Two of the best shows on television began their new seasons this month:
“24″ and “The Shield”, both on Fox Networks, which I watch on my DirecTV which is also owned by News Corp…who’s my pimp?
Valentines falls on a Tuesday so I will be watching The Shield. The day before will be “24″
A new season of “24″ began last week, let me catch you up.
Jack had assumed a new identity.
Within the first five minutes the beloved ex-President, David Palmer, was shot in the throat and killed! I literally had to put down my wine and cup my mouth with my hand. shocked. (This is why Colin Powell did not and will not run for President)
Then, two minutes later Michelle Dressler was blown away, and her husband
Tony Almeida, was “critically injured”. this is the same man who was shot in the neck two seasons ago, and kept working only two hours after surgery. He’s a trooper, he’s not dead.
Within twenty-five minutes Jack was in action, hijacking a helicopter to save Chloe
Jack shoots the sniper who assassinated David Palmer, after a full confession.
Best line so far:
“The only reason you’re still conscious, is because I don’t want to carry you.”
The last episode ends up with terrorist taking over Ontario International Airport, with Jack hiding out in the ceiling.
(didn’t Bruce Willis do this D.C.in Die Hard 2?)
Jack uses his SPRINT TREO 650 to send pics of the bad guys back to CTU HQ.
Then uses it to blow up one of the terrorist explosive vest by triggering it via a change in the frequency and a phone call.
(I have to try with mine)
I love the Buddha Machine, a little plastic ambient music generator that looks like a transitor radio -- put two or three in a room together and play them at the same time and you get something haunting, bent and hypnotic. Now there's a new version, with more loops, colors, and sound-tweaking options.
The Buddha Box 2 features nine new ambient sound loops. The new selection is noticeably more diverse than those of its predecessor--a welcome change. One of my biggest issues with the first incarnation of the box was its relatively limited aural palate. The selections on number 2 should fit a wider range of ambient-suitable scenarios. For further variation, the box also includes a wheel that bends the loops' pitch, to help you tailor the sound perfectly to its surroundings.
I love the Buddha Machine, a little plastic ambient music generator that looks like a transitor radio -- put two or three in a room together and play them at the same time and you get something haunting, bent and hypnotic. Now there's a new version, with more loops, colors, and sound-tweaking options. The Buddha Box 2 features nine new ambient sound loops. The new selection is noticeably more diverse than those of its predecessor--a welcome change. One of my biggest issues with the first incarnation of the box was its relatively limited aural palate. The selections on number 2 should fit a wider range of ambient-suitable scenarios. For further variation, the box also includes a wheel that bends the loops' pitch, to help you tailor the sound perfectly to its surroundings. Hands On: Buddha Machine 2 (Thanks, Crosshatch!) See also: Buddha Machine: spiritual, generative transistor radio...br style="clear: both;"/
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IFComp 2008, The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition and keeper of the old-school text-game torch, recently declared its winners. Bronze went to my game, Everybody Dies, silver went to Eric Eve's Nightfall, and the gold went to Jeremy Freese's Violet.
Everybody Dies puts you in the shoes of a chubby metalhead who has smoked his last smoke, with illustrations by Michael Cho; Nightfall drops you into a mysterious city where everyone's fled before the approaching Enemy; and in Violet your struggle to write your dissertation is aided by the most charming voice-in-your-head character in history.
Writer/game designer/film-maker Jim Munroe sez, IFComp 2008, The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition and keeper of the old-school text-game torch, recently declared its winners. Bronze went to my game, Everybody Dies, silver went to Eric Eve's Nightfall, and the gold went to Jeremy Freese's Violet. Everybody Dies puts you in the shoes of a chubby metalhead who has smoked his last smoke, with illustrations by Michael Cho; Nightfall drops you into a mysterious city where everyone's fled before the approaching Enemy; and in Violet your struggle to write your dissertation is aided by the most charming voice-in-your-head character in history. All 35 of the comp entries, playable with interpreters, are available at ifcomp.org, but Violet and Everybody Dies can be played online Congrats, Jim! Everybody Dies Takes Bronze at IFComp, Everybody Dies review at Play This Thing! (Thanks, Jim!)...br style="clear: both;"/
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Africa’s first all-electric locally engineered car has been presented at the Paris Motor Show. Known as Joule, its creators say it uses about 20% of the energy needed by a conventional car and produces no damaging environmental emissions.
