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Kind of got this song stuck in my head this weekend, "Somebody Told me" by The Killers.

I saw 2 movies this weekend: Superman Returns and The Devil Wears Prada. Both fun, and pretty decent movies. Routh and Bosworth do OK in Superman, and Streep and Hathaway well above average in The Devil, delivering a funny, sophisticated and very entertaining comedy.

This is sort of a follow up to the post a few weeks back about multi-tasking. Earlier this year a UC Irvine study found something I've long suspected: on average a worker can focus for just 11 minutes at a time before being interrupted (by email, a co-worket, etc.) and is unable to refocus again for another 25 minutes (!)

Researchers have calculated that interruptions consume an average of 2.1 hours of every working day, or 28% of the average person's routine. It has reached such an extent that workers are becoming locked in what was described as a mire of multi-tasking.

The report, The Cost of Not Paying Attention, was written by a research team headed by Gloria Mark and Victor Gonzalez. You can read more details on UC Irvine's site.

The first Spider-man 3 trailer was released this weekend, very cool. It features Spider-man in the black outfit. I wonder how they will play out the suit story in the movie. In the comic books, he gets it during Secret Wars, when he is taken across the universe to participate in a battle between Earth's greatest heroes and villains. Peter's blue-and-red costume is destroyed fighting. He finds a machine on the strange planet that seems to fashion a new black costume to replace his tattered one. The costume responds to Peter's thoughts, maintains an unlimited supply of web-fluid, and can change appearance at will. However, when Peter returns to Earth he discovers that the costume is actually an alien symbiote bent on permanently bonding with its host. Peter eventually rejects and defeats the symbiote, but it finds a new host in Eddie Brock, a symbiotic relationship that creates the villain known as Venom.