Uninvited Guests Shut Down High-Priced Party: Planned to Party With Paris? Too Bad If You Paid for a Certain Star Island Weekend
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By Elinor J. Brecher, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--"The hottest ticket in South Beach" had cold water poured all over it by Miami Beach code-compliance officers who shut down a $1,000-a-head Star Island party.
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The anonymous lover from MySuperProposal.com who was attempting to get the funds to propose to his loved one via a 30 seconds Ad during the XI Superbowl came out of the closet. It is no other than &#8220;Our&#8221; Rand &#8220;Linkbait&#8221; Fishkin from SEOMoz.org. The proposal and background story got quite some media coverage. Perfect &#8220;Bait&#8221; Rand :). Everybody [...]
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MySpace Comic Books, the comics corner of this online social network, and Meltdown Comics, a store in Los Angeles, have teamed up to commemorate the end of âY: The Last Man,â the comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan, above, and Pia Guerra. The event, âY: The Last Party,â will be held on Friday, Feb. 8, and will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The organization, founded in 1986, is dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comic book business. Of late the defense fund has been involved in the case of Gordon Lee, a comic book retailer in Rome, Ga., who has found himself in court over the distribution of obscene material to a minor. The material in question depicted Picasso in the nude. Mr. Vaughan, who is also a writer on ABCâs âLost,â is a firm believer in the defense fund. âItâs obviously a completely different situation from the writersâ strike, but, similarly, itâs creators taking care of their community, which I always support,â he said in a telephone interview. The $100 V.I.P. tickets have sold out, but a limited number of $25 tickets will be available the day of the event. More information:www.myspace.com/cbldf.
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THERE are plenty of educational holidays to choose from these days that teach you to cook, paint, play golf or even to fly. But to learn the art of relaxation, you really can't beat Barbados.   I'm not normally a fan of "relaxing" holidays.
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When visitors outstay (and you outspend) their welcome.
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By Rosli Zakaria; Elizabeth John; Jessica Lim  PARADISE islands, the honey pot that lures tourist dollars, have long made for idyllic holidays. But could too many visitors be trampling all over this dream? ROSLI ZAKARIA, ELIZABETH JOHN and JESSICA LIM find out.
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DreamHost customers woke up to a nightmare on Tuesday after the Web hosting company made a major billing mistake overnight that has resulted in many getting their credit cards charged automatically for hundreds -- and even thousands -- of dollars.In an official blog posting, the company said that Monday night it ran &quot;a standard billing cycle to clean up stragglers from 2007&quot; but by mistake set the overdue-payment parameter for the end of 2008.&quot;This caused everyone to be billed as if today was 2008-12-31, wreaking the havoc that we are so sorry you had to be put through,&quot; the posting reads.The wording on the posting seems to indicate that all of DreamHost&#39;s customers were affected by the billing mistake. DreamHost hosts more than 600,000 domains, according to its Web site.WebHosting.Info, a research and statistics portal focused on the Web services industry, lists DreamHost as the 11th-largest Web hosting provider in the U.S. and the 15th-largest in the world .DreamHost, which has been in business since 1997, didn&#39;t immediately reply to requests for comment.At press time, DreamHost was in the process of issuing refunds to customers who got charged automatically.Among the hundreds of mostly angry comments that customers have made to the blog posting are complaints that the billing pushed credit card accounts over their limit, triggering bank penalty fees and locking up cards.&quot;If I end up having to pay special interest fees because you trigger an overbalance, I&#8217;ll be contacting your billing team for compensation,&quot; wrote one customer.Other customers commented that they are spooked that DreamHost could make a mistake of this magnitude with something as sensitive as billing, and have thus decided to cancel their accounts.&quot;My account is due for renewal at the end of this month, and barring something spectacular, it looks like I&#39;m taking my business elsewhere,&quot; wrote another customer.A quick scan of the company&#39;s DreamHost Status blog shows that it has encountered a steady stream of system outages over the past month or so.
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300-plus people lineup at the EB Games in Universal City. And then the PictoChatting begins. November 21, 2004 - Who says Nintendo doesn&#39;t know how to throw a party?
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Tycho:  We attended the same Nintendo Media Summit you have seen reported elsewhere, in the hopes of seeing Super Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - titles which are not minigame compilations, portable puzzle games, or games for my mom.  I don't want to say that the complimentary breakfast and lunch were a factor.  Let me say that we were hungry when we made the decision to go.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Paris Hilton knows something about nightclubs, so it makes sense the hotel heiress is the inspiration for a handful of clubs that will bear her name...
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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Even a city that spares no expense for a good time has never seen anything like this. The NBA All-Star game on Sunday may be meaningless, and after three nights of parties might be sloppy. But try telling that to people paying top dollar for a chance to see it.
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EVERY occupation entails answering certain frequently asked questions at parties. If you&#39;re a jeweler, it may be, &quot;Do you ever give discounts to friends?
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Thinking of a night out in London? Don't forget your wallet.
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Life & style: Today's dilemma for Beth:  My friends are off to the festivals but I'm broke. How can I have fun?
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Travel: Tourists spend up to Â£15,000 on bogus offers, but new laws do not come into effect until 2010.
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Three years ago, as Paris Hilton was about to turn 24, the celebutante got a sense of her worth to the nightclub industry in Las Vegas. She had celebrated her previous three birthdays at Light, the Bellagio hotel-casino nightclub run by the Light Group. But for her 24th, another company swooped in with an offer that trumped the standard private jet to and from L.A., a free stay at a luxury suite, a sumptuous dinner and, of course, free booze.