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FOX NEWS COMMENTATOR NAMED WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY Tony Snow, host of Fox News Channel's Weekend Live With Tony Snow and host of a daily talk show on Fox News Radio has been chosen to replace Scott Mcclellan as White House press secretary. Announcing his selection, President Bush said today (Wednesday), "I like the perspective he brings to this job, and I think you 're going to like it, too." Commenting on some of Snow's past criticisms of him, Bush remarked, "He sometimes has disagreed with me. I asked him about those comments, and he said, ` You should have heard what I said about the other guy.'''
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I have said several times I ’ m not a big American Idol fan, but I have watched the show a couple of times this season. I was not unhappy this morning to learn that Kellie Pickler had gotten the boot by the voters. While it is true that the couple of times I heard her sing I didn ’ t think she had real vocal chops, that wasn ’ t what annoyed me most about her. Her ditzy, dumb blond persona, whether it be real or manufactured was utterly grating and I think would have been a death nill for her long term success. America already has Jessica Simpson gladly playing the pop ditz for us. I ’ m sure Ms. Simpson is happy to learn she won ’ t have an American Idol winner to compete with.
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Title: Not So Bad Fandom: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Characters: Yazoo, Loz and mention of Kadaj (claim is Yazoo) Prompt: # 87 - Life Word Count: 156 Rating: PG Author's Notes: spoilers
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Manasseh Sogavare, likely to be the Solomon Islands'next prime minister, has said he would consider switching diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China.
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So, they 're finally going to make Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" into a film. Leading actors: Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart and Brad Pitt as John Galt. I'll go see it. By the way, Who is John Galt?
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The whole "Net Neutrality" debate is starting to heat up in Washington. On Wednesday, for example, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, by a vote of 34-22, rejected a Democrat-backed Net neutrality amendment that also enjoyed support from Internet and software companies including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Google. With that in mind, Vonage co-founder Jeff Pulver has launched a viral video contest to influence governments and politicians to encourage internet innovation. On his new "Save the Internet" site, he encourages Internet users to send along ideas, "creative marketing tools" and video clips that will change the course of debate in Washington:
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Google Sketchup is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you've built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.
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I haven't done one of these in a while, but how about a round-up of blogospheric reaction to Karl Rove's fifth appearance before the federal grand jury looking into the Plame case?
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Concerns about gasoline supplies in the U.S. ahead of the summer have been one of the various factors keeping a high floor under crude oil prices, which are 33 percent higher than a year ago.
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The BBC reports today, US rapper Snoop Dogg has been arrested after a fracas at London's Heathrow Airport that left seven police officers with minor injuries... A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Police were called at 6pm last night to reports of a disturbance involving 30 people in a business lounge at Terminal 1." The party was told that they would not be permitted to board their flight...
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BERLIN: West Germany's 1990 World Cup winning captain Lothar Matthaus claims Argentina are in a better position to lift this summer's World Cup than their South American rivals Brazil. Bookmakers...
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In today ’ s top story, People magazine reports that Katie Holmes had an epidural. So while Tom Cruise has reportedly reached the exalted stage of Thetan in Scientology, Katie has merely reached the less-exalted status of Wimp.
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Google released Google Sketchup, a free version of the 3D modeling software. Google still offering Sketchup Pro 5 for design professionals like architects, designers, builders, art directors and game developers. Both Google Sketchup and Sketchup Pro 5 enable you to place models in Google Earth; Pro users get some additional features.
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Even as it threatened to ravage U.S. global interests, Iran sent its top nuclear official to Vienna, Austria, for talks with the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency ahead of a Friday Security Council deadline for Tehran to halt its uranium enrichment activities.
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American Idol Series 5 • Chris Daughtry Katharine Mcphee • Eilliott Yamin Paris Bennett • Kellie Pickler • Simon Cowell Paula Abdul Randy Jackson Ryan Seacrest • Taylor Hicks The Silver Fox
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Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Gary Hamel, visiting professor at London Business School, argues in a Wall Street Journal commentary that Google's'novel management system seems to have been designed to guard against the risk factors that so often erode an organization's evolutionary potential.'Among Google's advantages: The 20% rule, an'expansive sense of purpose'and the credo,'keep the bozos out and reward people who make a difference.'Hamel also traces the company's evolution from Google 1.0,'a search engine that crawled the Web but generated little revenue,'to Google 5.0,'an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services, including Gmail, Google Desktop, and Google Base. More than likely, 6.0 is around the corner.'"
