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The owner of the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona, which offers a "quadruple bypass burger," is suing the owner of the Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Florida. Both businesses are "heart-attack/medical-themed," with "sexy nurse waitresses." Both serve obscenely large stacked hamburgers, and side dishes of similar nutritional content. At the Heart Attack Grill, there's a scale over in the corner, and if you weigh more than 350 pounds you eat for free. More: Phoenix New Times, WSJ law blog, WSJ Health blog.

The food and the concept may be repulsive to many (ok screw it, by "many" I mean "me"), but what gets me the most is the Sad Sexy Nurse waitress, at far right in the 'shopped image above, photo courtesy of the Florida ABC affiliate TV station WPBF. Sexy nurse, why you so sad?

Incidentally, WPBF-TV (=stands for "West Palm Beach Florida") is pretty rockin'. As I publish this blog post, their top headline is "Elderly Man Accidentally Shoots Self Outside Gun Store: 80-Year-Old Airlifted To Hospital."

Sir Alfie Dennen pointed by this tweet to PBS’s Digital Nation Life on the virtual frontier, a 9 chapter, 78 minutes documentary film by Douglas Rushkoff.

Share your thoughts on the Digital Nation Roundtable a place to discuss, even debate, many of the issues raised by the film. The platform will be tackling one subject a month, with some of the most interesting and knowledgeable people in that area.

Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?

Read here more of the synopsis

Chapter 1: Distracted by everything. M.I.T. students are among the world’s smartest and most wired. They constantly multitask with their tech tools.
Chapter 2: What’s it doing to their brains. Tests given Stanford’s multitaskers yield troubling discoveries. Other research into Net use and the brain raises more questions.
Chapter 3: South Korea’s gaming craze. Some cautionary lessons from a country where Internet addiction has become a health crisis.
Chapter 4: Teaching with technology. Teachers are embracing digital media–’it keeps students engaged; new skills are needed for a new age.’ But is there a catch?
Chapter 5: The dumbest generation? The debate has just begun on wether we are losing as much as we’re gaining in 24/7 wired world.Chapter
Chapter 6: Relationships. Millions of people are inhabitating the Net as it were a real place, satisfying the urge to connect to others in online games, virtual worlds.
Chapter 7: Virtual worlds. Second life offers a totally new reality for humans, says it’s creator–and IBM has begun shifting it’s meetings into this virtual space.
Chapter 8: Can virtual experience change us? The U.S. military is using virtual spaces for PTSD therapy and for flying drones in Iraq while based in a room in Nevada.
Chapter 9: Where are we headed? A school is organized around learning through video games–may be it’s students are getting something we are’nt yet able to measure or recognize.

Alfie commented on Twitter: “The piece on internet addiction in South Korea is at once funny and profound”

To the hardworking and dedicated community at mytreo.net,

When I first joined mytreo.net in February of 2005, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I was late getting into the game, and at that time, MTDN was just a growing community. However, MTDN was quickly able to differentiate itself from any other forum – it had a real sense of “community.” Not long after I joined, I was determined that if I was going to make a difference, it would here. That journey started in July of 2005, when I my application for a new downloads admin was accepted. This would become the start of a hobby, a rather addicting one!

In the months that followed, I gradually learned the inner workings of MTDN, as well as HTML code, which I had no prior experience with. At that time, the Just Chat! section of General Chat was a popular escape from the technical talk of the rest of the forums, and there were several dedicated people who spent almost all of their time entertaining the rest of MTDN. At one point, I myself was also a Just Chat regular. At its peak, MTDN had over 4000 members online at a point.

Soon, things changed. The MTDN store wasn’t viable financially, developers weren’t getting paid, and the admins were unofficially given “missing in action” titles. MTDN was in financial trouble, and a lot of us held our breaths as we waited for things to straighten out. Thankfully, it did, but we were pretty much left to fend for ourselves as MTDN no longer became a priority for the admins. Many team members slowly disappeared and the front page once went without an update for several months, but nonetheless, 500,000 members was achieved in September of 2008.

The lack of a workforce behind MTDN resulted in my gradual increase in responsibilities, including front page writer, downloads admin, forum moderator, and of course, regular contributor. Knowing that single-handedly I would not be able to keep the site afloat, several regular contributors were introduced into the MTDN team, and a new chapter in MTDN history began. Daily activity increased significantly, and Just Chat briefly experienced a revival!

