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NOPE, no worries at all. My Happy Meal is one year old today and it looks pretty good. It NEVER smelled bad. The food did NOT decompose. It did NOT get moldy, at all.

This morning, I took it off my shelf to take a birthday photo. The first year is always a milestone. I gave it one of my world famous nonna hugs as we've been office mates for a year now! (Okay, maybe my sanity is in question.)

Ben Greenman remembers singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who died tonight at age 59.

Alex Chilton, who died, wrote songs. He recorded songs. He made songs. He unmade them. In the end, the life was largely in song, and the songs all had life, and that's all there is to say, and there isn't anything that can be done. Once he covered "Let Me Get Close to You," which was Goffin-King via Skeeter Davis:

How long I'll never know
I've waited to tell you that I love you so
Now I have finally said it
Come on baby don't make me regret it

"It's Your Funeral" is an instrumental. There are no words.

Google developing something called Google-TV. Meanwhile Google denied Nexus One trademark. FCC wants you to be taxed more. IE9 supposed to be great. Oh really? Windows Phone 7 back in the news. New exoplanet found? FTC slams Google. Eco-friendly phone charger announced. Moto gets 2.1 OS. iPad battery still in the news.

Oxford Science reports on a study of the strategy of queen ants for surviving murderous mobs of workers. They are in danger because:

In some ant species, several queen ants work together to begin a new colony, each raising broods of workers until there are enough ants to form a viable colony. However, the worker ants cannot tolerate joint sovereignty and ultimately kill the queens until only one remains. . . .

The article explains how the researchers looked at several possible strategies the queen ants might use. The conclusion drawn about the smart way to deal with a mob:

. . . the scientists found no sign of cheaters, suggesting that even in a potentially life-threatening situation, honesty is the best policy. The research may even have significance beyond ant colonies – the question of how cooperation evolved is a hot topic and the authors suggest that “punishment and honest signalling may be universally important”.

Chiptune is fun to mess around with, but programming on a tiny Gameboy screen can get a little annoying. Nintendo created the Super Gameboy to allow players to plug Gameboy cartridges into their SNES, so it would stand to reason that you could run LSDJ or Nanoloop through your TV. But how to get the audio out and recordable? Kyle Robinson has a nifty little Instructable on how to add an 1/8″ audio jack to the cartridge. Only basic soldering ability required.

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Panasonic has updated their popular line of Micro 4/3rds camera bodies with the unveiling of the DMC-G2K. A follow-up to the original G1 and its various iterations since then, the G2 brings some interesting features including a touch-screen interface as well as HD 1080p video recording. The flip-out LCD screen allows for viewing angle rotation for easy use under most circumstances. Read more…

Brian Garret Schuur is talented guy, and that’s why rapid manufacturer Freedom of Creation has taken his design for the Street Headphones. These made-to-order headphones feature the names of your favorite bands and singers all around them, in 3D. Read more…

adidas has recently added two Sambas to the swelling range of World Cup 2010 products. The indoor footie sneakers come in basic leather color ups – black on white for the US and red on gum for Germany. Each shoe also includes a country-specific lace jewel. You can find them at HUF. Source

I had a very enjoyable debate with Avner Rosen of Boxee yesterday at SXSW.  We tended to go around in circles defending our positions. His (to paraphase): the internet will do what cable and satellite do, but it will do it better. That MicroSoft and Apple among others will in the future come up with new ways to do it all better than we can now.

Mine: Of course the internet can support video, but it cant do it as well as the current digital cable and satellite distributors can, nor is there a profit model that would ever incent content providers to switch their content from the internet to TV.

I wont rehash it all here, but the most salient comment came from the audience when someone asked “Whats the difference if the gatekeeper MicroSoft/Google/Apple rather than Comcast/Time Warner/Directv/Dish ?”

Of course the questioner was right.

Bits are bits . The economics of content are going to search for the best place to be monetized, regardless of the delivery platform.  I think the current model will be the place content finds, Avner seemed to feel it would be some future internet.

It shouldn’t matter.

We both seemed to agree that one of the biggest future changes for the internet will be an increase in bandwidth. The question the needs to be answered is “how will all the new bandwidth, both on the backbone and in the last mile be used ?”

Will it be used for digital video content, ie, TV ? Why would we want it to be used for TV ?

