T3 (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Our slightly gnarled hard-rockin' amigos at Metal Hammer magazine offer their verdict as rumoured Guitar Hero tracklist is leaked.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By Paddy Briggs There are many who believe that many of Shell’s problems in recent times has come from a growing Americanisation of this historically European company. My experience with senior Americans (Jim Morgan, Steve Miller, Lynn Elsenhans and others) was…
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
In "The Love Guru," Mike Myers must come to love himself before he can love others. From the credits of this scattershot comedy sketch stretched and strained to movie length, Myers clearly loved
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Earlier this year, Royal Dutch Shell PLC spent more than $2 billion acquiring drilling leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Arctic holds as much as 90bn barrels of undiscovered oil and has as much undiscovered gas as all the reserves known to exist in Russia, US government scientists have said in the first governmental assessment of the region’s resources.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The price of oil looks set to fall further in the coming days despite continued hurricane fears and concern over the political impasse between the United States and Iran.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
BP has been under siege in Russia for months, with police raids on its Moscow office, problems getting visas for staff seconded to TNK-BP, and legal action from a minority investor. On Wednesday, the UK company withdrew its remaining 60 engineers.
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Hello there! I'm in a mad rush to get everything together for Comic-Con, so excuse me if I write a little less today. My flight leaves early tomorrow morning, and I'll head straight to the convention center once I arrive...
markstorer.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
“Because Gotham gets the hero it deserves, but doesn’t need…” So says Commissioner Gordon about Harvey Dent, and inferentially about The Dark Knight himself. Certainly the best film of the summer, the latest installment of Batman is downright important film-making, downright wonderfully directed, acted and scored and downright fun. I’m hard pressed to find [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
in post Songs For The Joker from HYPEFUL .
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Sorry, this post has absolutely nothing to do with the tech policy issues we cover here at the TLF, but since I do not have a personal blog of my own, I just couldn’t help but post this silly list. Late last night, I was reading Nick Carr’s blog and saw that he had picked [...]
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
In his continuing effort to fly like an eagle, Steve Miller has a new injection of soul: Sonny Charles, the former lead singer of the '60s band the Checkmates, who had one hit with the song "Black Pearl." read more
Global Gamer News Network (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I've got a couple of free minutes, so I compiled this for everyone. NOTE: Hyperlinks won't work. LJ fails again. So the Rock Band 2 songlist was released today. But with so much information hitting the nets, I've decided to go through the list and post links of some of the songs that really caught my eye. (Obviously this is just a fraction of the full songlist. You can get the whole songlist here)...
Word Around the Net (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
But that ain't all. I lost my mind in Oregon -Loretta Lyn, Portland Oregon I've lived in the state of Oregon since 1969 when I was a little tyke, essentially all my life. That makes me comfortable and familiar with local words such as Willamette, Philomath and even Oregon, which people seem to mispronounce badly (particularly on the east coast). It's "orygun" not "ahregawn." When I went to
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Professor Steve Miller joins us to talk about the sometimes strained relationship between science and the media. Plus award winning novelist Ian McEwan muses on creativity and how it might differ between artists and scientists.
