Month: April 2010

At first it was all blackness….

PepsiCo on Tuesday announced plans to voluntarily remove high-calorie sweetened drinks from schools for kids up to age 18 in more than 200 countries by 2012. Coke and Pepsi agreed to stop selling sugary drinks in U.S. schools in 2006.

With the recent rumors that Camille Montes Rivero, the female lead in Quantum of Solace, may become only the second Bond girl to appear in multiple James Bond films (the first, Sylvia Trench, appeared in the franchise’s very first two films), we got to thinking about which Bond girls are our favorites.

We considered a number of attributes in assembling this Top 13, including intelligence, charisma, impact on the Bond franchise and popular culture, and, of course, sex appeal. So in the spirit of James Bond films, pour yourself a martini and enjoy the Top 13 Bond Girls of all time.

1 Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
2 Diana Rigg as Teresa di Vicenzo
3 Famke Jansen as Xenia Onatopp
4 Jill St. John as Tiffany Case
5 Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova
6 Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder
7 Eva Green as Vesper Lynd
8 Jane Seymour as Solitaire
9 Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterton
10 Grace Jones as May Day
11 Lois Chiles as Holly Goodhead
12 Claudine Auger as Domino Derval
13 Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight

Check out this trailer by Snowball Studios for the fake game Fragball. Yes, I said “fake” game…as in “not real”…which is really too bad, the concept video is awesome.

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said: I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in under 3 seconds. I bought her some bathroom scales. And then the fight started . . .

A little later she sat on the seat beside me as I was flipping channels. She asked: Whats on the TV? I said: Dust. And then another fight started . . .

Albert Einstein, the genius physicist whose theories changed our ideas of how the universe works, died 55 years ago, on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch — to open doors and loosen tongues — Morse compiled a quietly intense record of an icon’s passing.

But aside from one now-famous image (below), the pictures Morse took that day were never published. At the request of Einstein’s son, who asked that the family’s privacy be respected while they mourned, LIFE decided not to run the full story, and for 55 years Morse’s photographs lay unseen and forgotten.