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Download Cool Blackberry Themes Free
2008-06-02 22:47:00
eVeek offers some extremely beautiful BlackBerry themes that can make your BlackBerry screen look and behave like an iPhone, the Mac OS X Desktop or the upcoming BlackBerry Bold.These are premium BlackBerry themes and cost $8 each but you can have all of them for free for a limted time.Open this link in your BlackBerry browser & download the themes directly or you can visit this link in the desktop browser and install the themes via BlackBerry Desktop manager. The latter option is recommended if you are subscribed to some expensive data plan.The themes are available for most BlackBerry models including Pearl, Curve and the BlackBerry 8800 series.Thanks Digital Inspiration
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Half Blood Prince Filming Completed
2008-05-23 20:38:00
Finally, some news from the horse's mouth! Actress Emma Watson aka Hermione Granger has stated on her offical website that filming for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - the 6th book and movie in the series, has been completed on May 17.A still from Harry Potter and the Half Blood PrinceThe site also promises new promotional images and trailers from the sixth Harry Potter film once they are released by Warner Bros.Emma is currently studying for her all-important A-Level exams, here's wishing her loads of luck!Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released on November 21, 2008.Related Posts:Half Blood Prince Movie AnticipationHarry Potter 6 Casting completeDeathly Hallows split for two movies
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Business Networking with Konnects
2008-05-15 15:43:00
Konnects is a brand new business networking site with over 350 city business networks around the globe. while the social networking scene is dominated by the likes of orkut, facebook and hi5, people serious about business are already making profiles on sites like linked in - one of the first such websites emphasizing the importance of professional relationships.Konnects promises to give serious comptetion to linked in with its loaded profile features and its powwerful regional networks. To know more about konnects, check out this squidoo lens below:http://squidoo.com/konnects
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Half Blood Prince Movie Anticipation
2008-05-06 13:54:00
People cant have enough of Harry Potter, and that includes me! In anticipation of the 6th HP movie - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince , I have created 2 webpages.The first one is a facebook page which you can visit below and become a fan if you would like -Half Blood Prince on FacebookRemember, this is a facebook page and not a facebook group.The 2nd web thingy is a squidoo lens on the sixth Potter movie and the book. Check it out:Half Blood Prince lensThe above lens incldues pictures from the movie sets and other interesting info.Movie will be released on November 21, 2008 in the US and UK. November 27 in Australia. Worldwide dates to be decided.
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3G iphone to be launched soon
2008-04-26 21:36:00
(This article has been created automatically using an article rewriter for test purposes. You might find some of the sentences odd and funny!)The 3G iPhone will be appear June 9, the acceptable date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in analysis addendum on Thursday.The 3G iPhone will be the "first of an absorbing beachcomber of new products" from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They additionally apprehend an adapted Mac laptop and iPod lines. The Apple appointment is appointed for June 9-13 in San Francisco.In accession to a 3G iPhone absolution in aboriginal June, the 2.5G archetypal could accept a "minor case change" and a amount bead to amid US$299 and $349, compared to the accepted $399, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a analysis report.Those predictions are constant with a February anticipation Gardner fabricated that 3G iPhones will be appear by midyear...
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Tales of Beedle the Bard Contest
2008-04-10 16:14:00
A delightful opportunity for Harry Potter Fans!Amazon, the owners of one of only seven copies of the Tales of Beedle the Bard, are running a contest whereby one lucky fan can win a weekend in London, England, with the book. The book will apparently be accompanied by security guards!The competition, entitled the Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest , is open to those aged 13 & over. To qualify, you have to write a submission of 100 words or less (in English), in response to ONE of these questions;-- What songs do wizards use to celebrate birthdays?-- What other sports do wizards play besides Quidditch?-- What have you learned from the Harry Potter series that you use in everyday life?Entries will be accepted from April 9th through to April 22nd, in two age groups; 13 - 17 and 18+.Te contest is open to residents of 24 countries, including the U.K., U.S., Canada, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, India, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, The Net...

Yahoo Responds to Microsoft Deadline - Demands More Money
2008-04-08 01:32:00
As expected, Yahoo has responded to Microsoft 's 3 week deadline this morning. The bottom line is pretty clear in a letter signed by Jerry Yang (CEO) and Roy Bostock (chairman). In the "Dear Steve" response to Ballmer they state, "we will not allow you or anyone else to acquire the company for anything less than its full value." They go on to state that, "We consider your threat to commence an unsolicited offer and proxy contest to displace our independent Board members to be counterproductive and inconsistent with your stated objective of a friendly transaction." Apparently, Yahoo seems to be heading towards Google for support, and we might see its best engineers working for the Big G soon enough.
