<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Members : pocksucket : Submitted Links : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>136039</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/136039/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Shining II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Son of Shining.  No.  Not really.  However, Stephen King has let slip that he's considering a sequel to The Shining, first published in 1977.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>478</score><crdate>11/26/2009 4:20:38 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-26T04:20:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135758</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135758/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Pier Jumping]]></title><description><![CDATA[Either Worthing rocks so hard that people jump over piers as a matter of course or Worthing is so dull that people have to do stuff like this for thrills.  Whichever it is, it's where I live and these people jumped over a pier with a kite.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>285</score><crdate>11/16/2009 6:02:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-16T18:02:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135747</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135747/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Edward Woodward - 1 June 1930 to 16 November 2009]]></title><description><![CDATA[Best known for his roles in The Equalizer and The Wicker Man, Edward Woodward has died in hospital, aged 79.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>348</score><crdate>11/16/2009 7:44:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-16T07:44:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135515</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135515/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hollywood &amp; Vine]]></title><description><![CDATA[This photo was taken in 1906.  It would later become the intersection of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=hollywood&amp;sll=53.800651,-4.064941&amp;sspn=10.133322,27.993164&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Hollywood,+Los+Angeles,+California,+United+States&amp;ll=34.101595,-118.326675&amp;spn=0.000866,0.001709&amp;z=19&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=34.101629,-118.326656&amp;panoid=K8mfTC53unHCfnzm8HLSmg&amp;cbp=12,1.92,,0,5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hollywood and Vine</a>.<br/><br/>In 1913, when scouting for a location for the western The Squaw Man, Cecil B DeMille sent the following telegram:<br/><br/><i>FLAGSTAFF NO GOOD FOR OUR PURPOSE. HAVE PROCEEDED TO CALIFORNIA. WANT AUTHORITY TO RENT BARN IN PLACE CALLED HOLLYWOOD FOR $75 A MONTH.</i><br/><br/>He received the reply:<br/><br/><i>AUTHORIZE YOU TO RENT BARN BUT ON MONTH-TO-MONTH BASIS. DON&#8217;T MAKE ANY LONG COMMITMENT.</i>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>273</score><crdate>11/8/2009 1:13:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-08T13:13:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135513</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135513/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Britain's Oldest Dad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gerry Bursk is 75.  He is married to Dawn who is 40.  Dawn is pregnant and Gerry is the father.  When Dawn gives birth in March 2010 Gerry will hold the record for oldest father in Britain.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>175</score><crdate>11/8/2009 12:53:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-08T12:53:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135512</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135512/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Translation Spectacles Give The World Subtitles]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEC have revealed a headset worn like glasses that projects translated subtitles of the conversation you are having directly onto the retina.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>621</score><crdate>11/8/2009 12:18:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-08T12:18:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135511</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135511/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Indecent Exposure?  No, Explosive Diarrhoea.]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Todd Napodano was accused of exposing himself to two women in a car park but he claims that wasn't the case.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>350</score><crdate>11/8/2009 11:46:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-08T11:46:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135474</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135474/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Joss Whedon Bids For Terminator Franchise Rights]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joss published an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?://whedonesque.com/comments/22240" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">open letter</a> to make his bid.  EW phone him up and asked him what it was about.  What it is about is that Joss still believes that The Terminator is a very cool thing and would love to make it Joss-Cool.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>169</score><crdate>11/7/2009 1:22:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-07T13:22:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135051</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135051/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Best Headline I've Seen In A Good While]]></title><description><![CDATA[Feeling childish and want to laugh at something immature?  Then I have the link for you.  Go on.  Give it a click.  You know you want to.]]></description><comments>15</comments><score>743</score><crdate>10/24/2009 4:12:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-24T16:12:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135050</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135050/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Parisienne Walkways]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why bother learning the guitar when you can sing the tricky parts?  Oh yeah, because that's damned impressive and probably only this guy can do it.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>328</score><crdate>10/24/2009 4:05:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-24T16:05:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135049</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135049/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Nokia To Sue Apple]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nokia have launched a lawsuit against Apple claiming that the iPhone breaches 10 of their patents.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>186</score><crdate>10/24/2009 3:41:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-24T15:41:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134213</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/134213/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Golden Age Of Video]]></title><description><![CDATA[We accept her.  One of us.<br/>Gooble gobble.<br/>Gooble gobble.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>316</score><crdate>10/6/2009 6:16:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-06T18:16:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133930</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133930/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cevarix &quot;Victim&quot; Was Killed By A Tumour]]></title><description><![CDATA[School girl Natalie Morton <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/133780/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">died</a> less than two hours after being given a vaccination against HPV, a common cause of cervical cancer.