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March 2009

Captured » Blog Archive » Venice from Above

by Neewok

The Venice Film Festival opened on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 with stars, movie-goers and photographers descending on the famed city. Dan Kitwood, an entertainment photographer from Getty, took the opportunity to make some aerial images of Venice.

January 2009

American Civil Liberties Union : President Obama To Order Guantánamo Closed

by karlcow

The new Obama administration circulated a draft executive order Wednesday calling for the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp within a year and halting all military commission trials in the meantime.

September 2008

Future graphics looking sharp | TechBurgh

by msandler (via)
Future graphics looking sharp Posted by: Andy on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Click reports from San Jose in California on the latest developments in the world of computer graphics.

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July 2008

Dunlap Observatory closing sparks anger, frustration - Posted Toronto

by karlcow

On Wednesday, the University of Toronto sent him an e-mail giving him 10 days to get off the premises.

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from Wired.com

by karlcow

Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.

June 2008

MySpace Might Have Friends, but It Wants Ad Money - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

With an eye toward monetization, MySpace is being redesigned beginning Wednesday with a new home page, which will be less cluttered and more hospitable to advertising. (The home page will also feature a “splash page” for an ad about the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight.”) The redesign, to be done by early fall, will include a new navigation bar, search tool and video player.

May 2008

massive sinkhole near Daisetta

by karlcow

A massive sinkhole near Daisetta, Texas is seen Wednesday afternoon, May 7, 2008. A zigzagging hole believed to be as long as two football fields and up to 100 feet deep continued to widen late Wednesday, threatening to gobble up nearby tanks and other oilfield equipment.

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Man Makes Fake Beard To Accept Lottery Check

by starmuscle
NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) - A New York lottery winner said he disguised himself with a marker-drawn beard when he accepted his prize to protect his new fortune from thieves.Michael Perez, 51, said he used a marker to draw a goatee on his face and further disguised himself with a hat and sunglasses so thieves would not recognize him while he accepted the $14 million ceremonial check from the New York Lottery, the New York Post reported Wednesday."I've got to look out for my family," Perez said of his disguise.Perez, a former warehouse worker who recently became unemployed, said he used a portion of his income-tax refund to buy a lottery ticket with six randomly chosen numbers: 1, 8, 10, 31, 52 and 57.The choice paid off for Perez in the state's April 1 drawing."The first thing I want to do is take care of all my debts," "But before I do anything serious, I've got to go to Disney World." he said.

Prenatal vitamins cuts kids' cancer risk

by Newspartnergroup & 1 other
The study, published online Wednesday in the journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, estimates prenatal multivitamin supplements "may prevent 900 cases of pediatric leukemia and 300-400 cases of pediatric brain tumours annually in the United States."

April 2008

TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn't done so already)

by jst33z
It’s Web Wednesday in Hong Kong again tonight. This week’s special guest is from television — no she’s not famous. She’s Ivy Wong, COO for TVB.com (one of Hong Kong’s local broadcasters — Warning: the site not ...

Japanese media dismayed after 'Yasukuni' movie pulled | France 24

by karlcow

Japanese newspapers warned Wednesday that freedom of expression was at stake after cinemas pulled a documentary about a Tokyo shrine honouring war dead amid pressure from nationalists. "Freedom of expression is under threat," the Asahi newspaper said in an editorial, following the decision by four more Japanese cinemas to cancel planned screenings of "Yasukuni", by Chinese director Li Ying.

March 2008

Ashley

by Hemanshu
This undated image obtained from a MySpace webpage shows a woman identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupre. The New York Times reported Wednesday March 12, 2008 that the name of the woman identified as 'Kristen' in court papers alleging that Gov. Eliot Spitzer paid more than $4,000 for prostitutes' services is Dupre. The Times also reported that the woman, born as Ashley Youmans, legally changed her name to Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro and is now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre. (AP Photo)

Ashley

by Hemanshu
This undated image obtained from a MySpace webpage shows a woman identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupre. The New York Times reported Wednesday March 12, 2008 that the name of the woman identified as 'Kristen' in court papers alleging that Gov. Eliot Spitzer paid more than $4,000 for prostitutes' services is Dupre. The Times also reported that the woman, born as Ashley Youmans, legally changed her name to Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro and is now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupre. (AP Photo)

Carnival

by Hemanshu
Children, with their bodies painted, take part in a Carnival parade in Santo Domingo, Sunday, March. 2, 2008. Carnival is celebrated later than in other places in Santo Domingo to avoid the concurrence with Ash Wednesday, which in the Christian calendar, is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days before Easter, falling on different dates from year to year. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

February 2008

AlterNet: Obamanomics: Barack Talks Tough on Trade

by ravi
On Wednesday, the first full day of a Wisconsin primary campaign that he hopes will solidify his emerging lead over his once "inevitable" rival, the Illinois senator started in Janesville, where he delivered a rebuke to free-trade policies of the Bill Clinton and George Bush eras that sounded a little like a speech Feingold might have delivered.

Works 9.0 release near; Microsoft mum on whether Google Docs killer in wings

by springnet
The latest update to Microsoft Corp.'s Works productivity software is expected to go on sale Wednesday amid renewed speculation that the long-standing, low-end counterpart to Microsoft Office is also being groomed to take on Google Inc. in the online offi

January 2008

Next on the Worry List: Shaky Insurers of Bonds - NYT

by ravi
Even as stocks ended five days of losses with a surprising recovery on Wednesday, officials began moving to defuse another potential time bomb in the markets: the weakened condition of two large insurance companies that have guaranteed buyers against losses on more than $1 trillion of bonds.

October 2007

Fair Use crée des revenus aux Etats-Unis

by karlcow

Fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws account for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to a report issued on Wednesday by the Computer and Communications Industry Association.

German gets Nobel in chemistry for research on thinning ozone layer

by Newspartnergroup
Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for work that has become invaluable to the modern chemical industry and helped the fight to fix the ozone hole

邊日結婚好?

by blackgoldfish 1 comment
「Monday for wealth / Tuesday for health / Wednesday the best day of all / Thursday for crosses / Friday for losses / Saturday no luck at all」

Halo 3 Recores More Than $300 Million in First-Week Sales

by egoroff
Microsoft says that Halo 3 has officially become a global phenomenon, garnering more than $300 million in sales in the first week alone. The critically acclaimed Xbox 360 exclusive, which was released in Europe on Wednesday 26th September, is the fastest-selling video game ever and already one of the most successful entertainment properties in history.Initial reports from retailers worldwide show console sales have more than doubled compared with the weekly average before the launch of Halo 3. With games like Halo 3, BioShock, Mass Effect and Project Gotham Racing 4, Xbox 360 has the greatest line-up in the history of video games and the only console where consumers can play all of the year amp;

August 2007

Marketing and Business News... - Internet marketing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by david_james
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June 2007

Guards Subdue Man Trying To Jump Into Pope Mobile | WKRN.COM

by srcmax
A man tried to jump into Pope Benedict the 16th’s Pope mobile during his general audience in the Vatican Wednesday. Authorities say the pope was not hurt, and didn’t even seem to notice someone had jumped over the protective barricades.

McGrady Leaves Game With Stiff Back

by digitfind
Houston star Tracy McGrady left the Rockets' game Wednesday against Golden State with a stiff lower back.

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