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Michael Jackson: hitting the jackpot

2009-06-26T06:56:00.000-07:00

What's the use ? If there would be a 'Michael Jackson' company on the stock market, today it would climb on the top. After reading this news from Fox News, you should be definitely amazed.
How much money are being shared between so many unknown persons and a lot of these people are criticizing Michael Jackson for his suspicions related to pedophile relations. That is worse: to fill your pocket with money from a person's death, whom actually you are detesting. Take a look at some 'quotes':

The King of Pop held seven of the top 10 album downloads on Apple's iTunes store Friday morning, including the top five spots. In Amazon.com's CD section, the top 15 sellers were by Michael Jackson or the Jackson 5.

And that is only for some stores on the internet. What about all the news that surrounds the world and with them the ads ?!

Patrick Dempsey - the commercial product

2009-06-19T03:03:00.000-07:00

Patrick Dempsey is an interesting figure. Some people know him from the TV series 'Grey's Anatomy' and other people seen Versace's ads (see image below).
Now he is again in the front page of newspapers for his anticipated participation in the Le Mans race. I'm pretty sure that he will become a very expensive 'product'
for mass-media in the next period of time. Just think about the whole image: fast car + famous fashion brand + movie star. What does it makes ? A good commercial.

Hitman vs Pacman - the game

2009-05-05T05:54:00.000-07:00

Hitman vs Pacman. I like Pacquiao. 1 year ago he won against Juan Manuel Marquez For me, Pacquiao is a curious figure. He won very tight last year, he has a funny nickname "Pacman" as the game character that gives headache to our parents, but still is a very popular face. For me he is more like the joker from Batman. Speaking of games, the Pacman's opponent on 3rd of may, Ricky Hatton, was another legendary figure: "Hitman". In the game "Hitman" was a very cold blooded character who was killing without mercy. Now if you can't imagine the characters together, take a look down on this page and imagine them fighting.

Blizzard's 2009 April fools - WoW dance

2009-04-01T12:21:00.000-07:00

Here it is: prank or not, Blizzard's traditional April fools is the new WoW 'The act of jubilant self-expression through dancing' feature.
Not sure at all about it, but 'dance battle' ?! Common...
Check out the video.

...and a screen:

...and you might wanna check last year's Blizzard's April fool

Turing Test - people deny dating computers

2009-03-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

Such a weird thing is this 'Turing Test'... Named after Alan Turing, the inventor of the test that finds difference between human and computer (machine, as it was stated at the beginning), the Turing Test, is the headline on popular searches in the past few weeks. So far no computer have passed the test - which means that the people were not fooled by the computers. Ok, that is not surprising, but there are dating sites were people don't know that they actually are speaking with bots (I'm pretty sure that some of them are satisfied with that). Maybe the people who found out that they are talking with some "hot" computers, put these computers on the wall of shame. This is not a surprize too. I understand that the computers knows only what are told to know, but as long as people consider themselves "dumb" and acts so, then who are these people who says that the computers have failed the Turing Test. And the proof is those stupid warnings on packaging:

"Caution: The contents of this bottle should not be fed to fish." -- On a bottle of shampoo for dogs.

"Do not use while sleeping." -- On a hair dryer.

"Do not eat toner." -- On a toner cartridge for a laser printer.

"For use by trained personnel only." -- On a can of air freshener.

"Keep out of reach of children and teenagers." -- On a can of air freshener.

"Warning: has been found to cause cancer in laboratory mice." -- On a box of rat poison.

Thanks Alan Turing for making idiots look intelligent

Gilles Bensimon, suffering of marital disorder

2009-02-18T00:32:00.000-08:00

Today, the name on the web surfer's finger thumb is "Gilles Bensimon". "The Real Housewives of New York City", the TV series evaluated as a "crap" by the IMDB users, brings in a new person, Kelly Jean Killoren Bensimon, the third wife of the famous fashion fotographer Gilles Bensimon. Kelly is among others the founder of Elle Accessories and was a model also for Elle. The name of Gilles Bensimon is "hot" today because his name is also associated with another famous model, Elle Macpherson (his second wife). So, everybody wants to know who is this guy who was married with these top models.

Gilles Bensimon, the photographer, the genius of fashion, the man suffering of "marital disorder"

I would like to dedicate this article to one of my carpenters, who looks quite similar to Gilles Bensimon.

In the end I would like to suggest you a iGoogle gadget related to fashion, which you can find it below. Grab it if you like it

A heartbreak for two from Chelsy Devy

2009-01-30T00:18:00.001-08:00

Is kinda fun to be a sort of star without having something special, isn't it? There is this guy, Elliott Giboson, who got on newspapers and tv shows with his lookalike Prince Harry, catching the attention from all the people, but recently this wasn't fun anymore. Prince Harry ended his relation with Chelsy Davy and the people were sending consolations to him, so Elliott, although he didn't got a pie of Chelsy, he took his pie of kindness and consolations. I think that his life is like a shadow; when something bad happens to Harry, he takes consolations too, when Harry is happy, well, he's like usual.

These days he wasn't that happy as he declared:

"I was in London on the underground on Sunday and there was a group of 50 American teenagers heading up the opposite escalator from me. One of the girls saw me and shrieked 'It's Harry!' and another shouted 'Chelsy didn't deserve you!'. Before I knew it there was a stampede of young women coming down the wrong way down the escalator. They were coming at me full throttle - I'm sure they knocked down a person or two along their way."
Prince Harry and Elliott Gibson sharing a heartbreak

Eartha Kitt - Good bye Santa Baby

2008-12-30T00:01:00.000-08:00

old vinyl disc cover

What if you would know when you will die ? Let's say that you are a singer and you have a great hit called 'Santa Baby'. Soon after you have collected the awards, the applauses and the money, you find out that you will die on the Christmas day. Isn't this weird ?
How will be to sing every year for hundreds of times the song about the day when you will die ?! Is true that in the case of Eartha Kitt it wasn't so, but still is a fantastic coincidence. This year Santa came with surprises to Kitt. Santa had a hidden hatchet in his bag.
Probably Santa came each year with a bag full of surprises to Eartha, but this year he had enough. Or maybe he sent her in a better place...
Don't you feel a bitter taste after reading these nice lyrics of 'Santa Baby' and knowing that Eartha Kitt died on the Christmas Day?! (scroll down to watch an old video recording with this song)

Santa Baby, slip a sable under the tree, For me.
been an awful good girl, Santa baby,
so hurry down the chimney tonight.

Santa baby, a 54 convertible too,
Light blue.
I'll wait up for you dear,
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight.

Think of all the fun I've missed,
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed,
Next year I could be just as good,
If you'll check off my Christmas list,

Santa baby, I wanna yacht,
And really that's not a lot,
Been an angel all year,
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight.

Santa honey, there's one thing I really do need,
The deed
To a platinum mine,
Santa honey, so hurry down the chimney tonight.

Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex,
And checks.
Sign your 'X' on the line,
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight.

Come and trim my Christmas tree,
With some decorations bought at Tiffany's,
I really do believe in you,
Let's see if you believe in me,

Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing,
A ring.
I don't mean on the phone,
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight,
Hurry down the chimney tonight,
Hurry, tonight.

Porque tan serio ?

2008-12-23T02:46:00.000-08:00

wanna be a hero ?

While thinking at Tina Fey's scar, I remembered about Heath Ledger's fantastic act in Dark Knight, in the joker's role and his explanation for his scars. I'm not fooled easily by movie scenes, but he got me bad. At his first statement I was convinced about his scars, but after seing the second statement I felt like I was one of his victims.
In one month from now will take place '2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards' and Heath Ledger is nominated for 'Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role'. I didn't even bother to check who can defeat him, but who will be defeated: Josh Brolin for Milk, Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder, Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt and Dev Patel for Slumdog Millionaire. Why will Heath Leger win ? Because he made history in movies with his act in 'Dark Knight' and because the awards are taking place at one year from Ledger's death.
In the above photo you can see Che Guevara saying 'Porque tan serio', which in english means, as you probably guessed, 'Why so serious', the line that stepped into history just like Godfather's famous scenes. I'm sure that Heath Ledger did not intend to become a hero, but the events made him the role-model of our generation. He died right after finishing a succesful movie and he couldn't taste the victory; that is drama and is real. So now you understand the smile from Che Guevara's face. Actually 'Heath Ledger' was searched 7 times more than 'Che Guevara' on the internet in 2008 (according to google trends).
In the video below you can see the scene where Heaath Ledger is filmed so close, that you can see every move of his eyebrow and his tongue in details. Such scenes are rare these days, because the actor or the actress must perform very well in order to be filmed that close.

Tina Fey's scar

2008-12-08T12:19:00.000-08:00

Tina Fey's famous scar

ABC's host Barbara Walters had revealed her '10 Most Fascinating People' list a few days ago. Among those fascinating people we find Tina Fey, a strong woman, which will be the cover for the Vanity Fair magazine in 2009 January issue. She got famous for her career, but it was interesting how she succeeded to pass over her cheek's scar and still have the front page of the newspapers, magazines and tv channels. On VF she is titled as 'American Sweetheart'. I agree that she struggled a lot, but let's not to exaggerate. Is like putting a lion on the list of the most beautiful kitties of the year or something. The mystery of her scar will stay hidden for a while. She was quoted in New York Times as saying:

It's a childhood injury that was kind of grim. And it kind of bums my parents out for me to talk about it

but in Vanity Fair in the interview, Jeff Richmond said something different,

It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.

This subject is a big buzz these days and it seems that the truth won't come out soon. The rest of Barbara's Fascinating People list contains other big names as Sarah Palin,Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Miley Cyrus, Frank Langella, Michael Phelps, Rush Limbaugh, the transgendered man who is pregnant again, Thomas Beatie and the winner, Barack Obama.Below is the playlist of the interviews with these people (excepting Thomas Beatie)

My life is fantastic

2008-11-23T01:58:00.000-08:00

'My life was fantastic' or 'My life is fantastic' are sentences that are surprising for most of us. For example I haven't meet people who could say this about their lives. These two sentences are reserved just for a few people. To explain this concept I take as an example the lives of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of the Google corporation. They were computer geeks who managed to have fun, get famous and rich. They were doing what they liked without concerning the next day, although they probably had lots of plans. And I bet that they are still pulling a screwdriver in computers in a while. I came to this idea of 'My life was fantastic' thinking at their plans to retire. I was thinking at what will they say when they will retire from Google. I will explain in a few lines why Google founders, in this case, are different to other people.
This is the article number 100 of this blog and I tried to write something anniversary related to what I wrote so far and was found most interesting by the readers. Looking at Google Analytics, I found that in about 9 months, the most visited pages and searched terms were related to 'Campbell Brown pregnancy','Jonas Brothers pictures' and probably the most viral subject, 'Miley Cyrus's bra'. When I wrote those articles I had no intentions to talk about my thoughts at that moment, but about the most rising searched terms on the internet at that time.
I was intrigued to see such interest in some subjects that I find with low consistency in a long time period, but I was wrong; these subjects were persistent over all this time and still are. Now, I am asking my self, is it possible that a person who is searching these terms on internet to say 'My life was fantastic'? The terms that people are searching on the internet gives different results to the above question.
After all these questions I think that when you ask yourself if your life is, or was fantastic, you will know if you wasted lots of years on watching others people's life instead of your own. Or at least if you are doing something to make your life fantastic, or if you are expecting from others to make your life fantastic. Having a great life depends on yourself, just like having a job to survive.
But there is hope: say 'My life is fantastic' and you will know at least what are you doing wrong and what you have to do to make you life more interesting. When you wake up in the morning and look at the plans for that day, be sure to ask yourself 'What is fantastic in all these plans?'

