Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/09/28/martin-freeman-worlds-end/
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Sunday 30 September 2012
Martin Freeman Joins Edgar Wright's 'The World's End'
Edgar Wright is bringing the whole gang back together in his final "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy" film, "The World's End." An official press release has gone out announcing that production has started on the movie and offering up the full cast for the flick. In addition to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, we've learned [...]
The greening of the mooncake
Refuse from tons of mooncakes is just a small part of China's trash problem, but it is attracting attention from activists seeking to encourage greener business practices.
BEIJING — With the Mid-Autumn Festival fast approaching, Yang Haijuan dropped by the posh China World Hotel to pick up three deluxe sets of mooncakes, gifts for her friends.
BEIJING — With the Mid-Autumn Festival fast approaching, Yang Haijuan dropped by the posh China World Hotel to pick up three deluxe sets of mooncakes, gifts for her friends.
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5 Reasons Steve Jobs Would Have Liked His New Statue
Dumpster diving. That's the secret behind a new sculpture of Steve Jobs.
Early last year, Los Angeles artist XVALA, nee Jeff Hamilton, used trash collected from Jobs' home to build a sculpture of the turtle-neck and mom jeans-wearing Mac guru, complete with iPhone in hand. That's right, the artist picked through Jobs' trash and turned it into treasure.
"I filter the information from a trashcan into art," XVALA explained in a phone chat from his native Oklahoma City. "Life is turning into a techno fairytale. We're giving out all our information to the Internet just as we give our trash to the world."
As a template, XVALA used an action figure of Jobs produced by the Chinese company M.I.C. Gadget, which was forced by an Apple lawsuit to cease and desist earlier this year. XVALA melted down Jobs' leftovers in a recycled resin, mixed in a plastic porcelain based on the old action figure mold, and created a set of hand-made, 9-inch sculptures.
This isn't XVALA's first foray into the dumpster. In spring, the artist made a slew of pieces using items collected from the rubbish of Mark Zuckerberg and a host of other SIlicon Valley heavy hitters. The idea behind these projects, titled the "Not Very Well Hung Hangers Of Silicon Valley," was to build items from the personal belongings of people whose companies profit from the collection of our data. One piece was a Zuckerberg hanger XVALA molded to look like a . . . not very well hung . . . you know . . ..
Ironically, XVALA found the bigwigs' addressees (including that of Sergey Brin) through search engines including Google. Plus he got a little help from friends, who aided him in sussing out trash collection schedules and routes.
The new Jobs sculptures will cost from about $150 to $200 and will be displayed at the Los Angeles gallery Cory Allen Contemporary Art on October 13 as part of a show entitled Think Different. The gallery will also feature a limited-edition series of sculptures coated in black, symbolizing the suicides and recent unrest at China's Foxconn factory, which produces Apple products.
"It's a fine-art piece," says Cory Allen, the gallery's owner and publicist. He's not worried about the potential for future legal action of Apple. "We're going to do it regardless. We want to apply technology to art, and art to technology."
XVALA said he's confident that Jobs would be supportive of his work. "He famously said that real artists ship. We're going to make this Think Different sculpture and ship it. He would like that."
Here are five further reasons why Steve Jobs would have liked the sculptures:
1. They're environmentally friendly. "You can call it extreme green art," XVALA explained. "There's a movement for people to really use everything."
"We're recycling trash," Allen added. "No illegal substance or any type of poison material such as lead was used in the process."
2. They're made in California. Jobs represented Northern California from his mailing address to his diet, and the land he loved helped incubate the products he conceived. "The funny thing is, [the sculptures] were designed in China and made in California," XVALA said. That's opposite from the way Apple products are produced. "It's like looking in the mirror backwards."
3. They reflect a personalized design philosophy. XVALA compared his own innovation to Jobs' notion that it's more fun to be a pirate than to be in the Navy. In other words, he strove to design products as much for himself as the masses. "His aesthetics were always based on the product doing something, because he made gadgets that worked," XVALA said. "I think he would like the fact that I used Google to find him in Palo Alto."
4. They were invented for tomorrow. XVALA compared his work to Jobs' mantra of inventing for tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday. "Hopefully I'm helping people change how they think about the Internet or their trash by doing something they wouldn't have thought of before. Now, hopefully, when you throw something away, you'll think about it."
5. They're a product of thinking different. Apple's famous slogan has become as much a part of the company's culture as its world-changing products. But as its products changed the world, not all change has been positive. Allen thinks that if Jobs were alive to see the way Apple practices business in China, that slogan would be tested and the company would be held accountable.
"If he were alive today to see what the Foxconn riots are doing, it would take a toll," Allen said. "I think he would understand Think Different, why we were using that slogan."
XVALA took it a step farther with his reasoning. "Steve Jobs was the greatest business visionary, probably, we've ever seen. His company is soon to be the first trillion-dollar company in history. I just have to wonder, if he were alive, if these riots would have happened. Is Apple not thinking different now? Would Steve Jobs be creative and come up with a new way to do things?"
