‘True Grit’ teen actress Hailee Steinfeld reveals how she woke up to her parents screaming at the news of her Oscar nomination and says that she has always dreamed of walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards. (Jan. 26)
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Photo: fashify.com Vivienne Westwood is a wild, pink-haired British designer who has been around since the punk rock days. She practically invented them; she certainly dressed them. Dame Westwood, as she is now known, has always been a radical and now an environmental activist. She is involved with the Ethical Fashion Africa Project designing three limited-edition bags all made out of recycled materials…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …President Obama’s second State of the Union address probably won’t win over many critics from the left or right but he did an impressive—at times even Reaganesque—job of pitching to the center, pundits say. “The point wasn’t soaring rhetoric or soothing the nation,” notes Joshua Green at Atlantic…
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Car manufacturer Mercedes Benz on Wednesday unveiled a chocolate-themed version of its Smart car in Tokyo, just a couple of weeks before St. Valentine’s Day. (Jan. 26)
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BEIRUT ‘ The billionaire businessman chosen by Hezbollah and its allies as Lebanon’s prime minister has called for a unity government. In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned that formation of a government dominated by Hezbollah would mean changes in US relations with Lebanon. The group and its allies ousted the government backed by Washington two weeks ago when they walked out of the Cabinet. “A Hezbollah-controlled government would clearly have an impact on our bilateral relationship with Lebanon,” Clinton said on Tuesday. The United States deems Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has imposed sanctions against the group and its members. The ascendancy of…
Continue reading …Apple’s ‘PC’ shipments grow by 241 percent in iPad-inclusive Canalys stats
January 26, 2011 No Comment
Canalys is a pretty well respected global stat-keeper and now it seems to be relying on that reputation to push through a pretty controversial message: tablets, such as Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, are PCs . “Accept new market realities,” urges its polemic press release, before laying out global quarterly shipments that peg Apple as the world’s third most prolific PC vendor (without tablets, Apple doens’t even break the top 5 according to IDC and Gartner ). The company that was laboring with a mere 3.8 percent market share in 2009 has shot up to 10.8 with the aid of its 10-inch touchscreen device. Canalys’ stance will inevitably be controversial, but then it’s kind of hard to deny that machines like Samsung’s Sliding PC and ASUS’ Eee Slate make the distinguishing lines between tablets and netbooks look like a particularly technical form of bokeh. Continue reading Apple’s ‘PC’ shipments grow by 241 percent in iPad-inclusive Canalys stats Apple’s ‘PC’ shipments grow by 241 percent in iPad-inclusive Canalys stats originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Now here’s a Google search that should make President Obama happy: “jobs.” Google says it will hire more than 6,200 workers this year—25% of its work force—in the online giant’s biggest hiring spree yet. Some Wall Street analysts complain that Google is quickly becoming too bloated, but…
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Moscow – Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has vowed revenge for the suicide bombing that killed 35 people at a Moscow airport – a familiar tough-on-terrorism stance that has underpinned his power but also led to a rising number of deadly attacks in Russia. Lax security was also blamed for Monday’s explosion in the international arrivals area of Domodedovo Airport that also injured 180 people, with president Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday criticising police and managers at the airport, the largest of three that serve the capital. NTV television showed a photograph of what it said was the detached head of the suspected bomber. Investigators have said that DNA testing will be necessary before…
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Zoo keepers at the Santa Barbara Zoo were shocked to see a giraffe calf with the adults because they didn’t know one of them was pregnant. “Daniel” was born two weeks ago at the zoo and was five feet nine inches and weighed 106 pounds. (Jan. 26)
Continue reading …XCM’s F-1 Converter lets XBox 360 players get behind G25, G27 racing wheels (video)
January 26, 2011 No Comment
We’ve never been shy about our affection for Logitech’s G25 and G27 steering wheels, and now we can share our love with our friends of the Xbox 360 persuasion. With the brand new F-1 converter from XCM , die hard Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Slim fans can get behind the same wheels we’ve been behind since 2006 . If that wasn’t reward enough, the F-1 also sports a built-in combo-attack memory function for fighting games, and rumble support is baked in for good measure. So go ahead, ye of the XBox 360 ilk, plug her in, caress the contours of her beautiful leather-wrapped curves, feel the way she kicks — we’ll try not to get jealous. Video game voyeurs can check out the F-1 in action after the jump. [Thanks, Roadography] Continue reading XCM’s F-1 Converter lets XBox 360 players get behind G25, G27 racing wheels (video) XCM’s F-1 Converter lets XBox 360 players get behind G25, G27 racing wheels (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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