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[9 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Google Adsense for Games launched

Google launched “Adsense for Games” to insert advertisements into online video games and boost revenue from the online gaming platform. Online games such as Flash Games are the target for this campaign.
AdSense for Games, is still in beta testing right now but according to the adsense blog “you can display video ads, image ads, or text ads within your online games to earn revenue. You’ll be able to show these ads in placements you define, such as interstitial frames before a game, after a level change, or when a game …

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[8 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Freaky Robot Child – Repliee R-1

Now this is freaky… Built by the Osaka University Robotics department.

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[8 Oct 2008 | Comments Off | ]
Halle Berry hailed “Sexiest Woman Alive”

Halle Berry was hailed as “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire Magazine.

Halle Berry’s pose on the cover was a remake of Esquire’s December 2000 cover, featuring Bill Clinton.
Excerpt from her acceptance speech from Esquire
“Does being the sexiest woman alive imply that I know a thing or two about what’s sexy and, possibly, about sex itself? I’m not sure, but here’s what I do know: I know damned well I’m sexier now than I used to be. Let me make an argument here — not so much for me, or even for …

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[7 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
David Duchovny is now out of sex rehab

David Duchovny has moved out of a rehabilitation center for sex addiction, his lawyer, Stanton “Larry” Stein, told People magazine.

“David is out of rehab and about to start a new movie”, Stein added.

Duchovny, 48, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime’s TV series “Californication,” said he entered rehab voluntarily.

“I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family,” Duchovny said. …

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[7 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Obama widens lead over McCain

According to CNN’s latest poll, Barack Obama is widening his lead over John McCain in the race for the White House.
Fifty-three percent of likely voters questioned in the poll say they are supporting Obama for president, with 45 percent supporting McCain.
President Bush may be part of the reason why Obama’s making gains. Only 24 percent of those polled approve of Bush’s job as president, an all-time low for a CNN survey.
And that’s bad news for McCain, because the poll suggests a growing number of Americans believe the Republican presidential nominee …

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[6 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Howard Stern got married

Howard Stern, the American radio host and T.V. personality got married to Beth Ostrosky Friday night at posh New York restaurant Le Cirque.

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[4 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Dustin Moskovitz to leave Facebook in a month

Dustin Moskovitz, the co-founder of Facebook Inc. is about to leave the company in a month…

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[3 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
The lost city of Atlantis in Dubai

If you are planning to stay over at the resort, well … be prepared to shell out a pretty penny.

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[3 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Obama uses iPhone to win support

Barack Obama is set to spin the iPhone into a political recruiting device with an application aimed at getting the vote out.

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[2 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Anne Hathaway: ‘I’m Trying to Move On’

Anne Hathaway says she’s “trying to move on” in the wake of her breakup with ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri and his subsequent guilty plea on money laundering and fraud charges.

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[2 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
Somali Pirates Say $20M Ransom Will ‘Never’ Be Reduced

MOGADISHU, Somalia β€” A Somali pirate spokesman says his group will not release a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with arms for less than $20 million.

Sugule Ali told the Associated Press the pirates would “never” decrease the ransom of the Ukrainian freighter loaded with 33 Soviet-designed tanks and other weapons. The MV Faina was seized Sept. 25 and is now anchored off the coast of central Somalia. …

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