Sunday, 31. December 2006

Predictions 2007


predictions 2007

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“365 Days of Google Answers” Calendar for 2007


Researchers involved in Google Answers - a defunct Google service - have created and made public a calendar for 2007 with facts and quotations sorted on a per-day basis for each day of the 2007 year.

Although Google has already discontinued its Answers service on December the 30th, 2006, a group of approximately 69,000 of accurate and documented answers were sorted and displayed on the 365 days of Google Answers site, hosted on Google servers and structured using Google’s Page Creator product.

weblogoogle.com

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How to Remove Watermarks from PDF Files


Though it is very much possible to get rid of those annoying watermarks in PDF documents, the quality of the final output would largely depend on what software you have to process PDF files.

labnol.blogspot.com

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EU shoes (clarks, D&G) not good enough for the Chinese, get burned


About 200 pairs of shoes imported from the European Union have been burned in Hangzhou, eastern China province of Zhejiang, after the local market watchdog said they had failed quality checks.

english.people.com

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Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is now illegal in France


Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.

rfc1149.net

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New EU members prepare to party


Romania and Bulgaria are getting ready to celebrate their entry into the European Union at midnight with rock music and traditional dancing.

bbc.co.uk

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VJ Brewski's Mash Up Music Videos


Motley Crue - Wild Side vs Lady Sovereign - Love me or hate Mash-up by DJ Schmolli

vjbrewski.multiply.com

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The Original Mash-up


Buchanan and Goodman were the first mash-up artists, taking bits and pieces of various pop songs and splicing them together into larger pieces -- their most famous being "The Flyer Saucer," recorded in 1956. Their samples were, in many cases, my first exposure to some of these classic songs (and I was confused for years by the fake attributions given in the mash-up).

tonermishap.blogspot.com

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My 2006 Discography


Yesterday, I cut a CD album of the songs I composed in 2006. It was a matter of using iTunes to burn them into a CD format. Two things came to mind after I played the CD in the HiFi system --

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ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com

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Can't Get You U Out of My 24 Hour Party


I heard this mash up long before I heard Kylie's original......

jaded-jukebox.blogspot.com

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The Hot List 2007


Who will be the breakthrough artists, actors and bands of 2007? Here we highlight some of the people, ideas and trends that are set to make a mark over the coming year

observer.guardian.co.uk

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Indiana Jones 'to return in 2008'


Director George Lucas says the fourth instalment in the Indiana Jones film series will start next year.

Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg had recently finalised the script, and promised it was "the best one yet".

bbc.co.uk

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