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Update: Mr. Woodcock Slaps Blu-ray
2007-12-03 11:15:00
The hi-def format gets a workout from Mr. Woodcock. Original post by http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ignfeeds/dvd/~3/1 94264876/832372p1.html
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Update: Good Luck Chuck Runs Out
2007-12-03 11:15:00
The romantic comedy with Jessica Alba and Dane Cook comes home. Original post by http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ignfeeds/dvd/~3/1 94264875/834460p1.html
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Update: Invasion Swarms HD
2007-12-03 11:08:00
An Invasion of all three formats begins in ‘08 . Original post by http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ignfeeds/dvd/~3/1 94254428/834123p1.html
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Update: Girls Next Door S3 Due
2007-12-03 11:02:00
null (DVD)The Playboy babes rock the party next door. Original post by http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ignfeeds/dvd/~3/1 94254429/824690p1.html
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BeaconGate: Hey Coke, Don’t Just Blame Facebook
2007-12-03 11:01:00
A Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3 /194247224/
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[mpFree] Buffetlibre DJ’s Verbena Selected Mix
2007-12-03 10:37:00
I used to get annoyed, and occasionally still do, when I go to download a bootleg mix CD and realize all 20-something tracks are packed together into one giant, inconvenient MP3 file. Usually I’m only interested in the mix because of one or two rare songs or remixes tucked within the tracklist, so to find out that I’ve got to go digging into one 73 minute mix to find 4 minutes of potential greatness is frustrating to say the least. Nevertheless, beggars can’t be choosers, so I learned to live with it and to appreciate it at the same time. Now I’ve got an iTunes mix…of mixes: each track is over an hour of danceable electro and hip-hop all finely mixed and blended, and serves a purposeful existence. When it’s your turn to play DJ, nothing’s easier than letting a few of those run from start to finish…especially when the mixes are, you know, good. [MP3] LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix) The latest Verbena mix from th...

Happy Birthday Daryl Hannah [Greg Laden’s Blog]
2007-12-03 10:09:00
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In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones
2007-12-03 10:03:00
With all the talk about Amazon’s Kindle, there’s a bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In Japan , half of the top ten selling works of fiction in the first six months of 2007 were composed on mobile phones. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, mobile phone novels (keitai shousetsu) have become a publishing phenomenon in Japan, “turning middle-of-the-road publishing houses into major concerns and making their authors a small fortune in the process.” One book, Koizora (Love Sky) about high-school girl who is bullied, gang-raped, becomes pregnant has sold more than 1.2 million copies since being released. The mobile internet has a role in this growing phenomen in Japan, with another book Moshimo Kimiga (420,000 copies) starting with installments uploaded to an internet site and sent our to “thousands of young subscribers.” Notably, at least when considering the Kindle, is that the Japanese mar...
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RockYou App Slides to Top Spot on Facebook
2007-12-03 09:54:00
On Friday, RockYou took over the top spot on Facebook ’s list of applications with the most active users. The application, called Super Wall, overtook Slide’s FunWall. Slide still has the No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6 Facebook apps, while RockYou only has one other app in the top ten (X Me, at No. 5). The top apps are still ruled by a few dominant names. In a press release touting that it is now better than Slide, RockYou also claims to run the biggest ad network on Facebook. But it is unclear how many of these ads are circular links to other apps. There is a lot of funny money on Facebook. Rock on. RockYou Loading information about RockYou… Slide Loading information about Slide… Facebook Loading information about Facebook… cb_widget_report_widget(”cb_widget_ 1196733008″); cb_widget_report_element(”cb_widget _0_1196733008″,”rockyou&rdquo ;); cb_widget_report_element(”cb_widget _1_1196733008″,&rdquo...
