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Web Sites Go Fishing in TV’s Advertising Revenue Stream – New York Times – NYTimes.Com
Video is proliferating on the Internet, and it is no longer limited to short clips of cats flushing toilets, breath mints reacting explosively with carbonated sodas and other user-generated content of the kind that captured the anarchic spirit of the earl
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Was bank job a heist or a hoax? – 11/19/2007 – MiamiHerald.com
Was it a horrific afternoon — or a horrible hoax? ”The only thing we know is he went in with a fake bomb, he took the money, and the money is missing,” police spokesman Capt. Tony Rode said. “But was his girlfriend held hostage with a gun?”
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Teen ‘Freak Dancing’ Banned in Texas Suburb, Sparking Debate – FOXNews.Com
A school superintendent in the Dallas suburb recently banned the sexually suggestive “freak dancing” or “grinding” popular with teens, the Wall Street Journal reports — causing a debate among parents and school officials.
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Batman Returns: You can buy the Batmobile – CO-ED Magazine.Com
Every single time you see the Batmobile in the movie, you are seeing a real, physical object, not a computer-generated graphic. Whether it is driving on city streets at 100 mph, landing in the Batcave, what you’re looking at is a real car.
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Celebrity Apprentice lures an all-star cast – Houston Chronicle – Chron.Com
The 14 celebrities won’t be vying for a job with Donald Trump, as in the previous six Apprentice seasons, but instead will compete to raise money for their favorite charities. Including Gene Simmons of Kiss
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Syria: Facebook Banned – GlobalVoicesOnline.Org
Syria’s netizens have been given another slap on the face with the banning of social networking site Facebook. With Blogger already blocked, the country’s bloggers are fuming and have a lot to say about the latest development.
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Customers snap up 2 million copies of newest Mac OS X – TaipeiTimes,Com
Mac users are certainly in a hurry. Two million copies of the sixth Mac OS X version flew off store shelves in the system’s first weekend of sales.
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Dutch ministry to block staff use of Wikipedia – TaipeiTimes.Com
The Dutch Justice Ministry said it would temporarily block its 30,000 employees from using Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, after a magazine reported that more than 800 entries had been edited from ministry computers.
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NTUC publishes employee age profile on website – Channelnewsasia.com
NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say called for companies to disclose such data, ahead of the new re-employment legislation, which takes effect in 2012. The legislation requires all employers to offer their staff re-employment at 62.
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Facebook’s hopes to enter the tangled web of China gain momentum – TimesOnline.Co.Uk
Facebook is reported to have offered $85 million (£41 million) to buy Zhanzuo.com, its largest Chinese counterpart, which has an estimated seven million active users and a popular base among students.
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Inside Story: Media brands on YouTube – Independent.Co.Uk
The YouTube website has built a selection of specialist video channels providing an alternative viewing platform to the likes of Sky and Freeview. Chris Green reports on the media brands that have moved into this space
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Girl, 13, commits suicide after being cyber-bullied by neighbour posing as teenage boy – DailyMail.Co.Uk
But what she didn’t know was Josh was the fake named used by a female neighbour who lived in the same street in Dardenne Praire, Missouri. When Josh told her he didn’t want to be her friend and called her a “liar and slut” she became depressed.
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Warders wear slippers.. to avoid waking psycho killers – Mirror.co.uk
Night-shift staff in high-security Wakefield jail started wearing slippers after complaints from some of the vilest and most dangerous Category A lags about the noise.
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Second Bird Flu outbreak hits turkeys – Mirror.co.uk
The second H5N1 strain of bird flu was found on Hill Meadow Farm, Knettishall, next to the farm on the Norfolk-Suffolk border where the disease was found last week. All 9,000 birds on the farm have been slaughtered.
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Longest-serving inmate dies at 77 – England – Somerset – News.BBC.Co.Uk
John Straffen, from Bath, was 22 when he was found guilty on 25 July 1952 of murdering schoolgirl Linda Bowyer. Straffen, who was 77 when he died, was sentenced to death, though that was later reduced to life imprisonment.
