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• In photos: Six buildings shortlisted for the 20,000 Stirling Prize

  Published: July 28, 2007, 3:41 am

  Tags: London, Young Vic Theatre, Dresden Railway Station, America S Cup Building, Casa Da Musica, Buildings, Architecture, Stirling Prize, Royal Institute Of British Architects

  Architects (Riba) Stirling Prize for architecture and the winner will receive a cheque for 20,000. All the buildings are unique on their own and show different approaches to contemporary design. The one pictured above is the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto. Let s take a look at the other five. The America’s Cup Building and park

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• Of a Beachball, Barbells, and the Trojan Horse

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:25 am

  Tags: Toys, Myth, Charlisms, Sensory, Parenting, Classics, Asd, Aspergers, Athena, Autism, Beachball, Cable, Children, Education, Family, Greek, Mythology, Odysseus, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Prize, Teaching, Toys, Trojan Horse, Troy, Ulysses, Video

  to his family. And what a prize (geras) when we do the right thing: Charlie peaceful-easy balancing himself on his newly-blown-up beach ball, clanking, and occasionally semi-hoisting, Jim’s silver-painted weights in all their bearable heaviness; Charlie just being. Beachball photo courtesy of mag3737. Share This

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• The $10 million X Prize - Calling all green automakers

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:57 am

  Tags: Fuelvapor Al , Zap Motors, Kinetic Vehicles, Tesla Motors, Low Emission Vehicles, Automotive X Prize, Automakers

  the $10 million Automotive X Prize. The participating cars run on a range of fuels, including electricity, natural gas, diesel or unleaded gasoline. But, they need to get at least 100 mpg and complete a long distance race. The terms don t end here only. All of them must be low emission vehicles with a genuine business plan. One last term is

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• TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day One

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: B2s07, Back To School, Backtoschool, Giveaway, Iphone, Prize, T Shirt

  eligible to win one of our prizes. To be honest, there's nothing particularly scholarly about the prizes either. It's just an excuse to give away 14 rounds of prizes. For the next 14 days (excluding weekends) TUAW will give away 14 different prize packages. Some "packages" will be a TUAW shirt with some Ambrosia gear. One day will indeed be an

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• Microsoft Announces Dream-Build-Play Winners

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:31 pm

  Tags: Games Industry, Microsoft, Contest, Dream Build Play, Prize, Xbox Live, Xna

  because the first-place prize was awarded to two separate games. Tied for first place were David Flook of Ontario, Canada, and James Silva of New York with their respective games: Blazing Birds, an action-packed, robotic sports game modeled after the game of badminton, and The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, a highly stylized game of

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• $9,000 in Cash up for Grabs for Best Game from Addicting Games

  Published: August 15, 2007, 8:39 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Addicting Games, Contest, Game Design, Game Development, Prize Money, Shoot Em Up

  don’t make the grand prize, there’s three chances to win a thousand five hundred, too. AddictingGames.com announced a competition for game makers to send in their best attempts at a game based on Shoot ‘em up, the film coming out next month starring Clive Owen and Monica Bellucci. The rules can be found on their website. But

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• Win $1,000,000 with The Golden Jigsaw

  Published: August 16, 2007, 2:14 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Golden Jigsaw, Jigsaw, Million Dollars, Prize

  where you can win various prizes just by solving that day’s clue first. I should warn you though, the clues are not easy, unless you’re a master at anagrams. The clues I’ve seen typically give you an odd mixture of letters, followed by blank spaces of a web address to fill in. Given how random most web addresses are, the

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• Official BIG DADDY FIGURINE Announcement!!! (BioShock)

  Published: August 20, 2007, 8:51 pm

  Tags: 2k Games, 2kgames, Art Book, Bad News, Big Daddy, Bioshock, Consolation Prize, Cult, Exciting News, Figurines, Precisely, Pre Paid, Rapture

  be shipped as a consolation prize for the trouble and the time it will take to receive the new figure. One more thing guys. Don’t try to scam them and break the figure yourself to get the book. They know precisely what the defect is. ---Related Articles at Gaming Today:Bioshock Limited Edition "Big Daddy" FigureBioShock

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• TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day Eight: Baseball Cap

  Published: August 22, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Giveaway, Hat, Logo, Prize

  weekday, another prize. Today's giveaway is a baseball cap with the Apple logo on it (and an Ambrosia pack). A black cap, the flex-fit variety, suitable for wearing on one's head. Seeing as how quite a few college students like to wear these things, we hope today's prize will find a good home.To enter, leave a comment on this post

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• Entrepreneur Segways Toward Medical Revolution Directing Genomics X Prize

  Published: August 23, 2007, 7:33 am

  Tags: Kendall Square Blog, Genomics, People, Innovation, X Prize

  director of the Archon X Prize for Genomics. This is the genomics equivalent of the original Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, won by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace designer Burt Rutan. Basically, Hodosh’s job is to help give away $10 million to the first team that can sequence the genomes of 100 people in 10 days

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• Breakthrough research method to replace animals in labs receives Voiceless Eureka prize

  Published: August 25, 2007, 6:23 am

  Tags: Animal Models, Animalmodels, Cell Cultures, Cellcultures, Laboratory Animals, Laboratoryanimals, Voiceless Eureka Prize, Voicelesseurekaprize

  esteemed Voiceless Eureka Prize. Maria Kavallaris and colleagues at Sydney's Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research (CCIA) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) used molecular biology and cell culture techniques to develop a method for identifying mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer cells, without the need for

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• Lashes pick up from Winehouse crash

  Published: September 1, 2007, 7:36 am

  Tags: Gambling, Awards, Arctic Monkeys, Mercury Music Prize, Amy Winehouse, Bat For Lashes

  Bookmakers are reporting (okay, "press-releasing" might be more accurate) that support for Amy Winehouse as likely Mercury winner has collapsed as fast as, erm, she has: Bat For Lashes are now pulling ahead as the clear favourite.Curiously, the trailers for the BBC Four coverage are focusing on the Arctic Monkeys and a 'can they do the double'

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• Mercury Music Prize: Liveblog

  Published: September 4, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Jo Whiley, Awards, Jamie T, Mercury Music Prize, The Young Knives, Live Blog, Bat For Lashes, Charles Hazlewood, Jools Holland

  "most controversial music prize in the world". Controversial? Sure, it's not like there's many actually controversial music awards - nobody's ever gone to war over the Junos, for example, but The Source Awards surely are more fractious?Jo Whiley and Jools Holland are presenting, as bloody ever - can't they find someone, anyone different for

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• Daily Mail spots two different Amy Winehouses at Mercurys

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:45 am

  Tags: Daily Mail, Mercury Music Prize, Amy Winehouse

  Winehouse at last night's prizegiving:Singer Amy Winehouse stormed out of the Mercury Music Awards after losing to cult band the Klaxons.[...]After singing she sat contentedly with her father Mitch and her husband Blake Fielder Civil whom she kissed constantly.Perhaps she stormed out contentedly?[Mercury Awards

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• Blake: My wife should have won

  Published: September 8, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Stuart Maconie, Mercury Music Prize, Blake Fielder Civil, Amy Winehouse, Mark Radcliffe

  To be fair, it's not just Blake Fielder-Civil who thinks Amy Winehouse should have won the Mercurys. Radcliffe and Maconie were saying pretty much the same thing, but since it's not entirely clear what it is the award is for (the content of the album? the quality of performance on it? the sound of it alone?) it's hard to see how anything could be

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