Spammers arrived at MTDN in mid-2008. Running an older version of the SMF forum software, MTDN was vulnerable, and there was little that forum moderators could do. The moderators, as well as forum members, vigilantly looked out for suspicious posts, which were removed manually. I’m certain that many people knew in the back of their minds that the end of MTDN was close, but we refused to believe it.

In early December, MTDN suddenly became inaccessible, and we were certain that the end has come. Checking MTDN dropped out of my morning routine, with the exception of an occasional attempt to access the forum, and my attention turned from phones to my newly purchased Maglite LED flashlights and CandlePowerForums. Having a couple members on my contact list, I was able to contact MiDoJo, who sadly confirmed the fact that MTDN was also down for him. We arranged to make an international call and contact head admin, Chris, and sure enough, our worst fears were confirmed. He was kind enough to put the site back online for us to say a quick goodbye. So if I haven’t said it already, thank you for all the good memories, and it is unfortunately time for us to say good-bye. I hope you all have enjoyed your experience as part of the MTDN community as much as I have.

Robin24k, MTDN downloads admin, logging off.

MiDoJo Here,

Hi All. Well Robin, pretty much summed it up. I really have enjoyed seeing many of you grow from clueless about PalmOS (and WinMo and even WebOS) to masters who were willing to spread your knowledge. I have often spent more time on MyTreo than in the “real world” and even before I ever started posting in the forum, was always using the Download section to make my Treo 600 and on better.

I hope you’ve all enjoyed the site and the community as much as I have.

We don’t know when the site will go down, the DNS runs out in April. But please keep posting in the forum until it comes.

Be seeing you,

MiDoJo

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We first heard about this months ago -- back in September, from another speaker at the Lavender Law conference. We didn't mention it at the time, though, since we're not that comfortable outing people.

But now that the cat has been let out of the bag -- or closet, as the case may be -- by the mainstream media, let's... go there. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay.

Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers who have had dealings with Walker say the 65-year-old jurist, appointed to the bench by President George H.W. Bush in 1989, has never taken pains to disguise -- or advertise -- his orientation.

Shocking? Not exactly. Judge Walker is a professionally successful white male, with great job security and a six-figure income, who's in his sixties -- and has never been married. A confirmed bachelor, if you will. Who lives in San Francisco. Umm, yeah.

(On the other hand, we hear His Honor's favorite drink is a Maker's Mark Manhattan -- a fairly butch beverage, despite the maraschino cherry. We'll stick with our cosmos, thank you very much.)

So this brings us to the question that Ashby Jones posed over at the WSJ Law Blog earlier today: If Judge Walker is gay, what should we make of that fact?

The Chronicle tried to get underneath his robe, to find out what Judge Walker bangs his gavel to. But His Honor did not cooperate:

Walker has declined to talk about anything involving the Prop. 8 case outside court, and he wouldn't comment to us when we asked about his orientation and whether it was relevant to the lawsuit.

Many San Francisco gays still hold Walker in contempt for a case he took when he was a private attorney, when he represented the U.S. Olympic Committee in a successful bid to keep San Francisco's Gay Olympics from infringing on its name.

"Life is full of irony," the judge replied when we reminded him about that episode.

Alanis Morissette concurs. And that sure sounds like an admission by Judge Walker that he's a friend of Dorothy, doesn't it? He's not exactly denying it. When the Chronicle asked him if he had "any concerns about being characterized as gay," the judge answered with "no comment."

We reached out to law professor Arthur Leonard, an expert on the federal courts and LGBT rights, for some insight into the situation. Professor Leonard seemed to view Judge Walker's potential proclivities as a non-issue.

"[E]verybody whose opinion was canvassed by the Chronicle agreed that Judge Walker's sexual orientation was essentially irrelevant to his being the judge on this case," said Professor Leonard. "He's respected as a very professional, impartial judge."

Very true. We've heard nothing about Judge Walker as a jurist that would call into question his impartiality in this case. We've also heard many positive comments about his intellect -- note his probing, smart questions during the Prop 8 trial -- and his work ethic. For example, Judge Walker often works on the weekends (unlike many other federal judges, who take advantage of life tenure to slack off a bit).

