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How did a sleepy little island transform into a high-tech powerhouse in one generation? It was all in the plan.     By Mark Jacobson   If you want to get a Singaporean to look up from a beloved dish of fish-head curry—or make a harried cabdriver slam on his brakes—say you are going to interview the country's "minister mentor," Lee Kuan Yew, and would like an opinion about what to ask him. "The MM? Wah lau! You're going to see the MM? Real?" You might as well have told a resident of the Emerald City that you're late for an appointment with the Wizard of Oz. After all, LKY, as he is known in acronym-mad Singapore, is more than the "father of the country." He is its inventor, as surely as if he had scientifically formulated the place with precise portions of Plato's Republic, Anglophile elitism, unwavering economic pragmatism, and old-fashioned strong-arm repression. People like to call Singapore the Switzerland of Southeast Asia, and who c...

Hello everybody, I'm going to release a new project PWBoot today. So, what is PWBoot project ? PWBoot stands for P ortable W indows Boot project, this project aims to be make your Windows operating system to boot from USB storage media easily. Supported platforms: Windows version 6.0+ (Vista or higher). Tested media type: USB HDD (2.5inch; SATA, IDE), USB Flash (Kingston DataTraveler 100 - 8G) Notes on tested media: Kingston DataTraveler 100: FDD very slow, so I tweaked it by: Install Hitachi Microdrive (Enable multiple partition capability) Install EWF (Faster boot up) Use 2 partitions (C: - Windows(EWF protected), D: Data (writable)) Edit registry to make some folder redirect to D: such as - desktop, user's data, etc. How to use it? Very easy, just open the program and click on Patch button - everything done. Screenshots: Quick tutorial: Method 1: Virtual machine ( OS: Windows Vista, VM: VMware Workstation) Download Vmware Workst...

THE KOOKS are currently in the studio working on album #3. The band recently posted some photo updates - check them out at http://twitter.com/thekooksmusic . There's also a little Christmas present, currently in the making, on it's way too... Stay tuned. http://www.THEKOOKS.com/

Silversun Pickups announced as main support for Muse's 2010 US tour:: February 27, 2010 @ Gwinnett Center, Atlanta, GA March 1, 2010 @ Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA March 5, 2010 @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY March 6, 2010 @ TD Banknorth Garden, Boston, MA March 13, 2010 @ Palace Of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI April 5, 2010 @ The E Center, Salt Lake City, UT Tickets on sale Saturday, December 12th. There will be a muse.mu pre-sale beginning tomorrow (Wed, 12/9) @ 10am. For more information, click below. *Additional dates to be announced Mon, December 14th. Stay tuned.

By Loh Foon Fong & Muguntan Vanar PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has announced a nationwide dengue alert following an increase of 99 reported dengue cases within a week with two deaths in Malacca and one in Penang. Deputy health director-general Datuk Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman said that 819 cases were reported last week (Nov 15 to 21) compared with 720 the week before (Nov 8 to 14). “We have issued a dengue alert to state health directors and doctors to keep a look out for the cases,” he said. The total number of reported cases for this year until last week was 36,514 with 78 deaths compared with 41,034 and 90 deaths last year. Dr Hasan said if the public did not take the necessary action to remove aedes breeding sites, the number of cases could double next month. Explaning that the drastic increase in dengue cases was due to the rainy season, he said: “Despite our awareness programme, the response from the public has not been encouraging.” Speaking at a dialogue sessi...

Hot chip have announced the track listing for new album one life stand as follows... 01 Thieves in the Night 02 Hand Me Down Your Love 03 I Feel Better 04 One Life Stand 05 Brothers 06 Slush 07 Alley Cats 08 We Have Love 09 Keep Quiet 10 Take It In Album will be released february 8th on Parlophone.

