Let the domain name games begin

Another Big Bang for the Internet
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In a story with the excellent headline "Internet body approves domain name big bang," Agence France-Press reports that ICANN, the Internet naming authority, will now allow an essentially unlimited number of Internet addresses to be created and registered.

This seems likely to herald the end of ".com" as we know it -- why append that silly and now mostly meaningless suffix when you could have a nice, specific site address, instead?  Home.ebay, or Mandalay.casino or BofA.bank.  How about Graumans.chinese, or taqueria.chihuahua or disney.land? Scout.blog, wherecanIbuy.a.hummer? 

Maybe people will even create new URLs just for one-time news events: BillGates.later, Guns.R.Legal, HolyCrap.They.Caught.A.GreatWhite. 

Feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments.

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After one all-too-brief season of Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, who would have ever thought that someday you might hear an awards presenter say, "And the Emmy goes to... Britney Spears"? Well, the pop star has come one step closer to making that into a reality with her inclusion on the ballot of possible Emmy nominees.

For her double-shot guest appearance as Abby on CBS hit How I Met Your Mother, Brit-Brit is one of 41 actresses on the official ballot released by the Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences to its voters. Keep in mind, this is the list that is whittled down to the final nominees for the September ceremony.

Other notable names also up for Academy consideration are Sarah Silverman for her guest shot on Monk; Ashlee Olsen, who won over many Weeds fans during her extended run as a pot-dealing Christian on the Showtime hit; Alyssa Milano for her role as Billie on My Name is Earl; and Scrubs star Sarah Chalke, who is on the ballot for guest-starring as Brit's boss on How I Met Your Mother.

We'll find out just how well Britney fared when the final nominees for this year's Emmys are announced later this summer.




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Songs from Once on Oscars longlist

Two songs from the Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova-starring Irish film 'Once' are being considered for inclusion on the shortlist for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards.
The songs on the longlist from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are 'Falling Slowly' and 'If You Want Me'.
Last week 'Falling Slowly' was nominated in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album and Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media categories for the Grammy Awards.
The Oscars longlist also has another Irish link: Jonathan Rhys Meyers' rendition of the song 'This Time' from his new film 'August Rush' is also among the 59 tracks being considered.
The Oscar nominees will be announced on Tuesday, 22 January 2008.

Corrie star Haworth expecting first child

'Coronation Street' star Julia Haworth has revealed that she is pregnant with her first child.
The actress, who plays Claire Peacock in the soap, is due to give birth in July.
The actress revealed she found out the news in November but wanted to keep it quiet until her 12 week scan.
She told The Mirror newspaper: "We haven't stopped smiling. It's such a special time and I feel so lucky we're going to share it."
Haworth added that her character's postnatal depression following the birth of son Freddie had helped "prepare" her for being a mother.
The 28-year-old married accountant Jon Wormold in May 2006 after a two-year romance.

New romance for Girls Aloud singer?

New romance for Girls Aloud singer?

Girls Loudly mavin Nadine Coyle has reportedly begun a fresh romance language with terpsichorean Jamie Karitzsis.
According to The Mirror, the vocalist, wHO late split from 'Desperate Housewives' star Jesse Metcalfe, is now geological dating the professional dancer, wHO starred in the realness show 'Dirty Terpsichore: The Time of Your Life'.
A source told the paper: "Nadine has known Jamie for about a year now."
"They dated for a couple of months last class during single of her splits with Jesse but work commitments set up paid to their romance."
The source also said: "They take stayed in touch and met up of late, although they hadn't seen for each one other for ages. Nadine truly liked him and they've been on a few dates over the last couple of weeks."
"She wants to keeps things come out of the public center and pick out it slow. She and Jamie have been friends, which is a good thing. He's been on that point for her."




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Woody Allen fears for Scarlett Johansson

Stager film theater director Woody Gracie Allen is fearful that Scarlett Johansson testament ruin her promising playing career by indulging in the party life-style.
The director, wHO has worked with Johansson on a number of movies, has said she is single of the most talented stars of her generation and has advised her to follow Meryl Streep's example.
He told the Newly York Post's scuttlebutt column Page Six-spot: "(Johansson) is so beautiful and so sexy and so gifted... she can buoy do anything, but she has to make the right choices of films and she's got to non go the Pageboy Sestet party route.
"I don't want to read around her in the paper with this fellow or that fellow, or in rehab or pickings pills. I don't opine she's always made great choices. She has to require her playing in earnest... the way individual like Meryl Streep did it."




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