In other words, just because Judge Walker likes to s some d might be gay in no way precludes him from ruling impartially in a gay marriage case. In fact, wondering whether a gay judge might be biased in a gay marriage case is arguably reflective of bias.

"[T]here is a tendency to think that only members of minorities are 'biased' about cases involving their issues," said Professor Leonard. "It's the majority-centric way of seeing things, that assumes that straight white males are, of course, neutral, while everybody else has a point of view. But everybody has a point of view on most issues, and the job for the judge is to separate out his or her personal views from his or her professional role and to strive to take an 'objective' approach to deciding the legal issues in the case."

An ATL commenter on Morning Docket, where we previously linked to the Chronicle article, made a similar point: "I would have just as much of an issue if a heterosexual judge were hearing the Proposition 8 trial... and that is to say, none at all."

But there is certainly room for disagreement here. Some other possible perspectives:

• Judge Walker, if he is in fact gay, will be predisposed to strike down Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage. His ruling, tainted by bias, will be illegitimate.

• Judge Walker, if he is in fact gay, will "overcompensate" for his sexual orientation and uphold Prop 8. (Note his prior work, back when he was in private practice at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop), against the Gay Olympics.)

• Even if his orientation won't affect his ruling, it does create a perception issue. From an ATL commenter: "The judge is gay? That's a lose-lose situation for the gay marriage people. If he rules it unconstitutional, opponents will say it's a biased outcome. If he rules it constitutional, opponents will say 'even a gay judge doesn't think your position is valid.'"

• Judge Walker's orientation really doesn't matter, since nobody thinks this case will be settled at the trial level anyway -- it's going up to the Ninth Circuit, and possibly up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

(That last point may be something of an overstatement. Even if the case ends up being resolved by a higher court, it will be resolved based on a trial record that was crafted by Judge Walker.)

These are just a few possible positions to take on the issue. What do you think? Take our poll, and discuss in the comments.

Judge Being Gay a Nonissue During Prop. 8 Trial [San Francisco Chronicle]
Prop. 8 Judge is Reportedly Gay: What to Make of That? [WSJ Law Blog]

Nothing like a commemorative hard disk to remember one of the greatest pop stars of all time. At least, that’s exactly what Samsung was thinking when they thought up this one. Now when people ask you what that gaudy gold contraption on your desk is, you’ll have an answer other than censored from last night.

Under the hood, you get a S2 Portable HXMU050DA, with 500 GB capacity on USB 2.0. Oh, and a DRM locked copy of This Is It. Don’t worry, you’ll also get a little voucher with the activation code you need to watch it. Heaven help you if you want to burn it to a DVD to watch anywhere other than on your computer.

I’m not completely sure if this is designed as an “Oh, here’s a free copy of this movie with your hard drive purchase” sort of thing, or a “Hey, I really want a copy of this movie. Might as well get a hard drive with it!” Either way, units will start moving on February 24th for $123 a pop.

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Oh, winter snowstorms. Your lion’s roar is but a cat’s meow provided you don’t knock out the power or prevent the UPS or FedEx trucks from completing their routes.

If you do knock out the power or render delivery services immobile, then you’re an asshole. An asshole of a storm.

If not, please feel free to continue canceling school and work for everyone (except bloggers and other work-from-home professionals) while we all play video games.

Long story short (too late) if you need Xbox 360 games to play, Amazon’s doing a buy-two-get-one-free deal on Platinum Hits titles. Just add three to your cart and the lowest priced one will carry the low, low price of nothing.

Deal ends next Saturday, February 13th.

Buy 2 Platinum Hits, Get 1 Free [Amazon via Joystiq]

Sometimes its hard to tell if people are trying to be funny, mean, interesting, provocative or are just plain stupid or completely out of touch with reality.  I know I get accused of being all of the above all the time.

The other day in New York I gave a speech at the AlwaysOn Conference which AdWeek summarized nicely here.  The audience was primarily newspapers and people related to their business. So as I do when I speak to a group like this, rather than just shilling a product, service or position as many, if not most keynote speakers do, I try to put myself in the business shoes of the audience. Then I discuss what I would do if I owned, ran or invested in their business, and the approach  I would take to some of the strategic issues of the day.

