http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:08:28 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_1 653d6d17fead7ca9692b84b3b59d4c60 Attempts to extricate the Mars Spirit rover from soft soil are set to start soon.NASA/JPL-Solar System Visualization Team After being stuck in soft soil on Mars for six months, Spirit, one of two NASA rovers on the red planet, is about to attempt an escape. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:49:45 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_2 abd363d93849da948577bf8056cc4fd0 大量高精細映像コンテンツへの高機能なインタラクティブ視聴を可能とする次世代映像配信技術 『fabric video（ファブリック・ビデオ）』を研究開発しています． (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:26:55 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_3 1d52c257de6695ff1fe98668e8ed07cd Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:09:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_4 3ba1a015ed93b521539591290beff63f click here for the artist's website and here for more work @ a gallery (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:15:42 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_5 69ace59e28f3cfd9cd4538fc74563490 Wow! That was �30 million euros well spent by Russia! A spectacular Eurovision this year, with some good songs - and I doubt if any one can moan about the ones that did well - there was still some block voting (Scandinavia of course, and a few of those eastern countries!) but either the jury voting seems to have made a big difference or this has ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:08:28 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_6 763f0fbf1b1715c654d82566537e0d8a Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:59:47 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_7 d7aaade43b7711c800232ca532d36b7f (Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for spam, so your comment may not appear immediately.) (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:49:45 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_8 25983a13381bb03e6dc9533db409cae4 Did you know that Daniel Waters, writer of Heathers, and Winona Ryder teamed up for another film? Sex and Death 101Buy this DVD It’s called Sex and Death 101. Simon Baker, star of the The Mentalist, is Roderick Blank, a successful, handsome man who winds up with a 101-item list of all the women he has [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:23:56 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_9 c2888b1487529944df7378f04566d30c So after the reader meetup on Saturday, I and two of my readers, Barry and Eric, wandered over to Capitol Hill to see the anti-health care protests. The protest was on the West lawn, so we had to walk all the way around the building before we got to it. And before Fox News tries to tell you that there were 50,000 people there, the number was a ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:21:54 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_10 2ea65735ec4d93533831be832ee29b2b Fight! Fight! The librarians are fighting about software! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:21:54 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_11 5acf996009c55139ff17a70f67104ab5 Washington (CNN) -- The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215. With the passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, proponents of health care reform took an important step forward, but turning the bill into law remains uncertain. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T09:13:14-05:00 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_12 115dfa329f1fbf29cd0f2e8b5bf1ebb3 V © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 joseph o. holmes v portfolio site v news blog v faq v about, archives, links v tools v email v (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:09:26 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_13 d86252f247e2c694b924832490459331 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_14 7f9efa8957108f0eb9bd4e440d8667c4 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:44:38 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_15 e36001f8beeb5530f4d3df8641272a7a Before I get down to business, I wanted to make some remarks about a post I a couple of days ago on having children and being exhausted . I really appreciate the frankness of the comments people left, but I suppose I didn't leave thing on a very positive note. I was pretty tired and this has been a challenging week, science-wise. I am trying to ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:01:47 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_16 d971baf13d14d7f112eec849b2d244c6 More interesting links that I've shared via Twitter over the past seven days. If I had to highlight just one you should really click on, take some time to be wowed by the HiRISE imagery of Mars over at the Big Picture - they are jaw-droppingly beautiful. And seismogenic - also known as Julian from Harmonic Tremors - earned all the geonerd cred, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:05:11 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_17 d299c86684c66ec3bc658dce32aafa27 A rock squirrel ( Spermophilus variegatus ), photographed at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:35:26 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_18 a4814e6acdbe417dff93deb7e2171ab4 There's a nice rebuttal of the Sirsi Dynix anti-open source white paper done by Mark Leggott that just came out (I found it via Jason Griffey ). More thoughtful than some. There are so many misconceptions on both sides of this. First, open source is not free. You do need people to install and maintain it and maybe customize it. Some open source ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:30 PST http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_19 e6df88530a1af88cc0c176097ad247eb Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:11:30 -0800 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/1#item_20 645e2907decf27cb120d99bb9a96357a