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Avril Lavigne looking great by the seaside













Simon Cowell is glad that Kellie Pickler made a very smart move after her singing catastrophe last week. "Where she was very smart, Kelly was, she admitted she got it wrong," Simon revealed. "She didn't do what so many contestant normally do, which is disagree with me. She was very, very smart." Read more.

Snow Patrol played in the 6 Music Hub on last Thursday (April 20). Check out pictures, and listen to a replay of the show.

The famous words of "Fucking in the bushes"; taken from The Isle Of Wight 1970 festival.
Video clips - [ "we put this festival.." / "kids running around na.." / "i love it..room for every.." ]


Jessica Simpson - Cosmo Mag (May 2006)












Nicole Kidman leaving a Hampton Starbucks with her trainer
























Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore in Paris



















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Muse - Instrumentals!

Jem = 2005... Lily Allen = 2006?
Last year, there was this Welsh chick who brought lushness pop which is soothing to the ears. Won't be surprised if the name 'Lily Allen' is being talked about in about 3-4 months time. Her music is refreshingly melodious in the veins of Bic Runga and Aimee Mann, but with the toned down skills of Mike Skinner. Check out her song 'LDN' from her MySpace Account. She even attempted a 50 Cent track! Trust me. You'll love it at first hear.

The Raconteurs - AOL Podcast


Van She - Kelly
So...is this some kind of tribute to Al Corley's "Square Rooms", Icehouse's "Electric Blue" and some other cheesy 80s pop tunes? These guys from Sydney got together early last year. Just look at the dress code of the band members, retro tv sets, and the electronic keyboard which probably belongs to Human League. Actually cringed a little when the chorus sets in.. but it eventually gets better when he kept repeating that bloody line again and again. The couples in the vid are supposedly watching the band on their tv sets and probably thought that it is better to make out halfway through the song. Definitely great for those who are still together in electric dreams.


Eagles Of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard (vid)
First of all, I'm not 'down' with metal. Any sorts of that genre. So when this band came about, I didn't really venture into them thinking that it was some horrible unacceptable stuff. Then, when they recently opened for The Strokes concert, there was something amiss. After hearing a couple of tracks, happiness beckons. This shite is rock n roll to the core! Imagine Jet & Kings of Leon combined with a sprinkle of Foo Fighter's quirkiness, then EoDM is the answer. These boys' bad news!


Jewel was in studio with the Jackie & Bender show on KISS 106.1 FM in Seattle on Wednesday (April 19). She talked about being sick on her last visit, being low-profile and avoiding the paparazzi, doing a photo shoot for InStyle at her home, touring with Rob Thomas, and the new album 'Goodbye Alice in Wonderland'. She then performed 'Again and Again'.


Keira Knightley in a recent trip to Rome





















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Julianne Moore eats so little to stay slim that she's hungry everyday. The flame-haired actress admits she's so worried about staying svelte in figure-conscious Hollywood she lives on diet foods - and says all actresses do the same. Nothing surprising there. The Hannibal star revealed: "If you want to know the truth about actresses, it's that we're hungry all the time. We live on granola bars and yoghurt." She added: "If you talk to any actress, they'll say, 'Yeah, I didn't have dinner last night because I had a photo shoot today'. And that's not extreme. There are some crazy dieters out there." Julianne also slammed the acting industry for making "emaciated" bodies seem acceptable. She told Grazia magazine: "I think I'm a slender person. But I could still be an acceptable weight in Hollywood if I lost 5lbs more, even though it would make me look emaciated." With the riches they have, eating should be something of a luxury. Oh, the irony.

Familiar faces could take the place of complex and hard-to-remember computer passwords, if a security system developed in the US takes off. Instead of requiring users to remember a string of letters and numbers before granting access to a computer, the new system asks them to pick out a pre-agreed set of faces from several grids of other faces. A string of randomly selected faces is hard for an attacker to guess but easy for a user to remember. "Part of the human brain has evolved specifically to remember and recognise faces," says Passfaces CEO Paul Barrett. "While you have to make a conscious effort to memorise and recall passwords, the equivalent processes for faces are completely intuitive." Barrett says a Passfaces authentication system that asks a user to pick out five faces from five different grids of nine faces is roughly equivalent to a random seven-character password.

The Passfaces system can be used to control access to any system that can display images - websites and handheld devices, as well as desktop machines. But Barrett concedes that it may not be suitable in every situation as it takes between 5 and 10 seconds on average to authenticate a person. "This may be unacceptable for applications that require the user to re-authenticate several times a day," he says. The system could also have its own unique drawbacks. For example, it could be easier for someone to watch over a person's shoulder as they select their faces on a screen. Images are often used by websites to distinguish between human and computer visitors online. So-called "CAPTCHA" tests normally ask users to identify strings of distorted text and numbers from an image - a simple task for humans. A new type of CAPTCHAs developed recently by a UK programmer instead asks users to distinguish between images of kittens and other cute animals. You can try out this authentication system, called KittenAuth.