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A project by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group of MIT Media Labs with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Intel Foundation and the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a educational interactive content creation tool aimed primarily at kids to create their animations, stories and games in a very easy to learn scripting language. Just think [...]

Although Lauren Conrad full line doesn't hit stores until early February, the Hills star recently unveiled a 10-piece capsule collection that features versatile layering separates and billowy minidresses that can be worn over skinny jeans or leggings.Pieces range from $45 to $150 and are sold exclusively at shoplaurenconrad.com. "It was great to be able to pick out fabrics and sketch out the desi

Its not about Nokia and Sony guys, Its about Nokia and Iphone. Iphone to be launched in 70 countries.. then what about rest ?? If Iphone 2.0 is unlockable, then does Iphone fans have to wait another year or might be more?? These were few of the many questions which many iphone fans are not ready to even think about. However, Nokia has come up with an answer. Updated S60 touch Video along with leak

The Blackberry Bold 9000 will be hitting our shelves very soon and has been causing a definite frenzy within the Blackberry world. With its stylish black exterior, stain chrome frame and leather-like back plate, this Blackberry has oozes of good looks and with super intelligent features to match, it is no wonder that this is a [...]

Ok, I exagerrated, it ain’t the “masses”! Just to share what’s been going on in my webhoster’s forum, here are some snapshots:- Send post as PDF to Social Bookmarking

USA Today wrote a nice article based on their interview with Matt Cutts, currently the head of Google’s Webspam team at Google. You have a website and can’t figure out why it’s not showing up at the top of Google’s search rankings. You go to Google.com for some guidance but get lost trying to find answers. Certainly, [...]

“(NaturalNews) The rice bran ingredient manufacturer NutraCea has entered an agreement with HerbalScience Singapore to create two joint ventures to expand research, development and marketing of products based on stabilized rice bran. The two companies are forming a third company, Rice Science, to develop stabilized rice bran extracts for use as a nutraceutical ingredient in foods [...]

Found two cool illustration applications off Snap2Objects’ Best 45 Design Software (don’t we all love lists of goodies?). I recommend Inkscape and SmoothDraw NX mainly for their simple and intuitive interface which are less intimidating to casual doodlers like me and more importantly, fun to experiment and play with Inkscape is an open source [...]

FCC chair Kevin Martin can't get off the "free internet" hobby-horse. US citizens do not get free water, electricity, gas, or telephone service. Mr. Martin... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By: JohnMailerM Many people rock climb. Many people find that once they’re on that wall, they’d rather not be anywhere else. There’s nothing like being up on that wall. However, only people who have had the chance to rock climb know that. There are still many people who have never rock climbed in their life. They don’t know what it’s like to use skill and strength to pull themselves to t

The Vital Few vs. the Trivial Many : Invest with the Insiders, Not the Masses# Author: George Muzea# Publisher: Wiley# Number Of Pages: 212# Publication Date: 2004-10-29# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471681954# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471681953Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many will open your eyes to a new way of looking at the investment world, especially

Faixas:01.We will rock you02.The chilli time03.Smoke on the water04.Celtic bolero05.Jazz badger06.Flower of scotland07.Getting jiggy with it08.In the groove09.100 chilli pipers10.The dark island11.Hey jude12.The lost13.The hills of argyll14.Vodoo child15.Clocks16.Bonus track Gostou?!Copie esse post para seu Blog:Faixas:01.We will rock you02.The chilli time03.Smoke on the water04.Celtic bolero 05.J

By: JohnMailerM Many people rock climb. Many people find that once they’re on that wall, they’d rather not be anywhere else. There’s nothing like being up on that wall. However, only people who have had the chance to rock climb know that. There are still many people who have never rock climbed in their life. They don’t know what it’s like to use skill and strength to pull themselves to t

The advanced technology has offered a great comfort in the lives of human beings. It has given us various modes of entertainment. Television has always been a great medium of entertainment that has given us amazing fun and TV is such a gadget that has given us great fun and enjoyment. The new age gadgets are offering advanced technology and high-end performance.Televisions that have liquid crystal

The Audio Ads option in the Google AdWords interface lets you run a radio ad campaign in a very similar fashion as a paid search ad campaign. When you click the tab, you have the option to “Create an audio ad campaign”. Sound familiar? There are probably a lot of marketing theorists and business school professors [...]

