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AP - Country singer Sara Evans on Thursday announced she was filing for divorce and quitting the “Dancing With the Stars” television competition.

E! Online - All of a sudden, Dancing with the Stars doesn’t have as much
rhythm as it used to.

AP - Doctor doctor, give us the news. But ABC is staying mum about the reported on-set scuffle between the actors portraying Dr. McDreamy and Dr. Burke on TV’s top-rated “Grey’s Anatomy.”

E! Online - Forget the Others. The greatest single threat to the survival of
Oceanic Air Flight 815’s castaways may just be Mandy Patinkin.

Borash was in the locker room area with LAX. Konnan said they’re on the hunt for some gringo meat tonight, A.J. and Daniels. The aforementioned babyfaces jumped LAX to cut off the interview. Daniels threw Hernandez headfirst into a locker as they cut to break.

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Xfire’s summer movie contest contains a veritable treasure trove of creative, funny machinima, but we avoid it until the content’s leaked onto Youtube. (We just detest registration barriers to content consumption.)

The latest video to make its way onto the internets comes from Jun Falkenstein, an animator known for her work on Disney’s The Tigger Movie, uploaded via Youtube user Kennyozaki (while you’re there, be sure to check out the rest of machinima Kennyozaki’s uploaded.) Hotness.

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[TheBORG] writes “The U.S. military has been testing software on laptops that translate English to Arabic and Arabic to English to have conversations with Iraqis without the need to have a Arabic linguist on hand. ‘This year the military’s Joint Forces Command has been testing laptops with such software in Iraq. When someone speaks into a microphone attached to the computer, the machine translates it into Arabic and reads that translation aloud over the PC’s speakers. The software then translates the Arabic speaker’s response and utters it in English.’” (See this related story from last year about this daunting machine-translation task.)

Two new services that are similar to the controversial PayPerPost have announced their launch in the last few days: ReviewMe and CreamAid. PayPerPost, a marketplace for advertisers to pay bloggers to write about products (with our without disclosure), recently gained additional attention when they announced a $3 million round of venture financing.
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North Queensland police have found a 1.5 metre crocodile hanging by a noose from a tree.

In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven-year-old British schoolchildren for a BBC television documentary called “7 Up.” Apted, now known for directing such features as “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “Gorillas in the Mist,” has since returned to film these subjects every seven years. They are now 49. Roger Ebert, who lists the “Up” series among his ten greatest films of all time, interviewed Apted in London for the release of the latest installment, “49 Up,” which will be seen in American theaters beginning in October.

Ebert: You were a very young man when you got involved in this project.

Apted: I was 22. I had just come from university and I joined Grenada and spent six months on a general training course. But the great thing about Grenada was that it was a very small company so you couldn’t really afford to train so you really had to do it on the job. The first job I got was as a researcher on this one-off documentary. It was just going to be one documentary looking at England in 1963, ’64. It was my first job.

Citing academic fraud by a former graduate
assistant football coach and a woeful compliance record under
former athletic director Al Bohl, the NCAA extended Kansas’
self-imposed probation through October 2009.