1. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood Come To Boettcher Concert Hall 11/7  permalink

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood Come To Boettcher Concert Hall 11/7
BroadwayWorld.com Denver Stories

Continuing to thrive on the success of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, two stars of the Emmy nominated series, will return to Denver to present an evening of extraordinary improvisational comedy.

2. Public Humiliation  permalink

The Web Comic List

3. Purgatory  permalink

The Web Comic List

No, not really - but it IS a micro-milestone for my hope that an amateur like myself could create, publish and sell a long-format, detailed-realism style comic series all on his own, on a reasonably schedule, in his spare time and on next-to-no budget. If you have a story with wider appeal than mine you might even make a bit of money from it - so ...

4. The Possibilities of Small  permalink

The Possibilities of Small
DrMabuse / Edward Champion

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5. La Seguridad de Estado detiene a Yoani Sánchez y otros blogueros cuando iban a participar en una ...  permalink

La Seguridad de Estado detiene a Yoani Sánchez y otros blogueros cuando iban a participar en una ...
Www.penultimosdias.com

El plan era hoy a las 5 y media de la tarde: un grupo de jóvenes debía hacer una marcha-performance pacífica (no de protesta ni reclamación política) desde 23 y G hasta 23 y L, cruzar la esquina del cine Yara y volver por la otra acera hasta 23 y G. La idea era sumar gente con alegría y sin espíritu beligerante, sino festivo. La marcha- ...

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Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy   —  Set in the 1960s, the final novel in James Ellroy's 'Underworld USA' trilogy reflects the here and now, writes Christopher Tayler James Ellroy often tells interviewers that he has no interest in current events, but even he seems to feel that the stars are in alignment for the publication of Blood's a Rover , the closing novel of his "Underworld ...

6. Army surplus  permalink

Army surplus
Sam / [daily dose of imagery]

Army Surplus man at Kensington Market....

7. A matter of Life and er... Matter  permalink

A matter of Life and er... Matter
ScienceBlogs

As I was stuffing my face today, I wondered if the Universe cared. The short answer is no. The slightly longer and more depressing answer is: my existence is more marginal than a speck of stray DNA on a grain of sand staring at vast oceans (that's literally true, oh the irony...). Clearly, there's no point to existence except amusement. So, here' ...

8. Venezia #10  permalink

Djn1 / C h r o m a s i a

My apologies for the lack of both updates and new material, but I've been rather preoccupied over the last few weeks. As many of you know, Libby is back in the UK to give birth to our latest daughter, while I'm still out in Bulgaria with the kids. And while it would be an exaggeration to say that I've been worried to the point of not being able ...

9. YouTube Is Falling Apart Again  permalink

YouTube Is Falling Apart Again
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all ...

10. She Did Go Home Again  permalink

She Did Go Home Again
KATE CHRISTENSEN / NYT

A wonderfully intelligent and frank memoir about the Mennonite upbringing Rhoda Janzen returned to after an emotional and physical crisis.

11. Google's Phantom Town  permalink

Google's Phantom Town
ScienceBlogs

Townephemera? The hamlet of Argleton, UK apparently exists only on Google Maps. The Telegraph reports that Roy Bayfield actually went there to check: "A colleague of mine spotted the anomaly on Google Maps, and I thought 'I've got to go there'," he said. "I started to weave this amazing fantasy about the place, an alternative universe, a Narnia- ...

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A new face to Google News Sitemaps   —  Given the feedback we get from publishers, we've redesigned our interface to make Google News Sitemaps more flexible and easier to submit. [As a reminder, a Google News Sitemap is a file created by publishers which gives you even more control over the content you submit to Google News].