The Audio Ads option in the Google AdWords interface lets you run a radio ad campaign in a very similar fashion as a paid search ad campaign. When you click the tab, you have the option to “Create an audio ad campaign”. Sound familiar? There are probably a lot of marketing theorists and business school professors [...]

Microsoft has begun distributing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as an automatic update. The move will allow users who have not already downloaded the service pack to obtain it automatically. Vista Service Pack 1 promises improved performance and stability, along with a cumulative security update. A company spokesperson told vnunet.com that the update is being

Norwegian automaker Think Global said Monday it planned to sell low-priced electric cars to the masses and will introduce its first models in the U.S. by the end of next year. The battery-powered Think City will be able to travel up to 110 miles on a single charge, with a top speed of about 65 mph, the company said. It will be priced below $25,000. Oslo-based Think said venture capital firms RockPort Capital Partners and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers had made investments to fund its entry into the U.S. under the auspices of Think North America. “This is not a toy,” said Wilber James, RockPort managing partner. “This is a serious car that we expect to sell.” Think North America is likely to be based in Southern California, the investors said, and the cars it

Intel (INTC) may try to make a WiMax invasion of mainland China using Taiwan as its starting point. The big US chip company said it will put $500 million into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The deployment took place under the command of President Bashar Assad’s younger brother Maher Assad, chief of the Presidential Guard, the Israeli website Debka claimed on Monday. “Syrian troops are now strung along a continuous crescent-shaped line from the central Lebanese mountains through Mount Dov on the western slopes of Mount Hermon and up to southeastern [...]

LG has a vision to deliver highly sophisticated mobiles and many other home appliances. As a matter of fact, this is what drives the company along new avenues of excellence. The mobiles from the lineage of LG are well-known in global telecommunications sector for their intuitive designing and user-friendly features. Therefore, it can be said that with a host of high-profile features, the LG phones are garnering a lot of interest.The latest mobiles from LG are highly sophisticated as they meet the need of the 'next generation' users. Therefore, it can be said that LG phones go well with the tag line 'Life's Good', as they offer an exceptional combination of some of the latest telephony features. These handsets offer high-quality LCD displays, digital camera as well as music player bundled t

One of the more popular videos on YouTube these days shows a group of Duke University students waving Chinese flags on campus, chanting their support for the motherland (link here). That Chinese are able to protest in the U.S. is ironic, but even more interesting is the notion that average Chinese are learning through these [...]

Voilà un texte que j’ai puisé sur le site de La Riposte, un texte intéressant qui démontre que le PSUV n’est pas le parti monolithique décrié par la droite occidentale et autre. Un texte qui démontre entre autre, les raisons pour lesquelles le référendum du 2 décembre dernier, fût un échec. Un texte qui montre [...]

by *ahermin marita Artist’s Comments Karl Marx said: “Religion is the opium of the masses.” According to Marx, religion is an expression of material realities and economic injustice. Thus, problems in religion are ultimately problems in society. Religion is not the disease, but merely a symptom. It is used by oppressors to make people feel better about the distress [...]

""It takes less credentials to be a mortgage broker than a pimp on a street corner in Harlem.....Because a pimp needs references."The Economist published an article about the need to educate the world about personal finance. On a much smaller scale that is one of the goals for this blog and so the article was very poignant for me. The article is based around the works of John Bryant, who has for years been telling anyone who will listen about the problems caused by widespread ignorance of finance. "EVERYBODY wants it. Nobody understands it. Money is the great taboo. People just won't talk about it. And that is what leads you to subprime. Take the greed and the financial misrepresentation out of it, and the root of this crisis is massive levels of financial illiteracy." Here are some highli

As far as technology is concerned, state-of-the-art devices and gadgets always start out with a price that is a tad out of reach for the mainstream market. Because of this, it usually takes a while for people to fully adopt these new technologies. When a certain adoption point is reached however, manufacturers can then afford to offer more affordable choices. The same phenomenon happens in the ultra-competitive processor business. Dual-core processors used just for the privileged. But today, with the release of the Intel Celeron E1200, users on a budget now have a dual-core processor solution for tackling their multi-tasking computing needs. More »

