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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 02:46pm

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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 02:12pm

Maybe it's just because I've seen every photo and film released regarding Avatar to date, but those blue aliens, the Na'vi, the ones that looked so strange and hyperreal the first time I saw them? Totally normal now.

Tags: Movies, Weta, Avatar

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 02:04pm

Walking in the park this crisp, San Francisco morning, my dogs happened to stop and sniff a shiny object at the limits of my vision. Getting closer, I saw a Blackberry Curve, with no owner in site. The park was Corona Heights, the rockiest park with my favorite view of the city. Today's dog walk was unusually for the little gray dog that was actually faster than Malcolm—fast enough [...]

Tags: Lost, Random

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:59pm

Sometime around 9:30 last night, Bing disappeared off the internet for a half an hour, give or take. Our question for you: Did you notice? Whenever a Google has a hiccup, even if it's not search, our tiplines are flooded. Twitter becomes an unreadable stream of complaining. The world, online, stops. Bing? Despite capturing about 10% of the search market, not so much. We got a couple pings in [...]

Tags: Google, Internet, bing, Search engines, Bing search, Bing outage

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:41pm

Boscombe News! Please send me your news and events. If you are forwarded this email and wish to subscribe direct, Please go to http://www.boscalicious.co.uk Editor: Lisa Northover Renewal of Bridge over Railway Contractors are still confident that all the works will be finished by the due date for the road to be fully reopened on 19 December. Room Thermometers have been produced by the

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:40pm

What could be simpler: five categories, each with five links. And it's Friday. 5 most-read stories on LDV this week 1. Spelman drops Conservative pledges to abolish RDAs (6) by Mark Pack 2. Probably the most inappropriate Christmas card ever sent ... (1) by Stephen Tall 3. Liberal Democrat victory in St Austell Bay by-election (8) by Helen Duffett 4. Prime Minister removes all Christmas image[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:40pm

This watch from SDWorks might not have the best-looking LED display, but that's okay! Its default face is the prettiest of all: yours. Unabashed narcissists can order here. [SDWorks via bookofjoe]

Tags: Watches, Mirrorwatch, vanity

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:31pm

Who got the Group of Death, who got an easy draw? Join Our Facebook Fan Page for the Latest News/Rumours/Forums/Videos/WAGS/Funny Stuff/Features! Group A: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France Group B: Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea, Greece Group C: ENGLAND, United States, Algeria, Slovenia Group D: Germany, Australia, Serbia, Ghana Group E: Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon Group F: Italy, [...]

Tags: Football and Soccer, World Cup, World Cup 2010, Features, Draw

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:26pm

To me, a festival is a field, a few musical acts, pair of rain boots, and heaps of mud. But then, I do live in England. Roboexotica, on the other hand, is robots and cocktails. Much more civilized. Held in Austria, it's basically a bunch of boozehounds that show off their cocktail-mixing robots. The best of the creations appear in the two in the videos below, which force you to play Mario or [...]

Tags: Robots, game, Mario, Austria, Robot cocktails, Vienna

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:21pm

Not so long ago, a girl smashed her boyfriend's Xbox 360 to the internet's delight. Now, another girl has shown up to do the same to a PS3 (seen here). So why can't men get enough? Castration anxiety. Quite simply, castration anxiety is a theory proposed by Freud in which a boy sees a girl's genitalia (or lack of penis) as a symbol of punishment, as if she's been castrated[...]

Tags: Clips, Microsoft, PS3, Xbox 360, Castration, Castration anxiety

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:08pm

Stockport residents are encouraged to get into the festive spirit by coming along to the Enchanted Christmas event at Hat Works. This magical family fun day is filled with Christmas delights for all ages and takes place on Sunday 6th December, from 1.00pm to 4.30pm. Throughout the event visitors will be able to enjoy seasonal craft activities, music and dance performances. The Liberty Bells barber[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:02pm

Last night I attended the members Christmas preview evening of the Busy Bee Toyshop on Wilbraham Road in Chorlton. I joined the Busy Bee co-op earlier this this year when the much loved shop was threatened with closure. After months of hard work by local people and refurbishing and updating the shop it reopened again in the Summer. I was so encouraged to see that the new shop is going from strengt[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:00pm

Bet that headline has shocked some of you. Yeah I know I can hear the Nats saying "Nick? Don't you mean Tavish?". I can hear certain Labourites going blah about time. I can also sense certain Lib Dems are working out how to do me in. But bear with me and let me tell you why. Nick has just sent an email to all the Lib Dem supporters asking "What are you doing tomorrow?". We[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:52pm

More success in Redcar There were two principal council by-elections held on the 3rd December. The Lib Dems held one seat and Labour took a seat off the Tories. In the only Parish and Town council election result reported to ALDC the Tories took a seat from Labour. In the Ormesby Ward of Redcar and Cleveland Unitary Authority we held the seat comfortably increasing our share of the vote in an alre[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:45pm

Facebook is introducing changes to its privacy settings, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last night in a blog post that puffed the site's recently-relased massive user figures and announced 3 major new changes. 1. An end to regional networks Back when...

