Reuters - Children typically spend hours in front of a computer so a Canadian university has decided to introduce them to Shakespeare with a video game.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Shakespeare becomes video game
Video game aims to hook children on Shakespeare (Reuters)
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Scotty flies back to space
Ashes of Star Trek's Scotty fly to space (AP)
AP - The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Duff
What is the poetry here? Beauty is truth, truth, beauty. Keats said that. If you got any problem, deal with Johnny boy. He might be lying in one of those Grecian Urns.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
New internet star
Maturing cheddar becomes Internet star (Reuters)
Reuters - A large English cheddar cheese hasbecome a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 millionviewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.
***This is a proof that porn sites are no more. People now flock to social sites, and this kind of things
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
By all means...MARRY!
---- Forwarded by Josephine T. Terencio/CWRD/ ADB on 04/24/2007 10:05 AM -----
By all Means... MARRY!
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.
That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. (David Bissonette)
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge
than to let him keep her. (Sacha Guitry)
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin;
they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. (Hemant Joshi)
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. (Socrates)
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from
achieving them. (Dumas)
The great question, which I have not been able to answer is, "What does a woman want? (Sigmund Freud)
I had some words with my wife and she had some paragraphs with me. (Anon.)
"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage... We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays." (Henny Youngman)
"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years." (Sam Kinison)
"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage." (James Holt McGavran)
"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't." (Patrick Murray)
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
(Nash)
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to
forget it once. (Anonymous)
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. (Henny Youngman)
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. (Rodney Dangerfield)
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. (Milton Berle)
Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy. (Anonymous)
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy : "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
Asian elephants at Taronga Zoo
Two Asian elephants at Taronga Zoo frolic in their new water ...
(AP) - Two Asian elephants at Taronga Zoo frolic in their new water pool in Sydney, Australia, Monday April 23, 2007. Taronga's five Asian Elephants who arrived in Sydney in November 2006, are part of the first ever Australian Cooperative Conservation program designed to help arrest the rapid decline of wild Asian Elephant across their 13 range states in Asia from India to Vietnam. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Monday, April 23, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Young Israeli music prodigy
Young Israeli musician Ariel Lanyi plays piano during a lesson ...
(AP) - Young Israeli musician Ariel Lanyi plays piano during a lesson in Jerusalem, Friday, April 13, 2007. The piano is the 9-year-old Israeli prodigy's favorite instrument, but when he gets going at a jam session, he can't stick to just one, playing each with dexterity well beyond his years. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer).
Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry Connick Jr. performs at Radio City Music Hall April 21, ...
(AP) - Harry Connick Jr. performs at Radio City Music Hall April 21, 2007 in New York City. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
Saturday, April 21, 2007
The Last What?
Unclear premise drags down intriguing children’s fantasy - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
MANILA, Philippines -- The film “The Last Mimzy” is based on “Mimsy Were the Borogroves,” the classic, circa-1940s short story by Lewis Padgett, which in turn was partly inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem, “Jabberwocky.” There are three titles mentioned in the preceding sentence, and one of them just doesn’t cut it. You can probably guess which one.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Project Gutenberg new books
Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
Language: English
An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Love's Meinie by John Ruskin
Language: English
Book of Wise Sayings by W. A. Clouston
Language: English
Nearly Lost but Dearly Won by Theodore P. Wilson
Language:
For Fortune and Glory by Lewis Hough
Language: English
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Cow jumps over the moon
A cow is silhouetted against a reddish sunset as it grazes in ...
(AP) - A cow is silhouetted against a reddish sunset as it grazes in a pasture near Strong City, Kan. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. The red sky was caused from smoke as ranchers in the Flint Hills region of Kansas perform their Spring ritual of burning pastures to aid the growth of prairie grasses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Incoming storms
Incoming storms
cjc6565 posted a photo:
Storm clouds approaching at the recent storms ran up the noth eastern coast (US) 4-12 thrr 4-17
Wow! Chinese writer on Orange Prize shortlist
Chinese debutante makes Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist (AFP)
AFP - Chinese writer Guo Xiaolu was shortlisted Tuesday for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her first novel in English, among an international field.
Reunion of Stars
Jagger, Clapton, Midler & More Honor Atlantic's Ertegun
Led Zeppelin didn't reunite, but plenty of Ahmet Ertegun's other disciples were more than happy to take the stage together.
Rock icons such as Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Stevie Nicks, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young gathered at New York's Lincoln Center Tuesday to pay tribute to the Atlantic Records chairman, who died Dec. 14 at 83.