LA Auto Shows auto bailout

2008-11-20T13:32:00.000-08:00

Old cars are not ready to be forgotten.

The lucky ones are those who are sentimentally about their first or old car. Car producers were quite not in the mood of joking at the press conference and this because the financial bailout is extending on every corner. The crisis is expanding like a cancer; the strongest point of the society was the real estate or people's homes on short. The house is probably the most valuable property of a person. Next, is the car. Now, some people thinks that a car means luxury. Some people believe that the retro style is not that bad and their old car needs just a wash and some repairs. The price of oil was falling the past few months as an announcement of the auto bailout. Is just too expensive to buy a car and spend so much on gasoline.
So, who kept his old car in the garage, now is time to show it to the world. Unfortunately, there are lots of people who suffer after this so called "auto bailout". Don't cry for investors who will lose a few $millions, but for the poor people who are losing their jobs. For some of them is not that bad; some companies intend to offer their employees the possibility to start a business. At the show, the car producers had some nice new models, but...

Associated Press report from LA

Noir Desir - Le vent nous portera ?

2008-11-18T08:50:00.000-08:00

The french rock band 'Noir Desir' (the name seems predestined and you will find out why) have posted two new songs on their website available for download (somewhere on this page you can find a embeddable widget where you can listen these songs). The band have a long time activity so it shouldn't be in the top searches on the internet these days without a serious reason. Bertrand Cantat (2nd from left to right in the picture above), have killed his girlfriend 5 years ago in a Lithuanian hotel. He was sentenced at 8 years of prison, but he was released after spending just half of sentence for 'good behavior'. Probably he sang in the jail and composed these two songs. Although I think that Noir Desir have a few nice songs, I wonder how does Bertrand expects to be accepted by the public. It is ridiculous. Below on the page there is a nice song called "Le vent nous portera", (in English "The wind will carry us") and the title makes me think that Bertrand hopes that his past will be carried away from our memory. Maybe people will remember this way how an young actress have been taken away from her life. That's why the band's name sounds predestined: 'Noir Desir' (in english 'Dark Desire'). A tipical french story: a bit sweet and a bit bitter. And a nice line from this song:

Ce parfum de nos années mortes

which translated to english means 'this perfume of our years died'. I wonder, have people forgotten?!

Noir Desir - Le vent nous portera

Google Flu Trends - get a quote

2008-11-13T11:56:00.000-08:00

Google has released these days "Google Flu Trends", a service which is supposed to keep people informed about the spread of the flu (just US for the moment). This release improves Google Health programs and probably is a good idea and Google will take a new award for this from the public. They look now like they want to be friends with everybody. About the accuracy of the data, this is a different story. They say on their site:

We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity.

I wonder which search terms are they talking about. For the moment these search terms are influenced for sure about the news that they've launched this service. Another thing that can compromise this service is the manipulation of data. Let's say that a farmaceutical company launch a product which treats coughing and they start a online free promotional distribution of this product just in, let's say, Alaska state. People will start search the internet for this opportunity of getting something free, either is useful for them or not; they just want the damn free stuff. That is a way to compromise the data. People will not go in vacation in Alaska because there is flu, isn't it ?

Here is an interesting video released by CBS on their Youtube page:

Now, I can't retain from saying what inspired me to chose the picture for this article; the man from the picture is a english singer, Simon Indelicate . This picture was taken probably during a live performance, but he looks so affected by the flu...Actually, all english people (and rednecks too) have a red in their cheeks, so the Google Flu Trends should be aware of this situation.

Starbucks free coffee - just vote

2008-11-08T03:02:00.000-08:00

Nice video ad from Starbucks. Elections are a good moment to make a company remarked and Starbucks put the coffee on the tables to get on the front news. Free coffee !!! Yam Yam ! As all the most of people appreciated the intentions of Starbucks to get people out of their homes for voting, the purpose of the elections have fade out somehow for many. I was looking at what were people searching these days and here is what I've discovered: an incredible breakout search quantity for Free Starbucks coffee. These searching was hand by hand with election results.
Now, what are all these people when they are looking at the Starbucks ad?! The free coffee or an encouragement to go to vote?! I'm sure that most of the people interprets each ad as he or she is interested. Some people thinks when is the best moment when to go to Starbucks... before or after voting...Or 'who will know that I didn't vote?'. And a better idea: 'I take one of that creamy hazelnut coffee when I leave and one when I come back. Oh, wait! I'll search the internet to see what other free stuff I can get; maybe there is beer too'.
This idea of giving free coffee to people reminds me of that Seinfeld episode when Kramer won free coffee for life. And that is how I see people who were voting for a coffee.
The ad unfortunately for them, was breaking some laws, although it had good intentions.
Also, Starbucks sent an e-mail to Starbucks card owners saying:

What if we all cared enough to vote?

Martin Luther King Jr. - Free At Last

2008-11-05T13:00:00.000-08:00

Now, indeed Martin Luther Kink Jr. is really free and is probably resting in peace. Have past 45 years from his famous speech. His words were engraved on his grave as a symbol of his fights and efforts, but now, really, those words are as true as a clear sky. If Obama will be a good leader for America or not, that is something that future will show us, but the past is already sealed: FREEDOM for black people, RIGHTS for all races that live in America and one more thing - United States. All these could be spelled with a single name: Barack Obama. 4th november 2008 is the day that will remain in history as the day when the last proof that America is a great democracy have been stamped.
Obama is for America a fulfilled dream, the hope and a new beginning and the end of a shame. For other countries he could bring a better taste than dust to the world. I'll end this idea as it started, with the words of Martin Luther King Jr. and a short collection of a few great speeches.

Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Campbell Brown pregnant - second child will be named...

2008-10-30T11:10:00.000-07:00

...anything else but not 'Sarah' (from Sarah Palin), 'Bristol' (from Bristol Palin), 'John' (from John McCain) or 'Tucker' (from Tucker Bounds).
Finally, the gossip was confirmed officially by Campbell Brown itself. Is amazing how much digging on this subject was on the internet in the past couple of weeks. Probably because of the scandal related to Sarah Palin's daughter. Well, what can we say about Campbell Brown now ?! That she is an example to Bristol Palin ?! Campbell is 38 years old and she is at the second pregnancy in less than a year , while Bristol is at first pregnancy and is 17 years old. We asume that Campbell thinks that a woman (not a girl) should have a professional background before having kids. I know that Campbell was hitting Sarah politic about abstinence-only sex education, but did she thinked if it worths her attack a bit ?! People should be aware that the child that Bristol is carrying now will be known as a 'frustration' to a electoral campaign and nothing else. Is Campbell's child better than Bristol's one?!
Kids are innocent Campbell, don't hit'em before they even born (because they will hit you back later) !
Anyway, here is her statement from tv:

I'm pregnant! We just came out of the closet, so I'm happy to share the news .

Jennifer Hudson's tragedy

2008-10-27T12:57:00.000-07:00

After a hard week when her family was butchered, Jeniffer Hudson has send to the public a reward for finding her nephew,Julian King of $126.000, in a desperate fight to have a close soul familiar to her. Sadly, it looks like her nephew was found dead in a SUV. Although that is not confirmed, is possible that this almost last member of her family to be dead. Quoting ABC:

Police issued an Amber Alert Friday for Julian and were looking for a 1994 white Chevrolet Suburban. An Illinois State Police spokesman confirmed to ABC News that the Amber Alert had been canceled, but declined to comment further on the investigation. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office and Chicago Police Department were investigating a white SUV on the city's west side today. Television footage showed police vehicles escorting a flatbed tow truck as it removed the SUV from the scene. Police refused to comment.

Below are the two videos, first about the reward and second the announcement of the body found.

Jennifer Hudson reward $100.000

Jennifer's newphew body found

October end, November 1st

2008-10-27T12:55:00.000-07:00

2008 October ends with bad news. Public faces being killed, or did committed bad things. Head of the news is Anne Pressly (on the right), who was found in a blood bath (Shelley Malil's kind of style) almost one week ago. She died a few days later while she was hospitalized. From Associated Press we have the brief news about this.

Something went wrong maybe at the party where she was before the attack. It seems that she've been followed till home, because she had time to write on her Facebook wall how happy she was because her friends appreciated her small role in the movie W. She was working for the Arkansas television KATV.
On the same line, we find Skylar DeLeon, who was found guilty for murder same day when Anne Pressly was attacked. He killed three people, two tide by an anchor and thrown off their yacht, and in another murder a 45 years old man. Although he looks quite sad in the photo, that's mostly because he is afraid of the punishment he we get. He was popular as a child when starring in "Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers". As the show's name says, he was powerful as an adult, but in the wrong way.

With these news we end October unfortunately. Anyway, November begins in force with interesting things. On SNL (Sunday Night Live), November 1st, there are rumors that Barack Obama will take part in the last day of the election campaign. Obviously he will bring his best weapons to this show. SNL prepares a great show for this weekend as they've invited David Cook, the American Idol winner, who will sing (for Obama - that is funny). Probably the show will be opened by Cook, just to leave our brains fresh with Obama's speech.
Below is a performance of David Cook in American Idol show

Also on November 1st will be launched the first Venezuelan communication satellite, called 'Simon Bolivar'. Let's hope that it will be launched without problems.

It doesn't look too fancy, but what the heck?! It will be out of space and nobody will see it. Cheers to Venezuela !

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008

2008-10-21T12:55:00.000-07:00

This year, the Nobel Prize for literature was sent to the world through Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, who was born in Nice and has lived in England, New Mexico and South Korea. Le Clezio wrote several adventure novels. Obviously his inspiration was his experience which brought him on most of the continents. But with all these countless journeys he didn't got tired of writing. He become famous at 23 years (in1963) old when he published "Le Proces-Verbal" (eng. The Interrogation). This novel brought him Prix Renaudot. Le Clezio was also inspired by other great novelist and publicist, Romain Roland. With this award, Le Clezio's figure will stand on the same bookshelf with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. After all these adventures, he became a living legend. Below is the moment when he was awarded

'How to kiss' - the top 5 ways to learn

2008-10-17T13:27:00.000-07:00

This is a comprehensive list of resources for leaning to kiss. Let's begin:

(1)Facebook tip: Great Breath - This is very important. Make sure you brush your teeth before going out on your date. There is nothing worse than kissing someone with bad breath.

(2)Myspace:

How To Kiss Like Angelina Jolie

(3)Youtube:

(4)Yahoo!Answers:Start kissing him on the neck when you are cuddling watching a movie. If it is your first kiss hold his head when you go for your kiss on the lips. Go slow and soft (dental work is expensive).

(5)Ask McCain because an ex-girlfriend from his youth said:

He was a great kisser. I liked it so much that I bought a book to learn how to kiss.

Wondering what is all this about 'how to kiss'? Well, According to Google Insight in the past month it was a rising search in the online communities of this subject. Strange, isn't it ?!

Beyonce - I Am... (who?)