Historically the hedge funds were available only to the wealthy, or had high initial minimums (quite often more then $100,000), or they have some other disadvantages, like limited liquidity (you can redeem your holdings only once in 1 or 3 months, and you need to give 7, 30 or 60 day advance notice), sales or surrender charges (which can be up to 6% high), lack of transparency or regulatory oversight.Fortunately for small investor, in the last a couple of years a new breed of hedge funds became available to the general public: listed hedge funds. As the name implies, they are the hedge funds listed on a stock exchange. Accordingly, they can be bought or sold like any other stock. Listed hedge funds have a lot of advantages over their traditional cosines:1. Your initial investment can be as

India's largest bank is turning to one of the country's smallest technology companies for a new minimalist cash machine it hopes will solve the subcontinent's chronic financial services shortage. State Bank of India (SBI) has 10,000 branches, the second largest network in the world, but struggles to reach the farming communities that make up 70 per cent of India's population. About 85 per cent of India's workers are employed in the "unorganised sector" – where wages are paid in cash – and at least half do not have a bank account. Hoping to reach the underbanked masses, SBI is trialling a new automatic teller machine (ATM) that costs a tenth of the price of conventional models and is cheap enough to deploy in areas where the average transaction is 100 rupees (£1.25). Built around a

Don’t know if you’ve heard of the “gPhone” rumor, in which Google has been secretively tinkering in the background getting ready to launch a phone which would compete with the massively famous iPhone. Well, I think they recently took it in a different direction at the last minute. Instead they have launched a [...]

By: JohnMailerM Many people rock climb. Many people find that once they’re on that wall, they’d rather not be anywhere else. There’s nothing like being up on that wall. However, only people who have had the chance to rock climb know that. There are still many people who have never rock climbed in their life. They don’t know what it’s like to use skill and strength to pull themselves to the top. For some, it comes from a fear of heights or for some other phobia type reason. However, for most, they’ve just never been given the chance. Well, now they can get that chance. With a portable rock climbing wall, you can bring the rock climbing wall to them, so that they can try their hand at it to see if rock climbing is for them.Fairs And Festivals Are Great Locations For Portable WallsYou can sometimes find portable rock climbing walls at fairs and festivals where they will set up the portable rock climbing wall so that people can determine if they like it or not. Sometimes, these

Okay, so I have about five steady visitors. Please weigh in on this little survey if you would please. The WIP is a romance. The characters meet in Chapter One and are together the next nine out of ten chapters in some way or another. Then they get split up. They're apart for almost 10 chapters, each getting about equal POV time on the page. My question is this: As a romance reader how

Baseball for the Chinese masses? The State Department sending Cal Ripken to Shanghai? Yes, yes, I know something of the hallowed traditions of Japanese baseball and more recently the Taiwanese leagues. Those were begun on sandlots by boys imitating the American soldiers stationed on military bases, and they grew organically. In the case of China, as with so much else, Chinese “interest” in the sport, of which there is extraordinarily little, is a top down affair, undoubtedly spurred on by the highest levels of sporting administration simply as a result of baseball’s inclusion as an Olympic sport. Although eliminated from the 2012 Games, baseball may return in 2016. Surely, there is some long-term planning going on in the General Administration of Sport. From the American State Department’s viewpoint, what is the value in assisting a fledgling Chinese Olympic effort? Not, apparently, the expansion of commerce for sporting goods makers, whose manufacturing b

As on my previous post that application of Certification for telecommunication equipment to the DGPT in early 2007 is growth, Application Growth? "IT business Good" I think information below would be support my opinion.Other information which support is telecommunication Industry wide open for development.So in my conclusion is Indonesia the real a Potential Market for Information and telecommunication Technology.The Jakarta Post, MalangModern telecommunications thanks to fiber-optic networks would see some 40,000 villages nationally enjoy telephone and Internet connections, but only if the government's tender is answered.Information and communication minister Muhammad Nuh said Monday the government would open for tender the ambitious project in Surabaya, East Java on November 10.He said the project would link the entire archipelago via a fiber-optic network, to be known as the Palapa Ring Project.The government said it would also set up WiFi infrastructure in each mayoralty and regen