Tragically, yet oddly fittingly, Ertegun died of a head injury suffered in October when he fell down at a Rolling Stones concert. A mover and a shaker until the end, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer signed and nurtured rockers such as the Stones and Led Zeppelin, as well as some of the biggest names in soul and R&B, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding.
Jagger remembered his boss at Atlantic as "the wicked uncle with the wicked chuckle," saying he could never keep up with the dapper Turk.
Photo: A Moment on Earth
Photo: A Moment On Earth
On August 5th, 2004 at 12:00 Noon GMT, 60 filmmakers in over 40 countries and on all 7 continents captured a single "moment" on earth. This mosaic builds a composite image of Iraq and the Pacific Ocean out of thousands of single frames from the other moments that were filmed around the world at the same exact time.
On August 5th, 2004 at 12:00 Noon GMT, 60 filmmakers in over 40 countries and on all 7 continents captured a single "moment" on earth. This mosaic builds a composite image of Iraq and the Pacific Ocean out of thousands of single frames from the other moments that were filmed around the world at the same exact time.
Bayanihan dance troupe shunned
No fanfare to triumphant Bayanihan dance troupe
MANILA, Philippines -- No lavish airport honors awaited the victorious Bayanihan Dance Company, which took plum honors from the World Folk Dance Festival in Spain, when the troupe arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Tuesday on the heels of triumphant boxing champions Manny Pacquiao and Bernabe Concepcion.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
JRR Tolkien tale, completed by son
J.R.R. Tolkien tale, completed by son
Six thousand years before the Fellowship of the Ring, long before anyone had even seen a Hobbit, the elves and men of Middle-earth quaked at the power of the dark lord Morgoth. Hunted by easterlings and orcs, they fled to the fastness of Nargothrond. Among them, a hero emerged. His name was Turin, son of Hurin.
Novelist McCarthy wins Pulitzer
Novelist McCarthy wins Pulitzer
US author Cormac McCarthy gets the Pulitzer prize for fiction, while Ornette Coleman is honoured for music.
New Gutenberg Books today
From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Language: Finnish
On Board the Esmeralda by John Conroy Hutcheson
Language: English
She and I, Volume 1 (and 2) by John Conroy Hutcheson
Language: English
Tom and Some Other Girls by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Language: English
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John Burgon
Language: English
(Among others. Please see complete list at the website of Project Gutenberg, by clicking on one of the links above)
(Among others. Please see complete list at the website of Project Gutenberg, by clicking on one of the links above)
Tolkien novel for sale
Tolkien novel published 34 years after his death (Reuters)
Reuters - More than 30 years after his death, a "new" book by J.R.R. Tolkien goes on sale on Tuesday which may well be the author's last complete work to be published posthumously.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Available at Project Gutenberg
Jokes For All Occasions by Anonymous
Language: English
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat by Arthur Scott Bailey
Language: English
Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. Beers
Against the wind
Three men, bracing themselves against gusts of windy and wet ...
(AP) - Three men, bracing themselves against gusts of windy and wet weather that is part of a Nor'easter passing through the area, make their way on the boardwalk at Coney Island in New York, Sunday, April 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Featured Books today at Project Gutenberg
The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet
Language: English
The Cruise of the Thetis by Harry Collingwood
Language: English
The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by John Casey and Euclid
Language: English
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Featured on Gutenberg today
People's Handy Atlas of the World by Unknown
Language: English
Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London
Language: English
An anthology of German literature by Calvin Thomas
Language: German
The Pirate Shark by Elliott Whitney
Language: English
Among the Great Masters of Music by Walter Rowlands
Language: English
A Middy of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood (among others by same author)English
New Novel for Paulina
In this photograph released by WPIX CW11, supermodel Paulina Porizkova appears on the local WPIX 'CW11 Morning Show' to promote her new novel 'A Model Summer' in New York on Friday, April 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Albert Ferreira, WPIX CW11)
Friday, April 13, 2007
Julian sells his stake in Beatles
Julian Lennon sells his stake in Beatles' songs -- reports
WASHINGTON -- Julian Lennon, the son of late Beatles' star John Lennon, has sold a financial stake in the group's songs that were written by his father, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Now Available at Project Gutenberg
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed
Language: English
(along with other titles from Talbot Baines Reed)
Education and the Higher Life by J. L. Spalding
(along with other titles from Talbot Baines Reed)
Education and the Higher Life by J. L. Spalding
Language: English
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Shrek III
Entertainment Photos - AP on Yahoo! News Photos
This computer generated image released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from 'Shrek The Third.' Pictured from center to left are animated characters, Shrek voiced by Mike Myers, Puss In Boots voiced by Antonio Banderas, cousin Artie voiced by Justin Timberlake and Donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy. The film looks likely to meet expectations as one of summer's hottest tickets. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation)Blogged with Flock
Wow! 101 Hidded Tips and Secrets for Photoshop
Design Tutorials and Articles - 101 Hidden Tips & Secrets For Photoshop
1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.
