TIGER Woods’ women: Want to see pictures of Mindy Lawton, Jaimee Grubbs, Kalika Moquin, Jamie Jungers, Rachel Uchitel, Holly Sampson, Cori Rist, Josyln James, Julie Postle and Theresa Rogers? Well, you can. Pull up a golf cart and pay attention:
IN Pictures - Tiger Woods’ Women (Alleged)
TYPEKIT is live. A new way to blog.
For the past few weeks, we’ve been offering an invitation-only sneak peek at the Typekit service. Now, we’re happy to announce that we’re open to the public. You can head over to Typekit and start using it immediately!
We’ve learned a lot about how browsers handle fonts and what web designers and developers need from a service like ours. We’ve been iterating daily to make Typekit as robust as possible. And we’re pleased to have maintained 100% uptime since we invited our first users back in August. The introductory pricing will remain for a while, so sign up now to get the best deal. We’ll also be announcing new foundry partners and adding new fonts to the library soon.
As ever, we’re looking forward to seeing how typography will change web design, and how you’ll use it to build new things. Have fun!
Not tried it yet.
MADELEINE McCann in the news. Tracking the media’s obsession with a missing child. In pictures words and speculation…
All the news that’s unfit to print.
How Madeleine McCann became the media’s Our Maddie:
Stephen Gately has died. Mark McGowan has a theory as to how a Stephen Gately died. And a shocking video…
The Most Disgusting, Offensive And Tasteless Halloween Costumes
MR Paul Mason is the world’s fattest man. Mr Mason last achieved a fame of sorts in 2002 when he weighed 56 stone and needed to go to hospital for a hernia operation. Back then, a firecrew removed his bedroom window, dismantled a brick wall and fence and took him off in a forklift truck.
Paul Mason is big. He now weighs in at an impressive 70 stone.
Grand Jury Prize – Documentary – Sundance Film Festival, 2009
“Bone-Chilling. Deserves an audience as expansive as MySpace…Tops on every level!” Variety
“Riveting – a compelling cautionary tale…” New York Times
“I can’t express enough how awesome this film is, or how horrifyingly revealing of where our own society has headed.” San Francisco Bay
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web,” founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC will be released in the UK by Dogwoof on 13 November 2009 and will premiere at the BFI 53rd London Film Festival on 23 October 2009.
Director Ondi Timoner is the first and only two-time Grand Jury Prize winner in Sundance history, after her previous winner DIG! She will be available for interviews. Josh Harris will also be available – please contact Debbie Murray at Aim Publicity to organise.
KERRY Katona’s bloopers video - outtakes from her Iceland videos (because saying ‘Mum’s gone to Iceland’ is not as easy as it looks”) - is a plot to make us see her zazy funny side. Yeah, really:
MODEL and TV Presenter Tamara Ecclestone - who also happens to be daughter of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone - joined forces with The Red Room girls at a photo call in Central London to announce a celebrity / VIP fundraising event in aid of The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund.
Les Ambassadeurs Club one of the most exclusive gaming businesses in the world is opening a stunning new members club within its magnificent building in London’s Mayfair (just off Park Lane). The club named The Red Room will open with a celebrity/VIP party on November 2nd 2009. The opening night will raise funds for The Cinema and Television Benevolent
Fund, featuring a luxury auction hosted by TV auctioneer Charlie Ross and Tamara Ecclestone, who offered her services and a fabulous Formula 1 auction item for the charity.
The Red Room will feature The Red Room Girls who will be the club’s cocktail waitresses, dressed in an iconic red uniform, designed by leading designer Wendy Olver. At today’s photo call six of the following Red Room Girls took part: Holly Rye, Kimberley Milner-Lunt, Sissel List, Nneka Frances Ikedife, Ekaterina Nechaeva and Ivonnet Martinez.
Casinos are not dead…
TODAY’S Michael Jackson book is Michael Jackson: For The Record. The press release:
The King of Pop’s sudden death on 25th June 2009 shocked the world, and a glut of hastily written biographies quickly followed, but this book is different: this book is a revised and expanded edition of the no.1 best selling Michael Jackson book on amazon.com, in the days and weeks following his passing.
The first edition of ‘Michael Jackson: For The Record’, published in 2007, was Chris Cadman & Craig Halstead’s fourth book about the King of Pop and, like their previous books, it focused on what Michael’s legion of fans want to read about: his music. Here’s what a couple of Michael Jackson fan sites had to say about the first edition:
‘…it’s an incredible guide for Michael collectors and fans alike. Cadman and Halstead are wonderful researchers, and have amassed a wealth of information in this work…’
(MJ News Online)‘If I had to say, what sticks out most in my overall view of the book, I would have to say: dedication. So much information, so much attention to details, and so precisely gathered.’
