News Topic - Pink

New Project Threatens 'Pink' Building's Uptown View
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WSOCTV.com  –  Jul 22, 2008 03:28 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: North Carolina: Charlotte

Royal Caribbean Cuts 400 Jobs, Most In S. Florida
Miami's second largest cruise line started handing out pink slips tohundreds of employees Monday in an effort to cut operating expenses by$125 million. The company says 400 positions will be cut, most of themat its Miami headquarters.
cbs4.com  –  Jul 22, 2008 01:12 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: Florida: Miami

The Eye: 'Pink Glasses, 2001'
Today's artwork chosen by Stephanie Peek
Examiner.com  –  Jul 22, 2008 12:51 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: California: San Francisco

Welcome to the new Books site
You'll have noticed a few changes on the Books site. Fresh air and wide open spaces, pictures and multimedia and all that. Oh, and instead of brick red, pink
The Guardian  –  Jul 21, 2008 10:22 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Entertainment: Books

Samsung Announces Two New BlackJack II Colors
I just got word over the wire that AT&T’s BlackJack II will be available in two new colors: Romantic Pink and Ocean Blue. Back in December, we reviewed the BlackJack II and awarded it 4 stars.We liked the fast HSDPA 3G data speeds, good call quality, and built-in GPS. On the other hand, we also [...]
Laptop Magazine  –  Jul 21, 2008 6:01 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Technology

Kitty in pink: $1,000 reward offered for missing cat
An Edmonton pet store is chipping in $700 as a reward to help a woman find her missing cat, which was last seen wearing a pink dress and an ID collar.
CBC.ca  –  Jul 21, 2008 4:37 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Pink's Ex-Hubby: I Won't Remarry!
's ex-husband says he misses "everything" about the singer.
StarMagazine.com  –  Jul 21, 2008 3:23 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Photo: Buffet line
Two immature bald eagles watch the approach of an adult eagle Saturday on a tree along Channel Drive. Many bald eagles are feeding in the area as chum salmon return to the Douglas Island Pink and Chum hatchery.
JuneauEmpire.com  –  Jul 21, 2008 1:50 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: Alaska: Juneau

Netbytes: Girl Power blogger takes Singapore by storm
Blogging looked like fulfilling Andy Warhol's prophecy that everyone would get their 15 minutes of fame. Xiaxue, however, has been famous for five years, and has turned into a full-time professional blogger, attracting around 300,000 visitors per month. Singapore's National Library Board has added her to its electronic archives. She may have passed her peak - marked by her Best Asian Weblog award in the 2005 Bloggies - but there's no sign of this lippy former student/waitress going away. Xiaxue ("snowing") has described herself as "just a normal girl who got rather lucky". Her real name is Zheng Yan Yan, aka Wendy Cheng, and she's now 24. She started blogging in April 2003, and could easily have sunk without trace. Instead, she became, briefly, a celebrity blogger for The Straits Times newspaper, a Maxim columnist, and co-starred in a sort of reality TV series, Girls Out Loud. She now does a fortnightly series, Xiaxue's Guide To Life, which runs on Munkysuperstar's web-based TV channel, clicknetwork.tv. There are quite a few on YouTube. If you want to know about blinging your long nails with crystals, getting a tongue piercing, losing weight, cooking live crabs, shopping for slutty clothes or fitting out your totally pink Princess Room on the cheap, Xiaxue is your girl. She'd be an ideal Big Brother contestant. Part of Xiaxue's appeal is that she's offensive, by Singapore standards. "Singaporean (Chinese) guys," she wrote, "like girls who keep quiet and nods in agreement to everything they say, rather than a girl who speaks up for her own opinions. They like girls who are weak, diminutive and vulnerable, not girls who are strong and can protect themselves." They must also dress modestly and be virgins. Xiaxue - perhaps corrupted by reading California-based Sweet Valley High books - is the opposite of this Singaporean ideal. She's bitchy, swears, wears "chio" (pretty but provocative) clothes, writes in intimate detail about things like panty liners, and flaunts her American boyfriend, Mike. It provokes hundreds of comments. She also generates controversy by attacking other bloggers. One famous post dealt with the Top Seven Most Disgusting Bloggers in Singapore, including Xiaxue. She attacked herself for being a fake, short, fat and ugly. "She is so hao lian [arrogant] of her stupid angmoh [caucasian monkey] boyfriend," she wrote. "SPG!" Sarong Party Girl: the ultimate insult. Some of Xiaxue's posts are labelled as advertorials: she's paid to write about products, review restaurants etc, and she also got a free "nose job". Since she's always writing about the things she does and the products she buys, these aren't much different from her usual slang-packed, heavily illustrated (and skilfully photoshopped) posts. You can take it or leave it. As you'd expect, most of Xiaxue's readers - around 70% - live in Singapore or Malaysia. For the rest of us, she's a virtual tourist spot, providing an uncensored, unmediated and somewhat voyeuristic peek into a different society. Every nation should have its own Xiaxue, and perhaps they do. We just don't know about them.Related StoriesEditorial: High waterOnline POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know itEmily Bell: If Google should falter, how many others will follow?Solve IT: How can I chat to people with different Instant Messenger applications?Paul Lewis on why Bluetooth technology is raising fears about privacy
The Guardian  –  Jul 21, 2008 1:37 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Technology

Siblings in the pink with lemonade fundraiser in memory of cousin
Every time Linsey Schmidt looks into the sky at night and sees the stars, she thinks of her friend who died from a brain tumor nearly a year ago.
Chillicothe Gazette  –  Jul 21, 2008 11:54 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cincinnati