Rumors are swirling that if you drive down I-35 in Minnesota, you'll see a billboard featuring a smiling George W. Bush accompanied by the question "Miss me yet?"

This was initially discredited as a photoshopped hoax, but it's real. But the dual mysteries surrounding who paid for the ad, and their motivation, remain.

Are they Obama supporters sarcastically hoping to remind people about George W., or Bush fans sincerely yearning for the "good" days of the past administration?

Mary McNamara, the manager at the Minneapolis office of Schubert & Hoey Outdoor Advertising, the company which owns and leases out the billboard, says:

"The ad was purchased by a group of small business owners who wish to remain anonymous." However, "some people in the group were Obama supporters."

McNamara added that the message the group hoped to convey was one of "Hope and change, where is it?" She went on to say that she has yet to receive any negative feedback about the ad, which has been up for a few weeks.

Not everyone buys that. Cindy Erickson, the chairwoman of the Democratic Party in Chisago County, where the billboard is located, suspects the ad's funders are in actuality conservative activists posing as Obama supporters.

"I don't have any idea who did it, but my thought was that they're Tea Party people," she said. "Regardless, it's been the subject of many conversations around here."

Minnesota was a "blue" state in '08, but Chisago is part of a Republican-leaning string of suburban counties that Obama lost about 55-45 in the presidential election.

While it's subject to interpretation, Obama has been under fire (and hitting back) of late. Has George W., however unwittingly, joined Sarah Palin in laying into him?

Source:Free Britney

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2010/02/george-w-bush-billboard-asks-miss-me-yet/

Digitaltrends published a BlackBerry Presenter review.

Quote from review: "For an army of workers who wear wingtips like combat boots, Hickey Freeman suits like flak vests and clutch Samsonite briefcases like duffle bags, the BlackBerry is as much a phone as a sidearm: reliable, always on the hip, but ultimately, too weak for the real action. Delivering presentations the sales equivalent of trench warfare requires the big guns. A chunky laptop is usually par for the course. Research in Motion set out to change that with its $200 BlackBerry Presenter. The tiny, palm-sized brick takes the place of a much larger laptop by allowing the everyday BlackBerry to serve up PowerPoint files to a projector or TV screen, wirelessly. We took the new device through live fire training to see whether it could really pull it off." Read the full BlackBerry Presenter review at digitaltrends.

Source:Susan McGlaun

http://www.i4u.com/article30759.html

Apparently somebody was testing an unreleased Core i7 Apple MacBook Pro with GeekBench. MacRumors reports that the report shows a MacBook Pro with a new 6,1 model number and an unreleased Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Build 10C3067).

This new MacBook Pro sports a new Intel Core i7 M 620 at 2.66Ghz. Currently only the iMac line offers Core i7 CPUs.
Apple did not update the MacBook Pro in a while and an update would make sense with the new 2010 Intel Core CPUs. Early January a rumor of new Core i5 MacBook Pro laptops has already appeared inclining a January shipping date. As we have already February the rumor turned out to be false.

Source:Luigi Lugmayr
http://www.i4u.com/article30663.html

In the fantasies of many females, Taylor Lautner is their boy toy.

On the big screen, similarly, he'll soon portray a character based on a toy.

The Twilight Saga cutie has signed on to anchor Stretch Armstrong, a movie based on an action figure of the same name.

As written by The Hollywood Reporter, this family friendly action film will tell the story of “an uptight spy who stumbles across a stretching formula, which he takes and must now adjust to in everyday life and when fighting crime."

Check out the following commercial for the Stretch Armstrong toy to see get an idea of what Lautner is in for:

Stretch Armstrong Commercial

The movie, which will be released by Universal Pictures, will be filmed with 3-D technology.

"In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office," said studio cochair Donna Langley. "He brings the perfect balance of energy and athleticism to the role of an unlikely super hero with a fantastic super power. We couldn't be more pleased that he has agreed to be our Stretch."

Look for Stretch Armstrong to hit theaters in 2012. This summer, of course, you can see Lautner reprise the role of Jacob in Eclipse.

Source:Hilton Hater

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2010/02/taylor-lautner-to-play-stretch-armstrong/