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This week, Picnik became the latest high-flying start-up to join the Google team. The popular photo-editing site has 17 million unique monthly visitors and traffic growth of 10% a month. Picnik simplifies the process of cropping, editing and adding special effects to photos stored on your computer or on sites such as Flickr, Picasa or Facebook...
Definitely check out the video for some pretty cool shots and special rewind effects. Magliozzi mentioned that he wanted to create a film with a lot of replay value, so he hid some treasures for the careful observer. Here are a couple to get you started...
...things make this movie special. It features the kind of characters that aren’t often depicted in film. First of all they are [an ethnic] minority. You don’t see many Asian American lead characters on screen, and you don’t see realistic portrayals of immigrants. This film ascribes to a realist aesthetic, so it almost feels like a documentary in terms of documenting the real lives of immigrants and the trials and tribulations they go through. It doesn’t tie things in a neat little bow. The story is more complex...
...current Democratic leaders. The most egregious example was Reid allowing Baucus to dawdle for three months, attempting to cut a deal with the Republicans on the Finance Committee, during which time support for the bill curdled as Tea Party Summer unfolded. The Democrats also allowed their own special interests - the lawyers, the labor unions - as well as individual members to barnacle the bill with codicils and special deals that worked against the greater good...
...killing American soldiers stationed in Germany. In a Düsseldorf courtroom where the four men were standing trial this week, Judge Ottmar Breidling said the defendants had dreamed of "mounting a second 9/11." But their plot went awry when German police were tipped off to their activities and special forces raided their hideout in September 2007. On Thursday, as Germany's biggest Islamic terrorist trial came to an end, the four men - dubbed the "Sauerland cell" - were convicted of a number of terror-related charges, including conspiracy to murder, and received prison sentences ranging from five to 12 years...