International Icon, Britney Spears, launches her own iPhone and iPod Touch app. The app, exclusive to the artist, is named "It's Britney!" and is currently available worldwide at the iTunes App Store for $1.99 ( http://bit.ly/britneyiphoneapp ). With the "It's Britney!!" app, fans get to the front of the line with all things officially Britney. After purchasing the app, fans will receive official news first hand, get exclusive messages from Britney herself, be able to create and share images of themselves and friends on stage with Britney, have access to updated photo galleries which include real time photos, exclusive tour images as well as a photo gallery of over 100+ iconic images of Britney over the years. Additionally, the app features a "Shake Shake Shake" feature in which Britney says "It's Britney Bitch!" every time the user shakes their iPhone or iPod Touch. A detailed explanation of each feature the app has to offer is bel...

UNIVERSAL Studios on Wednesday announced the long-awaited ticket prices for its theme park on Sentosa. A one-day pass for weekdays will cost $66 for adults, $48 for children and $32 for senior citizens. For weekends, public holidays and eve of public holidays , a day-pass will cost $ 72, $52 and $36 respectively. For those who want to beat the snaking queues which are expected at theme parks, they can buy an express pass, on top of the regular admission charge. The express pass is $30 for weekdays and non-school holidays, $48 for weekday rates during school holidays, and $68 for weekends and black-out dates. This express pass will give the ticket holder priority access to all the attractions and rides within the theme park. The number of such passes are limited daily. Visitors to the park need pay only one price to get access to 24 attractions, 20 of which will be open when the park is ready for operations, along with 30 themed restaurants and food carts, as well as another ...

As events relentlessly continue to unfold inside the confines of Camp Hot Chip, we can reveal some diverting facts and interesting details of our plans for next year. There will be a new album, set for release in February, to warm the cockles of your soul right in the middle of the bleak mid-winter. We're just completing the finishing touches right now, and we're also gearing up for a return, possibly triumphant, to the live arena, as a UK tour is also in the offing for February. If any of that information floats your boat, then you can sign up to pre-order the album, get tickets for the tour and receive a new track here... http://store.digitalstores.co.uk/hotchip/index.html All our kindest regards and fond wishes to our fans, More news on the album, U.S. and European tour dates to follow soon...

Paolo Nutini is proud to announce he'll be lending his support to this year's BBC Children in Need campaign by performing live on the show on Friday November 20th. The extravaganza kicks-off at 7pm when a whole host of talented performers will step up to do their bit to help raise money for disadvantaged children and young people all across the UK. For more info on Children in Need 2009, including how you can get involved and help out, click here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

Many licenses of Windows 7 operating system is now been sold purely online, with the software product delivered entirely via Internet through electronic software distribution (ESD) channel. Customers can digitally download the Windows 7 installation files from online store from which they purchased Windows 7 to clean install on blank PC or upgrade existing installed OS. Previously, the electronic downloads of Windows 7 setup files are available in a “box” format, which comprised of an starter executable, setup1.box and setup2.box (32-bit Windows 7 installation files and 64-bit Windows 7 installation files ), which cannot be burned to DVD disc directly or mount to a virtual DVD-ROM drive. User must first goes through the process to create a bootable Windows 7 DVD ISO image from these downloaded Windows 7 installation files. Microsoft has been providing Windows 7 ISO (disc image of Windows 7 DVD) to its customers with a time-limited ever-changing dynamic download links. And various ...

Another new build of Microsoft Office 2010 from beta branch has been compiled by Microsoft mid October, and had since leaked to Internet. The Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 with build version 14.0.4514.1009. The Office 2010 Beta 2 has changed the installation procedure. User is now required to enter the 25-digit license serial number or product key prior to setup of Office 2010 been started, whereas previously the information is only been asked after installation is initiated. Thus, without a valid product key, user will not be able to even start installing Office 2010 build 14.0.4514.1009, which is marked as beta 2 milestone. Users who are in the Office 2010 Technical Preview program can generate a product key in Microsoft Connect, which can work to start the setup installation of Office 2010 Beta 2 and properly activate the installed Office productivity suite. For user who without the access to Connect’s Office TP program, use the following product keys to install Office 2010 Build...

