Seven Somali men in possession of rocket grenades and AK-47 guns were rescued by a Danish Navy ship in the pirate-plagued Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, the Danish Navy told CNN. The men rescued "are suspected to be pirates because they were carrying firearms," a press officer with the Danish Navy said.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=fKmM8Sre"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=6clzdPSc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=shebiDE6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=shebiDE6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=q6IqYIX0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=BjWZmpdn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=BjWZmpdn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/hPGtqpRdj5I" height="1" width="1"/

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Seven Somali men in possession of rocket grenades and AK-47 guns were rescued by a Danish Navy ship in the pirate-plagued Gulf of Aden Wednesday, the Danish Navy told CNN.

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It may not have been as polished as his later works Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums, but Wes Anderson's film debut, Bottle Rocket, brimmed with a beautiful brand of naivete not concentrated as strongly in his later films.

One reason for this is the film's excellent soundtrack. Anderson's movies tend to feature top-notch tunage, but there's something about those Bottle Rocket songs and Mark Mothersbaugh instrumentals that gives us that "so fresh" feeling.

But before Bottle Rocket was a feature-length film, it was a 13-minute short film (trailer), with completely different music that Anderson had hoped to use in the feature, only to be told by the studio that the film should not feature jazz.

To coincide the release of the Bottle Rocket Criterion Edition, which includes the original short film version, Fantasy Records collected the songs from its soundtrack and will release them digitally on December 9, when the Criterion edition of the film will be released.

"I was listening to a lot of jazz at the time, especially Coltrane's albums on Blue Note and Sonny Rollins' A Night at the Village Vanguard," stated Anderson. "I was inspired by the use of American jazz in French new wave movies like Breathless. I still love this music... The studio didn't want us to use jazz in the feature version. We didn't license a lot of this music at the time because we couldn't afford it."

Time heals all wounds. Here are two songs from that soundtrack, courtesy of Fantasy Records, available here as QuickTime streams:

Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Skating" (from Peanuts, aka Charlie Brown)

Zoot Sims - "Jane-O"

Other songs included on the short film soundtrack include Artie Shaw's "The Chant," Sonny Rollins' "Old Devil Moon," Chet Baker & Art Pepper's "The Route," Duke Ellington & John Coltrane's "Stevie," Art Blakey covering Horace Silver Trio's "Nothing but the Soul" and the Vince Guaraldi Trio's "Happiness Is."

This week at Uncrate: We enjoy the wintery outdoors on Mad River Rocket Sleds, take care of some household handiwork with the Craftsman Nextec Hammerhead Auto Hammer, and spread the seasonal cheer...

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International relations are rarely good for a laugh, but one Israeli blogger is having some fun.

Pinchas Orbach of Kumah reports:

“So… Fateh, of Yasser Arafat fame, set up a website called Fateh.net and they opened it up to anybody that wants to post a blog. Hmm… well someone posted this blog there called “Am Yisrael Chai” (The Nation of Israel Lives!)”

(Screenshot sourced from Kumah.org, with thanks)

Subtitled “Israel rocks Fateh.net,” the Am Yisrael Chai! blogger's recent entries include “Jew-cooties” and “Nah! They're not Anti-Semitic,” as well as a calendar that counts kassam rockets landing in Israel from Gaza, similar to the one found here.

The blogger's “About” page reads:

“This is mostly a joke page just because I saw that anyone could create a blog on Fateh.net. The posts here are a very small selection of posts from the Elder of Ziyon blog.”

If you would like to join Am Yisrael Chai! on Fateh.net, you can do so by clicking on their homepage, which reads:

“You can start to create your FREE blog here www.fateh.net/
انشئ مدونة صÙحتك الخاصة مجانا”

Blogs are based on a Wordpress platform. No other information is available about the blog (in English) from its homepage, other than the fact that bloggers are welcome to write in English, Arabic, Spanish, or French.

There's not much to see at the future home of Spaceport America, touted as ground zero for commercial rocket traffic. Deep in the New Mexico desert, you'll find shrubs, scorpions - and Jerry Larson. His company, Up Aerospace, has signed on as the first tenant of the $220 million spaceport, where construction will begin in 2009.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/OoYTrxaKUGA" height="1" width="1"/

Chopper 1.2.2

Chopper is an action-packed, side-scrolling helicopter game. Complete your mission, and return to base, while avoiding enemy fire from tanks, bazooka-wielding mad men, and jets.

Chopper 1.2 adds ambient sound effects, adds new graphics, contains a completely new sound engine, and includes four new missions! In 'Beyond The Caves' you fly through tight gaps to rescue hostages on the other side. 'The Cliffs Have Eyes' plummets you multiple times into valleys surrounded by cliffs filled with enemy bazooka mad men.