12. The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch  permalink

The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'

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The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch Twitter Times   —  Attempts to match currently trending Twitter topics with relevant images and news stories. Uses Twitter to get news, What the Trend to get them explained, Flickr to get the images, and Yahoo News for the news items. Date Updated: 2009-11-06 Tags: micrblogging , news , photo , search , trends APIs: Flickr , Twitter , What The Trend? , Yahoo Search

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The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch Friday Random Ten, 11/06   —  Porcupine Tree, "Kneel and Disconnect" : New Porcupine Tree! It's always great to get new stuff from these guys. It's good, but it's not up to the quality of their last two albums. (But given that their last two were utterly amazing, that's not much of a criticism.) Mind Games, "Royalty in Jeopardy" : Some prog that I recently found via eMusic. ...

13. AlphaBound Games Are Shipping!  permalink

AlphaBound Games Are Shipping!
Ngd.ala.org

AlphaBound donated a copy of its game "LetterJAM!" to 1,000 libraries for National Gaming Day, and we've learned that the packages shipped yesterday. If you're at one of the libraries lucky enough to receive one (and you will if you were able to check the box on the registration form to request it), start watching your postal mail for the box. ...

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14. Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web  permalink

Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...

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Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins   —  Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

15. Master of Disaster  permalink

Master of Disaster
JOANNA SCOTT / NYT

John Irving’s new novel follows a father and son through 50 years in “a world of accidents.”

16. Check Out Amazon's List of the Year's Best Science Books  permalink

Check Out Amazon's List of the Year's Best Science Books
ScienceBlogs

Seriously! Go have a look. It seems my book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser made the list! And to think I wasn't planning to do a blog post today. Browsing through the other entries, it looks like my reading list just got a bit longer. (Of course, they will have to get in line behind Stephen ...

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Check Out Amazon's List of the Year's Best Science Books Best Science Books 2009: Amazon   —  Amazon has come out with their Editor's Picks for 2009 . There are three categories that have books that are relevant to us here. Science The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll ...

17. When computers see what you see...  permalink

When computers see what you see...
ScienceBlogs

One of the leading indicators for behavior and intent is gaze direction. Many under cover detectives use this cue to figure out who may be predators in a crowd. In work for NBC Sports, Nils Krahnstoever has shown that we can track the gaze direction of football players providing a whole new level of sports analysis. Spooky. Check it out. Read ...

18. Official Kick-Ass Movie Site Debuts  permalink

Official Kick-Ass Movie Site Debuts
Comic Book Movie

Director Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of the popular comic book by Mark Millar gets an official internet presence, with a sweeping opening sequence!

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Official Kick-Ass Movie Site Debuts Kick-Ass Posters Premiere   —  November 5, 2009 - In the world of Kick-Ass, superheroes only exist in comic books. That is, until high-school student Dave Lizewski puts on a costume and takes to patrolling the streets at night to right the wrongs that no one else can. So it is in Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.'s hugely popular comic series, which will soon be a Lionsgate ...

19. Sex toys and human subjects at Duke University.  permalink

Sex toys and human subjects at Duke University.
ScienceBlogs

At Terra Sigillata, Abel notes that the Director of Duke University's Catholic Center is butting in to researchers' attempts to recruit participants for their research . As it happens, that research involves human sexuality and attitudes toward sex toys. Here's how Abel lays it out: Father Joe Vetter, director of Duke University's Catholic ...

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Sex toys and human subjects at Duke University. Response to Dan Ariely's Duke Sex Toy Study Is Predictably Irrational   —  Father Joe Vetter, director of Duke University's Catholic Center , is protesting trial participant accrual for a study being conducted on campus directed by Dr Dan Ariely, the James B Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Fuqua School of Business ( story and video ). Ariely is also the author of the best-selling book, Predictably ...

20. 石ノ森作品、ハリウッドに 12年にも実写・CG映画  permalink

Www.nikkei.co.jp

 「サイボーグ009」などで知られる漫画家、故石ノ森章太郎さんの作品などの著作権を保有する石森プロ(東京・渋谷)は2012年にも、米ハリウッド制作で石ノ森作品を映画化する。実写とCG(コンピューターグラフィック)を融合した作品を想定しており、�

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