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Royal Navy - Engineer Officer Challenge for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store Really Interesting Group Vulture Exclusive: To Protect James Cameron’s Feelings, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Avatar Sketch Is Cut From Oscar Telecast Just a week ago, Sacha Baron Cohen — the alter ego of Borat and Brüno — was announced as an Oscar presenter by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Now, suddenly, Baron Cohen has vanished from that list. Why is he gone from the show? An insider familiar with the Oscar telecast tells Vulture that an Avatar sketch planned by Baron Cohen and Ben Stiller was nixed yesterday by show producer Bill Mechanic, who worried that Cameron would be so offended by it that he might even walk out of the Oscar broadcast on live TV. So what skit could possibly so incense the HMFIC? Our insider informs us that Baron Cohen planned to appear onstage as a blue-skinned, female Na’vi, with Stiller translating “her” interplanetary speech. Mechanic, now both a producer of motion pictures and of this year’s Oscar telecast, was head of Twentieth Century Fox when Cameron’s Titanic famously went massively over budget and over schedule, so he’s well acquainted with Cameron’s sense of humor — or lack of it.

TheChemicalBrothers.com - Official Home of The Chemical Brothers | home NearInteraction With Its New Release, Gowalla Expands The Check-In Game (Video) Regular readers will know my love for all things location. In particular, these check-in location-based services fascinate me, mainly because I see them as a bridge between social networks as we’ve known it, and actual social interaction in the real world. Foursquare has been my app of choice over the past year (it launched almost exactly a year ago at SXSW). But the latest version of Gowalla has me thinking about switching sides. At the very least, I’ll be using both at all times now. Gowalla version 2.0 for the iPhone just hit the App Store today. Specifically, you can now add pictures and comments to check-ins in Gowalla. Now, others have tried to add additional layers to check-ins in the past. Previously, with Gowalla, I thought the focus was too much on their virtual items. All that said, there are two downsides still to the service. The second downside is that Gowalla’s API remains read-only. You can find Gowalla 2.0 in the App Store here.

BBH IDEO | A Design and Innovation Consulting Firm Le Cluetrain Manifesto appliqué à la politique | Owni.fr Le Cluetrain Manifesto (Le Manifeste des évidences) est un petit peu la bible du nouveau web. Voici sa transcription à l'échelle de la politique, particulièrement savoureuse en cet entre-deux-tours des régionales. Image CC baratunde sur Flickr Le Cluetrain Manifesto ( en français, Le manifeste des Évidences) est un petit peu la bible du nouveau web. Sorties en 1999 par Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger, ces 95 affirmations sont autant de clés fondamentales pour comprendre les changements de mentalité que le web provoque, de gré ou de force, au sein des entreprises. Une seule chose compte: l’utilisateur. Depuis que je blogue, j’ai relu à maintes reprises ce Cluetrain. Amis français, vous qui allez voter dimanche, je crois que la lecture des quelques lignes ci-dessous devraient vous mettre en joie. Électeurs connectés … Les électeurs connectés commencent à s’organiser plus vite que les partis et les organismes politiques qui les ont traditionnellement ciblés. … Les habitants de la Terre 1.

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