The News Review:

- Web watch: Today’s hot topics at usatoday.com
- Send us your snow pictures and stories
- What’s in art galleries
- The SmugMug Privacy Hole
- The Police and Fergie prove arresting in Adelaide
- AGS offers serious look at pop culture

Web watch: Today’s hot topics at usatoday.com
USA Today – Jan 28, 2008
You can also follow for free with Gametracker. Also on tap today:•Look back at the Australian pen in a photo gallery and Ana Ivanovic’s first-person report recapping her emotional two weeks in Melbourne at tennis. j •Countdown to Super Bowl XLII It’s six days until Super Bowl XLII in Glendale Ariz. and you can vote for the greatest team in the Super Bowl era.

Send us your snow pictures and stories
HeraldNet – Jan 28, 2008
He’s an indoor cat so he could only watch from the comfort of his climbing post. Those of you who ventured outside today had closer encounters with snow and ice throughout Snohomish County. If you happened to take pictures along the way. Also send your observations from your commute — or even the view outside your window.

What’s in art galleries
Tehran Times – Jan 28, 2008
The exhibition will continue until January 31 at the venue located at No. * The Seyhoun Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of paintings by Iraj Shafei… * The Seyhoun Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of paintings by Iraj Shafei. The display will continue until February 7 at the venue located at No. 30 Fourth Alley Vozara St. * An exhibition of paintings by Amir Musavi is currently underway at the Dey Gallery. The exhibit will run until January 31 at the gallery on No.

The SmugMug Privacy Hole
WebProNews – Jan 28, 2008
You do have the option of turning off external links so that no one can link to an individual photo. You may also password protect galleries so that no one can access them without a password. After two more emails of mine their second reply: This is correct and is how private galleries work. A user needs the access key (the specific URL) in order to access the gallery or image within the gallery but that gallery will not be visible on your Smugmug homepage. By now I was talking to another support person already and he even told me he’d escalate it to reply. Here’s some of what he said: The photos you see in the manner below are public – ANYone can find it by search and browse I told the support person that while he was referring to public photos which indeed do pop up in the same matter the issue was that private photos pop up as well! Writing again I get this reply: “Private” means it won’t be on the homepage. If you want them to not be found in this manner you describe then you set SmugIslands to “no” and you can set a gallery password or site password in addition to disabling originals and external links.

The Police and Fergie prove arresting in Adelaide
NEWS.com.au – Jan 28, 2008
!!!) Posted by: Amelia of Aldgate 4:39pm January 29 2008 considering the last time I was forced to see Fergie was with the Black Eyed Peas at the Big Day ut and believe me they SUCKED big time I'd believe the people commenting on her awful performance last night. The promoters were obviously worried about butts not filling seats with the Police alone (and by the sounds of it they were a little off mark) so they had to get someone who would appeal to either the teenyboppers or anyone else who likes Fergie's music and as much as I love Rage Against the Machine (one of the very few reasons for actually going this year) the Big Day ut is becoming a commercialised event aimed at the 16 year old kiddies (and before people call me old – I'm 25 – and Tool last year were phenonemal) Posted by: sarah of adelaide 4:35pm January 29 2008 I thought Fergie was the support act? Why are there so many pictures of her but none of the real stars of last night The Police on their own in the photo gallery?!Fergie massacred some real classics last night as well as showing just how appaling her own songs can be. People weren't slack-jawed in awe it was slack-jaw in shock at how one person can make such great songs sound so bad!n the upside The Police were sensational! A few comments here have suggested Adelaide audiences are emotionless but my friends and I were certainly up and dancing as were those around us – we had a great time all the way at the back! Posted by: Stinglover of 4:14pm January 29 2008 I agree with Michael of Adelaide. From above the crowd on the floor looked like they were all 95 years old the way they were just sitting there and not dancing or anything through all concerts. At least the people up in the stands were dancing!! Great concert by ALL!!! – it's a pity we don't get more headline acts here probably because of the audiences!!!! Posted by: Sam of 4:08pm January 29 2008 Good to hear everyone enjoyed the Police show. I saw them in the 80's so went to see another awesome show last night which got little publicity.

AGS offers serious look at pop culture
NorthernLife.ca – Jan 28, 2008
Gillespie creates collages using vintage advertisements and his own photographs. Advertising sells products as well as images of the way things “should be” says Gillespie who has a master's in fine art and a PhD in social and political thought from York University. In addition to photo media he works in video and film. In his work titled Autumn he uses a image of a happy couple on vacation (circa 1950) and an image of a young boy playing “cowboys " superimposed over a photograph of a child of the Third World. The couple appear “blissfully ignorant” of Third World poverty. This is a memory of something that no longer exists he explains.