February 23, 2012

From Talking Cats to Bill Maher, Online Comedy Goes Pro

At 7:30 Pacific Time tonight, Bill Maher takes the stage live—and online. Yahoo! (YHOO) will stream his stand-up performance, CrazyStupidPolitics: Live From Silicon Valley, live and for free to drum up interest in its new comedy Web channel, which will feature original, professionally produced content to lure the Internet’s slap-happy audiences.

“t’s free. Because let’s face it, you’d just figure out a way to download it illegally,” Maher writes on his website.

The sold-out performance, which takes place at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts before an audience of 2,400, will also be available on Yahoo after the show. Since announcing the comedy channel in December, Yahoo has promoted Maher’s show with online ads and social media, including a Facebook page.

“We are focusing on fresh, original voices like Bill and our other original programs with the Yahoo! Comedy Channel to continue to provide our consumers and advertisers with the best premium content on the Web,” says Erin McPherson, vice president and head of video at Yahoo.

Read more:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/from-talking-cats-to-bill-maher-online-comedy-goes-pro-02232012.html

February 23, 2012

Arpaio Tough

From HuffingtonPost:

While Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney attempts to distance himself from the scandalous fallout over the hijinks of his former Arizona co-chair Sheriff Paul Babeau, the tireless Citizens for a Better Arizona group plans to remind TV viewers of the Republican debate in Mesa tonight of another disgraced law enforcement titan that needs to resign: Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The ad, scheduled for various TV outlets, pulls no punches:"He's not tough. He's terrible. He needs to resign."

While Arpaio's campaign stomp for Gov. Rick Perry's disastrous campaign in New Hampshire brought more headlines than votes, Republican candidates like Rick Santorum still made courtesy calls this week, despite the mounting calls for the increasingly reckless Sheriff to hand in his badge.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/sheriff-arpaio_b_1294218.html

February 23, 2012

FBI: 3rd suspect in videotaped gay beating hiding in Pennsylvania

Federal authorities have identified the third Atlanta gang member who they say was videotaped beating a 20-year-old gay man earlier this month.

Dareal Damare Williams is wanted for his part in the Feb. 4 robbery and attack on Brandon White outside a neighborhood market in Atlanta’s Pittsburgh community, authorities said.

FBI agents in Pittsburgh, Pa., said they believe that Williams, 17, is hiding out in the Erie, Pa., area and issued the alert Wednesday for that part of western Pennsylvania.

Authorities believe Williams is one of three males who punched and kicked Brandon and bludgeoned him with an abandoned car tire before robbing him – all while shouting anti-gay slurs in front of a rolling video camera.

More here:

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/fbi-3rd-suspect-in-1359245.html

February 23, 2012

NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert: Black Dub

Chris Whitley's daughter has one powerful voice. Daniel Lanois is the brainchild behind this band they call, "Black Dub".

February 22, 2012

Threatening Letters Claiming to Have "Pathogens" Sent to Senators, Media

The FBI and NYPD are investigating threatening letters that claim to contain dangerous pathogens sent to media companies and U.S. senators, law enforcement officials tell NBC New York.

According to law enforcement officials, the person sent letters to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," claiming more letters had been sent to 100 senators and various media companies, including The New York Times, Fox News and NPR.

The writer, who voices anger over corporate greed and the state of the U.S. economy, said some of the letters contained harmful substances at random.

The letters are believed to have been mailed from Oregon and are signed "MAB."

Read more here:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Letters-Threats-Pathogens-Media-Capitol-Hill-Senators-Oregon-140037443.html

February 21, 2012

Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanese coast

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,000 times more than prior levels, scientists reported Tuesday.

But those results for the substance cesium-137 are far below the levels that are generally considered harmful, either to marine animals or people who eat seafood, said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

He spoke Tuesday in Salt Lake City at the annual Ocean Sciences Meeting, attended by more than 4,000 researchers this week.

The results are for water samples taken in June, about three months after the power plant disaster, Buesseler said. In addition to thousands of water samples, researchers also sampled fish and plankton and found cesium-137 levels well below the legal health limit.

Read more here:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_FUKUSHIMA_OCEAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-02-21-15-59-17

February 19, 2012

Fedora 14

Does anyone know of a good book that has the command lines for Fedora 14? I am taking a Linux Single User class right now and am having some troubles with learning the commands. My textbook was not written from a beginner's point of view. Thanks...

February 18, 2012

Woman claims doctor secretly sterilized her

RALEIGH, NC (WTVD) -- When Sarah Cotton had severe stomach pain and bleeding in 2007, her sister Brenda Womble took her to see a doctor.

What they saw in CT scan images stunned them.

"We were just flabbergasted," Womble recalled.

The X-Ray images showed Cotton had an IUD - an intrauterine device designed to prevent pregnancy - in her body. Until that moment, Cotton never knew it was there.

The sisters began tracing back through Cotton's medical history, and realized the device had been implanted some 40 years before without her permission.

"It was something forced on her without her consent and I equate that as a woman being raped. It's something against her wishes," offered Womble - a professor at NC Central University.

Read more here:

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/abc11_investigates&id=8546202

February 18, 2012

Son House - President Kennedy

For all of you political & blues junkies. Crank up this old school blues songs! Great tribute to JFK.

P.S.

I will stop posting music for a while. lol

I get carried away sometimes.

February 17, 2012

Prosecutors seek to drop charges against soldier

MIDLAND, Texas — Prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss charges against a soldier accused of trying to bring military-grade explosives on a cross-country flight from Texas to North Carolina.

The U.S. attorney's office said Friday it did not find evidence that Sgt. 1st Class Trey Scott Atwater knew he was carrying C4 aboard his carry-on bag Dec. 31 at the Midland airport.

The 30-year-old was charged with trying to bring explosives onto an airplane.

More here:

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/10748103/