1. Jorja Fox is After Ellen’s #50 Sexiest of 2008
2. More CSI Cards: Hallmark Gets New Deal to Use CBS Characters< /li>
3. Gary Dourdan is Smiling
4. George Eads & Adam Rodriguez at the Monte Carlo TV Festival [Guest Post: Mim]
5. William Petersen & Wife Make a New Friend
6. Marg Helgenberger at What a Pair!
7. Robert David Hall at Wizard World
8. CSI Series Leading Multiple Timeslot Ratings
9. Gary Sinise Supports the Military
10. Summer CSI: NY Fix – Four Walls
11. Is Jorja Coming Back?
12. Gary Dourdan Does Some Shopping
13. Check Out Those Baby Blues!
14. Gary Sinise Presents Award at GI Film Festival
15. CSI: NY Spoiler – Episode 5.01 – Veritas
16. CSI: Miami’s Touch Screen Technology: Real World Still Catching Up
17. Gary Sinise & Jon Voigt Caught by Paparazzi
18. William Petersen to Get Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
19. Rex Linn Likes Those Hawaiian Shirts
20. Khandi Alelexander Looks Amazing
21. Melina Kanakaredes Celebrated Chef Ramsay
22. Robert David Hall Celebrates 15 Yrs for ADA
23. William Petersen Made it to the Big Leagues!
24. Those Ultra-Cool Magnetic Reading Glasses

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Well, I’ve done some research and found that we can all be just as cool, because we can own our own pair of them. I found them here for $24.99. They click together with little magnets on either side of the bridge of the nose.

In my mind, they offer three advantages their owner:

1. Until they are needed, they can hang around one’s neck. No longer would we have to fumble or search for our reading glasses each time we need them.
2. They would help us read things up-close. (This one is obvious!)
3. We would instantly gain “Cool points!” (enough said…)

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But then, I found these photos of William Petersen throwing out the first pitch at a Cubs vs. Marlins game. The Chicago Cubs lost to the Florida Marlins 9-0 at Wrigley Field in Chicago May 30, 2007.

[Photo: courtesy of newscom.com]

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On the fifteenth anniversary of the passing of the act, Robert David Hall along with fellow CSI stars William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger & Jorja Fox and the Screen Actors’ Guild celebrated. As you may know, Robert David Hall was seriously injured when an 18-wheeler ran into his car. He had to have both legs amputated and received burns over most of his body. He now works to raise awareness for people with disabilities and his character, Dr. Albert Robbins M.D., on CSI: Vegas is openly disabled.

My hat’s off to him for helping raise awareness and serving as such a wonderful role model to others.

[Photo: courtesy of newscom.com]

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But she certainly looked happy when she attended the National Kidney Foundation 29th Annual ‘Gift Of Life’ held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on May 18. In fact, she looks fabulous!!

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William L. Petersen will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, next year. The CSI: Vegas star is definitely an icon of the new millenium, with his good looks and dead pan delivery. His work on the epic procedural series has led to a broad appeal, and certainly the right to his place on the world famous sidewalk.

The other recipients represent a motley crue, indeed, including the likes of Robert Downey Jr.; Hugh Jackman; William H. Macy; Cameron Diaz; Tim Burton; Kyra Sedgwick; John Stamos; Kenny “Baby Face” Edmonds; Dave Koz; Harry Shearer of Saturday Night Live, KCRW, and The Simpsons fame; musical artists The Miracles, Rush, Shakira, and, finally, The Village People.

Notably, legendary, 76-year-old chimpanzee actor, Cheeta, was once again left off the list.

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Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface user manipulates photos.

For the past several years, Microsoft has been working on an interactive surface similar –in many ways- to the screen used by CBS’ Hummer-driving Miami CSIs. Microsoft Surface comes in a 30-inch diagonal screen that uses rear projection and infrared cameras to recognize multiple, simultaneous hand gestures and objects laid onto the surface.

Microsoft Surface.

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Key features, according to Microsoft:

• Direct Interaction: Users can manipulate on-screen images, text, and any other elements, by touching and gesturing, without ever using a mouse or keyboard.
• Multi–Touch: Surface responds to many points of contact simultaneously. So, you can touch the screen with all your fingers, elbows, or whatever, activating and manipulating dozens of points on the screen at once.
• Multi–User: The tabletop, horizontal form factor allows several people to gather around Microsoft Surface at once, providing a very collaborative, interactive, face–to–face workspace.
• Object Recognition: Cameras within Surface recognize objects placed on the display. Optical recognition allows Surface to respond appropriately to different objects. In the future, this will include transfering digital content between the Surface and devices.

Microsoft Surface demonstration.

Currently, Surface is only available for large leisure, entertainment, and retail companies. Small business applications, and possibly crime lab applications, will be available in the future. Microsoft expects to have Surface available to consumers, sometime between 2011 and 2013. Microsoft has a software development kit, which, once available to the public, will surely lead to some creative and aggressive developers releasing some incredible applications for lawyers, doctors, and crime labs. Microsoft packages and makes available its own applications for use by development partners, including “virtual concierge”, “music”, and “photo”. So, once the real Miami CSIs have this technology in hand, they’ll also be able to order drinks from the same display. Just kidding, I think.

Microsoft Surface displays info for AT&T phone placed on the display.

In April, Microsoft placed several Surface interfaces in select AT&T retail outlets in New York, San Antonio, Atlanta and the San Francisco Bay area. The public can interact with the displays in these locations, which display information about a phone when the users places it on the Surface tabletop. Later this year, Microsoft plans to have applications available through their other partners, Harrah’s Entertainment, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, and T–Mobile USA.

Children “paint” on Microsoft Surface.

For more information, check out the Microsoft Surface info page.

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