Friday, November 17, 2006
Free long distance calls through Google?
the new feature could theoretically allow users to make free long distance phone calls to any North American number.Since every business listing on Google Maps has the "click-to-call" feature enabled, the only thing you need to do is get listed. Now instead of dialing a long distance phone number on your phone, you "dial" it through your own business listing on Google Maps.
» Free long distance calls through Google? | Googling Google | ZDNet.com
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Literary 'Dummies' getting TV treatment
"Whatever topic you can think of, there's a 'Dummies' book for it," said Arthur Smith, who runs his TV production company with Kent Weed. "There's such a plethora of information, and these are books -- not pamphlets." While no major specifics were given regarding the project, Weed said he and Smith would try to make the TV adaptation of the popular manuals both educational and entertaining. Producers are considering a game show format, among other possible formats, Daily Variety said.
United Press International - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
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Deep-Fried Flags Removed From Museum
Art student William Gentry said his piece, "The Fat Is in the Fire," was a commentary on obesity in America. "I deep-fried the flag because I'm concerned about America and about America's health," Gentry said.Customs House Museum executive director Ned Crouch took down the artwork Wednesday less than 18 hours after it went up in this community next to the Fort Campbell.
Newsvine - Deep-Fried Flags Removed From Museum
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Edgar & Ellen
Edgar & Ellen - Welcome to Edgar & Ellen online
Cartoons, podcasts and a bunch of other cool stuff
Cartoons, podcasts and a bunch of other cool stuff
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Urinating in games
To prove that they are willing to push the limits of game design and bring new, fresh concepts to the industry, Vander Caballero announced in an interview that the next-gen, cooperative play focused Army of Two will feature in-game peeing.
GAF - News - Urinating in games - EA first on the scene
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Untitled
Brazilian Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, says three of the cat’s six offspring, which were born three months after Mimi mated with a neighbour’s dog, have canine traits.A geneticist from the Passo Fundo University plans to take blood samples from the animals to verify the claim.
Did this cat breed with a dog? | the Daily Mail
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Hokey Pokey Smokey Show Nov. 15, 2006
A couple of Autumn themed episodes for the season.The episodes are from the series “Fibber McGee and Molly”The first is an episode called “Fibber’s Letter To Aunt Sarah” from 1958.And the second is called “An Autumn Drive” from 1959
Hokey Pokey Smokey Show Nov. 15, 2006 on Odeo
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super cute and super fun flash games
Orisinal : Morning Sunshine
enormous collection of super cute and super fun flash games that were created by Ferry Halim.
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New Technology Allows Wireless Recharging
A “non-radiative” electromagnetic field is a state of electric and magnetic fields which are localized someplace on the device and in the source, said John Joannopoulos, a researcher from MIT. “Localized means that electromagnetic fields will die off as you go away from the device or the source.”The energy could then be picked up by especially designed gadgets. What's not picked up by the receiver is then reabsorbed by the emitter.It’s not dangerous at all, Joannopoulos told LiveScience.The technology will initially have a short range at first, the researchers expect. A laptop could be recharged within a few yards of the power source.
LiveScience.com - New Technology Allows Wireless Recharging
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Blue Man Group To Appear on "Scrubs,"
Television fans may remember the blue-skinned trio were part of a story-arc on "Arrested Development." Now, the Blue Man Group will make a special appearance on the season premiere of NBC's "Scrubs" Nov. 30 when Zach Braff's character J.D. finds himself on stage at The Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino.
Playbill News: Busy Blue Man Group To Appear on "Scrubs," Open Orlando Run and Head Out on Tour
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Beatles albums available on Zune Marketplace
the Zune Marketplace revealed that there are a full 33 Beatles albums listed there.
technorati tags:entertainment, music
Wax Museum Plan Jilted by Brad, Angelina
LAS VEGAS — Organizers of a fantasy wedding on the Las Vegas Strip between Hollywood's hottest unmarried couple got cold feet. Madame Tussauds nixed the plan to stage a depiction of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tying the knot after a representative for Pitt protested, representatives for the actor and the wax museum said Monday.
