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TOKYO (Reuters) - Three sumo wrestlers pleaded guilty to beating up a 17-year-old trainee who later
died, Japanese media reported on Tuesday, the latest blow to the national sport hit by scandals
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26-year-old Annie Sulzberger, whose Friendster profile (since taken down) describes her as an
aspiring iDaily Show/i correspondent. The overarching question: will the Sulzberger family
eventually go the route chosen by the Bancrofts, who sold their interest in Dow Jones to News Corp
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A bunch of us here at WJ are fans of Freakonomics (the
book and the
blog). So,
it’s with pleasure that the same day we highlight Teen Read
Week resources over
at WebJunction, Steven Levitt
gives us a sneak peek look at intended titles in his 8-year-old daughter’s bookpile.
Some of Amanda’s choices are standard fare for any teen/pre-teen’s reading list:
Normal stuff, right? But then you keep reading and right down there at the end she drops the kind
of zinger you
still don’tt expect (had you been expecting a zinger from an 8-year-old, that is), even
from a child who’s been listening to their famous economist dad. I won’t spoil the
ending, but it’s worth viewing Amanda’s list for
yourself.
Personally, I’m going to spy on my daughter’s night stand when I get home tonight. I
don’t expect to find much indication that my work has influenced her reading
choices, but then again, she’s only 7. Next year could be the big year
for online community and information theory texts.
How about you? I’m sure some of you have some great stories to share. What’s the
weirdest book you’ve ever seen a kid choose and why?
After being slammed by numerous security interests, it appears that the emergency all feature on
the iPhone still allows users to compromise the security of text messages sent to the device.
Blogger Karl Kraft recently discovered, through his 12-year old son, that if the device is placed
in emergency call mode, full text messages are viewable, even when SMS preview is turned off. Kraft
notes that ...
I’ve been having some frustration with my 3.5-year-old iBook lately. It’s a 1.33 GHz G4
upgraded to 1.25 GB of RAM running 10.4.11. 14” screen, 60GB hard
drive. I also have an external hard drive for backup purposes.
I’m a senior studying Finance and MIS, so I do a LOT of work in Excel. Now the main problem I
have is that Excel (2008) takes FOREVER to start up. I don’t know if this will be improved
with a new computer or not. I also have a small screen (14”) which
makes it tough to cross-reference spreadsheets and word documents. I also work with kind of large
data sets. I have to use it to watch DVDs for class (Arabic language) and I enjoy tinkering with
Photoshop.
I’m sure that the laptop could last a few more years, but I’ve wanted to upgrade to the
Intel chips and leopard for a while now. Not to mention it would allow me to play some Civilization
4, which I miss a lot and can’t run currently. I’m also torn with the fact that my
laptop SHOULD hopefully last another 2 years before it dies. I know that it won’t be able to
run Snow Leopard when that comes out, so it’s pretty much at the end of its upgrades.
So I am considering buying an iMac as a main hub for work and keeping my iBook for travel and
library trips. The iMac could do the heavy lifting and then I would not have to upgrade my laptop
for a long time. I’m also tired of having a laptop. I don’t bring it out of my room
much unless I’m going on a trip somewhere, so I’m more of a desktop person. And I think
I’d prefer a 24”. Not sure why, but I feel like I might as well
go big or go home. And I think that I’ll ultimately wait for the updates to come out later in
the month to buy.
So should I buy an iMac? 20” or 24”? New or
Refurb? Maybe just suck it up and stick with the iBook for a while longer? I'd appreciate any
input.
Or another way of describing this.
Which continues Hatcher (or OG Greg, as I call him, because for a middle aged comics nerd who
teaches art, dude’s street) great streak of reminding all of you young punks that nothing
in comics ever changes. I think. Maybe I missremember it.
Ahem. One reason why I’ve never been able to freak out adequately about Joe Quesada giving
Spider-Man a satanic divorce (beyond the great amusement I get from Spider-Man getting a satanic
divorce when a normal one was deemed too controversial) is that I know that, if Marvel is still
bothering to publish comics in 20 years, someone my age will revert the marriage back. Provided
Joe and co. don’t do that in a year or two anyway just to appease all of the barbarians at
the gate. You whiney babies ought to get a bottle some day, I guess.
