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Excerpt - In a move that I'm sure is just begging for the wrath of Jobs, someone has put together a well-crafted blooper video that looks at the best quirks, mistakes and glitches of Steve Jobs' Macworld keynotes. ~snip~

Putin's nuclear show blows up in his face By Julius Strauss in Moscow (Filed: 18/02/2004) Russia's biggest military exercise since the collapse of communism flopped yesterday, ruining an attempt to project Vladimir Putin as a global leader and reaffirm the country's status as a nuclear superpower. With Mr Putin and a host of military officials watching from the nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, two intercontinental ballistic missiles went wrong during a firing from a submarine believed to be the Novomoskovsk. They were aimed at Kamchatka on the Pacific coast. A malfunctioning satellite was blamed. Putin promised that Russia will again be a...

The Iron Curtain Fell? The Soviet Union ceased its existence a dozen years ago, but it lives on in the mind of Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor. He made no fewer than four references to the USSR in his appearance Dec. 1 on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on the subject of Iran's nuclear ambitions. "The key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage...

Here are a couple good websites devoted to bloopers found in the Lord of the Rings movies.www.moviemistakes.comwww.hobbitslive.com

<p>Slate editor Jacob Weisberg appears to have quietly retired his unbelievably tedious "Bushism of the Day" feature, which highlighted minor errors in the president's extemporaneous remarks. Slate's "Complete Bushisms" page still claims to be "updated frequently," but the most recent "Bushism" listed is from Aug. 1, nearly six weeks ago.</p>

If you've ever watched those TV blooper shows, you know how funny slip-ups, gaffes and blunders can be. But while laughter may be good for the soul, it's certainly not the response you want your resume to produce. Baby Boomers (or Gen-X and Gen-Y fans of Nick at Nite) will recall the often hilarious pronouncements of Archie Bunker, the patriarch of the popular 1970s sitcom "All in the Family." With just a slight slip of the tongue, Archie's intended meanings frequently became completely convoluted (e.g., "consecration" instead of "concentration" and "mental pause" instead of "menopause"). If your resume contains any...

The hottest video collection in the Arab world, known as the Death to America Series, is selling out so quickly in Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Abu Dhabi and Algeria that the video-store chain CamelsBallBusters has had to post security guards outside their franchises to protect store clerks from disappointed customers. The collection, produced by WeLuvBinLaden Productions (the same people who created the very popular game show World Jewish Conspiracy Jeopardy), has been excerpted on CNN recently and has also been the subject of much analysis by State Department policy and defense wonks. It features speeches, conferences and...

Bloopers Gone Wild It's official: KKT's propensity for getting things upside down and backward in her speeches is not a legitimate election issue. So says Towson University professor Michael Vatz in Monday's edition of The (Baltimore) Sun. According to Vatz, ``There are lines that negative criticism should not cross," including ``Ms. Townsend's inarticulateness and gaffes. This is a point that may well be considered by voters, but it is not legitimate as an issue." Nevertheless, the press corps is keeping a growing anthology of ``KKT's Bloopers Gone Wild," including, of course, her famous congratulations to the NFL's Baltimore Ravens for...