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.
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The inquiry's final report, given to lawmakers Thursday, faulted New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco for failing to protect sick and elderly people and others who could not evacuate the city on their own. It also concluded that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Michael Brown, who then headed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, either did not understand federal response plans or refused to follow them.
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reports that Carl Freer, co-founder and managing director of Gizmondo, was arrested yesterday for allegedly impersonating a police officer in order to obtain a. 44 magnum handgun.
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I always had my doubts about the crony-ish appointment of Alberto Gonzales to be our nation ’ s Attorney General. Now I know why. He is simply an idiot.
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Big surprise: apart from Mac OS X and Sony PSP, also Windows Mobile devices will be able to watch/access content wirelessly thanks to Sony technologies:
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This is truly beyond desperate. The Sierra Club -- along with ten states (three with Republican governors), two cities and other environmental groups -- is suing the Bush administration for its failure to take action to curb carbon dioxide pollution from oil, coal and other fossil fuels. As New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer said, "EPA's newly adopted rule represents an abdication of leadership and foresight in favor of the unacceptable status quo."
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Exxon Mobil's first-quarter was lower than its record fourth-quarter, when the world's largest oil company reported the highest profits ever for any publicly traded company. And the earnings, which rose 7 percent to more than $8 billion, still fell short of analysts'estimates.
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I came across some interesting skeletons in George Allen's closet on Political Wire. Apparently, Allen, who is making a run in 2008, loves to flaunt his love for the Confederacy. Good for him... not good for a national election. Sorry Georgey... Political Wire received an advance copy of a New Republic profile of Sen. George Allen (R-VA) in which author Ryan Lizza finds many of A...
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The Chicago City Council has instituted a ban on the sale of foie gras within the city limits, based on the treatment of the birds used to make the delicacy.
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One petroleum engineer — Michael Economides of the University of Houston — calls peak oil predictions “ the figments of the imaginations of born-again pessimist geologists. ” Like Lynch, Economides, who worked in Russia to boost that country ’ s oil production in the last decade, rejects Simmons ’ analysis. Saudi Arabia, which currently produces about 10 million barrels of oil a day, “ is underproducing every one of their wells, ” he claims. “ I can produce 20 million barrels of oil in Saudi Arabia. ”
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Second, the ad mentions uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff as an example of how the Jewish/Israel lobby is out of control and corrupt. Jack Abramoff is a sketchy, sleezy individual, who also happens to be a religious Jew, but connecting him to AIPAC or any other Jewish organization is fraudulent. Jack is a bastardly character, who does deserve to serve time for cheating Native American tribes out of a lot of cash, but that cash went to various Republicans like Tom Delay and Grover Norquist, not to Jews.
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When you 're pregnant, news of expecting celebrities is greeted with excitement. This means that one more woman that was once skinny will get to gain 30-some pounds and attempt to look pregnant, not fat, for all the world to see. Britney Spears is reportedly pregnant with baby number two according to US Weekly Online and Sean Preston is only seven months old. Pity the ex-mouseketeer and her Popozao husband. They seem to have their hands full with just one. Why can't we just ignore this delinquent duo? It just gets more and more interesting to see the stupid moves they make – going into gas station bathrooms barefoot, driving with your son on your lap, taking your baby to a Tibetan temple to be blessed since you've been
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"Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!" charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. "They are too cozy with the oil industry."
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David Beamer, is the father of Todd Beamer, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. Quite eloquently, Mr. Beamer addresses the new movie, Flight 93, and the war on terror.
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... Skank: Denise Richards, who just got a restraining order issued against soon-to-be-ex-husband Charlie Sheen, has found comfort in the arms of Richie Sambora, the soon-to-be-ex-husband of Richards'former best friend, Heather Locklear. Anybody else feel like they 're watching a soap? (Via ABC News.)
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Have you been paying attention to the plagiarism scandal swirling around Kaavya Viswanathan? She's the 19-year-old Harvard sophomore who got a $500,000 book contract for her first novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life," parts of which were apparently plagiarized from two popular teen books by Megan Mccafferty. Parts? Actually, at least 40 instances of plagiarism have been found in Viswanathan's book by the publishers of the Mccafferty novels. Her defense: That she had read the Mccafferty books several times and apparently internalized them. Possibly because she has a photographic memory. She certainly had no intention of plagiarizing, didn't even know she had (makes you wonder how insightful you have to be to get into Harvard these days).