By: JohnMailerM Many people rock climb. Many people find that once they’re on that wall, they’d rather not be anywhere else. There’s nothing like being up on that wall. However, only people who have had the chance to rock climb know that. There are still many people who have never rock climbed in their life. They don’t know what it’s like to use skill and strength to pull themselves to the top. For some, it comes from a fear of heights or for some other phobia type reason. However, for most, they’ve just never been given the chance. Well, now they can get that chance. With a portable rock climbing wall, you can bring the rock climbing wall to them, so that they can try their hand at it to see if rock climbing is for them.Fairs And Festivals Are Great Locations For Portable WallsYou can sometimes find portable rock climbing walls at fairs and festivals where they will set up the portable rock climbing wall so that people can determine if they like it or not. Sometimes, these

via clickz.comVideo search engine blinkx, which recently introduced a contextual ad matching service for video content called AdHoc, has expanded that offering to allow anyone to make money from text overlay ads inserted into clips. Dubbed AdHoc Widget, the product lets any publisher -- be they Web site owner, blogger or social net junkie -- combine embed codes for videos hosted by YouTube, MySpace Videos and similar services with the blinkx ad matching and insertion technology. Blinkx spits out a new bit of code that, when pasted onto a Web page, serves text-based overlay ads on that video clip wherever it's syndicated. Those ads will come from third party networks such as those operated by MIVA, Yahoo and Microsoft. After the networks take their cut, Blinkx will split ad sales revenue 50/50 with end users, distributing payments via PayPal. There is potential for abuse with such a system, as pointed out by search experts, and acknowledged by blinkx. For instance, AdHoc's amateur pub

Domain tasting is the practice of registering a domain with the intention of taking full advantage of ICANN's "Create Grace Period" (CGP), holding those domains, testing to see if it has traffic and then deleting that domain name within a specified time (typically 5 days). The "tasting" costs nothing unless you keep the domain past 5 days. Domain Tasting is the term coined to describe a process

Sorry for the long delay in blog posts - I recently switched jobs (don’t worry, it was at my initiation), and have had to focus elsewhere for a short while - I’m also still having problems with my blog template for a continued unknown reason - hopefully I’ll find some free time to get to the bottom of that problem soon. Anyways, back on topic. For all those viewers who tune in regularly, I was in Scotland last month at the Edinburgh festival. It was a grand time, and I highly recommend you all visit it. It was also a great “case study” in how difficult marketing can be in a highly competitive marketplace. Hundreds of thousands of people pass through Edinburgh during the festival season, as do thousands upon thousands of acts. In fact, there are so many acts that the light poles get deformed from having such a large quantity of posters stapled on them at eye level: This causes a big problem: with everyone trying to stand out by having the most posters /

Sorry for the long delay in blog posts - I recently switched jobs (don’t worry, it was at my initiation), and have had to focus elsewhere for a short while - I’m also still having problems with my blog template for a continued unknown reason - hopefully I’ll find some free time to get to the bottom of that problem soon. Anyways, back on topic. For all those viewers who tune in regularly, I was in Scotland last month at the Edinburgh festival. It was a grand time, and I highly recommend you all visit it. It was also a great “case study” in how difficult marketing can be in a highly competitive marketplace. Hundreds of thousands of people pass through Edinburgh during the festival season, as do thousands upon thousands of acts. In fact, there are so many acts that the light poles get deformed from having such a large quantity of posters stapled on them at eye level: This causes a big problem: with everyone trying to stand out by having the most posters /

Yesterday I admitted that my creativity was as crusty as Jenna Jameson's stomach and I asked for some suggestions from you, my fine readers. And yes, there were some nice little nuggets in there...Well, you asked for it. Write about midget fashion and how you spend your days teaching hamsters how to read.Tell about your fantasy sports failures. It's been a while since I read any of that.Will you be doing the Random Football observations this season? That amuses the hell out of me.I know that Peter King gives you an ulcer and today he wrote a top 500 players in the NFL list. There must be something good in there.Ok. Let's tackle that midget fashion first. Here's a picture of midgets playing a game of pick-up basketball. Here we have some midgets rocking out in kick-ass Kiss costumes and for those of you that like that sort of thing, here are two scantily clad girls who are ready to show Spud Webb a good time.Oh screw it, I really don't know much about midget fashion. I was reaching

