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Une petite brève pour vous mettre l’eau a la bouche avec la première photo du Yerba Buena Center of the Arts de San Francisco, là où se tiendra la prochaine Keynote de Steve Jobs, le mardi 09 Septembre à partir de 19h très précisément. Vous pourrez discuter en temps réel pendant cette Keynote et commenter [...]

Is Kim Jong Il for real? The question has baffled foreign intelligence agencies for years, but a veteran Japanese expert on North Korea says the 'dear leader' is actually dead — and his role is played by a double.

When was the last time you saw a short film in the theater? I don't mean an 85-minute animated movie; I mean an actual short, like they give separate Oscars to. Otherwise known as a short subject, defined (by the Academy) as anything with a running time less than 40 minutes. Chances are, unless you attend film festivals, go to see the toured screenings of Oscar shorts, or bought a ticket to Paris, Je T'Aime, it's been awhile since you actually saw a short film on a big screen.

Or, maybe I should specify that it's likely been awhile since you purposefully went to see a specifically timed screening of a short film or compilation of shorts at the theater. Technically some ads for Coca-Cola and other companies, the ones made by novice filmmakers as part of a competition or something, count as shorts. And, I'm fully aware that some arthouse cinemas, such as NYC's IFC Center, run a short film in place of pre-show commercials. But as far as I can tell, such shorts are not specifically advertised as screening at a designated time. Sure, you can go on the IFC Center's website and find out that Erik Rosenlund's Looking Glass is the short currently being shown (as it was this past week when I saw Trouble the Water there), but for most people (myself included), it's a surprise. And I doubt anyone has trekked to IFC just to see that particular film, unless anyone is a huge aficionado of frightening black and white Swedish animation.

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Halloween fog machines? Been there, inhaled that. Bubble machines? Still pretty cool, soap in the eye or not. But what if humanity had created a machine that combined the venerable fog machine with...

Halloween fog machines? Been there, inhaled that. Bubble machines? Still pretty cool, soap in the eye or not. But what if humanity had created a machine that combined the venerable fog machine with bubbles? Interest piqued? Consider it done!

According to the Bubble Fogger's Amazon listing, this marvelous contraption creates fog solution-filled bubbles and casts them out into the Halloween kitsch-filled ether that is your home in October. When the bubbles pop, most likely in your eyes or on stain prone furniture, they become fog. The kit includes both the bubble and fog solution, and will set you back $40. As far as over-priced, short-lived Halloween crap goes, that's kind of a bargain. [Amazon via Random Good Stuff]

A few weeks ago, Listening Post asked for your bizarro uncle scripts and stories in exchange for free copies of UNKLE's recently released effort End Titles...Stories for Film. What we ended up with were creepy, unbelievable and hilarious tales of domestic weirdness. We've since slept very little.

But seriously, those were direct quotes from the judges. Creepy, unbelievable and hilarious, step forth! You are winners. Now let's all get some sleep.

JUDGEMENT: "Hilarious!"
FIRST PLACE: Jetsetdork

My mom and dad both came from good sized Catholic families so it seems like I have uncle or two in every state and under most rocks. But I'd like to just tell you about one of my uncles from my mom's side. This uncle suffered a nasty divorce when I was in high school and moved into the apartment attached to our house. Since he had a long commute and my family kept pretty busy we didn't see him all the time, but every time a wave of stale bacon scent would fill our first floor we knew my uncle had opened the door between his place and ours. Between him and his son, who would sometimes spend the weekends, they must have gone through more pigs than I want to think about. The story does not end there, though. Years went by and my family left the house and my uncle stayed on. Eventually he left, too, and a friend of mine rented the apartment. When I asked him what he thought of the place he said that it was nice that he couldn't "shake the smell of bacon". This same uncle also left his plastic x-mas tree up all year; decorated with toys from his son's Happy Meals and birthday presents. In keeping with this x-mas theme, the traditional angel at the top was replaced by Sponge Bob Squarepants.

