Today is the day we celebrate winning back the planet from the Alien attackers… I think. Was that a movie or from my history class in high school? i always get the 2 confused. 😉
Not really good for anything,
but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
So if you ever think to yourself… “everyone gets more sex then me”.. think again. I have searched the internet and found a group of guys who clearly get less sex then anyone who reads this LJ.
I present to you…
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It’s 2am, can’t sleep so I decide to catch up on some reading since I had fallen behind on my magazine’s while I have been working so much. I came across this article in MACWORLD titled “Napster’s Bad Math”. I was happy to see it addressed one of my biggest pet peeves. Now I don’t mind ads that may be slightly misleading, because well, it’s advertising, the goal of commercials and ads are to entice you to buy a product, so you have to at least try to make a product look at interesting as possible. Now when i first saw Napster’s “do the math” commercial during the Superbowl I was livid. Mainly because I felt it went well beyond the line of even misleading to just fraudulent. To sum it up, Napster claims it would cost you $10,000 to fill an ipod with music purchased on the itunes music store ($1 a song X 10,000 songs fit on an ipod), here as for $15 /month on Napster you could download enough songs to fill your ipod. To your average non technical user this probably sounds like a sweet deal. The fine print… it’s the classic rent vs own argument except at least with rent vs own, most consumers know where they stand. $5 to rent a DVD at Blockbuster versus $15 to buy a DVD, you’d get laughed out of marketing if you tried to put together a commercial stating that you get 3 times as many movies by going with Blockbuster over BestBuy. Now the marketing folks over at Napster are praying on the fact most consumers don’t realize what DRM stands for or even how it is used. The “bad math” comes intos play because with Napster, you may get all the songs you want for $15 a month but as soon as you stop paying, those songs don’t play anymore. You are merely “renting” them, where as when you purchase a song from the Itunes music store, it’s yours forever. Now I won’t get into the “well if i crack the DRM protection on Napster’s downloads then I can keep it, because that’s illegal, I am only comparing this from a legal and legitimate business analysis. Again, some people may like the “all you can eat” Napster style plan and now care about keeping the songs, other’s like myself may prefer to buy each song, either way, I am glad someone called them out on Napster’s misleading ad.
Link to MACWORLD article: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/02/napstersuperbowl/index.php
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‘Bling Bling’ Added To Oxford English Dictionary
04.30.2003 7:00 PM EDT
Term joins words like ‘jiggy,’ ‘dope’ and ‘phat’ in the definitions resource.
The next time you and your pals coin a slang term to describe your latest bejeweled accessories, don’t bet on keeping it exclusive. The linguistics “gangstas” over at the Oxford English Dictionary aren’t “new jacks” to the latest “def” lingo.
The venerable definitions resource has already added other hip-hop-turned-mainstream terms like “jiggy,” “breakbeat,” “dope” and “phat” to the online updates of the 20-volume dictionary, and now it has started drafting an entry for the latest OED-approved term, “bling bling.”
The term, which is used to describe diamonds, jewelry and all forms of showy style, was coined by New Orleans rap family Cash Money Millionaires back in the late ’90s and started gaining national awareness with a song titled “Bling Bling” by Cash Money artist BG.
The rapper, who is currently promoting his new album, Living Legend, told MTV News, “I’m so surprised that that word has spread like it has. But I knew it was serious when I saw that the NBA championship ring for the Los Angeles Lakers had the word ‘bling bling’ written in diamonds on it.”
And while BG once felt territorial about his much-loved term, he’s since opened his arms to the slang’s universal appeal.
” ‘Bling bling’ will never be forgotten,” he said. “So it’s like I will never be forgotten. I just wish that I’d trademarked it, so I’d never have to work again.”
Article Link: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1471629/20030430/bg.jhtml?headlines=true
http://www.livejournal.com/users/publius_ovidius/111672.html
(CNN) — Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected pleas to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo on Thursday, her parents again asked a federal judge in Florida to order the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube restored.
