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...Nickelodeon's tween comedy hit, Unfabulous; her first gig was a bit darker, as coke dealer Johnny Depp's daughter in Blow. New project: Young Roberts is more Burberry than bare midriff as the smart would-be Sherlock in the Nancy Drew movie opening Friday, June 15. Good girl factoid: This summer, Roberts promoted reading with Laura Bush at an all-girls' middle school...
...going to bed before either of you comes up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled!" New projects: The Potter series has Watson booked till 2010. The fifth movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is due in July. Good girl factoid: During the filming of Prisoner of Azkaban, Watson put director Alfonso Cuaron's Hair in pigtails...
When Google Earth launched a few years ago, it captivated the imaginations of many computer geeks and map nerds. Today, when you download the program onto your computer, you can encounter panoramic photos, Wikipedia factoid pop-ups, virtual travel itineraries, 3D renderings and all kinds of other geographic Easter eggs. But you'll only find them if you know how to navigate Google Earth's virtual globe. PC gamers are comfortable moving through 3D environments with just mouse and keyboard. They don't need any help swooping and diving around Google Earth like Superman. I guess I'm more...
...need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true. For instance…Africa has more elephants today than it did ten years ago,” proclaimed Colbert. Never mind that the statement is patently false—it became “fact” on the African elephants” article on Wikipedia following the broadcast, and vandals and moderators battled it out until the article was temporarily locked...
...Diba, the Shah of Iran's very public wife (her patronage of the arts, her various cosmetic surgeries), my aunts speculated about Mrs. Ahmadinejad. Did she work? Read books besides the Koran? Stay at home mincing vegetables? I told them she taught at a girls' school, but this vague factoid - which I learned from a source close to one of Ahmadinejad's vice presidents but has not been confirmed elsewhere - didn't satisfy them much...