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13-Jan-2007 By BL Ochman Permalink Email this
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In New Poll on Ethics, Public Ranks Congress Lower Than Pirates

In a troubling omen for the upcoming midterm elections, a new poll on ethics released today indicates that the public for the first time ranks congressmen lower than pirates, says The Borowitz Report.

The poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota's Opinion Research Institute, asked likely voters to rate one hundred different professions according to their ethics. Congressmen, near the bottom of the list, bested only crack dealers and lawyers.

"Over and over again, pirates received higher marks than congressmen in this survey," said Crandall Pritchard, who supervised the poll for the University of Minnesota. "We heard comments like, 'Sure, pirates make people walk the plank and will slit their throats for a doubloon, but at least they would keep their hands off congressional pages."

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, under fire of late because of the congressional page scandal, said that the poll showing that pirates are more ethical than congressmen is mush ado about nothing: "I don't think this reflects the unpopularity of Congress so much as it reflects the surging popularity of pirates." popularity of pirates."

11-Oct-2006 By BL Ochman Permalink Email this
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Language lessons are part of Hollywood's global approach

In 1998, American director Bryan Singer, introducing his movie "Apt Pupil" at the Toyko International Film Festival, decided to surprise the crowd by speaking in Japanese.

But he bungled the translation and, instead of saying "I look forward to seeing you after the film," he said he was looking forward to having sex.

He went back to Japan last week to promote "Superman Returns," but he practiced his Japanese - a lot, says the New York Times

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10-Aug-2006 By BL Ochman Permalink Email this
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Oddcast Does Real-Time Multilanguage Text to Speech

Oddcast, a media technology company that develops conversational character products has fascinating Text-to-Speech (TTS) software that gives real-time multilanguage conversion of any text to immediate speech by an avatar.

Click on "Talk to me," type in any content and the avatars will say it with the accent of a dozen languages. So, type your content in English and click Japanese, and the avatar says it in English with a Japanese accent.

The software also translates Oddcast's marketing message into a dozen languages, and offers a remarkably effecrive marketing tool for multinational companies.

The company's V-Host software was the power behind Career Builder's immensely successful Monk-email viral campaign that has seen over 7 million unique visitors since January 2006. Over 14 million Monk-e-Mails have been sent, and played.

01-Jun-2006 By BL Ochman Permalink Email this
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An Ethical Grey Area

19-May-2006 By BL Ochman Permalink Email this
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Yes Men Survival Ball Yanks Halliburton's Chain

The Yes Men, a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists pushing a "SurvivaBall", designed to save corporate executives from the effects of global warming, pulled a prank on Halliburton at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida.

The group, which has pulled similar stunts on Dow Chemical Co. and the World Trade Organization, says it presented the phony global-warming-protection suits -- priced at $100 million each, nonetheless -- to show that corporations are more concerned about profits than taking expensive steps to reduce carbon emissions to reduce global warming.

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12-May-2006 By BL Ochman Permalink Email this
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