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Radio Okapi said police tried to control the violence at Matokeo stadium by firing into the air to protect their commander, who was hit in the head and wounded by fans.

The two local clubs involved were Socozaki and Nyuki System, the radio said.

Dozens of teenagers marched through Butembo’s dirt streets Monday in protest, and the regional governor, Julien Mpaluku, paid a visit to the hospital.

‘Witchcraft rumor sparks riot at Congo soccer game‘ (Associated Press)

(Via Boing Boing.)

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Cpt. Tim reports on this fun Flickr pool called Through the Viewfinder.

You basically make cool retro or vintage looking pictures by taking a picture through the viewfinder of an old top-down viewfinder camera, like a Duaflex.

The Flickr group with wonderful submissions and instructions on how to do it is here, and here is what I’ve been able to do after ordering an old camera on eBay.

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Touching tale of heartbreak promotes Lenovo S10, rends our hearts in twain: “

Filed under: Laptops

While we’ve been dealing with short-form ad fare in the States, China’s gone all artsy on us, with Lenovo releasing a short film to promote its S9 / S10 netbook. We won’t ruin the plot for you — the dialogue is all in Chinese, so it’s not like we could — but suffice it to say that the Lenovo S10 and unrequited love play major roles.

[Thanks, Patrick]

Continue reading Touching tale of heartbreak promotes Lenovo S10, rends our hearts in twain

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

For those of you concerned that Microsoft’s seemingly imminent updates to the Zune will be limited to some glossy plastic and capacity bumps, lean in, we’ve got good news. Matt Rosoff over at cnet news offers this tease:

‘I can’t say much, but I’ve seen what Microsoft’s planning, and befitting its status as a software plus services company, the real advances aren’t going to be in the Zune hardware, but in the Zune software and associated services.’

Sooner, rather than later though Microsoft, your target isn’t standing still.

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The plug-in formerly known as PicLens returns in the CoolIris 1.8 Beta that transforms your browser into a full-screen slideshow experience. An amazing photo and video browsing experience is just one click away. Amazing media comes to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window.

Go to CoolIris.com and check out the Guided Tour. Very cool.

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Alien Skin’s Blow Up 2 is a clever, if somewhat pricy, Photoshop plug-in that allows you to enlarge photos and still keep them clear and sharp using its sophisticated enlargement algorithm. The new version simplifies the process of preparing photos for printing by efficiently handling resizing, cropping, and sharpening.

Blow Up 2 sells for USD$249 with an upgrade price of USD$99 for registered users of Blow Up 1. Blow Up 2 requires either Adobe Photoshop CS2 9.0.2 or later, or Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0.1 or later. You might also want to be using a PowerPC G5 or Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later and a monitor with 1024×768 resolution or greater.

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For you Coda user, just like me, I will give me information, the Panic Inc. has been released nex updated of code editor Coda. So what’s new on this new version? This is some briefs about new version

Coda 1.5 offers a number of major new features, including source control with Subversion, find and replace across multiple files, custom books, and more flexible Clips. It also fixes a bunch of bugs. This update is recommended for everyone. For full details, view the complete release notes.

This update is free for all Coda owners, and is 17 MB in size.

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