Harry Potter’s car flew away
October 28, 2005
The famous “flying” car used in the Harry Potter films has been stolen from a film studio lot!.
The car used in the Potter films is a blue Ford Anglia,registration 7990 TD.
I wonder what the “car-nappers” are going to do with it?
What if they really believe the car could fly?!!
hahahaa..wouldn’t that be hillarious!
Or maybe they might just get the most fantastic idea…..sell the car on…..
eBay! w00t!
“The film prop was being stored under a tarpaulin. It was not in good condition and could not have been driven away under its own steam,” the police spokesman told the UK’s Press Association.
“It is suspected that it would have to have been towed or full lifted from the scene.”
more of this hillariousness……
SEO Duplicate Web Content Penalty Myth Exploded
October 28, 2005
The “duplicate content penalty” myth is one of the biggest obstacles I face in getting web professionals to embrace reprint content. The myth is that search engines will penalize a site if much of its content is also on other websites.
Clarification:
there is a real duplicate content penalty for content that is duplicated with minor or no variation across the pages of a single site. There is also a “mirror” penalty for a site that is more or less substantially duplicating another single site. What I’m talking about here is the reprint of pages of content individually, rather than in a mass, on multiple sites.
Another clarification: “penalty” is a loaded concept in SEO. “Penalty” means that search engines will punish a website for violations of the engine’s terms of service. The punishment can mean making it less likely that the site will appear in search results. Punishment can also mean removal from the search engine’s index of web pages (”de-indexing” or “delisting”).
How have I exploded the “duplicate content penalty” myth?
* PageRank. Many thousands of high-PageRank sites reprint content and provide content for reprint. The most obvious case is the news wires such as Reuters (PR 
and the Associated Press (PR 9) that reprint to sites such as http://www.nytimes.com (PR 10).
* The proliferation of content reprint sites. There are now hundreds of websites devoted to reprint content because it’s a cheap, easy magnet for web traffic, especially search engine traffic.
* Experience. I’ve seen significant search engine traffic both from distributing content to be reprinted and from reprinting content on the site.
Kate Moss Out Of Rehab Clinic
October 28, 2005
Kate Moss is said to have been checked out of an Arizona rehabilitation clinic.
Moss enetred rehab as a result of a picture of her snorting cocaine in a London music studio
was published last month, and becuase of that, she has now lost her contract with H&M, Burberry and Chanel, that was earning her some pretty cool amount of ca$h.
“Kate is in excellent spirits and looking forward to getting back to work. She would like to thank everyone for their messages of support as they have played a major part in helping her,” a Storm spokesman was quoted as saying.
Viva la Belly
October 27, 2005
Belly dancing in Malaysia?
For all the imaginations i’ve ever had, i would have never in a million years guess that Malaysia
would see a thriving belly dance academy.
But appreantly, the dance moves are becoming popular, with belly dance schools mushrooming
in Kuala Lumpur.
and i quote:
Snaking its way into popular urban culture, belly dancing is becoming a popular activity among middle-class Malaysians, despite a general perception that the dance is too provocative for this conservative, mainly Muslim country.
“It’s not that common in Malaysia to have this type of dance as part of the culture,” says Bakhshy, an Azerbaijani dancer and the most sought after teacher. “In the beginning they thought belly dancing is something like lap dancing - something too sexy, for seduction. So it was like, ‘No, no!’”
check out the full article HERE
Microsoft Book Search
October 26, 2005
And so the tussle goes on….Microsoft v.s Google.
This time around the big M has announced it’s intention of starting an
“Online Book Search” engine.
The Redmond-based software giant said Tuesday that it will sidestep hot-button copyright issues for now by initially focusing mainly on books, academic materials and other publications that are in the public domain.
Microsoft plans to initially work with an industry organization called the Open Content Alliance to let users search about 150,000 pieces of published material. A test version of the product is promised for next year.
Get the full loop HERE
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