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• 1. Wild Thing. Big day for the Devil Rays organization. First, they beat the Yankees, 4-2, despite setting a team record by issuing 14 walks. The Damn Yankees are 1-9, by the way, when scoring fewer than six runs. In other Devil Rays news, Delmon Young, an outfielder for the Durham Bulls, threw a bat at an umpire on Wednesday night in Pawtucket. Young, 20, the younger brother of Detroit Tigers outfielder Dmitri Young, was voted the Tampa Bay Devil Rays'minor league player of the year last season. (Baseball Prospectus lists him as baseball's top prospect.) He flipped the bat into the ump's chest after being called out on strikes. Tom Berenger/Kevin Costner wasn't there to smooth things over, unfortunately.
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American Idol Series 5 • Chris Daughtry Katharine Mcphee • Eilliott Yamin Paris Bennett • Kellie Pickler • Simon Cowell Paula Abdul Randy Jackson Ryan Seacrest • Taylor Hicks The Silver Fox
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Reuters - U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday as disappointing financial results from Exxon Mobil Corp. offset Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comment that the Fed could pause in its interest rate increases.
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Everyone knew Kobe Bryant was coming to play last night the real question is would it be good enough for a win. Bryant scored 29 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 99-93 win over the Phoenix Suns and Steve Nash.
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President Bush this week nominated Steven Preston as the new SBA head, continuing his legacy of appointing individuals to oversee agencies they will try to destroy. Preston “ does not have experience running a small business, ” and currently serves as a senior vice president of a “ multibillion-dollar corporation ” called Servicemaster which is known for bullying small businesses:
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This remarkably reasonable and consumer-friendly stance is backed by some big artists, too. For example: Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne, Sarah Mclachlan, Chantal Kreviazuk, Sum 41, Stars, Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace), Dave Bidini (Rheostatics), Billy Talent, John K. Samson (Weakerthans), Broken Social Scene, Sloan, Andrew Cash and Bob Wiseman (Co-founder Blue Rodeo).
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UPDATE: Elayne Riggs blogged yesterday about Keith Hernandez's sexist comments about a woman on the San Diego Padres'training staff. I don't have much to add, except to add that the comments were particularly disappointing coming from Hernandez, as Hernandez has always had a reputation as an unusually thoughtful and intelligent ballplayer (notwithstanding a well-publicized cocaine problem early in his career). Elayne also links to this recent "report card" on race and gender in Major League Baseball.
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West Virginia's John Beilein emerged late Tuesday as the leading candidate to replace former N.C. State coach Herb Sendek. Beilein, who is under contract at West Virginia through 2012, is believed to have moved ahead of former UCLA coach Steve Lavin, now an ESPN analyst. Beilein has a $3 million buyout provision in his contract, but that is not believed to be a deal-breaker. Beilein, Lavin and NCSU athletics director Lee Fowler were not available for comment. At a West Virginia booster meeting Monday night in Charleston, W.V a., Beilein would not comment on the State job. Meanwhile, Fordham coach Dereck Whittenburg, a star on State's 1983 national champion team who is being supported by several key Wolfpackers, appears to have slipped to a distant third.
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Amazon.com again offers the Apple Mac mini Core Solo 1.5GH z Desktop with an Intel Core Solo 1.5GH z 667mhz FSB processor with 2MB L2 cache, 512MB RAM, 60GB Serial ATA hard drive, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, Airport Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0, and Apple Remote with Front Row for $599.99 with free shipping. A $25 mail-in rebate chops the total price to $574.99, the lowest we've seen. Also available: The Apple Mac mini Core Duo 1.66GH z Desktop with an Intel Core Duo 1.66GH z 667mhz FSB processor with 2MB L2 cache, 512MB RAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard drive, 8x dual layer Superdrive, Airport Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0, and Apple Remote with Front Row for $774.99 shipped free after this $25 mail-in rebate. Rebates end May 9.
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Bud Selig is having a hard time stopping the fall of "records". No matter how petty and lame he is, they will still fall. Barry Bonds has been swinging a pretty hot bat recently and he is getting closer and closer to passing Babe Ruth for second place on the all time list.
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Magician David Copperfield was assaulted last weekend after a show in West Palm Beach, Florida. But managed to excape with all of his valuables, with a little sleight of hand.