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Skype with video calling for linux
2008-04-03 20:05:00
Skype has released version 2.0.0.63 of its client for Linux with video calling feature. The Mac and Windows versions of Skype have had this feature for some time now.Skype for Linux Features :* Free video call with anyone in your contact list.* Group chat with up to 150 people.* Conference call with up to 25 others.Hardware requirements :* 1 Ghz processor or faster* 256 MB RAM.* 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.* Microphone and speakers or headset.* Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a satellite connection).* Video card driver with Xv support.Software requirements :* Qt 4.2.1+* D-Bus 1.0.0* libasound2 1.0.12Download now
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Tata Buys Jaguar and Land Rover
2008-03-26 23:57:00
Car giant Ford has sold its luxury UK-based car brands Jaguar and Land Rover to Indian company Tata . Tata, India's biggest vehicle maker, is paying $2.3bn (£1.15bn) for the British brands after months of negotiations over price and supply relationships.The deal is another sign of the growing economic muscle of India and something of an economic role reversal, with two icons of British industrial might expanding the global reach of a premier conglomerate in the former British colony.Ford nets about $1.7 billion, a far cry from what it paid for the properties -- $2.5 billion for Jaguar in 1989 and $2.7 billion for Land Rover in 2000. Counting losses and product development, analysts figure Ford spent more than $10 billion on the brands.Those acquisitions, like General Motors' purchase of Saab and Chrysler's entanglement with Mitsubishi, came when cash was rolling in at the U.S. automakers as drivers snapped up cars and pricey pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.Jaguar and Lan...

Hosting Recommended By Kaushal Sheth
2008-03-23 17:37:00
Renowned web designer Kaushal Sheth, who is especially famous for his wordpress themes, recently listed his favourite web hosting services on his blog. Having tried various web hosting companies to host my websites on, I quite agreed with the necessity of his post.For newbies to website hosting, here's a small intro - Web hosting is a service that allows users to post Web pages to the Internet. A web host, or hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for Web sites to be viewed on the Web.How to choose good web host? A good, shared Web host must provide reliable and reasonable quality of service. Many times, a consumer will sign up with the least expensive provider only to experience many technical difficulties and the inevitable and frustrating experience of a change in web hosting. To avoid this experience, it is best if the consumer chooses the right web hosting company. Ensuring that a shared Web hosting firm has the following cha...
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Final Harry Potter Movie Split in Two
2008-03-13 22:09:00
The 7th and final Harry Potter book will be adapted for the silver screen in two parts, Warner Bros has confirmed. The announcement comes after producer David Heyman admitted it was impossible to cram Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows into a single movie.Fans of the series have been left disappointed in the past when key scenes, including Quidditch matches, were excised for the film adaptations. Because of the many adventures in "Deathly Hallows," Rowling, the movies' producers and Warner Bros. all agreed that two movies were necessary to truly tell the end story.Part one of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will debut in late 2010 and be followed months later by part two."We feel that the best way to do the book, and its many fans, justice is to expand the screen adaptation of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' and release the film in two parts," Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, said in a statement. The Kill Bill strategy will also have the b...
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iphone 2.0 to be revolutionized by SDK
2008-03-08 21:38:00
Apple will release a major update to its iPhone software this June, , including new features for businesses and broad support for third-party software. Apple has revolutionized the capabilities of its iPhone, as it tries to appeal to gamers and businessmen alike, however users of the phone will have to wait until June before they can start benefiting.Announcing the launch of its Software Developers Kit (SDK) at its town hall event in at its headquarters in California, the newly announced SDK will allow developers the chance to use the same APIs and tools that Apple says it uses in-house to develop iPhone applications.The announcement is likely to cause an avalanche of new applications for users of the mobile phone. The company takes cues from both the business and consumer worlds, finally letting third-party developers in on the action to bring games, utilities, and other apps to the phone.These impending changes promise to radically transform the daily experience for iPhone users....
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Be Invisible in Gmail Chat
2008-03-04 20:31:00
Gmail Chat added a new status option: invisible. Now you can be logged in to Gmail Chat and see if your contacts are online, but they won't be able to see you're online. I think its a long awaited feature!If you simultaneously use Gmail Chat and any other flavor of Google Talk (the gadget or the desktop application), you won't be able to change your status to invisible because they don't support the new feature yet. The feature was first added to Gmail Chat because it's the most used interface for Google Talk, but it's unpardonable to have three separate interfaces with different features.
