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Caught in the Act!

• New beau Jake Gyllenhaal may not have been there but Taylor Swift was in good (and handsome) company at a taping of the CMT Artists of the Year special in Nashville. The singer got chatty with Maroon 5's Adam Levine before his band covered her song "Mine" on the show (which airs Dec. 3 at 8:30 p.m. ET). During Maroon 5's performance, Swift watched with her iPhone out (to snap pictures) and her hand over her mouth, then returned to Levine's table to offer her review. "I told my band, "That's so much cooler than the song I wrote," Swift told him as he poured himself a glass of red wine.

• Ashley Greene and boyfriend Joe Jonas were got touchy-feely during a night out at Voyeur in L.A. When they weren't holding hands, Greene would rub her beau's back at the club where they were celebrating Kellan Lutz's new movie, Meskada. Though Greene did mingle with other guests, she and Jonas stole kisses whenever possible.

NICKI MINAJ looks set to give Lady Gaga a run for her money. Not least because the Trinidadian hip-hop artist has, like Gaga, joined forces with MAC to create a limited edition MAC lipstick called Pink Friday (£12.50; www.maccosmetics.co.uk). Beyond the MAC connection, both Minaj and Lady Gaga share a penchant for statement-making fashion and equally eye-catching hair.

Both have been spotted sporting this year's bold hair colour trend: the dip-dye look, where just the ends of hair are dyed a significantly different colour to the rest.

SEE STYLISH DIP-DYE HAIR LOOKS

While Nicki favours a platinum blonde wig with an ever-evolving array of dip-dyed ends, Gaga teamed her infamous 'meat dress' with lilac roots and pastel blue ends at the MTV Awards. Other, less outlandish, celebrities have been favouring the dip-dye hair trend too - albeit in a more sedate fashion. Alexa Chung and Rachel Bilson have been among those working the subtler take on the trend - ombre colour, where the roots and mid-section of the hair is left dark brown and the ends are given a surfer-girl blonde colouring.

SEE THE DIP-DYE TREND IN ACTION HERE

http://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/fashion-trends/101203-dip-dye-ombre-hair-colour-trend.aspx

Designers' Sketchbooks

LIKE reading a teenager's diary, opening a fashion designer's sketchbook is sure to give you an uncensored insight in to the designer's mind - and senior Central Saint Martin's lecturer Hywel Davies' new book, Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks, does just that.

SEE INSIDE THE BOOK HERE

Davies goes inside the private fashion etchings of designers including John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Margaret Howell, Deryck Walker, Matthew Williamson, PPQ and Vivienne Westwood, to find out how they each approach the design process.

As well as sketchbooks, Davies collates photographs, mood boards, toiles and fabric swatches, to give an insight in to the design process. He also interviews designers from Alice Temperley and Dries Van Noten, to Richard Nicoll and Yohji Yamamoto.

SEE INSIDE THE DESIGNERS' SKETCHBOOKS

A Single Pirated Software License Was Used 775,000 Times In 200 Countries

Just how big a deal is software piracy? When security company Avast noticed that one of its paid-for licenses was being distributed illicitly online, they decided to track it.

A year and a half later, the downloads approached one million.

The license was first purchased by a 14-user firm in Arizona, according to PC Pro. From there, it landed on enough file sharing sites to top out at 774,651 users, spread over 200 countries. According to

Avast, two of the computers that installed the program were in Vatican City.
The plug's been pulled, though; Avast has started putting pop-up notices on machines with the illegally downloaded application that link to the free and paid versions. There have apparently been "some conversions," but the real value may come from the publicity the story's generating with posts like this one.

I just enjoy that the pirates went after a product called "Avast!" because of course they did. [PC Pro via Geekosystem]

http://gizmodo.com/5707655/a-single-pirated-software-license-was-used-775000-times-in-200-countries

X-Men Arcade Gets a Release Date

Konami has confirmed to IGN it will release X-Men Arcade for Xbox Live Arcade next week on Wednesday, Dec. 15. Pricing details have not been revealed.

The publisher was unable to comment when PlayStation Network will see the game, but we should know more soon.

This re-release of the popular 1992 arcade title includes four-player local, six-player online, and drop-in multiplayer support. X-Men Arcade will also have high-definition menus and online leaderboards.

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French library finds Leonardo da Vinci manuscript

A coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in a public library in the French city of Nantes.

The document was found after a journalist came across a reference to it in a Leonardo biography, the library said.

It was among 5,000 manuscripts donated by wealthy collector Pierre-Antoine Labouchere in 1872 and then forgotten.

The text is written from right to left in Leonardo's trademark mirror-writing and has yet to be deciphered.

"He was most probably writing in 15th-century Italian, and possibly in other languages," the head of the Nantes library, Agnes Marcetteau said.

The fragment of paper with brown scrawls is the second rare item uncovered in the Labouchere collection, after a score by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was found among the documents in 2008.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the most important artists and scientists of the Renaissance.

His masterpieces include the Mona Lisa painting, which is in the Louvre museum in Paris. He also designed the prototype for a flying machine with a rotating wing similar to today's helicopters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11936080

Gisele Plans to Continue Breeding

Happy news, everyone: Gisele wants more babies! She recently gushed about her son Benjamin and stepson Jack and how well they get along, prompting the public to just fathom the happiness more spawn would bring into her life.

"I want more kids for sure but I don't know when," Bundchen said. "Right now I have my hands full! I'm feeling very lucky. For Benjamin, his big brother is his hero. Jack comes in and Benjamin has a big smile. He wants to follow him around. Anything he does, he's just in awe of him like, 'Oh my God!'"

Yeah, because his parents — who shoot swimwear campaigns two months after giving birth and whose hair thinning is a topic of national intrigue — can just be so embarrassing sometimes.

Supermodel Stepmother [Vogue UK]