2008-10-16T06:44:00.000-07:00

On November 18th, Beyonce (Giselle Knowles) will launch her third solo album, called 'I Am...'. In the past few days she had the front pages of the newspapers, taking part in lots of actions like fund raising for Ike's victims (Ike is the hurricane) and filming for MTV's 'TRL'. We can say that 'is that time of the year' for Beyonce. She must take part in lots of actions and must be friendly with the journalists now.
As for the album, 'I Am...' she released two singles, 'Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)' and 'If I Were A Boy'. From this titles, the change of look, the lyrics comes the question 'who are you Beyonce?'. Let's face it: if you have a song called 'Single Ladies' is not a problem, but if another song is called 'If I Were A boy' then something is putrid in Denmark (that said Shakespeare, not me). What we have to understand from all of this ?! She is not sure of her personality ?! And now the lyrics:

All the single ladies (7x) Now put your hands up
Up in the club, we just broke up
I’m doing my own little thing
Decided to dip but now you wanna trip
Cuz another brother noticed me
I’m up on him, he up on me
dont pay him any attention
cried my tears, for three good years
Ya can’t be mad at me

[Chorus]
Cuz if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don’t be mad once you see that want it
If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it

(Chorus)
I got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips
Got me tighter than my Dereon jeans
acting up, drink in my cup
I could care less what you think
I need no permission, did I mention
Dont pay him any attention
Cuz you had your turn
But now you gonna learn
What it really feels like to miss me

(Chorus)

Don’t treat me to the things of this world
I’m not that kind of girl
Your love is what I prefer, what I deserve
He’s a man that makes me then takes me
And delivers me to a destiny, to infinity and beyond
Pull me into your arms
Say I’m the one you own
If you don’t, you’ll be alone
And like a ghost I’ll be gone

All the single ladies (7x)
Now put your hands up

(Chorus)

All my single ladies throw your hands in the air
All my single ladies throw your hands in the air

Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that

Here we go again, check on your man
Fast as we can, we got an evil plan
If you can't follow me, get out the game
Call for backup as soon as you hear my name!

Hook:
It's time to get nasty
Look at me, I'm fabulously sexy
Front of the line, VIP
We're celebrity

Chorus:
You got me feeling nasty baby
It's kinda hot but it's so damn crazy
It feels so good to be a single lady, baby
Don't be afraid to explore my body
Take off your clothes, get naughty
Let's funk away this party

Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that

Don't know where I left my cell phone
I mean, this song really turns me on
We could be jamming all night long
The vibe is coming over me so strong
I'm feeling we've just begun
Let me help you put it on

Repeat Chorus

T-Pain:
TP and B-E-E
Sure u aint ready to party with the wife of Jay Z
She pretend to be a single lady
So she can ride with me
I came in to check on her
But I keep looking at shorty
she so hot that I wish she was my beyonce
... Nappy boy in love with baby bee

All my single ladies throw your hands
All my single ladies throw your hands
All my single ladies theow your hands up
In the air!

Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that

Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that

Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it
Do it, do it, do it like that

Although there are lots of words, the song is not that long. Beyonce didn't want to share with us the videos, instead she posted on her youtube profile.

Twilight

2008-10-14T22:53:00.000-07:00

Why have to bother to make five movies, each for a different movie genre ?! Let's make one which has ...romance, horror, action and what else...? Yep is missing the comedy part. Enough with the sarcasm. On 21st of October (according to date on the poster) will be launched "Twilight" - a movie which is highly anticipated as long as Batman, Superman, Catwoman and other superhero movies have been already on the cinemas lately. Also, the movie is announced for 15th of January according to IMDB. From IMDB we got the plot:

Bella Swan is a clumsy, kind hearted teenager with a knack for getting into trouble. Edward Cullen is an intelligent, good looking vampire who is trying to hide his secret. Against all odds, the two fall in love but will a pack of blood thirsty trackers, an old pact between a certain pack of werewolves and the disapproval of their family and friends separate them?
Source:IMDB summary

The plot easily reminds us of other similar successful stories like "Romeo and Juliet", "Dracula" or other 20 movies. Anyway, it should be interesting. AS you can see in the trailer below, the vampires from "Twilight" have different forces than the usual vampires. Let's hope that they can change into crows too.

Financial bailout or else...

2008-10-03T14:13:00.000-07:00

'Financial bailout'. That is on every American's (and not only) lips these days. 'Is bailout, man !' - you can hear at every corner, either is a child, old lady or lawyer. That reminds me about 1929 financial crash. But then people were starving and were so poor that they could work for a week for a piece of bread. At that time there was no difference between people as rich and poor; now it is. We see every day scandals like Sarah Palin's long story, or is enough to imagine how much costs an election campaign. If in other election campaigns the costs were supported by the army/oil/Bush , maybe the politics have changed, and here it is what might be considered a good source for funding a campaign:
The Bush's team announced the plan for financial recovery offering $700 billion. The Congress have rejected the plan. The stock market have dropped fast. Then, Bush's team have proposed a new plan for financial recovery, which was approved a few days later. Am I missing something from this row of events ?! What would you do if you would know that today the stock market will fall today ? You would sell. Then what would do someone who would know that the stock market will be up again ? Will buy your cheap shares and then sell it back when will become expensive again.
On short - this is the way that an election campaign is now funded: buy a few billion shares at half of the price and then sell it double (that was the actual proportions of government help). Anyway, is better than a war 'on terrorism'. You can even see in the eyes of the Bush's team members that they feel that their lie might not work, or they are thinking for themselves "what am I saying here ?!"

Paul Newman - just one way

2008-10-01T11:24:00.000-07:00

No matter what we do in our lives, there is nothing to keep us alive. Paul Newman died on 26th of September 2008 (a day which I will remember it in the future just like the day when Curt Cobain died) and will not come back. He was 'Cool hand Luke' and still was defeated by death. He did eat 50 eggs in vain and he fought against his destiny just to live his last seconds of life not kneeling. He will be forgotten by future generations, his movies will be just archeological pieces of cinematography and his personal life or his life will be completely forgotten. After his death, he was compared by people with the character 'Luke' from 'Cool hand Luke'. For many of us, Paul is 'Cool hand Luke', because that character gave us hope and we don't want to let it die. Paul Newman lived his life not for fame (although he had enough), but for himself. What to say about him ?! He is history now; he was history even when he was alive, a legend among our daily habits. What describes he the best might be the quote below from 'Cool hand Luke', because that movie was something that makes you say "I done that and I won my eternity, that was my way to eternity":

Dragline: Get in here. Ain't ya scared? Ain't ya scared of dyin'?
Luke: Dyin'? Boy, he can have this little life any time he wants to. Do ya hear that? Are ya hearin' it? Come on. You're welcome to it, ol' timer. Let me know you're up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it.
Source:IMDB

So long Paul Newman, the world will miss you !

Large Hadron Collider - Circus

2008-09-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

Yep, there is nobody at CERN's office. Is weekend, isn't for all ?! Those engineers get famous even by not doing anything. Maybe that's the reason for being hacked, because they look smart and when someone is smart, there will always be someone who will try to be smarter. Maybe 'The Greek Security Team' thought that they are smarter. They managed to mess up the LHC website, displaying warnings and other things which would make the site's administrator to be ashamed, but after all the world have found about it, who cares ?! As long as their damn little particle goes with the lightspeed, the website can go to funny jokes.
Seriously now, there is a side effect on this story; for sure some people (and journalists also) will understand that a hacker team have the Large Hadron Collider in their hands and will do something wrong with the blackholes.
In this endless story about CERN, LHC and particle collision there is something that has to be over all the news and we still didn't found it. It might be a preparation for something big, such as the actual test, set for 21st of october when the particles are set to collide, or for the worst nightmare of the mankind - the blackhole which was found in the center of our galaxy exactly ten years ago, and I will quote Science Daily:

In 1995, using the Keck I Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Ghez began tracking the movement of 200 stars near the galactic center. She found at least 20 stars that exhibited the telling signs of influence by extreme gravitational forces. These stars are spiraling around the black hole at speeds of up to three million miles per hour-about 10 times the speed at which stars typically move. In order to account for the rapid speeds of these stars, Ghez determined that an object 2.6 million times more massive than our Sun must be concentrated into a single black hole.
Source:Science Daily

When you hear something like that, the center of the galaxy looks very close. We will see what is all about soon I think.

What is this experiment about.

Campbell Brown - the one without dirty secrets

2008-09-12T06:17:00.000-07:00

Lately, there were lots of speculations on Campbell Brown from CNN and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election. In a live transmission interview, Campbell asked McCain's spokesman to explain why is Palin's daughter pregnant. Not so directly, but why she had to ask this?! There were lots of commentaries on this subject about both, Campbell and Palin, but from all I liked one from Wall Street Journal, which at a point says:

Campbell Brown of CNN did nothing wrong for instance in pressing a campaign spokesman on Palin's foreign policy credentials. She was unjustly criticized for following an appropriate and necessary line of inquiry. But endless front page stories connected to Mrs. Palin's 17-year-old daughter? Cable news shows that had people insinuating Palin, whom America had not yet even met, was a bad mother, and that used her daughter's circumstances to examine Republican views on abstinence education? That was ugly.
Source:Wall Street Journal

I just don't get it, what were them talking about, politics, personal life or it was a court session ?! Is correct to have a dirty election run, but what this have to do with the media,journalism or the news. If Palin's daughter is pregnant, then so be it, but don't take her into mud or turn an election run into a circus. Every person have a dirty secret and should stay so - secret. What is wrong of being pregnant so early ?! To have a 45 years old grandmother?
Now I'm thinking to this so called "firestorm" started by Campbell. It looks like a classic 'no-heart' media tale. And when I thought that journalists are tired of this attitude. Anyway, below is the video that blew the talk shows in America these days.

Kanye West - Love lockdown

2008-09-08T23:03:00.000-07:00

Kanye West hits MTV's VMA with 'Love Lockdown' and people are just mad these days searching on the internet for anything related to Kanye. So I've gathered a few resources to check him. He have a 'huh' blog, a myspace page. Below is the Kanye West - Love lockdown video and lyrics.

Im not lovin you, the way I wanted to

What I had to do, had to run from you

Im in love with you, but the vibe is wrong

And that haunted me, all the way home

So ya never know, never never know

Never know enough, til its over love

Til we lose control, system overload

Screamin no no no, no no

I aint lovin you, the way I wanted to

See I wanna move, but cant escape from you

So I keep it low, keep a secret code

So everybody else dont have to know

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

You keep ya love locked down, you lose

Im not lovin you, the way I wanted to

I cant keep my cool, so I keep it true

I got somethin to lose, so I gotta move

I cant keep myself, and still keep you too

So I keep in mind, when Im on my own

Somewhere far from home, In the danger zone

How many times did it take til I finally got through

you lose, you lose

I aint lovin you, the way I wanted to

See I had to go, see I had to go

No more wastein time, we cant wait for life

which is wastin time, wheres the finish line

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

You keep ya love locked down, you lose

Im not lovin you, the way i wanted to

I met no one new, I got no one new

No I said im through, but got love for you

But im not lovin you, the way I wanted to

Gotta keep it goin, keep the lovin goin

Keep it on a roll, only god knows

Am I into you, baby im confused

You choose, you choose

I aint lovin you, the way I wanted to

Way I got to go, I dont need you

I been on this road, too many times before

I aint lovin you, the way I wanted to

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

Keepin ya love locked down, ya love locked down

Keepin ya love locked down, ya love locked down

Keepin ya love locked down, you lose

So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

Keepin ya love locked down, ya love locked down

If you keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down

Keepin ya love locked down, you lose

ICNA - Moonsighting

2008-08-31T22:50:00.000-07:00

It might be a surprise for people who belong to other religion than Islamic, but ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) is involving in society and humanitarian problems as any other people. That's a good thing to know, but the reason why ICNA is on the top searches on Google is because of one of their announcements:

In the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful In consultation with national Islamic organizations and local hilaal committees it has been determined that the moon was not sighted on the night of (August 31/Shaban 29) (based on the local sighting of the moon). Ramadan will begin on Tuesday September 2.
Source:Islamic Circle of North America

The controversy is the beginning of the Ramadan, as you can read below:

Inevitabley, every year the Muslims (at least those of us in the West) fall into debating and confusion about the beginning of Ramadan.
.....
In recent years before Ramadan, Muslims in different states are in confusion on whether they should go by the Moon sighting or by using astronomical calculations.
Source:A Glimpse Into The Life of A Muslimah

So, as you see the Muslims have this debate before Ramadan each year.