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To that end, Politburo Diktat has put together a “ matrix ” of Mary Mccarthy ’ s connections and contributions (see also, Mind in the Qatar and Sweetness and Light), to which we can add a few names and wrinkles from posts by AJ Strata, Powerline, Mark Coffey, Flopping Aces, Macsmind, and Seixon: Senators Rockefeller and Durbin, former CIA official Tyler Drumheller, former CIA (and unhinged Downing Street Memo blogger) Larry Johnson, ex-cia Vincent Cannistraro, Rocco Martino, a former spy for Italian military intelligence (on the French payroll), and James Risen (of the NSA leak fame).
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There is no boubt in my mind that Bruce Springsteen is one of the hardest working men in the music business. The Boss goes on and on and on and on .... After polishing off his 21st CD We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions he is off to support it. The CD features Bruce's personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs, all of them associated with the legendary guiding light of American folk music, Pete Seeger, for whom the album is named. Speaking of the origins of the new music, Springsteen said, "So much of my writing, particularly when I write acoustically, comes straight out of the folk tradition.
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Well, this has got to be the least surprising news item I ’ ve read all day. After all, if Teri Hatcher can shatter a mirror by just looking at it, why not a light bulb? Seems like a perfectly natural progression if you ask me. It ’ s not like she has the “ shine ” or something. There ’ s no complicated psychic or telekinetic bullshit at play here. She just ugly. Plain and simple. You know it. I know it. And Ryan Seacrest knows it. Only Ryan knows it a little more than we do since he ’ s the one who actually tried to give her head by sucking on her tail.
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Poor Kate Moss. A little nose candy, and she's been tossed aside like an empty (but licked clean) vial of blow. WWD and E! News report that white-hot actress Keira Knightley has signed on to be the new face of Chanel. And how convenient - just in time for the summer release of Pirates of the Carribean II!! - ACS
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One of the more respected political commentators, Robert Novak, writes that evangelicals have privately told him that millions of their followers will not vote for Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon, no matter what, even if it means the election of Hillary Clinton.
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Frankly, if my opinion mattered and the Houston Texans were listening, they would be absolutely stupid to not take Reggie Bush. Frankly, it makes no sense to me. If there was a few players in this draft that they should be thinking about taking over Bush, it should not be Mario Williams, but rather Vince Young, Leinart, and D'Brickashaw Ferguson. If you ask me, Williams is at best the fourth best prospect in this draft. But if it were me, I'd probably put Lendale White, A.J. Hawk, and possibly Bunkley and Vernon Davis ahead of him.
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I mean, O.K., there was violence when I was a kid, sure, but nobody really talked about it. If you got strangled and dismembered, you just got up the next day whistling a happy tune and went down and did some riveting for the war effort. As for computer simulations, sorry, all we had was sketchpads and pencils. If we wanted to see what various female world leaders looked like naked in the throes of orgasm, we had to use a little thing called the imagination. Plus, all the world leaders were men back then, and, believe me, once you ’ ve drawn Richard Nixon naked and in the throes of orgasm you never have quite the same interest in using your imagination again, and every time you even see a pencil you get a little puky and have to sit down.
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It thus didn't surprise me at all that they introduced, guest divo-maker, David Foster by saying he was responsible for dozens of hits. The blind sidekick hit-man who looked like Andrea Bocelli and did this sweet-natured schtick with Foster about being able to see hair color and female attractiveness made for really good
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Glenn Greenwald, constitutional law expert and writer of the blog "Unclaimed Territory," on his new book, which just hit # 1 on Amazon, "How Would a Patriot Act?"
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In attendance were Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Shiite cleric Moktada al-sadrand of Sadr city, Iraq and Israeli Rabbi Avigdor Neventzal among others.
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Josh Beckett hopes to continue his strong start to the season this evening when the Boston Red Sox play the rubber match of their three-game series with the Cleveland Indians at Jacobs Field..
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- Apparently, the Packers are so overjoyed with the news of Brett Favre ’ s return that they ’ ve completely lost their minds. They just signed former Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson to a 7-year $52 million contract. Shrewd move by the Packers considering that
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As we Seos are always battling the search engines, I invite Matt Cutts, Jeremy Zawodny and Robert Scoble to play: I will pay their entrance fees should they choose to participate and, if I am knocked out of the Tournament by any of them, I will donate $10,000 to a charity of their choice. (
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For this he can thank his Home Secretary, Charles Clarke and the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. Their “ little local difficulties ” added to Patricia Hewitt ’ s forced abandonment of a televised speech to nurses causes the Guardian this morning to call it Triple whammy Wednesday which all helps Lucky.
