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Hot trends for June 29, 2008

The Good Stuff

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:32:38 PDT
Sometime in politics it comes down to the good stuff – not the policy differences or the clever and very different election strategies, or the candidates’ take on the big issues of the day, or their moral, or nicely convenient expedient stance on this and that. The good stuff is the human stuff – the grudges and gaffes, where you find the meta-information about these folk who lead us, or would lead us. In the systems world, metadata is data about the nature of the data with which you are deali

Google Trends for Websites

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:57:02 PDT
Google Trends: weblogtoolscollection.com provides (slightly) interesting facts on your blog. Though the product is free, signing in is required to see the number estimates. Not all sites seem to have a lot of data in Google Trends but it was fun to browse the various links. Most interesting to me were the “also visited” section and the “also searched” section. Matt Cutts had an interesting writeup on Google Trends for websites a little over a week ago.

Clean Coal Trends

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:08:43 PDT
What people are saying online about CCS and Clean Coal

Grab just a handful of Kismat

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:04:31 PDT
The ever-inspired Pritam takes on the soundtrack for upcoming Shahid Kapur-Vidya Balan starrer Kismat Konnection, and, borrowing heavily from current market trends and influences, comes up with a couple of nice

Purchase of Theme Song, a Staple of Canadian Culture, Upsets ... - New York Times


Purchase of Theme Song, a Staple of Canadian Culture, Upsets ...
New York Times, United States - Jun 15, 2008
CBC Newsworld, one of the network’s cable channels, announced CTV’s purchase of all rights to the song with the sort of bulletin it normally reserves for, ...
CTV buys rights to hockey theme song Telegraph-Journal
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Miss Universe 2008 underway in Vietnam

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:07:07 PDT
A quick check of internet news reveals the usual supects for this year's crown - Puerto Rico, Venezuela, India, USA, Brazil and some other South American state. The winner usually comes from any of these countries, especially the ones from Latin America where beauty pageants are taken very, very seriously.


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June 28, 2008 Hot Trends

News roundup: Imagining a world with $200-a-barrel oil - USA Today


News roundup: Imagining a world with $200-a-barrel oil
USA Today - 8 hours ago
Most news sites -- including ABC, CBS and CNN -- lede with Pakistan's offensive against the Taliban. Finally, the Washington Post examines the resurgence of ...


Top environmental & political news: June 23-27 2008

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:46:14 PDT
Quick links to the top environmental and political stories of the week appearing in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York--and beyond!

Dosei Mansion Gets a Movie

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:30:27 PDT
It looks like the Sci-Fi Manga Dosei Mansion is getting made into a live action movie. Get more movie news at http://mrdeathsvictorygin.blogspot.com/

Put That Schlitz Where It Belongs!

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:39:47 PDT
Schlitz Tee ShirtThe trend of nostalgic beer brands continues with the return of Schlitz beer to its native Milwaukee this week. The beer, now being brewed by Pabst Brewing Co., is based on the original recipe.

Asmor News

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:50:28 PDT
Great place with online utilities for Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, such as an encounter creator, and monster templates. Also has a feature called Encounter-a-Day. Very useful for gaming.

New Miyazaki movie footage

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:38:58 PDT
A clip from Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea - Hayao Miyazaki's latest and last film - from a Japanese TV news. Commentary in Japanese.The film is released next month in Japan and 2009 for the rest of the world.


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