SINGAPORE has been taken off the 'grey list' and joined the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) 'white list' of financial jurisdictions. This follows the signing of its 12th Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) with France on Friday, which incorporates the new internationally agreed standard for the exchange of information for tax purposes upon request. Singapore already has similar agreements with Belgium, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Denmark, The Netherlands, Australia, Austria, Norway, Qatar, Mexico and Bahrain. Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam inked the protocol with French Minister for Economy, Industry and Employment Christine Lagarde in Singapore on Friday. Singapore was earlier put on the grey list which groups jurisdictions that had committed to the globally-agreed standard for the exchange of tax information, but had not substantially implemented it. To be removed from the grey list, a country nee...

Just in case you missed it on the page, you can grab an exclusive track - "Something Else" - from the new album out next year by simply visiting the link below. Also new single "Interstate" is available from iTunes and everywhere digital from 6th December Music Glue: The Automatic Source: www.musicglue.com Okay well we won't say too much here except click on the "Audio" button next to "Something Else" and help yourselves to a free MP3 taken from our new album

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While we've featured one or two ways to avoid crying while cutting onions in the past, this tip requires absolutely no preparation and should keep your eyes clear next time you're cooking. Photo by Jennifer Dickert . Instead of going through a lot of trouble to avoid the waterworks, weblog Daily DIY says you can stop tears by merely putting your tongue on the roof of your mouth while you're cutting. Whatever you do, though, don't breathe through your nose—breathe through your mouth. You may look a little silly, but it barely requires any work on your part, and it's sure to be a conversation starter with your dinner guests. I couldn't find any definitive information about this one, but a quick Google search shows that quite a few people swear by this solution. If any of you cooks out there get a chance to chop up some onions—or you already do this—give it a try and let us know how it goes in the comments. Onion Tears No More [Daily DIY]

SSPU will join Placebo for their Euro/UK tour in late November/December. To celebrate the launch of the tour Placebo have compiled a FREE download bundle (complete with a printable PDF booklet) featuring exclusive tracks from all of the bands on the tour. The track listing is as follows: 01 Placebo - Breathe Underwater (Live At Pukkelpop Festival 2009) 02 Expatriate - Get Out, Give In 03 Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch (Recorded Live For KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic) 04 The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea 05 United - For What I Feel (Live At Debaser ) Click below for the download or go to http://www.silversunpickups.com/tour/ to check out the tour dates.

Hello, I have made an album called 'Harvest Festival' which has me singing occasionally but is mostly instrumental dance music that I have made over the last few years. It reminds me of Aphex twin or Brian Eno in terms of some melodies and was made almost entirely on a couple of old drum machines and a modular synthesizer. If you would like to pre-order it from HMV this is the link: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;0;-1;-1;-1&sku=276320 It's coming out on Greco-Roman, the label i run with my friends Alex, Dom and Jez. You can find out about us here: http://www.myspace.com/grecoromanmusic or join our facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24886556551 Greco-Roman also just released a single from Drums of Death who toured with us last year. I feature in the video briefly, turning into one of his minions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLSZRSJj0go ... and Greco-Roman like to throw parties too, like this one in Londo...

The Marina Bay Link Mall will feature upmarket tenants that will cater to the 62,000 working professionals and affluent residents in the immediate area. -- PHOTO: RAFFLES QUAY ASSET MANAGEMENT WORKER bees at Raffles Place will have more shops and restaurants to choose from next year, when a new underground mall opens at the upcoming Marina Bay Financial Centre. The Marina Bay Link Mall will feature upmarket tenants that will cater to the 62,000 working professionals and affluent residents in the immediate area. It will also connect the future Downtown MRT station to neighbouring buildings such as One Raffles Quay and the integrated resort Marina Bay Sands. The centre's managing company Raffles Quay Asset Management (RQAM) on Tuesday said the mall will also have some shops above ground, a waterfront plaza, a park for events and a restaurant perched on the 33rd floor. About 55 per cent of its 176,000 sq ft of retail space has been snapped up already. Some restaurants sett...