The six-seat multi-purpose vehicle’s interior and exterior was styled by Keith Helfet, the South Africa-born designer who became [...]
The Wired Campus reports today that “Boston College Will Stop Offering New Students E-Mail Accounts.” All the incoming students may not have cloud-like email such as gmail, but that may be a major factor in this trend:
Many students don’t even want a college e-mail address these days because they already have well-established digital identities [...]
Many students don’t even want a college e-mail address these days because they already have well-established digital identities before they arrive on campus. That’s the conclusion that officials at Boston College came to in a recent review of their online services. So the college recently decided to stop offering full e-mail accounts to incoming students starting next fall.
Instead of a standard college e-mail account, next year’s freshmen will be offered an e-mail-forwarding service that will pass along messages to whatever personal e-mail account a student specifies . . .
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These are the economic times that try men's souls, and women's too. In the past few months, a lot of people have seen their net worth fall substantially, and I'm sure more than a few have contemplated what would happen if they lost everything.
So we asked a group of people - Nick Mills, [...]
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Blog reader Nick Turner sent along this photo of a Body Shop ad in San Francisco:
Photo: Nick Turner
He was surprised that the ad guarantees fair-labor conditions for workers in Italy:
I thought fair-trade protections were for third-world workers. I
wonder how the Italians feel about this designation.
The ad didn't outright call Italy third-world; but if it had, [...]
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Eric Oliver is a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the absolutely fantastic book Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic.
He has some new and interesting insights on the "Bigot Belt," which he has generously written up for the Freakonomics blog.
The Bigot Belt
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Skoggins is a directory site that allows bands to list for free, and lets people search for live performers for events in their area. It seems a fairly straightforward idea.
Your thoughts? Is this a solution for events bookings? Something to add to your arsenal? Worth the bother of registering? Had a booking through them? Let [...]
Skoggins is a directory site that allows bands to list for free, and lets people search for live performers for events in their area. It seems a fairly straightforward idea.
Your thoughts? Is this a solution for events bookings? Something to add to your arsenal? Worth the bother of registering? Had a booking through them? Let us know in the comments.
Yesterday, Palm released a cabinet file update for the Treo Pro that fixes a bug with the Pro’s Bluetooth stack.
You should apply this update if “you are in an active call using bluetooth car kit or bluetooth headset and you receive a second incoming call and you let it ring or you ignore the incoming [...]
Treo Pro Update
Yesterday, Palm released a cabinet file update for the Treo Pro that fixes a bug with the Pro’s Bluetooth stack.
You should apply this update if “you are in an active call using bluetooth car kit or bluetooth headset and you receive a second incoming call and you let it ring or you ignore the incoming call, the call will be diverted to Voicemail. The first call remains active but you can no longer hear the caller (the caller can still hear you). The audio has been lost. If you answer the call and swap between calls or reject the call, the issue is not seen.”
Devices with a software version of T850UNA-1.01-XXX or lower should apply this patch. If your software version is higher than 1.01, this update is not necessary.
The update is a software update (not a firmware upgrade), so if a hard reset is performed, the update needs to be reinstalled. It can be installed in three ways - transferred using ActiveSync, downloaded over-the-air (OTA), or launched from a microSD card. To install OTA visit www.palm.com/850u-bluetooth-ota from your Palm Treo Pro device.
Unfortunately, due to issues with our FTP server, we are unable to host the CAB file in our downloads section at this moment.
Former Cadwalader chairman Bob Link is being left off of the firm's 2009 management committee. The news was told to the partnership during a meeting today. Link himself confirmed the news to AmLaw Daily:
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's former chairman and current managing partner Robert Link Jr. was not included on a recommended slate of candidates for the firm's management committee given to partners today, a source at Cadwalader says.
The slate, recommended by the management committee, will not be acted on for another few weeks, the source says. Link, reached by phone, confirmed his name was not on the list.
