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Superstar Taylor Swift is releasing a Taylor Swift Baby Taylor guitar,
similar to the one she wrote songs on while on her radio tour a few
years ago. Pre-orders are now being taken: http://j.mp/35RgtZ



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In Michigan a pet store employee likely set a world record after he
stuff 16 Madagascar hissing cockroaches into his mouth. The old record
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294th day of 2009 - 71 remaining

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

U2 gig to be streamed on YouTube

U2's concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California on Sunday will be streamed live on video-sharing website YouTube, the band have announced.

Manager Paul McGuinness said that, as the gig was already being filmed, it was "the perfect opportunity to extend the party beyond the stadium".

Fans in 16 countries, including the UK, the US, Australia and India, will be able to watch the show at 0330 GMT.

It will be the band's penultimate concert of the year.

YouTube said it would place adverts around the video "in the normal manner", and that clips from the concert would be available on the site after the gig ends.

The site will also offer viewers the ability to chat to one another using Twitter, or to give money to Bono's RED charity via a "donate now" button, while they watch the show.

McGuinness said that U2 had "wanted to do something like this for a long time".

He added: "Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 - this time U2 can go to them, globally."

However, it is not the first time that U2 have dabbled in live streaming - they allowed fans to watch a Boston date of their Popmart tour in 1997 via Microsoft's MSN website.

YouTube has also experimented with live broadcasts in the past, most notably with its YouTube Live show, which premiered on 22 November, 2008 with performances from will.i.am and Katy Perry.

The company, which is owned by Google, is keen to expand its business beyond hosting short amateur clips.

Earlier this year, it began streaming Hollywood movies like Cliffhanger to users in America. UK broadcaster Channel 4 has also announced it will offer a full catch-up service via YouTube by the start of 2010.

However, live streaming poses bigger technical issues than offering pre-recorded content, and issues over music rights may prevent the U2 experiment becoming more commonplace at any great pace.

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What is the future of music online?

For years, the music industry has, in the words of Bonnie Tyler, been holding out for a hero.

For the industry, this hero must come up with an idea that is great enough to tempt fans away from illegal file-sharing sites, while simultaneously making money for artists, songwriters and record labels.

Spotify and We7, the music streaming services funded by adverts and subscriptions, have come closest so far.

And for a while, it looked like Sky and Virgin would save the day. They planned services offering unlimited downloads for an extra fee on top of an existing broadband and TV subscription.

But both are believed to have stumbled because major labels did not think they would generate enough cash. Sky launched a watered down service on Monday.

The struggle to offer unlimited downloads on a subscription is seen as a missed opportunity by many observers.

So other than being punished, how will fans be tempted away from illegal services, and how will artists, songwriters and labels make money in the future?

A range of industry executives and commentators offered their visions of the future at the In the City music conference in Manchester.

ANDREW ORLOWSKI, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, THE REGISTER

Virgin's planned all-you-can-eat subscription download service was "the best British piece of technology I'd seen in the last 10 years", Mr Orlowski says.

"Virgin spent millions of pounds and it would have been the world's first legal P2P service, with no DRM restrictions. Virgin hasn't cancelled it but they've stood the teams down because the music business is so hard to deal with.

"It was going to be an amazing-looking social network, the first social network with music attached. And it would have completely changed the debate.

"You could stream and share files, put them in a locker in MP3 format and play them later. It used the music that's already on people's computers, and would have allowed the music business for the first time to have an offensive weapon rather than a defensive one.

"It would have made people on Facebook think, 'I don't get music on this social network - why am I on it?' It would have completely changed the dynamic in a positive way."

MIKE SMITH, HEAD OF COLUMBIA RECORDS UK

The first step to making money from music is ensuring the current copyright laws are enforced, Mr Smith believes.

"We've got a perfectly good strong copyright system in place. The law exists. That law needs to be enforced.

"And if that law is enforced then I think the opportunities for the future of the music business are enormous, whether that be a streaming model, a subscription model, the sale of MP3s, the sale of albums, the sale of deluxe fabulous edition specialist albums.

"I think we've got a great future as an industry, as long as government has got the strength to step up and support copyright."

No all-you-can-eat download services have yet been approved because they do not offer enough money back to the artists, he says.

"If there is a way of properly being able to remunerate the songwriters and recording artists, then there is the potential for that. But I haven't seen a business model where that looks especially strong.

"Those are being examined all the time and there are opportunities for the future but I don't think a particularly great business model has been brought together yet."

MARC MAROT, SEG MANAGEMENT, EX-HEAD OF ISLAND RECORDS

The young generation are prepared to pay subscriptions for mobile phones, broadband and pay-TV, Mr Marot says - so why not music?