2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge.
3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it.
4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser. (contd.)
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Forgive Jim Morrison
Fans seek Florida pardon for Doors' Morrison (Reuters)
Reuters - Two fans have asked Florida to pardon rock bad-boy Jim Morrison, the late lead singer for The Doors, who was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert nearly 40 years ago.
*** He's dead, for crying out loud.
Home Recording at its (current) best
Alesis iMultiMix 8 USB Records Right To iPod
Home recording certainly has come a long way. From old tape-based machines to hard disk to CD to SD cards, I thought the industry had run out of storage methods. Then in comes Alesis with its iMultiMix 8 USB Pro iPod Recorder. Basically, it’s just a nice-looking 8-track that will record to your iPod’s hard drive. You can also integrate music from your iPod into one of your recordings and save recordings right to iTunes via USB.
Any iPod with the standard docking slot on the bottom will work with the iMultiMix 8, which is nice. This impressive little 8-track will be on sale for $500 this fall.
Beatles settle EMI royalties row
Beatles settle EMI royalties row
The Beatles reach a deal with music giant EMI to end a legal battle over £30m in disputed royalties.
RIP, Kurt
RIP Kurt Vonnegut
Sad news this evening. Literary icon Kurt Vonnegut has died due to head trauma resulting from a fall a few weeks ago. He was the author of 14 novels including Slaughter House 5, Breakfast of Champions and Cat’s Cradle.
He was 84.
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead [NY Times]
New offerings in Project Gutenberg
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by John Wesley Powell
Language: English
My Friend Smith by Talbot Baines Reed
Language: English
Exercises in Knitting by Cornelia Mee
Language: English
Seen and Unseen by E. Katharine Bates
Language: English
Message
F A M I L Y
I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.
He said, "Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you."
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.
But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.
Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My son stood beside me very still.
When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.
He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.
While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,
"While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.
Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You'll find some flowers there by the door.
Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.
He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes."
By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.
I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.
"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
He smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.
I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."
I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway."
I said, "Son, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."
FAMILY
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
that we are working for could easily replace us in
a matter of days.
But the family we left behind will feel the loss
for the rest of their lives.
And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?
So what is behind the story?
This came from my email today, sent by my former co-teacher, Ken.
Science Fiction Writer Sues 20th Century Fox
Chinese Writer Sues 20th Century Fox
A Chinese science fiction writer has sued 20th Century Fox and five Chinese companies alleging his story idea was stolen and used for the 2004 movie "The Day After Tomorrow," state media reported Wednesday.
Cuban rapper trashes injustice
Rapper in Cuba trashes injustice
Working on an old computer with a burned-out monitor, Cuban rapper Aldo Rodriguez painstakingly lays the tracks for his next song.
Kabul kite-maker stars behind scenes in Hollywood movie
Kabul kite-maker stars behind scenes in Hollywood movie (Reuters)
Reuters - A man living in a graveyard in a rubbish-strewn, rundown Kabul district is the unlikely hero behind the scenes of one of Hollywood's most eagerly anticipated movies this year.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
5th Beatle quits
Longtime Beatles insider quits Apple Corps
LONDON, England - Apple Corps, guardian of the Beatles' commercial interests, said Tuesday its chief executive, a longtime friend of the Fab Four, has quit. Neil Aspinall, a school friend of Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison, was the band's first road manager and would drive them between gigs in his van.
Most Desperate
Housewives' Most Desperate Hour
You can't blame Sanjaya for this one.
The supposed culprit behind "American Idol's" recent slide was nowhere to be found as "Desperate Housewives" sank to an all-time ratings low Sunday night.
The ABC soap drew 15.9 million viewers, big enough for its usual Top 10 finish in the latest Nielsen Media Research rankings, but small enough to raise questions, such as: What the hell happened to Wisteria Lane?
The show is quietly averaging 5 million fewer viewers this season than last, a decline of 22 percent.
