As Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding day nears, women around the world can now dress like the future princess. British designer Reiss is selling the ‘Nanette’ dress she wore in the royal couple’s official engagement photo. (Feb. 9)
Continue reading …Since we’re afraid we might have ruined your day earlier, with this awful new track by Leighton Meester, we feel like we need to make a positive contribution to your musical diet. And here it is: a brand new mixtape from Rye Rye. As Baltimore CityPaper notes, it doesn’t come with any tracklisting or credits, Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Flavorwire Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 17:01 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …The campaign for marriage equality continues to heat up. Yesterday, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sent state legislators a personal letter calling for the legalization of same sex marriage, while referring to current laws as “institutionalized discrimination.” Today, the Human Rights Campaign enlisted the help of the always colorful television personality Joan Rivers. The organization has been Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Capitol confidential Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 15:53 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …The campaign for marriage equality continues to heat up. Yesterday, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sent state legislators a personal letter calling for the legalization of same sex marriage, while referring to current laws as “institutionalized discrimination.” Today, the Human Rights Campaign enlisted the help of the always colorful television personality Joan Rivers. The organization has been Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Capitol confidential Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 15:53 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …VH-1 comedian Don Jamieson on Tuesday took some humorous swipes at Keith Olbermann. Appearing on HLN's “Joy Behar” show, Jamieson commented that Al Gore's Current TV was “harder to find than Osama bin Laden,” and moments later asked, “You’re going to go from TV to the Internet? What is [Keith Olbermann] sleeping his way to the bottom?” (video follows with transcript and commentary): JOY BEHAR, HOST: OK, attention, liberals. Keith Olbermann has landed a new gig. He’s going to Al Gore’s Current TV as its chief news officer and will be hosting a nightly primetime show starting in the spring. Will it be a good show, or will it be the worst show in the world? With me now to talk about this and other stories in the news are actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, Don Jamieson, comedian and co-host of “That Metal Show” on VH-1 Classic, and Rachel Sklar, editor-at-large for Mediaite.com. Sheryl, is this a good home for Olbermann? SHERYL LEE RALPH, ACTRESS: It’s an absolute great show for Olbermann because I like, you know, Current TV because it’s got that stuff that’s really current and so good, you’ll never see it on TV. So finally, somebody’s going to be able to really pinpoint on Current TV. BEHAR: Do you mean to tell me you know where Current TV is? (LAUGHTER) RALPH: I know where Current TV is! BEHAR: Is it near Reelz TV? (CROSSTALK) (LAUGHTER) DON JAMIESON, COMEDIAN: It’s harder to find than Osama bin Laden! (CROSSTALK) RALPH: … good. He’s going to be great on it. They need him. Current TV needs Olbermann! BEHAR: What do you think? What do you guys think? RACHEL SKLAR, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, MEDIAITE.COM: They need something. I mean, and this is a great move for Olbermann, too. He gets to say that, you know, Current is starting from, you know, not the position of being the highest-rated… BEHAR: That’s right. SKLAR: … network on cable. So he’s going to be able to say, I built up a network again because he’s going to bring people in. RALPH: Right. Right. SKLAR: And Olbermann is most comfortable as an underdog. He really is. (CROSSTALK) JAMIESON: You’re going to go from TV to the Internet? What is he sleeping his way to the bottom? (LAUGHTER) JAMIESON: I heard Bill O’Reilly’s going to do a podcast from his grandmother’s basement. RALPH: Yes, right. SKLAR: Isn’t that where Limbaugh does it from? RALPH: Well, he’s going to make them top dog. I really think Olbermann is going to be great for Current. BEHAR: Yes, but you know, they got — they got rid of him over at MSNBC — rather nastily, I thought. They don’t like his personality. Comcast came in. They didn’t like him backstage. That’s what I heard. Comcast came in, and it’s possible that that had something to do with his demise over there. And Comcast owns, what is it, 10 percent of Current TV. SKLAR: I don’t think that was — I mean, Olbermann has been brewing discontent over there for quite a while. If you remember, at the conventions in 2008, there was the on-air squabbling with Chris Matthews. And you know, he does — you know, rumor has it that he would do things, like, he would — You can’t talk to me, like, Slip a note under my door if you want to talk to me. There was a lot of, like… UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh! He’s a diva. (CROSSTALK) RALPH: You go, Mr. Olbermann! Join the diva clan. Don’t talk to me. Here’s the note. Did you read it? OK. Fine. Now you can talk to me. OK. Forget about it now. Now, I know Rush Limbaugh is advising Fox News to ignore Olbermann now that he's partnered with Gore, but a comedian making fun of the two of them is just too tough to resist.
Continue reading …David OReilly is the Chris Ware of animation — his work is modern, haunting and bleak. His new film “The External World” just won an Honorable Mention at Sundance — the only cartoon to do so — and it’s 17 minutes of video game era dread, alienation. Is there redemption? FULL SCREEN. Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : THE BEAT Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 14:00 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …Millions of people in northern Kenya are facing hunger and an uncertain future, as a drought continues to destroy their crops and livestock. And forecasters expect the dry spell to last at least two more months. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports.
Continue reading …As you may have gleaned from the small leak last night , Samsung’s MetroPCS LTE phone isn’t called the Forte as we may have previously thought, but the rest of the information we’ve been hearing about the phone for the last few weeks (thank you, FCC and Flickr !) was pretty dead on. Officially called the Galaxy Indulge, the 3.5-inch, Android 2.2 smartphone isn’t quite as well spec’d as the rest of the Galaxy S line up — most notably it doesn’t have that stunning 4-inch AMOLED screen (TFT LCD here, folks) — but it packs a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, 3 megapixel camera, 1500mAH battery, and some fast LTE speeds. As for the latter, the slider will naturally be backwards compatible with MetroPCS’ CDMA network and the carrier will be offering two monthly plans, both of which include unlimited talk and texting — the $50 plan buys you 1GB of data and the $60 version all the gigabytes you can eat. Combine one of those with the $399 sans-contract-price of the phone itself and it’s not a bad deal. That said, compared to the other LTE or just general 4G phones we’ve seen of late, the Indulge feels rather cheap. Don’t be fooled by its rather Epic 4G looks — it just feels overly plastic in hand (it makes those plastic squeaking noises) and the keyboard just can’t compare to Epic’s slightly raised keys. However, what it lacks in rigidity it makes up for in speed — we consistently got 3.1Mbps down and 3.3Mbps up around midtown Manhattan and saw it loading sites and apps faster than our Droid 2 Global. On the software end, there aren’t many surprises — it runs Samsung’s TouchWiz 3.0 and comes with a few of MetroPCS’ preloaded apps, including an Iron Man 2 app that actually includes the whole movie. We’re not sure you’d want to watch the entire thing on the HVGA screen, but it’s always an option if you decide to, you know, indulge. (Sorry, we had to!) The handset will be hitting shelves (or websites) later this week making it the first available LTE smartphone in the US — but in the meantime, hit the break for the full press release and a short hands-on video. Gallery: MetroPCS Samsung Galaxy Indulge hands-on Continue reading MetroPCS LTE Samsung Galaxy Indulge available this week, we go hands-on MetroPCS LTE Samsung Galaxy Indulge available this week, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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