âOnceâ Again, a Legit Nominee
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âFalling Slowly,â a song from âOnce,â is ruled eligible for this yearâs Oscar for best song.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Consecutive nominations a first for Sheffield band  Â· Amy Winehouse is joint favourite on 12-strong list
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T.I. has wrapped up another slew of BET Hip-Hop Awards nominations.
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The New Hampshire presidential primary showed that two candidates who are underdogs on the Internet are perfectly viable in the real world.
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West, whose nominations also included best song, for Jesus Walks, has attracted attention for his original lyrics. &quot;That&#39;s like a perfect score.
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The caffeine on this show is addictive. Honest, candid, witty and stylishÂ you must have experienced all of this on ÂKoffee with KaranÂ last week......
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Flagstone Re has greatness in its DNA.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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Still listening to this classic Dead song.  And writing about it on Twitter... It's an MP3 that I ripped from the Mars Hotel album. Which I bought on CD many years ago. I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho.  It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago. Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me. There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC. I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Shindler sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking "Dave has good taste in music." BTW, Cucamonga is a suburb in southern CA. Near Ontario. Probably very non-descript. Might have been interesting 70 years ago. And that's your bedtime story for Saturday, boys and girls. Have a nice day, don't hit your brother (or sister) and be nice to the sitter!
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A look at Oscar contenders in the Best Documentary Film category.
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Lately, I have been asked if there is anything really good playing at the movies. Now I have something to rave about -- a film called &quot;Hero.
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Here's an addition on the ever-growing endorsement list of Amitabh Bachchan.
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That âHairsprayâ is good-hearted is no surprise. The surprise may be that this âHairspray,â stuffed with shiny showstoppers, is actually good.
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Gabe: I've gotten some mail about the Sony Defense Force site we mentioned in the strip today. Most people seem to want to know if it's a joke or not. I am of the opinion that it is. I'm not sure about Tycho but I think it's 100% fake. Stuff like the Lair review and their spin on the video of Halo 3 running on a PS3 demo station just can't be real. I think the guy running the site and making the articles is a genius. He's pulling in all kinds of traffic with an incredible parody and best of all, he even has people in his forums who think the whole thing is real. My guess is, in a couple weeks or maybe a month he'll drop the charade and reveal the whole thing was a gag. Maybe he can keep it going longer than that but I doubt it. I hope he can though because honestly it's fucking hilarious.   128016001920  Also Kiko made you this cool wallpaper based on one of his PAX photos. He has also posted two more sets including the final round of the Omegathon and general PAX culture.  -Gabe out
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The latest, unofficial returns in the Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate in Florida. The winner is marked by an 'x'.
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Pritam is definitely on a high at the moment. With the music of Dhoom 2 already hitting the gold spot, Bhagam Bhag too seems to be rocking the charts.
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First, I'd like to say congratulations. Prior to last night, I had been only cautiously optimistic about your chances of taking the House. As of the time I am writing this, you are on the cusp of taking senate as well. In the world of politics, expectations are as real as the raw numbers, and you have certainly exceeded mine and many others. A quick scan of the over-dramatic flailing on conservative blogs and the despondent tone of Fox News fills me and many others with a profound sense of schadenfreude.  Enjoy your victory, but enjoy it quickly. For tomorrow you inherit the corn-flecked shit sandwich currently known as our government. Here are some things you can do to further redeem yourselves in our eyes...