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I ’ ve got this from Dave Winer at Scripting News Annex (via Matt Sheffield at Newsbusters.org). It seems he spoke to Dan Rather last night and Dan told him that “ he may leave CBS, and if he does, may start blogging. ”
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The film does many things right: Christophe Gans'direction is astonishing from the outset. He directs with style and creativity and after some of the mediocre, unimaginative rubbish I've watched lately Silent Hill is like a breath of fresh air. Or perhaps rancid, decaying air is a more appropriate description? There are obvious homages to the games upon which the film is based thanks to the use of certain camera angles, but the film isn't harmed by this, and the trick isn't over-used. Even a great director can't produce a decent looking film if the set design isn't up to much, and thankfully the look of the film is superb. The smoke filled town is suitably creepy, and the eerie industrial-subterranean locations (which could potentially have looked so tacky) are genuinely unsettling.
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The energy package, sponsored by Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa, Ted Stevens of Alaska, Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, will be offered as an amendment to an emergency spending measure now before the Senate funding the Iraq war and hurricane relief, according to a senior GOP leadership aide.
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Tim Challies is posting daily summaries for the Together for the Gospel Conference which is underway. This conference should be a source of encouragement to those of us who sometimes feel alone in our concerns for the church. The conferences features a fine line-up of faithful pastors and speakers such as Ligon Duncan, Mark Dever, Dr. Al Mohler, John Macarthur and John Piper. Praise the Lord for those who are contending for the faith.
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Rumours are afoot that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to be in Hollywood's attempt to bring Atlas Shrugged to the big screen. They might make an interesting pair to play John Galt and Dagny Taggart.
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I ’ m looking forward to his first confrontation with Helen Thomas or David Gregory because he ’ ll calmly skewer them with that great Tony Snow smile all across his face. When that happens, I ’ ll be smiling from ear to ear.
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While it was nice to see Jonathan Schwartz's blog entry sharing his appreciation for outgoing Sun chief Scott Mcnealy earlier this week, it was even nicer to see the first-person piece by Tom Hanks in the New York Times Styles...
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Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has been investigating torture at Abu Ghraib along with New York University ’ s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights First. They have released a report titled By the Numbers in which they make the case that there may be as many as 600 may be implicated in detainee abuse:
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Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox's (D) gubernatorial campaign "took a hit Wednesday when her campaign manager resigned after being accused of doctoring an online biography of her Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor (D)," the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
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The 2006 PEN World Voices Festival offers over 50 programs, but Wednesday night ’ s Faith & Reason: Writers Speak at Town Hall surely was the star-studded centerpiece. Only one of the Nobel laureates made it (the other, Nadine Gordimer, unfortunately had to cancel for personal reasons), but the company she (Toni Morrison) was in was still impressive: Chinua Achebe, Martin Amis, Gioconda Belli, Roberto Calasso, E. L. Doctorow, David Grossman, Elias Khoury, Yusef Komunyakaa, Zadie Smith, Duong Thu Huong, Ayu Utami, and Jeanette Winterson, with Salman Rushdie opening and closing the show.
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What's been happening around us is the application of WOM to the digital medium. It's not much of a leap from the oral reviews of Shakespeare's latest to the printed recommendations of Benjamin Franklin to the broadcast voices of amateur tinkerers of the early 20th century - hundreds of personal broadcasters on this new thing later to be called radio. (The earliest podcasts, I might add.)
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This is pretty big news. The lead plaintiff is John Conyers, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. He is joined by 10 other ranking members of the other House Committees: Dingell, Rangel, Miller, Oberstar, Frank, Peterson, Thompson, Stark, Brown and Slaughter.
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NEW YORK -- New York Gov. George Pataki called the skyscraper going up at the World Trade Center site "a symbol of our freedom and independence." Just Wednesday, the Port Authority of New York and New...
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Peter Moore recently detailed Microsoft's plan to use the Xbox Live Marketplace to provide timely E3 coverage to Xbox 360 owners. According to Moore, Microsoft plans to upload "all the videos and the news as quickly as possible" onto the Marketplace, where potential millions will be waiting to download the content. This ambitious project will hurtle Microsoft's digital distribution service into uncharted waters. Will the Live network be able to handle millions of simultaneous downloads on top of the free Gold week? Moore remains confident, stating, "If we can get through
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Rap superstar Snoop Dogg has been arrested at London ’ s Heathrow Airport along with five members of his entourage. The incident that injured seven police officers ensued after Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Doggy Dogg) and members of his gang were denied access to a private lounge in the airport.
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