April 24th, 2008 Olivia
Source:www.shakira-picture.net
Shakira is an immensely popular 2 time Grammy, and 7 time Latin Grammy winner who has set more album selling and top 10 records than most people are aware.
Currently Shakira is the fourth most successful artist of this decade. That’s pretty damn impressive for someone from a country as small as Columbia.
Shakira is on her “Oral Fixation Tour” and this link will take you to clips of her latest concert DVD and tons of pictures and other information about her.
By: jim Source
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April 21st, 2008 Olivia
Is there a way to improve your health, save money, help the environment, and feel better about yourself by doing something you already do every day?
Yes, there is! This method has been around for over a hundred years. A traditional wet shave using a shaving brush, shaving soaps/creams, and a double edge razor.
By: Gerard Source
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April 18th, 2008 Olivia
Although NHS BLOG DOCTOR is still resting, I have been receiving a large number of emails, and replying to as many as possible.
For reasons that escape me, but have something to do with Oranges, my usual email address of DrCrippen@nhsblogdoc.wanadoo.co.uk has been deleted as of Monday 3rd September. Any emails sent to that address since then will probably have been returned or, worse, will have disappeared forever into the electronic ether.
I have therefore set up a new email address:
nhsblogdocATgmail.com
This new address is up and working (after the usual spam substitution) and at least has the merit of simplicity.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
NHS BLOG DOCTOR will be back in three weeks time.Labels: email address
By: Dr John Crippen Source
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April 17th, 2008 Olivia
Private equity firms Hikari Private Equity and Susquehanna International Group China have invested $20 million in the video sharing site 56.com, according to Personal Bee.
Several other partners were involved in the funding package, including Adobe, Disney’s VC fund, and CID Group. This was the second round of funding for 56.com.
Cn Blognation has pointed out that private equity and venture capital firms seem to be in love with video sites in China. The top six such sites have gotten well over $100 million in funding this year.
By: Greg Cruey Source
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April 14th, 2008 Olivia
Another Friday and another puzzling photo. I don’t plan to make this a regular feature here at Roundrock Journal unless you overwhelm me with praise or something like that (or even close) and providing I could find enuf puzzling pix to sustain the effort, and so on.
Anyway, what do you suppose the spongy looking thing is? It is also common at Roundrock. Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral? Or more than one? (Hint: that might not be its true color.)
I’ll give you my answer (which is probably right) on Sunday (in another pathetic attempt to increase my traffic count).
Missouri calendar:
Good Friday
White bass begin spawning.
Flying squirrels bear young through early April.
Today in Missouri history:
Alanson Brown was born on this date in 1847. His brother George was born on this day in 1853. Together they formed the St. Louis-based Brown Shoe Company, perhaps best known for its Buster Brown brand.
By: Roundrockjournal Source
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April 11th, 2008 Olivia
I suppose that someone’s intentions were good when they came up with the iPond. That clever name is what a Sydney store calls its iPod speaker which has the unique, if not strange, ability to be a fish tank.
Unfortunately, it turns out that the “tank” that the iPond provides is 15 times smaller than the recommended tank size of the fish it suggests to use. This figure comes to us directly from the RSPCA themselves, who recommend a ban on this product altogether.
Controversy has been injected into this issue as some say the iPond has plenty of room. Dang, could someone just see how long a fish would last? I’m guessing these products would not sell if all they give us is music along with a fish floating on its back.
Maybe Pets Paradise will be validated, and the product will make its way to the states. The cost is about $70 in Sydney, so who knows what it would go for here.
Via Gizmodo
By: Mark Rollins Source
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April 10th, 2008 Olivia
CW used to have all server with a company called thePlanet in Texas (formerly Servermatrix). They deliver good products and have an outstanding customer support. However they got desperate and raised prices, reduced number of operating systems they support drastically and pushed very expensive servers in their sales team.
Then Layeredtech came around - in almost the same location (data center might just be minutes away). They offer superb products and choices and ok customer support. We save up to $150 per server there. Many people have been migrating from thePlanet to layeredtech.
Now they put up this ad with a really creative spin I think to poach more people over.
By: tj Source
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April 7th, 2008 Olivia
The “Life in Film” column in this new issue of frieze is a particularly good one. Hito Steyerl looks back to her days at what’’s now called the Japan Academy of Moving Images: “Though its educational standards were lousy, Imamura [Shohei]‘’s school was one of the very few places in the world where the works of Japanese avant-garde documentary filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s could be seen. Inspired by sources as varied as Oshima Nagisa’’s Nihon No Yoru To Kiri (Night and Fog in Japan, 1960), Ogawa Shinsuke’’s Seishun No Umi (Sea of Youth, 1966) or Terayama Shuji’’s Tomato Ketcchappu Kôtei (Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1971), and rooted in the massive and often militant political movements of the time, the films of the New Left mixed the personal and the political in vital, sometimes also wildly inappropriate and explosive, combinations.”
By: dwhudson Source
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April 7th, 2008 Olivia
Size has been one of the most popular themes in monster movies, especially those from 1950s. The premise is invariably to take something out of its usual context - make people small or something else (gorillas, grasshoppers, amoebae, etc.) large - and then play with the consequences.
However, Hollywood’’s approach to the concept has been, from a biologist’’s perspective, hopelessly naïve.
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters.
By: Gerard Source
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