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Take the “It Can Wait” Pledge and Win a BlackBerry Q10!

Confession: I have texted while driving. Have you? (YES, texting at a red light counts!) If you have, consider this sobering fact: more than 100,000 crashes a year involve drivers who are texting. Wanna know something that's even more alarming? Nearly half of all adult commuters and 43% of teens admit to texting while driving (TWD). And, as the highest consumers of smartphones, Asian-Americans are at an increased risk to the dangers of texting while driving. (But don't think that just because you're not Asian, you can get away with it!) This needs to stop. NOW. AT&T's It Can Wait campaign seeks to do exactly that by asking drivers to take a pledge to never text and drive. When AT&T contacted me about promoting the It Can Wait...

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What Could’ve Been, Movie Characters Edition

Last month I shared with you some concept sketches of Disney characters. And today, I give you the early character sketches of famous movies, compiled by the good folks over at Screen Crush.

Take a look — Yoda could have looked like a garden gnome, and the original Jabba looks even more turd-y than the version we all love to hate. Bane seems to be an S&M dungeon master, while the two versions of Ralph (of “Wreck-It” fame) looks nothing like. I do, however, prefer the earlier designs of the Kraken and the Mad Hatter to their final forms. What do you think? (Warning: many images up ahead!)

Shrek, ‘Shrek’
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DreamWorks/Barry Jackson for DreamWorks

Yoda, ‘Star Wars’
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LucasFilm