Hi Folks - If you are reading this you may be thinking of selling your home or may just have an interest in Real Estate. The Real Estate market has changed over the last few years. It is no longer a seller's market in Metrowest MA. Creating an on-line presence for your home is vital to increase your chances of getting your home sold for top dollar in a timely manner.Recently I wrote an article titled Selling your Home in Metrowest MA? It pays to interview a top Realtor. The article covered a few topics including making sure you pick a top agent when selling your home and how the Internet has changed how Realtors market to the buying public. The article explains how over 85% of todays buyers are searching for their home on-line and print advertising is no longer an effective form of marketing.Below you are going to see in detail the sites that I use to market all my homes in Metrowest MA. This investment in on-line marketing has allowed me to provide my clients with results. In fact

Jagran Prakashan Q1 Net Up 51.62%Driven by significant advertising revenue growth, Jagran Prakashan Limited (JPL), publishers of Hindi daily 'Dainik Jagran', on Friday reported a 51.62 per cent increase in its net profit for the quarter ended June 30.The company said its net profit for the period under review stood at Rs 34.71 crore against Rs 22.89 crore in the corresponding period last year.The media house's total revenues for the said quarter stood at Rs 192.27 crore, an increase of 34.69 per cent compared to Rs 142.75 crore in the last fiscal."We dedicated our efforts towards strengthening Dainik Jagran and various other initiatives. We are pretty positive about future of the media industry in general and business in particular," JPL Managing Director and Chairman Mahendra Mohan Gupta said.The steady growth in the revenue has been driven by the significant growth in advertisement revenue, which grew by 42 per cent, at Rs 126.74 crore from Rs 89.22 crore, it said, adding revenue

As a new blogger, I am very conscious of what I am writing and I always try to think to myself: “Am I writing this for me, or am I writing this for others to come read. And when trying to market your blog and increase traffic and readership, you always want to keep this in mind. Blogging for yourself This involves posting things that interest you, and that may not necessarily be “hot topics”. This may include, but is not limited to, being vague about what your are writing about, perhaps using language or metaphors that most people will not understand, making posts about mundane details of your life. When blogging for yourself usually you will not post regularly, but only when you feel like it or when you have something to say. These blogs can be extremely attractive to people who want to get a glimpse of someone else’s life, experiences and beliefs. They get their links by being placed in blogrolls, but likely never get links for particular posts. Blogging for t

Let’s Go Modeling is the theme for the Thursday night open houses at downtown Columbus condo models open to the public from 5-8.  Columbus is slowly getting used to the idea that Thursday is Columbus Real Estate Day with Open Houses all over town on the Third Thursday of each month and now the Modeling.  So, waddle to your model and then call me to help you find the right downtownish Columbus Condo for you. Many of these condos are also open Sundays 12–4 when there isn’t a darn thing going on downtown. add to:

While the wait for Apple’s iPhone continues, Taiwan-based High Technology Corporation (HTC), announced the release of HTC Touch mobile phone based on the innovative TouchFLO technology. Excerpt from an article at vnunet.com Peter Chou, chief executive and president of HTC, said: “With the HTC Touch access to your most commonly used content, contacts and features is only a simple finger flick away. Mobile phone makers have done a great job of cramming ever-more exciting features into ever-smaller phones. But the way in which we access these increasingly sophisticated features has not kept pace.” Comparing it with a piece of virtual paper, Chou described the interface as “beyond simple - it’s innate”. The company, which is also the largest makers of mobiles based on Microsoft’s Windows OS, is debuting the new mobile offering with the following features: Operating System: Windows Mobile 6Hardware Configuration: 201 MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 128MB ROMForm Factor: 3.93-

Part 2This album is a culmination of Depeche Mode's middle-period experimentation. More informed by goth than techno, it is still anchored by plenty of the larger-than- life-baritone melodrama so distinctive of David Gahan's vocals. The most experimental track is "Pimpf"--a song that heave-hoes along with the synthesised emulation of a Russian men's choir. Although nowhere near fast enough to be danceable, the commanding "Never Let Me Down" ranks as the best single on the album, with the most hummable "Strangelove" coming in a close second. Each song is a praiseworthy accomplishment, but the singles here set off the experimental tracks, making the album seem thematically schizophrenic.

