significantly lower.]

Reporting/reported this morning:

• Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is expected to report second-quarter earnings before the open. If ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and BP (NYSE: BP) results are any indication, XOM will likely post massive profits thanks to oil’s skyrocketing prices and even break the record it has set for largest profit by a U.S. company. Analyst on average expect Exxon Mobil to earn $2.52 a share on revenue of $144 billion, according to a survey by Thomson Financial.
• MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) is expected to report earnings of $2.02 per share.
• Kellog (NYSE: K) is expected to post earnings of 81 cents per shares.

• Motorola (NYSE: MOT) shares are climbing 4.8% in premarket trading after it posted a small profit as revenue and phone sales beat estimates. Motorola reported a second-quarter profit of $4 million and broke even on a per share basis. Revenue fell to $8.1 billion.
• Aetna (NYSE: AET) shares are gaining 1% in premarket trading after the health insurer said its second-quarter profit rose 6.4% on membership growth and a hike in premium rates. The company posted 97 cents earnings per share on revenue of $7.83 billion (a rise of 15%). Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected profit of 93 cents per share on revenue of about $7.87 billion, on average.
• Altria (NYSE: MO) shares are trading 2.7% higher in premarket action after the it said its second-quarter profit fell 58% as it separated its international cigarette unit. Excluding one-time items, profit rose to 46 cents per share. Revenue has risen 4% to $5.05 billion from $4.86 billion. Thomson Financial says analysts expected a profit of 45 cents per share on revenue of $4.17 billion.
• Unilever (NYSE: UN, UL) shares are down nearly 9% in premarket trading after the consumer product company said profit declined by almost a fifth while sales dipped 1%.
• Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) reported profit growth of 33%.
• Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) reported bigger-than-estimated 2.3 billion euros ($3.6 billion) of debt writedowns in the second quarter, saying it remains cautious on the rest of the year.

Reported Wednesday after the close:

• Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) shares are climbing 4.3% in premarket trading as it beat estimates.
• Visa (NYSE: V) shares are also climbing over 3.2% in premarket trading after it topped Street forecast. Visa seems to be counting on international transactions.
• First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up nearly 8% in premarket trading after the solar energy company crushed estimated across the board.
• Disney (NYSE: DIS) shares, on the other hand, are down over 2% in premarket trading despite beating estimates. The media conglomerate said it detected slowing growth.

According to the Wall Street Journal General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) will cut 5,000 North American white-collar jobs by November 1 as part the plan announced earlier this month to save $10 billion through 2009.

A day after Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) acquired Omnisio to interact with YouTube, for the Wall Street Journal reported it “is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm, according to several people briefed on the discussions.”

Despite claims of Rogers, sole carrier of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone in Canada it is getting weekly shipments from Apple, sales of the iPhone in Canada are still outpacing supply.

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Computer issues being worked on. In the meantime, here is YouTube musician number 2, Cliff plays Guitar (hero).

It’s like…he’s got spiders for hands.

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Apparently, a leaked shot of GamePark’s next iteration of the GP2X — the GP3X (not to be confused with the Pandora project) — has gone and gotten itself leaked onto the interblogs. According to a post on GP2X News, the new system (which is being called the “Wiz”) isn’t set in stone, but will contain some form of a system-on-a-chip, and apparently will allow GP2X emulators to run after a bit of recompiling. There’s not a whole lot of information available right now, but we’ll keep you posted — in the meantime, enjoy the photo.

[Via GP2X News]

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In what appears to be an increasingly common problem, hairline cracks are beginning to form on Apple’s new iPhone 3G. While most of the cracks are reportedly affecting the white model, this is likely due to the increased visibility of the dark fracture on the white case as opposed to any differences in materials between the white and black units. At the moment, the issue seems largely cosmetic and doesn’t appear to interfere with the operation of the phone. Now bust out the magnifying glass and let us know if you’re seeing the same.

Update: Reader Darius shows off a whisker crack on his kid-glove handled black iPhone 3G with the help of some blue lighting — meow. See it after the break.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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