<br/><br/>The results of her autopsy revealed that this was not related to the vaccination but that she had a malignant tumour affecting her heart and lungs so far advanced that her death was inevitable.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>768</score><crdate>10/1/2009 7:32:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-01T07:32:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133908</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133908/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking Steps Down From His Chair]]></title><description><![CDATA[No.  Not like that, and you know it.  This is not a <i>take up thy bed and walk</i> style miracle but instead is leaving his position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>557</score><crdate>9/30/2009 6:36:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-30T18:36:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133844</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133844/1/</url><title><![CDATA[In Australia, &quot;Tourist Trap&quot; Means Something Altogether Different]]></title><description><![CDATA[In South West Darwin, near the Finniss River it means a trap for catching tourists.  A spiky trap.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>577</score><crdate>9/29/2009 7:58:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-29T19:58:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133781</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133781/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Drinking Bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[These things fascinated me as a child.  I remember sitting watching one of these for hours while the grown ups talked.<br/><br/>And now here's the exact mechanism.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>242</score><crdate>9/28/2009 5:27:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-28T17:27:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133750</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133750/1/</url><title><![CDATA[No Signal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something of a movie cliche, it seems.  It certainly crops up a lot.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>194</score><crdate>9/27/2009 7:46:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-27T19:46:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133746</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133746/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Was Megrahi Framed?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not the first place it's been suggested but this site pulls together a lot of the conjecture that the real reason Megrahi was released was to stop the release of the evidence that would have not only proved his innocence but also show the justice system that convicted him in a damning light.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>174</score><crdate>9/27/2009 6:25:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-27T18:25:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133742</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133742/1/</url><title><![CDATA[APB Character Customisation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Forthcoming game APB features some rather advanced character customisations.<br/><br/>Sure what will happen is everyone will make big-titty women to play with, but it's good to know that in theory you could look like yourself in a game.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>217</score><crdate>9/27/2009 3:45:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-27T15:45:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133740</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133740/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mott The Hoople Set To Return]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a 36 year absence from the stage, Mott The Hoople are all set to go on tour again.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>343</score><crdate>9/27/2009 3:28:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-27T15:28:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133739</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133739/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Autumn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Autumn #3 is one of a collection of four images depicting autumnal scenes and is part of a larger body of work from Tim Simmons.  Click the pic to see more.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>318</score><crdate>9/27/2009 3:17:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-27T15:17:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133738</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133738/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sydney Sand Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 23rd September Sydney woke up to a strange red light.  A <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/133502/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dust storm</a> had descended on the city.  This is what it looked like]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>135</score><crdate>9/27/2009 2:32:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-27T14:32:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133733</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133733/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sonic Weapons Deployed In Pittsburgh]]></title><description><![CDATA[Protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh were confronted by police using sonic cannons.]]></description><comments>27</comments><score>675</score><crdate>9/27/2009 9:51:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-27T09:51:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133695</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133695/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dear Lily,]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lily Allen started a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://idontwanttochangetheworld.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog</a> (now with all content deleted) slamming music piracy and claimed there was no future for her in music.  She has since then retracted her resignation but that doesn't stop the counterpoint being well worth a watch.<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090924/0241556300.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This</a> is worth a read too.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>191</score><crdate>9/26/2009 11:07:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-26T11:07:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>133568</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133568/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Could Microsoft Pip Apple To The Post With A Tablet Device]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the longest time rumours have been rife about an tablet computer from Apple with nothing concrete confirmed.  It seems that all the while Microsoft have been quietly developing their own and now it's at an advanced prototype stage theyv'e started to share details.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>200</score><crdate>9/23/2009 7:58:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-09-23T19:58:19+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>