Marriage in different centuries

2008-08-25T22:59:00.000-07:00

Love doesn't change in time, the only thing that changes is the reason why people get married. More traditionalist families had alliances instead of marriages and that happen only in royal niche of society. Above is the picture of The Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg and Prince Eitel Frederick, a couple which got married about one hundred years ago. An excerpt from a New York Times said at that time:

BERLIN, Feb. 27. -- The Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, daughter of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Prince Eitel Frederick, the second son of the Emperor, were married this afternoon in the chapel of the palace by the Court Chaplain, Dr. Dryander. The 500 persons present included members of the royal families of Germany, the Cabinet Ministers, and a number of Generals and Admirals. Ambassador and Mrs. Tower were present in the diplomatic circle.
Source:New York Times Archive

These days we are witness to a 'love statement' of Michelle Obama that surrounds the news. I'm not impressed about it, but is nice to see these two couples at one hundred years distance. Below is Michelle Obama preparing for speech:

Tom Cruise

2008-08-21T08:05:00.000-07:00

No, is not Santa Cruise on the left ! Is that guy...what was his name...Tom, Tom Cruise. Maybe you think that Tom looks funny bald, fat and with a big belly, but actually this might be his look in 10-15 maybe 20 years from now. Tom Cruise claims that the leaked images of him being fat will be the sentence to something for the one who showed the world his future... But seriously, this is just another marketing move. He have an insignificant role in 'Tropic Thunder' and he uses this images to direct people's attention to this movie.
And I was thinking that a successful movie must have beautiful characters... Anyway, on the second image of Tom is a photo taken for the 'Valkyrie' movie, a highly anticipated war-and-Christmas movie (is set to be released on 26th of December this year). Below is the plot and the trailer for this movie.

At the height of WW2, a group of high-ranking German officers hatched a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and seize power of the military command in order to end the war. The operation was codenamed "Valkyrie", for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. This plan had been modified by the conspirators to ensure their success, but for various reasons the plot failed when finally carried out on 20 July 1944. The conspirators of the inner circle were shot after a kangaroo trial or sentenced to death soon after.
Source:IMDB

This is the Tom Cruise that we know and as a funny thing, I've found one of his quotes:

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
by: Tom Cruise

Blood with gunpowder taste

2008-08-15T01:35:00.000-07:00

No matter the reason of this war, from Georgia (located at southern Russian border),the fact is that it caused casualties among journalists, human rights fighters, soldiers, but most important, people like most of us, simple civilians. Who is right and who is wrong in this fight? Georgia is an independent state, so Russia is there for what?! This war follows the pattern 'I do this and you stay out of my business'.

Where did we see this before ? I remember the yelling to Bush's so called 'anti terrorism war', when Russia closed its eyes to this. It was US run for oil and then Putin was drunk with oil flavored whiskey. Then we could hear only lamenting and ferocious comments from Russia, told by a drunk man, Putin.

It's the turn of Russia to share a glass of oil flavored vodka with US. Of course there is lamenting and ferocious comments from the United States and many countries, but who can do more than this ?! Can you send troops there ? This would mean war and we don't want that. But getting all the small wars together don't we get a big war ?! The purpose is not to involve directly into war more powerful armies and this even with accepting lots of civilian casualties.

One more question, why now? Because most of the people are in holiday now and because of this. And when you come back from that page don't say you aren't revolted and you don't feel fooled.

Below is the video of the georgian journalist Tamara Urushadze, who was shot while being reporting live.

Shelley Malil

2008-08-13T05:54:00.000-07:00

Shelley Malil, is 42 years old and is not virgin, but he has some serious sexual problems perhaps. He is known as the partner of the main character of the '40 years old virgin' movie and yesterday he stubbed for more than 20 times his girlfriend. Why would he do something like that ?! That is the question that the trial will answer. He can go to jail for life and his bail is set to 2 million $.
He is known as a comic actor, but this time he wasn't funny at all and for that he will pay. He could do like others, but he chose the weapon way. That's all folks. Here is a brief from AP

Authorities confirmed the victim's identity as Kendra Beebe. According to her Facebook page, she is a 35-year-old mother of two who works as an insurance broker in Carlsbad, a coastal suburb. She was listed in critical condition Monday, according to the San Diego Sheriff's Department. Spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said Tuesday she had no update on Beebe's condition.
Source:Associated Press

My Best Friend's Girl

2008-08-12T04:36:00.000-07:00

Looks like this autumn we gonna laugh ! :D At least that's what "My Best Friend's Girl" promises. Starring Dane Cook, Kate Hudson (photo above), Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin and Lizzy Caplan, the movie looks very good for taking your partner to a date. Here is the plot:

A master at seducing – and offending – women, Tank is a professional "My Best Friend's Girl." When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives – an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank's best friend, Dustin, is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out... and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend's girl.
Source:ComingSoon.net

Below is the trailer for 'My Best Friend's Girl'

Perseid Meteor Shower

2008-08-12T03:51:00.000-07:00

Perseid Meteor Shower is about to "wash" the whole earth in a few days. As the VietNamNet says, is the nicest meteor shower of the year. VietNamNet come with a new photo of this year's meteor shower, which you can see on the right. The nice thing about natural wonders is that each time it happen, we have the chance to see new unbelievable images. Below is a excerpt from VietNamNet, which share the Vietnam's experience of the Perseid Meteor Shower, which has just passed over there:

The Perseids meteor shower comes annually, often from July 23 to August 22. People in the Northern Hemisphere, including Vietnam, can see the Perseids from August 12 at night to early morning August 13. During the peak time, one can see 60 to 100 meteors per hour. Different from the Delta Aquarids meteor shower on July 29, the peak time of Perseids is quite long. Dang Vu Tuan, Chairman of the Vietnam Young Astronomy Club, also said that this will be the largest meteor shower of the year, and should be very beautiful.
Source:VietNamNet

And here is a description from scientists:

The source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet is far away, currently located beyond the orbit of Uranus, a trail of debris from the comet stretches all the way back to Earth. Crossing the trail in August, Earth will be pelted by specks of comet dust hitting the atmosphere at 132,000 mph. At that speed, even a flimsy speck of dust makes a vivid streak of light when it disintegrates--a meteor! Because, Swift-Tuttle's meteors streak out of the constellation Perseus, they are called "Perseids."
Source:Space Daily

Laura Manaudou - gold dust

2008-08-10T22:33:00.000-07:00

The Olympics from Beijing are a big opportunity for those with something to say, to finally say it. Laura Manaudou, is a swimmer from France who not only that pretends the gold medal at swimming (although she already had a world record at 400m freestyle), but also is famous for some pictures and video tapes which are just for adults. Maybe it wasn't in her intention to go like Alexandra Dupre, but is obviously that is going to be famous all over the world, not just in France. If Alexandra Dupre was bringing a personality to dust, Laura Manaudou is bringing her self to a different platform. We have to admit that is hard to be an Olympic swimmer, the subject of a sex scandal (without intention) and a normal person. Just as writing this the final ended and she took the last place.

The question is, will she try something different now ?! Maybe I'm mean, but you can't expect to have a big career while having such a tumultuous personal life. Or maybe the media is guilty for this end. Paris Match talks about the end of a career with these recent results. We will see about this.

In the meantime take a look of the video below. Even if you don't understand French, the images talks for itself.

Beijing Olympics Opening

2008-08-08T06:55:00.000-07:00

There is no comment or need to comment for this.

Emily Robison

2008-08-08T00:46:00.000-07:00

Flame on the internet: 'Emily Robison' is divorced. Wow ! What's so great news about that? People are divorcing everyday and get married over and over again until they can't even think clear.

The Dixie Chick and the Bandera cowboy rocker have called it quits. A representative for Charlie Robison confirmed that the singer and Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks are divorced. They "remain close friends and their family is the priority and will continue to be," he said.
Source:My San Antonio

You know which is a great divorce ?! Morgan Freeman's divorce. His wounds are still bleeding and is in hospital as I write this and the press is covering his divorce. After 24 years of marriage he decided that enough is enough. Although is 71 years old, Freeman chooses to take it on his own instead of wasting his time with that....wife (Myrna Colley-Lee is his second wife).

Ok, let's get back to the subject. When people reach the point of no return, then is something very wrong. Emily Robison has three children and this can't stop her divorce. Freeman also has 24 years of marriage and still is divorcing, but in his case there is one more chance : maybe this serious car crash will get him and his wife back together. Or this happen only in movies ?!

Quoting a Morgan Freeman statement dated June this year:

I don't know anything about that

Quoting a recent statement of his lawyer:

(they)are involved in divorce action for legal and practical purposes

Kwame Kilpatrick

2008-08-07T11:21:00.000-07:00

It looks like entire Detroit,Michigan is happy now because their mayor is now in jail. Kwame Kilpatrick is in jail for perjury in sex scandal. He lied that he is not in an affair with Christine Beatty, his former chief of staff at City Hall. He was considered a charismatic character in Detroit, but it was proved that he was hiding before racial excuses. Is understandable the rage of the Destroit's citizens, but they have their part of guilt in this case; how is possible to be fooled so long time ?! Is like chewing a candy and saying 'this candy is bitter' and doing this everyday. So, who's to blame ?! Kwane because he managed so well lying, or the people who believed it ?! At least some of them can say it straight:

We are the fools, for letting this awful chapter in the city's 300-year history develop to this point. We are the fools, for not standing up en masse to escort Kilpatrick out of the Manoogian, and out of our public lives. We are the fools, for enduring the national and international, embarrassment time after time, while prattling idly about his right to a fair trial, the sanctity of his elected status and various other irrelevancies.
Source:Freep.com

Jose Ernesto Medellin

2008-08-06T04:42:00.000-07:00

It's true that death can't be stopped, but a murder can be stopped. If Jose Ernesto Medellin couldn't be stopped when he did his murders, so his penalty was unstoppable. Here is before and after in the press:
Just before execution:

Lawyers for convicted murderer Jose Ernesto Medellin are awaiting word from the Supreme Court whether his execution in Texas by lethal injection, set for this evening at 7 pm CST, will be stayed.

Published on August 5, 2008 4:37 PM on The Swamp

Right after execution:

Texas has put to death a Mexican convicted murderer, defying a ruling from the International Court of Justice and ignoring a last-minute appeal from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Jose Ernesto Medellin, 33, was killed by lethal injection in the Huntsville death chamber at 9:57 p.m. (0257 GMT Wednesday), Texas Department of Criminal Justice official Jason Clark told AFP. Medellin was sentenced to die for the 1993 rape and murder of two girls, aged 14 and 16, in Houston, Texas. Medellin, a Mexican-born member of the Black and Whites street gang, was 19 at the time.

Published on August 6, 2008 21 PM GMT on AFP

John "Junior" Gotti

2008-08-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

Not too much to comment on this, Gotti's words are enough.

"I know my father loved me, but I got to question how much, to put me with all these wolves." "This is the world you put your kid in? So much treachery. ... My father couldn't have loved me, to push me into this life."
Who's John Jr Gotti ?!

