21st Nov2010
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21st Nov2010
Central Africa To Immunize Millions Over Polio Outbreak
Aid agencies are planning to immunise three million people in central Africa after a polio outbreak, which has killed more than 100 people.
Hundreds more have been paralysed by the disease, authorities have said.
The disease broke out in Congo-Brazzaville, but has also affected parts of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
The government said the vast majority of deaths had occurred in the city of Pointe-Noire in Congo-Brazzaville.
Congo-Brazzaville had previously recorded its last case of indigenous polio in 2000.
The vaccination plan is being conducted by several aid agencies, including Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO).
20th Nov2010
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20th Nov2010
The Top Ten (Dumb N*gga) Rap Songs About Four Loko
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Rap music has had a long history of product endorsement, and although these tributes to the controversial malt energy drink Four Loko (“Loke” for short) may recall the St. Ides commercials of the early ’90s, these songs follow more in the tradition of the Pack’s “Vans.” The next generation’s Lil B and Young L don’t appear to be lurking on any of these tracks, but they’re still a great way to celebrate the delicious (arguably), mind-numbing (definitely), and legal (at least for now) alcoholic beverage that is Four Loko.
10.F.Y.I. consists of four teenagers from St. Paul who write songs that make them sound like they’re from L.A. Like a lot of jerk music, the lyrics are fun, but not technically impressive, and backed by sparse, elemental production. These rappers’ motivations are relatable–a bad week has the first speaker “trying to get to the point where I can’t make it home,” a desire familiar to anyone who’s ever gotten drunk–and their fun-spirited enough to compensate for their beats.
19th Nov2010
IAmNotADictionary Phrase Of The Day: Gate Rape
The TSA airport screening procedure.
“I’ve never been raped before though”“Have you ever been through an airport checkpoint to get to your gate?”“Yes”“You’ve been raped then…gate raped”
19th Nov2010
Parlaying Rap Music Into Books??: Publishing Firm Launched by Duo Behind Cash Money Records
^Nice hat “other Birdman”….just saying…
I’m not hating, but please dont buy books from these n*ggas… (Even though “Pimp” By Iceberg Slim is one of my favorite books…its the capitalists manifesto)
Go pick up a real book like Frances Cress Welsings “The Isis Papers”
Ronald and Bryan Williams, two entrepreneurial brothers from New Orleans who run the successful music company Cash Money Records Inc., are turning their attention to the book business.
The brothers, whose company counts rapper Lil Wayne among its artists, plan to use the same techniques that helped build their music label to launch their Cash Money Content imprint, including selling books at concerts and holding red-carpet launch parties for authors.
“We think we can do more, market books in a new way,” said Bryan “Birdman” Williams, the younger of the brothers, who is also a rap artist on their independent music label. “We want to put out five or six books a year.”
18th Nov2010
The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum
The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors that the purges would decimate the country’s intellectual life.
“You must welcome dissent; you must welcome serious, systematic, proselytizing dissent—not only the playful, the fitful, or the eclectic; you must value it enough, not merely to refrain from expelling it yourselves, but to refuse to have it torn from you by outsiders,” he wrote in his 1959 essay “…From an Exile.” “You must welcome dissent not in a whisper when alone, but publicly so potential dissenters can hear you. What potential dissenters see now is that you accept an academic world from which we are excluded for our thoughts. This is a manifest signpost over all your arches, telling them: Think at your peril. You must not let it stand. You must (defying outside power; gritting your teeth as we grit ours) take us back.”
18th Nov2010
Angry Black Man Reviews: For Colored Hoes
Yo…I cant lie…I agree
Ice Cube isn’t too much better (*cough* Lottery Ticket *cough*)
but Tyler Perry is gonna have us back in slavery in no time flat
…and quite gay as well
18th Nov2010
Google Sues U.S. Government Over Hosted E-mail Bid Against Microsoft
Google is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) over a bid for a new hosted e-mail system which Google claims unfairly benefits Microsoft.
The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on October 29, calls out the DOI for not considering Google Apps in its Request for Quotation (RFQ). The DOI RFQ specified that the DOI was looking for a new, unified e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solution, but limited the acceptable options to Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) Federal suite only. The contract is worth $49.3 million over five years.
Google is making the argument that this is “unduly restrictive of competition,” noted TechDirt, which has a copy of the 37-page complaint embedded on its Web site.
According to the complaint, the DOJ specified that it needed a private-cloud solution for security reasons. BPOS Federal is a dedicated, locked-down version of BPOS that is basically like a privately hosted version of Microsoft’s Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Communications Online and Live Meeting. Google Apps for Government is a multi-tenant hosted solution.
18th Nov2010
The Sexy Women of Entourage– w/Rosa Acosta and Gary Busey
I mean…at least they got paid. I know chicks that have done waaaay more ridiculous sh*t for free…
17th Nov2010
Decoded: Jay-Z in Conversation w/Cornel West & Paul Holdengräber
With little fanfare, the central branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Library hosted the live simulcast of Jay-Z and Cornel West from the New York Public Library Monday evening. The small crowd of about 20 waited patiently in a fourth floor classroom. At the auditorium in New York, Paul Holdengräber, director of “Live from the NYPL” appeared to introduce the men of the hour. He declared the rapper’s new memoir, Decoded, as one of the “most extraordinary books I have read in the last decade.”
Like a boxing match, the men marched out to music. Their musical choices were an interesting allusion to the later discussed African-American generational divide ameliorated through song: West bopped to Marvin Gaye’s socially conscious “What’s Goin’ On” while Jay stepped out to his own, “The Ruler’s Back,” from The Blueprint.
Full Video below…
17th Nov2010
OxyMoron: Waka Flocka On The Cover Of…RESPECT? @ElliotWilson
Is that a watch…on a chain? This man is a genius…applaud him.
This issue of RESPECT magazine will be Elliot Wilson’s (YN) first issue as editor and his first print editing job in about 3 years. Congrats.
This^ is disRESPECTful
17th Nov2010