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:45pm

Um fancy some beer that's been to space? Well, now you can get some. They're not left-over bottles from a space mission that didn't quite get drunk nor did Nasa specially fly out a few cans one year. No, not...

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:45pm

One day, I'm going to go the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) in Tokyo. In the meantime, I can obsessively pore over the photos from the event on their website. It finished last week. Hundreds of robots gathered and sat around...

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:42pm

What the hell is happening in the Scottish blogosphere? Recently there have been some blogs disappearing from amongst our midst, such as Advanced Media Watch, Wardog, Moridura, and even Jeff at SNP Tactical Voting is wondering what the end game for bloggers is. And now another day and another blog has shut down. Today it is the turn of Subrosa and to be honest this is all becoming strange and some[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:40pm

The above quote comes from Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, whose daughter insisted her dorm room did not need a TV thanks to Hulu and other streaming sites. It's the sound of panic setting in. And she has good reason to be scared that an entire generation doesn't find a television to be an essential household item. People are flocking to the web to watch strea[...]

Tags: Streaming, Blockquote, Disney, Hulu, Streaming Video, Abc

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:36pm

[IMG: Lynne and winner Aylin] This year's winner of my Christmas card competition is Aylin Acarturk from Rhodes Avenue Primary School. Aylin is in year 4. I loved Aylin's use of quite subtle colour - and the brilliant idea of Santa Claus taking his ice skates in one hand and sack of presents in the other - and going off to Ally Pally to take to the ice! The theme this year was 'Sant[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:35pm

No, they're not chewed-up pieces of gum, quit salivating. These are the world's first transgenic prairie voles, which were injected with a jellyfish gene as embryos, resulting in glowing baby voles. Researchers inserted the prairie vole genomes with a glowing jellyfish's gene, which contains a fluorescent protein that makes it glow. Once the embryos grew into prairie voles, the jell[...]

Tags: Science, voles, prairie, Transgenic prairie voles, jellyfish, glowing

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:30pm

in Borders to join other carrion feasting on carcase. Amazon still cheaper tho. Ah, that'd by why then. # @markpack ah, but you should've gone for b&w. Film noir 2.0. # @markpack btw, think I've fixed my Twitter new post url alert probs by signing up to bit.ly # off for lunch with PD James at the Bodleian. (With a few other people, it's true.) #

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:29pm

These patent lawsuit stories are basically madlibs anyway, so what the hell: ST CLAIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS has sued APPLE COMPUTER over CAMERA TECHNOLOGY in the IPHONE. They have a history of WINNING LAWSUITS, and BUTT FARTS. The suit bears a lot of the stamps of hollow patent trollery, from the outside-the-industry plaintiff company to the oddly late filing. (The iPhone has been out [...]

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Patents, Law, Intellectual Property, Apple iphone camera patent

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:28pm

I have been in two minds about blogging this for a while as I thought this story was a tad unbelievable but the evidence does seem to be mounting up. I should warn people that this post will probably decent into a bit of a rant..... Parents who wish to educate their child at home should be subject to a CRB check say children and schools watchdog Ofsted. There is already a bill going through Parlia[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:26pm

The team leaders ('coordinators') of the political groups on the European Parliament's environment committee gathered for one of our regular business planning meetings. The chairman, a German socialist who had perhaps been nobbled by one of his British Labour colleagues, started the session by referring to the fact that the Parliament's delegation to the Copenhagen conference w[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:22pm

Bury Conservatives conceded defeat again this week and agreed to scale down cuts to the Youth Service after opposition intervention. They agreed not simply to cut the Council's Youth Service and instead merge it with the Connexions service which provides help and support for 13-19 year olds. This climbdown came after two opposition scrutiny commissions recommended the merger option, which hal[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:21pm

Tags: Cameras, Digital Cameras, DSLRs, d3s, Nikon d3s, D3

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:01pm

Redcar & Cleveland UA, OrmesbyLD Ann Wilson 1084 (73.5; +12.4)Lab 210 (14.2; -5.0)UKIP 103 (7.0; +7.0)Con 77 (5.2; -14.4)Majority 874Turnout 29.55%LD holdPercentage change is since May 2007.Thanet DC, Dane ValleyLab 318 (34.2; -3.9)LD Bill Furness 260 (28.0; +28.0)Con 222 (23.9; -19.7)Ind 130 (14.0; -4.4)Majority 58Turnout 17.0%Lab gain from ConPercentage change is since May 2007.Deal TC, Nort[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:23am

Was going to write up a bit on the husband and wife fighting it out for the held Labour seat of Pudsey in Leeds and getting well and truly trounced by the son of a Leeds Labour Councillor but Guido beat me to it.