Here's a look at last week's most watched shows:
1. "American Idol" (Tue), 26.7 million
2. "American Idol" (Wed), 26.1 million
3. "CSI," 21.7 million
4. "House," 20.4 million
5. Men's Basketball Championship, 19.6 million
6. "Dancing with Stars" (Mon), 18.2 million
7. "Desperate Housewives," 15.9 million
8. "Shark," 15.1 million
9. "Dancing with Stars" (Tue), 15 million
10. "Without a Trace," 14.1 million
Mitch Albom to pick Contest Winner
Mitch Albom to Pick Contest Winner
Author Mitch Albom, the Borders superstore chain and the social media Web site Gather.com are all participating in a Mother's Day writing contest, with the winner receiving a seven-day cruise for two.
Miss Philippines Earth
Candidates of Miss Philippines Earth 2007 pose for photographers during a press presentation at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday April 11, 2007. The Miss Earth beauty pageant is held every year to promote environmental awareness. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Nayar - Hurley Wedding
Lights iluminate Umaid Bhawan Place during the wedding of Arun ...
(AFP/File) - Lights iluminate Umaid Bhawan Place during the wedding of Arun Nayar and Elizabeth Hurley, in Jodhpur, 09 March 2007. British model and her Indian husband tied the knot for the second time in a traditional Hindu ceremony even as police clashed with photographers to keep them away.(AFP/File/Raveendran)
We Will Rock You
Brian May of Queen, left, writer and director Ben Elton, center, and Roger Taylor of Queen pose for a photograph on the red carpet before entering opening night of 'We Will Rock You' on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at the Canon Theatre in Toronto. (AP PHOTO/CP, Nathan Denette)
Lucinda Franks - My Father's Secret War
This undated photo supplied and stylized by Miramax Books shows Lucinda Franks and her father. In her new book, 'My Father's Secret War: A Memoir,' Franks unravels the war experiences that haunted her father and her family's life. (AP Photo/Miramax Books/courtesy Lucinda Franks)
Champions of the Children
Brooke Shields poses at a reception preceding the Colleagues' annual spring luncheon and fashion show presented by Saks Fifth Avenue and designer Oscar de la Renta at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, April 10, 2007. Shields and her husband Chris Henchy were to be presented the organization's 'Champions of Children' award for their work with children's causes in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Halle Berry
Entertainment Photos - AP on Yahoo! News Photos
Actress Halle Berry arrives to the premiere of her movie 'Perfect Stranger',Tuesday, April 10, 2007, in New York. The film also stars Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi and opens in the U.S. on April 13. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)
Somewhere I have never travelled
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
e.e.cummings
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
And the geek inherits the earth...
Spielberg, et. al: The (film) geek shall inherit the earth
NEW YORK - The (film) geek shall inherit the earth. And that may include you, for geeks in the cineplex and behind the cameras are an increasing horde.
Live Earth
Madonna heads UK Live Earth bill
Acts including Madonna, Genesis and James Blunt will play at July's Live Earth gig at Wembley Stadium in London.
Slide Guitar Using Spoon
Hannes Coetzee, Wonderful clip in the jungle somewhere playing slide guitar with a spoon in his mouth!
Just found more info on where this clip is from:
"Karoo Kitaar Blues follows South African songwriter David Kramer and slide guitarist Hannes Coetzee into remote regions of South Africa on their quest to find musicians who play an almost forgotten folk music."
mwowm23 on YouTube
Just found more info on where this clip is from:
"Karoo Kitaar Blues follows South African songwriter David Kramer and slide guitarist Hannes Coetzee into remote regions of South Africa on their quest to find musicians who play an almost forgotten folk music."
mwowm23 on YouTube
Poets Speak of Poetry
Poets on Poetry (Various Quotations from poets) as compiled by Borgna Brunner
The poet is the priest of the invisible.—Wallace Stevens, "Adagia" (1957)
(National Poetry Month)
BC
Johnny Hart's BC (Creators Syndicate, Inc. ).
(AP) - This undated handout image provided by Creators Syndicate, Inc. shows characters from cartoonist Johnny Hart's comic strip 'B.C.' Hart died Saturday, April 7, 2007, at age 76 while working at his home in Nineveh, N.Y. Hart's 'B.C.' strip was launched in 1958 and eventually appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers with an audience of 100 million, according to Creators Syndicate Inc., which distributes it. (AP Photo/Creators Syndicate, Inc., HO)
Monday, April 09, 2007
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