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Hunting Pheasant in Kansas at Ringneck Ranch
2007-12-03 09:30:00
Despite all the national TV publicity, the owners agree that you’ll arrive the first time as a guest but leave as a friend. The explosions of shotguns echo through the crisp Kansas morning air. To the unknowing it may sound like a war was breaking out south of the sleepy little town of Tipton. To the residents of Tipton though, it is an all to familiar sound from October till March. Situated approximately two miles south of Tipton and marked only by a stone sign sits… Original post by http://feeds.blogcritics.org/~r/bc/sports /~3/194223426/013028.php
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TeXtra’s Natalie Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET TV
2007-12-03 09:21:00
TeXtra, a tech news video show hosted by former TechCrunch writer Natalie Del Conte, may be shutting down well shy of its first birthday this upcoming February 13. That’s because CNET has poached Natalie away from Podshow, which owns TeXtra. Del Conte will be moving from San Francisco to New York and joining the CNET TV team with a new news show, she says. It won’t be like TeXtra and a number of other tech news shows (webbalert, Rocketboom, PopSnap, Geekbrief, CommandN, etc.) that she describes as “camera, girl, news.” She’s not saying much about the format of the new show, other than it will be much different than TeXtra. She’ll cover CES in January for CNET, and the new show will start in February 2008. The Textra show will likely be shut down - Podshow will not be looking for a replacement for Del Conte. They’ve had 101 shows so far, not including the highly entertaining outtake episodes. There are a lot of rumors about Podshow floating a...
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TeXtra’s Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET TV
2007-12-03 09:21:00
TeXtra, a tech news video show hosted by former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, may be shutting down well shy of its first birthday this upcoming February 13. That’s because CNET has poached Natali away from Podshow, which owns TeXtra. Del Conte, pictured right, will be moving from San Francisco to New York and joining the CNET TV team with a new news show, she says. It won’t be like TeXtra and a number of other tech news shows (webbalert, Rocketboom, PopSnap, Geekbrief, CommandN, etc.) that she describes as “camera, girl, news.” She’s not saying much about the format of the new show, other than it will be much different than TeXtra. She’ll cover CES in January for CNET, and the new show will start in February 2008. The Textra show will likely be shut down - Podshow will not be looking for a replacement for Del Conte. They’ve had 101 shows so far, not including the highly entertaining outtake episodes. There are a lot of rumors about Pod...
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The Golden Compass is carrying a heavy burden here [Pharyngula]
2007-12-03 09:14:00
I’m very much looking forward to the opening of The Golden Compass at the end of this week — and we’re even getting the premiere here in little ol’ Morris. I’m having mixed feelings about the way it’s getting enlisted in the culture wars, though. It’s a fantasy movie, and it’s ultimately going to succeed or fail on its merits as entertainment, not its ideology. Still, I have to like the attitude in this Mark Morford column. It’s this: If your ancient, authoritarian, immutable belief system is threatened by a handful of popular novels, if your ostensibly all-powerful, unyielding creed is rendered meek and defenseless when faced with the story of a fiery, rebellious young girl who effortlessly rejects your stiff misogynistic religiosity in favor of adventure, love, sex, the ability to discover and define her soul on her own terms, well, it might be time for you to roll it all up and shut it all down and crawl back home, and let the...
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Misanthrope in the Morning
2007-12-03 05:00:00
Tomorrow we begin the long-promised national dialogue on race, as Don Imus makes his return to the early morning hours a few kilohertz up the dial on ABC. I’ll be listening. I know it’s not a popular call, but what do I care? Imus was a habit, and there’s been nothing on since he was run out of WFAN, MSNBC and his national syndication deal by after his mean-spirited and insensitive smack on the Rutgers women’s basketball team. I need some crankiness with my morning coffee, and Imus provided it. Many Imus apologists say they were in it for the guests, but the truth is, we were all in it for one man’s nasty and iconoclastic view of the world - and how it played with his guests. Unlike everybody else on talk radio, you couldn’t put the old I-Man into one ideological box - the guy walked nobody’s party line. Imus was the place where you got to know John McCain and John Kerry, where Republican Rising star Mike Huckabee got his start, where you re...
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Saddam’s Secret Terror Documents
2007-12-03 04:56:00
Ray Robison has released his book on the mountains of seized Iraqi documents that reveal Saddam Hussein’s secret support for Islamic terrorism, and set up a web site to promote it: Both In One Trench: Saddam’s Secret Terror Documents . Original post by http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?e ntry=28135&only&rss

How the WGA is Winning the Message War
2007-12-03 04:45:00
A couple of weeks before the WGA strike started, Huffington Post writer Robert J. Elisberg predicted how the public relations part of the strike would go: Both sides will go to the press. Writers will point out that the studios make ungodly profits and screw everyone in sight. Studios will point out how many people will be laid off if writers strike against studios that make ungodly profits and screw everyone in sight. The press will side with the studios. Three reasons. A) They don’t have a clue who any of the writers are. B) Studio execs will actually call the press and talk about themselves. Writers won’t call the press because they’re pissed off at being ignored by them all the time. And C) No reason for the press to tick off an executive because, who knows, they might want to pitch one of their own screenplays to them later. That the press would side with the studios was a reasonable expectation - not just because reporters might want to pitch screenpla...