Newsvine - Wax Museum Plan Jilted by Brad, Angelina
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Yo gabba gabba!?
Some samples of the show
This incredibly cool and ultra hip preschool show was created as pilot by Christian Jacobs and Scott Shultz, and (according to their site) has apparently been picked up in the US, UK, and Italy! Yo Gabba Gabba is a magazine style show like Sesame Street and The Banana Splits, with wacky costumed creatures, animation, music, and real people!
technorati tags:entertainment, pop-culture
Universal thinks iPod users are thieves
Yesterday, Microsoft agreed to share revenue from Zune sales with record labels and artists. Forcing the issue was Universal Music Group, which at deadline is the only label named in the program. UMG refused to license its music to the Zune unless it could receive a percentage of each device sold, in addition to standard music licensing fees for downloads and subscriptions."These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it," UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. "So it's time to get paid for it."
Red Hot Chili Peppers, QOTSA, T.I. Rock For Zune
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Elton John on Religion and peace
"It's like the peace movement in the '60s. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts, but we don't seem to do them any more," he said. "If John Lennon were alive today, he'd be leading it with a vengeance."
Elton John News on Yahoo! Music
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Friday, November 10, 2006
The Banana Song (The Banana Splits)
The Banana Song (The Banana Splits)
G.S.P. - The Banana Song (The Banana Splits) - X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut's CosmoBlog - by xyzcosmonaut
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Think Faest!
Faesthetic #6 is 160 pages of original black & white art, photography, graffiti and illustration with the theme of "LOVE & DEATH."
technorati tags:art, entertainment
Early human relative ate prehistoric smorgasbord
The four-foot-tall, 100-pound (45-kg) bipedal hominid Paranthropus robustus lived in what is now South Africa alongside direct ancestors of modern humans, as well as hyenas, saber-toothed cats, elephants, baboons, antelopes and others.A prevailing notion among scientists has been that Paranthropus was driven into extinction as Africa's climate became drier because it had a very limited diet, while our direct ancestors thrived on a diverse menu.
It turns out that Paranthropus ate leaves, fruit, nuts, seeds, roots, tubers and perhaps even meat from grazing animals, maybe from scavenging, the researchers said.
Early human relative ate prehistoric smorgasbord | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.com
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First Photo From Space
October 24, 1946. The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second. The camera itself was smashed, but the film, protected in a steel cassette, was unharmed.
How to use Japanese style toilet.
How to use Japanese style toilet.
A very bizarre and cruedly drawn tutorial on the subject.
How to use Japanese style toilet
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Bloc Party's Tong collapses in US
The 27-year-old was taken ill shortly after coming off stage, and was rushed to hospital where he is due to stay for at least the next three days.Doctors say he is in a comfortable condition and not in any danger.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bloc Party's Tong collapses in US
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Bloc Party's Tong collapses in US
The 27-year-old was taken ill shortly after coming off stage, and was rushed to hospital where he is due to stay for at least the next three days.Doctors say he is in a comfortable condition and not in any danger.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bloc Party's Tong collapses in US
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Laptop thrown by actress hits senior in wheelchair
"That interaction between Denise Richards and the paparazzi resulted in throwing off a balcony, a laptop belonging to these photographers."The laptop hurtled to the casino lobby a floor below, allegedly hitting the 80-year-old woman on the arm.
CBC.ca Arts - Laptop thrown by actress hits senior in wheelchair: police
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Open source brewer program
Use this to formulate recipes for ales, lagers and stouts. It also includes a brewing primer for those just starting out in the homebrewing hobby. QBrew builds and runs under Unix (Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc), Mac OSX and Windows.
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MySpace Founder Takes on Rupert
Greenspan’s new company, LiveUniverse, owns a number of internet properties, including social networking site Stickam.com and YouTube competitor Vidilife.com. He alleges that MySpace blocks users from even mentioning Stickam.com and Vidilife.com in their profiles.He says that “any attempts by users to type the url of sites like ‘stickam.com’ or ‘vidilife.com’ into a [MySpace] blog or profile [are replaced] with ‘……’ “.