See Every Federal Lobbyist in the US since 1999, all their clients, what they charged, and who they lobbied for each client. Date Updated: 2009-11-08 Developer: MapLarge Tags: flash , Flex , gov , government APIs: Google Analytics , Google Maps Flash , GovTrack.us , OpenStreetMap (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:11:28 -0800 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_1 895afd8272aca789055cd480b10124b8 Tourism network to share hobbies. Users can add points of interest on monuments, restaurants, hotels and other things that are of interest to them. Date Updated: 2009-11-08 Developer: tonievaspam Tags: hobbies , hotels , mapping , restaurant , Tourism , travel APIs: Google Maps (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:24:55 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_2 4cac28c722008abada6a599a7dc8b1b2 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:30:00 PST http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_3 d6d9a8dc2c39b1600db53c8e664c0320 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:05:51 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_4 999414fba65664d15b01a18debab9f0b I just finished What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn and I loved every page. I was so sad at the end, though, and have been thinking about it ever since. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:05:51 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_5 04f83e6fe000370f7cb660d40d7ced04 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:01:41 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_6 4dc35d79db922e5eaa2c3ea6082e938b That which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate. But strong in will, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yeild. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T09:00:53+00:00 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_7 6de07db9b069c4b59b41cb81c0991567 Another month, another £25 billion in quantitative easing from the Bank of England. The latest addition to the Bank's asset purchases will take the total to a nice round £200 billion. The Bank seems to be winding down this... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:15:58 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_8 021ec2c662b7ee65560210cb9a6c9ee2 Executives from Tudou—one of two companies left fighting it out to be the YouTube of China—were in San Francisco earlier this week to meet with investors and do a little schmoozing. I met up with CEO Gary Wang and COO Sam Lai, who already raised some $85 million from Granite Global Ventures and General Catalyst Partners, and they swore they ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T01:34:52-05:00 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_9 0882e4fd149c49d6eba77dbea52af833 Seen at around Carlton and Berkeley.... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T04:00:05Z http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_10 0a536eb390cd00a73e0b27757b59744c Posted bohyunkim: New blog post: Microsoft Surface Table at libraries http://bit.ly/2DdaAR . Shared tracks . Share: No tags for this post. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-08T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_11 6bc8279d8a9749c00a4c153935d6b8db By Elaine Viets Okay, I admit it. I don’t know how to talk to my cat. His name is Harry, and sometimes I call him that. Other times I call him "boy." Well, he is a male cat. Or Handsome... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:03:20 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_12 107e784ce25a5dd14dc55b84fdedfcc6 • Yen Press to Adapt James Patterson's Daniel X Novels • Madhouse's Iron Man Next Spring, Wolverine in Summer (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:30:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_13 5b9f47c6d9e98993b11c9dc00530ce64 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:25:54 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_14 aba3f46cf6f8435197fb606009297dbc I'd probably feel slightly smug, if I didn't feel so sick. Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency , the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. Unfortunately it's hard to feel smug - hard to feel anything but sadness and nausea - (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:56:49 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_15 20a45377fc8e0daafdb546662c3d3392 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:27:35 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_16 f28e212b6567520a946d9b90d6875513 I got a kinda crazy four days ahead of me (Sunday: Auditions at the Firehouse in Richmond, VA for Crumble...Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake. Monday: Early AM flight back up to NYC for reading I'm directing for Rattlestick/The Barrow Group,... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:12:25 -0800 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/21#item_17 76bb09e6e364aaca675c63641b6d1c16 Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Mundane details" - originally published 11/6/2009 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! 