Archive for February, 2009
“Slumdog” en route to big night at Oscars
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rags-to-riches romance “Slumdog Millionaire” scooped up six early Oscar awards on Sunday including best adapted screenplay and original score and was expected to garner the best movie prize. Other early honors went to Penelope …
Read More..>>Teenage office worker ’sacked for branding her job boring on Facebook’
A teenage office worker claims she was hauled into the manager’s office and told she was fired after branding her job ‘boring’ on Facebook. Kimberely Swann, 16, from Clacton, Essex, was working as an office administrator at Ivell Marketing …
Read More..>>Transparency and accountability in government does not apply to Obama
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Read More..>>NFL Pro Bowl needs to go
Unlike other all-star games, the Pro Bowl doesn’t decide home field advantage, players don’t want to play in the game and most fans tune in just to make sure their favorite players don’t get hurt. In this years Pro Bowl, some of the league’s …
Read More..>>Hello! Marhaba! This is Hala your friendly Roboreceptionist
Hello’ or ‘Marhaba’ from the Middle East’s first robot receptionist Hala will welcome visitors to Carnegie Mellon Qatar’s new building in Education City later this year. Roboceptionist as she is to be known, Hala’s ‘head’ consists of …
Read More..>>Judge questions media intent on Web commentary
A Knox County judge on Friday questioned whether news organizations opposing proposed limits on anonymous commentary on their Web sites were more worried about cold hard cash than chilled free speech. “It’s a commercial site,” Criminal Court Judge …
Read More..>>The Hypocrite Who Hijacked Air Force 1
Like all dishonest politicians, Barack Obama consistently talks out of both sides of his mouth as he attempts to pander to both the left and the right. What he says at any given time is totally meaningless and worthless. Regardless of which side of …
Read More..>>And the Oscar goes to . . .
LOS ANGELES ‘” Penelope Cruz won the supporting-actress Academy Award on Sunday for the Spanish romance Vicky Cristina Barcelona, while the blockbuster robot romance WALL-E made off with the prize for feature-length animation. Best-picture front …
Read More..>>Law Enforcement
BOSTON (AP) ‘” Nisha Taylor was just about to put her beloved T-Mobile Sidekick in her bag. She thought the cell phone would be safer there than in her pocket. In the few seconds it took for the 18-year-old to unwind the string loop that held the…
Read More..>>And the Oscar goes to…
Heath Ledger won the supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for his demented reinvention of Batman villain the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” becoming only the second actor to win an Oscar posthumously. Penelope Cruz claimed the evening’s first …
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