The concept of directing comments to a vertical segment of a market is nothing new. I have been doing it for more than 20 years. Yet for some reason, based on comments from a few folks over the past couple days, there are some relatively high profile people in the internet business that have a tough time grasping that concept.  Tech Crunch - a site I love. SearchEngineLand – Run by  Danny Sullivan, I think he Danny  likes to banter to create traffic, smart on his part. But I also think he doesn’t fully understand all the business elements on some of the topics he has challenged me on.  Then there is Jeff Jarvis who always like to slam me. Which is ok by me. I just consider the source. As Jeff describes himself  ”Most of my holdings today are in mutual funds because I’m a lousy investor.” Which tells me all I need to know about his business knowledge.

While its fun to make a list of those who have criticized me, the criticism is incredibly valuable.  As a businessperson and one who tries to stay ahead of the technology and business curve, even when it means taking a position that is far from popular, critics serve the purpose of always “making you check your hole card” . In other words, the more a position I take gets challenged, the smarter I get on the position. So the criticism is welcome.

Of course the criticism can be fun for me to challenge and also wrong. Which much of the criticism of my Newspaper Industry speech is.

Danny Sullivan thought he had caught in some hypocritical act because I am an investor in Mahalo, a human powered search engine that leverages SEO techniques to increase traffic and revenue. First of all, I invested in Mahalo in 2006 . Not yesterday as Danny would seem to imply. Nor am I involved in the day to day management of the company.  Im always available to answer questions when they ask. Which they do every so often.

Second, EVERY presentation or discussion of actions I thought the newspaper industry should take ALWAYS had the qualifier that the newspaper had significant amounts of unsold inventory.  My point being that if the traffic Google was sending you was not being monetized and you didn’t see a way to monetize the traffic, it was time to make a business decision reconsidering the value equation of traffic coming from Google or Google News vs the strategic implications of staying in their index and offerings. Topics I discussed in my last blog post.   I also discussed in a prior blog post, but unfortunately didnt have time to cover in my 12 minute keynote at Always On, that twitter and facebook were becoming significant sources of traffic to newspaper sites. A fact  that should be considered in the value equation and which in the long run  could become a threat to Google’s Search and News . (a point Im sure Google has also taken note of )

We increasingly look to friends and/or our social networks as a trusted source for information, and because that information is broadcast to us rather than us having to go find it, and because Twitter and Facebook updates are not going to be competitive threats to the newspaper business,  leaving Google is no longer unimaginable for Newspapers.  In the case of Mahalo, unlike newspapers, they are making good money from Google traffic. No reason to stop doing that.  On the flipside however, its fair to point out that Mahalo does use some newspapers content to support their content.  If a newspaper would ask me if they should block Mahalo, the fair answer would be that there is no reason not to. Like Google, the traffic from Mahalo would not justify the value Mahalo gets from their content.  If the CEO of Mahalo were to ask me how Mahalo should deal with newspapers, I would tell him he should work out a licensing deal with the newspapers. That it would be found money for newspapers, so he could most likely get some level of exclusivity on their content in exchange for a minimal amount of money that would be in the form of an advertising revenue share from  pages that host their content. It would be a simple revenue arbitrage for him while also giving him a nice differentiator that would allow him to promote being an exclusive source of content from companies he worked out deals with.

Moving on to TechCrunch, Michael Arrington asks the question of why I could be so enthusiastic about Techmeme, a site that I use regularly and to which I point to from my blogroll. I think his point is that its an aggregator and as such, shouldn’t I be cautioning newspapers about Techmeme and warning them to opt out of it ?  In response I will refer back to my references about monetizing and leveraging Google  traffic. My rule for ANY site receiving traffic from an aggregator of ANY kind is: If you believe you can create more value from the traffic you receive than potential negative branding implications plus the cost of supporting a potential competitor, then continue with the aggregator. If not, block the aggregator. In the case of techmeme, I dont see it ever originating content from the site. So I would strike the competitive aspect of it.  Nor does Techmeme attempt to index the entire internet looking for sources. Instead, if i understand it correctly, Gabe Rivera, the guru behind techmeme personally cultivates the sources he includes in the techmeme index. Because this is purely a tech driven site, and given that participating sites must be “selected”, I would argue that there actually is brand enhancement to being identified as a source on techmeme.  That said, in the event you think that techmeme is gaining more value from your site, than your site is from techmeme, Gabe offers a “leaderboard” where you can check to see just how important you are to the site.  I am sure that Gabe would be happy to exclude you from the site if that is your conclusion.