Bob and Mary Schindler are asking District Judge James Whittemore — the same judge who turned down their request for an injunction to keep their daughter alive earlier this week — to reconsider that decision.
Anti-abortion rights activist Randall Terry, who is acting as a spokesman for the Schindlers, said the new motion raises “evidentiary issues that were ignored in the first crack at federal court.”
Whittemore has scheduled a hearing on the matter for 6 p.m., and Terry said the Schindlers plan to attend.
After the Supreme Court rejection, a Florida judge denied three other legal requests from Schiavo’s parents.
Schiavo has been without food or water since Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer ordered her feeding tube removed Friday.
Thursday, Greer denied a petition of the state Department of Children and Families and Gov. Jeb Bush to take Schiavo into state custody.
He also denied a petition from the DCF to investigate allegations that Terri Schiavo’s husband, Michael, abused her.Such allegations have been considered and dismissed several times in the past, most recently last week in the Florida Supreme Court.
Greer also rejected an affidavit, submitted by Florida authorities, from a Florida doctor who argued that the brain-damaged woman was not in a persistent vegetative state.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals twice turned down a plea from the parents that would have allowed for a feeding tube to be reinserted Wednesday.
Referring to the high court decision, George Felos, an attorney for Michael Schiavo, said: “Mr. Schiavo and all of us are very grateful for the order of the United States Supreme Court this morning. We hope that that order will effectively end the litigation effort in this case.
“We believe it’s time for that to stop … and that Mrs. Schiavo be able to die in peace.”
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is responsible for emergency appeals from the 11th Circuit, signed the Supreme Court ruling.
The 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, Georgia, includes Florida, where Terri Schiavo lives in a hospice in Pinellas Park.
It was the fifth time the case has been presented to the Supreme Court, which has consistently refused to hear it.
On Friday, lawyers for the House of Representatives filed an appeal asking the justices to intervene in the case. The appeal was denied without comment.
Parents’ hope ‘dimming’
Thursday afternoon, the Schindlers visited their daughter at her hospice. Terry said Mary Schindler became “physically ill” during the visit and had to leave the hospital room.
“It appears every legal option has just been exhausted,” the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, spokesman for the Schindlers, said after Thursday’s Supreme Court decision. “Governor Bush is now the only practical hope here for Terri Schiavo. We plead with Governor Bush.”
Paul O’Donnell, a spiritual adviser for the Schindlers, said, “their hope is dimming.”
“They’re very disappointed,” he said. “They’re in shock. They can’t believe this is happening. They hope the governor is going to do something, but this is a severe blow when Terri’s life hangs in the balance.”
President Bush was described by aides as disappointed Thursday at the Supreme Court’s decision. Bush was informed of the court’s action while at his Texas ranch.
Aides in Washington said there are no plans to consider any additional federal intervention in the case.
Schiavo’s parents and her husband have been at odds over the woman’s care, and the battle has drawn in religious conservatives on the side of the Schindlers to fight Michael Schiavo’s efforts to let his wife die, as he says she wanted.
More than 20 state and federal court rulings have sided with Michael Schiavo. The courts have ruled that evidence shows Terri Schiavo expressed her wishes, although she did not have a written living will.
“It saddens me that we have to run to court and get court orders to protect Terri Schiavo from the abuse of the state of Florida,” Felos said Thursday. “The conduct of the executive branch of the state of Florida has been reprehensible.”
Greer in 2002 rejected arguments put forth by doctors chosen by Schiavo’s parents that she was not in a persistent vegetative state. Three other doctors — two chosen by Michael Schiavo and one chosen by the court — concluded she was in that state.
Wednesday night, Bob Schindler accused Greer of being “on a crusade” to kill Terri.
Legal maneuvers
Last weekend, President Bush signed a bill passed by Congress moving the Schiavo case from state to federal courts, and Monday, Whittemore refused to grant a temporary restraining order that would have allowed reinsertion of the woman’s feeding tube.
Terri Schiavo suffered profound brain damage in 1990, when her heart stopped temporarily, perhaps because of an eating disorder. Since then, she has received around-the-clock care.