JUDGEMENT: "Creepy!"
SECOND PLACE: Khan

I had an uncle whom I believed was a distant cousin of my father. He came to stay when I was about 10. He never really did anything but spent the days loafing around the house, sleeping or eating whatever he could find in the cupboards. The hardest part of his visit was when my parents would leave for work, leaving me and my brother and sister alone with him during the day. It was summer so my siblings and I spent most of the days outside hanging out with the other children on the street. When we went back inside the house for lunch or later in the afternoon, we would find our uncle sleeping on the couch, which was what he was doing when we left. But somehow, things always seemed to be a little out of place, particularly in our bedrooms. I would look around to see what was missing but all my belongings would still be there. And yet, something always felt off. I asked my sister, who was then 14, if anything had been taken from her room but she couldn't see anything that was taken and said "no." Then one afternoon, we were sitting around the kitchen table and I related, rather foolishly, a story to my uncle and siblings of when I was four and was led to a garage by two older, teenaged girls and asked to pull my pants down. The experience had been a disturbing one for me and up until then I hadn't mentioned it to anyone. My uncle responded by telling me that had I been ten years older at the time I would have enjoyed the experience. Utterly disgusted after he made that remark, I avoided him completely and wouldn't eat at the dinner table with the family for the rest of my uncle's stay. On the day that my uncle was leaving, my mother gave me a package of tea to give to my uncle to take with him when he left. Not wanting to speak with him or confront him after his remark about my experience, I decided to just stuff the tea box in his suitcase instead. I unzipped the suitcase and prepared to shove the tea box in with the rest of his clothes - but stared in horror at the bundle of pink underwear, which I would soon learn belonged to my sister.

JUDGEMENT: "Unbelievable!"
THIRD PLACE: Tie! CDug...

My uncle had a neighbour who always parked in his stall. Several times he very poiltely asked him not to, the guy always agreed but did it again later anyways. Finally one day, when my uncle had a few beers in him someone mentioned that his stall was being used again. He stood up, walked calmy out to the praking lot, climbed on top of the vehicle, puled down his pants, squatted down and pushed out a big deuce right on the windshield. When he was done, he pulled his pants up, climbed down and walked back over to his yard and sat back down. The stall was never used again.

JUDGEMENT: "Unbelievable!"
THIRD PLACE: ...and Sam

My uncle Rick was telling one of his long, rambling joke-stories a few Christmases ago. While he was talking, he'd taken to playing with a bit of string he'd found on the table. He put it in his mouth and was chewing the end of it. Mid-sentence, the string exploded in his mouth and he stopped dead, wide eyed, smoke billowing from his thick gray mustache. Turns out he'd found the string from an unpopped party popper that I had dismantled it during one of his previous jokes to pass the time.

Congratulations, Wired nuts. You have made us feel strange in ways pharmaceuticals never could. I'll be in contact about your copy of UNKLE's End Titles...Stories for Film shortly. Anyone up for aunts?

See also:

• Exclusive: Cry Uncle, Win UNKLE's End Titles!
• UNKLE Goes Widescreen, Remixes X-Files
• Shadow, Chemist's Juke-Bot Battles Tech 'Rat Race'
• Happy Birthday, Stanley Kubrick!
• Swervedriver, Film School Hypnotize Hollyweird
• We Are Not Cinematic: An Interview With Film School

Who TRULY deserves the credit for the turnaround in the U.S. position in Iraq? A former Marine and author on counterinsurgency says it wasn't until the ground-level perspective of grunts was listened to that things changed.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton takes a dramatic victory in the Belgian Grand Prix as long-time leader Kimi Raikkonen crashes out.

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Some jack ass stole my Houston Texans Jack Ball off of my antenna, that just isnt right. :mad:

But I love Honda Power Equipment.


This is my second one I have had it 3 years it starts with one pull and it is a hoss my favorite feature is the hydrostatic transmission and the rotostop clutch. I bought my first one in 1990 it was an abused 1986 model and I gave it to a guy at work when I got this one in 2005 and it still runs like a champ. These machines cost around 1000 dollars but they will almost last a lifetime. BTW don't get this machine with the HomeDepot Harmony series this one is the commercial series you need to go to a Honda dealer to get one.

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Lewis Hamilton wins a dramatic dual with Kimi Raikkonen to triumph in the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps. Hamilton clinches victory after Raikkonen crashes into a wall as rain makes the track treacherous near the end.

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By Unlock, I mean being able to use it with another phone company, by changing the sim card. Please, don't tell me to use search, I did and only found people who where looking for a tut.

I'd also wanna know, how do you do to buy it? Can you buy it without a sim card, or you gotta got to pay the 3 years (I'm in canada) and after remove the sim card. If I gotta pay for the 3 years, it will cost way too much.

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Trinidad looks pretty much like any small town. Home to about 10,000 people, it's tucked in the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado, and has come to be known as the "sex-change capital of the United States."

Hey I just downloaded the quickpwn for Mac and I'm trying to run it. I have ipod touch with firmware 2.02 on it. When I try to run quickpwn it says can't find the firmware please buy it from store. What is going on?????

Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike.

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