The same applies to one of my other investments, icerocket.com .  Icerocket was formed in 2004 to be a real-time search engine.  I wanted to be able to search blogs for information that I thought was important and also have those search results continuously available to me through RSS feeds.  It was and is the most expedient manner to keep up with what the blogosphere is saying about a topic. Icerocket’s strength has always been its ability to exclude spam.  To this day it does a better job than Google or any other search engine that includes blogs at finding and giving you real results. When twitter hit the seen, it was a natural to include twitter results as well.  IMHO, and in the opinion of others, Icerocket is as good or better than any other real time search engine out there.  Should your site stay in the Icerocket index ? That is up to you. If you would like to see your blog posts or tweets gain more visibility, then Icerocket will help you.  We aren’t the biggest, but our real-time search is growing very, very quickly.

Which gets me to the necessary conclusion.   The reality of today’s business world is that there are no absolutes. If I invest in a search index or aggregator, that doesn’t mean I believe every website in the world should be in the index. It means I believe that the business can offer enough value to those it has a relationship with to make that relationship win-win.  Nor does it mean that a company is “evil” or that I don’t like it.  Its real world that you will compete with companies that you do business with.  Superfeedr.com is a business I have invested in for realtime push of information that works with information aggregators and content creators of all types that compete with other businesses I own. So does SMASH , which does cookies for Text Messaging.  So what.

Every business has its own decision making critical path that must be re-evaluated daily. For some reason, many of the internet persuasion seem to think that 2010 is the same as 2009, which is the same as 2008, etc, etc. Its not. Things change. Every business must re-examine the variables that impact their current and future profitability. Your relationships with Google, Mahalo, Icerocket, in 2010 may need to be different than they were in 2006.   This seems like an  obvious conclusion to me, but it apparently isn’t to some.

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I turned 29 on Wednesday of this past week, which still seems a little bit incredible to me. I don’t feel radically different from the nineteen-year-old I was ten years ago, except perhaps that I rarely have to dig into my change jar when rent is due, these days. And perhaps my hair is a little less alarming. But here I am, on the brink of thirty!

In honor of the last year of my twenties, I threw myself a birthday party at one of my favorite college drinking haunts in the Village. It’s exactly the same as it was when I spent most Thursday nights there, only now they serve a pretty good dark & stormy and there aren’t any ashtrays. It was extremely strange but entirely entertaining having so many of my friends in one place, particularly friends from such wildly different contexts. Coworkers, ex-coworkers, gaming friends, college friends, and people I’ve known for so long I don’t even remember how I know them. I had a really splendid time and poured myself into a cab at the end of it all with such an abundance of flowers and presents and affection and alcohol that I felt quite fancy. So, I would say that 2010 is off to a pretty good start.

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The Pool by Jen Lewin is a really interesting and modular approach to creating a light based game / playground space…

“The Pool is an environment of giant, concentric circles created from interactive, wireless circular pads. By entering the pool, you enter a world where play and collaborative movement can create a cascading effect of swirling light and color .

Each pad in The Pool is its own wireless controller. All of the 120 pads communicate and listen to each other in an organic network formed in the same way people interact. The Pool has no single master computer and does not use a router to route or control connections. Each pad is independent, and simultaneously interacts and listens to its environment based on user feedback.”

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I’d love to get my hands on the set-up to prototype game ideas.

“Hello Haptic is a flash card kit for the blind children to learn various haptical experiences about nature.

Visually impaired children are able to self-educate themselves about different parts of nature with this learning aid. They will be properly stimulated about diverse characters of nature as well as fulfilling their curiosity through their first-hand tactile knowledge.

Created by Rhea Jeong in collaboration with Sunmin Lee, Saehee Lee, Youngsoo Hong”

Considering I’ve smoked over a box of the Carlos Torano Exodus 1959 50 Years Short Churchills it was time to write the review. I meant to write it about a month ago, but the holidays and the kids bringing home colds to share forced me to cut back on how much I’ve been smoking.

The Exodus 1959 50 Years commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Torano Family’s exodus from Cuba and is the third cigar to join the Exodus line. It is available in three sizes Robusto (5 X 50), Torpedo (5 1/2 X 52) and Short Churchill (6 X 48). The Wrapper is Brazilian Arapiraca Sun-Grown, the Binder is Honduran and the Filler is a blend of Nicaraguan tobacco from Esteli and Pueblo Nuevo.

