The valedictorian of a Blue Ribbon-awarded high school in New Jersey has left teachers and administrators with a sour taste in their mouths after using his June 20 valedictory speech to describe his education as “hollow” and one filled with “countless hours wasted in those halls.”
Valedictorian Complains of ‘Hollow’ Public School Education — 06/29/2006
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Life imitates Hard Candy? Much recent media freakage over MySpace involves adult men accused of preying on underage girls. But in a different sort of incident reported last week, two Florida girls aged 14 and 15 created a bogus profile on MySpace, grabbed a pair of pistols, then robbed an adult man who arranged to meet the lovely but fictitious 18-year-old “Natalia” in person.According to the fake character’s profile details, Natalia was “just lookin’ for some fun.” Snip: “[One of the girls] took [a] gun out and put it to my head and told me to empty my pockets.” The girls didn’t get much because the victim had forgotten his wallet. They let him go, unharmed, and he called police.
Boing Boing: Underage teen girls rob adult man they met on MySpace
technorati tags:myspace, idiots
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If this is true, I will be spending a bit less at Amazon and a lot more at iTMS… I guess it depends on how much AL tracks will sell for.
A new version of Apple Computer’s iTunes Producer software suggest that the company may begin to offer tracks through its iTunes Music Store that are encoded in its higher-quality lossless compression format.
AppleInsider | Apple Lossless format coming to iTMS?
technorati tags:iTMS, apple, amazon
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These are DOPENESS, I am really digging KAWS stuff now… I tried to draw the KAWS’ed Mickey on my whiteboard at work but I failed miserably. When Sherry is back I’ll ask her to draw it for me…
via Supertouch
The specialty chipmaker, whose audio decoder chips have found their way into the nerve center of Apple’s most popular iPods — including the iPod nano and fifth-generation video player — has laid off 45 employees. That’s about 14 percent of its total staff.As a result of the move, PortalPlayer expects to incur a restructuring charge of $850,000 to $950,000 in its current quarter, according to the report. But in the long run, the company figures the lay offs will save it $6 million to $7 million in expenses.
AppleInsider | iPod chip maker to cut workforce
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Last time it was $300 rebate when you purchase Mac and iPod together, but I guess iPods got cheaper…
Students who purchase one of the qualifying Macs — a MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, or Power Mac G5 — and also purchase an iPod, will receive a $179 mail-in-rebate on top of their education discount.Apple will encourage students to purchase a 2GB iPod nano along with their qualifying Mac because the $179 rebate will cancel out the cost of the player (also $179 for educational buyers.) Alternatively, students can choose to apply the value of the rebate towards any of the company’s other iPod models.
AppleInsider | Apple’s Back-To-School program offers free iPod
technorati tags:apple, ipod, mac
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AlterNet: Why Religion Must End:
A leading atheist says people must embrace rationalism, not faith — or they will never overcome their differences.
Angry Chinese Blogger has a few testimony of 6/4 survivors, most of these were originally published by BBC.
Technorati Tags: Tiananmen, Tiananmen massacre
nothing has changed, it’s really a shame…
Memorial at Victoria Park in Hong Kong…
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