She looks a bit different from her pictures taken three years ago.

When Starbucks announced they were closing 600 stores, I gave out a few high-fives. Yes, this is mostly because of oily Howard Schultz who sold out my Seattle Sonics. But; I just don't like the place.

So when I saw the Save Our Starbucks website, I rolled my baby-blue eyes. Are there really some that feel bad for a corporate giant that expanded too fast due to arrogance? Really?

This is not a worthy cause. Not by any stretch. This is not freeing Tibet or feeding Darfur. We're not marching on Washington to bring attention that some of you will have to drive an extra mile and half to get a $7 cup of joe. In Manhattan, you may have to walk two blocks! That's madness.

There is even petitions on the dopey site. The petition for the closing Redding California store now has FIVE signatures! Come on Redding! You're making it happen!

Give me a break...

Barack Obama spoke in Germany today. Meanwhile underneath the MSNBC feed of the speech, Venus Razors was advertising dramatically smooth skin.

Hmm, what an astute observation Gillette. I never noticed.

This is the first in a new series in which we ask new and potentially loyal YesButNoButYes reader and commenter "Martin" to discuss how he'd handle himself in an awkward situation. (For similar challenges, click here, here, here and here) For his first at bat, we ask him to dive into misinterpretations on the web.

Anikan had his high tech podracer in Star Wars I. But I like this homemade model much better.

This guy built his street illegal podracer out of a few beer kegs and an old bike frame. Then he added a beer cup holder - brilliant! - which Lucas forgot.

All of this was put to good use when the keg podracer hit the streets for a soap box derby around San Francisco. Now that's a real challenge.

Leave it to the Japanese to one-up us Americans yet again. While we head out into cornfields in the middle of the night and use planks of wood to draw geometric shapes in our crops, the Japanese are drawing highly-detailed images in their rice fields. By using different types of rice, the artists/farmers create different colors for their paintings.

"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" **1/2 (out of four): Fans of the TV show may enjoy seeing Mulder and Scully back in action, but there's little in this run-of-the-mill mystery to attract the uninitiated.

Six years after "The X-Files" went off the air, and a full ten years since it was first brought to the big screen (in 1998's stubbornly impenetrable "The X-Files"), series creator Chris Carter brings paranormal investigators Fox Mulder and Dana Scully back to the multiplexes with "The X-Files: I Want to Believe". Of course, six years is a long time. Whether audiences (fans of the show or otherwise) will remember Mulder and Scully, let alone where the series left off, remains to be seen. I, for one, was ready to (as the posters say) believe again. My faith was, as is often the case, only mildly rewarded.

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"Step Brothers" **1/2 (out of four): Will Ferrell reunites with John C. Reilly in this R-rated sausage fest of crude humor, profanity and prosthetic genitalia.

From producer Judd Apatow comes yet another male coming-of-age tale. Following in the wake of "The 40 Year Old Virgin", "Knocked Up" and "Superbad", "Step Brothers" is the story of two middle-aged man-boys who stand at the door to adulthood, yet can't seem to find the handle. Written by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay (who also directs), "Step Brothers" reunites Ferrell with his "Talladega Nights" second banana, John C. Reilly in this R-rated sausage fest of crude humor, profanity and -- yes, it's true -- prosthetic genitalia.

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Wrestling.
Bikini.
Two words that look great together.
And even better on video.