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Saturday 29 September 2012
Wait for it -- Romney's media rebound
The media are saying he's toast, but soon they'll report his comeback.
So it's over. Mitt Romney is now on his way to political oblivion. To hear the media tell it, a lukewarm convention, his gaffe accusing President Obama of apologizing to seething Muslim masses and his remarks at a fundraiser in which he impugned nearly half the country as self-pitying victims have done him in. A month ago, he was a candidate with a bulging war chest facing an opponent saddled with a creaky economy. Now he's toast.
So it's over. Mitt Romney is now on his way to political oblivion. To hear the media tell it, a lukewarm convention, his gaffe accusing President Obama of apologizing to seething Muslim masses and his remarks at a fundraiser in which he impugned nearly half the country as self-pitying victims have done him in. A month ago, he was a candidate with a bulging war chest facing an opponent saddled with a creaky economy. Now he's toast.
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Samsung wins reconsideration of Galaxy Tab sales ban
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that a lower court should reconsider a sales ban against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 won by Apple in a patent dispute with the South Korean electronics maker. 
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Caption Competition 21: Button and Hamilton | Caption Competition
Caption Competition 21: Button and Hamilton is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.
Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, who have just six races left as team mates following yesterday's news, feature in today's Caption Competition.
Caption Competition 21: Button and Hamilton is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.
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Friday 28 September 2012
Cloud Security Firm Qualys? IPO Opens At $12/Share, Raising $71.8M
As of today, one more enterprise cloud startup is now a publicly-listed company. Qualys -- trading as QLYS -- opened trading today on the NASDAQ with shares priced at $12, in the mid-range of the expected offering of between $11 and $13. After a slow start in the morning, the shares climbed up to $14.85 during the day, to settle down at $14.12 at close. Not quite as much of a rise as Palo Alto Networks when it had its IPO in July 2012 -- where it saw a 26% increase on its opening price of $46 -- but still an increase of 17.7%. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nFIWdcrPyt0/
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Sprint And Motorola Party Like It?s 2010: Motorola XPRT Finally Gets A Taste Of Gingerbread
Now that Motorola is owned by Google, you may think that past and present Motorola devices should get the latest and best version of Android. With Sprint announcing quietly on its forum that the Motorola XPRT will be updated to Android Gingerbread (2.3), it shows once again that the update rollout process for Android is broken ? Android 2.3 was released two years ago.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xPSFdXF198k/
Tuesday 25 September 2012
A bill for 17 porn films in 4 days? Now that's obscene
A Time Warner Cable customer was surprised to find a charge for 17 adult titles on her bill and nonplused when a service rep scoffed at her complaint.
Carol Scott's idea of unwinding at home is ordering a movie from Time Warner Cable's pay-per-view service, maybe a nice romantic comedy or an engaging mystery.
Carol Scott's idea of unwinding at home is ordering a movie from Time Warner Cable's pay-per-view service, maybe a nice romantic comedy or an engaging mystery.
Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/business/~3/wTmjmiXgFXg/la-fi-lazarus-20120925,0,2867289.column
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Chief Tim Leiweke says AEG set on goal of L.A. stadium, NFL team
CEO Tim Leiweke has been on the defensive with business and political leaders who felt blindsided since the news broke that AEG had been put up for sale.
Tim Leiweke stepped away from a meeting in his L.A. Live office last week to take a phone call. On the line was Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), one of the most powerful men in the state capital, and he wanted some answers.
Tim Leiweke stepped away from a meeting in his L.A. Live office last week to take a phone call. On the line was Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), one of the most powerful men in the state capital, and he wanted some answers.
Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/~3/fjY7l9-8GuY/story01.htm
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Monday 24 September 2012
Route 30 In Unity Twp. Reopens After Crash
Part of Route 30 in Westmoreland County is still closed after an early Monday morning accident.
Source: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/09/24/crash-closes-part-of-route-30-in-unity-twp/
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Koreatown, Santa Monica apartment projects underway
Century West Partners is building a 303-unit complex in Koreatown called K2 LA and a 106-unit complex in Santa Monica called the Gibson.
One of L.A.'s most active apartment developers has broken ground on two substantial projects as the rental housing market remains vibrant for tenants, builders and investors.
One of L.A.'s most active apartment developers has broken ground on two substantial projects as the rental housing market remains vibrant for tenants, builders and investors.
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Sunday 23 September 2012
China closes in on Bo Xilai after jailing ex-police chief
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party took a big step towards sealing the fate of fallen politician Bo Xilai on Monday, when a court jailed his former police chief for 15 years over charges that indicated Bo tried to derail a murder inquiry. 
Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/MostRead/~3/aCcvbCT0K4Q/us-china-trial-idUSBRE88M0DA20120924
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