Also, is there any way we can get reprints of those Engleheart Beast stories? I mean, it seems
like Marvel will eventually reprint everything they’ve ever published, but could someone
fast track that? Or did they when I wasn’t paying attention? If I could swing it so that
Spider-Man re-married MJ, would someone help me out in getting those in print? While we’re
just throwing things out there that aren’t happening until a slow month in 2012, you know.
A new security hole that exploits the iPhone's emergency call feature in password-protected mode
was stumbled upon by a 12 year old and his father. The flaw is almost the same as the one
discovered a few weeks back.
This was in iPhone version 2.1 (5F136), the currently shipping version. Since I have no access to
beta of non-released firmwares I can’t test to see if it has been fixed since then. For those
how care, this is bug 6267416. I don’t have much hope for it being fixed soon, because my
security bug 5368148 from July of 2007 is still marked as open, and still unfixed in 10.5.5.
Just when you thought your iPhone was more secure than ever, you might want to think again. Programmer
Karl Kraft's 12-year-old son was the one to uncover the security risk of the iPhone displaying text
messages while in emergency call mode.
With the iPhone locked with a passcode and text message previews disabled, you can still see an
incoming text message while you are in the emergency call mode.
The iPhone should just show the generic "New Text Message" preview, but instead it will
show the part of the message (or whole message if it's short enough), and sender information.
You can get the full details on this bug, and screenshots of the iPhone from
Karl's blog. Now we must sit and wait for Apple to fix it. Hopefully this won't take as long as
implementing copy/paste for the iPhone.
Sir Paul McCartney has some new tricks up his sleeve. His Paulness is readying a third
record with dance music producer Youth under the moniker The Fireman -- the first collaboration
between the two to feature vocals. The Electric Arguments, slated for a November 17th
release, is the first Fireman album the two have released in ten years.
"Last year, McCartney and Youth went into the studio with no master plan, no record company
restraints and no set release date to work to," wrote a McCartney representative. "Thus Electric
Arguments emerged organically: 13 eclectic tracks, each written and recorded in the space of one
day.
"
The 66-year-old former Beatle and god-like genius is holding nothing back, if the first song from
the album, "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight," is any indication. The tune, recorded off of
English radio, finds Macca running full bore, like he just stepped out of the Maharishi's
headquarters after a full session of devotional chanting and directly into an ultra-heavy jam
with members of Creem.
If you still sound this vital at his age, count yourself lucky -- or on fire.
Here's the full tracklisting. We're going to try to get another track to preview at some point,
or (fingers crossed) an interview with the man himself:
1. Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight
2. Two Magpies
3. Sing The Changes
4. Traveling Light
5. Highway
6. Light From Your Lighthouse
7. Sun Is Shining
8. Dance ‘Til We’re High
9. Lifelong Passion
10. Is This Love?
11. Lovers In A Dream
12. Universal Here, Everlasting Now
13. Don't Stop Running
First of all, I hope everyone is having a great day!
Second, I have a question for those of you with experience dealing with Apple Care. I was approved
for a replacement under my Apple Care Warranty for my 1.5 year old Macbook, which I took advantage
of and upgraded to a Macbook Pro (a gift to myself for passing the Illinois Bar)
This morning at around 9:30 am I spoke with Customer Relations and they told me to expect two
emails: one from the representative handling my claim and the other from FedEx with a link to my
shipping labels. I received the former email at around 10:15, but as of 4:00 pm I have yet to
recieve the FedEx email.
I was jsut wondering what everyone's experience has been with receiving this email - in otherwords
when sould I start to worry about not getting it. I was hoping I would get it out on FedEx's 8:00PM
shipment since I they won't release my new MBP until the MB is scanned. But that's a problem
between myself, Apple, and FedEx.
Anyway, any insight on this would great. Thank You to everyone who responds.
There are an
estmated 400 ad
networks. Now there's one less. Eight-year-old Jellycloud, known as Gator or Claria in earlier incarnations,
has shut down. Valleywag heard word
repo men showed up over the weekend and hauled away the furniture. About $50 million in
funding from US Venture Partners, SoftBank, Sand Hill Capital and Crosslink Capital -- and about
36 jobs -- are gone.