OperaTor is a portable software bundle which allows you to browse the web anonymously. It combines the power of the Opera Browser , Tor and Polipo . With OperaTor no data will be stored at the computer you plugged your portable memory into. Changes in the current release Opera 10 Tor 0.2.1.19 Dance 'n' Shout skin replaced by the standard Opera skin Subscribe to updates via the OperaTor RSS feed . Download OperaTor 3.4 download from PBwiki download from My Opera OperaTor weights 7 MB and is Windows only

( Edit , to draft , Slurp ) Copy this whole post to another site Slurp cancel select site advertising consumerist deadspin defamer fleshbot gay fleshbot gawker gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop sploid Whale penis leather interior. That's all you really need to know about the $1.5 million Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition. Yes, the diamond-encrusted white gold gauges and gold-plated bulletproof windows are impressive, but seriously, whale penis leather interior. The already bulletproof and wildly over-the-top 8.1 liter GM V8-powered Dartz Kombat T98 is getting a name change to Prombron and along with it will come a complete and brain-maimingly bourgeoisie upgrade with the Monaco Red Diamond Edition . The world's most expensive ultra-luxury SUV will debut at the 2010 Top...

Lee Hsien Loong currently earns an annual salary of S$3,870,000 (US$ 2,856,930 ), an increase of 25% from S$3,091,200 (US$2,037,168), making him the highest paid head of government in the world. In comparison, the President of the United States earns a salary of US$400,000. The new salary of S$3.8 million took effect in January 2008. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said in parliament that the head of state of Singapore and his ministers deserve such a high income because Singapore is a small country that lacks a large pool of talented people.

Snake that grew a foot out of its body Photo: CEN/Europics Dean Qiongxiu, 66, said she discovered the reptile clinging to the wall of her bedroom with its talons in the middle of the night. "I woke up and heard a strange scratching sound. I turned on the light and saw this monster working its way along the wall using his claw," said Mrs Duan of Suining, southwest China. Mrs Duan said she was so scared she grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to death before preserving its body in a bottle of alcohol. The snake – 16 inches long and the thickness of a little finger – is now being studied at the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang. Snake expert Long Shuai said: "It is truly shocking but we won't know the cause until we've conducted an autopsy." A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head, which occurs in a similar way to the for...

As usual there are two ways to get it: 1. Preferred: Use the built-in updater from within Paint.NET. If you are using version 3.36, go to the Help menu and then Check for Updates . You will need to click on the Options button, and then make sure that ""Also check for pre-release (beta) versions" is enabled. For v3.5 alpha/beta, go to the Utilities menu instead of the Help menu. 2. Download directly: http://www.getpaint.net/files/zip/previ ... nstall.zip . There is no need to uninstall the old version; that will be taken care of automatically. Changes since version 3.36's release: * Refreshed user interface with new icons and visual styling. For Windows 7 and Vista, it is enhanced for Aero and "glass". * Now uses and requires .NET 3.5 SP1, which has many built-in performance improvements. * New effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur, by Ed Harvey * New effect: Distort -> Dents, by Ed Harvey * New effect: Distort -> Crystalize, by Ed Harvey * Effect dialog...

Malaysian Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen claims that some dishes have been hijacked by other countries and wants to claim them back. Dishes like laksa, nasi lemak, bak kut teh, and even hainanese chicken rice. So we Singaporeans have been eating pirated dishes ah? In fact, the Hainanese in China had better watch out. Stop stealing Malaysian dishes, you crooks! Don't you know that all good food originated in MalaysiaTrulyAsia? That's what the slogan means! Only Malaysia is Truly Asia. Everyone else... FAKE! Coming soon... The Real Nasi Lemak®, The Real Hainanese Chicken Rice®, The Real Bak Kut Teh®: All rights reserved, Malaysia Tourism Ministry. Read the AFP report here . Unspun: " Whose Chicken Rice is it anyway? " Associated Press: " Malaysia crabby over right to 'hijacked' recipes "

