Madonna's Bro Has Designs on Reality TV [ E! Online via Yahoo! News ] Jun 30, 2008  First, Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone writes a memoir about being her brother. And now, the New York Post reports he's shopping around a reality show about the same exact thing? Read More ...

Sepinwall on TV 'Mad Men' DVD review [ The Star-Ledger ] Jul 01, 2008  Advertising is all about packaging, and vice versa. You want to make your product look so wonderful that people don't just want to buy it, but need to buy it. Read More ...

Wet Electrolytic Tantalum Capacitor Seri [ Centre Daily Times ] Jun 30, 2008  AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of advanced passive components and connectors, has developed a wet electrolytic tantalum capacitor that features a patented high capacitance cathode system that enables high CV designs, well beyond the values specified in the Mil-PRF-39006 drawing. Designated the TWA, the wet electrolytic tantalum capacitor series is manufactured and tested to the 93026 ... Read More ...

Buyers dance off with ballet costumes [ Stuff ] Jun 29, 2008  More than 100 Royal New Zealand Ballet costumes danced off the racks to the tune of more than $40,000 in a fundraising auction for the national dance company. Read More ...

eBay Fined £30m Over Designer Fakes [ SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News ] Jun 30, 2008  A Paris court has ordered eBay to pay out around £30m for allowing fake designer goods to be sold on the auction website. Read More ...

Bonds' Home Run Ball Not Hall Bound [ Time Magazine ] Jul 1, 2008  The Hall said Tuesday recent talks with fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the souvenir for more than $750,000 last September, had 'unfortunately reached an impasse' Read More ...

Dutch test 'universal' spectacles for po [ Reuters via Yahoo! News ] Jul 01, 2008  Dutch scientists launched field tests in India on Tuesday of universal spectacles they have designed to help the vision of children in developing countries. Read More ...

Q and A Barbara Broudo is new head of Co [ The Salem News ] Jun 30, 2008  BEVERLY and mdash; Barbara Broudo was never one of those teenagers who wore the latest fashion trends. 'I couldn't afford it,' she said. But she noticed what everyone else had on, and cared about her appearance and dress to the point where she majored in fashion design in college. Soon after, she got a job teaching fashion design at Endicott College. Read More ...

Props, Costumes, and Memoabilia At Unive [ FOX 11 News Los Angeles ] Jul 01, 2008  Never before seen props, costumes and movie memorabilia are all part of the new exhibit called the Universal Studios Experience. Read More ...

Mamma Mia! Star Anderson to Join Avenue [ Playbill ] Jul 01, 2008  Carey Anderson, most recently seen as Sophie in the Broadway production of Mamma Mia!, will join the New York company of the Tony-winning Avenue Q at the John Golden Theatre July 8. Read More ...

Altera Increases Productivity for High-P [ Centre Daily Times ] Jun 30, 2008  Targeting high-performance digital signal processing designs, Altera Corporation today announced its DSP Builder tool version 8.0, featuring second-generation model-based synthesis technology. This technology allows DSP designers for the first time to automatically generate timing-optimized RTL code based on high-level Simulink design descriptions. With this new DSP Builder ... Read More ...

Kelli Anderson Phelps barely holds off t [ Sports Illustrated ] Jul 01, 2008  They wore matching high-tech Speedo LZR suits and swam in a temporary pool designed for speed. But even as Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte pushed each other through a dramatic record chase at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials on Sunday night, what brought the crowd of 12,000 to its feet was not merely the clock but also the sight of the greatest swimmer in the world struggling -- in one of his ... Read More ...

Angelique Chrisafis on Ebay being fined [ Guardian Unlimited ] Jul 01, 2008  Angelique Chrisafis in Paris reports on the fining of Ebay for allowing fake designer goods to be sold on its site Read More ...

Palace of the End, Drowsy Chaperone, Art [ Playbill ] Jul 01, 2008  Judith Thompson's Iraq War-themed The Palace of the End, now surfacing in theatres around North America, won the 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Award as Outstanding New Play at the June 30 ceremony honoring the best of the Toronto performing arts season. Read More ...

French Court Fines eBay For Selling Fake [ INO News ] Jun 30, 2008  - A French court on Monday ordered online auction site eBay to pay 40 million euros, or $63 million, in damages to the luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA for selling the designer company's fake goods through its online auctions. Read More ...

New from Creators of ListingDomains.com [ PRWeb via Yahoo! News ] Jul 01, 2008  From Properties Online, LLC, the creators of ListingDomains.com, comes a beautifully designed, affordable agent website with all of the tools agents and brokers need in today's technology driven market. Read More ...

Fools race brings out costumes, fun [ Juneau Empire ] Jun 30, 2008  Once again, the Only Fools Run at Midnight race did not disappoint those looking for a good time. Six hundred runners, mostly in some type of costume, turned out for the event Saturday. Read More ...

New combination vaccines OK'd [ USA Today ] Jul 01, 2008  A federal advisory panel gave its nod to a four-in-one shot and five-in-one shot designed to reduce the number of needle sticks that young children must endure to get the recommended immunizations. Read More ...