John "Junior" Gotti—son of the late Gambino family crime boss John Sr. and brother to Growing Up Gotti star Victoria—was arrested this morning on murder conspiracy charges, reportedly "in connection with a drug smuggling ring and 3 prior mob-hits." Gotti was tried twice before for the 1992 attempted murder of talk show host Curtis Sliwa, but got off both times, and had seemed to be poised for a quiet retirement in his Long Island home. Source:Gawker

Below is a video recommended to John Jr Gotti. Just listen the lyrics.

Candles leaving the world

2008-08-04T02:51:00.000-07:00

One weekend to mourn. Although is no war, many countries had to say goodbye to some of their fellows.

One of that is India, with 151 deaths toll at time of writing this. Pilgrims were going to visit a temple at Himachal Pradesh.

Quoting The Indian Express:

More than 150 pilgrims, a majority of them women and children, were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede near the hilltop Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday morning, following rumours of a landslide. The toll is expected to rise, with officials confirming that 151 bodies had arrived at Anandpur Sahib’s Civil Hospital alone till evening, 50 of them children.

There is no need to think how many families are being in mourning after this tragedy.

Somewhere, a few thousand miles west from India, Alexander Solzhenitsyn had to close his eyes for the last time. He was the word of the people who were deported, taken to slavery or political camps, the frozen blade of those who were starving and freezing in the long Siberian nights and the carrier of people who died in the Soviet Union gulag. He was the symbol of the victims of intolerance.
Quoting his autobiography:

For I would probably not have survived the eight years in camps if I had not, as a mathematician, been transferred to a so-called sharashia, where I spent four years; and later, during my exile, I was allowed to teach mathematics and physics, which helped to ease my existence and made it possible for me to write. If I had had a literary education it is quite likely that I should not have survived these ordeals but would instead have been subjected to even greater pressures.

He won Nobel Prize and wrote the famous "The Gulag Archipelago". To be remembered by Russian people.

Leaving Russia thinking at the cold war, we find the fans of Atlanta Braves crying for "Skip" Carey, who died yesterday during sleeping. His family have tradition in baseball journalism with more than 35 years only for Skip Carey. He is now resting, but his voice will be remembered.
Quoting from his biography:

He came to broadcasting naturally as the son of the late Harry Caray, the Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame announcer. A high school all-city linebacker in St. Louis, Caray began his broadcasting career with KMOX Radio after a career-ending knee injury. His son, Chip, who called Chicago Cubs games for WGN through the 2004 season and previously World Series games for Fox Sports will join Skip in the 2005 season with the Atlanta Braves broadcast team with of Skip Caray, Joe Simpson, Pete VanWeiren and Don Sutton.

We leave America with the hope that Skip Carey had time to say goodbye to the loved ones and find an Irish family in Europe who lost Gerard McDonnell, one of the the climbers who died in the tragic accident from the mount K2. Gerard was taken by the avalanche and ended a career to remember right after he claimed to be the first Irish climber who succeeded to beat K2. Quote from a recap found at K2climb.net:

On August 1 at 1 am local time, Norwegian, Dutch, French, Italian, Serbian, Korean, Pakistan and Nepali climbers started their summit push from camp 4. Going well ahead of schedule, a few hours into the ascent a Serbian accident held the Dutch up somewhat. The Norwegians and French Hugues d’Aubarade reportedly summited before the Dutch and Irish Gerard (it's unclear yet who used supplementary oxygen) and were coming down at the time of the Dutch summit at around 8 pm. Around 17 people were reported in the summit party. On descent, a big piece of ice fell below the summit, taking a large part of the fixed lines with it. About 12 people, including Wilco, Gerard, Marco and Korean climbers got stuck either above the traverse or above the Bottleneck.

We had to say good bye to all of them.

Tila Tequila says: eat this

2008-08-03T01:17:00.000-07:00

I'll try to explain the image above. It's about her success and also other women's success.

It's true that she looks hot in the photo, but to her success contributes some more factors too. You can observe that her skin color is quite close to the color of that roasted chicken. When a men looks at this photo associates his hunger and appetite with her skin color. On the other hand, is the beer glass, which "transpires" and the men associates his thirst to the transpiration that covers her body. So, you see ?! It's not all about her; it's also about the food.

In Tila's case, the success is increased even more, because as everybody knows, the alcohol is an aphrodisiac, and "tequila" is a quite popular drink. So each time a men asks for a "tequila" he would asks for himself a "Tila" too.

That's why lots of celebrities look roasted, baked and oiled. There are also some stars that bets on other food, like cheese for example. Is the case of Miley Cyrus, who is dressed in white in that photo and tries to look innocent. But white is the color of the cheese (and her skin too). The cheese is good to eat with a glass of red wine. So, this way, Miley gives a shot on the food and alcohol too.

For now on, when you want to be "hot" think at a food before, and then get dressed and make up like that food.

Tell me everything you knol

2008-07-26T00:04:00.000-07:00

On 23rd of July Google has launched its knowledge service called 'Knol' which is highly anticipated as a wikipedia alternative. The question is what this 'Knol' thing could do better ? I give it a try and I've published my first knol, which is about widgets. Here is my first impression.

Pros:

Monetize: adsense feature. Your account is revised by Google and you might benefit of the adsense feature.
Big opportunity for people who bring high quality content on the internet, but have no idea how to monetize it. This is an exceptional opportunity for people who doesn't know what is ' SEO '. Here you can add the ready-made pages.
Well targeted ads. As a page will be cleaner and resumed on a subject it will benefit of well targeted ads
Search engine submission.

Cons:

Opened for anyone, spammer or not.
Another tool for SEO masters.
Sometimes confusing. There is knol feature that lets knol authors to describe themselves. I have searched on Knol for 'google' and in the search results I have found a Google employee. First I've thought that it was a spam, but actually was that feature.
Probably one of the most important, no advice on plagiarism

Now, here is something from wikipedia, a statement of Danny Sullivan - chief editor at Search Engine Land:

Google’s goal of making Knol pages easy to find on search engines could conflict with its need to remain unbiased.

Also from wikipedia, Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy said:

At the end of the day, there's a fundamental conflict between the business Google is in and its social goals. What you're seeing here, slowly, is Google embracing an advertising-driven model, in which money will have a greater impact on what people have ready access to.

X - Files: I Want To Believe

2008-07-22T23:05:00.000-07:00

Just two days from now till X Files: I Want To Believe will reach the screens and the frenzy have begun on the Internet. It will be a surprise ? The series were impressing, but the last screen movie wasn't what was expected to be. Mulder and Scully were fighting against a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth. It was a little bit far from the series and that was maybe because it had to be more than an episode. But this time... you figure it out. There are more trailers for the movie, and I chose the one below. In one of these trailers was a funny scene between Mulder and Scully which reminds me more of Jackie Chan's movies where most of the time the characters were fighting, but in a particular scene they look 'intelligent' too.

"We want to believe in the audience"
By David Duchovny

The X-Files: I Want To Believe - Theatrical Trailer

Legally Blonde The Musical

2008-07-21T22:43:00.000-07:00

MTV's "Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods" star is Bailey Hanks (birth name Bailey Noel Hanks) and is Elle Woods in the series. She performed in some school and community production in Wizard of Oz and Gypsy, but now she got on a bigger scene as Elle Woods. She is known also as the winner of Miss Liberty Teen 2005.

Hanks is contracted to appear in Blonde for six months and hasn't determined whether she'll resume her studies after her run. She would be tempted by another Broadway offer, particularly if it were her "second favorite" role: Wicked's Glinda, created by Kristin Chenoweth. "I really relate, because she's bubbly and blonde. And short." For now, she's focusing on doing Elle justice: "I have some big pink pumps to fill."
Source:USA Today

For many people Bailey Hanks is shining brighter than Miley Cyrus. Maybe Miley is more controversial than shining. Below is a collection of videos with Bailey Hanks

Wolf Lake

2008-07-16T11:57:00.000-07:00

In the past few days, "Wolf Lake" was in the attention of the media for two events. First is the Fish Fest which should take place this weekend and is highly anticipated. For who doesn't know or is too lazy to search, Wolf Lake is in Michigan. The second is that this city was hit earlier by a tornado. Is true that the tornado didn't hit too bad, so I guess that this would be (almost)free advertising . Here is a crop from a message that talks about the fish fest:

It’s that time of year again when you can take the kids down to the ol’ fishin’ hole for a chance at reeling in a steelhead trout or possibly a muskie. The Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery will celebrate its 9th Annual Fish Festival this weekend with a full-scale celebration.
Source:Kalamazoo Weekly

And here is the other crop, about the tornado:

The Butler and Wolf Lake areas reported rotation at 4:26 pm, with hail at Wolf Lake. A tornado was spotted 3 miles northwest of Wolf Lake.
Source:The Frazee Forum

Ok, is true, the two news are not related, because the second refers to a different 'Wolf Lake', but it wasn't that a weird relation between the cities ?! Lucky ones, does people from Pitcairn Island (which are about 50) because they own their Fish Fest every day and they have their own tornado (a while ago, Pitcairn Island was also on the front news, read more here).Even more, they have a prison there, so why not Pitcairn Island ?!

Remote Area Medical

2008-07-14T00:52:00.000-07:00

Looks like a good news for at least of a few cities around Blount County The US insurance issues are popular around the world just like its military power. Although is a good news, this organization shows how desperate is the medical system in US.

" Remote Area Medical (RAM) -- an organization that provides free medical services for un- and under-insured individuals through volunteer doctors, nurses and other medical professionals from all over the country -- held a free clinic in Blount County Saturday and today. The group offered free medical, vision and dental services for people who could not afford them otherwise.
...
People from as far away as Kentucky -- and some even farther than that -- made their way to the clinic Saturday. "

(PHOTO)Dr. Andy Young, from University of Tennessee Medical Center, prepares a patient for a tooth extraction Saturday at Heritage Middle School during the Remote Area Medical clinic.

Source: The Daily Times

Max Payne The Movie - trailer

2008-07-10T09:28:00.000-07:00

Payne & Redemption - this is the title of the movie based on the successful game 'Max Payne'. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis (below) and of course other.

Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent (Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin (Kunis) out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation. Plot from IMDB

The bullet holes were rubies on her chest, blood glowing on her ivory skin. She was so beautiful. The killer was smiling.
by: Max Payne

From other sources...

Chris Snyder fracture...

2008-07-03T12:53:00.000-07:00

This is something what a male doesn't wish at all. I didn't thought that this is possible, either. I was thinking at "broken" instead of "fractured".

Chris Snyder placed on disabled list with testicular fracture.

The Diamondbacks placed outfielder Eric Byrnes and catcher Chris Snyder on the 15-day disabled list. Byrnes is out with a strained left hamstring, Snyder with a left testicular fracture. For Byrnes, the move comes eight days after he came off the DL, where he spent a month with injuries to both hamstrings. Snyder left Monday night's game after being hit in the groin area by a foul tip and underwent an MRI on Tuesday. Source: Chicago Tribune

“Which is preferable? It depends on who you ask here.”
by: Chris Snyder

Snyder sdfg
by bsap11

From other sources...

Look at Junior The Cat

2008-07-02T10:10:00.000-07:00

The cat that needs to think again what is wrong about in the world. Found on Digg / toplinks / today. It might be a guru...

Look at Junior The Cat - Watch more free videos

Diablo III

2008-06-30T03:31:00.000-07:00

This weekend Blizzard announced the release of the 2nd great game from their agenda, Diablo III. Set to be released on 31st of December (as on Gamespot) is a big surprise, making Starcraft 2 to be a big unknown.