AS EARLY as four years ago in South Korea, Singapore permanent resident Michael Park could download a 1GB file in a matter of minutes on his hotel's broadband network. But in Singapore, this would have taken a few hours - even with the fastest broadband connection available. Mr Park, a finance executive working in Singapore, said: 'My Korean colleagues complain about how slow the broadband is here. In Korea, download speeds hit at least three figures. There, you can stream movies on the Internet with no lag time.' In a report by news agency Agence France-Presse last week, a global broadband-analysis site ranked Singapore's download speed 24th-fastest in the world. With average speeds of 7.32Mbps, Singapore's speed is almost three times slower than that of South Korea, which is ranked first with 21.17Mbps. It fared even worse with upload speeds, coming in 51st with its average of 0.75Mbps. That means the average user here would take more than two hours...

The ad is a reflection of the 3 classes in Singapore society:  1. The monkey represents the low-income, which has no choice but to accept peanuts for wages. 2. The elephant represents the middle-income, which has limited contact with the lower class but cannot connect with their struggle to make ends meet, hence the suggestion that they should think positively. 3. The giraffe represents the upper-class, which is completely oblivious to the struggles of the middle and lower classes. Once in a while, they stick their heads down from the clouds and have a look around, but are not bothered by the economic crisis in any way. The commercial deserves an award for its deep insights into Singapore society. Source: MrBrown

Snow Leopard is released and all the Hackintosheers are waiting eagerly to run the latest version of Mac OS X 10.6 on their PC a.k.a Hack Pro. This guide is for those who already have a running OSX86. This guide is possible due to following persons in no order SaCleoCheater (For his thread on InfiniteMac), PCWiZ & Hara Taiki (For Awesome Tools), OSX86 Island (For breaking the first install build 10A261), Netkas (No need to Introduction), Chameleon Team (For a great Boot-Loader), TeknoJunkies (For such a great guide) and all the OSX86 community without whom it’s not possible. In the following tutorial we used  Snow Leopard build 10A432 GM release (now confirmed that retail disc is build 10A432). Snow Leopard needs a Leopard Install so we need to two hard disk one with Leopard already installed and second hard disk for Snow Leopard. Also you need to download some files needed during the installation so download the files given below. We’ll update these files regularly w...

SINGAPORE : Singapore has been ranked the second most expensive city in Asia, after Tokyo, with Hong Kong taking the third position. In UBS' Prices and Earnings 2009 study released on Thursday, Singapore is ranked 24th globally, in a comparison of living costs in 73 cities around the world. The study was based on data collected between March and April this year. It found Oslo, Zurich, Copenhagen, Geneva, Tokyo and New York to be the world's priciest cities based on a standardised basket of 122 goods and services. Mumbai, Delhi, Manila and Kuala Lumpur are cities with the lowest price levels. The study said: "Asia is home to some of the world's priciest cities and nowhere is the spread between most expensive and cheapest more pronounced." Employees in Copenhagen, Zurich, Geneva and New York have the highest gross wages, but Zurich and Geneva top the rankings in the international comparison of net wages. In Asia, employees in Tokyo earn the highest wages, ...

MORE than 300 people queued up for free samples at Singapore's first sampling concept store. Called Fr3B, the shop which is located at Stanford House gives away a range of sample items, from beauty products to health tonics and potato chips. The catch? You have to be a member of the store. So far 30,000 people have signed up for the on-line membership. Registration can be done on-line or at Stanford House, where the store is located. Founders of the shop Elfaine Tan and Kingsley Peh expect to reap profits within a year. How does a firm do that without even selling one item?

'Space Oddity' 40th Anniversary EP with the unique opportunity for fans to remix their own version! 40 years ago to the day that Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon, EMI have created a unique opportunity for David Bowie fans: the chance to download and mix the original multi-tracks of ‘Space Oddity,’ which also celebrates its 40th anniversary this year! The ‘Space Oddity’ EP consists of four tracks. When the EP is purchased the original eight stems/multi-tracks are also received for free, enabling fans to remix the song through their own software or through iKlax software. About 'Space Oddity': Originally released on 11th July 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landings, ‘Space Oddity’ was a cultural landmark for David Bowie as an artist – it was featured by the BBC in its television coverage of the lunar landing, and the song later won an Ivor Novello award. The song’s mysterious character, Major Tom, has become a recurrent theme throughout Bowie’s work and car...