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What A Real Journal Looks Like [EvolutionBlog]
2007-12-03 04:44:00
If you followed the link in the last post and need to be reminded what a real journal looks like, you might want to have a look at the first issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach. I’ve only read the article titles so far, but they look pretty interesting. And since the editors are Niles Eldredge (of punctuated equilibrium fame) and his son Gregory Eldredge, I’m optimistic that it will be worth reading. Go have a look! Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/194133197/what_a_real_j ournal_looks_like.php
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Another Round on Thermodynamics [EvolutionBlog]
2007-12-03 04:36:00
Every once in a while the ID folks get into their heads to set-up an actual academic journal. You know, a place where they can lay out all that cutting-edge research kept out of the real journals by dogmatic Darwinian stormtroopers. These journals invariably founder on their inability to find any scientists willing to write for them. Remember Proceedings in Complexity, Information and Design? It’s been moribund since November 2005. Or how about Origins and Design? That one went belly-up around the turn of the century. The latest representative of the genre is Anti-Matters. It bills itself as “A quarterly open-access journal addressing issues in science and the humanities from non-materialistic perspectives.” Somehow I’m not optimistic that this journal will make any splash among scientists. You see, the current issue features an article which — are you sitting down? — revives the second law of thermodynamics argument against evolution. ...
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Dyspepsia and swallowing crap [Evolving Thoughts]
2007-12-03 04:24:00
The Institute for Intellectual Disco Dancing has spun its recent debacle at Minnesota thus: The dyspeptic and ad hominem blogger/biologist Dr. P.Z. Myers was there and brought a Darwinist claque. Note that in passing it is not a fallacy to be ad hominem if the point is relevant to the argument. But let’s focus on dyspepsia. A friend recently noted my own dyspepsia on matters religious (not nearly as strong as PZ’s though). It occurred to me that dyspepsia is a really great condition: it stops you swallowing shit uncritically. Now intellectual coprophagia may be necessary to ensure that one’s children swallow the same shit you do, but really, if you want to have a healthy intellectual diet, don’t eat shit at all. Eat nourishing stuff like facts and logic. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/194133200/dyspepsia_and _swallowing_crap.php
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Apologia for Unpublished Comments [Thus Spake Zuska]
2007-12-03 04:23:00
I finally had a chance to check in and I discovered three comments languishing in the junk folder, waiting for me to promote them to publication. A few were weeks old. I’m really sorry about that. I’m involved in a 24/7 caretaking situation and just don’t have much spare time. I’ll try to pay attention a little more frequently. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/194133201/apologia_for_ unpublished_comme.php
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Who Does This Remind You Of? [Mixing Memory]
2007-12-03 04:23:00
Via A. Ross Otto. And where do they get those actors? Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/194133202/who_does_this _remind_you_of.php
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Holiday Shopping Tip #1 [Greg Laden’s Blog]
2007-12-03 04:14:00
A Make It Yourself Merry Molecule Mug. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/194133203/holiday_shopp ing_tip_1.php
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Recruit.net Expanding: Growth Opportunities in Asia
2007-12-03 04:13:00
Hong Kong based Recruit.net, a job search engine we first wrote about in May, is expanding, and they’re still not interested in the Unit ed States. Recruit.net aggregates job listing from partner sites for its main portal and also provides syndicated results for other sites, a model that sees the Recruit.net bringing in increasing revenues in a hyper-competitive vertical. Recruit.net launched into Malaysia in September and will launch a New Zealand portal this week. Coming soon are sites for Vietnam and the Philippines in the first quarter of 2008. The company already provides sites for Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Singapore. It’s an interesting corporate strategy, not only from the tech/ revenue viewpoint but from the complete lack of desire to enter the US market (I understand it, but others with a US focus may not). Recruit.net’s Maneck Mohan told me that the company sees a growing internationalization of web services, and that their focus on As...
