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Handmade Online Marketplace Etsy Raises $20 Million Financing

Handmade is becoming big business — reeeally big. Etsy — the online marketplace for handmade items — announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not including the funding). With sales up a whopping 72% from last year, business is booming — not to mention ex-Google exec Adam Freed being roped in as Etsy’s new chief operating officer. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s On: Fraternal Fire on Flashpoint

The rough-and-tumble attractiveness of Hugh Dillon boils over tonight on Flashpoint . What’s provoking the fire behind those baby blues this week? Roll through to see.

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VIDEO: Ryan Seacrest and Larry King Duet, Butcher Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’

During his radio show this week, Ryan Seacrest had Larry King duet with him on Lady Gaga’s ubiquitous smash hit, “Poker Face.” Neither one of them can sing, but King gets bonus points (or demerits?) for the lascivious way he scats. Shiver. If you could read my poker face right now, you’d notice a look of outright disgust. Seriously, this is more disturbing than the trailer for Hobo with a Shotgun , and that includes a woman and baby being lit on fire. Click ahead to witness the horror.

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Virgin MiFi price

The MiFi released by Virgin Mobile this week ($150) is almost exactly the same thing as the one offered by Verizon and, until recently, Sprint — but there’s a twist that makes it revolutionary all over again. The Virgin Mobile Novatel MiFi gets its Internet signal from a 3G cellphone network and converts it into a Wi-Fi signal that up to five people can share. The Virgin MiFi, like its rivals, is still an amazing gizmo to have on long car rides for the family, on woodsy corporate offsite meeti

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Soundarya Rajinikanth wedding pics

Soundarya Rajinikanth and Chennai based Ashwin Kumar are getting married on September 3rd. According to reports Rajini has requested his fans not to attend his younger daughter#39;s wedding ceremony. In a statement the actor said that though he wanted to invite all the fans to his daughter#39;s marriage, he was unable to do so because of space constraint and logistic reasons. But he wanted their blessings for his daughter. Southern superstar Rajinikanth is set to play a new role on Friday, Fat

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T.I. Releasing ‘Pledge Allegiance To The Swag’ To ‘The Streets’ This Week

‘Don’t look for it on radio, but online and in the streets and in the clubs,’ rapper says. By Shaheem Reid T.I. Photo: Jamie McCarthy/ Getty Images T.I. has only gone Hollywood when it comes to films, not his music. Tinseltown’s current box-office champ says we can expect a brand-new record from his King Uncaged LP this week. He’s going to growing it from the ground up. “My next song … I’m not even sending it to radio first,” he explained Monday. “I’m going to work it from the streets to the clubs. Then as DJs ask about it, I’ll deliver it to them. I’m gonna go all the way back to grassroots. I feel that people right now feel I’m going so far over their heads, given my prior success with Paper Trail. They feel like I’m trying to leave my foundation and my demographic behind, which is far from my intention.” The King of the South’s new song should land in the next couple of days or so. “Probably this week — don’t look for it on radio, but online and in the streets and in the clubs, you can look forward to a record. A record called ‘Pledge Allegiance to the Swag,’ he added. “I’m just trying to feed the streets right now.” And the Net. Tip has a slew of viral videos dropping soon with his various Grand Hustle acts. “We just shot three videos,” T.I. said. “We just shot the Young Dro ‘Freeze Me’ video with me, him and Gucci Mane. We shot the ‘Get Your Girl’ video with me and my artist and lil’ cousin, Rich Kid Shawty [Rashad]. We shot that in Atlanta. We also shot the video for ‘Ya Hear Me?’ Those videos will be completed and surfacing online within the next week or so.” Over the weekend, T.I.’s latest film, “Takers,” grabbed the top spot in a tooth-and-nail dogfight for number one with “The Last Exorcism.” As he told us a few weeks ago, with the film being a success, a prequel to the action thriller is very likely. “I just got off the phone with the director and the writer of ‘Takers,’ he revealed. “Also with the heads of Screen Gems. We’re working on not a sequel, but the prequel to ‘Takers,’ telling how the guys came to meet one another and how the relationships developed. Pretty much telling the story before [my character] went [to jail].” Related Artists T.I.

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Open Thread: Terrorist Sings For Canadian Version of ‘American Idol’

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: “A man arrested this week as part of a suspected terrorist plot has been identified as an aspiring singer who tried out for Canada’s version of ‘American Idol’ in 2008!” I hope he’s a better terrorist than a singer – errrr, maybe not!

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Introducing Top 5 Round-Up, Your Required Weekend DVD Viewing

Fresh on DVD this week — movies that road-test what you think of as “movies” and “watching” and even “having your blood pressure forcibly lowered,” if you’ve got the moviehead nerve to take the challenge. What, too tough?

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Mariah Carey Addresses Pregnancy Rumors

‘When the time is right, everyone will know,’ Carey says on her website. By Jocelyn Vena Mariah Carey Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images Mariah Carey is finally addressing all those pregnancy rumors. However, the singer won’t exactly confirm or deny whether she is expecting a bundle of joy. The rumors have been following the singer around since late spring when she dropped out of Tyler Perry’s forthcoming movie “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” and were sparked again this week when Carey was seen at a show in Barretos, Brazil , looking pregnant. “I appreciate everyone’s well wishes. But I am very superstitious,” she wrote on her website on Wednesday (August 26), Usmagazine.com reports. “When the time is right, everyone will know — even Cindi Berger [my publicist].” While she might be keeping tight-lipped about the rumors, the celebrity website further reports that Carey was seen wearing maternity clothes, specifically a $140 Pea in the Pod spaghetti-strap halter maternity dress, in Brazil last weekend. Much in the same vein as his wife, Nick Cannon has remained mum on the subject, playing coy when addressing the rumors on his radio show earlier this week. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it time and time again — when my wife feels like talking about whatever she wants to talk about, you will hear it directly from her,” he said. “We all know it’s extremely personal, and it is for a woman to deal with things with her body, and especially when dealing with the idea of childbirth and all that stuff. “That’s something you want to keep near and dear and as close to you as you possibly can, until you’re 100 percent sure, in any situation,” he continued. “There’s a certain time limit you’re supposed to wait before you can actually officially say that you are and all that stuff. You don’t want to mislead anybody.” Related Photos Mariah Carey On Tour Related Artists Mariah Carey

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The Boy in ‘Spy Kids’: ‘Memba Him?

Filed under: Daryl Sabara , Beauty Daryl Sabara became famous playing little Juni Cortez in the 2001 film ” Spy Kids ” and its two sequels. Guess what he looks like now ! Read more

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