Already a fan of Brazilian tobacco and the Exodus line it didn’t take much for me to fall in love with this full bodied, full flavored cigar. I’ve smoked all three sizes and haven’t had any issues with the construction. I’m impressed when I can go through 30+ cigars of the same blend and not have any issues. The cigar has a spicy bite that is mellowed some by the sweet dark chocolate flavor and the finish had a leather quality to it. Occasionally I picked up something that reminded me a bit of coffee with cream and sugar.

Verdict: For the past couple of months this has been my go to cigar. This is my favorite cigar of 2009. A fantastic full flavored cigar that is reasonably priced at under $7.00 in my local shop. If you find them don’t get one or two, get a box. Available at The Party Source (Call to Order 1-866-78CIGAR)

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Here’s the second episode in 720p quality!

David Youldon and the team oversee a potentially dangerous introduction at the African Lion & Environmental Research Trust in Zimbabwe when two-year-old Sango meets a pair of bigger and stronger brothers called Echo and Etosha. The reserve also welcomes two new arrivals – cubs Bhubesi and Batoka – who have much training ahead of them.

Links: HOMEPAGE

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Usenet is a not so popular method of obtaining new scene releases, but it’s actually one of the faster and more convenient. All you need is a NZB file, which is often linked with new posts here at Releaselog (or you can search the files directly as well). There are virtually hundreds of different Usenet providers, but if you want to try this service for the first time and enjoy some advanced functions, Binverse is a good place to start.

Binverse offers a completely FREE 14-day trial, to try their service. The service offers two methods of downloads – unlimited downloads capped at 1 Mbps or Full speed downloads with data cap of 30 GB a month. All you need to activate the free 14-day trial is to register and submit your credit card or PayPal details. You can cancel the service at anytime before the end of trial without being charged, or you can continue paying $14.99 a month for the service afterwards.

With Binverse, you can access over 5 new Terabytes per day of new files and messages. Binverse will also provide you with a special Usenet client with features as Usenet search, built in RAR / PAR support for dealing with large compressed files, intergrated chat, email alerts and many more. There’s really nothing to lose, if you won’t like it, you can just cancel it.

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Here’s group BiA with a new episode of “Law and Order (UK)”.

Season 2, Episode 5 : Love and Loss
A teenaged girl returning from vacation with her friends dies from a heroin overdose. Devlin and Brooks must find the man who hired her to smuggle the drugs.

Links: HOMEPAGE – TV.com

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People are dubious over Apple iPad. Kindle taking a beating by publishers. Apple bans any mention of Android from app store. 80,000 Nexus phones sold in 30 days. 3G Slingplayer for iPhone. Huge MSFT patch Tuesday coming. Xbox Live dead. At least for old Xbox. Jon Schwartz is a character. Symbian now officially Open Source. And teenagers are odd, check out why.

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4/5ths of young adults use wireless Internet rather than the old-fashioned ways. HTML 5.0 getting into the news. Nexus One gets the edge over other Droid phones. Amazon getting more and more into tech. Bit-Torrent passwords hacked? The Devour phone arrives. iPad to be used for textbooks? Video games sales sliding. Fake update installing Trojans. Sprint to do Wi-Max phone. Bans on cellphones in school fails. Italy to screw web vids.

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Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday.

Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in the hacking world as “Stakkato,” allegedly seized computer code that controls internet traffic. After the 2004 breach of Cisco, the proprietary source code for Cisco’s IOS operating system was discovered on a Russian website.

Pettersson was indicted in the United States in May on five hacking counts, (.pdf) but could not be brought from Sweden to the United States for trial. Sweden does not extradite its own citizens, but said it was examining whether to prosecute him in Sweden after U.S. authorities in San Francisco initiated that request.

“The intrusions to Cisco Company and NASA are regarded as computer intrusion according to Swedish law,” (.pdf) Swedish prosecutor Chatrine Rudstrom told federal prosecutors in San Francisco, according to documents released Monday.

Still, Rudstrom told San Francisco federal authorities that Sweden was not guaranteeing it would charge the 21-year-old suspect.

Petterrson was convicted in 2007 of invading the networks of three Swedish universities and ordered to pay $25,000 in damages. He was 16 at the time of the intrusions.

