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Zoe Saldana: Until her role in Star Trek, she was pretty much a TV actress. Oh yeah, and was in that Nick Cannon movie Drumline (which I have seen more time than I’d prefer to admit). She’s very athletic (Avatar), and played crazy rather well in Losers. Oh, she also knows her way around a rocket launcher. So hot.

Olivia Wilde: She plays “Thirteen” on House, M.D.: The token “crazy/edgy/lesbian” doctor. Also playing her first breakout role in the upcoming Tron sequel. Not as good of an actress as the first two, but could still pull it off.

Keira Knightley: I didn’t think she belongs on this list; she seems too scrawny. But apparently she plays the female bounty hunter role fairly well in Domino, so we’ll let this one slide. Whoever they pick, I’m pretty sure she will have to fit into this criteria. If it turns out to be Megan Fox I’m gonna have to make like Wayne Brady and choke out Chris Nolan.

I knew there was a lot of hype for this phone, but damn. I didn’t know that many people could get up so early in L.A. Even with a reservation, we didn’t get in to the Apple store until 9:45. I felt bad (only slightly) for the people in the non-reservation line, which had close to 1000 people in it, snaking around the entire Grove shopping center. But honestly, just like before, it was worth the wait. This new phone looks almost too nice to be slinging around in your pocket all day. All glass on the front and back, with an aluminum ring around the outside; it’s definitely svelte. It’s also lot thinner than I thought it would be, and feels extremely solid in your hand.

Things I’m digging: The camera is great. It shoots fast (pretty much instantly) and the pictures look great for 5 megapixels. It also does a solid 720p video, and decent videochat with the front camera. The best feature has got to be the screen, AKA the “Retina Display”. I know that sounds like marketing speak but you will have a hard time seeing pixels when you have this in your hand. I’ve never seen a phone that looks so crisp. Also, the overall speed is really impressive. It flys compared to the 3G.

Things I’m not digging so much: Glass on the back? Come on, Steve! You know how many times I dropped my last iPhone right? A lot. Even with the claimed helicopter windshield-grade glass, the odds of seeing this phone cracking somehow are not low. Also there are some claimed signal issues depending on how you hold it but luckily I haven’t been able to replicate them with mine.

It was called “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour” and Conan pointed out, that wasn’t totally meant as a joke. As part of his settlement, he isn’t allowed to do another talk show until September, so he decided to take his show on the road.

It was definitely a Los Angeles outing, although I’m not sure if that should be construed as good or bad. A lot of celebs showed up in support of Coco’s first time on a stage in L.A. since he was fired; David Spade was sitting a few rows ahead of us along with that goofy guy Kenneth from 30 Rock. In the middle of one of Conan’s songs (yes, he sang) Jim Carey came out of nowhere in a superman costume to make it a duet. Other peeps who showed up to pull the Walker Texas Ranger lever were Aziz Ansari from Parks & Recreation, that chubby kid from Superbad, and John Hamm from Mad Men. I was almost crying at one point I was laughing so hard. I highly recommend it to any real Coco fan!

I haven’t been able to find a reason yet, which makes me a little sad because this tablet looks awesome. The biggest deal-killer for me: It can’t run Adobe’s Flash plug-in. You know, the one most video players on the web are using? The little plug-in that 99% of the U.S. has installed on their computers? Yeah that one. It isn’t on the iPhone either, which I’ve learned to live with. The iPhone screen real estate is small, and Flash can be a real memory hog; both of which are in short supply on most smart phones. But the iPad is supposed to show the full web, the real web, not some downgraded mobile version. It is supposed to be the slayer of netbooks, but I could get a netbook with a webcam, flash support, and a complete operating system for $300 bucks… last year.

So why no Flash support on the iPad? In my opinion it’s all about the money. Apple has positioned themselves deep in the digital distribution game, and they don’t make a dime when you listen to music on Pandora, catch TV shows on Hulu, or watch movies with Netflix. Steve Jobs says HTML5 is the future, and he is right. But it isn’t now, and it won’t be for quite some time. The big browsers can’t even agree on which codec to use with the video tag. So Jobs is hoping I wont mind dealing with the watered-down web, but when you are trying to convince me I need to buy a tablet computer to do what I’m already doing on my laptop or iPhone, it at least should let me use the web the way I want to.

This is exactly what I (and I’m sure quite a few othe NBA fans out there) have been waiting for and the very first iteration is solid. More importantly though, is the number of clicks it took to find it from the Lakers page. None. I just went to the homepage and the TV Companion popped up; once click will take you through to the normal site, but during game-time this is all the info I want.

They mentioned they found a lot of people are browsing the web and watching TV at the same time (right here), but it’s also great if you live out of the area or can’t catch the game because your roommate filled the Tivo with So You Think You Can Dance. Bonus points: It isn’t flash-based, which means it even works on my iPhone.