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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Come Back Buddy
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Image of the Day: Awwww! Cutest Darth and Luke ever hug it out

Image of the Day: Awwww! Cutest Darth and Luke ever hug it out
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Gates Foundation Announces Winner of Inaugural Gates Vaccine Innovation Award
SEATTLE—The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the winner of the first Gates Vaccine Innovation Award.
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie - Clip
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Chilling fan-made TDKR title sequence could make Nolan jealous

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Big Miracle - A Look Inside
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Stand-Up Student
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Showtime's David Nevins On What It Takes To Make Sexy, Gripping TV
Showtime won big at the Golden Globes, taking home three awards, including best drama series for "Homeland." Nevins spoke with Fast Company about the rapidly changing world of cable TV and how he stays on top in a world where audience tastes evolve at an ever-accelerating pace.
In the early '90s, most networks turned down the idea for the television show that would become ER. Not David Nevins. Nevins championed the show, and was instrumental in making the series--which turned George Clooney into a star--one of the biggest hits in TV history.
Later, Nevins angled to get 24 on the air. And in his roles as an executive at NBC, FOX, and as president of Imagine Television, he helped bring a slew of commercial and critical hit shows to TV, including Will & Grace, Arrested Development, and The West Wing.
"Most adults get their most nourishing cultural enrichment from cable television."Since taking over as president of entertainment for Showtime Networks about a year and a half ago, Nevins has been strategically nurturing Showtime's current hits and finding future gems. He has focused as well on deepening the audience engagement around all the network's shows. Showtime's roster now includes Homeland, which premiered last fall, House of Lies, which premiered earlier this month, and returning shows like Shameless and Episodes, which will resume later this year. Showtime scored big at the recent Golden Globes, taking home three awards, including Best Drama Series for Homeland. Nevins spoke with Fast Company about the rapidly changing world of cable television and how he stays on top of the game as an innovator in the entertainment world where audience tastes evolve at an ever-accelerating pace.
Fast Company: As someone who has been on different sides of the television business for more than a decade, what's your assessment of the television landscape right now?
David Nevins: I think it's an incredibly creative time in television in general and particularly at t...
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8 incredibly dumb theories famous scientists actually believed

8 incredibly dumb theories famous scientists actually believed
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Doctor Who's Karen Gillan on Jean Shrimpton role in We'll Take Manhattan
DOCTOR WHO star Karen Gillan was cast as 60s supermodel Jean Shrimpton in a new TV drama - and then found herself face-to-face with the star's former flame David Bailey.
Gillan, 24, stars as Shrimpton in the BBC4 story We'll Take Manhattan, which explores the explosive love affair between "The Shrimp" and the world-famous photographer, played by Aneurin Barnard.
The Scottish actress told the Radio Times that she had not been able to meet Shrimpton, who now runs a hotel in Penzance and avoids public appearances.
But she found herself posing for David Bailey in a Vogue magazine shoot - and says he was as formidable as his reputation.
Karen had researched Bailey (right) and thought she had an idea of what to expect.
She told the magazine: "He's a funny one, he plays mind games to provoke his subjects."
Gillan - who is about to end her run as the Time Lord's sidekick Amy Pond - explained: "He kept shouting 'Surprise me! Do something!' He seems to build up your confidence but then knock it back down again.
"He kept on saying to me 'You're pretty but pretty girls are like red buses.' He meant being pretty is not enough to make an interesting portrait, essentially."
Karen, who recently split up with photographer boyfriend Patrick Green after six years, said Shrimpton had seen the drama and "left a voicemail saying that she thought it was really accurate, so that was the best compliment I could have."
Shrimpton and Bailey were said to have met at a photoshoot for a Corn Flakes advert and he is often credited with helping to rocket her to success as one of the most famous faces in the world.
Set predominantly in 1962 but also exploring the story of how Bailey and Shrimpton first met, the new one-off drama reveals how a young, visionary photographer refused to conform.
He insisted on using the unconventional model Jean Shrimpton on an important photo shoot for British Vogue and, over the course of a freezing week in Manhattan, went ...
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Photo Archive App Shoebox Fills In Your Facebook Timeline, Starting At Birth
Starting today, the app from 1000memories lets users conveniently start digitizing the world's 4 trillion paper snapshots and slapping them on Facebook. Genealogy freaks, swoon.
The iPhone app ShoeBox helps preserve your browning family Polaroids from the '80s while rendering obsolete your clunky old scanner from the '90s. And now the app is partnering with Facebook to integrate directly with Timeline and fill out that dead zone between "Birth" and the invention of Facebook.
Along the way, the service plans to collect a treasure trove of data (photos = 1,000 words, remember), and maybe even send shivers up the spines of big online genealogy services.
As every bit of analog info in our world undergoes an electronic transfiguration, the digitization of the world’s paper photos was inevitable. And it's in this endeavor that ShoeBox shines. It finds photo edges and adjusts for level and tilt, making it easier than ever for Facebook’s 800 million+ users to preserve their pasts.
ShoeBox was created by 1000memories, a social network for past memories whose home page looks like a Pinterest for awkward family photos. Launched in 2010 out of San Francisco’s Y-Combinator startup accelerator program, 1000memories originally focused on helping people posthumously tell loved ones’ life stories, after cofounder Rudy Adler experienced the “Facebook death problem” through a close friend’s passing. “After someone passes, it inspires people to go into their closet and pull out their life story,” Adler says. “But,” the company soon realized, “they also pull out other life stories.”
Last March, 1000memories announced a shift away from strictly memorials, billing itself a wider, “past-tense social network.” It began to support photo tagging, so users could share and discover old photos of themselves and loved ones.
“We have our most cherished memories in our closets sitting all alone, and if there’s a fire, they’re the first thing we want to grab,” Adler says.
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Girl In Progress - Trailer
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Monty Python + Robin Williams = completely different sci-fi flick