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See Also:

• Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
• Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show …
• Hack of Google, Adobe Conducted Through Zero-Day IE Flaw
• Internal Twitter Credentials Used in DNS Hack, Redirect
• Decision Looms on iPhone Hack
• 7-Eleven Hack From Russia Led to ATM Looting in New York
• Web Censor Seeks $2.2 Billion for China Hack

A federal court policy-making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing.

It’s standard procedure to inform jurors to remain mum and not conduct any research about the case until a verdict. But recent gadget use by jurors has forced the hand of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body of the federal courts.

The model jury instructions (.pdf) the Judicial Conference released to the federal judiciary in late January specify:

You may not communicate with anyone about the case on your cellphone, through e-mail, Blackberry, iPhone, text messaging, or on Twitter, through any blog or website, through any internet chat room, or by way of any other social networking websites, including Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and YouTube.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson of Kansas, the chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, told the nation’s judges in a Jan. 28 memo that the new jury instructions “address the increasing incidence of juror use, of such devices as cellular telephones or computers, to conduct research on the internet or communicate with others about cases.”

Robinson told fellow judges that “more explicit mention in jury instructions of the various methods and modes of electronic communication and research would help jurors better understand and adhere to the scope of the prohibition against the use of these devices.”

A federal drug trial in Florida ended in a mistrial last year when eight jurors admitted they were doing internet research on the case they were hearing. Among other examples, there was a call — although unheeded — for a mistrial when a juror was discovered tweeting and publishing trial updates on Facebook in the prosecution of Vincent Fumo, a former Pennsylvania state senator convicted of graft.

There are no nationwide instructions for the state courts, because each state adopts its own set of jury instructions. Florida, for instance, is recommending that its judges instruct jurors multiple times “that they cannot perform outside research using the internet, or use electronic devices to communicate about the case.”

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In case anyone was wondering if Barbra Streisand and Kanye West could make sweet music together, they'll find out when the star-filled remake of "We Are the World" premieres Friday during the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

Catch a rap, hip-hop and R&B show featuring local as well as out-of-town acts from Missoula and Las Vegas at the 406 Club on Thursday.

“I tell beatmakers all the time, you gotta do more than beats. If you want your career to go right, you just gotta do more than beats.” — 9th Wonder

9th talks the talk, then walks the walk by remixing both new and old tracks…again.

1. Babyface – Grown and Sexy (9th Wonder Please Talk To Me Remix)
2. Memphis Bleek – Be At (9th Wonder Fire Remix)
3. Kanye West feat. Ludacris – Breathe In, Breathe Out (9th Wonder Soul Remix)
4. Goapele – Catch 22 (9th Wonder I’m Stylisticin’ On Ya Remix)
5. Heavy D feat. Diddy – It’s Your Birthday (9th Wonder Let’s Work Remix feat. Diddy)
6. Method Man – Method Man and 9th (9th Wonder Babydoll Remix)
7. Method Man – Method Man and 9th (9th Wonder Pre-quel Remix)
8. Method Man – Method Man and 9th (9th Wonder Rainy Day Remix)
9. Method Man – Method Man and 9th (9th Wonder Smoke Something Remix)
10. Beyonce feat. Donna Summer – Naughty Girl (9th Wonder Hip-Hop Remix)
11. Kanye West feat. Jay-Z – Never Let Me Down (9th Wonder The Real Hip-Hop Remix)
12. Little Brother – Not Enough (More) (9th Wonder STILL Ain’t Enough Remix)
13. Supernatural – Off The Top (9th Wonder Nature Super Remix feat. DJ Babu On De Cuts)
14. Memphis Bleek – R to the O to the C (9th Wonder Creepin’ Through The Hood Remix)
15. Ghostface feat. Jadakiss, Nas and Big L – Run (9th Wonder Remix)
16. Monica feat. Joe Scudda – So Gone (9th Wonder Dedication to the Moon Cuz it’s Black Remix)
17. Twista feat R. Kelly – So Sexy (9th Wonder Change Up Remix)
18. Memphis Bleek – Take a Minute to Breathe (9th Wonder I Can Take It Remix)
19. Common feat. Kanye West and The Last Poets – The Corner (9th Wonder 70’s Pimped Out Willie Hutch Remix)
20. Nas – Thief’s Theme (9th’s Back to Metcalf Remix)
21. