Rise Records Signs Watchout! Theres Ghosts

Rise Records is thrilled to announce the signing of WATCHOUT! THERES GHOSTS. This northern California 2 piece features Jordan Blake (formerly the vocalist of A SKYLIT DRIVE) and Joshua Stotts. Their unique style blends rock and techno and the two genres collide to form undeniably catchy music. Ghost Town, their debut album, will hit stores on [...]

Ted Haggard speaks out

On the two year anniversary of his resignation, former megachurch pastor and evangelical leader Ted Haggard spoke about his sex and drug scandle, apologizing for the damage his sin has done and speaking on how God has been at work in the situation. Read the full article here.

Inauguration Tickets For 5 Figures

Tickets to Obama’s inauguration are the latest hot ticket in town with prices ranging all way the up to $20,095 for a single ticket.  Read more here.

GM Posts $2.5 Billion Loss

GM has posted their earnings for the third quarter and they lost a total of $2.5billion. That is a heck of a lot of money and seriously impacts their functions as an automaker. I guess Ford posted losses as well. Click here to read the full report.

Welcome Back to Taking Over!

We finally fixed our internal errors with the Taking Over site and it’s functioning well once again. Be on the lookout for a bunch of news shortly. Thanks for reading and take care.

Nissan Makes Deal for Chysler

The plot just keeps thickening…..Now on word of GM buying up Chrysler comes word that Nissan wants to buy a 20% stake in Chrysler. Wowzers is correct. I think it would be a nightmare if GM bought out Chrysler seeing as how GM is currently in the dumps with their personal stock and barely have [...]

Movie Poster Search Site

If you are in the mood to search for movie posters online then check out http://www.themoviepostersite.com/.  Sure you could just search for the images on any search engine site.  But this site is still a cool way to search for movie posters.  Perhaps one day this site will have more posters than any search engine…we [...]

Circuit City Considering Closing Stores

Circuit City is considering closing up to 150 stores and laying off many people in an effort to avoid Bankruptcy. It’s a sad state of our economy and I’m sure their competition with the mighty Best Buy isn’t helping. Do we have any Circuit City fans on this website?

Glenn Beck Moves to Fox News

Newsmax.com reports that conservative pundit Glen Beck is leaving CNN Headline News for the Fox News Channel.  I am sad.  CNN needed at leat one conservative spokesperson to counter all the liberal reporters and hosts working there.  But at the same time he will gain a larger audience being at Fox, since Fox has more [...]

Jean Claude Back on the Big Screen

Yahoo.com has the posted the trailer for the upcoming martial arts comedic flick.  You can view the trailer here.
 

Official Plot:  Being Jean-Claude Van Damme is tough. Sure, he is an internationally recognized celebrity (and possibly the world’s most famous Belgian), but this star seems to have fallen from grace with a recent history of direct-to-video [...]

Lethal Weapon 5 is not Happening

According to Latimes.com, Richard Donner, the original series director for Lethal Weapon, has reported that Mel Gibson has turned down a franchise awakening:
 
“Mel turned it down,” Donner said. “I would like to think that Mel turned it down because I wasn’t involved. Knowing Mel, I would like to think that. Would that be the kind [...]

Google Unveils Plan

Google unveiled a plan Wednesday through it’s non-profit orgranization to cut the use of fossil fuels by 2030 at a cost of $4.4 trillion.  Click here for more details. 

Mr. Clean passes away

The original Mr. Clean (House Peters Jr.) passed away yesterday from pnumonia at the age of 92.

Ferrari Motorcycle Concept Picture

Industrial and art site 3d-files.co has released pictures of the new Ferrari Motorcycle concept. Although the movie blog SlashFilm.com has already blogged about this, I still had to share one of the pictures of this sleek, futuristic motorcycle with you all. 

Click here for the link to the site.

Former Blink 182 Drummer Critically Injured in Plane Crash

Former Blink 182 drummer, Travis Barker, and DJ AM were critically injured in a plane crash that also took the lives of 4 others. Read the tragic article here.

Taking Over Searching for New Reviewers

I thought i’d post this over here since no one really reads Taking Over (Lol). I am searching for a few good reviewers that will cover albums from the general market for us. It can be any album by any artist, preferably something new. You can click here for Taking Over to see the reviews [...]

Chevy Volt Revealed Today

The Chevy Volt has been official unveiled today. You can view interior shots right here or exterior shots here. It’s been said that this car will be priced above $30,000 but it’ll save you quite a bit in gas. It runs for 40 miles without using an ounce of gasoline, after that mileage, the gas [...]

Dodge Challenger Review and Pics

Read a full on review that Autoblog.com did for the new Dodge Challenger SE and check out some pics.

Comeback Kid Tour 2008

Comeback Kid is heading out on the an extremely cool hardcore tour featuring: Shai Hullud, Bane, Misery Signals, Outbreak, and Gravemaker. Hit up Comeback Kid’s page for dates. Tour starts in October. Keep in mind, these are mostly Canadian dates

New James Bond Trailer

You can view the new trailer for Quantum of Solace (007) right here.

Eddie Murphy set for another Beverly Hills Cop Movie

Looks like Murphy is tired of his lack luster films that he has been poping out for the past few years.  But like Sylveter Stallone did with Rambo and Rocky, Murphy is going to star in one of his succesful films with hopes that audiences will digg this particular modern sequal. 
 
Murphy is set to reprise his role as [...]

New Zune Revealed

The new Microsoft Zune has been revealed right here. As you can read, it’ll be in a 120GB model and a 16GB model. It’ll have wifi access to the music store and is priced at $250 and $199 respectively.

Chevrolet Volt Officially Revealed

The new Chevrolet Volt, their electric hybrid, has been officially revealed and can be seen by clicking here. It’s obvious once you see the pics that it looks hardly anything like the concept. Bummer.

The Cheapest Console is Now the Xbox 360

Yahoo.com says you can now purchase the Xbox 360 Arcade edition for $199, which $50 lower than the Nintendo Wii.  The $199 version of the Xbox comes with a 256 MB memory card and a controller.
 
Other Xbox bundles have undergone price cuts as well.  The Premium edition (which includes a 60 GB hard drive) is now $299, and [...]

Live Video of the RNC Convention

Click here to view live coverage of the RNC convention.

Honda’s Prius Killer

Honda’s new proclaimed “Prius Killer” will be a hybrid going under the name of the “Insight” and will debut at the Paris Auto Show next month. The Insight will hit dealers next year with projected sales of 100,000 vehicles in the U.S. alone. Click here to see pics and get more info.
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Zune Rumors

Rumors on the web today insist that there is a 120GB Version of the ZUNE coming soon. There is also talk of them phasing out the 80GB and 4GB models. Supposedly the 120GB model will be priced at $249.

Mythbusters Busted for RFID Hacking Episode

Apparently the Discovery Show “Mythbusters” were to air an episode about exposing the weak security of RFID Implementations. Lawyers from American Express, Visa, Discover, etc. got involved and has caused the network (Discovery) to pull the episode.

Google Chrome

Google is releasing its new internet browser Chrome today according to their blog site.  For a comic book look at what the new browser holds go here and to read more about why Google has decided to release their own browser read here.

New Snow Patrol Sample

You can get a sample of the new Snow Patrol song “Take Back the City” exclusively on myspace.