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Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy down the street. Some commenters took my story ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:00:54 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_4 1b6569d93bf6d70f035d2a62cead5e01 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:16:50 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_5 675b21a5b5ff7a42336bafb65c2000da The official website for the Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-Hen (Gintama: Benizakura Arc — A New Retelling) anime movie has begun streaming a half-minute teaser trailer on Friday. Sunrise's film adaptation of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama alternate-history gag manga will open during Golden Week, the string of Japanese holidays that stretches from the ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:52:51 GMT http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_6 7985385fb2aa2f0c80702cd058549dde I'm going to be moving and can't take some of my stuff with me OTL , but my loss is your gain! Please visit my journal link below!!! katcheecricket.livejournal.com/1102.html#cutid1 (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:25:12 -0800 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_7 c5365deef752502bc226323a5435aa04 His birthday is actually on Monday, but today marks the first annual event initiated by Broward College in Florida . In honor of the event, here is Carl Sagan's final interview prior to his death. Amazing isn't it that the science vs. religion debate hasn't changed much after 15 years. But it must be the atheists that are to blame ! You may be ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:59:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_8 cf8afb5345a458a3858fa3a3aa1c8600 American history is filled with powerful men who have have honed their competitive strategies around the card table. In Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker , author James McManus details how the game's logic is reflected in our history of battles and business. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:40 MST http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_9 5b8e0a378dd76334c05e24b00f7fc9ed The Shaun of the Dead and Star Trek star posts a forum update about his latest film, Paul, about two British "comic book nerds" who travel to Area 51 only to discover an actual alien! 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(Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:50:35 GMT http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_14 ebeecd95e404879ace885dafb15d7afd Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:51 MST http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_15 dfca5ee9e0c66ba7d54aa31be2da3f66 Stan the Man is mildly disappointed with 'Odin's' casting while World of Warcraft is ruining JFav's Iron Man 2 (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:51 MST http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_16 16d5375112a6b0ece8d265731636f077 As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we’re seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. And while there ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:26 MST http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_17 482e543577bedc76a2d97bb71b5dd596 Just saw this browsing through IGN.com and got a little stoked. Hopefully someone else out there enjoyed the Marvel Comics and the toys I much as I did growing up! Its my first time at a fansite so, here we go... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:20:35 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_18 b2487ef96e700e7f331b5898f975d0ad Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:08:05 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_19 e4b495bd4885d22bbb5fd0f88940ebc3 The Daily Star of Dhaka reports today that flood-tolerant rice will soon be officially released in Bangladesh . The flood-tolerant rice varieties (called Sub1- rice) can help farmers, many who live on less than $1/day, dramatically increase yield during floods. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:45:03 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/41#item_20 28b6f6a791e37fc3271ca6467fff2f91 Manga creator Mari Okazaki has ended her workplace romance Suppli in the December issue of Shodensha's Feel Young magazine in Japan on Saturday. The story revolves around Minami Fujii, a woman who discovers romantic opportunities at her job in an advertising agency after she splits up with her boyfriend. Okazaki will launch a Suppli side story ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:45 GMT http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_1 4ce01b4b491b01a83c5a0482fee358ab Production I.G will adapt into animation Natsuhiko Kyogoku's best-selling novel Loups-Garous, originally published in Japan in 2001. World-hit TV series Blood+ helmer Junichi Fujisaku will direct, and the all-girls rock band SCANDAL will contribute the music and be effective part of the story concept. In a near future, the world's population has ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:43:43 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_2 00f5bbb580d36aa96044d8d8fa012753 From Google: Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account -- easily and concisely in one location. Read the rest here Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T10:57:25-08:00 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_3 1c9dd0db9d609cb0a64a47f1dec25dae Download now or preview on posterous Reed College Public Policy.doc (3307 KB) Download pdf: 20091107 reed slides.pdf ---- ---- Posted via email from http://braddelong.posterous.com/reed-college-public-policy-lecture-todays-fin at Brad DeLong's Scrapbook (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:03:43 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_4 fe8ccdc22d7309b687cf21a98af7691b Huzzahs are in order for SciBling Jason Rosenhouse , whose entertaining and informative book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser (2009) made Amazon.com's annual list of the ten best science books . Not bad for a book which actually has equations in it! (Conflict-of-interest disclaimer: I was sent ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:42:08 GMT http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_5 046e07c63dceb2621b8ee041dd5d4fc7 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:42:08 GMT http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_6 93debeb1691a50646a7e4c817aadd774 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:37:07 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_7 31a770cbffba8fbaeb5f7d8ad2992b45 The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:21:38 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_8 