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Kanye West And Spike Jonze’s Short Film Comes To iTunes In September

The bizarre short film starring Kanye West and directed by Spike Jonze that debuted at the L.A. Film Festival in June, “We Were Once a Fairytale,” will be available for purchase on iTunes on September 8, according to the director’s blog. The last time these two got together, ‘Ye ended up bound, gagged, stuffed in a car trunk and whacked in the head with a shovel for the “Flashing Lights” video

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Kuwait foils US army base plot

August 12, 20097:01 pmadmin2World News, GeneralKuwaiti officials say they have arrested six members of a “terrorist network”, linked to al-Qaeda, who were planning to attack a US military base.An interior ministry statement said that all six Kuwaitis had confessed to the crimes after they were arrested.The statement said they had also planned to bomb the headquarters of Kuwait’s internal security agency.It mentioned other “important facilities” in the oil-rich emirate, but gave no further detai

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DNR to expedite farmer’s water diversion requests due to drought emergency

Aug 12 News, Bulletins, & Press ReleasesAdd commentsWDNR Central Office – MADISON – Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank today announced state water officials will expedite farmers’ requests to divert stream or lake water to irrigate streamside …Go to source… By: Wisconsin DNR News ReleasesDNR approves New Berlin request to divert Lake Michigan Water Officials Warn Against Manure Spreading; Conditions Create Extreme Risk of RunoffOfficials Warn Against Manure Spread

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Trouble Comes Knocking For A Client

August 12, 2009, 12:32 pm (45 seconds ago) A cautionary tale for no-goodnicks looking to get over on an escort.  The Electric New Paper reports…They even posted his car details‘Net cowboys’ so angry at man who ‘robbed’ prostitute that they shame him online By Liew HanqingIT IS usually a hush-hush world, where men seeking flesh hide behind the anonymity of nicknames and phone messages to pay for their illicit and illegal liaisons.But the cover one man hid behind has been blown wide open by his f

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Moscow Gay Club Under Threats of Closing– Hostage of an Electoral Campaign?

Oleg Mitvol entering gay club on Friday eveningState Duma Deputy sues Moscow Prefect over allegation he was protecting a gay clubhttp://www.gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=13942As the story developed today, it turned that the club became the hostage of the electoral fight in one of Moscow’s constituencies for the upcoming City Duma elections.“It’s not a question of a gay club, it’s not a question of the society of blind people, it’s not a question of sexual minorities, it is a question of an

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ColorID LED Lighting Status App – 100 Free Copies!

Tyler over at Motek Mobile just emailed me about one of their new LED Lighting Status Apps called ColorID. I haven’t gotten around to downloading it yet but essentially it offers the same sort of features as Pimp My Mail, but with improvements like such as enabling customization of the LED for incoming calls, text messages and email. I know many of you are not interested in these apps but it may be a good time to test one out as though ColorID regularly sells for $5.99, Motek Mobile is giving

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10 Most Wanted Games…That Make Us Wish Summer 2009 Was Over!

It’s the summer, traditionally a quiet time for games, so here at Zath, we’re looking forward to lots of upcoming games that are in store for us in the coming months, here’s a the list of the 10 games that I’m personally looking forward to playing the most of all in the next few months. There aren’t any Wii exclusives on my list as there really isn’t anything for me to get really excited over at the minute. There are good games coming out like Red Steel 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario

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Viktor & Rolf and the Dollhouse

  By now, I’m sure everyone has had at least heard whispers of this amazing feat, still lets recap: In 2008, the dynamic Dutch fashion duo, Viktor & Rolf, once again baffled us with their creativity and originality, successfully demonstrating once again on what makes them and their partnership nothing short of legendary in the modern fashion world. The pair surprised and delighted us with news on their then-newest project which had taken in form of a giant dollhouse. The giant household co

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House Judiciary Committee Releases Rove and Miers Interview Transcripts and Over 5,400 Pages of Bush White House Documents

http://judiciary.house.gov August 11, 2009For Immediate Release Contact: Jonathan GodfreyHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. D-Mich. today released over 700 pages of on-the-record interview transcripts of Karl Rove and Harriet Miers on the U.S.

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House Judiciary Committee Releases Rove and Miers Interview Transcripts and Over 5,400 Pages of Bush White House Documents

Links: NBA Players And Lessons Learned

by Lang Whitaker I was on a flight late last night back home to NYC, and I was thinking about how crazy the last few weeks have been in the sports world: Erin Andrews, ESPN’s twitter policy, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, Donta Stallworth, Josh Hamilton, Ben Roethlisberger, Rick Pitino… It’s been a busy few weeks, and it’s actually been almost a perfect storm for sports blogs and websites. Hey, could someone write a post about Erin Andrews having her privacy invaded? That would be interest

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Asking Them All Over Again

Back in February, after Mr. Poodle and I started our visa petition, we couldn’t wait to share the news of our engagement with everyone! Because not all of my girls here in Chile can buy a ticket to go to our wedding in California, I decided that my side of the wedding party would consist of my little sister and best friend from Chile, along with my other 2 ‘maids from California. I wrote everyone an email and asked them to be my ‘maids, but just like Miss Bear Cub , I did that months ago—but I needed to let them know in a more “official” way that I REALLY wanted them there with me .

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What business models can newspapers copy to bring in more revenue?