Teased at in the week leading up to Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational event in Paris, the acclaimed US studio today put its' fans anxiety to rest with the announcement of Diablo 3. Picking up the pieces 20 years after the events of Diablo 2, the third title finds Mephisto, Diablo and Ball defeated and the Worldstone destroyed, stirring evil once again in Tristram. Playing the role of the hero from one of five character classes, players can expect to explore new and familiar areas of Sanctuary, battling hordes of demons and collecting powerful items, spells, and abilities along the way. Today's unveiling saw the first demonstration of two character classes featured in the game, namely the Barbarian and Witch Doctor. Introducing a custom 3D engine that handles indoor and outdoor areas of Sanctuary, Diablo 3 incorporates physics-enhanced environments that offer increased interaction and destructible options. The series' trademark random level generator has been further enhanced with an all-new Quest system and random scripted events, creating dynamic gameplay and plenty of replay value. Source: TVG

We know that players have also been long awaiting a return to the series, so we're very excited to be sharing this announcement with Blizzard gamers here in Paris and around the world today.
by: Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment

Emile Norman

2008-06-24T03:41:00.000-07:00

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24 june 08 Graham Bunn

2008-06-24T00:43:00.000-07:00

NBA player Graham Bunn (on the left) is in the Bachelorette contest (history as you will see) for DeAnna Pappas (below).

Graham Bunn was sent home by DeAnna Pappas,earlier tonight on ABC’s hit reality TV show “The Bachelorette”.The professional basketball player gave DeAnna a letter that she will read when she feels like. Source:TV.Spreadit.org

Graham is unbelievably smokin’ hot. He’s my type 100 percent. I don’t really know how to explain it but I have this really passionate feeling toward Graham. He makes me feel like a giddy schoolgirl. Graham got the first kiss but I have to admit we’ve had a rocky relationship. I keep Graham around because there is an undeniable connection between the two of us. I just feel something in my gut that tells me Graham is meant to be here.
by:DeAnna Pappas

23 june 08: George Carlin

2008-06-22T23:33:00.000-07:00

The well known comedian George Carlin died. This is a shocking news and people will laugh less without him.

George Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning standup comedian and actor who was hailed for his irreverent social commentary, poignant observations of the absurdities of everyday life and language, and groundbreaking routines like "Seven Words You Can Never Use on Television," died in Los Angeles on Sunday, according to his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He was 71. The cause of death was heart failure, according to Abraham. Carlin began his standup comedy act in the late 1950s and made his first television solo guest appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show" in 1965. At that time, he was primarily known for his clever wordplay and reminiscences of his Irish working-class upbringing in New York. Source:International Herald Tribune

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
by:George Carlin

23 june 08: Pitcairn Island

2008-06-22T22:38:00.000-07:00

Today, the headline on Google Trends is "Pitcairn Island". Why ? Because is one of the least populated islands in Pacific. But I would happily go in a vacation there, just look at the pictures, it looks similar to Robinson Crusoe's island. Below is a news release on the Pacific's population (dated 5th of June).

The population of the Pacific is set to reach nearly 9.5 million by the middle of this year. New data from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community shows the region's population is growing by 1.9 per cent a year, or 500 people a day. The population estimates are compiled by the Secretariat from country statistics. The report predicts the population of Melanesia will grow to more than eight-point-three million people, Polynesia to more than 655,000 and Micronesia more than 530,000 by mid-year. The largest individual country population is that of Papua New Guinea, which has an estimated six-point-five million people, followed by Fiji with nearly 840,000. The smallest is Pitcairn Island with just 66 people. Predictably, the fastest-growing population is that of Guam, where thousands of American troops are being relocated from Japan. Both Niue and the Northern Marianas are experiencing a decrease in residents, the latter because of the lack of jobs. Source: Radio Australia

Below is a Flickr slideshow with photos from Pitcairn Island

21 june 08: Scott Kalitta crash

2008-06-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

I remember that a few months ago, McDowell had a violent crash too, but he was luckier. Below are the two videos to compare.

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. (AP) — The drag racer Scott Kalitta died Saturday when his funny car burst into flames, crashed and exploded during qualifying for the N.H.R.A. SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. The National Hot Rod Association said the 46-year-old Kalitta, who had 18 career victories and was the 1994 and 1995 top fuel season champion, was taken to the Old Bridge division of Raritan Bay Medical Center, where he died a short time later. Witnesses told The Star-Ledger of Newark that Kalitta’s Toyota Solara was traveling an estimated 300 miles per hour. Kalitta of Palmetto, Fla., started his career at Old Bridge in 1982. His father, Connie Kalitta, was a longtime driver and team owner known as the Bounty Hunter. His cousin, Doug Kalitta, also races. “We are deeply saddened and want to pass along our sincere condolences to the entire Kalitta family,” the N.H.R.A. said in a statement. “Scott shared the same passion for drag racing as his legendary father, Connie.” Kalitta retired in 1997, sitting out most of two seasons before returning for 10 races in 1999. He sat out three seasons, then returned in 2003, joining his cousin on the family’s racing team. He is survived by his father; his wife, Kathy; and sons Corey, 14, and Colin, 8. The Nascar Nationwide driver Brad Keselowski, a native of Rochester Hills, Mich., about 20 miles away from Kalitta’s hometown, Mount Clemens, said he learned the news from a television report. “That really hits close to home,” Keselowski said. “I send my thoughts and prayers out to him. That’s tough to hear.” Last year, the funny-car driver Eric Medlen died after an accident at a testing session in Gainesville, Fla. Source:NYTimes

This is Scott Kalitta's crash:

08 june 08: Christopher Titus

2008-06-08T00:27:00.000-07:00

The normal make a living, the deranged make history
by: Christopher Titus

Yahoo! Trends 30 apr 08 - Miley Cyrus

2008-04-30T02:51:00.000-07:00

The saga continues after recent scandal on "the innocent child". Miley Cyrus, the 'Disney Princess', claims that recent photos are fake, and these new ones from Vanityfair.com are 'real'.She is 15 years old and has a new career in front.

In a caption released by Vanity Fair with the photo last week, Cyrus expressed her comfort with how the apparently topless picture turned out. "I think it's really artsy," she told the magazine at the time. "It wasn't in a skanky way. Annie took, like, a beautiful shot, and I thought that was really cool. That's what she wanted me to do, and you can't say no to Annie." A handful of borderline racy snapshots of a girl who appeared to be Cyrus have appeared on the Internet in recent months, including images of a girl posing in her underwear and bikini last week. Cyrus is one of the biggest -- and most G-rated -- acts in the country and is often considered a role model for young girls. Her "Best of Both Worlds" tour sold out arenas, and her successful 3-D concert film collected $31.3 million in its opening weekend in February. Source:AP

I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed
by:Miley Cyrus

Watch the photo shooting video for Vanity Fair below

Google 's response to Rick

2008-04-24T06:35:00.000-07:00

The phenomenon "rick astley" have been charted and got in the google's attention in the last couple of days. Digging this subject I've found this chart.But the facts are somehow different. From what Rick Astley says, actually the google result looks like this:

Below is the video of Google's response to Rick.

By the way, he doesn't know kung fu either !

Myspace 23 apr 08 - Sacha Boutros

2008-04-23T07:37:00.000-07:00

Today I was looking on myspace videos to see what are looking for people there and I found on top plays Sacha Boutros, which is a great, great jazz singer.

A local native of San Diego, Sacha Boutros has been captivating audiences with her sultry vocals and exquisite style as she posses a charm and grace reminiscent of the golden age of Hollywood. Having played the piano since she was a little girl, she began composing at an early age. With a four-octave range she is well versed in classical music and can sing in just about any language as she speaks five fluently; but her passion lies in writing and singing Jazz. In 2002, shortly after graduating from the University of San Diego, she was introduced by the legendary Frankie Laine at his 90th birthday celebration as his Ingnue. She has had the pleasure of performing for, opening and playing along side such artists as Julio Iglesias, Marvin Hamlisch, James Moody, Red Holloway, Karrin Allyson, Geoffrey Keezer, Chuchito Valdes, Kay Star, Patty Paige, and Herb Jeffries. Source: Sacha Boutros

I am trying to create a Pop-Jazz so that everyone will enjoy my music, and hopefully get more into and appreciate the art of acoustic music itself and the beauty and power of something as simple as a song.
by:Sacha Boutros

Sacha Boutros Live @ Anthology

Who's first on the web

2008-04-22T05:56:00.000-07:00

Just wondering who's first and where on the social networks and I've made a quick search on google. Here it is. The algorithm is this: first user,image,blog,video etc. which appears on google when is searched the name of the network. For example, try to search 'facebook' on the google and look at the first profile that appears in results.

Myspace: Nine inch nails

Facebook: Barack Obama

Flickr: Wedding

Friendster: Dennis Paul

Hi5: Chris

LinkedIn: Barack Obama

Bebo: John Edwards

Xanga: John Edwards

Photobucket: sircuddlesGHII

LiveSpaces: Nine Million Children Refugees

Digg: MrBabyMan

IGN: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Trailer, Videos and Movies

Technorati: Boing Boing

Blogger: PostSecret

Wordpress: Planet

Typepad: Seth Godin

Finally, Youtube: Dance Evolution

Google Trends 21 apr 08 - miley cyrus

2008-04-21T23:06:00.000-07:00

On Monday (April 21), a set of shots depicting the squeaky-clean 15-year old Cyrus made the rounds online, showing the singer wearing just a bra and underwear while draped across the lap of an unnamed male, and another in which she's pulling down her shirt to reveal a green bra. It's actually the second batch of eyebrow-raising shots of Cyrus to hit the Net over the past six months, following on the heels of much tamer pictures of the singer and a female friend nearly kissing as they shared a piece of licorice; some others that popped up on her MySpace page in which she posed suggestively in a bikini and her underwear. The singer responded to the furor over the first batch of pictures, saying they were "nothing bad," as she was just having a sleepover at a hotel with one of her best friends. It was unclear how the latest photos were obtained by sites such as TMZ and if they came from Cyrus or someone else, but the pictures are the latest hint that the singer is in the midst of a transformation that could take her from a tween and teenybopper sensation to a more mature artist. At the very least, she's recently been taking on the reigning queen of using sex as a marketing ploy, Madonna, thanks to her "Miley & Mandy Show" YouTube send-up of Madge's "4 Minutes," which garnered an apparent personal response from Madonna. Source:MTV

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

by:Miley Cyrus

Below is a video with Miley Cyrus being so stereotype.

For Miley Cyrus fans, there is a widget that you can place it anywhere, iGoogle, Netvibes etc. with continuously updated Flickr pics of Miley Cyrus.

Google Trends 18 apr 08 - homicide report (Deathbook)

2008-04-18T11:44:00.000-07:00

Jill Leovy, is a blogger who keeps an online log for all L.A. homicides. She investigates, does research and today she got on the front pages of news agencies for her activity. I looked at her blog and I got this idea, of making a social networking for for underground life (and death). Let's call this social network "Deathbook". In this network, instead of activities, people would post pictures of the friends who got killed, and obituaries. Maybe this joke looks horrible, but take a look at one of her posts:

Mar Vista homicide "Mar Vista: A Latino man was shot and killed at 4506 S. Slauson Ave. near the Mar Vista area at about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, April 15. According to Los Angeles police spokeswoman Ana Aguirre, the man was shot while riding his bicycle. She said a dark Ford SUV drove next to the man and then someone from inside the vehicle shot him. The man was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Aguirre said. Update: Police have identified the Latino man as Vidal Jose Ventura-Jimenez, 24."

