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CNN suggests 9 Greek islands for your vacations

Saturday, August 24th, 2013

Folegandros, GreeceIn an article on CNN.com, the famous news portal and world wide news TV channel, suggests the Top-9 Greek islands that you should visit sometime for holidays! The categorization is done by activities and priorities on someone’s vacations, like nightlife, scenery, tradition, beaches, watersports, and so on!

See the whole Top 9 Greek islands list!

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80legs spider overloading sites

Friday, January 13th, 2012

The last hours we have noticed in several websites we manage an increased number of sessions. The first investigation show that there were no human visitors but rather bots / spider / crawlers since these sessions didn’t load tracking code of monitoring tools (Google Analytics, SiteMeter, statcounter, etc). So, even with more than 300 sessions on the CMS the Google analytics real time users were just 20 or 30..

The next step was to find the originator of these extra sessions. There were many different IP addresses, most of them originated at Russia but also from Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and similar countries. Looking at the log files of the web servers having these hits the common signature was the user agent record saying 008/0.83. The full log entry in all cases, in all different source IPs was:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; 008/0.83; http://www.80legs.com/webcrawler.html) Gecko/2008032620

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List of banned words for 2012 includes ‘man cave,’ ‘baby bump,’ ‘occupy’

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

Michigan’s Lake Superior State University is featuring those phrases in its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. The 2012 list, released Friday, was compiled by the university from nominations submitted from across the globe.

Before passing comment on someone’s “baby bump,” take a pregnant pause. Likewise, give up promoting “shared sacrifice.” And if you’re tempted to proclaim your desire to “win the future,” you’ve lost it here in the present.

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Twilight hysteria forbidden: Summit entertainment shuts down Saga fansite

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Not everything promoting the saga is Twilight-approved. E! News confirms that Summit Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Twilight.com‘s head honcho, Tom Markson, for illegally using the movie’s trademark to lure visitors into believing it is an official site and making profit.

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How much dancing did Natalie Portman do in Black Swan?

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Is Natalie Portman ballet’s Milli Vanilli? The ballerina who danced as her double in Black Swan told Entertainment Weekly last week that producers had told her to keep quiet about how much dancing she had done in the film.

Of the full body shots, I would say 5 percent are Natalie,” says Sarah Lane, 27, an American Ballet Theatre soloist who says she was the subject of a “cover-up”. Lane’s comments came in response to a March 23 L.A. Times article in which choreographer Benjamin Millepied (also Portman’s fiance) downplayed the significance of Lane’s contribution. Lane was not listed as a dance double in the film’s credits, but merely as an extra.

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