Features:

• 72 total missions across 3 difficulty levels
• Addictive, adrenalin pumping game-play
• Beautiful landscapes, weather effects, and explosions
• Random elements each time you play
• Machine Gun, Bombs, Rockets, Tanks, Jets
• Universal Binary

WHAT'S NEWVersion 1.2.2:

• Adds new 'More Trees' option.
• Fixes bug in texture selection, so that high resolution textures are used on all high end systems.

REQUIREMENTS

• 16MB graphics card or better
• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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Review of Macbook Pro 2008 Skin from BestSkinsEver

After much anticipation I receieved my new Macbook Pro aluminum body a few weeks ago and it was missing something very crucial, a protective covering. Of course no one wants to disturb the precious looks of their new elegant Macbook Pro, the only way to preserve the original look of the laptop is by a skin. There are currently two highly praised companies that provide skins for many electronics from cell phones ipods and to laptops. Bestskinsever www.bestskinsever.com $27.99 and Invisible Shield www.zagg.com $54.99. I currently have the BSE version installed on my Macbook Pro and find it great. Let me start off with explaining what comes in the kit.

What is Included in the kit:
I should use the term Kit useless because it comes in a large envelope with 3 sheets each having different parts of the total body skin attached. There is one single piece for the top part of the laptop, a cover for the battery compartment, a small piece for the latch for the battery cover, another peice for the remaining underbody, two seperate pieces for the wrist guard near the trackpad and one for the trackpad as well (I did not use the track pad and will explain later). In adition there are 2 peices that run along the front two sides of the laptop before it hits the express card slot on one side and secruity lock latch on the other side. There is one strip covering the portion of the back side of the laptop which is attached to the main lid and two small strips covering on the rear edges of the laptop. Basically this kit has you covered on every level for protecting your new $2000 investment. The great thing about the kit is that it does not cover up any screws which is noted on the bottom side of the laptop. also there is a space for the button for battery life so that is not coverd up.

Installing:
First thing first, with the BSE skin, you need to mix your own solution, it is not that hard at all just get 1/3 teaspoon for every 10 oucnes water. You don't really need to measure this stuff but a keen eye will be suffice with measuring. If its really helpful to use a spray bottle to put the solution in so that you can spray the skin evenly and place it on the appropriate spot.
Installing of this skin did take some time, approx. 45 minutes if you want to be precise and take your time with every detail. You will need the help of another person when lifting off the large skins such as the top lid so one person can spray the solution onto the skin and the other person can lift it off. It is crucial you do not let the skin adhere to itself. Be easy with the solution, it is there to make placing the skin on easy so you can move it around. Once it dries is when the skin actually sticks.

Bottom:
Install the bottom first, this was not so bad, a few simple attempts and it was easily alligned correctly. The battery compartment was also an easy install but make sure you do not overlap the two skins because the they will sit flush and need to be on their own piece especially when the battery top is taken off. the small covering for the battery latch was a simple 30 second job. I let this dry and then fliped it over to start on the top layer.

Top Layer:
The top layer was the most difficult and you would think it would be easy because it is just one big peice. I put the skin on and attempt after attempt I would fail because one corner would not be aligned exactly and would have to try again. A side note: When I finished the install of the entire laptop, the next morning was a huge air bubble on the top part of the notebook and had to be fixed. Fixing it was pretty hard because it was already dry and set so lifting the skin off was a task. I was lucky that the bubble was near a corner, if it were in the middle it would probably be nightmare. Therefore take your time and make sure there are no air bubles at all when you are finished.

Wrist pad:
The wrist pad skin is probably the most useful part and the easiest installation. It took one minute to install both sides perfectly with no air bubbles. I did not install the trackpad mainly because the feel of the skin on a trackpad was too abrasive. Being a new Aluminum body Macbook Pro owner, we are lucky to have the glass trackpad with smooth motions. Therefore, I see no point in destroying that feature with a skin.

The sides:
Installing the sides was pretty straight forward. There was nothing more to it than just figuring out where the items go which at first took a few minutes. It would have been nice for BSE to include a small diagram perhaps but again it is not rocket science and just simple common sense will tell you where it all goes.

At the end of the install, the edges were kind of comming up so I had to palm them with my hand but after that it stayed on fine.
A few days later the skin looked perfect and added a nice shine to the laptop. There is one thing to be said. I put my laptop in a Targus Neoprene case and sometimes on the bottom where I did not install the skin as perfectly as I hoped, there are some cloth fibers sticking to the edges but very minimal.

As far as the quality of BSE skin, it is great and probably the best for the money and quality alike. Honestly for $28 vs the $55 at Zagg, it is a no brainer. Yes the Zagg comes in a pretty box and comes with a squeegee and solution but honestly, I do not need to pay that extra 27 dollars for that stuff. BSE is quick and to the point with their kit. Anybody is able to mix water and soap and use a credit card as the squeegee so again no point and dishing out the extra cash for the Zagg.

All in all a great product and a must for people who want to protect their new laptop and not destroy the look.

Touché au genou gauche, Tracy McGrady sera indisponible trois semaines.