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Cartoon legend Joseph Barbera dies at 95

Joseph Roland “Joe” Barbera, one half of the team behind such cartoon classics as Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo, has died, aged 95. He co-founded Hanna-Barbera Studios with William Hanna in the 1957 after the pair earlier worked on the Tom and Jerry series at MGM studios. Other classic characters to originate from Hanna-Barbera included The Jetsons, Yogi

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Christmas BritBlog Blogmeet 2006

Well I went to the Christmas BritBlog blogmeet in London last night with Robert Gale and well what can I say it turned out to be pretty good, there were around 15 people at one point! 🙂 Here’s a list of attendees with the corresponding links to their blogs, sorry if I misspelled any names, the list isn’t in its best

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Great Escape Festival 2007 plans to be bigger and better!

Barfly are proud to announce the return of The Great Escape Festival which will bring the best of live music from across the World back to Brighton on the 17th 19th May next year, after this years The Great Escape Festival reportedly became Europe’s best global export ready showcase festival.  Which isn’t bad at all considering it was it’s first year! The

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Artist Registration now open for The Great Escape 2007 Festival

The Great Escape Festival www.escapegreat.com is Europe’s most established showcase event for both new and signed artists and is THE place to get your music heard by both media and industry, as well as 5,000 punters! And this year Live Sessions has teamed up with The Great Escape Festival to provide the event’s unique registration system for unsolicited applications. If

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The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour

Wow did I have a great time or what on The Robert Scoble Pissed as Newts London Pub Crawl Tour. Not only did I get to visit like five to six london pubs as well as the Internet People Dinner and Firefox 2 Party, but I also got to meet loads of cool people! Here’s a short list of some of them: Robert Scoble

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MSN Movie Mogul Quiz 2006

Are you a fountain of knowledge when it comes to film trivia? All you have to do is correctly answer the five questions on the MSN Movie Mogul quiz homepage for a chance to win one of hundreds of prizes. Ten lucky entrants will win the Creative Zen W portable media player. Fifteen lucky entrants will win a year’s free movies from MSN

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Telcogames Launches 3D Puzzle Sil For Smartphones

Telcogames, a global publisher, developer and distributor of mobile games yesterday announced the launch of award winning SiL, a 3D silhouette matching puzzle for smart phone devices and PC.SIL the latest Nokia award winning 3D puzzle game to be launched and developed by Telcogames takes on the addictive puzzling antics of shape recognition but with a whole new reverse twist.  Train

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Acclaimed Arrested Development Series Begins on MSN Video

MSN has announced this week that episodes of the Emmy award-winning comedy Arrested Development are already available to be streamed on demand on MSN® Video and at no cost to viewers. The first five episodes are available today at http://arresteddevelopment.msn.com and, starting Dec. 15, three new episodes will be added every three weeks. All 53 episodes from the three seasons

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Pandora powers revamped MSN radio

MSN has quietly re-launched its online radio service, backed by popular internet radio service, Pandora.com a music recommendation engine, which allows users to create custom radio stations and discover more artistes and songs, according to the users’ taste in music. Moreover, users who have already signed up with Pandora’s free internet radio, are now automatically on MSN Radio, along with the

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Are you coming to the Christmas BritBlog Blogmeet 2006?

By popular demand there will be a Christmas BritBlog blogmeet in London! It will be held on Saturday the 9th of December 2006 from about 2:30 PM, probably in a pub near Covent Garden. Possibly the same pub as the last London blogmeet I went to. So hey if you are interested check out BritBlog for more information.