And here is how she got on the news agencies eye:

For more than a year, Leovy made it her job to document every homicide in Los Angeles County. It had never been done before. Like most big-city newspapers, the one Leovy works for -- The Los Angeles Times -- reports only the most "newsworthy" cases. But those killings, elementary school drive-bys and celebrity murders only account for 10 percent of the county's homicides, Leovy found. She wanted to go deeper, to put a human face on the toll homicide was taking, particularly in L.A.'s black and Latino communities. "The Web offered what the paper did not: unlimited space," Leovy wrote in a front-page story summarizing her year as creator and the first blogger for The Homicide Report.

Source: CNN

It's sort of awful to think of people being murdered and nobody seeing it.

by:Jill Leovy

Father of "Butterfly Effect" inventor dies at 90

2008-04-17T00:02:00.000-07:00

The father of the expression "Butterfly Effect", died today at 90. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, Lorenz was educated at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, at Harvard, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the MIT faculty in 1946 and served as professor of meteorology from 1962 until 1987.Lorenz had trained initially as a mathematician, but after serving in the US Army Air Corps as a weather forecaster, he decided to continue as a meteorologist and work on the more theoretical aspects of the subject. Could forecasting, he asked, be significantly improved? If astronomers could predict the return of a comet decades ahead, it should surely be possible, given enough computing power, to forecast the state of the atmosphere for more than a few hours in advance. From his theories was inspired the movie "Butterfly effect", and also his theories music was inspired - see Moonspell. Full biography here.

Dr. Lorenz is best known for the notion of the “butterfly effect,” the idea that a small disturbance like the flapping of a butterfly’s wings can induce enormous consequences. As recounted in the book “Chaos” by James Gleick, Dr. Lorenz’s accidental discovery of chaos came in the winter of 1961. Dr. Lorenz was running simulations of weather using a simple computer model. One day, he wanted to repeat one of the simulations for a longer time, but instead of repeating the whole simulation, he started the second run in the middle, typing in numbers from the first run for the initial conditions. The computer program was the same, so the weather patterns of the second run should have exactly followed those of the first. Instead, the two weather trajectories quickly diverged on completely separate paths. At first, he thought the computer was malfunctioning. Then he realized that he had not entered the initial conditions exactly. The computer stored numbers to an accuracy of six decimal places, like 0.506127, while, to save space, the printout of results shortened the numbers to three decimal places, 0.506. When typing in the new conditions, Dr. Lorenz had entered the rounded-off numbers, and even this small discrepancy, of less than 0.1 percent, completely changed the end result. Even though his model was vastly simplified, Dr. Lorenz realized that this meant perfect weather prediction was a fantasy. A perfect forecast would require not only a perfect model, but also perfect knowledge of wind, temperature, humidity and other conditions everywhere around the world at one moment of time. Even a small discrepancy could lead to completely different weather. Dr. Lorenz published his findings in 1963. “The paper he wrote in 1963 is a masterpiece of clarity of exposition about why weather is unpredictable,” said J. Doyne Farmer, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. The following year, Dr. Lorenz published another paper that described how a small twiddling of parameters in a model could produce vastly different behavior, transforming regular, periodic events into a seemingly random chaotic pattern. At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1972, he gave a talk with a title that captured the essence of his ideas: “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” Dr. Lorenz was not the first to stumble onto chaos. At the end of the 19th century, the mathematician Henri Poincaré showed that the gravitational dance of as few as three heavenly bodies was hopelessly complex to calculate, even though the underlying equations of motion seemed simple. But Poincaré’s findings were forgotten through the first three-quarters of the 20th century. Dr. Lorenz’s papers also attracted little notice until the mid-1970s. “When it finally penetrated the community, that was what started people to really start to pay attention to this and led to tremendous development,” said Edward Ott, a professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland. “He demonstrated a chaotic model in a real situation.” Born in 1917 in West Hartford, Conn., Edward Norton Lorenz received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1938 and a master’s degree in math from Harvard in 1940. He worked as a weather forecaster during World War II, leading him to pursue graduate studies in meteorology; he earned master’s and doctoral degrees in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943 and 1948. Dr. Lorenz was a staff member of M.I.T.’s meteorology department from 1948 to 1955, when he became an assistant professor. He was promoted to professor in 1962 and served as head of the department from 1977 to 1981. He became an emeritus professor in 1987. In addition to his daughter Cheryl, of Eugene, Ore., Dr. Lorenz is survived by another daughter, Nancy Lorenz of Roslindale, Mass; a son, Edward H. Lorenz of Grasse, France; and four grandchildren. His wife, Jane, died in 2001. Dr. Lorenz remained active almost to the end of his life, in both research and outdoor activities. “He was out hiking two and one-half weeks ago,” Cheryl Lorenz said, “and he finished a paper a week ago with a colleague.”

Source: NY Times

Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas? by: Edward Norton Lorenz (R.I.P.)

Google Trends 16 apr 08 - Ali Vincent

2008-04-16T11:11:00.000-07:00

Ali Vincent reveals a new formula to the world, after winning season five of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” on Tuesday night. The hairdresser from Mesa, Ariz., lost more than half her body weight, but gained a whole new perspective on life. “I am a whole new woman,” Vincent told TODAY’s Lester Holt on Wednesday. “There are no limits. There are absolutely no limits and I started to dream big again.” Vincent, 32, started the show tipping the scales at 234 pounds and ended it weighing 112 pounds. Although her overall weight loss of 122 pounds was less than second-place Roger Schultz (164 pounds), “The Biggest Loser” winner is determined by weight-loss percentage.
Source:MSNBC
There are no limits. There are absolutely no limits and I started to dream big again.
by:Ali Vincent

Not trendy: A new way (but hidden) to write books

2008-04-13T23:50:00.000-07:00

Forget about imagination; just generate a damn book and the advertising company will do the rest. Or, just generate a title and see if is anyone interested, then generate the damn book.

It’s not easy to write a book. First you have to pick a title. And then there is the table of contents. If you want the book to be categorized, either by a bookseller or a library, it has to be assigned a unique numerical code, like an ISBN, for International Standard Book Number. There have to be proper margins. Finally, there’s the back cover. Oh, and there is all that stuff in the middle, too. The writing. Philip M. Parker seems to have licked that problem. Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history of the planet.” And he makes money doing it. Among the books published under his name are “The Official Patient’s Sourcebook on Acne Rosacea” ($24.95 and 168 pages long); “Stickler Syndrome: A Bibliography and Dictionary for Physicians, Patients and Genome Researchers” ($28.95 for 126 pages); and “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India” ($495 for 144 pages). But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one.
Source: The New York Times

My goal isn’t to have the computer write sentences, but to do the repetitive tasks that are too costly to do otherwise

by:Philip Parker

Here's a demonstration of what is all about.

Google 11 apr 08 - crystle stewart

2008-04-11T12:16:00.000-07:00

These days is not strange anymore when a black person is representative for America, specially if is a women and if she is beautiful. Today Crystle, tomorrow maybe, Obama.

A 26-year-old Texan has been crowned Miss USA 2008 by Donny and Marie Osmond. Crystal Stewart, hailing from Missouri City, Texas, is one of only a handful of black women to be crowned in the pageant’s 57-year history.

Source: Sheknows

"I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it.Because I just achieved my goal."
by:crystle stewart

Techno Viking vs Techno Drunking

2008-04-10T06:06:00.000-07:00

I was just boring and I remembered two funny videos, one with a "techno viking" looking guy, and another with a drunk russian guy. I think that these two look similar. And then, I made this video.

Google 08 apr 08 - Amber Hagerman

2008-04-09T13:25:00.000-07:00

The name that became a verb - Amber. The "amber alert" is to become a worldwide system for tracking missing children. This subject is on the top news these days because of another girl, Madeleine McCann.

The parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann are to ask MEPs to push European governments to adopt a coordinated cross-border system for missing children. Gerry and Kate McCann are due to make the appeal when they speak at a conference in parliament on Thursday. The parents of the missing four-year-old will press for the setting up of a Europe-wide network to track down abducted children. UK Tory MEP Edward McMillan-Scott, who helped to arrange the visit, said: “In the UK alone, according to the children’s society, each year 130,000 kids run away, are ejected from home, are abducted, or worse, are injured or killed. “Unfortunately we have no agreement on how to define missing children. The police makes no distinction between missing adults or children, and despite a guidance note in 2005, each police force operates a different system.” The couple will call for the establishment of a European missing child hotline, an amber alert system – based on the US model – and a European child resource and policy unit. The amber alert, named after nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was killed by her abductor, operates like a severe weather warning system, with messages flashed on radio, television and motorway signs. In Europe only Belgium and France have adopted a similar system. McMillan-Scott said that in the US it has helped the recovery of nearly 400 abducted children since 2003. Eighty per cent have been recovered in the crucial first 72 hours. A similar call has been made by UK Socialist deputy Arlene McCarthy, who said, "Any publicity that puts the spotlight on our campaigning work with children’s NGOs is welcome if it delivers results for the thousands of missing children.” McMillan-Scott added, “Gerry and Kate want a European child centre – like the one in Washington – to bring together governments, the police and the voluntary sector to work on a united front and eliminate layers of frustrating bureaucracy and duplication of work.” He said it would provide a single focal point for data collection, drafting of policies and public communication on all aspects of policy, and added, “The McCanns tell me that the least they can do is ask for some political will. “They have got the support of the leading missing children organisations and the good will of every right-minded European. “It is impossible to know what they are going through. We are all praying for the safe return of Madeleine. At the same time Europe must together do all it can to prevent other families suffering like the McCanns.”
Source:theparliament.com

Madeleine McCann

Youtube 08 apr 08 - Africa stealing your taxes

2008-04-08T14:00:00.000-07:00

A controversial video has been posted today on Youtube about Christianity and the western civilization, putting Christians in a "burning" image. The user who posted this video links to a few atheist websites which will be quoted below.

The Christian missionary mindset is generally depicted as that of simple religious folk with a pure desire to peacefully spread their gospel and message of love. In reality, their methods of propagation are often anything but peaceful and usually leave behind a native population stripped of their culture and often decimated. With Christianity failing in the west, the evangelists seek new and greener fields in the poor and uneducated sections of third world countries, backed by huge coffers from the less zealous, who are nonetheless convinced that to bring civilization and religion to the poor natives is a noble cause, even if they don't want it. Missionaries often intermix military campaigns with missionary campaigns in their fervor to "civilize the heathens," who are often simple happy natives, whose only crime is that they are not Christians. Source: The Burning Cross

I am African and i am an Athiest
by:HellAirways (video's uploader)

Olyimpic torch relay - Paris

2008-04-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

Olympic torch extinguished in Paris, 7 apr '08 -- this is a day to remember as the day when the Olympic torch was the first time in history extinguished. With a good cause probably, these people can be proud not for carrying the torch, but for the extinguish of the torch.

"The traditional global relay carrying the Olympic torch to the site of the Games is supposed to convey the inextinguishable vigor of the Olympic spirit. But the Chinese are finding it instead a symbolic disaster. The running of the torch in London Sunday was marred by attempts by human rights protesters to extinguish its fire, but on Monday in Paris the ceremony became an outright farce: security officials doused the flame twice in the face of demonstrations to block its progress, and wound up driving it to the end-of-day handoff ceremony at Charléty Stadium on the edge of the city when the tormented relay was cancelled at mid-course. As the torch moves on to San Francisco and Buenos Aires before heading back to Africa and Asia, the organizers of this summer's Beijing Games are facing a grim prospect: that the protests denouncing China's human rights record in Tibet and elsewhere could mount as the torch continues its 85,000 mile, 20-nation voyage."

