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World Wrestling Entertainment has found a tag-team partner in 20th Century Fox, inking a first-look deal that gives the studio rights to distribute pics headlined by the company’s pro wrestlers.
Beginning next year, WWE Films plans to develop, finance and produce at least one theatrical release and up to four direct-to-video titles annually, with Fox receiving [...]

The threat of cameras combined with artificial intelligence.
Privacy activists have been lamenting increasing surveillance by cameras and warn of abuse by the authorities who have access to them. But two additional trends portend a disturbing new direction.
The first trend: Cameras are increasingly monitoring non-criminals engaged in technically legal behavior. The second trend: Special new artificial [...]

There is an ongoing Technorati Favorite exchange experiment around the blogosphere. I am participating and hoping that my technorati rank will increase. The “favorites exchange” that Dosh Dosh is proposing is certainly interesting.
If you’re interested in exchanging favorites in this way you can start the ball rolling by clicking and letting me know [...]

Isn’t it time for fun, have some laugh. For the mean time forget serious stuff. Just came across a site and watch this video and I think its worth sharing.
You see a bunch of bikini clad babes holding up signs that read topless car wash ahead, what are you going to do? Even if your [...]

Ah, poor Google. First Viacom files suit against YouTube, alleging a billion dollars worth of copyright infringement. Now two more massive media conglomerates are joining up to open a second battle front, this time in the market instead of the courts. NBC and News Corp. issued a joint press release this morning, saying they were [...]

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GRAND CANYON WEST, Arizona–Native American elders and a former astronaut took the ceremonial first steps on Tuesday on a glass-bottomed walkway perched 4,000 feet over the Grand Canyon that promises dizzying views for those who dare.
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, 77, strode out onto the $30 million Skywalk, built by a private developer with the permission of [...]

Traditional radio may be losing its audience, but Internet radio stations–or more accurately, Web sites that stream music over the Web–are growing in popularity. But their commercial prospects could worsen under new rules that will raise their costs dramatically.

Last week the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board, an obscure arm of the Library of Congress, voted to [...]

Hollywood can make actors and actresses very, very rich. Or it can make them very well respected. But it usually doesn’t do both at the same time.
Consider Forbes‘ list of the world’s best-paid actors and actresses: The 23 stars on our list collectively earned $553 million over the course of a year. But only [...]

Playboy Enterprises is releasing the entire catalog of its magazine as a searchable digital archive. Playboy and Bondi Digital Publishing announced on Friday the upcoming release of six DVDs, which will span 636 issues beginning with the famous 1953 first issue with Marilyn Monroe on the cover. Bondi Digital is the same company that developed [...]

Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room today at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (which is on an Indian reservation) and was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida where she was pronounced dead. The cause of her death was an over dosage of sleeping pills.