Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Today was US launch day for the controversial book by Sherry Jones The Jewel Of Medina. Some of the more extreme elements of the Muslim world are incensed that someone could have the audacity to write a novel about Muhammad and his child bride A’isha. The book itself is harmless, it is just a historical [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI's bestselling book, Jesus of Nazareth, can help thwart the confusion caused by books such as US author Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code, a top Roman Catholic cleric suggested Monday. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the General ...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I completely forgot about one of next summer's big films - Angels & Demons. But thankfully we've got a great reminder today in the form of a teaser poster. The only thing is this wasn't officially released, as far as we know, although it very much looks like it could be. This comes to us today from an Icelandic movie site called Topp5.is (via SlashFilm). This is a bit too impressive to be a fan creation,...
Hulver's site (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Don't worry, no spoilers. The ending wasn't terrible. They managed to keep it together. All in all, it was an interesting book, better than Dan Brown, a light 900-page read that managed to keep my attention and not disappoint me for wasting my time. Gave me a few things to think about, but wasn't really all that great, philosophically. Really, the parts that evoke the most philosophical thought are...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
100 Books in One Year #10: The Last Oracle by James Rollins Cannonball Read / Brian Prisco...
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
A consortium of "11th hour" celebrities and has beens led by Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne who are interested in looking after the affairs of beleaguered premiership team Newcastle United have launched an ambitious package with a view to saving the club.
Talking Points with Tim Kawakami (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
–From the desk of MARK PURDY (making his NFL Party host debut this Sunday)…. We’ll begin shortly before the Niners’ 10 a.m. kickoff in New Orleans and will include contributions from me, Tim Kawakami, Dan Brown, Ann Killion and probably John Ryan. I am promising to be the... Continue reading...
bog-brush (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
A Catholic priest is fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the throat by a man obsessed with The Da Vinci Code. Father Canio Canistri, 68, was among three people attacked by Marco Luzi, 25, after he burst into the church following the screening of Dan Brown’s blockbuster. Police searched Luzi’s house and found a [...]
Top News Cast - World (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
By Dan Brown Here are simple step-by-step instructions on how to come up with great panoramic images using Photoshop CS Photomerge: Open several images of a single scenery in Photoshop CS. Go to the File option, the select Automate, and then go to Photomerge. This will open the Photoshop dialog box. Check that the images you want to merge are in the dialog box. Next check the Attempt to Automatically...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly is to quit Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour government because she wants to spend more time with her family, one of her officials said on Wednesday.
Top News Cast - World (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
By Dan Brown Color Correction: You can change the color of your image and balance the overall exposure of your images in a number of ways. The most common is by using the levels function or the curves. Here you can gently touch up your photo making the dark areas darker and the lighter areas lighter to achieve greater or lesser contrast. There are countless other methods and techniques you can use...
Game Career Guide Features (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
You've probably heard that good ideas are a dime a dozen, that no idea is truly original, and that game designers have to dream up thousands of ideas before the useful ones surface. Where do all those ideas come from? How do creative people, like game designers, remember any of them? And believe it or not, there's even software to help!
Resurrecting the Wood (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
While reading the Da Vinci Code novel by Dan Brown this summer I was thoroughly intrigued by the many layers that were going on at the same time together with the various elements that came into play and being curious I decided to take the time to research the internet to see if any references [...]
The Pump Handle (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
The front page of today’s Washington Post announces “Public Health Is a Hot Field,” reporting that an understanding of epidemiology, community-based interventions, disease surveillance and study design are high-demand topics on college campuses for undergraduate students. I learned this exact thing two years ago when I was asked to teach part of the required curriculum for the George Washington University’s...
CIVITATENSIS (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Michael Coren has chosen to be charitable in his interpretation of how Quebec journalists, politicians and members of the intelligentsia in general are reacting to the news that some of the candidates in the present election campaign have Christian beliefs of one sort or another. Coren thinks that Duceppe is stupidly going after Opus Dei caricature, [...]
