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A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 6 (Jul 31 2007 21:59 GMT) - Mark Frauenfelder: Everybody loves peanuts etched with business card information (except people allergic to nuts) (Via Candy Addict) Video -- MIT's undulating Hyposurface. Snarky comments about disgusting-looking retro food and fashion. (Thanks, Charlie!) Meth-heads are stealing copper wire from California irrigations systems. |
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He Said THAT? (Jul 31 2007 21:59 GMT) - The Top 10 Gordon Brown quotes from the Bush-Brown summit: "When you said 'tee time', I was thinking Earl Gray"10)... |
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Martha Stewart goes DIY (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Show set to debut on Thanksgiving -- Martha Stewart will bring her crafting expertise to DIY Network beginning in November as part of a distribution deal between Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and the net. |
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Showbiz's Comic-Con conundrum (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: The highs and lows of this year's confab -- Reporters sometimes can't help but admire the talented people they cover, but they seldom preface questions with "You rock!" or "You guys are awesome," which occurred with notable frequency at Comic-Con in San Diego. |
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Hadad launches C5N (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Channel reaches 90% of homes in Argentina -- Argentine journo-lawyer Daniel Hadad today Wednesday launched news feevee Canal 5 de Noticias (C5N), his first major venture since selling Buenos Aires TV broadcaster Canal 9 this year. |
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Canadians log Internet gain (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: TV audiences fall while online users grow -- TV viewing was down slightly last year in Canada, while Internet penetration in the Great White North grew significantly. |
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Portman hires Stoll (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Exec to oversee co-productions, acquisitions -- Portman Film & Television, the U.K. sales combo owned by Digital Rights Group, has tapped Anke Stoll, a former BBC Worldwide exec, to oversee co-production and acquisitions. |
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BSkyB buys set-top box maker (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Broadcaster pays $250 mil for Amstrad -- Europe's leading paybox, BSkyB, has once again surprised the media industry ? this time by shelling out around $250 million to buy U.K. set-top box manufacturer Amstrad. |
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Hollywood in strike zone (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: The biz starts to stockpile -- Not that there was any doubt, but the latest statistics for filming in L.A. confirm what everybody already knows: The studios and networks have revved up production, stockpiling projects as strike fever engulfs Los Angeles. |
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Angela Shapiro-Mathes (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: TLC topper tackles challenges without fear -- Angela Shapiro-Mathes wasn't looking to take over TLC, the reality-centric cabler once known as the Learning Channel. But the newly named president-g.m. has made a career out of shifting gears and tackling new challenges. |
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The Couric Effect (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: A Look Back at Katie's Impactful Year -- Precisely a year ago, Katie Couric was on top of the world -- on the verge of becoming the first woman to anchor a nightly newscast solo, a milestone that sent broadcast news into tumult and made her the subject of massive media speculation. |
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FX awards 'Damages' to MyNetwork (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: News Corp. sibling to give series extra push -- FX is turning to broadcast sibling MyNetworkTV to give its new Glenn Close drama "Damages" a little push. The first two segs of "Damages" will air Wednesday night on MyNetworkTV, repping the first time the broadcast netlet has aired programming from a News Corp. sibling. |
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Barrymore rewinds '80s vids for VH1 (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Actress to produce 'Clash of the Music Videos' -- Drew Barrymore, who helped kickstart the '80s revival with her turn in "The Wedding Singer," will exec produce "Clash of the Music Videos," a music-video competition show for VH1. |
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Tina Fey (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: 'SNL' vet pilots '30 Rock' -- Tina Fey arrived at "Saturday Night Live" in 1997 and toiled on the NBC landmark show for nine years. That's a lot of all-nighters in Lorne Michaels' office, "Weekend Update" skits, presidential sketches and opening monologues for guest hosts. |