Right now on paolonutini.com you can watch the exclusive 'Coming Up Easy' Making Of video: http://www.paolonutini.com Follow Paolo and the white rabbit behind-the-scenes as they wander the streets and bars together, searching for the meaning of life. The full music video for Paolo's next single is currently only available on Muzu.tv ( http://www.muzu.tv/paolonu tini ) , but both the regular version and the Making Of will be available webwide from Thursday, so get ready to embed, repost and generally spread the word!

sspu will join placebo for the following tour dates: dec 3 ahoy/rotterdam, holland dec 4 lanxess arena/cologne, germany dec 6 sportpalais/antwerp, belgium dec 8 lg arena/birmingham, uk dec 9 o2 arena/london, uk dec 11 bridlington spa/bridlington, uk dec 12 central/manchester, uk dec 14 secc hall 3/glasgow, uk dec 15 olympia/dublin, ireland dec 16 olympia/dublin, ireland on sale now!

Moby "Wait For Me" free track download today - click play, then the download arrow on the right: thelittleidiot - Wait For Me Source: soundcloud.com "Wait For Me" by thelittleidiot. Free download! Hosted on SoundCloud.com

HONG KONG - FOR most financial market professionals in this city and other hubs across Asia, the days of extravagant expatriate life have ended. For now at least.  The standard HK$200,000 per month (S$37,200) housing allowance for top bankers is gone or going in most cases. Paid-for chauffeurs to tote executives and their families around the steep hills of Hong Kong are scarcer, as are free memberships to exclusive country, golf or dinner clubs that may otherwise cost more than HK$2.1 million to join. Free private school education for the kids, roughly $10,000 (S$14,400) per child at international schools, is getting scaled back too. And in another sign of lean times, corporate ships for pleasure cruises around Hong Kong's myriad beaches and outlying islands are getting auctioned off, with UBS AG among the financial institutions to recently set plans to part with its junk boat reserved for employees and clients. Many banking executives from Wall Street and Europe still live...

KUANTAN, MALAYSIA - A 32-year-old part-time model from Singapore charged with having a beer in a nightclub last year was ordered by the Syariah High Court yesterday to receive six strokes of the rotan. Kartika Sari Sewi Shu-karno, who pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol in public when she made her first court appearance in December, was also fined RM5,000 (S$2038.50). The model, who wore a blue baju kurung and black headscarf, kept her head down and was silent as judge Datuk Abdul Rahman Yunus read out the sentence. He said the accused could face a three-year jail term if she could not pay the fine while the rotan would be carried out by federal prison authorities. He said the sentence was under Section 136 of the Pahang Islamic and Malay Traditional Practices Enactment 1982 (amendment 1987). "The court reached the judgment after the accused pleaded guilty. ...

July 17 (Bloomberg) -- At least two explosions rocked the Ritz Carlton and the JW Marriott hotels in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, today. Authorities are trying to establish if bombs were the cause of the blast, a police official said. The Associated Press, citing police, said at least four foreigners were killed in the explosions. Many people have been injured, said M. Halolo, a police officer on duty at the Setiabudi police station. A New Zealander was among two people seriously injured, AP said. The explosions ripped the façade off the Ritz and glass and debris littered the street outside the neighboring hotels, the news agency said. Indonesia was hit by bombings annually from 1999 to 2005 that left about 280 people dead and were blamed on Southeast Asian terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiyah. The al-Qaeda-linked group is blamed for an attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003 that killed 12 people, a bomb explosion outside the Australian Embassy in the Indonesian ca...