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Feedblitz Adds Yahoo and MSN Messenger Support
2008-02-18 22:45:00
FeedBlitz turns blogs and feeds into emails to subscribers. It reads your blog's RSS feed - a computer-readable form of your blog produced by all the blogging tools out there. It then figures out what's new and sends the updates to subscribers by email, instant messages.FeedBlitz has now extended its IM support (Skype and AIM) to include beta support for the Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger .Subscribers can choose Y! and MSN from the newsletter subscription page, or may interact with the chat bots by adding the following names to their buddy lists and sending the "?" command:Skype: FeedBlitz.AlertsYahoo! : FeedBlitz.AlertsMSN: FeedBlitz.Alerts@hotmail.comAIM: FeedBlitzAlertsFeedBlitz recently passed a circulation of 5 million on February 10.
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Abu Dhabi to Get Futuristic Green City
2008-02-10 23:27:00
Abu Dhabi has started to build what it says is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste car-free city.Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co., also known as Masdar, will spend $22 billion developing the carbon- neutral city that will save the equivalent of $2 billion in oil usage over 25 years. The green city will use 75 percent less power than a conventional city, and less than half the amount of desalinated water.There is also a financial payoff. Masdar fits neatly into Abu Dhabi's efforts to diversify from dwindling oil wealth. Its developers say that it will create 70,000 new jobs and boost the UAE's GDP by 2 per cent.The project is unquestionably ambitious and forward looking not only in scope but also in the goals it is trying to achieve. Surely, Abu Dhabi has set a precedent and the pace on a regional and international level.
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My Favourite Books
2008-01-31 22:12:00
Saw this bookie post on Phoenix's blog, thought I should write about my own favourites as well!A book that made you laugh: The Inscrutable Americans, Anurag Mathur...simply hillarious!A book that made you cry: The Kite Runner, Dobby's death in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, One Flew Overthe Cuckooo's NestA book that scared you: none till nowA book that disgusted you: disgusted in what sense? If its what I'm thinking, then I actually like disgusting books. In that case, Delhi by Khushwant Singh wins hands down :DA book you loved in elementary school: The Wizard of OzA book you loved in middle school or junior high school: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, A Room on the Roof by Ruskin BondA book you loved in high school: White Mughals, City of Djinns - both by William Dalrymple, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixA book you loved in college: Five point Someone by Chetan Sharma, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Da Vinci CodeA b...
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Tired of Facebook Apps Invites - Here's the Solution
2008-01-30 16:53:00
One of the major complaints about Facebook is the Application Request Queue that keeps getting longer and longer unless your religiously hit the "Ignore" button each time there’s a request from a friend to add a new Facebook application.At the time of writing, there were some 320 invitations in my Facebook Inbox for various Facebook Applications and clearing this queue would have taken days as I would press the Ignore button exactly 320 times.Fortunately, there’s an excellent solution available now in the form of a bookmarklet for IE and Firefox that will completely erase all Facebook application requests in one click.Go to http://www.ignoreall.com/, bookmark the bookmarklet and click on it on your Facebook request page. It works like HarryPotter's magic.This simple Javascript removes only the Facebook Apps requests - if you have any pending friend requests or group invitations, they’ll stay unaffected.
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Store Yahoo Messenger Webcam Streams on Your Hard Drive
2008-01-13 22:33:00
The YCC Cam Cap application allows you to automatically save both inbound and outbound Yahoo ! Messenger webcam streams to an AVI file.YCC Cam Cap performs this by taking individual screenshots of the Yahoo! Messenger webcam control and saving them into a video file on your hard drive. YCC Cam Cap is not selective in the webcam streams it captures but saves any webcam control located on the desktop.This process is carried out automatically behind the scenes so that when a new webcam window is opened, a new file is created and when a webcam window is closed the file is finalized. As long as you have a powerful enough machine, YCC Cam Cap is capable of saving an almost unlimited number of webcam windows at the same time and in real time.Screenshot of YCC Cam Cap:But yeah, I know what youre thinking. It could be a boon for internet perverts as well! Oh well, when will they ever grow up!