Fun Fact: Cobalt blue rocks my socks off. It is the hottest color of the season, and surprisingly goes well with the blue eye shadows that are so tempting these days as long as you pick a hue that contrasts a bit. No one likes a matchy-matchy gal.The color is so unexpected. Not quite a navy blue, certainly not a pastel blue; cobalt blue is in its own league. My fave way to wear it? A hint of blue poking out either with a cobalt cami under a cardigan or with some groovy looking platform pumps with some casual jeans. Or even with a LBD (little black dress for the fashion un-savvy).Payless has a great pair that they are practically giving away for $16.99 so you have no excuse to jump on the blue train of delightful fashion.Mind you, they are flip flops, in a sense, but also they are chic and look vaguely like a wedge/heel combo. They would look adorable with some khaki capris. Enjoy!

There is a fairly popular show on A&E called Flip This House that purports to show an investor buying, rehabbing and selling distressed properties. They make it look fast and relatively easy. The original crew, TradeMark Properties in Charleston, SC have left and are now doing The Real Deal on Discovery. Anyone real investor who has [...]

Reading the daily news (well, it was 3 days ago), I found that Lost has an end, not for now, but it has been decided that the end comes in 2010, seasons 4,5 and 6 with 16 episodes and 8 months of break between them. You can find some more information about Lost here. I thought it was interesting and I thought on “menear” it (same as digg, but is Spanish), and as I use to do I tried to find whether it was already submitted (there’s nothing that I hate more than duplicated news) and I found that someone had already sent it. But it happens that it was discarded (although I was able to vote for it, quite weird) because it was voted as duplicated from another news, which had also been discarded because of being duplicated from the first one. If you look carefully to those 3 news, in the first (and “original”) news it says that Lost ends on 2009, the next news says 2009 and the last one 2010. Reviewing the sources, 2008 and 2009 were just rumors, but after reach

Reading the daily news (well, it was 3 days ago), I found that Lost has an end, not for now, but it has been decided that the end comes in 2010, seasons 4,5 and 6 with 16 episodes and 8 months of break between them. You can find some more information about Lost here. I thought it was interesting and I thought on “menear” it (same as digg, but is Spanish), and as I use to do I tried to find whether it was already submitted (there’s nothing that I hate more than duplicated news) and I found that someone had already sent it. But it happens that it was discarded (although I was able to vote for it, quite weird) because it was voted as duplicated from another news, which had also been discarded because of being duplicated from the first one. If you look carefully to those 3 news, in the first (and “original”) news it says that Lost ends on 2009, the next news says 2009 and the last one 2010. Reviewing the sources, 2008 and 2009 were just rumors, but after reach

From Asia Times OnlineHONG KONG - Mass movements are part of Chinese tradition. Chinese people tend to act as a group and, whenever conditions are ripe, they rush to join with someone or some group taking the lead. Hence a "mass movement" can be easily formed. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were the "all people becoming citizen-soldiers" movement and the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong.In the era of economic reform and opening up, "mass movements" appear to have become more spontaneous. In the 1980s, there was a time when "all people rushed to do commercial businesses". And now we are witnessing another mass movement: "all people speculating in stocks".Indeed, as the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets keep rising, more and more Chinese citizens join the army of speculators. On April 26, some 325,000 new investor accounts were opened on the single day, pushing the total number to 92.5 million. This means one out of every 14 mainland Chinese (including children and the aged) i

So, remember last week when I told you about the Calypso sale? Well, I hope you got some of the Siwy Jeans because that was probably your last chance to get "the must have jeans" at that unbelievable $75 price.No seriously, they're like the J Brand of last year, or so they hope.Personally I dont feel too strongly, for them, dont see anything too outstanding or particiluy worthy of my money, apart from the fact that people like Kate Moss and La Lahon rocks it, but it's 2007, and I'm so over being a fashion groupie ( ahhh, well right now I am, lets wait to see what Kate wears next (wink) .Anyways, if you don't know here's whats on the lips of denim freaks and asses of celebrities. Siwydenim.com