Monty Python + Robin Williams = completely different sci-fi flick
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New logo alert: Oni Press
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Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Down, But Trolls Cost Us $80 Billion A Year
Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952. The biggest change: our first-to-invent system, which favors creators, will become a first-to-file system, which favors . . . whoever files first. Uncle Sam says the reform will speed innovation. Our experts check the numbers.
NUMEROLOGY | The Real Cost Of Patent Reform
Average patent wait time: 34 months . . . and going down. Startups that qualify for the new fast-track option get their patents reviewed in as little as 12 months, which makes it easier to bring their products to market.
False-marking lawsuits 1000+ since 2010 . . . and going down. A new rule makes it tough for anyone but the government to sue companies for labeling products with outdated patent numbers (which happened to Frisbee and Wooly Willy).
U.S. Employment (nonfarm): 131.7 million . . . and going up. If companies get patents more quickly, they can also start producing new products, which the White House says will generate jobs.
BAD FOR INNOVATIONLosses from "patent trolling" $80 billion per year . . . and going up. Because the new laws don't really crack down on patent trolls--those who buy patents solely to retroactively sue companies that have used them--the number of lawsuits will keep increasing, says Jim Bessen, who researched the phenomenon at Boston University.
VC Funding $23.7 billion in 2010 . . . and going down. In a first-to-file system, inventors have to be more careful about sharing ideas with anyone--including potential investors. "There are too many opportunities to be knocked off," says Gary Lauder, a venture capitalist.
Patents issued to noncorporate inventors 31,923 in 2010 . . . and going down. When Canada switched to a first-to-file system in 1989, the race to file intensified--and individual inventors were put at a disadvantage (compared to big firms with lots of res...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Cruise prices hold steady after Concordia
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Hart Of Dixie: Pics From “Mistrsses & Misunderstandings”
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The 2-Minute Move That Will Elevate Your Personal Brand
When it comes to building your own personal brand, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn get all our digital love. However, for the majority of business professionals, the hundreds of people you're emailing day in and day out make up the most important social network you have.
Tools like Smartr help personalize the inbox experience, assigning photos, titles, and email history to names. Tout offers you the tools and templates you need to track and schedule your messages. What's missing for most people in this day-to-day email equation is a helpful and memorable email signature.
This precious real estate at the bottom of every message is often filled with either too much or too little information (or, worse, dead space). Sifting through my own inbox, there are few signature stand-outs among thousands of contacts.
As I stare at my own signature, I hang my head in shame. I probably send out 250 messages a day, so ignoring this simple marketing tool is wasted opportunity. My not-so-bold sign-off consists of a couple of boring lines pointing people to my book, website, and company. While not offensive, it certainly isn't something to write home about (no pun intended).
In my quest for a better email signature, I've determined that within a few simple steps it's easy to further your brand and reflecting your personality while still giving your contacts the content they need to find you online and offline.
Here are my ABCs of email signature success.
Add Social
When you are building your own personal brand, it's a good idea to attach your active social media sites to your email signature. Although many email experts recommend you keep your signature to four to six lines maximum, you should be able to add your networking handles and keep your more traditional contact info without going beyond this limit. If you want to use icons to represent these sites, do so, but don't let your signature get too cluttered with too many colors and images. I've seen email signa...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Curiosity
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The City Dark - Trailer
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A Few Thoughts On DC’s Secondary Relaunch
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12 Hilarious Pictures that’ll Make You Look Twice
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Haywire - Featurette
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Fox News expose: sex sells in comics and is destroying our children
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Cornerstore - Trailer
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How to plan a round-the-world trip
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SAVE THE DATE for Jeffrey Brown’s Sundance movie debut
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How Do You Buy Your Comics? — A Survey
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Meet the sexy stars joining Tom Cruise in his untitled sci-fi film

