Thu 28 Aug 2008
The National Snow and Ice Data Center, based at the University of Colorado, reported the ice Monday melted below the 2005 minimum of 2.05 million square miles set on Sept. 21 that year. Exact figures will be released Wednesday.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
The Tintin tag-teaming has begun. Steven Spielberg is still slated to direct the first of three planned films about the mystery-solving Belgian reporter and his trusty fox terrier Snowy, despite recent word from the Brussels studio that owns the rights to the characters that Peter Jackson would be doing the honors for Tintin’s first outing.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Kermit the frog and friends could return in the first new Muppet Show TV series for 27 years.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Nearly 6 months after his death, Ledger’s performance as the Joker helped power “The Dark Knight” to a best-ever $18.5 million opening-night take. It was the first in a cavalcade of domestic BO records shattered by a film that has survived a host of challenges to become the highest-grossing Warners release of all time ($489.4 million and counting)
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Federal authorities say they have arrested a blogger suspected of streaming songs from Guns N’ Roses unreleased album, “Chinese Democracy,” on his Web site. FBI agents arrested 27-year-old Kevin Cogill on Wednesday morning on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws. Federal authorities say Cogill posted nine unreleased Guns N’ Roses songs…
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give them property rights?
Thu 28 Aug 2008
If there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it. On Monday, President Bush demanded that Russia’s leaders reject their parliament’s appeal to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Within 24 hours, Bush had his response.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a ‘declaration of war’ by Russia.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
A diary on DailyKos reprinting the text of a diary that prompted the AP to out a blogger to his employer for no good reason except to harass him, in an attempt to silence criticism from bloggers everywhere.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Examining McCain’s shifts on taxes today, the Wall Street Journal’s Martin Vaughan writes that “an apt description” for McCain’s tax proposals would be to say “that the wealthy would benefit most.” In fact, as the Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards points out, McCain’s proposals are aimed at the wealthy “even more so than Bush’s”