"I feel the subscription model is the way forward for the music industry. The Sky and Virgin initiatives are a really promising start. But they are a little bit tame.

"The concept of every household in Britain that has a Sky subscription also paying, for argument's sake, £9.99 per month that is going into the coffers of the music industry - that's going to be a vast improvement in the music industry's health.

"I personally would like to see an all-you-can-eat for a higher price, say £19.99. The major labels have been so excruciatingly slow in coming to the inevitable conclusion that these initiatives have got to be taken.

"But anti-competition laws mean they're not really allowed to talk to each other very much, so they've had to come to their individual conclusions. Largely speaking, the record industry is getting its act together very quickly now."

JON WEBSTER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, MUSIC MANAGERS' FORUM

A system to grant innovative new companies licenses to use music should be introduced - and the government may have to force record labels and publishing companies to take part, Mr Webster says.

"I think that has to be done on a compulsory licence basis, where everyone just puts all their music in. Licensing seems to be the issue at the moment.

"If the industry can't solve the problem, the government should step in to try and impose it if necessary. It's not a popular view but it's one of the things we've got to do to break the logjam."

Spotify is a good start at offering attractive new services, he says - but there are doubts about whether it will generate enough money to survive.

"It would be a dreadful shame if it failed because the costs of the music being supplied to it were too high. The great conundrum is - should the music industry be supporting models that compete with free and therefore drive the price of music down? Unfortunately I think that's the way we're going to go."

ANTHONY VOLODKIN, FOUNDER, THE HYPE MACHINE

The future will revolve around finding innovative ways to use music, especially on the web, according to Mr Volodkin.

"One example is music games - they've created value where there was nothing like that before. People suddenly pay for Rock Star or Guitar Hero. That came from out of nowhere and is a use that people couldn't envision just a few years ago.

"More of that will happen. For that to happen on the web, though, the way people work with rights on the web needs to ease up."

Record labels and music publishers demand too much money from new services, he says. "Currently you need to spend several million dollars in advances to get some of these licences for content.

"It's all about making it easier to create services that let people interact with music online, and then I think smart people won't settle for just letting people play stuff. They'll come up with interesting ways that you can interact with music and money will start changing hands."

SEAN ADAMS, FOUNDER AND EDITOR, DROWNED IN SOUND

Licences to use music for digital services should be easier and cheaper to obtain from record label and publishers, Mr Adams believes.

Each new digital service should be given a two-year licence to sink or swim, he says.

"I think 95% of music that's downloaded illegally could be turned into music that's downloaded in legal means if things are licensed in the right way."

Drowned in Sound has stopped running a podcast because each episode would cost £20,000. "I don't have £20,000. But Laura Marling signed a record deal on the back of us playing her in a podcast. And various artists said they were selling hundreds of records on the back of us playing them."

He adds: "Instead of cutting people off the internet, I'd much rather they sent the worst offenders into studios for a week to do community service to understand exactly what goes into the process of making music.

"I don't think for a second they'd consider not paying something towards the creation of that content."

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Jim Morrison's Ghost Spooks Historian

Jim Morrison's ghost has left a music historian spooked after making an appearance in a photo taken at The Doors singer's grave.

The 1997 picture of Brett Meisner was taken by the rocker's grave at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France - but the writer didn't notice the Morrison-like apparition behind him until he revisited the photo in 2002, and posted the shot online.

The photo has been authenticated by experts and is now being used to promote new book "Ghosts Caught on Film 2: Photographs of the Unexplained".

But Meisner now states he regrets going to visit Morrison's grave because he has been plagued by eerie events ever since.

He tells Britain's Daily Express newspaper that his marriage broke down and a close friend died of a drug overdose, and now he's become a target for Morrison fans who insist the rock star's ghost is haunting them.

He says, "At first it was sort of interesting to see how many people felt a spiritual bond with Jim and the photo, but now the whole vibe seems negative."

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Boy George Turned Nasty In Jail

Boy George was forced to toughen up during his stint in prison earlier this year for fear of falling victim to other inmates.

The former Culture Club frontman, real name George O'Dowd, was jailed in January for the false imprisonment and assault of male escort Audun Carlsen in 2007.

He served just four months of his 15 month sentence and was released in May for good behavior - and he admits his time behind bars changed him dramatically.

He says, "You've got the classic picture of the balconies and the banging cups. I knew what to expect. I was quite hostile. Very hostile. And very grumpy.

"Not because I felt that way particularly, but because I felt it required that. The situation required me to be a bit feisty, a bit don't-[bleep]-with-me."

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Stephen Hawking's successor named

Cambridge University has named the man who will succeed Professor Stephen Hawking in one of the world's most prestigious academic positions.