The internet has the opportunity to continue to be transformative. There are applications out there that can change the quality of our lives.  Im not talking about the ability to update your facebook, or check out what where everyone is at on 4Square and twitpic what is happening to your friends and followers. Social Media is one more amazing communication platform that is impacting our lives. But its not tranformative.

There will be transformative applications that need all the bandwidth they can get. Medical, Transportation, Defense, Gaming, Simulations and who knows what. As computers become more powerful, we need to be able to send more data to the cloud where they can crunch data and return it to us.

That is the value of an open internet. The things we cant imagine today. The applications that are just dreams because  they dont have enough horsepower and bandwidth to work today. I want the internet to be a platform for amazing. Not Gilligan’s Island reruns.

I recognize that with openness comes the risk of the least common denominator dominating.  Porn has just as much right to dominate the net as any other app. But should it ?

Yes it should. The lesson of TV over the internet vs TV over digital cable or satellite isnt about openness. Its about the value of Application Specific Networks. DIgital CAble is an application specific network. Its only job is to serve up content and it works very well.

The FCC needs to recognize this and start working with internet broadband providers to define tunnels,  Private Virtual Networks  or just plain reserved bandwidth that are saved for future applications. When a transformative application presents itself, there should be an opportunity to define the network to optimize that application.

In the event some form of ubiquitous entertainment comes first ,  takes over the net and saturates it, how is the FCC going to solve the bandwidth traffic jam ? They wont ever be able to put the bandwidth genie back in the bottle. Screaming at broadband providers to spend the money wont work any better than screaming to expand highways helps to alleviate rush hour traffic

The FCC wants Internet 2 at universities to flourish and develop new things. But where are they going to roll them out to if all of our bandwidth to the home is being used for some new form of 3D virtual fantasy sports?

I just dont think these things will just manage to take care of themselves.  The reality is that when we run into future internet application roadblocks our politicians will jump in the mix and attempt to “solve” the problems. You know where that will get us.

We need to start the process now of putting some bandwidth to the home away for a rainy day. Not only do we need to preserve bandwidth in the last mile, but the FCC also needs to  figure out a way to create a transparent market or exchange that allows competing applications a means of knowing how and when they will have access to bandwidth when, not if,  it becomes constrained.

And if you really want to make things interesting, the company that is doing the most work on realtime markets and competing for resources that i know of ? ….. Google.

Deal with it today or struggle with it in the future.

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A while back, I was remarking to a friend that I hadn’t gotten seriously ill in nearly nine months. This is unusual for me, as I have a notoriously wimpy immune system. The next morning, I woke up with a slightly scratchy throat, and by the end of the day my misery was quite potent.

That was just over two weeks ago, and I’m actually still sick, which is about as fun as you would imagine. For a while I was concerned that it might be pneumonia because it was fairly difficult to breathe and I was coughing up a lot of terrifying alien substances, so I headed to the emergency room to see what they thought about it. The ER doctor agreed that the whole thing was rather suspicious, so he sent me to get a couple of chest x-rays to see what the hell was going on.

I mention the x-ray part only because the room in which I had my x-rays was so fantastically old that it looked like something out of Bioshock. Chipped paint everywhere, sinister machinery, amusing vintage signage, the whole works. I was really hoping that I’d end up with mutant superpowers after getting x-rayed in there, but nothing has revealed itself yet. Which is a real shame.

But it isn’t pneumonia as it turns out, it’s just some shitty mystery plague that I have to wait out, because it’s viral instead of bacterial. When I went to the hospital, my throat and chest were hurting so much that coughing or swallowing actually made me tear up a little bit, so I asked if there was anything I could do about the pain, and the ER doctor happily wrote me a prescription for Motrin. Yeah, fucking Motrin.

Anyway, I am slowly getting better. I bring all of this up mainly because a lot of friends and family have contacted me to find out if I am okay, or asked why I still can’t really speak. (I have a scratchy kind of croak which I find endearing in a lady-Tom-Waits sort of way, but I understand it might be disturbing to others.) So this is me assuring all of you that I am not now, nor have I ever been, dead. Worry not! I’ll be sure to let you know if I develop any mutant superpowers, also.

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FQM start this week’s “The Daily Show”.

