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Couple tried to name baby @ | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Couple tried to name baby "@"
  • A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@," claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child
  • The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words.
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  • "The whole world uses it to write e-mail, and translated into Chinese it means 'love him'," the father explained
  • While "@" is familiar to Chinese e-mail users, they often use the English word "at" to sound it out -- which with a drawn out "T" sounds something like "ai ta," or "love him," to Mandarin speakers.
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Metallica Sues Red Octane/Activision & Harmonix for Copyright Infringement :: Daily Gam... - 0 views

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  • Metallica Sues Red Octane/Activision & Harmonix for Copyright Infringement
  • Attorneys for the Grammy award winning heavy metal band Metallica filed a lawsuit yesterday against Harmonix and Activision (who recently acquired Red Octane) for copyright infringement. The suit accuses the three gaming companies of illegally distributing copies of Metallica songs in the upcoming and highly anticipated games Guitar Hero III and Rock Band, both due out in late 2007.
  • The suit alleges that both companies planned to package and distribute Metallica music through their video games in what lawyers characterized as a "licensed music to player" system, or LM2P network. Metallica is fearful that album sales could decline if their fans were able to simply walk into any Gamestop or Best Buy and purchase an $80 video game that contained one of their songs.
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  • "Our company paid a licensing fee to feature the track 'One' by Metallica in Guitar Hero III," counsel for Activision/Red Octane told reporters. "We don't understand why Metallica would turn around and sue us, unless they've gone from insane completely batshit insane since 2001, but we're confident that the law and our contracts will be enough to have this thrown out."
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Why Bugs Are Not Huge | LiveScience - 0 views

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  • Why Bugs Are Not Huge
  • Dragonflies with hawk-sized wing spans and millipedes longer than a human leg lived more than 250 million years ago. Scientists have long wondered why sci-fi bugs don't exist today
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  • Unlike animals with backbones, like us, insects deliver oxygen to their tissues directly and bloodlessly through a network of dead-end tracheal tubes.
  • understanding what controls body size in insects,
  • Alex Kaiser of Midwestern University
  • shining X-rays on four living beetle species
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      used to measure:
      1) oxygen tube connecting to the head
      2) oxygen tubes connecting the the legs

  • oxygen transport becomes less efficient
  • the air passageways that lead from the body core to the legs turn out to be bottlenecks that limit how much oxygen can be delivered to the extremities
  • first step toward >
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ScienceDaily: What Makes A Great Movie? - 0 views

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  • What Makes A Great Movie?
  • A film that wins critical acclaim is likely to be an R-rated drama, adapted from a prize-winning play or book and based on a true story, with the original author or director involved in writing the screenplay.
  • It is unlikely to be a sequel or remake, a comedy or musical, a summer release, a big-budget project, have a PG-13 rating, open on numerous screens or do a big box office on the first weekend. It probably has an excellent score, but it may not have an award-winning song.
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  • Dean Simonton, a professor of psychology at UC Davis
  • has subjected thousands of feature-length, English-language, narrative films to a battery of statistical tests – including Pearson product-moment coefficients and hierarchical regression analyses – to get at the formula for cinematic creative triumph and box-office success.
  • Motion pictures provide a valuable research site for investigating group artistic creativity under real-world conditions."
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Rove to leave White House at end of August - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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  • Karl Rove said he expects to play an informal role in the 2008 presidential race
  • Rove helped run Bush's successful campaigns for Texas governor and the presidency.
  • Rove, 56, Bush's deputy chief of staff, said he wants to spend more time with his family.
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  • Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said "goodbye, good riddance," but "the architect" of Bush's campaigns isn't giving up politics.
  • Rove also will write a book, give speeches, help plan Bush's presidential library and might start a company to give strategic advice to corporate clients.
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