Poetry

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Advance screenings cancelled in Canada

Warner Bros. cancels Canada previews (AP)

AP - Canadian film lovers hoping to catch an early peek at "Ocean's Thirteen" and the upcoming Harry Potter sequel will be out of luck after Warner Bros. canceled all of its advance screenings and accused Canada of being at the forefront of the piracy market.

Ancient fabric found in Greece

2,700-year-old fabric found in Greece (AP)

AP - Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer's "Iliad."

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Modern Poetry

GMANews.TV - Vienna library starts erotica hotline

VIENNA, Austria - This isn't the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna's City Hall has launched a "sex hotline" to raise money for the capital's main public library, officials said Tuesday.

It's unusual, but it's not particularly raunchy: Callers pay 53 cents a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian era.

Anime in US

Feathered robot, French maid celebrate anime in U.S. (Reuters)

Reuters - On most days, Javin Mather is a 21-year-old developmental psychology major at Boise State University. But today he is a 7-foot (2.13-metre) robot.

Glass Illusion

YouTube - glass illusion

Most Watched This Month with 2.16 Million hits

More Tv time = Worse School performance

More TV time means worse school performance (Reuters)

Reuters - The more TV adolescents watch, the more likely they are to develop attention and learning problems, and to do poorly in school in the long-run, a new study confirms.

On diet

Shrek loses weight for healthier Happy Meal deal - May. 8, 2007

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- McDonald's Corp. is putting the somewhat-stocky green star of "Shrek" movies on a diet in a new campaign that features the restaurant chain's apple slices and salads rather than its burgers and fries. (CNNMoney.com)

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Colombian hermit finds paradise in Qadisha

Reuters Features on Yahoo! News

Colombian hermit finds paradise on Lebanon trail Mon May 7, 9:15 AM ET

QADISHA VALLEY, Lebanon (Reuters) - For a Colombian hermit thousands of miles from home, Lebanon's Qadisha valley is a heaven on earth where he hopes to end his days.