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A pair of monsters eat carloads of people in this spot from the Zune Arts campaign.
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Action toy commercial -- sorry that the sound quality sucks.
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AMI EVP Bonnie Fuller does some ethical backflips to justify the redeeming value of Star magazine and its ilk in a HuffPo blog post: "Now, gossip high priestess Liz Smith wrote in her November 13 column that "celebrity madness fueled by instant technology" is her top choice for Time magazine's "person" of the year. And I have to second her choice." Whoa, way to bite the feeding hand! "But while Liz may agree that celebrities and celeb newsweeklies like Star serve the purposes of entertaining us, informing us about popular culture, fashion and style," —wait, what?—"I bet not even she understands that celeb mommies play an all-important role as guilt-evaporators." She goes on to tell her "frazzled compatriots" to "give yourselves permission to pat yourselves on the back for a change. You may not be the perfect mom, but you ain't Britney." But where are we to turn to expiate the guilt we feel over reading Star? [HuffPo]
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Happy weekend friends. Hope you're all in good spirits after an emotionally draining week: All I'm saying is that if the Democrats can't devise a new strategy for Britney's love life, we're all pretty much screwed for the foreseeable future. Especially the Shiites. Meanwhile, Reese has officially showed Ryan the door, despite the fact that he's a decorated veteran of a war movie. Word is Ryan will soon concede that Reese's $100 million-advantage in the bank account was indeed too much to overcome. But I digress.
Thanks to a great exclusive photo -- and even better trailer premiere -- for 'Evan Almighty,' we were bombarded with Insert Caption entries last week. That makes our winner this week extra-notable. greenmanilishi, you are hereby more clever, more talented, and prettier/handsomer than at least 274 other people on this blog. And for that, we commend you. See greenmanilishi's answer here:
"Meet my wireless network."
-- greenmanilishi
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Now for this week's challenge: In his first serious role since 'A Night at the Roxbury,' Will Ferrell plays a taxman who starts hearing a voice. Turns out she's an author, he's her main character, and she plans to kill him off. Not even because he's a taxman, either. Check out this pic from 'Stranger Than Fiction' and file your caption by the 15th or else...
"Scream if you're going commando today!!!" --MoviefoneKevin
POST: Write your own caption
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Emphasizing SOA deployments, WSO2 will upgrade its open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) next Tuesday with such features as a scheduler and XQuery support.
The Apache-licensed WSO2 ESB 1.5 can run scheduled tasks and offers improvements for caching and performance, the company said. Message augmentation using standard databases is featured, as is support for a POJO (plain old Java object) model.
"It's a very lightweight, high-performance ESB," featuring a graphical management console, said Paul Fremantle, vice president of technical sales at WSO2.
"The main purpose of this [product] is doing simple, fast mediation of XML messages, Web services messages, and non-XML," Fremantle said. The ESB is being used, for example, by a hauling company that deploys it to connect thousands of mobile terminals inside trucks to a logistics management system, he said.
The built-in scheduler in version 1.5, based on the open-source Quartz project, allows for setting up tasks to run at specific times. Users no longer need to write their own code for this. XQuery support in version 1.5 makes it easier to do XML transformations and extract data from XML, Fremantle said.
Another highlight is geared to file formats.
?"One of the things that we've really ramped up in this release is support for existing legacy formats," such as FTP, Zip files, and Jar files, said Fremantle. Users can bridge between Web services, Java Message Service, and file systems, he said.
A POJO Command capability makes it simpler to write ESB add-ins without having to understand either the ESB programming model or message formats. "Basically, it makes for a cleaner programming model," Fremantle said.
Version 1.5 is based on the 1.1 release of the Apache Synapse service management integration broker. But an industry analyst saw Apache ServiceMix as the better choice for an ESB.
"We see Apache ServiceMix being a more appropriate choice for conventional ESB-type of functionality," said Michael Goulde, senior analyst at Forrester Research. "We see Apache Synapse as providing more of a mediation framework for XML messages and Web services. WS02 takes a very strong position on Web services as being the path to SOA. Not everyone agrees with this approach, and those who don't look more at ServiceMix as the ESB of choice."
Another analyst liked the product's standards support but questioned whether the ESB designation was proper.
"What's most significant about the WSO2 ESB is that it is a lightweight, standards-based, open-source service intermediary that is precisely that and nothing more. In other words, its standards support is second to none, and they have concentrated its capabilities on building its performance as a content-based router and, in general, full-featured service intermediary," said Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at ZapThink.
"What it doesn't have, however, is a legacy of traditional middleware. It's not an application server or a message bus or an EAI platform. So in many ways, it's ESB moniker is a bit of a misnomer as its really a service intermediary without all the baggage that commercial ESB products bring to the table."
Also added in version 1.5 is support for the CSV (comma separated values) data format. "You can transition it to XML, and you can extract data," Fremantle said.
Service caching in version 1.5 provides the ability to cache responses from services and reply to further requests of the same type to reduce the load on back-end services, WSO2 said. This can protect against denial of service attacks and improves scalability.
DBReport and DBLookup mediators in version 1.5 allow the ESB to augment messages with information stored in a database. Message-splitting, meanwhile, enables large or composite applications to be processed in parallel.
Improved logging and tracing makes it easier to support service-level logs, while message-tracing lets administrators track a particular mediation path for troubleshooting.
Although the product is open source, WSO2 sells support services starting at $2,000 per socket.

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"Screw you, Sugar Ti--"
"I have powerful friend!"
"You're a Jew, right?"
Whoever came up with the idea of using old Chevy-- who sounds funny even when he's seriously enraged at Howard Stern-- to stand in for Mel Gibson in the latest "ripped from the headlines" episode definitely deserves the corner office.
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Just heresay for now, but Nov. 17 seems as likely a day for Cingular to release the BlackBerry Pearl as any other.
I almost killed my black berry about 20min ago and called cingular to help me fix it, which they did. But i was talking to to service lady about the pearl and how i have been waiting for it but i didnt know why cingular was going to get it, blah blah blah. She replied by telling me it should be out on NOV 17 if not earlier!!!! Dont know if this is out there yet or if she was just pulling my leg but then she went into talking about how that there should be a lot of people getting it because its right before the holidays and everything.
If you're interested in the Pearl, take a look at some shots, our Frankenreview, and the official condensed review. It's a pretty good phone that would be a great phone if it had a better keyboard. – Jason Chen
Thanks Brian!
Saluting The Troops At 'A Night For Vets'
A military-filled crowd sends special messages to their loved ones and enjoys some big-name guests during MTV's "Concert for the BRAVE," airing Friday at 8 p.m. on MTV.
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