The little people, children, whom I love and respect most, have a busy summer on their hands. Pixar Movie Ratatouille was a treat! I enjoyed it with a cinema full of little people. I would suggest any one to go and see it, when you guys and girls are done with Transformers!
But what's more? Harry Potter book and Harry Potter Movie!
The seventh and final book of Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", by JKRowling has become Amazon's most popular pre-ordered product.
Potter the wizard's fate will be known July 21 with the release of the Book 7 of Rowling's fantasy epic. Worldwide sales of the first six books already top 325 million copies and the first printing for seventh is 12 million in the United States alone.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth Potter film, is a guaranteed blockbuster. The first four Potter movies have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, and sales for the soundtracks top 1 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks the retail market. Potter is the rare literary series to inspire a video game and is expected to have a theme park, in Orlando, Fla., by 2010.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
It's Summer. It's Harry Potter time again!
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Women are more domineering!
A study of 72 married couples from Iowa found that wives, on average, exhibit greater situational power -- in the form of domineering and dominant behaviors -- than their husbands during problem-solving discussions, regardless of who raised the topic.
An ISU research team - led by David Vogel, associate professor of psychology, and Megan Murphy, assistant professor of human development and family studies - interviewed 72 married couples. The participants were either staff, faculty or students at ISU, so the results don't necessarily apply to people across all economic or social backgrounds, Vogel acknowledged.
The examples of wives' influence over husbands played out in videotaped conversations between the couples about issues in their lives.
"Someone would say, 'I think our house is too messy, it's always too messy,' and the partner would say, 'I agree,' " Murphy said.
Follow up the study at ISU News
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Adam Hertz and Tantek Celik leaves Technorati!
Adam Hertz and Tantek Celik has left Technorati to pursue other interests according to a post by Dave Sifry.
I am not much familiar with Adam other than that he was the VP of Engineering. But Tantek, I have known (not on personal level) for a while. According to Dave they will not venture very far from Technorati. Adam will be the first Fellow and Tantek will be on the Board of Advisors.
As per Dave;
"So, as both leave Technorati to pursue other interests, I simply want to say: thank you. I also want to say that it makes me very happy they both will remain as part of our extended family. On the fourth anniversary of Technorati, it seemed the right time to create a Technorati Fellows program and I've asked Adam to be our very first Technorati fellow. In this role, Adam will continue to offer strategic advice and support to me and to others here at Technorati moving forward. Tantek will join the Technorati Board of Advisors so we'll continue to benefit from his guidance and wisdom as he moves on to ever-greater heights."
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
TouchGraph now touches Facebook!
Touchgraph that touched Google and Amazon has now announced the release of the TouchGraph Facebook Browser.
TouchGraph is leveraging the power of the booming Facebook Platform, allowing users to explore their Friends and Photos.
I have so far explored the Google and Amazon. I still hang around TouchGraph's open source project at Sourceforge.
For the Love of Books! with help from Google!
I'm very happy about efforts by Google to make books available to EVERYONE, which ultimately have the potential to make the experience of accessing information for visually impaired users just as easy as it is for those with sight.
Blind Technologist at Google, T.V. Raman explains it better, "My reading used to be determined by what was available in a form I could read. But today it's a question of using Google effectively so that I can find the right thing to read. Today's Book Search launch is an excellent example of how technology is truly democratizing access to the world's information."
You can get more information about these and projects that Ramen works on, visit Google Accessible Search, Google Book Search. The latter is opening up thousands of books to people who use adaptive technologies such as speech output, screen readers, and Braille displays.
I know the thirst I had/have for books! There were times when I read 4 books a week! I love Books but never stopped to think how others read! Yes I encourage youngsters to read, yet never paid a lot of attention to people who use adaptive technologies to have the pleasures I take for granted. Thanks!
Official Google Blog: Ever more books to read
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Monday, July 02, 2007
Vote for New 7 Wonders of the world
There has been a large movement to select Seven New wonders of the world. Of the old seven wonders, only the Pyramids of Giza remains and has received a honorary place on the list.
At the end of 2005, the N7W panel chose 21 candidates from the top 77 nominees that had earned the most votes, and these 21 are now in the final stage of the competition. The official N7W 21 finalist candidates were announced by the panel's President, Prof. Federico Mayor, on January 1, 2006 in Zurich.
The final round of voting for the New 7 Wonders will continue through the first half of 2007. Then, on July 7, 2007 -07.07.07, the dream of the N7W initiators will become a reality as the globe joins together to celebrate the New 7 Wonders of the World, as chosen by the world's population using modern communications technology.
You can join the N7W Society now. Become an official part of this dynamic community and support this historic project.
... be a part of the making of history ! The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07.
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How I expect world leaders to be!
President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin projected a united front Monday against Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.
"When Russia and the United States speak along the same lines, it tends to have an effect and therefore I appreciate the Russians' attitude in the United Nations," Bush said. "We're close on recognizing that we got to work together to send a common message."
Putin predicted that "we will continue to be successful" as they work through the U.N. Security Council.
Information courtesy of MSNBC.
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Politics
Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rushdie to Split?
"Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi's marriage to Nobel Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie is over, according to a rep for the author.
"Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage," spokeswoman Jin Auh said in a statement issued to Reuters. "He asks that the media respect his privacy at this difficult time," the statement also said.
While Rushdie was busy being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II last week, his much younger wife was spotted partying till the wee hours at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel with a well-known chef, who also happens to be married.
A source revealed that the two looked ‘very interested’ in each other and were oblivious to the world around them.
"They seemed to be quite interested in what each other had to say. They were oblivious to the people around them," the New York Post quoted the source, as saying.
A friend of the model however said that the two are ‘just friends’.
When the Indian-born Rushdie started his romance with the model more than 20 years his junior, the British tabloids made much of their differences in age and intellectual stature.
But Rushdie always defended his wife.
“Anyone who’s met Padma knows she’s as intelligent as they come,” he told The Times of London in a 2005 interview.
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Transformers Channel on Joost!
If you are a fan of Transformers or just curious how they came to be, Joost is the place/the thing, one to see some aspects of how it all began.
(You need Joost to watch these movies/TV Shows. If you don't have Joost, leave a comment for an invite!) Joost Transformers channel currently has;
Transformers they are "Robots in Disguise" and more, much more than meets the eye!
- Transformers Generation 1-More than meets the eye (part 1)
- Transformers Generation 1-More than meets the eye (part 2)
- Transformers Generation 1-More than meets the eye (part 3)
- Transformers Generation 1-Transport to Oblivion
- Transformers Generation 1-Roll for it
- Transformers Generation 1-Divide & Conquer
- Transformers Generation 1-Fire in the Sky
- Transformers Generation 1-S.O.S. Dinobots
- Transformers Generation 1-Fire on the mountain
- Transformers Generation 1-War of the Dinobots
- Transformers Generation 1-Ultimate Doom: Brainwash (part 1)
- Transformers Generation 1-Ultimate Doom: Search (part 2)
- Transformers Generation 1-Ultimate Doom: Revival (part 3)
- Transformers Generation 1-Countdown to Extinction
- Transformers Generation 1-A Plague of Insecticons
You need Joost to watch these movies/TV Shows. If you don't have Joost, leave a comment for an invite!
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transformers
Skyblog brought to you by Skyrock! Looks like it rocks!
From their front page, last time I visited the home page,
- 9,671,239 Blogs 2,547,776 Profiles
- 3,388 People chatting online
If you want to see how a new blog will look like, follow this link to a blog created for this purpose.
But I think their chat will catchup with casual chatting for a few friends.
