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WebStatistics (Feb 28 2006 00:24 GMT) - Statistics for Plugins Web Month: Topic Views: Topic Saves: Attachment Uploads: Most Popular Topic Views: |
TechArena Community
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Aborted Defrag Problem (Feb 28 2006 00:23 GMT) - Computer was turned off during defragmentation without first canceling the process. Since then some data cannot be accessed or pieces are missing. Have tried System Restore, but no luck. Any ideas anyone? Thanks... |
Ecademy
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futuretext authors - now at waterstones! [Ajit Jaokar] (Feb 28 2006 00:23 GMT) - I am very happy to announce that futuretext has formally signed an agreement with waterstones. This means, our books can be bought from waterstones bookstores giving our authors greater visibility - especially in places such as the Waterstones Piccadilly bookstore(Europe's largest bookstore). |
Ecademy
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futuretext authors - now at waterstones! [Ajit Jaokar] (Feb 28 2006 00:23 GMT) - I am very happy to announce that futuretext has formally signed an agreement with waterstones. This means, our books can be bought from waterstones bookstores giving our authors greater visibility - especially in places such as the Waterstones Piccadilly bookstore(Europe's largest bookstore). |
Ecademy
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futuretext authors - now at waterstones! [Ajit Jaokar] (Feb 28 2006 00:23 GMT) - I am very happy to announce that futuretext has formally signed an agreement with waterstones. This means, our books can be bought from waterstones bookstores giving our authors greater visibility - especially in places such as the Waterstones Piccadilly bookstore(Europe's largest bookstore). |
WOW Report
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The Cool Hunter's Looking for Cool Hunters (Feb 28 2006 00:22 GMT) - A new TV show, The Cool Hunters (a kind of 60 Minutes for people with 60-second attention spans), now in preproduction, is coolly looking for cool people around the world to report cool trends and news to the world... |
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Teuton helmer takes on 'Krabat' (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Pic based on Preussler's 1971 adaptation of Mill' -- After directing the Roland Emmerich-produced slave-trade drama "Welcome to America," Marco Kreuzpaintner will take on the distinctly Teutonic "Krabat," about a boy learning the black arts from an evil sorcerer. |
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Trap (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Michigander James Bonner's debut feature "Trap" has two abused spouses kill their mates in the first reel, then mistakenly go after each other for the duration. Resourceful low-budget effort's diverting qualities are somewhat undercut by a script (helmer's own) short on the clever twists it needs. |
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Thought Equity, HBO pact (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Archive features thousands of handpicked clips -- Thought Equity, which specializes in stock footage licensing and management, has partnered with HBO Sports to make available online the paybox's HBO Archives, an exclusive library of film, video and high-def material. |
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Carriage marriage for Mouse, BSkyB (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Agreement also involves web Disney Cinemagic -- Disney and Rupert Murdoch-backed satcaster BSkyB have announced a seven-year carriage deal, believed to be worth £130 million ($227 million) a year, that will see the ESPN brand launch in the U.K. |
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B.O. decline afflicts Oz disc sales (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Sector has moderate expectations for 2006 -- DVD rental and retail sales in Australia declined 7% to A$1.05 billion ($776 million) last year, the first downturn since the start of the DVD revolution. |
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'Night' shines bright at Italo B.O. (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Pic reps first time an Italo debut has secured top spot -- Tyro Italo helmer Fausto Brizzi's homework for "Notte prima degli esami" (The Night Before Finals) is paying off at home, where the snappy comedy is the surprise B.O. phenom, outperforming "Casanova," "Syriana" and "Hostel." |
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Entravision to repurchase shares (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Closing expected to take place on Thursday -- Entravision Communications, the largest owner of Univision and Telefutura network affiliate stations, has agreed to repurchase 7 million of its shares of Class U common stock from Univision Communications for $51.1 million. |
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Koreans bring 'D-War' to L.A. (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Sci-fi pic combines Korean folklore, f/x, U.S. thesps -- Los Angeles will be destroyed by a giant serpent in November -- in South Korean director Shim Hyung-rae's effects-laden "D-War" starring Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks. |
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Year (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: A quartet of Northern California sisters in their 30s-to-50s go through some changes during the hectic "Year" charted in writer-director Mike Carroll's debut fiction feature. While there's nothing very original or memorable about seriocomic material here, the indie drama is well-crafted and engrossing enough to attract cable nets. |
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NAACP favors Foxx for male musical artist (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: 'Bernie Mac' takes top honors in three tube categories -- Jamie Foxx's quest for musical stardom got a boost Saturday at the 37th Annual NAACP Image Awards, where the Oscar-winning actor was picked as best male musical artist. Foxx has begun performing tracks from his album "Unpredictable." |
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'Dancing' dynamite for ABC (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Morning Ratings Flash - Rick Kissell -- The second-season finale of "Dancing With the Stars" established series highs on Sunday night, teaming with another huge score for "Grey's Anatomy" to lift ABC to an easy primetime ratings victory, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen. |
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Focus zooms in on Zhang (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Pic pre-sold at Berlin mart to 13 Euro territories -- Focus Features has reported extensive sales of the next movie by Zhang Yimou and "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" at the recent European Film Market in Berlin. |