Source: Time.com

To be continued along the Olympic torch relay

Yahoo! Trend 07 apr 08: Natalie Gulbis

2008-04-07T01:41:00.000-07:00

In the last days one of the most searched terms on Yahoo was 'natalie gulbis'. She is famous for a controversial photo calendar taken in 2004. Although is a good golf player, she is a brand. As any other brand this one must have some advertising and her manager is doing a good job making her a role model. So far I haven't found something interesting in what she said that could be quoted. See her in action:

Google Trends 05 apr 08: Charlton Heston

2008-04-06T05:22:00.000-07:00

Charlton Heston, who has died aged 84, was an actor of towering physique who was in constant demand to play epic heroes in Hollywood movies of the 1950s and 1960s; he was, later in life, almost as well-known for his staunchly Right-wing stance, especially in his role as president of America's National Rifle Association. Source: Telegraph.co.uk About Charlton Heston: With features chiseled in stone, who else but Charlton Heston could you picture as Michelangelo, as Ben-Hur, as Moses? Heston's movie career took off with The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and reached light speed with Ben-Hur (1959). Although he has played a pantheon of larger-than-life roles, he usually prefers to talk about the day-to-day daily grind of the movie business, and especially credits the writers and directors he has worked for much of his success. Though aging gracefully, the venerated Heston has lately been more interested in promoting right-wing political issues than acting.

"There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys" Charlton Heston

Scenes from 'Ben Hur"

Youtube trend 05 apr 08: GWR - Tallest and smallest

2008-04-05T14:46:00.001-07:00

And when we thought that the "freaks circus" era is gone ! Maybe the scene is changed, but the actors...I doubt.

So, Guinness World Records presents: "Tally" and "Shorty"

(the video has been removed from youtube)

Sports 05 apr 08: NASCAR crash

2008-04-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, NASCAR showed something to think about. If you ever wondered if worths investing millions of $ in research of vehicles, engines and technology, now you have a heavy argument: what you don't see in Hollywood movies, you can see in real life.

"FORT WORTH, Texas - Michael McDowell was the poster child for NASCAR crash test dummies at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday.

After the No. 38 Ford dumped oil around the track during time trials, McDowell attempted his qualifying lap three drivers later, skidded through the speedy dry and barrel-rolled out of Turn 2 after overcorrecting his No. 00 Michael Waltrip Racing Camry.

McDowell, 23, who made his debut last week at Martinsville, tested the Car of Tomorrow in ways that could never be simulated in the lab.

"I came off of (Turn 4) on that first lap and felt a little bit off, that something wasn't quite right," McDowell said. "I went down into one and I don't know if it was the oil dry or if something happened. I hate to make that much work for the guys back at the shop. Fortunately, I'm OK, thank God. I got to see that replay and it wasn't good, but for everyone back at the shop that spends time putting these seats in and making these cars safe — that's one of the worst wrecks I've seen in a while. I'm not excited that I had to participate in it. We'll pull the back-up out and we'll get in race trim tomorrow and be fine.

"I feel great. Nothing broke. I didn't pass out. I didn't lose anything out there. I just wish I didn't overcorrect there. We'll have to go back and look at it. I don't know if something happened or if I just lost it there, but it didn't quite feel right. We were six-tenths off of what we ran in practice. I'm just glad to be alright."

Full story from FOX News

Music Trend: Madonna feat Justin Timberlake video

2008-04-04T11:23:00.000-07:00

Today will be launched the video of Madonna feat Justin Timberlake "4 minutes". Take a (full) peak on this video till then. As a giant clock offers an ominous four-minute countdown, the two cavort on cars, down a grocery checkout counter and even in a bedroom as a giant prism-like effect encroaches. The singers trade verses, dance-moves and even faux kisses in the clip. Things get hotter as time continues to fly, and the they even share a small striptease and a liplock. Just call it sexy sci-fi! Look for a cameo from Timbaland, who also appears on the song. Source: Adelaide Now

Google trend 03 apr 08: James Irvin vs Houston Alexander

2008-04-03T04:09:00.000-07:00

Did you bring the popcorn ? It's not needed anymore. How fast can you count to 8 ? Warning: the video is very short ! James Irvin tied the UFC record for the fastest knockout tonight, finishing his fight with Houston Alexander at UFC Fight Night in eight seconds.When Irvin and Alexander stepped to the center of the Octagon, Irvin cocked his fist and delivered a brutal right hand directly into Alexander's jaw. Alexander dropped like a sack of potatoes, Irvin pounced and delivered two more rights to Alexander's face while they were on the ground, and the referee immediately jumped in and waved the fight off. The official result is a TKO due to strikes, eight seconds into Round 1.

Source: sports.aol

Games: There is no cow level !

2008-04-01T06:32:00.001-07:00

Blizzard added today a new unit to Starcraft 2's terrans: Tauren Marine But watch the equipment: weapon - udder chaos ?! armor - mad cow ?! ??? - "not milk" - then what ?

Watch a demo of this 'taurine'

Youtube Trend 01 apr 2008: How to Prank your Roommate

2008-04-01T05:16:00.000-07:00

World Trend 01 apr 2008: April Fools

2008-04-01T04:49:00.000-07:00

On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the “virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.” The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show’s highly respected anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets. The segment concluded with the assurance that, “For those who love this dish, there’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.” The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.” To this day the Panorama broadcast remains one of the most famous and popular April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. It is also believed to be the first time the medium of television was used to stage an April Fool’s Day hoax.

Source: Museum Of Hoaxes

Google Trend 31 mar 08: Sean Levert

2008-03-31T07:38:00.000-07:00

CLEVELAND -- A nursing supervisor at Lutheran Hospital confirms to Fox 8 News that musician Sean Levert, a Cleveland native, died of natural causes just before midnight.Sean Levert, 39, is the son of legendary O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert and the brother of late R&B superstar Gerald Levert. Sean, Gerald and Marc Gordon made up the music group Levert, which hit it big in the late 1980s with its popular song "Casanova."Sean Levert had also appeared in movies, including 1991's "New Jack City."The hospital spokesperson with whom Fox 8 News spoke said that Sean Levert's body was immediately taken to the coroner. Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office spokesman Powell Caesar confirms that Sean Levert's body had been received.A story in the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Sean Levert was found dead in a Cleveland jail over the weekend. The story says that he was being held in prison for "allegedly failing to pay about $80,000 in child support."

Source: Fox 8

Watch a recorded show of Levert brothers.

Google Trend 30 mar 08: Matt Maupin

2008-03-30T07:52:00.000-07:00

The Army has identified remains found in Iraq as belonging to Matt Maupin of Bartonville's 724th Transportation Company. Staff Sergeant Maupin went missing on April 9th, 2004. He was the only U.S. soldier unaccounted for in Iraq. His unit was ambushed in Iraq. D.N.A. testing and a piece of clothing confirmed the remains were of Matt Maupin. Maupin's family was given the news by a three star general around one this afternoon. The community of Len Este, Ohio, near Cincinnati, rallied around Maupin's parents Carolyn and Keith Maupin over the past four years. With the help of friends, Keith Maupin spread the word that his son is coming home. "I feel bad that Matt didn't come home the way we wanted. But, he's coming home. And, I don't know, I can't explain it. But, we got a lot of prayers and I think that helps me," Keith Maupin said. A memorial service is being planned for Maupin. Source: Week-TV watch a collection of photos of Matt's team

...so you are guilty !

2008-03-26T06:08:00.000-07:00

Peru's ex-president, Alberto Fujimori, fell asleep during his trial over alleged human rights abuses (torture and other insignificant things).

Why are the bells ringing ? Is already Christmas?

Google Trend 25 mar 08: jonas brothers

2008-03-25T04:36:00.000-07:00

"Music on Red Bull." Without hesitating, that's how 17-year-old Kevin Jonas describes the hyper-adrenalized sounds he's created with his two brothers, 13-year-old Nicholas and 16-year-old Joseph, on the Jonas Brothers' debut album, It's About Time. And it's no wonder since the boys' influences include an eclectic mix of artists ranging from the Ramones to the Jackson 5 to The Modern Lovers--all purveyors of tight, catchy anthems. One thing is for sure, the Jonas Brothers are all ready to keep the momentum going strong. "We go crazy on stage!" says Kevin. "It's so much fun!" Music always played a major part in the brothers' lives growing up in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Their parents are both musicians, so gathering around the piano for sing-alongs was an essential part of regular family bonding, yet each brother found his own musical calling in a different way.
Source: Starpulse

"(-Rapping-) Yo! Listen, I'm Joe Jonas! I'm your best friend! Open the fridge. Eat a chicken."

Joe Jonas

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Speech trend: Martin Luther King Jr. meets Morpheus meets Obama

2008-03-24T15:10:00.000-07:00

There are at least three similarities in these speeches. Morpheus's speech about the last hundred years is clearly based on Luther King Jr.s speech. All three speeches refers to history. Obama also refers to slavery.

Google trend 24 mar 08: Anarchic hand syndrome

2008-03-24T13:55:00.000-07:00

Maybe some things shouldn't be made public. For instance this disease called "Anarchic hand syndrome". Is such an abomination which perhaps should remain in the doctor's labs. Here is their description:

"An alien hand sufferer can feel normal sensation in the hand, but believes that the hand, while still being a part of their body, behaves in a manner that is totally distinct from the sufferer's normal behavior. They feel that they have no control over the movements of the 'alien' hand, but that, instead, the hand has the capability of acting independent of their conscious voluntary control. Alien hands can perform complex acts such as undoing buttons, removing clothing, and manipulation of tools. Alien behavior can be distinguished from reflexive behavior in that the former is flexibly purposive while the latter is obligatory. Sometimes the sufferer will not be aware of what the alien hand is doing until it is brought to his or her attention, or until the hand does something that draws their attention to its behavior." Full description on Wikipedia. I feel pity for the people who has this rare disease, but this reminds me of a very funny video, which I would name it "Anarchic foot syndrome". Now, the question is "who had first the disease, the man or the dog" ?

Not trendy: hacker-spammer-blogger

2008-03-21T02:28:00.000-07:00

Google Trend 21 mar 08: Lisfranc joint

2008-03-21T01:31:00.000-07:00

Jacques Lisfranc (1790-1847) was a field surgeon in Napoleon's army serving on the Russian front. He wrote about a new amputation technique between the forefoot and midfoot. This route became known as the Lisfranc joint. A Lisfranc injury encompasses everything from a sprain to a complete fracture/dislocation through this joint.

Google trend 20 mar 08: Free ride lyrics

2008-03-20T09:21:00.000-07:00

Although the keyword of the day is free ride lyrics , my searches leaded to a "hound dog" video on youtube which is quite pretty actually.

The lyrics reffers to Edgar Winter Band - Free Ride

It looks like a Google joke if this is the trend for this day; or is just a simple way for Google to find who is actually following the trend. LOL

Google Trend 19 mar 08: Jennifer Wilbanks

2008-03-19T07:29:00.000-07:00

Runaway Bride's Former Groom Now Married

The man who was once engaged to the runaway bride has gotten married — to another woman. John Mason, 35, married Shelley Martin, 34, in a quiet ceremony Saturday at his parents' home in Duluth, his father, Claude Mason, told People magazine for a story posted Tuesday on its Web site. "We were very, very happy for him," said Claude Mason, who serves as an associate municipal judge and officiated the ceremony. John Mason was thrust into the spotlight in 2005 when then-fiance Jennifer Wilbanks disappeared just days before their wedding. She turned up a few days later in New Mexico and initially claimed she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted. She later recanted, saying she ran away because of personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling authorities a phony story. She was sentenced to two years' probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns at public buildings. Wilbanks and John Mason ended their engagement and filed lawsuits against each other, which were later dropped.