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Facebook Out to Clean Your Profile
2008-01-13 22:13:00
Facebook is planning an early spring! The social networking site which famously opened its gates to developer applications in May '07, announced that it will soon be starting a way for app-happy Facebookers to keep up appearances by relegating many of their widgets to an "extended profile." By clicking the button, you will be able to hide everything except Facebook's own applications and a number of others, and a "Show Extended Profile " button will reveal the entire thing to you or your friends.All Facebook noted that this may mean bad news for developers who've created little-known Facebook applications and are counting on viral buzz to grow their products. If those applications are rendered invisible by "extended profile" controls, that viral expansion could be stalled.Aside from that, I think the "profile cleanup" is a great idea. One of my female friends' profile page is cluterred with 300 applications and its an onerous task waiting for the page to load (it even looks quite...
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Get Divx Pro Bundle For FREE
2007-12-17 21:45:00
The DivX 6 Bundle contains everything you need to create and play DivX videos on a PC or a Mac - that includes the DivX Player, DivX Pro codec and DivX Converter. and you can get the Pro version for FREE - for a limited time!The DivX converter compresses the size of your home video files and DVD movies without much affecting the quality. And the DivX Codec ensures that you can play those DivX movies in any of favorite media players.A DivX Create bundle costs $20 but you can have it for free during the holiday season.1. Download DivX Pro at divx.com [Select the Mac or Windows version]2. You can either share your email address with DivX to get your own serial number for DivX Converter or if you don’t want to receive DivX offers in future, just use the following serial numbers:For Windows: A3NI9M7P47B325A52C26For Mac: 338BSZ759249T26B2M9EThanks to Digital Inspiration
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How to Disable Video Ads in MSN Messenger
2007-12-13 22:24:00
You can disable video ads at the bottom of Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messneger) and make sure that it only displays static picture ads. Follow these steps :1. Go into Show Menu > Tools > Options2. On the Options window click General on the left side.3. Find "Video Carousel" line on the right side.4. Uncheck "Show Video Carousel" and click OK.Info Sources: Solid Documents Blog and imessenger

Movie - MP3; Mera Pehla Pehla Pyaar
2007-12-07 14:20:00
I recently watched the bollywood movie - Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar(MP3) on a friend's recommendation. And dudes, I loved it. A teen flick with a completely new cast..no stars, a wonderful mix of comedy and romance.It is a flick that takes you back to your school days. Back to the times when you had your first crush. However, you may not have pursued the girl you loved to the extent the young protagonist in ‘Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar’ does – right to the Eiffel Tower in a Tom Cruise style.For teenagers, ‘MP3’ is a film they can directly relate to. For adults, it is a trip down the memory lane. And mind you, memory never fades when it comes to one’s first love. You always remember it.Rohan (Ruslaan Mumtaz) and his group of friends enjoy the school life to the fullest. They attend classes, bunk them, talk about girls, talk about their sexy schoolteacher, play pranks, and do all the things that any pack of brats of their age would do.Ayesha (Hazel) is a fresher who has come from ab...
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Facebook Invitation Spam Gets Worse
2007-11-28 21:35:00
Invitation Spam has become a major problem for Facebook members ever since they introduced the f8 platform. And unfortunately, Facebook still offers no solution to deal with this growing menace.For instance, there are around 40 pending messages in my Facebook account each inviting me to “some” Facebook application. To clear this queue alone, I will have to hit the Ignore button on Facebook minimum 40 times.The worst part is that each time I approve a new friend request on Facebook, this long web page loads itself in the browser. So it also makes Facebook slow. Facebook is one platform which I really like...its way better than myspace and orkut and generally less spammy. But with such a plethora of applications, and the fact that all of them want a viral way to access your information, will mean that you'll get scores (maybe more, it depends..) of invitations from your friends to install an application.Is there any solution to this growing menace? Maybe an "ignore all applicatio...
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Harry Potter and the Half Blood prince Casting Complete
2007-11-17 10:49:00
It's confirmed! Warner Bros announced that they've completed casting Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .Joining the cast of the sixth Harry Potter movie are Academy Award-winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) as Potions Professor Horace Slughorn and Helen McCrory who earned rave reviews playing the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair in the critically acclaimed drama, The Queen. McCrory's taking on the role of Draco Malfoy's mother, Narcissa.In addition to Broadbent and McCrory, newcomers to the Harry Potter movie franchise will include Jessie Cave as Lavender Brown. Jessie, a 20-year-old actress, is about to appear on TV in new CBBC drama Summerhill, and on the big screen in forthcoming film Inkheart opposite Dame Helen Mirren. She is two years older than the age stipulated at the audition in July. Then, producers held an open casting call for girls aged 15-18 at Earls Court in London and said "no acting experience necessary". Around 7,000 hopefuls queued for hours in a bid to win the ...
