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I still find it hard to believe that the person Sweetie [his wife, Sana, 27], who wrote such wonderful things to me on the internet, is actually the woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years." Other couples, though, did better online, including singer James Blunt who "sold his sister on ebay". He explained to British GQ : "My sister was crying because she couldn't get to a funeral in Ireland. Planes were on strike, the ferry was out of season and there were no trains. I whacked it on ebay: 'Damsel in distress seeks knight in shining armour to get to a funeral in Ireland. Please help!' The guy who won had a helicopter. "That was three years ago. They're getting married this summer." Then there was the Australian photographer who gave his girlfriend a gift-wrapped house for Valentine's Day.
As far as Will Ferrell films go, 'Semi-Pro' is minor league
Say hello again to the magnificent, cheesy, infamous and long-gone Virginia Squires. It was the local professional basketball team of the 1970s, the one with the worst winning percentage in American Basketball Association history. So why bring up that rarest of things, a local professional sports team? The new movie "Semi-Pro," which opens today, is the culprit. Shameless buffoon Will Ferrell stars as a pop singer who owns, coaches and plays on a small-market team as the ABA nears extinction. Indeed, as shown in the movie, the ABA did come to an end in 1976, allowing four of its teams to merge into the NBA. The Virginia Squires was not in that final four. In the movie, the struggling team at the center of things is the Flint Tropics, a fictitious outfit centered in Flint, Mich., where Ferrell's character, Jackie Moon, is as famous as Henry Ford.
Interesting email in today mailbag: “ Will SP1 contain undisclosed ...
Hardware 2.0 Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Mac users - Secure or smug? Posted in: Security Mac AMD The accepted wisdom is that Mac users are immune to most of the security afflictions which plague those mere mortals that are still using Windows. But is all this set to change? Is a wave of Mac-homing malware getting ready to flood the Internet? I ask because of a piece run by Infoworld a few days ago. It seems that security firm Kaspersky Labs has a prototype antivirus software in the works in case hackers suddenly set their sights on Mac users. San Francisco - Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab has a prototype version of its virus protection software waiting in the wings in case Apple Mac OS X suddenly becomes a target of choice for hackers.
MTA Urges Albany To Green Light Congestion Pricing
Legislature members have been anxiously waiting for details of the congestion pricing service upgrades. On Wednesday, a spokesman for assembly speaker Sheldon Silver said he still wasn't satisfied. (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) .
A walk down the Yellow Brick Road of Malaysia's Corridor of the future
We are now three days away from the big day for Malaysia's General Election. I've been watching the electronic press and the blogs this last week to see how much of an influence the "E" factor is going to play in this election as far as disseminating of information, spreading gossip, mobilizing people and, of course, campaigning for votes goes. I've also attended a couple of ceramahs just to see how quickly the news/info gets disseminated onto YouTube, and how much of a part YouTube is playing in terms of getting information or messages across. Dear Prime Minister... One big "E" splash that was made during campaigning last week was the launch of the Prime Minister's feedback Web site called warkahuntukpm.com.my, which was launched March 1 with much press and publicity. The concept behind warkahuntukpm.com.my is this: Write to the PM and tell him your issues, and he'll look into the matter.
US Data Push European Stocks Lower
In economic news, UK house prices fell for the fourth straight month in February, the lowest annual rate of growth in more than two years, according to Nationwide's latest survey. And Liechtenstein's Prime Minister told the European Union he wanted a "reasonable deal" over tax fraud, while Canada becomes the latest country to launch its own investigations. .
Rich Hofmann: There will be a lot to digest in Clemens steroids ...
I WAS GOING TO HAVE a Roger Clemens Hearing Party but didn't know what to serve. The other sports are so much easier. Super Bowl parties all have a hollowed-out loaf of bread, kind of shaped like a football, with some dipping glop poured inside. If you have people over to watch a fight on pay-per-view, it's pretty much chips right out of the bag. But what do you do with this? And can you drink at 10 o'clock on a Wednesday morning? Or, rather, can you not drink and get through it? So many questions. Like, can ESPN's Chris Berman find a way to keep himself off of Deadspin for 5 minutes and come up with a few nicknames on the pregame show? Like, say, Henry "Turtle" Waxman? If I were a member of the committee, one of the esteemed honorables who had the good fortune to be assigned to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - screw that Foreign Affairs or Ways and Means stuff - I would be torn about my appearance.
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