In 1998, her husband petitioned to have her feeding tube removed. After court rulings, the tube was removed for two days in 2001 and six days in 2003.
In 2003, the Florida Legislature passed a bill that allowed Jeb Bush to order doctors to restore Schiavo’s feeding tube six days after it had been removed. The law was later declared unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court.
Since last Friday, Michael Schiavo has been at Terri Schiavo’s bedside, Felos has said.
Mary Schindler said Wednesday: “When I close my eyes at night, all I can see is Terri’s face in front of me, dying, starving to death.”
CNN’s Ted Barrett, Joe Johns, Bill Mears and John Zarrella contributed to this report.
Article Available at: http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/24/schiavo/index.html
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http://homepage.mac.com/pockyrevolution/nanaca_crash.html
For the people who asked. I created an LJ syndication for my infosec blog here
hot off the ./ presses….
“TiVo has inked a long-term deal with Comcast, America’s largest cable television operator, to develop a version of the TiVo service that will be offered to Comcast’s DVR subscribers. The deal calls for TiVo to adapt its software to work on Comcast’s existing DVR platform, and it allows TiVo to extend to Comcast subscribers the advertising it sells in the form of interactive video clips that automatically appear in the TiVo menu.” From the article: “The move will increase TiVo’s presence in American homes as it faces competition from generic DVRs offered directly by leading cable companies. Comcast Corp. expects to begin marketing the new DVRs, which will carry the TiVo brand, by mid- to late 2006.” News also available from MSNBC and the Official Tivo Site.
Stories here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/15/1748234&tid=129&tid=126
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/03/15/ap1884834.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7188940/
http://www.tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=246
Grid Game
The objective of the game is to get a chain reaction of tiles as long as possible.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/8666529/
Title: Huck (1995)
Created by: Kevin Blanchard
Description: A short film I made in high school. Filmed in one take at 2am the night before the project was due 🙂 You can blame the quality on the “state of the art” VHS-C camcorder it was recorded on. I present to you Huck Finn as performed by an all bear cast.
http://movies.kevinblanchard.com/
EDIT: If you find it amusing feel free to pass the link on to friends. Bandwidth isn’t an issue.
FBI says to look out for spam messages offering to locate loved ones, collect money for relief aid.
January 7, 2005: 3:36 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – It was only a matter of time before fraudsters saw fit to capitalize on the tsunami disaster that killed more than 150,000 people, and the FBI said Friday that time has come.
The bureau has received reports of Web sites that purportedly assist with collection and relief efforts to aid survivors of the natural disaster, but these sites really steal money from unsuspecting donors, spread computer viruses or steal personal information, an FBI statement said.
Complaints submitted to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which works in conjunction with the FBI, have identified several schemes including e-mails that offer, for a fee, to locate loved ones who may have been lost in the disaster.
Unsolicited e-mails requesting that money be deposited in overseas banks to support the tsunami relief effort have also been reported to the FBI, as well as SPAM messages that ask for personal or financial information in an effort to retrieve large amounts of inheritance funds tied up in relation to the tsunami.
A fraudulent relief donation Web site that, if accessed, can infect the user’s computer with a virus was also found, the FBI said.
Consistent with previous guidance on Internet scams, the FBI recommends:
— Do not respond to any unsolicited, spam e-mails.
— Be skeptical of individuals claiming to be surviving victims or foreign government officials asking for help in placing large sums of money in overseas bank accounts.
— To ensure that contributions to U.S. based non-profit organizations are used for intended purposes, go directly to recognized charities and aid organization Web sites, as opposed to following a link to another site.
— Be leery of e-mails that claim to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files, as the files may contain viruses. Only open attachments from know senders.
— Anyone who has received an e-mail like the above mentioned messages or anyone who may have been a victim of a similar incident of fraud should notify the IC3 via the Web site, www.ic3.gov.
Article Link: http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/07/technology/tsunami_scams/?cnn=yes