The celebrated physicist, who has motor neurone disease, completed his last day as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics on 30 September.

The university said Professor Michael Green had been elected as the 18th person to take up the position.

Professor Green will start work in his new role on 1 November.

The academic already holds the John Humphrey Plummer Professorship of Theoretical Physics at the university.

'Internationally known'

He is a pioneer of string theory, the idea that the fundamental building blocks of space and time are tiny vibrating strings.

Peter Haynes, head of the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics, said: "Michael Green has played a leading role in theoretical physics research in the department since 1993.

"He is internationally known as a pioneer in string theory which over the last 20 years has become one of the most important and active areas of theoretical physics."

Professor Hawking has taken on a new role as director of research.

The Lucasian Professorship was established in 1663 and previous holders have included Isaac Newton.

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Police in Australia matched blood taken from an engorged leech found at a robbery scene to a suspect - seven years after the crime.

The leech was found shortly after officers arrived a the rural property in Tasmania, whose elderly resident had been robbed by two men, reports the Hobart Mercury.

It was the only piece of evidence found during a full forensic examination of the house, so officers decided to take a DNA profile from the blood inside it.

Det Insp Mick Johnston said: "As there was no evidence of any leech bites from the victims or the police present we thought it was a good chance to have come from one of the offenders.

"We took it from the scene because it didn't belong there."

Seven years later, the blood was found to match that of Peter Alec Cannon, who had been arrested and charged with drug offences.

Cannon, 54, pleaded guilty in court to the 2001 aggravated armed robbery.

Crown prosecutor John Ransom said: "The leech was found next to the safe and it had this man's blood in it."

Detective Inspector Johnston said he had never heard of a leech being involved in a crime scene before.

"It is the oddest way of convicting anyone I have ever been involved in. I have not been able to find any similar cases anywhere in the world - nothing like this at all," he said.

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Psychedelic hearse for wilting flower generation

A Somerset man has created a psychedelic hearse to offer funky funerals to the hippy generation.

Matthew Shuter, 54, says he saw a gap in the market with the 'baby boomer' generation now reaching their later years.

So he bought a Daimler hearse and had it covered in a funky psychedelic pattern.

Mr Shuter, who lives near Taunton, said: "The woodstock generation is now dying out. They really lived a colourful life - they wouldn't want to go to their funeral in a boring black hearse."

As well as funerals Mr Shuter says the unusual vehicle is perfect for festival goers, or beach bums who need a way to transport their surfboards.

He said: "I had the idea while I was at Glastonbury this year. I noticed there are lots of flower power camper vans out there in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

"It doesn't just have to be used as a hearse - it's a brilliant surfing vehicle and requires minimum adaption to take a surfboard in on the rollers."

Mr Shuter, who owns an electronics business, bought the three door 1989 Daimler from a second-hand dealer before taking it to a printing company to have it vinyl wrapped.

He said: "The guys at the company thought my idea was a bit strange but they went along with it, they saw the sense in it when I explained."

But Mr Shuter does not intend to pursue his unusual business idea himself. He plans to auction the psychadelic hearse on eBay.

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Bodypainter's naked ambition

A New York artist is earning a living - by bodypainting surreal faces on to naked women.

Andy Golub, 43, specialises in daubing exotic designs onto female skin, covering groups of girls from top-to-toe in his vivid designs.

He exhibits his group paintings in local galleries, but also works on individual women on a commission basis.

And sometimes he just takes his brushes to the street in search of willing 'canvases' to paint for parades and parties.

He said: "I've been bodypainting for four years and I've been a professional artist for 10 years.

"A single bodypainting takes around three to four hours, but for a performance I paint in around 30 minutes.

"And if I do a large group of people at a party or a parade, it's much quicker than that.

"People often hire me to paint them, mostly women. Sometimes a man will hire me to paint his wife or girlfriend as a birthday present."

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Gas mask bra wins science award

The designer of a bra that turns into two gas masks was among the winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel prizes.

The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think".

Dr Elena Bodnar won the public health prize for the bra that, in an emergency, can be converted into two gas masks.

She demonstrated her invention and gave one to each of the Nobel laureates as a gift, reports the BBC.

The only British winners were Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson who found that cows with names produce more milk.

Dr Douglas, from the agriculture, food and rural development department of Newcastle University, said she was "thrilled" to have been selected and was a "big fan of the Ig Nobel awards".

She dedicated the award to Purslane, Wendy and Tina - "the nicest cows I have ever known".

The peace prize went to a Swiss research team who determined whether it is better to be hit over the head with a full or empty bottle of beer.

The prize for economics went to the executives of four Icelandic banks.

And the governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank received the prize for mathematics for printing bank notes with such a wide range of denominations.