2010.03.15: The.Daily.Show.2010.03.15.Michael.Lewis.HDTV.XviD-FQM
2010.03.16: The.Daily.Show.2010.03.16.Jude.Law.HDTV.XviD-FQM
2010.03.17: The.Daily.Show.2010.03.17.Snoop.Dogg.HDTV.XviD-FQM (NEW)

Links: HOMEPAGE – TV.com

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XviD | MP3 VBR | 175MB
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Usenet is a not so popular method of obtaining new scene releases, but it’s actually one of the faster and more convenient. All you need is a NZB file, which is often linked with new posts here at Releaselog (or you can search the files directly as well). There are virtually hundreds of different Usenet providers, but if you want to try this service for the first time and enjoy some advanced functions, Binverse is a good place to start.

Binverse offers a completely FREE 14-day trial, to try their service. The service offers two methods of downloads – unlimited downloads capped at 1 Mbps or Full speed downloads with data cap of 30 GB a month. All you need to activate the free 14-day trial is to register and submit your credit card or PayPal details. You can cancel the service at anytime before the end of trial without being charged, or you can continue paying $14.99 a month for the service afterwards.

With Binverse, you can access over 5 new Terabytes per day of new files and messages. Binverse will also provide you with a special Usenet client with features as Usenet search, built in RAR / PAR support for dealing with large compressed files, intergrated chat, email alerts and many more. There’s really nothing to lose, if you won’t like it, you can just cancel it.

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MONSTEROUS released a missing episode of “MonsterQuest”.

Links: HOMEPAGE – TV.com

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Google developing something called Google-TV. Meanwhile Google denied Nexus One trademark. FCC wants you to be taxed more. IE9 supposed to be great. Oh really? Windows Phone 7 back in the news. New exoplanet found? FTC slams Google. Eco-friendly phone charger announced. Moto gets 2.1 OS. iPad battery still in the news.

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FCC needs help from Congress to help with high-speed broadband. Microsoft's Mix 10 underway. Google Nexus One runs on AT&T 3G now. IE 9 all over the news. Six core processors coming your way. Blackberry story planted, no doubt in my mind. Facebook most popular US site now. Jupiter red spot a mystery. Alex eReader coming. Microsoft flips about privacy. Opera mini is here.

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Georgia’s Supreme Court is upholding the government’s right to put non-sex offenders on the state’s sex-offender registry, highlighting a little-noticed (but growing) nationwide practice.

Atlanta criminal defense attorney Ann Marie Fitz estimated that perhaps thousands of convicts convicted of non-sexual crimes have been placed in sex-offender databases. Fitz represents a convict who was charged with false imprisonment when he was 18 for briefly detaining a 17-year-old girl during a soured drug deal. He unsuccessfully challenged his mandatory, lifelong sex-offender listing to the Georgia Supreme Court, which ruled against him Monday.

Under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2007, the states are required to have statutes demanding sex-offender registration for those convicted of kidnapping or falsely imprisoning minors. The Georgia court ruled that the plain meaning of “sex offender” was overridden by the state’s law.

“Rainer’s belief that the term ’sexual offender’ may only apply to offenders who commit sexual offenses against minors does not change the fact that the definition provided in the statute, and not the definition that Rainer wishes to impose upon the statute, controls,” the court’s majority said.

Two judges in dissent wrote that, because registration limits where offenders may live, work and congregate, it “is not a requirement that should be imposed cavalierly.”

Fitz’s client, Jake Rainer, is waiting to see if Georgia changes its law before asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his registration requirement. Fitz argues that that being forced to register as a sex offender, without having committed a sex crime, is cruel and unusual punishment.

In addition to the obvious stigma associated with deviant behavior, listed offenders cannot live near schools or work with children. Additionally, their photos are often publicly available online, they’re banned from social networking sites, and they must get permission to travel across state lines.

The nation’s high court has upheld sex-offender registration statutes as applied to sex offenders, but hasn’t heard a case involving convicts who have not committed sex offenses.

The decision by Georgia’s high court (.pdf) follows high-profile snafus in which the authorities failed to keep tabs on registered sex deviants who committed heinous crimes while on post-prison supervision.

A registered sex offender held Jaycee Dugard captive and raped her for years in California unbeknownst to a parole officer who visited the property where the ongoing crimes were taking place. The authorities also regularly checked the home of Ohio registered sex offender Anthony Sowell. They eventually found 10 buried bodies there only after a woman accused him of rape in September.

Still, Rainer has an uphill legal battle.

Georgia’s high court said his registration “advances the state’s legitimate goal of informing the public for purposes of protecting children from those who would harm them.”