Free Press : MySpace Founder Takes on Rupert
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Conn. Tree Going to Rockefeller Center
HARTFORD, CONN. — An 88-foot Norway spruce from a western Connecticut home was headed to Manhattan on Thursday to become this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Newsvine - Conn. Tree Going to Rockefeller Center
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Notebook About Churchill's Life for Sale
An auction house plans to sell a notebook that contains details about Winston Churchill's life during his final years — a routine that revolved around cigars, whiskey and his pet bird.Muriel Thomson, a nurse who cared for the former prime minister before his death in 1965, kept a detailed log of his day-to-day schedule. One note reads, "After dinner ... put bird to bed!! Take Sir Winston to drawing room. Whiskey & Soda."
Newsvine - Notebook About Churchill's Life for Sale
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Home made light show for under $40
a kickass Holiday lightshow music extravaganza
http://www.spiffomatic64.com/lightshow/
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Turkish Man: I'm Borat!
Mahir Cagri sees enough of himself in the character that he is accusing Baron Cohen of drawing his inspiration for Borat directly from his personal Website. Now, the Turkish man is demanding an apology and seeking to cash in on a hefty cut of the earnings from the comedian's "great success" of a movie.Cagri exploded onto the Internet scene back in 1999 with his unintentionally hilarious Website, ikissyou.org (now defunct).
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Did Britney break-up with Kevin by text message?
YouTube - Exclusive Kevin Federline Interview
This video was shot the night before the announcement. Check out the last minute of the video.
This video was shot the night before the announcement. Check out the last minute of the video.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Macy's parade makes key substitutions
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York will not feature Charlie Brown and Kermit the Frog this year.While the inflatable images of the two children's characters will be notably absent from the 2006 version of the traditional event, this year will offer some new gigantic faces -- the Energizer Bunny, Flying Ace Snoopy and the Pikachu character from Pokemon, said the New York Daily News.
United Press International - NewsTrack - Macy's parade makes key substitutions
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The Art of Mordicai Gerstein
Along with writing and illustrating books for children, Mordicai Gerstein is a painter, sculptor, and prize-winning designer and director of animated films.Born in Los Angeles, Gerstein attended the Chouinard Institute of Art before moving to New York City where he lived and worked for twenty-five years making animated films for television.
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The Z Machine
The Z uses a short burst of intense electricity – only a few 10 billionths of a second long – that forces an ionized gas to implode. The process is called a z-pinch because the pulse creates a magnetic field that squeezes particles in the vertical direction, which math books usually label as the "z-axis."
LiveScience.com - The Z Machine
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White House Caught Doctoring Mission Accomplished Video
Apparently the Bush administration has taken the Winston Churchill quote "History is written by the victors" into the video age. The official White House website is now sporting a very different version of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. In this exclusive video, Inside Minnesota Politics' Mike McIntee shows how the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln has apparently been crudely cropped out of the video.
White House Caught Doctoring Mission Accomplished Video
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Monday, November 06, 2006
The Flintstones and Jose Jiminez: The Time Machine
Here's another album from the Hanna-Barbera collection. In this one Cape Kennedy janitor Jose Jiminez (played by Bill Dana) accidentally activates an experimental time machine that takes him all the way back to prehistoric Bedrock, where he meets up with Fred (played here by Henry Corden) and Barney
Way Out Junk: The Flintstones and Jose Jiminez: The Time Machine
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Tremendoustan: The Election
Ali and Habib were two Middle Eastern goat farmers when the United States decided to occupy their tiny country. Now they’re running for president, but can they beat the hand selected candidate: Nick Nolte?
Liquid Generation: Tremendoustan: The Election
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Beverly Hills, 90210 Stars Reunite
It was like old times back at the Peach Pit on Friday night, as the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 – minus Brenda and Dylan – reunited in (where else?) Beverly Hills for the DVD release of the show's 1990 debut season.The stars, some of whom had seen each other at Priestley's 2005 wedding,
almost didn't show up for the event – some cast members discussed
skipping the launch because they won't benefit financially from DVD
sales, which were not written into their original contracts, USA Today reports.
Beverly Hills, 90210 Stars Reunite | Beverly Hills, 90210 : People.com
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