(Jackson Village)Now, in response to numerous requests from Michael Jackson fans around the world, Cadman & Halstead have completely revised and expanded their best selling ‘For The Record’. As well as detailing the hundreds of songs Michael was involved with over the years, solo and with his brothers, the second editions also focuses on the King of Pop’s albums, his home videos, his films and short films, his books and his chart successes, and it includes complete USA & UK discographies. The book, like the first edition, is published by Authors On Line Ltd.
Only now, following his tragic death at the age of 50, is Michael Jackson’s genius being recognised. Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records, stated: ‘The more I think about Michael, and talk about Michael, the more I think that King of Pop is not good enough. I think he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived.’
Nearly all the books published about Michael Jackson, since his passing, fall into one of three categories: heavily illustrated books, books focusing on the scandals in his private life, and rushed biographies written in 3-4 weeks or less. Michael’s ever loyal fans want and deserve more – and they will find it in ‘Michael Jackson: For The Record’.
Never mind the quality get a load of the size:
Words: 158,500.
Pages: 515.
Size: Crown Quarto.
ISBN: 978-07552-04478-6
Retail Price: £16.95
On Channel 4, School Of Comedy is a unique sketch show where kids take on the world of adults and stars Jack Harries and Son Of Rambow’s Will Poulter plus a host of young, rising British stars.
Episode 1 features Connie, who runs a pub where it’s always last orders (and no, you can’t bring your kids in); Karl and Marv, Hollywood pitch men who make absolutely no sense at all and The Cabbie, who has absolutely no idea where he’s going, doesn’t have change, but has an amazing Jimmy Savile story.
School of Comedy was created by Laura Lawson who used to perform comedy at The Edinburgh Fringe prior to teaching drama in a West London school where she set up an after school club to help grow her pupils into mini comedy geniuses.
School Of Comedy begins on E4 this Thursday, October 1st at 10pm.
Kofi Annan launches ‘Beds Are Burning’ Global Musical Petition to demand climate justice with Melanie Laurent and Havas Worldwide CEO, David Jones & The:Hours
• First ever global musical petition created to mobilise people to pressure their leaders to agree a climate justice deal at the UN’s Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.
• Produced by The:Hours, 60+ international music stars & celebrities collaborated for free to show support for climate justice deal and the ‘Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice’ campaign
• Midnight Oil specially re-write lyrics to 1987 hit, ‘Beds Are Burning’ to highlight greatest humanitarian challenge facing mankind today.
PARIS (1 October 2009) – Kofi A. Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, was today joined by Melanie Laurent (star of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds’) and David Jones (Global CEO, Havas Worldwide) for the launch of a specially re-recorded version of Midnight Oil’s ‘Beds are Burning’ as a global musical petition to demand climate justice at the UN’s Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December. The song is also set to become the soundtrack of the Climate Justice movement.
‘Beds Are Burning’ was produced by The:Hours, and is to be made available on all major music download platforms for free. It will also be available on the campaign’s own website: www.timeforclimatejustice.org.
The song has been supported by over 60 international music stars and celebrities including Duran Duran, Mark Ronson, Jamie Cullum, Melanie Laurent, Marion Cotillard, Milla Jovovich, Fergie, Lily Allen, Manu Katche, Bob Geldof, Youssou N’Dour, Yannick Noah and many more.
Every download will count as a unique digital petition with people adding their names to demand world leaders reach an ambitious, fair and global deal at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. Already, more than 1.3 million people have signed up to the campaign.
The Global Humanitarian Forum’s ‘Tck Tck Tck; Time for Climate Justice’ campaign was created by Havas Worldwide and was launched earlier this year at the 56th Cannes International Advertising Festival.
Climate justice has, at its heart, the principle that emissions have a price and greenhouse gas emitters must pay. The countries, and peoples, who are suffering the worst impact of climate change – both now and in the future – have done the least to cause it.
Mr Annan said:
“Climate change is the greatest humanitarian challenge facing mankind today. And it is a challenge that has a grave injustice at its heart. It is the major developed economies of the world which contribute the overwhelming majority of global greenhouse emissions. But it is the poorer and least developed nations that are hit hardest by its impact.
“This is, I believe, a critical moment in the campaign to mobilise people around the world to demand climate justice. Already, over 1 million people have signed up to our ‘Tck Tck Tck: Campaign for Climate Justice.’
“By downloading ‘Beds Are Burning’ for free from major music download platforms on the internet, people from around the world will be adding their names to this growing global petition – joining the campaign for climate justice and becoming a climate ally.
“This will be the first time ever that a musical petition has been created to demand decisive action from our world leaders. I believe it can become the Band Aid for the internet generation. Together, we can create such a noise that our leaders will not be able to ignore it when they meet in Copenhagen this December to agree a new post-Kyoto climate agreement. Good leaders are also good followers.”