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Insightory Wants To Be Wikipedia For Management Knowledge
2007-12-02 10:59:00
Woodlands, Texas based startup Insightory is setting its goals high, with the aim to do for management knowledge what Wikipedia has done for general knowledge. The service itself joins a growing list of document uploading sites that include Scribd and Docstoc, although the company claims that unlike these services Insightory is more targeted and heavily moderated. The content is aimed at management professionals, professors and graduate students and comes from a variety of sources including users from within the United States and elsewhere. Insightory believes that companies need a constant supply of management knowledge and that their service can provide this; certainly it does help to get other opinions when in management so the service may find a willing audience. The service is currently in alpha with a beta version to be launched this month and collaboration and networking tools coming in the first half of 2008. Insightory is holding a Contest for the best management-related do...
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Today in Science (1202) [Stranger Fruit]
2007-12-02 09:20:00
Births 1885 - George Richards Minot, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate 1931 - Nigel Calder, British science writer Deaths 1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate 1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich, Russian physicist Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Science blo gsCombinedFeed/~3/193767684/today_in_scie nce_1202.php
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Links for 2007-12-01 [del.icio.us]
2007-12-02 09:00:00
Jing Project Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogmacmag azine/~3/193755305/rfischmann
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Tammy Bruce on the Failure of Feminism
2007-12-02 08:59:00
Tammy Bruce calls out the feminist establishment: Teddy Bear Case Exposes Failure of American Feminist Leaders. Calling attention to abuse, violence and oppression is something the left claims it does, but these days they’re more than willing to throw those who need our voices under the bus. Their obsession is to make sure the leftist false construct of an evil George Bush and oppressive United States won’t be eclipsed by the truth — the truth of a world where our enemy targets women on a daily basis for terror, torture, oppression and murder as our troops risk and give their lives to banish that horror from the lives of tens of millions. The abject failure of the feminist establishment is now undeniable, yet feminist work continues. Overwhelmingly, Americans in general have been appalled at the treatment of women in the Islamist world and say so. In these two instances, blogs and news sites have collectively condemned the Saudi rape victim’s further victimiz...
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Tammy Bruce: Feminist Failure
2007-12-02 08:59:00
Tammy Bruce calls out the feminist establishment: Teddy Bear Case Exposes Failure of American Feminist Leaders. Calling attention to abuse, violence and oppression is something the left claims it does, but these days they’re more than willing to throw those who need our voices under the bus. Their obsession is to make sure the leftist false construct of an evil George Bush and oppressive United States won’t be eclipsed by the truth — the truth of a world where our enemy targets women on a daily basis for terror, torture, oppression and murder as our troops risk and give their lives to banish that horror from the lives of tens of millions. The abject failure of the feminist establishment is now undeniable, yet feminist work continues. Overwhelmingly, Americans in general have been appalled at the treatment of women in the Islamist world and say so. In these two instances, blogs and news sites have collectively condemned the Saudi rape victim’s further victimiz...

Tammy Bruce: Feminism’s Failure
2007-12-02 08:59:00
Tammy Bruce calls out the feminist establishment: Teddy Bear Case Exposes Failure of American Feminist Leaders. Calling attention to abuse, violence and oppression is something the left claims it does, but these days they’re more than willing to throw those who need our voices under the bus. Their obsession is to make sure the leftist false construct of an evil George Bush and oppressive United States won’t be eclipsed by the truth — the truth of a world where our enemy targets women on a daily basis for terror, torture, oppression and murder as our troops risk and give their lives to banish that horror from the lives of tens of millions. The abject failure of the feminist establishment is now undeniable, yet feminist work continues. Overwhelmingly, Americans in general have been appalled at the treatment of women in the Islamist world and say so. In these two instances, blogs and news sites have collectively condemned the Saudi rape victim’s further victimiz...
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ID-Sen: And the ick continues
2007-12-02 08:52:00
It was bound to happen. David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell. Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can’t be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention…. But the Statesman’s investigation, which included reviews of travel and property records and background checks on all five men, found nothing to disprove the five new accounts. The men offer telling and sometimes similar details about what happened, or the senator’s travel records place him in the city where sex is alleged to have occurred, or his accusers told credible witnesses at the time of the incident. See the complete story and more in Sunday’s Idaho Statesman. Those teases at the Statesman–no gory details until tomorrow. At least Popkey gets his scoop on the story, finally, and given his publi...
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