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• EcoSpeed App Saves 30% On Gas With Clever Routing

  
  Wired's Gadget Lab — Authority: 701
  If EcoSpeed could teach drivers better manners, it might be just about perfect Still insist on using that gas-guzzling holdover from the 20th century, the automobile? Well, I have a little somethigng for you, you naughty boy, and it will save you a little cash as well as protecting the environment you so callously ...
  21 hours ago

• 1912: Albert Wolter, white slaver

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 111
  A century ago today, 20-year-old Albert Walter strolled the 15 feet from the death cell to the Sing Sing electric chair, calling out “Good-bye boys” to his fellow-prisoners as he died for the murder of 15-year-old Ruth Wheeler in a possible white slavery crime two years earlier. Wolter left a note steadily ...
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• In College? Demand that Your School Host One of Ten Early FREE Screenings of Chronicle!

  
  Horror Movie News and Reviews Dread Central — Authority: 639
  Looking forward to seeing Chronicle when it debuts on February 3rd but running low on cash? If youre in college, you can help your school win the opportunity to host a free advance screening of the film at midnight on the Wednesday before it open. Read on for the details. No doubt everyone is now familiar with ...
  3 days ago

• Zorba The Greek by Laurindo Almeida

  
  ClassClef — Authority: 125
  Zorba The Greek by Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995) Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. He is widely credited, with fellow artist Bud Shank, for creating the fusion of Latin and jazz which came to be known as ...
  3 days ago

• 1961: Wasyl Gnypiuk, sleep-killer

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 111
  (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this day in 1961, a Polish/Ukrainian immigrant with the unpronounceable name of Wasyl Gnypiuk was hanged for murder in Lincoln, England. The 34-year-old Gnypiuk was living in a toolshed in Worksop when he murdered his 62-year-old ...
  3 days ago

• 20th Century Parallels

  
  White African — Authority: 442
  At the beginning, they shared an excitement about technology, an optimism for the future, and even a certain clumsiness in getting down to business. While that quote sounds a lot like our current state of affairs in the technology space, it’s not. It’s from a good story on how the movie and film industry came ...
  4 days ago

• Jan. 26, 1906: Fred Marriott Lets Off Some Steam

  
  This Day In Tech — Authority: 534
  Fred Marriott in his Stanley Steamer Rocket. Photo: Richard H. LeSesne/Wikimedia 1906 : A mechanic in the seat of a steam-powered automobile sets a land speed record of 127.66 mph. Fred Marriott ’s milestone isn’t bested until four years later, when a Blitzen Benz uses a gasoline engine to reach 141.7 mph. ...
  4 days ago

• REVIEW: Shattered by Jennie Marsland

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 120
  Dear Ms. Marsland, When deciding on a romance novel to read, if there is something out of the ordinary about it, I’m more likely to give it a second glance. It still might not make the cut but it has a better chance. Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1917 with WWI still raging, a heroine hoping for a hero whom she never ...
  4 days ago

• Three Stories III Historia Da Inspiracao Choro by Laurindo Almeida

  
  ClassClef — Authority: 125
  Three Stories III Historia Da Inspiracao Choro by Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995) Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. He is widely credited, with fellow artist Bud Shank, for creating the fusion of Latin and ...
  4 days ago

• The Sitter Blu-ray and DVD Debut March 20th

  
  Latest News - MovieWeb.com — Authority: 685
  From the director of Pineapple Express comes an adventure in babysitting that is definitely not for the entire family as Jonah Hill ( 21 Jump Street , Moneyball ) steps in as The Sitter , arriving on Blu-ray , DVD , and digital download March 20th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Defiant, vulgar ...
  5 days ago

• Three Stories II Historia Da Saudade Vals by Laurindo Almeida

  
  ClassClef — Authority: 125
  Three Stories II Historia Da Saudade Vals by Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995) Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. He is widely credited, with fellow artist Bud Shank, for creating the fusion of Latin and jazz ...
  5 days ago

• 1971: Ousmane Balde, Barry III, Magassouba Moriba, Loffo Camara, Keita Kara Soufiana, and many others in Conakry

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 111
  On this date in 1971, at least four former members of Guinea’s government were publicly hanged for supposed complicity in the previous year’s Portuguese invasion from neighboring Guinea-Bissau.* The coup-threatened government of Sekou Toure was trying to send a message: It did not scruple to make ...
  6 days ago

• Brick and Mortar, Steel and Glass - Boston Architecture

  
  New England Travels — Authority: 94
  A bastion of stalwart, stubborn history, a Federalist style building is flanked, almost threateningly, by later 19th century examples of architectural prowess.  I love the flag.  It is like an exclamation point on the little building. But, the bigger brick buildings shouldnt be too cocky.  What ...
  6 days ago

• How Youku is helping China’s film-makers get round the censors

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk How Youku is helping China’s film-makers get round the censors China’s answer to YouTube is bringing cinema – including 250 Hollywood films – to the country’s 400m online viewers, and bypassing the censors at the same timeHollywood has long been eyeing the moneymaking ...
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• W./E.

  
  Mrs. Dalrymple — Authority: 107
  W./E. is an upcoming drama about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII, co-written and directed by Madonna, which will be released on February 3 2012. Is it the greatest love story of the 20th century?  Perhaps. “Wallis was born Wallis Warfield, to a distinguished American family. In 1916 she married Lieutenant ...
  6 days ago

• 1936: Allen Foster, who fought Joe Louis

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 111
  More than twenty-five years ago, one of the southern states adopted a new method of capital punishment. Poison gas supplanted the gallows. In its earliest stages, a microphone was placed inside the sealed death chamber so that scientific observers might hear the words of the dying prisoner to judge how the human ...
  6 days ago

• Three Stories 1 Historia Do Luar Choro by Laurindo Almeida

  
  ClassClef — Authority: 125
  Three Stories 1 Historia Do Luar Choro by Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995) Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. He is widely credited, with fellow artist Bud Shank, for creating the fusion of Latin and jazz ...
  1 week ago

• Mimi by Laurindo Almeida

  
  ClassClef — Authority: 125
  Mimi by Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995) Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. He is widely credited, with fellow artist Bud Shank, for creating the fusion of Latin and jazz which came to be known as the “bossa ...
  1 week ago

• Red Tails – Review

  
  Inside Pulse Movies — Authority: 129
  90 Minutes of potential brilliance extended to two hours If George Lucas wanted to atone to fans for the backlash behind both the Star Wars prequels as well as the continual tinkering with the original trilogy, Red Tails desperately wants to be it. Though it’s directed and written by a trio of people ...
  1 week ago

• A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell

  
  ANZ LitLovers LitBlog — Authority: 107
  A Dance to the Music of Time is a delicious book: I am loving every minute of reading it.  Originally comprising 12 separate novels published from 1951 to 1975 it now comes in four volumes and I’ve only read the first volume so far, but I am hooked.  Sometimes compared to  Proust’s A La Recherche du ...
  1 week ago

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