Mr Annan was joined at the launch by Melanie Laurent, star of Quentin Tarantino’s latest blockbuster, ‘Inglorious Basterds’. Ms Laurent said:
“The next Kyoto agreement is hugely important to get right because the last one got it so wrong.
“The single greatest contribution to the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is not the burning of fossil fuels by the transport sector, nor is it industrial pollution, it is deforestation. The one provision of the original Kyoto proposal that may have helped this situation that wealthy countries would be able to offset their carbon footprint by paying poorer countries to maintain their forests, was derailed, and the forests have been burning since.
“I’m supporting Kofi Annan’s initiative and hope this song will be heard by as many people as possible in the world before Copenhagen. This campaign will help secure a better future for our planet and upcoming generations. The time has come.”
David Jones, Global CEO of Havas Worldwide the network who created the campaign for Mr Annan’s Global Humanitarian Forum said:
“Our industry excels at changing people’s behavior. I believe that we have not only an opportunity but also an obligation to use our creativity to address some of the biggest issues facing the world.
“To get a meaningful outcome at Copenhagen requires everyone putting pressure on their leaders to agree on a fair post-Kyoto deal. This is precisely the aim of the campaign, and the advertising and marketing communities have a crucial role to play.”
Alexandre Sap, CEO of The:Hours, who assembled the artists and produced the soundtrack said:
“Music is the universal language, capable of transcending cultures, generations, religions and races. A song or an artist truly has the power to translate a message or a movement more than any politician or world leader can on a global scale.
“This is why we believe that by producing a song for Mr. Kofi Annan and the ‘Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice’ campaign, we will be creating a voice for all of us who deserve to have a say leading up to Copenhagen in December. The goal is to draw enough attention to an event that will affect everyone’s lives on the planet.”
Everton defender Phil Jagielka has been threatened with a knife by three thieves who broke into his home in Knutsford.
He was watching his team play Hull City on television in the Carling Cup.
Everton won.
Says George Clooney: “I’d rather have a rectal examination on live TV by a fellow with cold hands than have a Facebook page!”
Well, you’re our doctor…
RACHEL Stevens at her home in London, after she was revealed as the female winner of the Rear of the Year 2009.
George Clooney, star of ‘Up In the Air’, is pictured at the premiere at the Ryerson Theatre, Toronto.
The bandage is for sympathy, right?
Felix Bowness, who played ex-jockey Fred Quilly in sitcom Hi-de-Hi, has died. He as 87.
PARIS Hilton is in Rome. Hey, America, it’s a fair swap for organised crime and tony Danza…
OLD Strictly Come Dancing’s Arlene Phillips is to return to judging in a BBC version of hit US show So You Think You Can Dance. OAP edition.
PERMISSION for take off. Fog on the track. The Heathrow Airport boss, Mike Brown, has been appointed the new managing director of London Underground (LU). We are doomed.
SAYS the Madeleine McCann detective: ““I don’t know. We could still be sitting here in 10 years.”
It’s the Erin Andrews peeping tom video highlights package on Oprah Winfrey.
“I mean, having to call my parents and they - they thought I was physically injured how bad I was screaming.” She kept screaming, “My career is over!”
…
“It’s been a nightmare,” she says on The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Friday, Sept. 11. “I opened up the computer [and] could feel my heart pounding.”
Kilmarnock Hearts And Stranraer Berwick Matches Off, as M8 fires casuses traffic jams:
The Kilmarnock and Stranraer teams were travelling to their games against Hearts and Berwick when they got caught up in the chaos caused by a lorry fire.
On other Scottish football news: Rangers or Celtic win league.
THANKS to Jaycee Dugard, and lazy hacks, Josef Fritzl is once more in the news. Perfect time then to release Euphoria, a Fritzl-inspired art show, featuring a vacant pornography film-set and a mock up of basement where Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years.
Nicolas Ruston’s work features in De$ire exhibition at London’s Holster Projects gallery.
DE$IRE features works which explore contemporary sexual ideologies: our understanding and expressions of our sexuality as defined or constricted by society and as shaped by the saturation of sex and sexuality into mass media channels.
Says the artist:
“This show came about as it was based on sexual ideologies, in my case in the mass media.”
Baby Peter’s mother, Tracey Connelly, 28, her partner Steven Barker, 33, and Barker’s brother, Jason Owen, 37, have been refused appeal .
However, all three can still renew their application to appeal, the Court of Appeal confirmed.
AMERICAN Idol star Ellen DeGeneres - well, her show’s producers is involved in a copyright case.
The show’s producers are being sued by Sony, Universal and EMI, which claim the daytime show has used more than 1,000 songs without licences.
Good start to her career in the music biz.
