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Oscars to introduce electronic voting
LOS ANGELES — Oscars organizers said Wednesday they would introduce electronic voting to select Hollywood’s top films and stars from next year, in the latest reform of the elite awards show system. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has struck a deal on the voting system with a…
Irishman builds ‘billion-euro’ home out of shredded currency
DUBLIN (Reuters) – An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the “madness” he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust. Frank Buckley built the apartment in the…
‘Russia Today’ to air WikiLeaks talk show
A Russian state television channel said Wednesday that it would exclusively air a television chat show hosted by WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange. RT, formerly known as Russia Today, an English language channel funded by the Russian government, said in a statement that Assange “is launching his own talkshow, to be broadcast exclusively on RT.” Assange…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to launch political talk show
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will host a new political talk show that focuses on power brokers, revolutionaries and where the world goes next, the anti-secrecy website announced on Monday. The half-hour show will see an initial run of 10 once-weekly episodes, beginning in March. “Assange will draw together controversial voices…
Limbaugh: Ron Paul ‘sounds like an Islamic terrorist’
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh reacted to news that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) might have been detained by the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) by saying that it would have made more sense if they detained his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). “Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has been detained by…
Celebrity, scandal merge at French HuffPost launch
Celebrity, scandal and new media converged in Paris Monday as shamed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s wife returned to the spotlight to launch Le Huffington Post, a French take on the US news website. Anne Sinclair insisted her private life would not in any way affect news coverage in the first…
Fox News host: Gingrich will ‘take the head off’ Obama
Fox News host Steve Doocy used some violent imagery on Monday to describe how President Barack Obama would fair in a debate against Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. “Newt was really able to make hay, and some analyst say, you know, it was his performance in the first and second…
India ‘to complain to U.S. over Jay Leno temple gag’
India is to formally object to a joke by US TV host Jay Leno in which he said that the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, was a summer home for wealthy presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Minister Vayalar Ravi termed the gag by “The Tonight Show” host as “quite unfortunate and quite objectionable” and said…
Megaupload loses its top lawyer over conflict of interest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Content-sharing Internet service Megaupload.com has lost the help of one of the best-known U.S. defense lawyers as it begins to fight charges of copyright infringement, a person familiar with the matter said. Robert Bennett was required to withdraw from the case because of a conflict involving at…
Vinyl records are back. Again.
In the brave new world of MP3 players, compact discs are dying, cassettes are Stone Age, and old-fashioned vinyl records… they’re back! It might seem that nothing short of a wind-up gramophone could be more out of place today than the nostalgia-laden, crackly-sounding 33 and 45 RPM disc. Yet in…
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