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India Has 4th Fastest Supercomputer
2007-11-13 19:04:00
India's Tata group and Hewlett-Packard said onTuesday they had built the Asia-Pacific region's most powerful supercomputer - in a major boost to scientific research in India.The supercomputer has made it into a top ten of the world's fastest supercomputers. In fact, it made it to the 4th place in a list of top 500 supercomputers.Computer giant IBM continues to dominate the list - which is compiled twice a year. Its Blue Gene/L supercomputer - used to ensure the US nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe and reliable - comes out at number one.Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned Tata unit, built the machine, named "Eka" ("the one" in Sanskrit), using HP's high-end "computer building blocks," the two companies said.Scientists and engineers would have the ability to perform 120 trillion "floating point operations" per second using the supercomputer, the most powerful in Asia including Japan and the world's fourth most powerful, they said.The speed of floating p...
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Juno Free Advance Film Screening
2007-10-27 00:29:00
"Juno " is Hollywood's most acclaimed movie of the year 2007. Set to release in December this year, the movie has won accolades at all major film festivals. "Juno" recently won the best film award at the Rome film festival, about which I recently posted at my filmmaking blog. Fox Searchlight has decided to push up the release of Juno, hoping to ride high on the incredible festival buzz.But you need not wait for the film's release to see it!There are 74 upcoming free advance screenings at the time this was posted. You can RSVP here. Promotional screenings are on a first-come, first-served basis and not guaranteed seating. No purchase necessary. Seating is limited to theater capacity. Check out the list of theaters and dates after the jump. And of course, its all in the US!* Monday, Oct 29 7:00 PM AMC Village 7, New York* Monday, Oct 29 8:00 PM AMC River East , Chicago* Tuesday, Oct 30 7:00 PM Regal Oakwood 18, Holl* Tuesday, Oct 30 7:00 PM AMC Fashion Valley, San Diego* Tuesday, Oct...
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Mozilla Firefox For Mobile
2007-10-19 23:12:00
Yep, you read it right! Get ready for Firefox Mobile . Guys at Mozilla are working on a mobile version of Firefox :"People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. Here's some information about what we're planning to do with hiring, technology, partnerships, and products, and how you can get involved.Short summary: we are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices."Why increase Mozilla's presence in mobile?* A large portion of the world accesses the Internet from mobile devices, and this will become increasingly true over time (mobile devices outsell computers 20-1). Each Firefox install is an individual choice by a person to download something that didn't ship by default on their computer. Why not offer that option for mobile devices?* Firefox the most popular open-source browser on the planet with > 100 million active users. Bringing Firefox add-ons,...
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Facebook's Open Secret to Making a Collage
2007-10-19 22:51:00
Here's a simple question for anyone who has been on Facebook for some time now.How do you create a photo collage of your Facebook Friends (as shown above) without using any of the available Facebook Apps or third-party tools?And no matter how large your Facebook friends list is, the whole process should not take more than 2 seconds.Hint: This secret feature is available right inside Facebook though Mark Zuckerberg and his team never told us about it.Answer: Once you finish exploring all the options in Facebook, read the solution. Source: Digital Inspiration
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Harry Potter October Update
2007-10-06 23:57:00
JK Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson are among many British celebrities and distinguished guests, including HRH Prince Charles and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who will be in attendance at year's Pride of Britain Awards on Tuesday, October 9th at the Dorchester Hotel in London's Park Lane.The awards are given out to those outstanding British citizens who show great courage, care, and selflessness and are an inspiration to all.Meanwhile, Director David Yates is quoted in a UK newspaper saying the role of Young Voldemort for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film has been cast, but refused to give the name of the young actor who will play him in the sixth Harry Potter movie. There are speculations that the actor in question may be the young nephew of Ralph Fiennes who of course portrays Lord Voldemort. The article states that while David Yates declined to reveal the name of the actor, the columnist says that the role will be played by 11 year old Titan Tif...
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Crop Art - Literally!
2007-09-26 22:33:00
Since 1993, farmers in Japan's Aomori prefecture have been creating crop art by mixing colored rice plants in with the regular stuff. Each year, they create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.Too see more of this amazing crop art, visit here.
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