bloglog » Wednesday 20 February 2008
20 February 2008
courteney cox is ready to tackle today's tabloid headlines
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britney not granted visitation rights yet
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heard, sullivan, harrison perform l.a. theatre works' 'top secret' for radio broadcast
(playbill)
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Playbill - L.A. Theatre Works presents Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles March 12-16 after a 23-city national tour.
music label tvt records to file for bankruptcy
(reuters)
19-02-08
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Reuters - Former high-flying label TVT
Records, home to such hip-hop artists as Lil Jon, Pitbull and
Ying Yang Twins, will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week,
the company's founder said Tuesday.
nbc reprimands employee for obama error
(ap)
19-02-08
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AP - NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama.
u2 enter dublin studio for new album
(reuters)
19-02-08
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Reuters - Irish rockers U2 have hit the studio
in Dublin to continue work on their next studio album with
longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.
'jumper' lands on top with $32.1 million
(ap)
19-02-08
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AP - The action tale "Jumper" led the box office with a $32.1 million debut over the four-day President's Day weekend.
by their greatness we shall know them
19-02-08
23:39
GMTBourdainfilter: Culinary curmudgeon Anthony Bourdain and writer Michael Ruhlman announce the nominees for the first annual Golden Clog Awards, honoring "The Best and Worst of the Year in Food." [via] The "ceremony" will take place Friday, February 22nd, at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. Awards include The Rocco ("For worst career move"), The Fergus ("For greatest achievement in pork, and/or guts"), and more.
'sloophole' for yacht buyers remains open
19-02-08
23:38
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Yacht buyers will continue to benefit from a loophole that allows them to avoid sales tax on their boats, after Republicans in the Assembly blocked an effort to close it Tuesday.
rrogdc? xbox 360 failure shows up at trade show
19-02-08
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Filed under: Hacks, Microsoft Xbox 360
Microsoft's efforts to divert attention from the Xbox 360's reportedly high failure rates were were certainly not helped today by an infamous Red Ring of Death that showed up at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. An intrepid BBC reporter noted the common hardware failure on display at Microsoft's XNA area in the Moscone Center's North Hall.Perhaps this is why the whole XNA area was protected by
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soviet prima ballerina dies at 66
19-02-08
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Soviet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova dies after a long illness at the age of 66, the Bolshoi announces.
minnillo: free money to the homeless
19-02-08
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Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Lindsay LohanTMZ.com: Vanessa Minnillo goes on so many damn vacations, it's hard to believe she actually had money to spare when a homeless man hit her up for cash today in NYC.She was giving to the beggar, but didn't give anything up to TMZ on engagement rumors or sharp... Read more
mary carey -- breakin' baldwins, bangin' brit?
19-02-08
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Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Reality TVTMZ.com: "Celebrity Rehab" star Daniel Baldwin was booted off the show because of his inappropriate text messages to porn star Mary Carey -- and apparently his wife knows all about it. We spotted Mary (still sober- hooray!) outside of Mr. Chow last night and... Read more
why kosovo divides europe
19-02-08
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In countries worried about their own secessionist movements, the response to Kosovo's declaration of independence has been wary
macbook and macbookpro get keyboard update
19-02-08
23:21
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Filed under: Portables, Software Update, Macbook Pro, MacBookToday Apple released a keyboard update for both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro notebooks. In regular Apple style, their release notes are not extremely profuse, "This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key press may be ignored if the computer has been sitting idle. It also addresses some other issues."Please note, this is a firmware upgrade that
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iphonedrive becomes megaphone, gets r/w notes access
19-02-08
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Filed under: iPod Family, Software, iPhone After getting C&D'd by Apple (a special moment in any Apple Developer's life), Ecamm changed the name of their iPhoneDrive product to MegaPhone. Today, I had an early peek at their new product and was delighted to find that it supports the creation of new notes and editing of existing notes on the Macintosh end. This is great news. Megaphone takes a feature (Notes) that was utterly and completely useless
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