While sex sells, lawsuits linger. Taking note of America's fancy for feuding, European lingerie boutique, Sloggi, approaches advertising in an off-kilter fashion. By purposefully targeting treacherous territory (Fleshbot points out mosques) with banned billboards, Sloggi aims for shock over seduction. Now with an interactive website, the French fanny line allows you to make your own politically incorrect content, just in time to piss off more conservative-commenters at Adrants. Wah, a LINGERIE line is using sexual imagery of women for advertising. How shocking.tags technorati : french lingerie sloggi thongs

I'm one of the lucky 3% of people in the world who have benefited from the effects of a condition known as Mythophobia, wherein I have the uncontrollable ability to accurately decipher someone's, anyone's, true personality based only on the words that they write or by the way that they speak.The following are five personality profile blurbs [culled from the section on recent events circulating the blogsphere and beyond] of a just published report containing over two-thousand examples of 100% accurately pin-pointed statements regarding selected individual bloggers on the internet, based entirely on the careful and close reading of their written or spoken words.1. Kathy Sierra -- She is a person who sometimes likes to pretend to not know what's going on around her. Also, she will often use this naive-persona to actively try to move forward with a plan she already has formulated in her head. In addition, she is a person who usually must always bring others into her sphere of life so a

Measuring 17 feet long, “Habibi” (meaning “dear” or “beloved”) was constructed by Algerian-born French Artist, Adel Abdessemed. Shown in a way much like the dinosaur exhibits in a natural history museum, Habibi is a self portrait of the artist’s bone structure? Well, it is meant to be a self portrait anyway. I can’t find too many images of it online, but you can find a few here and here to get some better perspective of size. I also found a biography of Adel with this quote. Abdessemed is an international and manifold artist, heroic like Ulysses. Each one of his works is a resolution, on the scale of both an aesthetic experience and a political proposition.   Image Source

If you've been looking for a new way to monetize your site I've got some exciting news for you. With little fanfare Amazon has launched a new service for it's Associate advertisers. The service, "Context Links Beta," works a lot like Kontera and Intellitext in that it dynamically adds advertisements to your content using JavaScript. Unlike Kontera and IntelliText, though, Amazon Context Links are actually CPA rather than CPC. You earn revenue when someone makes a purchase on Amazon.com after being referred by your site. Amazon Context Links also offers a much greater range of customization options. After reviewing everything, I'm about 90% certain I'll be switching from Kontera to Context Links this week. Here's the lowdown as I've seen it. (more...)

Graham & Brown now at Target! At $49.99 for an 11 yard roll, these coverings aren't as cheap as paint, but their bold, modern, and somehow classic designs are sure to add a punch to any area, wether it's a room, closet interiour, or back of a bookcase.Link via Apartment Therapy.

Awhile back, word started circulating that at least one re-designed PSP would be finding its way to market in the near future. Supposedly, it is now very likely that the PSP will launch with two new versions in 2007, one will have eight gigabytes of on-board flash memory and the other will have some type of built-in hard drive. In a recent interview with Newsweek, Electronic Arts CEO Larry Probst discussed the potential for a new PSP and his ideas for driving hardware sales. I think what moves the needle is a new form factor that’s smaller than the existing unit, at a lower price, and hopefully that price is $100 lower. This is pure speculation, we don’t know what Sony’s plans are. But it would not be hugely surprising if they had that lower priced unit at $149 and then a more fully-featured upscale unit that retails at $249 or $299. Again, that’s pure speculation. We don’t have any inside information on that. While I’d love to see a PSP below $100

Luis von Ahn is well known in the technology community and is known worldwide for his great innovations, including the development of the CAPTCHA, those strange little pictures of letters that we have to re-type whenever we sign up for a new social network or blog. Aside from his consistent creativity in the world of technology, von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He has a B.S. in mathematics from Duke University and is the recipient of a Microsoft Research Fellowship.