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‘Alice’ Tops Box Office a 3rd Week With $34.5 Million (Update1)Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ 3:11PMMarch 21 (Bloomberg) -- “Alice in Wonderland,” the Lewis Carroll tale re-imagined in 3-D by director Tim Burton , was the top film in the U.S. and Canada for a third straight weekend, bringing in $34.5 million in ticket sales for Walt Disney Co.

What does Google really know about advertising?Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ 1:54PMWhether you consider Nexus One a success or failure, the fact is that Google has never successfully launched anything that required advertising. Does the company know how to do it?

Organ du jour: SpleenSaturday, March 20, 2010 @ 5:27PMMOVIES | The graft of moral amiguity onto a thriller makes "Repo Men" a weird but likably misshapen beast. » John Anderson

Walking with the ComradesSaturday, March 20, 2010 @ 4:09PMVery recently, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy became a rare writer to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters.

How postmen sort Dharavi mazeSaturday, March 20, 2010 @ 3:57PMPostman B R Rane says that rather than numbers, it is the locals and shopkeepers who help locate the addressee. Postmen become so good at nailing an address that the sleuths recently asked them for help during a hoax bomb scare.