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Here is a Microsoft ad for the new gaming console, Xbox 360, that was filmed in Buenos Aires. It never made it on the air…which is understandable once you watch it.

here’s some advice on those spiffy sounding internet mortgage leads from people like lendingtree.com: don’t use them.
remember the spoof site “spammesilly.com” where you could submit your (or, perhaps an enemy’s) contact information with the hope of inundating the lucky soul with endless spam emails, pushy phone calls, and junk mail? well, […]

The Honduran teenager who killed a DEA agent just busted out of jail.
A teen accused of killing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and implicated in 16 other slayings has escaped from a youth correction facility — just as he promised he would — officials said Saturday.
Colindres and his 13-year-old bodyguard Manuel Romero were arrested […]

we repeat: go see new york doll. here are the sweet production notes:
New York Doll is a film that captures one of those rare occasions where life is not only stranger, but better than fiction.

on a normal night, as in a not-during-the-worst-riots-in-30-years-but-every-7-days type of night.

Youths set fire to 374 parked vehicles before dawn Sunday, compared to 502 the previous night, police said. A week ago, 1,400 cars were incinerated in a single night.
If the downward trend continues, “things could return to normal very quickly,” National Police Chief Michel Gaudin […]

pray for his family.

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Wow.
Folks over at Webtrends and ClickTracks are brushing their resumes up right now.

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Veterans Day: Just a word to you cake eating civilians out there… You don’t say Happy Veterans Day. You don’t say Merry Vets Day. But just because you don’t have a meaningless Seasons Greetings for it doesn’t mean you don’t say anything. This isn’t some fat bunny in a […]

Gabon, a nation in Africa, brings us the world’s craziest name for a political leader: President Bongo.
LIBREVILLE, 3 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - Already Africa’s longest-serving leader, Gabon’s President Omar Bongo has vowed to stand for another seven-year term in presidential elections due to be held before the end of year.
The 69-year-old, who has ruled the […]

Hillsdale, Michigan brings us our nation’s youngest mayor-elect, Michael Sessions.
Michael Sessions’ political career had an inauspicious start: When he ran for student council this year, he lost.
Now he’s about to be mayor.
Sessions, an 18-year-old high school student, won a long-shot write-in campaign this week to oust Hillsdale’s 51-year-old mayor.
“I just thought I’d give it a […]

Move over Google Maps. Yahoo has a cool “maps web site” now. Very, very smooth.

EXCLUSIVE: JUDGE ALITO’S MOTHER HARASSED BY PRESS…

El 4 y 5 de este mes se realizará La IV Cumbre de las Américas en Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Yo vivía en Mar del Plata por un tiempo en el año 2000, así que la ciudad tiene un lugarcito especial en mi corazón.
Lamentablemente, los sospechosos habituales estarán protestando y manifestando (o sea, haciendo el quilombo […]

Maybe this will help poke some holes in the ridiculous Google bubble.
Windows Live.
Here’s one guy’s take from Bill Gates’ presentation:
Now he’s talking about Windows Live and Office Live. The former, Windows Live, is not Windows. Rather, it’s “Internet based personal services to bring together your digital world.” But Windows Live isn’t MSN.com either. It sounds […]