And when it comes to criminal statutes, the U.S. Supreme court is on the side of states’ rights. In 2003, for example, the justices dismissed cruel-and-unusual punishment claims brought by a California man imprisoned for life for stealing golf clubs.

See Also:

• McCain’s Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law
• 29000 Sex Offenders Found on Myspace
• MySpace Labels Innocent Woman as Sex Offender — Updated
• Wisconsin Teen Gets 15 Years for Facebook Sex-Extortion Scam
• MySpace to Purge Sex Offenders
• Fed Blotter: MySpace Sex Offender Charged With Running Fake Church

A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $9.5 million settlement to a class action lawsuit challenging Facebook’s program that monitored and published what users of the social networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations.

The case concerned allegations Facebook’s now defunct “Beacon” program breached federal wiretap and video-rental privacy laws. Terms of the settlement, in which Facebook denied any wrongdoing, require the site to finance what the deal calls a “Digital Trust Fund” that would issue more than $6 million in grants to organizations to study online privacy.

The social networking site will have a seat on the fund’s three-member board — a fact that was a big bone of contention (.pdf) in the privacy community, but one U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Jose, California, said Wednesday was immaterial.

“There has been no pervasive showing that the foundation will be a mere publicity tool for Facebook,” (.pdf) Seeborg wrote.

Seeborg gave preliminary approval to the deal last year, but finalized it Wednesday after reviewing objections.

The attorneys who faced off against Facebook are to receive about $3 million of the $9.5 million pot, as much as $500 an hour in some instances, according to documents lodged in the case. Only a handful of the estimated 3.6 million class members are to receive financial damages.

Video Privacy Protection Act breaches carry fines of not less than $2,500. The judge said the resolution “adequately protected the interests of the settlement class.”

Under the settlement, Facebook agreed to terminate the Beacon program last November.

When the program was launched in 2007, Facebook members’ Blockbuster movie rentals sometimes appeared on their news streams. Lead plaintiff Sean Lane’s wife found out, via Facebook, about a jewelry purchase her husband was to surprise her with. “Sean Lane bought 14k White Gold 1/5 ct Diamond Eternity Flower Ring from overstock.com,” was announced to all of the husband’s Facebook friends, including his wife.

The new privacy center, according to terms of the deal, shall “fund and sponsor programs designed to educate users, regulators and enterprises regarding critical issues relating to protection of identity and personal information online through user control, and to protect users from online threats.”

The center’s three-member board consists of Chris Jay Hoofnagle, the head of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and a former EPIC attorney; Tim Sparapani, Facebook’s public policy director and a former American Civil Liberties Union attorney; and privacy advocate and writer Larry Magid.

Photo: Gauldo/Flickr

See Also:

• Classmates.com’s Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit
• Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Conspiring to Break Video-Privacy Law
• Facebook Expands Privacy Features, Including a Faux One
• Facebook Beacon Tracking Program Draws Privacy Lawsuit
• Canadian Law Clinic: Facebook Violates Canadian Privacy Law
• Facebook Denies ‘All Wrongdoing’ in ‘Beacon’ Data Breach
• Facebook Wants Founder’s Privacy Back, Threat Level to Blame
• Facebook Private Profiles Not as Private as You Think They Are

To celebrate the 2010 World Cup that's being held in Africa, the Black Eyed Peas , Shakira and Alicia Keys are set to headline a concert in Soweto on June 10th, just one night before soccer's 30-day big event is scheduled to begin.

Some of today's biggest recording artists and producers have joined together to celebrate the music of multi-Grammy winning producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones by recording contemporary versions of popular recordings from his massive catalog for a new album from Interscope Records entitled Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.

More treats from Vandalyzm as he (and we) prepares to invade Texas. “Mirror Mirror,” finds Van doing some serious introspection and what I find appealing is how easily he lets listeners in to the struggles he’s going through. While he covers a wealth of material in the six minute track, the best part’s near the end as he ruminates on leaving home in order to move himself and his career forward. Expressing sentiments many of us can relate to, Van’s frank assessment of the pressures and doubt he goes through hit home. You can tell this track is as much for others as it for himself.

Yet his infectious confidence shines through and there’s no doubt that he’s making the right move, that success is there for the taking. When the mirror retorts the famous “conceited bastard” line to Van’s queries as to who’s the best, you can’t help thinking it may be right.

Download — Vandalyzm – “Mirror Mirror (RIP Dilla)”

Check out Van and the rest of the STLiens Friday night at the SXSTL.