Courtesy of Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he wants to start charging for access to online content from News International’s titles, starting with the Sunday Times, the question of charging for online newspaper content or services is very much in the news. Almost all the discussion, however, has been based on the implicit assumption that the only business model available is “put some content behind a login that requires people to pay”.

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Obama: Sotomayor as first Hispanic justice moves country ‘closer to the more perfect union’

Obama welcomes Sotomayor as first Hispanic justice WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s (SOHN’-ya soh-toh-my-YOR) achievement in becoming the first Hispanic member of the U.S. Supreme Court is an inspiration for young and old alike. Obama says her weekend swearing-in moved the country a step closer to becoming a more perfect union.

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Wes Students on College Life in NY Times

Old news – the New York Times published some short student essays on various aspects of college life in its “ Education Life” section in July. One of the featured essays was by our very own Marie Mencher ‘12 , about fleeting freshman year romance: Romance Crushed By MARIE MENCHER Published: July 20, 2009 He had a personality, a sense of humor, and was even a good dancer, so when he said offhandedly that he would watch “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with me over Valentine’s

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Race and Income Differences in Opinion about Health Care Reform

I spent some time on the internet looking at pictures and watching townhall meetings on the topic of health care reform.  I offer some generalizations: most of the videos are by those who oppose health care reform; pictures and videos show people addressing a congressperson, though the crowd is the center of attention; in the videos, you hear better the crowd than the congressperson’s response; most of the people in the townhall; they show manifestations of anger: yelling, finger pointing, p

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Photo Gallery: CARAT2009 Part 1

Royal Thai Navy SEALs jump into the beachThe landing exercise in Had Yao Beach, Sattahip of Royal Thai Navy and US Navy in CARAT2009.   HTMS Srichang and USS Harpers Ferry with AAV from both nations  Local-made Sea Fox fast boat for special operation.  Do-228 demonstrates an air assaults over the beach.  AAV landing on the beach.  Royal Thai marine run off their AAV.  Royal Thai marine running into their position.  Royal Thai Marine in mock up fight. Royal Thai marine take their position.  Royal

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Tim: changes to the conditions of the All Inclusive for iPhone 2.0

That entry in the field of 3 in the sale the iPhone would create a some of the turmoil we had assumed, and we had suffered the first confirmation: Vodafone has amended the entry ticket of Easy Telephone as soon as it began marketing the Apple iPhone Store in 3rd. Although with some ‘delay came a reaction from Tim, probably linked to the success it has had on the market formula loan New Pick 3: no shortage of surprises, however. The first thing we can point out is the extension of the model on

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Britain’s Royal Opera wants you to make tweet music – Reuters

BBC News Britain’s Royal Opera wants you to make tweet music Reuters LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Britain’s Royal Opera House (ROH) wants Twitter users to help create the “world’s first online opera.” The Covent Garden institution, which stages performances of ballet, opera and other classical music … UK’s Royal Opera House to perform ‘Twitter’ opera The Associated Press Tweeting a Musical Masterpiece: World’s First Twitter Opera … Originally posted here: Britain’s Royal Opera wants you to m

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Facebook Search: 5 Takeaways From Facebook’s Assault On The Real-Time Web

Yesterday Facebook search went live for all Facebook users and pundits immediately began arguing over this being an attack on Google and an attack on Twitter, but what does this really mean? I’ve had a chance to Facebook’s new search for the past few months and have put the system to the test. Below are five immediate thoughts about what Facebook’s new search means for the future of the real-time web.

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More Trouble in the Baltics as S&P Downgrades

Both Latvia’s and Estonia’s debt ratings were downgraded by Standard and Poors.  Estonia was cut from A to A-, while Latvia was cut to BB+ to BB – its considered high yield securities aka junk bonds. This should come as no surprise as both countries have been in the news due to severe economic dislocations as they attempt to maintain currency pegs in the face of a severe debt deleveraging. Latvia has been having severe difficulties getting its IMF monies disbursed due to the lack of fiscal bel

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Burmese Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Convicted

In a verdict delivered on August 11, Burmese pro-democracy leader and activist Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of violating the terms of her house arrest and sentenced to three years hard labor, a sentence which “was quickly commuted to a new term of house arrest for up to 18 months,” The New York Times reports. Suu Kyi will soon return to the villa where Myanmar’s junta has been keeping the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 14 of the past 20 years

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MC Hammer’s Cousin Faces Rape Charges

Hip-hop star MC HAMMER’s cousin and TV co-star BIGG MARV has been charged with raping a woman he met on social networking website Twitter. The 33 year old, who appears alongside Hammer in several episodes of his U.S. reality show Hammertime, was taken into custody last month (Jul09) following accusations he sexually assaulted a 40-year-old female

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Karachi: New DHA project still at planning stage

DHA was of the view that no construction or operation of the project in question had commenced at the site, therefore, the question of violating the laws did not arise. – File photo KARACHI: The Defence Housing Authority has assured the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) that it would comply with all environmental laws of Post from: eProperty | Maps | Gallery | News | Discussions Karachi: New DHA project still at planning stage

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Tomorrow: national day of solidarity with Vestas workers

This blog has covered some of the news re the Vesta campaign – see most recent here – the occupation ended on Friday but a serious picket is due to start at Newport, Isle of Wight to prevent Vestas taking back control of the machinery etc.Meanwhile Wednesday ie tomorrow there will be a demo/protest in Stroud supporting the campaign – first up a meeting at both 1pm and 6pm (for those working) outside the Sub Rooms with a possible march to Ecotricity, David Drew’s offices, or the District Council

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