"It really is part of our normal succession," Link says. "It's not something I've been part of planning for."
Charlotte managing partner Jim Carroll is also out of the 2009 management loop.
The Lawyer, which first broke the news of Link's ouster on Monday, reports that Cadwalader's future is still very much up in the air:
But Link's removal from power is far from the end of the story. Cadwalader has been reeling for months. Collapsed core markets, major lawyer layoffs and now a palace revolt, 2008 will go down as arguably the worst in Cadwalader's 216-year history.
Inevitably, questions have been raised about the long-term future of the firm. How things play out later this week may offer some clues as to its shape, whatever that may be.
But one parting shot from CWT to the associates they laid off, after the jump.
The economy is in the toilet and law firms are scrambling to adjust. Usually this means "firing associates," but DLA Piper has done something really interesting and brought changes to the partnership instead of firing associates:
Some 275 "income" partners who don't have an ownership stake will be invited to join the ranks of 300 equity partners, provided each makes a capital contribution that could range up to $150,000, according to legal industry sources.
Look, for all we know associate layoffs could be right around the corner at DLA or any other Biglaw firm. But almost doubling the number of equity partners means that profits per partner will be squarely in the hands of each individual partner to generate business.
Legal industry recruiter John Cashman of Major Lindsey & Africa LLC says DLA's move is unprecedented and likely to turn up the heat on attorneys to bring in clients -- a crucial factor in partner compensation.
"It's very clear to their (junior-level lawyers) it's either up or out: We want business generators or worker bees. They want to send that message," Mr. Cashman says.
Just a few months after letting loose their 128GB SSD, Samsung is joining Micron and Toshiba in the exclusive Quartergig Solid club in South _____shire (that’s for all the Austen fans). The new drive boasts read speeds up to 220MB/s and writes up to 200MB/s, which makes it half-faster than the Microns and way faster [...]
Just a few months after letting loose their 128GB SSD, Samsung is joining Micron and Toshiba in the exclusive Quartergig Solid club in South _____shire (that’s for all the Austen fans). The new drive boasts read speeds up to 220MB/s and writes up to 200MB/s, which makes it half-faster than the Microns and way faster than the Toshibas.
If the river were lager and I were a duck, I’d buy a Trufill concept device designed for stadiums that can fill ten pints of beer in ten seconds and drink it all up. This amazing new concept uses magic and space technology to fill up glasses from the bottom up. How? I don’t know. [...]
If the river were lager and I were a duck, I’d buy a Trufill concept device designed for stadiums that can fill ten pints of beer in ten seconds and drink it all up. This amazing new concept uses magic and space technology to fill up glasses from the bottom up. How? I don’t know. No one knows. All we know is that we have to go visit FoodBev next week and if this amazing system is true my drink will be on so hard that it will be difficult for me to post from Monday to Friday anymore.
The big game in Washington these days consists of running around dealing with the problems of the Detroit Three automakers, formerly the Big Three.img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/magazines_fortune/~4/457162868" height="1" width="1"/
As you pile the family into the car and head home for Thanksgiving, you may want to give a little thought to how your home state is weathering the economic crisis.img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/magazines_fortune/~4/458209296" height="1" width="1"/
What do you get if you mix the Retro/Hipster sound of The Cool Kids, the futurist OutKast/Organized Noize-isms of Brittany Bosco and her Hollyweerd peeps and the revolutionary art-student-goes-around-the-world Club Rap of M.I.A., and then sprinkle it with a pinch Def Jux-yness for flavor? You get visual artist, rapper and stylista Corinne Stevie and her debut EP/album 'The Oddity,' that's what!
The Georgia/Florida-based Stevie teamed up with Art Nouveau to distribute the EP. Bridging the gap between Hipster-Hop, Art-Rap, Backpack/Space Rap, Dirty South/Crunk, Future-Soul, traditional Boom-Bap and cutting-edge Club music, she hopes her music "encourage(s) people" to "just be everything, just express yourself and be who you are and not be afraid to see your different sides."