Str8 Killa No Filla will be a DJ Skee presentation. And I think we’re involved in certain aspects of it. Guaranteed to be RMF! certified. Without revealing too much, even the promo art associated with the project is about ten times ahead of what’s around right now, deal or no deal.

At the end of the day, I’m glad to say that Freddie, Lambo and Archie are friends of ours, real talk. Nothing that they do says “Okay, we’re settling, this is it.” Each and every time I turn around, they’ve topped the last idea or feature. SKNF will only carry on tradition.

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Celebrate St. Patty’s the Williamsburg way with Cypress Hill/House of Pain’s DJ Muggs and Rok One from The Bangers. there are Irish-eque drinks specials all nigth like $6 Bud & Jameson shots and no cover all night. 21+

Plant music helps celebrate the kickoff of The Glass’ tour this evening with a who’s who of their roster. Along with their live set, Dominique and DJ Wool will both spin their unique blend of NYC indie electro along with residents Lucas Walters and DKDS. (Note, Glass play at 12:15) 21+

“The CRAFTERMATH Creatives sell punk crafts and unusual art at a neighborhood treat-to-behold that features emerging designers & vintage goods. Our artwork is affordable, along w/the drinks. Happy Hour features a $5 beer and whiskey combo. We’ll show a collage of films by NYC underground filmmaker Lisa Hammer on the gold-framed movie screen. Jessica Delfino will share a new song, perhaps on an uncommon instrument. You can celebrate Women’s History Month w/us, and still make it in plenty of time to get out to some place far less cool-looking to drink your green beer – if you really insist. Hoping you can join CRAFTERMATH for exciting and unusual fun times! Weird (but friendly) creative types who enjoy cheap craft-shopping, fashion, art, drinks, music & film – meet us here!”

HTC just hit us up with an official response to Apple’s patent lawsuit filed against them. In short, HTC is sticking up for themselves, naming the innovations they’ve been to market with, and listing some of the industry-wide reckognition they’ve received. Look, we’re not arguing for either side, like whether Apple is wrong for filing suit for whatever reason, or whether HTC actually did violate some of Apple’s patents, but this press release is more of a slight of hand movement than an actual response. Though they do say pretty clearly that they will defend themselves. What do you think? It’s after the break…

Seattle – March 17, 2010 – HTC Corporation today outlined its disagreement with Apple’s legal actions and reiterated its commitment to creating a portfolio of innovative smartphones that gives consumers a variety of choices. Founded in 1997 with a passion for innovation and a vision for how smartphones would change people’s lives, HTC has continually driven this vision by consistently introducing award-winning smartphones with U.S. mobile operators.

“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation. “From day one, HTC has focused on creating cutting-edge innovations that deliver unique value for people looking for a smartphone. In 1999 we started designing the XDA

The O2 XDA by HTC was the first 3.5-inch color touch screen smartphone in the world in 2002. and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition The T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition by HTC was the first 3.5-inch color touch screen smartphone in the United States in 2002., our first touch-screen smartphones, and they both shipped in 2002 with more than 50 additional HTC smartphone models shipping since then.”

The industry has recognized HTC’s contributions through a variety of awards including Fast Company’s 2010 Top 50 Most Innovative Companies and MIT Technology Review’s 2010 50 Most Innovative Companies. The GSMA also recently awarded the HTC Hero as the “Best Phone of 2009.” Some of HTC’s technology firsts include:

• First Windows PDA (1998)

• First Windows Phone (June 2002)

• First 3G CDMA EVDO smartphone (October 2005)

• First gesture-based smartphone (June 2007)

• First Google Android smartphone (October 2008)

• First 4G WIMAX smartphone (November 2008)

In 2009, HTC launched its branded user experience, HTC Sense. HTC Sense is focused on putting people at the center by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. This experience was fundamentally based on listening and observing how people live and communicate.

“HTC has always taken a partnership-oriented, collaborative approach to business. This has led to long-standing strategic partnerships with the top software, Internet and wireless technology companies in the industry as well as the top U.S., European and Asian mobile operators,” said Jason Mackenzie, vice president of HTC America. “It is through these relationships that we have been able to deliver the world’s most diverse series of smartphones to an even more diverse group of people around the world, recognizing that customers have very different needs.”

For more information on HTC’s history of innovation, please visit: www.htc.com/history.

After rumors about the HTC Supersonic have been swirling around the Internet for a few months, it is now time for the Wall Street Journal to chime in and contribute to the hype surrounding Sprint’s first WiMAX handset. According to people “familiar with the matter,” Sprint is expected to announce the HTC Supersonic next week during a presentation by Dan Hesse at CTIA. The timing for such an announcement fits in nicely with Clearwire’s promised 1H 2010 delivery date for the first WiMAX smartphone and we certainly have seen enough spy shots and hands-on videos to whet our appetite for this Android-powered 4G smartphone.

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Since Mention R5 release of Shutter Island was nuked (cam.audio_out.of.sync.throughout) I have decided to post this release which is better. Check video sample & screenshots for more info. ”Shutter Island” is directed by Martin Scorsese & it’s starring well known Leonardo Di Caprio. I recommend you to watch this movie if you haven’t already. Why? Because story is awesome & unpredictable. Just watch the trailer and you will see… Get ready to test your sanity.

***UPDATE***
Shutter.Island.2010.R5.LiNE.XviD-ViSiON – Nfo – Video sample – #1, #2, #3, Hotfile
Another P2P group released Shutter Island R5. This one is 2.20 GB heavy and there are few improvments , but still RX has done a good job. Anyway check video sample & screenshots fore more info.

Plot:
It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy’s shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (34,817 votes)
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo

Release Name: Shutter.Island.2010.R5.LiNE.XviD-Rx
Size: 1.76 GB
Quality: 720 x 304, English 192 kbp/s MP3
Runtime: 132 min

Links: IMDB, Homepage, Trailer
Samples: Video sample, #1, #2, #3
Nfo: Here
Download: Hotfile: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5, Torrent search

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Usenet is a not so popular method of obtaining new scene releases, but it’s actually one of the faster and more convenient. All you need is a NZB file, which is often linked with new posts here at Releaselog (or you can search the files directly as well). There are virtually hundreds of different Usenet providers, but if you want to try this service for the first time and enjoy some advanced functions, Binverse is a good place to start.

Binverse offers a completely FREE 14-day trial, to try their service. The service offers two methods of downloads – unlimited downloads capped at 1 Mbps or Full speed downloads with data cap of 30 GB a month. All you need to activate the free 14-day trial is to register and submit your credit card or PayPal details. You can cancel the service at anytime before the end of trial without being charged, or you can continue paying $14.99 a month for the service afterwards.

With Binverse, you can access over 5 new Terabytes per day of new files and messages. Binverse will also provide you with a special Usenet client with features as Usenet search, built in RAR / PAR support for dealing with large compressed files, intergrated chat, email alerts and many more. There’s really nothing to lose, if you won’t like it, you can just cancel it.

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Here we have a nice French comedy movie called Gods Offices aka Les bureaux de Dieu.
Focuses on a family planning center where young girls and women come to inform themselves about a choice they have or want to make, rather than it being imposed upon them: about their sexual freedom and the decision whether or not to have children. Describes the day-to-day functioning of the center and the way in which, following consultations and discussions, each woman’s decision unfolds.

Synopsis:
A group of women struggling with their sexuality speak openly with the female counselors who wonder if such a thing as “sexual freedom” is truly possible in this tale of the incredible hidden in mundane, everyday events. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Genre: Comedy
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 (104 votes)
Directed by: Claire Simon
Starring: Anne Alvaro, Nathalie Baye, Michel Boujenah

Release Name: Gods.Offices.2008.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT
Size: 700 mb
Quality: 592 x 256 | 23.976 fps | , French MP3 audio
Runtime: 112 min

Links: IMDB
Sample: Here
Subtitles: Here
NFO: Here

Download: Here

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Here is one hell of a Balkan beats album mixed with some other crazy styles, all in one great release…

Tracklist:

1. Intro 0:30
2. Move It 3:55
3. Blue Eyed Black Boy 3:22
4. Marcha de la Vida 4:08
5. Dancing With The Moon 3:48
6. Kabulectro 3:44
7. My Baby 4:06
8. Balcumbia 3:19
9. Look Them Act 3:30
10. Smatron 3:49
11. Lijepa Mare 3:36
12. Why 3:06
13. Buhala 4:39
14. War Again 3:08

Release name: Balkan_Beat_Box-Blue_Eyed_Black_Boy-2010-MTD, NFO
Genre: Alternative beats
Size: 71.76 MB
Download:HOTFILE, NT

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