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- AP - "My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro" (HarperCollins Publishers, 587 pages, $24.95), edited by Jeffrey Eugenides: In the introduction to this remarkable collection, Jeffrey Eugenides warns readers that good love stories aren't fluffy, happy-go-lucky affairs. Instead, they "depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. |
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- AppleTV V2 Delays Jan 31st, 2008 by SolSie In a press release Apple states the MacBook Air is now shipping. But the company also mentions in a small print about AppleTV saying ?the new Apple TV® software update, which allows users to rent high definition movies directly from their widescreen TVs, is not quite finished. Apple now plans to make the free software download available to existing Apple TV customers in another week or two.? (mid February) As of today Thursday Jan 31, Apple sell |
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- LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Bears superstar Devin Hester will be one of 10 honorees Friday night at the NFL Alumni Player of the Year Awards Dinner during Super Bowl festivities in Scottsdale, Ariz. |
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- "Any festival you go to there's going to be one film that most people don't get and just spend their time discussing why they didn't like it and question why it was ever made," writes Jason Guerrasio at Filmmaker.... |
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- Luis Miguel is writing a song for his son, Miguelito. All together now - AWWW! The song should be included in his next album. No word yet on if Luismi will [...] |
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- What looks like a normal pen at the first sight, ends up being an audio recording pen. Since it is made for spies and all the wanna-be’s, the device is well cloaked and not even a FBI agent could work with it. Taking in consideration the background noise when you are recording, there are 3 sound-sensitivity [...] |
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- Copyright © 2008 Lusty LibraryClare and Hannah had been the best of friends since they first met on the first day of high school. Clare was slim, athletic and the object of desire for most of the boys with her long blond hair, pert little tits and a butt to die for. Hannah was almost identical but her brunette naturally curly long hair and slightly darker skin gave her the air of a southern European origin. They were nearing the end of their final year before exams and revision was top of the list. |
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- Yukka! Well, you know it had to happen sooner or later. A video game based on the popular, horrifying, and disturbing Saw movie franchise is set to hit next-gen consoles in 2009. I can hear the anti-video game violence crowd rubbing their hands together now. If you're into this sort of thing, you can check out the Saw game website. |
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- Succès de librairie en Haïti dès sa sortie, ce livre est un témoignage sur le régime de terreur instauré en Haïti par le dictateur François Duvalier, d'octobre 1957 jusqu'à sa mort, le 21 avril 1971. |
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- ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that former Missouri State Representative Colonel Jack Jackson has endorsed John McCain's candidacy for president. Colonel Jackson will help lead the efforts in Missouri to organize veterans and mobilize grassroots support for the Arizona Senator's campaign. Colonel Jackson will serve as the Missouri Veterans for McCain Chairman and also as a statewide Vice-Chair for the McCain campaign. |
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- Buy.com has the Pyle PLDVD-189 DVD/CD/MP3 Player on sale for $113.99 after a $286 instant rebate and free shipping. |
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- San Diego-based, voice-over-IP software firm Gizmo5 said Thursday that the firm has linked its software to the MySpace instant messaging network. According to the firm, the integration means that users of MySpace can use the firm's software to see who is online on MySpace, receive alerts, and send/receive messages. Gizmo5 said the new features are available as a free feature. Gizmo5 was formerly known as SIPphone, and renamed itself in December. Michael Robertson, founder of MP3. |
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- Filed under: Digital Cameras, Gaming AgfaPhoto -- you know, the company that used to just make really high-end gear, but now lends its name to lame sauce stuff built by plawa -- has a new camera on display at PMA, the DV-5000G. In addition to the regular 5 megapixel camera duties, this thing works overtime as a 720 x 480 video camera -- there's 64MB of built-in memory, but we're guessing you'll want to hop to SD or SDHC in a hurry. Of course, most cameras do full-res video, but AgfaPhoto is also pulling a page out of DXG's book and packing in video games, playable on the 3-inch "960 x 240" screen (we're guessing that's a typo, and this thing is standard 320 x 240 QVGA). Unfortunately, the games are super weak, and there are no emulators in sight. |
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- Yes, here's yet another new financial service vying for your attention. This time it's RevolutionMoneyExchange, which is a person-to-person payment system similar to PayPal. It's free to send, receive, and withdraw money, but the only funding source allowed is your bank account (no credit cards). It will be interesting to see From Revolution MoneyExchange: New Person-to-Person Payment System and $25 Bonus |
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- Live-Blogging KodakAtlantic Online - 7 minutes ago8.30 pm. They are not disabusing me of the notion that discussing the details of healthcare policy is really boring. 8. |
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- The rock art of the Tassili culture is found throughout North African mountains, the Tassili n'Ajjer. The rock art of Europe is well known around the world. Lesser known but just as amazing and less well-understood is the rock art of North Africa. (prev.,prev. |
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- The Private Cloud is a patented rocking bed by German designer Manuel Kloker. They don't tell the price, but it is real. You buy it and it's supposed to be all like, you know, wheeeeee, and then whoooooo, and then one goes like oh, what about and you are like hmmmyes, which gets into a hummmm oooh hmmm oooh mmmm gooodie and then the other is like oooohNICEyeslikethat and you are both like awwyeah and the bed is doing creak creak creak and suddenly you find yourself into a splooch-flap-splooch-flap-splo kind of messy situation and the bed keeps going creek-creak-creek-creak-creek- and then it's all gets into a ooooooh-my-godddd-SPLASSSSH-bu pant pant pant explosion which ends in a few smooch smooch smooch and zzzzzzzz. galleryPost('privatecloud', 3, 'Private Cloud'); You go zzzzzzz, because business hours are over, baby. |
