Betty White, who celebrated her 89th birthday on Tuesday, dropped by CBS’ Late Night with David Letterman, where she revealed that one of her hobbies is drinking Vodka – and guess who just happened to have some Grey Goose on-hand to toast the Birthday Girl!
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Peep-and-Grope (Body Scanners and Invasive Pat Downs): Coming to Subways, Trains, Boats and Federal Buildings?
November 23rd, 2010 |
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For those who think that the resistance to TSA groping and naked body scanning is over-the-top, take a look at this video and these quotes.Scanning and invasive pat downs might be a necessary evil if there were no alternatives, but there are alternativ…
Growth in mobile applications: Apps and downs
June 17th, 2010 |
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On their own, mobile applications may not become big moneyspinners
SOME fight wars with words, others with numbers. Hardly a day passes without new data on mobile apps, the small applications that can be downloaded to smart-phones to perform all kinds of feats, such as accessing social networks, playing games and identifying unknown music. Apple recently announced that its App Store now offers 225,000 apps, which collectively have been downloaded 5 billion times. Android Market, the storefront for the operating system that powers many other smart-phones, now boasts 60,000 apps and is catching up fast. And GetJar, an independent mobile store that offers programs for all kinds of handsets, claims 72,000 apps and 1 billion downloads.
As this is all part of the ongoing “platform war” between different mobile operating systems, the numbers should be taken with several grains of salt. The more the numbers are puffed up, not least with some double-counting, the more users and developers the respective app stores hope to attract. Ilja Laurs, GetJar’s chief executive, admits that his tally includes different versions of the same software—because this is industry practice. What is more, many apps are the mobile equivalent of marketing: they are given away to tout other wares. On June 15th Apple even released an app that lets users order the latest version of its own iPhone. Others apps are labours of love that have been put out free by passionate developers. …
Rotary Downs: New Album
March 2nd, 2010 |
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Rotary Downs New Album: Cracked Maps & Blue Reports Available This Week
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The release of the long awaited album by Rotary Downs, Cracked Maps & Blue Reports, is upon us. The record will be available in select stores starting March 5 and released digitally everywhere by reapandsow on March 29. The band has enjoyed the journey of the recording process and is excited to announce CD release parties for March 5 in New Orleans and March 6 in Lafayette (details below). The band will also be performing at this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and will hit the road again this summer.
“Cracked Maps & Blue Reports… perfectly New Orleanian: both high and low, in and out, joyous and mournful.” -Filter Magazine, March 2010
Download the first single “Indian Summer” from the new album on iTunes.
Rotary Downs Tour Dates
03/05/10 Fri One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, LA
03/06/10 Sat Geronimo Music Festival Lafayette, LA
04/23/10 Fri Jazz Fest – New Orleans Fairgrounds New Orleans, LA
04/24/10 Sat Hi-Ho Lounge New Orleans, LA
04/27/10 Tue The Saturn Bar New Orleans, LA (w/ The Barr Brothers)
04/30/10 Fri Le Bon Temps Roule New Orleans, LA
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Vodka downs Bruce Lee to win Japan Cup
November 30th, 2009 |
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Vodka became Japan’s most successful Grade One winner yesterday when she landed the prestigious Japan Cup by a nose to capture her seventh victory. The five-year-old edged out Oken Bruce Lee in the Â¥533.5 million (Dh22.4m) race to cap a remarkable year in which the Katsuhiko Sumii-trained charge
Beckham says his career has been a long rollercoaster ride with more ups than downs
November 21st, 2009 |
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David Beckham has described his career as one long rollercoaster ride, which fortunately had more ups than downs.
Beckham, who witnessed his under-whelming, injury-plagued start since returning to the Galaxy from AC Milan, proved many critics wrong who thought that the England midfielder’s adventure in Los Angles would end soon.
“I’ve never really had a steady [...]
Typhoon downs web connections in Asia
August 13th, 2009 |
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Up to 90 per cent of all voice call and internet services from parts of East Asia that were disrupted after Typhoon Morakot damaged undersea cables will resume by the end of Thursday, a senior Chunghwa Telecom official said. Many web users in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines