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Live from Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., it’s actually a brilliantly choreographed stage production of the entire first level of Super Mario Brothers. I was compelled to share.
The lights in this building have been timed to replicate a game of tetris. Bored office workers have already begun planning Snood.
NEW YORK – Chanel has selected “Pride & Prejudice” star Keira Knightley as the new face of its Coco Mademoiselle fragrance. The 21-year-old actress will appear in Chanel ads beginning in 2007, the company announced Wednesday.
Knightley succeeds Kate Moss, whose contract expired last October. The 32-year-old British supermodel had starred in the Coco Mademoiselle ads since 2002.
Moss lost several high-profile modeling contracts last year after a tabloid published pictures of her allegedly using cocaine in a west London music studio.
“Keira Knightley is a bright, young actress who has already made her mark in a diverse portfolio of films, including her Oscar-nominated performance in `Pride & Prejudice,’” said Chanel artistic director Jacques Helleu in a statement.
He also said Knightley’s elegance, beauty and modernity parallel some of the brand’s other previous famous faces, including Catherine Deneuve and Nicole Kidman, who represented Chanel No. 5.
“(I am) really proud to have been asked to work with such an iconic house as Chanel, and thrilled to follow the extraordinary women who have been associated with it before,” Knightley said in a statement.
Knightley’s upcoming films include “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” which is set for release this summer.
LONDON – A massive language research database responsible for bringing words such as “podcast” and “celebutante” to the pages of the Oxford dictionaries has officially hit a total of 1 billion words, researchers said Wednesday.
Drawing on sources such as weblogs, chatrooms, newspapers, magazines and fiction, the Oxford English Corpus spots emerging trends in language usage to help guide lexicographers when composing the most recent editions of dictionaries.
The press publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, considered the most comprehensive dictionary of the language, which in its most recent August 2005 edition added words such as “supersize,” “wiki” and “retail politics” to its pages.
Oxford University Press lexicographer Catherine Soanes said the database is not a collection of 1 billion different words, but of sentences and other examples of the usage and spelling.
“The corpus is purely 21st century English,” said Judy Pearsall, publishing manager of English dictionaries. “You’re looking at current English and seeing what’s happening right now. That’s language at the cutting edge.”
As hybrid words such as “geek-chic,” “inner-child” or “gabfest” increase in usage, Pearsall said part of the research project’s goal is to identify words that have lasting power.
“English gets really creative, really fun. What we’re putting in dictionaries is words that will stick around,” she said.
Launched in January 2000, the Oxford English Corpus is part of the world’s largest-funded language research project, costing $90,000-$107,000 per year.
It has helped identify how the spellings of common phrases have changed, such as “fazed by” to “phased by” or “free rein” to “free reign.”
“Buck naked” increasingly has evolved to “butt naked.”
The corpus collects evidence from all the places where English is spoken, whether from North America, Britain, the Caribbean, Australia or India, to reflect the most current and common usage of the English language.
Oxford Corpus, http://www.askoxford.com/oec
As if the world didn’t suck enough!
NEW YORK – CBS Radio confirmed Monday that shock jocks Greg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia will replace rocker
David Lee Roth in the morning slot that used to belong to the long-dominant Howard Stern.
Roth, one of several hosts picked to replace Stern after he moved to satellite, was fired Friday after barely three months on the air in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and four other markets.
Under the terms of an agreement between CBS and XM satellite radio, CBS will broadcast a three-hour version of the Opie and Anthony show from 6 to 9 a.m. EDT weekdays except in Cleveland, where the show will air from 3 to 6 p.m. The broadcast, which pits them against Stern on Sirius Satellite Radio, will be simulcast uncensored on XM. Opie and Anthony will continue to broadcast 9-11 a.m. exclusively for XM.
Additionally, CBS Radio stations in New York, Dallas and Philadelphia will stream the three-hour show online.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Opie and Anthony’s syndicated show — which carried on a long-running feud with Stern — was yanked from terrestrial radio in August 2002 after they aired a live account of listeners having sex in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. They were hired by XM in 2004.
BOGOTA, Colombia – Watch out Fido, your days on the force may be numbered. Police in Colombia are training Lola and Espejo, two whiskered, red-eyed rats, to sniff out bombs and land mines.
The rodents are part of an experimental six-rat squadron that police are preparing for dangerous missions to defuse the more than 100,000 land mines that litter Colombia’s countryside after four decades of war between the government and leftist rebels.
Unlike dogs, rats weighing less than half a pound each and “don’t trigger any explosions when they walk on a mine,” said Col. Javier Cifuentes, director of the Sibate police academy, where basic training is taking place.
