Archive for March 9th, 2006

Minti - Niche Web 2.0 Stuff is Coming

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Minti is a collaborative advice site for parenting. Members write articles on parenting-type stuff (example) and other members rate the content, and add comments and tags. While search is not entirely driven through tags, you can browse by clicking on them and they do a good job showing related tags for a given article.
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McTeigue Talks V Actor Switch

Thursday, March 9th, 2006


James McTeigue, director of the upcoming film V for Vendetta, told SCI FI Wire that he’d been shooting for about a month when James Purefoy, who was playing the terrorist V, exited the project.

Charmed Is Ready To End

Thursday, March 9th, 2006


Brad Kern, executive producer of The WB’s Charmed, told SCI FI Wire that he decided before the official announcement that this would be the last season for the series.

Dogs Influenced Eyes

Thursday, March 9th, 2006


Aaron Stanford, who plays Doug in the upcoming remake of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes, told SCI FI Wire that he and director Alexandre Aja modeled his character on Dustin Hoffman’s hero in Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 Straw Dogs.

Crane Pentalogy Adapted

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

The Weinstein Co. has acquired the worldwide rights to Crane—Iron Pentalogy, a series of five martial-arts-oriented novels penned by Wang Du Lu, and plans to realize the stories as stage shows and feature films, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Knaak Bullish On Ogre Titans

Thursday, March 9th, 2006


Fantasy author Richard A. Knaak told SCI FI Wire that he recently sold a new series, The Ogre Titans trilogy, to Wizards of the Coast for their Dragonlance line of Dungeons & Dragons tie-in novels.

Hellboy 2 Is Golden Army

Thursday, March 9th, 2006


Ron Perlman told SCI FI Wire that the Hellboy sequel has a working title, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, and he’s hopeful it will go into production later this year.

Elizabeth Smart Goes to Washington

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

She’s backing a bill toughening sex predator laws. Smart, who’s now 18, was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home almost four years ago and held nine months by two suspects whose trials are still pending. [CBS News]

Mens Group Sues for Unwilling Fathers

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

The National Center for Men is filing a federal lawsuit to give unwilling fathers the chance to "opt out" of financial responsibility for raising a child. The group has nicknamed its case "Rove v. Wade for Men." [CBS News]

Galaxy prez dies on plane returning from match

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

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Thursday, March 9th, 2006

This is a new feature we’re trying featuring a quick audio recap of the day’s news stories, big and small, in pro wrestling. Torch columnist James Caldwell is hosting the feature with a tentative schedule of Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings. Torch editor Wade Keller will also be doing News Brief Audio updates…

No. 5 Memphis hits 11 3s in opening round C-USA win

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

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