Messi hits hat-trick, Barcelona 5-0 Mallorca

Lionel Messi answered his critics with a superbly taken hat-trick inside the opening half-hour at Camp Nou as the Blaugrana thrashed Mallorca 5-0 on Saturday.

Dan Brown Working on New Book!!!

This week Dan Brown appeared on the Today show, chatting to Matt Lauer about the new illustrated edition of The Lost Symbol and various other topics. At one point Lauer asked him about his appearance at the Italian La Scala opera house, and wondered aloud if that would be in the next book. DB paused, and laughed awkwardly, before saying "Anybody that's seen La Scala knows it is an unbelievable piece of architecture, great amount of history." Very suggestive that this will play a part in the next Langdon novel.

Lauer then wondered whether the next book would take as long as The Lost Symbol did (5 years after DVC), to which DB replied

"I have been informed...by my wife, that if this new novel takes as long as The Lost Symbol, my next media appearance will be on The Bachelor."

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Kate Winslet wins the Oscar Glory For Best Actress.

British star Kate Winslet has won the best actress Oscar for Holocaust drama The Reader.

Nominated for an Academy award for the sixth time, the 33-year-old finally claimed a statuette at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles for her portrayal of concentration camp guard Hanna Schmitz.

"I'd be lying if I haven't made a version of this speech before I was eight years old in the bathroom mirror with a shampoo bottle. And it's not a shampoo bottle now!" the Titanic star said as she followed her Bafta and Golden Globe awards with an Oscar.

"Stephen, working with you is an experience I will never forget," Winslet said of Daldry, Oscar-nominated director of The Reader.

Winslet dedicated the award to the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack as well as her fellow nominees, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway and Melissa Leo.

Sean Penn was named best actor for his portrayal of a groundbreaking gay politician in Milk.

Steve Jobs teaches us to live before we die.

Steven paul "steve" jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011): He was an American inventor and businessman widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.