Fed up
with all of the cars parked along the street in her quiet neighborhood, an 89-year-old grandmother
in Germany started slashing their tires. Altogether some 50 tires were vandalized before a neighbor
spotted and reported the nefarious nana. The granny, Heidi Kohl, eventually confessed and was
fined, but the story doesn't end there. When she told authorities she wouldn't be able to pay, they
decided to have her work off her debt. They instead sentenced her to hard time knitting sweaters
for her victims. We don't know how sweaters work for traction, but if the German officials are
satisfied who are we to question their judgment? Prosecutors added that they don't fear any further
actions by the sassy senior, pointing out that she has since moved to a retirement home.
In 1996, Karen Hanrahan, a wellness educator and nutritional consultant from Illinois, bought a
plain McDonald’s hamburger but did not eat it. ”I took the bun and the meat, arranged
the pieces on a plate, and stored it in a cupboard,” she says. A friend
had told her that someone else had tried a similar experiment, to see if the burger would
decompose. ”I was curious and wanted to try it.”
Hanrahan, who supports organic and natural eating, uses the now twelve-year-old burger as a prop in
her Healthy Choices for Children workshop, which shows parents how to explore alternative food
options, buy organic food, avoid food additives and preservatives, and plan menus for the family.
Kids call Hanrahan the Burger Lady, friends call her Mother Earth, and her own children, neither of
whom enjoy McDonald’s, consider her a hero.
Webcam chat at Ustream Chris Pirillo is on
the cutting edge of live stream media. The 35-year-old web whiz knows how to generate online
community by hosting videos on UStream and other websites such as CNN.com. In this interview (after
the break), he discusses how he drew an audience of five million people in 2007, what you need to
create a successful brand, and why he'd stream his own natural death.
Nicholas Ciarelli /
The Daily Beast: Not So Secret
Apple — Welcome to The Daily Beast: A Q&A with Tina
Brown — The company's former (13-year-old) nemesis explains how Steve Jobs has
suddenly gone soft. — I've had the dubious privilege of being on the frontlines
of Apple's war against web leaks.
In the sweet and sad novel, World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler, the population of the
United States (and most likely, the world) has been decimated by an energy shortage, starvation,
plagues, terrorism, and global warming. The story takes place in an unspecified time in the near
future (I'm guessing it's around 2025 or so). Kunstler is the author of the non-fiction book The
Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the
Twenty-First Century, and World Made by Hand is a fictional account of what life might be like if
things go the way he describes them in Long Emergency. The story is told by Robert Earle, who used
to be a software executive. Now he's a hand-tool using carpenter living in a town in upstate New
York without Internet, TV, or newspapers. The electricity comes on every couple of weeks for a few
minutes at a time. When that happens, nothing's on the radio but hysterical religious talk. Rumors
of goings-on in the rest of the world are vague. There's no fuel or rubber tires left for cars, and
even if there were, the roads and bridges are shot. Earle can't afford a horse or donkey, so when
he needs to buy carpentry supplies, he takes his hand cart to a compound on the outskirts of town
called Karptown. It's a trailer park next to the dump that's been taken over by a dangerous gang of
former bikers and motorheads who roam the neighborhoods salvaging scrap materials from abandoned
houses and buildings. The town is loosely run by a group of 15 men (no women) who half-heartedly
try to maintain law and order, which is hard because no one wants to stand up to troublemakers like
the folks at Karptown, who conduct occasional raids on people's homes. The story kicks off when
Earle (who lost his wife and daughter in the plague and hasn't seen his 19-year-old son since the
boy took off a couple of years earlier to find out what's happened in the rest of the country) is
elected mayor and joins a search party to look for a freight boat and its crew, which disappeared
on its way to Albany. Their horse-mounted odyssey takes them on a tour through a post-apocalyptic
world of insanity, greed, kindness, corruption, and ingenuity. While life in Kunstler's world is
lawless and harsh and populated with opportunistic characters that make Boss Tweed look like Glinda
the Good, it's not without charms. Local communities are active and productive.
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