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Jordan has been around the world twice, and has lived long-term in the USA, UK and Canada. He is a photographer, writer and actor, and has a keen interest in international relations, politics and pop culture. He has been known to refer to himself in the third person. Jordan is NowPublic's Contributor Relations Specialist: angel to some (contributors), devil to others (spammers)...
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Controller Error Leads to Newark Near-Miss (AP)
Technology and procedure still needs people to make it all work, and where there's a user, there's a chance for user error. That appears to be what happened on Wednesday, as mixed frequencies came close to causing a...
'Hannah Montana' Movie Tickets Are Selling Like C...
Showing the film for one week is probably a good idea, as it virtually guarantees sellout shows to leverage a longer, wider release... though one would think that a pop-cultural phenomenon like Miley Cyrus would only...
Australia denies disbanding 'Justice League'
"Justice League", a big-budget super-hero flick with a cast of mostly-unknowns, is currently on hold, due to various reasons ranging from the writers' strike to pay-or-play contracts with the cast... and, disputedly,...
Nude Models Cover Up in Labor Dispute
Life models, those patient souls who strip down for art classes throughout Rome, are striking for better working conditions and pay."The protesters — male and female — said that they wanted “professional...
Repurposing our Toys: Social Networking as Emerge...
Now this is a great idea: We're already voluntarily linked via social networking, but there is no real emergency-situation support. After all, Skype doesn't even support 911 calls. "Google.org's technology project to...
This Tree Will Self-Destruct: Giant Palm found on...
A giant palm that flowers once every 100 years has been discovered in Madagascar. This specimen is very rare: few are said to survive, and nobody knows for how long: these trees die after they flower."Details of the...
"Stranglehold" Ad Banned for "Realistic Violence"
We've heard of games getting banned, but the ads for those games?"An advert for a computer game has been banned from television. The advert for Stranglehold had realistic violence, constant gunfire and condoned...
The Times Starts its Top-50 Lists 11 Months Early
Every year the pundits say, "This'll be the biggest year for blah blah blah..." Inauspicious start, guys and gals, with the ultimate creators of these projects still on strike: anything not already in the can or in...
Decapitator: Culture Jamming for the Not-So-Faint...
As I hunted for a cool tech story, this piece of twistedness just fell into my lap... the oft-vulgar folks of b3ta had a link to Decapitator's Flickr page, in which the unnamed artist/vandal/anticorporatist/I'm-not-really-sure goes around London and alters advertisements to...
Finger on Your Pulse: Microsoft Seeks New Spyware
Human Resources departments could be assessing workers based upon biometric measuring software developed by Microsoft, which brought us such bulletproof products as Vista... Integrity of development aside, this just...
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