To earn their stripes, the rats have spent the past year undergoing a daily training regimen in which they are placed in a maze with C-4 explosives and other bomb-making materials. When they detect the target, they’re rewarded with a cracker.
Trainers estimate it could be six months before the rats are pressed into active duty.
Cifuentes said he believes Colombia is the first country to use rats to conduct police work, though larger rodents are being employed for similar purposes in Sudan, he said.
JERUSALEM – He never got an invitation and he certainly didn’t R.S.V.P., but that didn’t stop Will Smith from crashing Atir Cohen’s bar mitzvah at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
Cohen, 13, was deep into his Torah reading Thursday when he heard shouting and saw girls pushing against the barrier separating men from women at the holy site to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood superstar.
“At first I didn’t know who it was,” Cohen said. Smith compensated for the interruption by shaking the bar mitzvah boy’s hand and posing for a picture with him.
Surrounded by a security detail, Smith approached the wall and put a note in the cracks in keeping with tradition.
Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, then took a tour of an excavated tunnel alongside the wall. The tour leader was Shmuel Rabinovitch, chief rabbi of the holy site, who said the couple took notes and spent several minutes praying.
“He is a very nice man, he was very excited and showed his emotions,” he said.
Smith and his wife later visited the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built on the site where many Christians believe that Jesus was crucified
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – For 84-year-old Josephine Crawford, the golden years just got a lot more golden. About to call it quits after a night playing slot machines, the Galloway Township widow hit a $10 million jackpot late Tuesday, the biggest in the history of casino gambling here.
The retired waitress knew when the nickel slot machine’s bells went off that she’d won something but didn’t know what. When a slot attendant at Harrah’s Atlantic City casino told her it was $10,010,113.48, she didn’t believe him.
“I said, ‘Oh, come on.’ But he just stood there and I figured, why is he staying there?” she said Wednesday.
Crawford, who has been gambling in Atlantic City casinos since the first one opened in 1978, had never won more than $1,000 at a time before. She still hadn’t decided Wednesday whether to take the money in a 25-year annuity or in a lump-sum payment of more than $5.5 million, but she has 21 days to make that call.
Either way, she’s not planning a spending spree.
Crawford, a petite, gray-haired great-grandmother, lives with her daughter, drives a 2006 Honda Civic and has no plans to buy a new car or a new house. But she’s always wanted to see Italy, where her parents grew up, and she wants to share the wealth with her two daughters, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
“Somehow, I’ll spend it. I’ll spend it at the casino, and I might go to Vegas,” said Crawford, who spent 27 years waiting on tables before retiring in 1992.
The jackpot was won on Megabucks, a progressive slot machine linked to hundreds of others in Atlantic City’s 12 casinos. With progressive slot machines, a portion of each bet goes toward the citywide jackpots, which start at $1 million.
The previous biggest Atlantic City jackpot was $8.5 million in 1994.
Crawford, who gambles in Atlantic City casinos twice a week, had never won more than $1,000 before.
She was playing alongside granddaughter Alicia Weeks, 27, when they tried to find an open Wheel of Fortune machine. They couldn’t, and were headed to their hotel room when Weeks saw the red numbers on a Megabucks machine’s jackpot marquee blinking $10 million. She suggested they try it.
“She said, `Oh, that’s a nickel machine. I don’t want to play,’” the granddaughter recalled.
But they did. After spending about $20 with no luck, Weeks suggested they move on. Crawford said no, she wanted to play $20 more. She was down to her last $5 in credits when she hit.
“I’m just happy I won it, for my family – although they don’t need any help,” said Crawford, who celebrated with family members in a dinner at the casino. She had one glass of wine.
It didn’t take long for word of her luck to spread. Three men proposed to her after she won.
“Their wives were there, too!” said Crawford. “One of them told me, ‘You can have him.’”
SAN DIEGO – Secure Networks USA LLC says it has just the escape route for painful dates: A plea you can prearrange online before your encounter.
Here’s how it works: Before your date, go on the Internet and scribble a message to friends and family. Set the time for the message to be sent – by cell phone, e-mail or instant messaging.
If the date is going well, cancel the message by logging on to the Internet from your cell phone. If you don’t cancel, your friends will spring into action, such as by placing a call that could give you an excuse to say an emergency has come up.
Secure Networks said it introduced the Secure Singles free notification system because it was “alarmed by the prevalence of dating disasters and online predator stories that continue to be reported around the world.”
What if the date is going well and you forget to cancel the SOS?
Jenny Gilcrest, a spokeswoman for the San Diego-based company, said friends would call and learn that it was a false alarm.
Of course, that interruption might have killed that passionate moment.
