Aug 18, 2010
BBC News – Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News gives Republicans $1m
Rupert Murdoch’s News America Inc has donated $1m (£637,000) to the Republican Governors Association ahead of November’s US mid-term elections. The donation from the parent company of Fox News helped the RGA more than double its fundraising in the second quarter of 2010. The association helps elect Republican candidates to US governorships. Democrats said the donation meant Fox News had... read more
Aug 18, 2010
YouTube – Amazing Roger Federer trickshot on Gillette ad shoot
A video featuring tennis star Roger Federer that plays on our collective fascination with “real or fake” hit the web earlier this week and has quickly gone viral, accumulating more than 1,000,000 views as of today. The video, which was part of a Gillette commercial shoot in Switzerland, features Federer serving a tennis ball and knocking a can off the head of one of the crew members –- twice in a... read more
Aug 18, 2010
Tweeting While Driving Celebrity Surgeon Death – Yahoo! News
New reports indicate that Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was tweeting just before his fatal car accident on Monday. Ex-girlfriend Charmaine Blake told People Magazine that the plastic surgeon “lived up in Malibu on a tiny street and he was texting while driving and he accidentally went over the cliff.” People has also confirmed with the California Highway... read more
Aug 18, 2010
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother | Fast Company
We’ve all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. I’ve seen it myself. It’s seen me, too, and scanned my irises. Biometrics R&D firm Global... read more
Aug 18, 2010
The only dumb blondes I’ve met are the peroxide ones like you, Mariella!
It’s very maddening to read about bottle-blondes whose only wish is that people would see beyond the (unnatural) colour of their hair. read more