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- Are you a craftsman? Come out of your garage or basement and talk to us. We are looking for people who have the ultimate in home workshops, whether they’re used for making things out of wood, metal or other materials. We would like to hear what you do, what you think [... |
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- So, Sprint 5 came to an end yesterday and we did the usual review/retrospective morning, followed by lunch out at Yo Sushi and an afternoon of planning Sprint 6. This sprint, we: used our release plan to consciously reduce the... |
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- stock photo You may want to lose weight to fit in your size 8 dress, while your dad has to drop a few pounds to help control his diabetes. The reasons may differ from person to person, but a common goal for most of us at some time in our lives centers around losing weight. Regardless of how much total weight you want to lose, you can start with a small goal, like losing just 10 pounds. To reach this ultimate goal, you need to design a plan before you pursue weight loss. First of all, when designing a plan, keep in mind your unique situation. |
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- Like Cam, I'm not familiar with them either, but I like the music. |
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- REDWOOD CITY (sfgate.com) — The owner of a Menlo Park jewelry store convicted of hiring a man to kidnap, rape and kill one of his employees because she spurned his romantic advances was sentenced today in a Redwood City courtroom to 39 years to life in prison. Ricardo Zambrano, 38, said little before Judge Thomas [...] |
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- By KAREN GOULART The Patriot Ledger HINGHAM - It appears that no address is safe from burglars, not even 210 Central St. That’s the address of town hall. Even though the police department is right there, at 212 Central St., two thefts haven taken place at town hall since late last week. On... |
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- Britney driving in L.A. yesterday Britney Spears’ visit to the UCLA Medical Center is going about as well as you’d expect. |
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- Forgive Durden frontman Thomas Dutton has posted a lengthy blog entry discussing the status of future of the band. The band has apparently undergone a significant lineup shift with 3/4-ths of the band departing. Nonetheless, Thomas is working on the follow up to their 2006 album, Wonderland. Among the comments he made: When we returned home [from tour] we had a band meeting. |
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- McCain Changes Story on Tax Cut Stance... |
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Tentation (Jan 31 2008 20:30 GMT) - Tentation (?), n. [L. tentatio: cf. |
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- NY TIMES, other newspapers continue to struggle... |
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- ...recruiting station not welcome |
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- Fearless Records has set a release date for the seventh in their Punk Goes… series. This time, the label is tackling rap and hip hop. The album will include some of the material which was set to appear on the announced and cancelled hip hop compilation to be curated by Immortal Records. The record is titled Punk Goes Crunk and is due out April 08, 2008. It will include Say Anything, Kenny from The Starting Line, New Found Glory, The Maine, Hot Rod Circut, My American Heart, and Scary Kids Scaring Kids. |
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- Berkeley city council tells Marines to leave! |
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- Don Resinger asks via CNET's Crave, "Is Apple in over its head with the iPhone?" |
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- Snowshoeing! Today's language segment: SUPPOSED TO. We also talk about a proverb: two heads are better than one. |
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- Happy New Year!! Machine voice from vozme.com; Using 'though', 'although', 'even though'; Idioms with 'heart': |
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- The pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed a rare respite from house arrest to meet with members of her party, the National League for Democracy. A party spokesman reported that she had criticized the series of meetings she has held since October with Aung Kyi, a senior junta official — they met for the fifth time after her meeting with party colleagues — for failing to set a deadline to achieve any real political change. She also cautioned the nation to “ |
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- An update about 'NetPals English.' It has not gotten off to a good start, so I'm going to think about it for a while longer and possibly RE-LAUNCH it in the future. Please write your comments on our blog! |
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- Talking about having something done: 'I had those two rooms painted.' Two idioms: 1. what makes him tick? |
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- Filed under: Software, Blogging, Internet ToolsDaniel Jalkut announced the release of MarsEdit 2.1, the great blogging client from Red Sweater Software. The big changes involve a nice search features that allows you to easily find drafts and recent posts, a new tag editor (and support for MT tags), a better preview function as well as my favorite: the ability to save drafts to the server. |
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- Our very first AdventurePod English podcast! Charlie's going on a cycling adventure and so we interviewed him for our very first video podcast. This is the AUDIO file (mp3) of that interview. TRANSCRIPT and VIDEO are available on our website. |
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- Photo taken with the amazing Nikon D300 and the equally impressive Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 lens. We published a review of the Jawbone Bluetooth headset a few months ago, and after coming back from CES I happened to be given one at a press event. It was quite funny actually; Aliph (the company who makes the Jawbone) was giving one headset to every press person at the event, and it was like a rugby scrum trying to get one - I even had a little old lady jam her way in front of me to get one. |
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- Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360Wow, we thought last week was a big week for X3F. One week later and we've put out our first enhanced Fancast and our first video podcast (which we're calling X3F TV, clever right?). We've also got yet another edition of Ask X3F in which we reveal our podcasting secrets and discuss the apparent disappearance of Xbox 360s everywhere. |
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