Fast Food Backlash, Female Face Readers, Google V. Microsoft, TV Not Real, and Britney: Not Fat

Yes. Wilmer. Avril. Yes.

1. Coming out of UC Santa Barbara is a study that shows that women are damn good at judging the book by its cover. Results show that evolution has programmed women to pick out paternal figures and fling material by looking at a guy's face. In the set of the male sluttier, women were able to look at a guy's face and sense the high level of testosterone. Those guys turned out to have the most masculine facial features. Hm...all this and still the unrelenting bawling aftermath to dating? Can there be a study done if women are just masochists? (AP)

2. Celebrity divorces are no surprise to anyone, but who would expect the golden couple of McDonald's and Disney to end its "10-year exclusive partnership"/affair? It was so enjoyably sterile to both parties, but alas, the growing reports of growing waistlines in children and the fatty junky McFoods drove Disney away. (The Independent)

3. In the same vein, Fast Food Nation has been adapted as a film, not a documentary, directed by slackery Richard Linklater and due out this year. Much to be anticipated--with a cast of Patricia Arquette, Wilmer Valderrama, and Avril Lavigne.

4. Looking for the nerdiest fight ever? Well, look no further from your computer screen. If you haven't been picking up the paper for the past few years, the NYT has compacted the Google-Microsoft battle for talent, for software, for customers, all into one neat article. Posed as the one-hit wonder right now with its ad sales, Google has a lot to prove with its developing free web-based services. Microsoft, with the much bigger bank, already has demonstrated in its track record its ability to knock down any of its challengers, i.e. Netscape, Apple (with Windows). But whoever wins out, "how the Microsoft-Google confrontation plays out could shape the future of competition in computing and how people use information technology." Very melodramatic recycled news reporting.

5. Again, if you're hidden from the world, Britney Spears is officially preggerz again. Spears announced the news last night to David Letterman. "Don't worry, Dave, it's not yours," she said. "Oh. Well, I think that's good news for both of us," Letterman answers. Ouch, but I haven't read any article since that has her saying it's K-Fed's... but I suppose I could just be looooking for it. (AP)

6. In your face Internet Explorer! Nintendo has announced today that the Wii video game console will be using the Opera browser as Wii needed "a browser that was fast and secure." Well, probably not so much in IE's face--Microsoft has its own competing Xbox 360, but why not create obviously fake drama when you can? (CNET)

7. The Department of Health and Human Services has produced a viewers guide for tonight's ABC made-for-TV movie, "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America." Favorites so far?

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is a movie, not a documentary. It is a work of fiction designed to entertain, not a factual accounting of a real-life event... An especially severe influenza pandemic could lead to high levels of illness, death, social disruption, and economic loss. Everyday life would be disrupted because so many people in so many places become seriously ill at the same time. Impacts can range from school and business closings to the interruption of basic services such as public transportation and food delivery.

Oh, and don't panic, don't panic, don't panic. (ABC)