bloglog » Tuesday 08 July 2008
08 July 2008
"kinky boots" marching to broadway
08-07-08
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "Kinky Boots" could be strutting to Broadway.
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08-07-08
06:18
GMTJodi Miller is on vacation this week, please help us give "NewsBusted" guest host Al Sonja Schmidt a warm welcome!Topics in today's show: Barack Obama's flip-flops, "24" supposedly paving the way for a black president, Rush Limbaugh's big contract, and Jessica Simpson's latest award. Click the "Play" icon in the video to the right to watch. If you like the show, please subscribe to "NewsBusted" to be automatically notified via email whenever we
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finally: motion control comes to the c64
08-07-08
06:17
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Filed under: Hacks, Retro, Peripherals Old hardware doesn't die ... it just gets hacked. As documented in the above video, Jeff Ledger has pieced together a clever little collection of chips and wires to bring vaguely Wii remote style interaction to the Commodore 64. Perhaps it should be called Wii-ffle Ball, since he's taken a wiffle bat, attached an accelerometer to it, and created an interface that lets the C64 read the sensor's output as a
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ken hoffman: judging eating contests not hard to swallow
08-07-08
06:17
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There's a ton more fun to the July 4th Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest than you see on ESPN. Like Kobayashi puking ... through his nose.
woodlands diver foster added to olympic roster
08-07-08
06:17
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Nancilea Foster of the Woodlands Dive Team was named Monday to USA Diving's 2008 Olympic team on women's springboard, but the women's platform team of 2000 Olympic gold medalist Laura Wilkinson and Jessica Livingston was bypassed in favor of a team based at the federation's Indiana training center.
diaz, juarez to headline boxing card at toyota center
08-07-08
06:17
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Juan Diaz and Rocky Juarez took separate paths to reach the previous heights of their careers. Now they will come together to pick themselves up after jarring disappointments in their most recent outings.
campbell: rockets opt for waiting game over quick fix
08-07-08
06:17
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THE first handful of names on the wish list stands headband, shoulder, biceps and tattoo above the rest.
texans start to pull back at the pump
08-07-08
06:17
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State gasoline tax collections reported in June indicated taxes fell for two months in a row after a streak of gains earlier this year even as prices inched toward $4 a gallon, according to the Texas comptroller's office.
catholic parish in houston wonders if hate fueling vandals
08-07-08
06:17
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A spray-painted message left on a church sidewalk in March ? "You have been warned. Don't worship idols." ? has parish officials worried that they are being subjected to anti-Catholic hate crimes, not mere vandalism.
on soccer: hyndman not afraid of mls challenge
08-07-08
06:17
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FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman's commute to work is a little longer these days. After 24 years heading a successful men's soccer program at SMU, Hyndman can no longer walk three blocks from his house to the college campus. Accepting the FC Dallas job was not an easy task. For Hyndman, it was emotional.
men's fastpitch softball reaches all-time low in houston
08-07-08
06:17
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GEORGE Perez can recall spending the better part of two days in line in 1970. He wasn't trying to get concert tickets. There was no "big game" coming to town.
experts: olympian, 41, shows we can beat athletic odds
08-07-08
06:17
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Despite taking several years off, giving birth just two years ago and undergoing two surgeries within the past eight months, Dara Torres is going for the gold again.
trap finds one of 23 paintings stolen in river oaks in 2000
08-07-08
06:17
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Two newcomers recently walked into the upscale Simpson Galleries looking to make some quick cash, but they didn't seem to notice they were carrying the work of an American master, let alone that it was worth as much as $200,000.
rising costs blamed as horse sales slow to a trot
08-07-08
06:17
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Mounting fuel, feed and hay prices are driving up the costs of horse ownership and making it harder to sell colts, yearlings, wild stallions and other horses.
vet's ethics crusade targets texas lawmakers, judges
08-07-08
06:17
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A California disabled veteran who spends six days a week sifting through campaign finance reports has filed complaints against 10 Texas legislators and 15 judges with the Texas Ethics Commission, ranging from failing to identify campaign donors to using campaign money for personal use.
mexico comic book draws racism charges in houston
08-07-08
06:17
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Beloved by Mexicans for his dim wits, street smarts and playful disposition, long-running comic book character Memín Pinguín ? a little black boy whose face resembles a monkey ? is at it again.
superliga tournament may solve dynamo's woes
08-07-08
06:17
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Few games get MLS players' hearts pumping and adrenaline flowing like those against Mexican First Division foes.
nbc football show to reunite patrick, olbermann
08-07-08
06:17
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NBC announced Monday that Dan Patrick will join Keith Olbermann on NBC's Football Night in America this fall, reuniting the classic 1990s paring from ESPN's SportsCenter.




