Monday, June 25, 2007

Katie Holmes in the News

Katie Holmes has a new site dedicated to her: and to brining you thenews you need about one of your favourite celebrities, Katie Holmes.

There's a collection of news stories and photographs of her, both with and without her husband, Tom Cruise.

There's even a section on Katie Holmes' marriage.


It's the best resource on the net for all of your celebrity news needs, it even has video feeds of he major stories about her!

Sunday, June 17, 2007

10% off the top of anything

That's O'Rourke's Law of Circumcision, that you can take 10% off the top of anything.

The question is though, is this actually a good idea? There's certainly some health benefits, as researchers in Africa are finding. It most certainly reduces the incidence of HIV.

However there are others who think that the decreased sensitivity of men after circumcision is a problem. But if you click through one of the links above you'll fin a very interesting argument which puts forward the proof that this is itself a good thing, now a downer.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Ms. Morse

No, this isn't a new version of Inspector Morse featuring a compley maiden, rather, we've found out the name of the comely blonde who's been escorting Alex Rodriguez around town:

Joslyn Noel Morse.

Something that does rather puzzle me though. Given that she's been working in strip clubs for the past 12 years, why would she visit one on her night off?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Opie and Anthony

This really is weird, this story over Opie and Anthony:

Add Opie & Anthony to the growing list of shock jocks who have behaved badly enough to warrant silencing. But at least the duo has the distinction of being the first to be bounced from satellite radio, where government rules restricting raunchy content do not apply.

In an ironic twist, XM Satellite Radio said Tuesday that it has suspended "The Opie & Anthony Show" for 30 days, though the pair will still do their program on CBS Radio, where speech codes are far more stringent than they are on pay radio.

Greg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia first raised the ire of listeners when they broadcast May 9 the rantings of a character they call Homeless Charlie, who fantasized about having violent sex with Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II.

They apologized two days later, but on Monday they called on their competitors -- most notably, Howard Stern -- to join them in defense of the right of shock jocks everywhere to be, well, shocking.

"Are you with us or against us?" they asked, referencing such recently fired radio talkers as Don Imus and "JV and Elvis." Then they told listeners that while they didn't have the FCC restricting their language, they still must follow XM's "dumb rules." That apparently was too much for XM to take

Just remember, pissing off hte management is much worse than anything else you can do.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Palm Takeover

So it looks like Palm is going to be sold:

Palm Inc. (PALM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) could be sold for at least $20 per share this week, and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group and at least three other bidders are interested, according to unnamed sources cited by technology news Web site Unstrung.com.

Texas Pacific declined to comment. A spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, California-based Palm, which makes the Treo smartphone, was not immediately available.

Sources have previously told Reuters that Palm hired Morgan Stanley to pursue a buyer.

Other bidders may include Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) or Motorola Inc. (MOT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the site said. It also said there was speculation that private equity firm Silver Lake was interested in Palm.

The one thing the report doesn't say is why? For strategic reason? Or are the current owners just bored of it and want out?

Palm Takeover

So it looks like Palm is going to be sold:

Palm Inc. (PALM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) could be sold for at least $20 per share this week, and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group and at least three other bidders are interested, according to unnamed sources cited by technology news Web site Unstrung.com.

Texas Pacific declined to comment. A spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, California-based Palm, which makes the Treo smartphone, was not immediately available.

Sources have previously told Reuters that Palm hired Morgan Stanley to pursue a buyer.

Other bidders may include Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) or Motorola Inc. (MOT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the site said. It also said there was speculation that private equity firm Silver Lake was interested in Palm.

The one thing the report doesn't say is why? For strategic reason? Or are the current owners just bored of it and want out?

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

That IBM Sex Addict

Surprisingly (or not, as you wish) there's not a lot of sympathy for the IBM sex addict.

A man fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room during work hours has sued Big Blue for $5 million, claiming he's an Internet addict who deserves treatment and understanding rather than a pink slip.

But bloggers are expressing little sympathy for 58-year-old James Pacenza, who says he visits chat rooms to distract himself from the lingering stress of seeing his best friend killed during a 1969 Army patrol in Vietnam. Pacenza, according to the Associated Press, said the trauma caused him to become "a sex addict, and with the development of the Internet, an Internet addict." He is claiming protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

If this man is claiming that seeing a friend killed turned him into a sex addict well, shouldn't he be seeing a psychiatrist? I mean, I know you can find most things out on the net but necrophilia? 

Monday, February 05, 2007

Nine Billion Spams

Someone was arrested after sending nine billion spam emails:

A Dutch spammer who used compromised PCs to spamvertise web sites has been fined €75,000 ($97,000) by Opta, the Netherlands telecoms regulator

The man - named only as Mr X - used 600-700 compromised PCs to send about nine billion spam messages promoting penis pills, pornographic websites and other assorted tat. X's 14-month junk mail campaign reportedly earned him an estimated € 40,000 before he was collared in November 2005.

However, he didn't stop because he got caught, no, markets took care of him before the law:

Opta said Microsoft has assisted in its investigation. In mitigation, X argued that he had stopped spamming by the time he was arrested - not because he realised his activities were wrong, but because he "simply wasn't earning enough money".

 

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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

SCO Group

The Unix company everyone loves to hate is promising to stick around for another year:

The SCO Group has promised to stick around for at least another year.

The Unix software maker this week dished out a year-end filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission detailing its financial state. Things continue to look grim for SCO as it burns through cash and suffers from dwindling software sales. Still, SCO thinks it can maintain a fine financial line, despite claims from rival Novell that bankruptcy is near.

I'd expect them to stay in business as long as they possibly can: they're suing half the universe for breach of their copyrights and patents and must be hoping for a possible big payoff down the line.

 

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