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CBS Promos Prime Lineup With Mobile video

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CBS Promos Prime Lineup With Mobile video Katy Bachman AUGUST 24, 2006 - CBS Television Network is once again breaking new ground to promote its new prime-time lineup, this time turning static two-dimensional outdoor advertising into a mobile video. Beginning this September, consumers with mobile phones will be able to download video clips of the network’s prime lineup from CBS outdoor billboard locations in Grand Central Station in New York City.

Castles With Too Much Overhead

Washington Post:  Inherited French Chateaux Move Beyond the Means of Their Owners

BOUCARD, France -- When this village's fairy-tale chateau is viewed from afar, with its seven slender spires and fortress-like bearing, it is easy to imagine the genteel, pampered existence of the aristocrats who call it home.

But closer inspection shows that some of the graceful, elongated windows are missing panes, a bridge across the moat has collapsed and tiles are falling off the roof. Inside, pigeon and rodent droppings carpet vast areas that have been surrendered to the elements.

"It is a very heavy load for people who inherit a castle," lamented Marie-Henriette de Montabert, 74, the diminutive, square-shouldered matriarch whose family has owned Chateau de Boucard since 1720.  [ MORE ]

Killer stunt: 'CSI'

Crimes scenes are staged outside LA offices

The Emmy awards are Sunday night, and the crew at “CSI” are deadly determined to get their due. So back at voting time, they sent out a promotion that was sure to grab the panel’s attention.

The plan was a mobile, branded crime scene, which rolled up outside the Los Angeles offices of those on the Emmy voting panel.  [ MORE ]

Boston Globe: Politicians discover the iPod generation

When it comes to gubernatorial candidates chasing votes, no group is too small -- or too technologically advanced.

Democratic candidates from Deval L. Patrick of Milton to independent Christy Mihos , formerly of Cohasset , are posting podcasts on their websites, hoping to corral a younger, more digitally sophisticated crowd. On the Republican side, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey also offers podcasts.

If you're scratching your head about what exactly a podcast is, don't worry -- you're not alone.  [ MORE ]

NYTimes: Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery

 

Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincaré conjecture, about the nature of space.

After posting a few short papers on the Internet and making a whirlwind lecture tour of the United States, Dr. Perelman disappeared back into the Russian woods in the spring of 2003, leaving the world’s mathematicians to pick up the pieces and decide if he was right.

Now they say they have finished his work, and the evidence is circulating among scholars in the form of three book-length papers with about 1,000 pages of dense mathematics and prose between them.

As a result there is a growing feeling, a cautious optimism that they have finally achieved a landmark not just of mathematics, but of human thought.

And...

Dr. Morgan said the excitement came not from the final proof of the conjecture, which everybody felt was true, but the method, “finding deep connections between what were unrelated fields of mathematics.”

William Thurston of Cornell, the author of a deeper conjecture that includes Poincaré’s and that is now apparently proved, said, “Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide,” explaining that curiosity is tied in some way with intuition.

“You don’t see what you’re seeing until you see it,” Dr. Thurston said, “but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.”   [ Full Article at NYTIMES.com ]

NYTimes: With Costly Care, Barbaro’s Long Odds Improve

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa., Aug. 17 — Barbaro was reclined on his side in a stall. His left hind foot curled out beneath him, revealing a fitting that his surgeon called a foam-lined rubber sneaker. His right hind leg, the one that has been in a cast for 90 days, was hidden beneath a carpet of knee-deep straw.

Barbaro wears a bandage around his neck to protect a catheter, and his left hip has a few white splotches, healing blisters from a combination of his sweat and the antiseptics used in his initial operation. When he awakened from a serene slumber, however, his eyes burned as bright as a Kentucky Derby champion’s. After all, he is a Derby champion.  [ MORE ]

CNN.com: iTunes -- how long can musicians holdout?

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer's popular iTunes Music Store.

Analysts say the online holdouts -- including the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Garth Brooks, Radiohead and Kid Rock -- probably can't avoid iTunes forever as fans flock to the Internet to buy music. [ MORE ]

InfoWorld: Google quietly opens up Writely

According to a piece published by Ted Samson at INFOWORLD TECH WATCH this afternoon, Google has released their new online word processor to the public...

Despite all its fans, Google opened up public sign-ups to Writely, its online word-processing application, late last week with little fanfare.

Google snagged Writely last March, and until last Thursday, only a limited number of beta users had a crack at playing with it. Now anyone with an e-mail address can have a go.  [ MORE ]