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Allison Jones (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Casting director finds her niche with Apatow -- Funny lady, Allison Jones. Just don't ask her to tell a joke. "Personally, I have no talent for making people laugh," she says. "Thank God you don't have to be funny to work in comedy. |
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'Simpsons' success lifts Fox (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Box office hit a victory for synergy -- Before the weekend, "The Simpsons" was already one of the most profitable franchises in News Corp.'s arsenal, having generating an estimated $2 billion for the conglom since Homer and company first bowed their own weekly series in January 1990. |
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Salma Hayek (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Actress has greenlight power for outfit Ventanazul -- "They laughed when I came here," recalls Salma Hayek. "They said, 'You're never going to be an actress. You're Mexican,' " That was before her Oscar nomination (for playing the title role in "Frida"), before her Emmy win (for directing "The Maldonado Miracle") and before "Ugly Betty" collected two Golden Globes earlier this year. |
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Alexandra Wallace (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: 'News' exec producer balances hard news, ongoing stories -- The presence of a woman atop one of the big three evening newscasts is almost as rare as a female anchor. But just after Katie Couric took the helm at CBS, Alexandra Wallace became executive producer of NBC's "Nightly News With Brian Williams" in March, becoming the first woman to hold the job at any network in more than a decade. |
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Tyra Banks (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - TV News: Supermodel leaps to power lists of Times, Forbes magazines -- As the warm, outspoken den mother urging women to go for their dreams on "The Tyra Banks Show" and the glamorous, queen-bee coach of "America's Next Top Model," Tyra Banks has made the leap from supermodel to the power lists of Times and Forbes magazines. |
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Will Stevens And The GOP Kill Ethics Reforms? (Jul 31 2007 21:58 GMT) - After the House passed major ethics and lobbying changes today by a 411-8 margin, GOP senator and soon-to-be felon Ted Stevens told Dick Cheney and his fellow GOP co-conspirators that he might block the ethics bill from coming to a vote in the Senate later this week. I hope that Harry Reid is paying attention and getting his message machine going to set the narrative in advance of any such action. It could be a long summer recess for the GOP if their Senate caucus has blocked ethics reforms, Iraq redeployments, and sided with the White House to kill an SCHIP expansion. It would be fun to hammer their asses the entire month of August on the "culture of corruption", "war without end", and "$145 bilion for war; nothing for kids" angles. |
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Liblicense 0.3 (Default branch) (Jul 31 2007 21:56 GMT) - Liblicense is a library to assist in the aggregation of license data and the embedding of license data within a file. It also provides the license data of common licenses, such as those by Creative Commons and GNU's GPL and LGPL. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This is the first version to feature desktop integration. |
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Safe and SafeDesktop 2.2.6 (Default branch) (Jul 31 2007 21:55 GMT) - The idea behind Safe is that a user need not remember all her login names and passwords. Instead, the user utilizes her cell phone to store sensitive data in an encrypted way. Only one root password is required to be remembered to get access to the data. The cell phone in question needs to support J2ME applications. SafeDesktop is a cross-platform desktop application that provides the same features as Safe, and has a mechanism to keep the data synchronized between the two. |
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Fler bildskärmar till Imac (Jul 31 2007 21:53 GMT) - Hoppas ni kan hjälpa till. Jag har en imac g5 1,9 ghz (den precis före intelprocessorerna kom) och vill koppla till en gammal pc skärm till den för att kunna splitta upp/förlänga skrivbordet. Jag har köpt rätt kabel (mini vga) och har nu samma bild på båda skärmarna. Hur gör jag för att få... |
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SmallSQL 0.19 (Default branch) (Jul 31 2007 21:53 GMT) - SmallSQL is a pure Java DBMS, a relational database for Java desktop applications. It has a JDBC 3.0 interface and offers many ANSI SQL 92 and ANSI SQL 99 features. It is very small and fast because it does not have a network interface. License: |
MetaFilter
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Education Prepares for Life, Training Prepares for Employment (Jul 31 2007 21:53 GMT) - In 1996, Al Pope from the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturers announced "Our goal is to change the way schooling is done." And, with the School-to-Work program, corporate and educational interests became further intwined, a trend that now reaches every level and comes in many guises. The ever-present crisis of American education continues, but few ask: |
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