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From the Mirror’s celebrity gossip pages: Lindsay Lohan looks like an extra from the blockbuster movie Gladiator as she strides through LA in knee-high black sandal boots. Perhaps ancient Roman is the latest trend or maybe she wants a patterned tan on her legs. Beyonce looks even happier in strappy pumps and nephew Daniel seems…
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Dan Carpenter in the Indy Star on Sarah Palin last week (inter alia, of course): And the Obama detractors who rejected his assertion that his campaign for office was not about him are content to let her be a kind of Cleopatra in a parka, reclining symbol of lost stature. … interesting mental image …
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Excerpts from a piece at Network World … not bad: On a recent excavation, Chris Locke unearthed an amazingly well-preserved fossil of Hilarofustis atarium, commonly referred to as the Atari joystick. This is the most recent “discovery” he has made, but among his Modern Fossils collection you can also spot long-dead boom boxes, aged iPods,…
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The Sun has the scoop on the next ‘Big Brother’ (UK presumably) episode: As part of a Greek themed shopping challenge two housemates must dress up like the father and son team for a performance. [sc. Stavros Flatley ~ ed.] Greek Irish fusion dancers Demetrios Demetriou, 40, and son Lagi, 13, will provide the pair…
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Dynamite Entertainment has a new mini-series based on the goddess of Wisdom: The incipit of a review at Comic Book Resources: Though they originated thousands of years ago, the myths and legends of ancient Greece still serve as the gateway drug for fledgling fans of all kinds of adventure fiction in the modern day. In…
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