LONDON : "Bruno", the outrageous comedy about a gay Austrian fashion reporter, will become the first film to have two versions showing concurrently in Britain, its makers said. One minute and 50 seconds of the 18-rated film starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has been cut to make a version which can be seen by cinemagoers aged 15 and under, Universal Pictures announced on Monday. The re-edited version will be released in cinemas in Britain on July 24. The 18-certificate version, featuring a sado-masochistic orgy and full frontal nudity, topped the British box office in its first weekend of release. "Bruno" was also the highest-grossing film on its first weekend in the United States, where it has an adult rating, taking 30.6 million dollars (22 million euros). The scenes cut from new version feature Bruno and his boyfriend engaged in sexual acts. Another shows Bruno miming sexual activity while visiting a medium, and the third is of couples having s...

On 17th August UNKLE will release ‘Heavy Drug (Surrender Sounds Mix)’ as a digital download. The track began life during a late night session when James and his brother Aidan were working on various remix projects resulting in a "happy accident" of ‘Heavy Drug’, an UNKLE club mix with a DFA records influence. Over the last month, James found it quickly become a highlight of his DJ set. ‘Heavy Drug’ was also reworked during the initial recording sessions for the new UNKLE album, due for release in February 2010. Additionally, an exclusive edit of the mix is included on Lavelle's GU37 Bangkok.

If you haven't checked in to THEKOOKS.com or http://www.facebook.com/th ekooksofficial recently, then swing by and catch up on the latest footage + photos, including; Videos - The Kooks go Go Karting - http://www.facebook.com/ex t/share.php?sid=1017893836 37&h=6ZZ4d&u=OH5xG&ref=mf The Kooks 3rd Album Writing Sessions in Marseilles - http://www.facebook.com/ex t/share.php?sid=9027785369 4&h=Vwlde&u=rkumj&ref=mf The Kooks @ Bandwagon clubnight, Liverpool - http://www.facebook.com/ex t/share.php?sid=1983571802 62&h=quJJg&u=1qyIl&ref=mf Photos - Art Rock Festival, France Papillons De Nuit, France Pinkpop, The Netherlands Rockhal // Luxembourg Ringlokschuppen // Germany Rock Am Ring // Germany Rock Im Park // Germany Stay tuned. http://www.THEKOOKS.com/

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SYDNEY - Gay fashionista Bruno brought traffic to a halt in Sydney when he appeared at the premiere of his new movie dressed as a knight in shining armour and leading a white charger. "Vassup Sydney, do you like my helmet?" British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego, clad in an armour suit complete with full-metal codpiece, yelled at screaming fans as he made his way to the "Bruno" premiere late Monday. "Ich have been to seven countries in the last 18 days, which is more than any Austrian since 1941," said the comedian, who dressed as a bull and wore a bearskin hat for earlier stops on his promotional tour. Bruno, who earlier described Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as "uber-cute," said the bespectacled leader had invited him back to Sydney for the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. "He's invited me back for Mardi Gras, where he says you can wear a mask and run around doing whatever you want without anyone knowing who y...

The brand new album 'Wait For Me' is out worldwide today (in the USA tomorrow). You can find links to buy at local download stores here: http://moby.com/wait-for-m e Or from the Moby Store here: http://moby.com/store The album is available as a download as well as CD and 12" vinyl. Post your reviews on the Moby Facebook page: http://facebook.com/mobymu sic

GETTING to Bintan just got faster and more comfortable. And those willing to pay a bit more will get airline-style business class treatment too. Two new ferries will cut travelling time between Singapore and the Indonesian resort island by at least 15 minutes, making the trip from the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal in 45 minutes. The two ferries, which cost $31 million, are also equipped with the latest technology to stabilise them, making the ride smoother and more comfortable, even in the choppiest seas. For passengers, the good news is that the ticket price for the ferry service remains the same. An adult who buys a Singapore-Bintan-Singapore ticket over the counter will pay $63.20 during peak period and $52.20 when it is off-peak. Passengers who pony up an additional $36 for return will enjoy the ferries' new 'business class', which comes with bigger seats, complimentary drinks and access to an open deck for fresh air and that wind-in-your-hair experience. ...