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Rains cause early closure of Oz's Tropfest (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Judges to reconvene Monday to determine winner -- Torrential rain and lightning Sunday night brought a premature end to Australia's premier short film event, Tropfest. The outdoor festival, founded by actor-helmer John Polson 14 years ago in an inner-city cafe, each year attracts up to 90,000 spectators. |
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AFTRA makes its move (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: L.A. gets union's equal employment opportunities dept. -- The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is moving its national department of equal employment opportunities from New York to L. |
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PGA sets the date (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Guild's '07 awards set for Jan. 20 -- The Producers Guild of America has set its 2007 awards show for Jan. 20 at the Century Plaza. The 18th annual event has been absent from the Century Plaza for two years. |
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Thorne-Stone named Toronto's film commissioner (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Exec takes up new post on March 20 -- Toronto Mayor David Miller has tapped Karen Thorne-Stone for the newly created position of film commissioner for the city. Thorne-Stone was most recently acting executive director of economic development for Toronto, where she helped establish the Toronto Film Board two years ago as one of the film-friendly mayor's strategies for revitalizing the biz here. |
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Ratings dip for Univision music kudo (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Spanish-lingo net attracts 5.9 mil viewers -- Audience levels slipped slightly for Univision's 18th "Premio lo nuestro de la musica Latina" awards, based on preliminary ratings data. Thursday night's kudocast on the Spanish-language network attracted 5.9 million viewers during the three-hour live show, per Nielsen. |
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ASC deems Omens presidential (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: Presidents Award recipient hopes kudo will aid fund-raising mission -- A quick glance at Sherwood "Woody" Omens' resume reveals a deceptively selective list of credits. He cut his teeth as a d.p. in television before working with two celebrated bigscreen funnymen: |
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'Water' sweeps over Bangkok fest (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: 'Silence' named best pic in ASEAN -- The Bangkok Film Festival closed Saturday with a lavish black tie gala and the top prize going to Deepa Mehta's "Water." Vietnamese pre-war romantic drama "Bride Of Silence" was named best film in the separate competition for ASEAN films. |
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Earshot (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Web Only: The disturbed man at the center of this solo show hears too much. And playwright Morris Panych says too much on a subject that might, just might, work as a short presentation at a fringe festival. Despite some erudite comments, periodic interesting observations and occasional amusing moments, "Earshot" is too flimsy a concept to warrant 90 minutes of frequent repetition to illustrate the smallness of the subject's world. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Stick Michelangelo's "David" on your blog to protest censorware (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Xeni Jardin:... BoingBoing reader Kurt von Finck says, Read with a mixture of dismay and pleasure today's BB article regarding blocking by SmartFilter. Dismay that a product with "Smart" in its moniker is so stupid, and pleasure that you've decided to stand up to it. Let me suggest an additional strategy. What happens when the blogosphere uses so much tasteful nudity that the web is unusable for SmartFilter users? |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Stick Michaelangelo's "David" on your blog to protest censorware (Feb 28 2006 00:21 GMT) - Xeni Jardin:... BoingBoing reader Kurt von Finck says, Read with a mixture of dismay and pleasure today's BB article regarding blocking by SmartFilter. Dismay that a product with "Smart" in its moniker is so stupid, and pleasure that you've decided to stand up to it. Let me suggest an additional strategy. What happens when the blogosphere uses so much tasteful nudity that the web is unusable for SmartFilter users? |
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
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Cunningham's Menu of Bribes (Feb 28 2006 00:20 GMT) - Convicted Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham's (R-CA) kickbacks "came in the form of a 'bribe menu' that detailed how much it would cost contractors to essentially order multimillion-dollar government contracts," ABC News reports. "The card shows an escalating scale for bribes, starting at $140,000 and a luxury yacht for a $16 million Defense Department contract. Each additional $1 million in contract value required a $50,000 bribe. The rate dropped to $25,000 per additional million once the contract went above $20 million. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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TiVo May Give Away Set-Top Boxes (Feb 28 2006 00:19 GMT) - TiVo Inc., the television recording technology company that is facing increasing competition, on Monday said it is considering giving away TiVo set-top boxes as part of plans to win subscribers. Chief Executive Tom Rogers said the company, whose name has become synonymous with the ability to pause live television and skip commercials, was close to offering a range of pricing options, including one plan that would include a free set-top box. ... "We're continuing to pursue the prospects of zero upfront and all upfront" pricing, Rogers told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in New York. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Microsoft's InfoCard Draws Open-Source Response (Feb 28 2006 00:19 GMT) - IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an open-source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. ... The companies plan to contribute to an open-source initiative code-named Higgins Project. The project aims to help people manage their plethora of Internet logins and passwords by integrating identity, profile and relationship information used across authentication systems on the Net. ... |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Gentoo Linux 2006.0 Screenshot Walk-Through (Feb 28 2006 00:19 GMT) - Hot on the heels of Gentoo's announcement of their 2006.0 release, OSDir has published a Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour which give us a walk-through of installing Gentoo with the first ever Gentoo Linux LiveCD.#####OSDir.com is proud to be a Media Sponsor of Desktop Linux Summit 2006. |
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