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Women drivers pay lip service to safety

Nearly half a million road accidents a year are caused by women drivers applying make-up, according to a new survey.

One in five female motorists admit touched up their make-up on the move - and three per cent had caused an accident while applying cosmetics.

Young women, aged between 17 and 21, were found to be the most likely to put beauty before safety in the poll of 4,000 women drivers by motor insurer Diamond.

Twenty-seven per cent confessed to putting on make-up and nine per cent of those aged 18 or younger have had a crash while doing so - three times the average.

Diamond managing director Sian Lewis said it was "worrying" that so many women put themselves and other road users at risk.

"We all have busy lives but applying your make-up when you're driving means your full attention is not on the road ahead," she said.

"Is your mascara more important than yours and other road users' safety? Even if you're lucky enough to arrive at your destination safely, you could be charged with careless driving if spotted by the police.

"Women are generally great at doing more than one thing at once but this is definitely one area where multitasking should not be practised."

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Fisher-dog catches attention

A Chinese man says his dog has become something of a local celebrity - after taking up fishing.

Mr Lin, of Wuchang in central China's Hubei province, told the Wuhan Evening Post that Ding Ding had always loved water.

"I often swim in Donghu Lake, and used to leave him on the bank to take care of my clothes and valuables. But he couldn't stop jumping into the water and swimming with me," he said.

"When he was swimming, he would bite anything floating in the water, like bottles, foam rubber, or dead fish, and bring them back to the bank.

"But several days ago he suddenly started catching live fish from the lake. Within 10 minutes he had brought back three big fish, weighing more than 3kg."

Lin says Ding Ding now regularly leaps into the lake and comes back with a live fish in his mouth - to the amazement of passers-by.

"He can tell where the fish are located by seeing the bubbles coming from the water," he added.

Shocked local angler Mr Zhao commented: "I've been fishing in Donghu Lake for decades but this is the first time I've ever seen a fishing dog."

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News anchor's slip sparks web craze

A US news anchor who made an obscene verbal slip live on air has unwittingly spawned a viral web craze.

Ernie Arnastos, who works for Fox 5 WNYW in New York, told the station's weatherman to "keep f***ing that chicken".

In a scene reminiscent of the 2004 film Anchorman, Mr Anastos appeared oblivious to the slip, while co-presenter Dari Alexander's eyes bulged with shock.

It is believed that Mr Anastos meant to say "keep plucking that chicken", possibly meaning "persevere" or "don't give up".

However, the obscene version has taken on a life of its own. It is a regularly searched term on Twitter and Google, while T-shirts are available with the catchphrase across the chest.

The phrase has even made it into slang bible urbandictionary.com, with the definition "keep up the good work".

The Rev Al Sharpton has speculated on the meaning of the slogan.

He told the New York Times: "It could be a kind of phrase: 'Well, keep doing what you are doing. Keep going after it'. Even if you are tired or distracted, keep on doing that chicken, that kind of thing."

Mr Arnastos has since apologised for the slip while Fox 5 WNYW vice president Lew Leone said the company was "disappointed with Ernie's comment".

In the 2004 film Anchorman, a rival uses the autocue to trick news anchor Ron Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell, into replacing his usual catchphrase "stay classy, San Diego" with "go f*** yourself, San Diego".

keep errr rocking !!!!

note : the dudes dont have to worry too much about this ...ladies are smart ...they stay the hell away from us ...so we dont get to tell em our secrets anyway.....

Women can't keep secrets - study... ( wow ! really ??...duh ! )

The average woman cannot keep a secret for longer than 47 hours, according to a new study.

Researchers found women will typically spill the beans to at least one other person in 47 hours and 15 minutes, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Depending on who the gossip is about, their boyfriend, husband, best friend or mother are the most likely to be the first person they tell.

The study of 3,000 women, aged between 18 and 65, also found that four out of ten admitted they were unable to keep a secret - no matter how personal or confidential.

It also found that alcohol usually gives us a helping hand to blurt out secrets with more than half admitting a glass or two of wine could prompt them to dish the dirt.

Michael Cox, UK Director of Wines of Chile, which commissioned the research to mark Chile's National Day, said: "It's official - women can't keep secrets.

"We were really keen to find out with this survey how many secrets people are told. What we didn't bank on was how quickly these are passed on by those we confide in.

"No matter how precious the piece of information, it's often out in the public domain within 48 hours. That means every single Brit who has confided in a friend should be worried because they don't know where their secret is heading."

Intimate issues, the true cost of purchases and affairs emerged top of the secret-keeping list, with girls most likely to share a secret chatting face-to-face, on the phone or via a text message.

Fortunately for some though, more than a quarter said they forgot what they were told the following day.

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