Remember the heyday of of the romantic comedy. It usually headlined Tom Hanks with Meg Ryan, or Tom Hanks with… okay let’s just leave it at that on-screen duo.
What we get with “What Happens in Vegas” is Ashton Kutcher (That 70’s show, Butterfly Effect) paired with Cameron Diaz (Shrek, Charlie’s Angles) in an absurdly contrived […]

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My personal life is uneventful — which is how I like it. So it’s only occasionally that I find something worth noting on my personal blog. Something I noted there recently, however, sparked a train of thought. I noted how many Presbyterians there are in Korea: about 20% of the South Korean population, if I […]

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Dennis Farina, TV’s crime series “Law & Order” Joe Fontana has been busted! He was caught attempting to board a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Chicago carrying a loaded .22 caliber, semi-automatic pistol Sunday morning at the Los Angeles International Airport LAX.
Farina worked in Chicago as a police officer for nearly 20 years. […]

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Lewis Hamilton drove a skilful, aggressive and well-judged race at the Turkish Grand Prix to answer the critics who wondered whether the wunderkind who thrilled us for of much of the 2007 F1 season would ever return. Hamilton would have been Drivers’ world champion last year but for an end of season loss of form which, […]

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Chronicling the odd adventurous life of the Paskowtiz family, led by Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, Doug Pray’s new documentary, Surfwise, is an hour and a half of engaging, memorable footage. With the glut of documentaries that have been hitting the market lately, due to the recent upsurge in the genre’s popularity, these endeavors can be hit […]

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The ever so popular CCTV cameras have become really popular in stores to help catch thieves and prevent crime. Even the great Tim Hortons, known for its coffee and doughnuts uses them.
Apparently their cameras caught on camera a thief. Someone in their store committed a crime. It was one of their employees at that and […]

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This is not a DVD for wimps. I pretty much can handle anything, but at 6am on a Sunday morning even I found this one a little tough to take.
Rap (esque) is not a style I like. I can find very few redeeming features in this so called music genre. If you like it, and […]

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Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains
 By Ron Lipsman
 The title of this book intrigued me and attracted me to read it, it is based loosely on the age old quote possibly of Churchill’s regarding being young and liberal and being old and conservative.  Unfortunately, Lipsman takes this quote from late 19th Century early 20th Century Britain and […]

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News in The Observer, May 11 2008, that Royal Dutch Shell is to pay £3m ($6 billion) to directors simply to stay on the board for three years will be met with strong criticism not only by the investor community but also by one of Shell’s forgotten set of stakeholders - their Pensioners in the […]

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“In nature one organisms waste is another organisms opportunity” Dr. David Suzuki tells us.
How true that is. I work in an environment that very much features this idea. I work with the homeless, maybe the greatest recycling sector on the planet. They scour the city for empty cans and bottles that have a redemption value, […]

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BURMA: The poorest nation on this earth has been hit by the most deadliest Cyclone of 2008 at May 2 unknown and unprepared, and facing the worst disaster the world have never seen before.
And yet the infamous (in-fact the most infamous) Military Junta Government is really quite busy with the REFERENDUM to approved self written […]

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Well, it’s time to update the Linux. The latest update is Hardy Heron.
Computer people like cute names, and each Linux/ubuntu update has an animal name to identify it. Hardy Heron, gutsy Gibbon, etc.
The last time  I updated my Ubuntu operating sytem, I downloaded a torrent file of the iso (in English, I downloaded a new […]

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We at BNN would like to wish all the mother’s out there a very Happy Mother’s Day!
Today is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of celebrating this day. Ann Jarvis started it back in 1908. She got the idea from her mother who had passed away about 3 years earlier.
When Anna was just a child […]

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Myanmar, formally known as Burma was a country in trouble already, the ruling military junta had created an atmosphere of fear and insecurity. Most of the world knows very little about this county. Indeed were it not for a BNN journalist that lives in Myanmar, I would know little.
It is now a week since the […]

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Rapper Earl Simmons better known as DMX, is looking at increasing his rap sheet. DMX faces seven misdemeanor animal cruelty charges and four felony drug possession charges, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Joe Arpio is about as much fun as the bubonic plague on a good day. One can only assume that Mr […]

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