[Translate] Dana Loesch, a conservative talk radio show host, made a statement on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight that would make any intelligent person want to hurl, or throw their TV set out of the window, or scream at Van Jones, who was served as the liberal counter to both she and Grover Norquist, the anti-tax advocate who also sits on the board of the National Rifle Association (NRA), for not aggressively talking her down. Loesch unbelievably said this: “I’m going to correct you, because I am tired of this talking point...
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[Translate] Adam Lanza. The perpetrator of the Newtown Shooting killed 26 people – 20 children and 6 adults – in just five minutes of time, and before taking his own life. That was according to the Danbury, Connecticut State’s Attorney, who released new information on the December 14th shooting tragedy today. It’s clear now, that Mr. Lanza was the kind of mentally ill person who wasn’t pre-identified as a threat. And it brings back to clear focus the conversation this blogger had with Oakland and...
[Translate] Akira Takarada. Remember the name? Godzilla fans do! Godzilla 2014 (now in production in Vancourver) and its director Gareth Edwards reach back in time to bring forward Akira Takarada, the legendary actor who’s appeared in seven Godzilla movies, including the first Godzilla in 1954, where he played the Japanese naval diver Hideto Ogata. Here’s the original Godzilla movie trailer: And the Theme from Godzilla: And this portion of the original Godzilla, which demonstrates how effectively terrifying the first...
[Translate] NAB Show Las VegasYep. Proud to announce that Zennie62 (well, me Zennie Abraham) is a Media Sponsor / Social Influencer / Blogger for the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The National Association of Broadcasters NAB Show is in Las Vegas from April 6th to April 11th and expects to attract 90,000 to the Las Vegas Convention Center. What the Media Sponsor / Social Influencer / Blogger does is blog about happenings and events related to the NAB Show. So if your’re going to be at the NAB Show, send a press release or...
[Translate] Ah, gone are the days when IGDA parties were simple affairs where you had cocktails, met interesting people, and OK, interesting females-in-tech, and here are the days, or at least this week, where we have news of a party that bent what I thought were the unwritten rules of GDC / IGDA events: don’t piss off anyone. The last IGDA Party I attended, I interviewed this painter guy from SF: And other than his work, the party was just what I described. But this year, its apparent YetiZen and its CEO Sana N Choudary...
[Translate] Yahoo!’s $30 million purchase of the IPhone app Summly, created by 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio, has royally pissed off the hacker wing of the tech community, and that’s putting it mildly. Summly is the now closed down IPhone app that provides a summary of online news for you. It’s very much like the app I found when I went to get Summly on my iPhone: clipped. Clipped.me provides the same summaries, but there’s no information on it (We’ll deal with that, later). To understand the collective...
[Translate] Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have spent four years in jail, were convicted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher the first time, then acquitted on appeal, and now, thanks to the Italian Supreme Court, have to stand trial again on the same murder case, only this time Knox has been back in America for just over a year. Be happy you’re in America, where this kind of double jeopardy is against the law. And be careful when you go to study abroad, because the legal systems in countries like Italy...
[Translate] The Chevron Ecuador case, which really should be called the “Tex-Pet Ecuador” case since Chevron was not operating in Ecuador at the time and up to Texaco’s departure in 1992, has produced another new and interesting development: U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has refused the request of the Patton Boggs lawfirm to be recused from submitting documents as part of the discovery phase in Chevron’s own lawsuit against Steven Donziger, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs who have sued Chevron in what...
[Translate] San Francisco TransBay Terminal Project Construction Update. Here’s the latest San Francisco TransBay Terminal Project Construction Update: 10 Day Look Ahead: Construction Activities Friday, March 22, 2013 – Sunday, March 31, 2013 NOTICE – STREET CLOSURE – BEALE STREET BRIDGE, APRIL 5-8: The third and final traffic bridge is scheduled to be installed on Beale Street, between Mission and Howard Streets, the weekend of April 5-8. Beale Street will close to through at 8:00 PM and will reopen Monday morning...
[Translate] James Bond. Sure you enjoy the movies based on Ian Fleming’s character and have your favorite James Bond actor, but do you have what it takes to actually be Bond? Well, there’s an online test you can take to find out. The test is called “Intelligence Officer Challenge” and is at the website of SIS, or Secret Intelligence Service, the real life version of the British organization 007 works for. If you’ve ever seen a Bond film, you know he has a cover role: Bond works for Universal Exports...
[Translate] Daniel Craig will definitely be back as James Bond. After some consternation that the star of SkyFall, the highest grossing Bond film in history earning $1.1 billion, may want to call it quits, Mr. Craig will be back as Ian Fleming’s British agent. In a conference call with investors on March 19th, MGM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Barber said that they were working on a screenplay for the next Bond film, pre-titled “Bond 24.” Barber said “We are very excited about the franchise,...
[Translate] This came up via a search, but from the looks of this, someone placed the KTVU version of story of the Oakland City Auditor’s Report called “Non‐Interference in Administrative Affairs Performance Audit FY 2009‐10 – FY 2011‐12,” and which this blogger has called racist, on a website specifically dedicated to racism against African Americans called “Chimpout.” UPDATE: The WHOIS Lookup for Chimpout.com: [Querying whois.verisign-grs.com] [whois.verisign-grs.com] Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain...