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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie - Clip
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Playback - Trailer
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Where to get married like a star
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How Anonymous Is Tricking The Public Into Helping Them Take On The Feds
#OpMegaupload, a reaction by the hacktivists group Anonymous to a strict takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload (and the arrest of employees) on piracy charges, has been pretty successful in disabling the websites of the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA and others.
Partly carried out via Twitter messages, this new effort by Anonymous is only superficially similar to previous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that Anonymous has carried out to punish its targets. It's emerged that many of the attacks are being triggered by average Joe Internet users who merely click on a weblink, unaware that the action then activates code that tries to swamp a website with too much traffic.
Previous Anonymous DDoS attacks have used tools like the group's so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (that's a Wikipedia link, not the code itself), which is a piece of software that volunteer hacktivists download to their PCs and choose to run, whereby it then starts blasting the target website with traffic. But the people behind the new campaign are either keen to achieve a more potent attack technique, or are hedging against the fact that Anonymous volunteers have been tracked down through the LOIC tool. By masking the DDoS system in an otherwise innocuous weblink, Anonymous may be ensuring many more people take part--even if they do so inadvertantly, or without realizing the implications of what they're doing.
This maneuver, some may say "trick," may be a very clever move as it means the blame for the DDoS is diluted across many more people. And though taking part in a DDoS attack is a criminal offense in some places there's likely to be a massively sticky legal situation if the authorities succeed in tracking many unwitting offenders. It also means you should be extra-careful when clinking on suspicious links on Twitter, in emails, on other social networks for the time being, even if they appear to come from friends.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit and Prometheus: Who wins the Twitter battle?
AMONG this year's anticipated cinema releases are Ridley Scott's Alien prequel/spin-off Prometheus (June 1), Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman film The Dark Knight Rises (July 20) and Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (December 14).
But which has created the biggest buzz online?
Trailers for each of the three movies were unveiled during the Christmas holiday season, causing a flurry of Twitter activity. Way to Blue has analysed the interest generated by the movies to see which was the winner.
The release of the trailer for The Hobbit led to nearly 40,000 tweets, almost double the number that occurred when the trailer was unveiled for The Dark Knight Rises.
Way To Blue notes: "The Hobbit is certainly one of the largest responses we have seen from a film property online in the social media era.
"Comparing the levels of buzz upon trailer launch The Hobbit has reached almost double the levels of noise on Twitter than The Dark Knight Rises.
"Clearly the core audience for the Tolkien franchise have waited a long time to replenish their large appetites but we are surprised by the differential in Twitter volume from The Dark Knight Rises (which is no slouch either!).
"Prometheus definitely lacks the overt franchise link in the way these other properties do and it has to work a lot harder given its tenuous reported association. It's still a strong performance no matter."
The Hobbit had a 54.9 per cent share of tweets, The Dark Knight Rises 35 per cent and Prometheus 10 per cent.
On blogs, news sites and forums, you may be surprised to learn that The Hobbit led the way again with a 40.7 per cent share, followed by The Dark Knight Rises with 37.5 per cent and Prometheus with 21.6 per cent.
In analysing themes and characters, it was the Alien link to Prometheus that dominated the Twitter buzz, followed by Bane from The Dark Knight Rises and then Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit.
Way To Blue comments: "The Alie...
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Leaders At Alibaba, Youku, And Baidu Are Slowly Shaking Up China's Corporate Culture
Three top Chinese tech companies--Alibaba, Baidu, and YouKu--are remaking the country's moribund, hierarchical corporate culture with an injection of new ideas from the West.
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What is the sound of three hands clapping? I found out at noon on a Thursday in September, while walking through the headquarters of the e-commerce titan Alibaba in Hangzhou, China. On the fourth floor, a massive work space is filled with hundreds of headset-equipped salespeople sitting under yard after yard of fl...
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Check out a brief but intriguing new clip from The Walking Dead

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RBS: Inside The Bank That Ran Out Of Money
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