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
technorati tags:current events, entertainment
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.
technorati tags:technology, entertainment
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
technorati tags:current events
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/
technorati tags:technology, entertainment
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).
technorati tags:current events, entertainment
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.
technorati tags:current events, entertainment
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
technorati tags:pop-culture
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.
technorati tags:art, entertainment
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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