ec822b772b995477339194a258932d1e Summary: It’s midterms time and everyone is stressed about exams, but Sawako is extra stressed as she ponders what to do now that she is alone yet again. Keeping her thoughts to herself, Sawako spends her entire exam time crying and thinking about what might have been with her new friends as now that she has [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:11:15 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_9 4cd6965542a81ffa57b0f9d63c8e5262 Yo dawg! This is a soccer tournament weekend for the Free-Rides. (First game: 8:00 AM. Time of departure from Casa Free-Ride: 6:30 AM. Zombification complete !) At the moment, the younger offspring and I are chilling before the younger offspring's team's second game; the younger offspring is watching Fred videos , while I am filling in gaps in ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:42:15 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_10 1bf643da08ac10a18b7cd0038e325015 It's always good to be able to categorize and explain relationships in the world. I'm going to have to ponder this further, though. The Mummy is clearly in the same region as Frankenstein, but does the infectious nature of lycanthropy put the Wolfman in the same category as Dracula? I guess if zombies count as converters, so do werewolves. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:28:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_11 992d4efeddafbfffdbbd5d505e2779ad Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:28:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_12 d8fdf2420ba6153a36859ca7cac75915 The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don’t answer that. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:28:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_13 3468ba809d29fbed42dd6c477a4bf9d0 Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life in Cuba, said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security agents about her opposition activity. Sánchez told The Associated Press that two state agents in civilian clothes stopped her in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:21:56 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_14 91a412f4b149f33cbac98a6b670dd32e Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:19:58 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_15 75b92e426027c4788d68bbe7b37a8230 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:17:51 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_16 eea55936c40fe76faf464c40b21e36fd Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:36:12 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_17 d156716221484deb663ab4aaca7b4e24 Some crazy lady in British Columbia named either Sonia or Tanja Jensen has me on a mailing list. I'm in good company; also on the list are the president of my university, Bob Bruininks, as well as Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, the Governor of Alaska, Greenpeace, Angela Merkel, and the German Balkan Trust. Strangely, NASA is not on the list. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:30:11 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_18 060a6dc0088976e715d19bc7d59515cc One of the problem with influenza vaccine production (as well as some other vaccines) is that the vaccine is made by injecting into chicken eggs--infecting chicken embryos--and then harvesting and killing the virus for use in the vaccine. This is a very time-consuming process that takes months. A holy grail of influenza vaccine production has ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:30:07 -0500 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/61#item_19 7ab0741bd37541c57430c12f71f4847c Of late president Obama has taken a little bit of heat for his frequent (and mostly male) golf outings. Before him, president Bush took the same sort of heat for his golf and vacations. If you were willing to dig a bit through the news archives, I'd bet you could find similar tut-tutting about previous presidents taking time off. It's a common ... 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(Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:33:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/81#item_3 74d991a21a1be9b84ea5ffb7ffdbbf59 "society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals" oscar's exquisite taste is obvious: he's wearing hfa's psychological disorder shirt , while posing in front of hfa's schizofont click here for more of his quotes (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:33:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/81#item_4 1db88bebf06261ad6289d89c0d4d7b2c Kate Shugak is an Aleut who lives on a 160-acre homestead in a generic national Park in Alaska. Her roommate is a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Her nearest neighbors are a bull moose and a grizzly sow. Farther off are dog mushers, miners, hunters, trappers, fishermen, bush pilots, pipeline workers, Park rats and Park rangers, other Aleuts, (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:33:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/81#item_5 7a9e37d87f7085695ba4cc690f3282ba It shouldn't be surprising that the forthcoming (Nov. 17) release of the long-locked-away Holy Grail of higher lit, Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished draft of The Original of Laura, is attended with an air of the clandestine. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-07T09:50:17Z http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/81#item_6 e86663cf8b1e5677ab38c5c53f4989e9 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:35:02 -0800 http://www.megite.com/arts/1257698299/81#item_7 6070f95b8dae05a8adcd999f8026b3fc Michael Gambon has sadly had to withdraw from Alan Bennett’s new play The Habit of Art, due to minor ill health for which he needs some time to rest. The role of W H Auden will now be taken by Richard Griffiths. 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