'Jammin' On the One' is more absolutely free Baltimore Club madness courtesy of DJ/producer/vocalist DLake and his man Symbol, known collectively as Claire Hux It's a fifteen track mixtape mixed by Scottie B. intended to whet appetites for their forthcoming official debut on Baltimore, MD's Unruly Records.
They clown club-going breakdancers (which is hilarious but bound to piss off Hip-Hop purists), catch the "holy ghost in the club," and sample 'The Cosby Show.' Download it, so you can start "ja-ja-ja-jammin' on the one" like your boy Malcolm Jamal Warner back in the day...Just make sure you rock your bootleg Gordon Gartrell.
So a week ago I log onto Boston.com and staring me in the face is an article about this phenomena called "Sleeveface" and the book that was just released.
My initial reaction?
"MUTHAFUCKA!"
I was a bit salty to find out that something I had been doing since at least 2005 (according to the date on an early "Sleeveface" of mine that's on Myspace) was about to allow some dudes (who began doing it themselves last year) to get caked up through a book deal. I recall AIM conversations with Keter, Element and other music/art geeks about making it something bigger, involving groups of people, using it for a music video, etc. etc. but I never ran with it.
So yeah. I suck.
So I fired off an email to Boston.com along with some pics for the Sleeveface contest they had, knowing that my OG Sleevefaces would win...and they did. Well one did. Cosby.
I'm a little less salty, and feel a bit of vindication. Perhaps I can get some of my pics published in the next Sleeveface book. We shall see. If anything this has made me want to take some more pics (I've gotten a bit lazy) and also to follow through with some of ridiculous ideas I have in my brain.
Oh and BIG UP El Keter for being the photographer/producer behind the winning shot.
November 18, 2008
On behalf of
Mark Cuban
RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District
for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
The SEC knows their case centers on one telephone conversation between two individuals- 4 years ago. The SEC claims there was an agreement between these parties to the conversation to keep certain information confidential. We interviewed Guy Faure, the [...]
November 18, 2008
On behalf of
Mark Cuban
RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District
for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
The SEC knows their case centers on one telephone conversation between two individuals- 4 years ago. The SEC claims there was an agreement between these parties to the conversation to keep certain information confidential. We interviewed Guy Faure, the former CEO of Mamma.com Inc., with whom the SEC claims Mr. Cuban made an agreement. We had a court reporter transcribe the interview. There was no agreement to keep information confidential. Here is a relevant excerpt from the interview with Mr. Faure:
CHRISTOPHER CLARK :
1) Q- We spoke earlier about you were telling Mr. Cuban in words or substance : “I have confidential information for you”.
A- Right.
2) Q- Do you recall anything Mr. Cuban said in response or reply to that statement by you ?
A- No, I do not.
The SEC knows this-they have the transcript, yet they brought the case anyway. Why? Do they have a different statement from Mr. Faure ?
Why did the SEC end their multi-year investigation of Mamma.com Inc. for alleged securities laws violations days before interviewing present and former Mamma.com Inc. executives about this matter? Was the timing a coincidence? We think not.
Any inquiries respecting this release should be directed to Stephen Best at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (202) 346-8735.
I’ve had a rather long and trying week that has left me more than a little tired and cranky. As a result, I don’t really feel equal to the task of writing something meaningful about what happened on Tuesday. I will say, however, that for the first time in a very long time I actually [...]
I’ve had a rather long and trying week that has left me more than a little tired and cranky. As a result, I don’t really feel equal to the task of writing something meaningful about what happened on Tuesday. I will say, however, that for the first time in a very long time I actually feel proud to live in this country. And quite pleased to share my birthday with Inauguration Day.
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The Buddha Box 2 features nine new ambient sound loops. The new selection is noticeably more diverse than those of its predecessor--a welcome change. One of my biggest issues with the first incarnation of the box was its relatively limited aural palate. The selections on number 2 should fit a wider range of ambient-suitable scenarios. For further variation, the box also includes a wheel that bends the loops' pitch, to help you tailor the sound perfectly to its surroundings.
The economy is in the toilet and law firms are scrambling to adjust. Usually this means "firing associates," but 
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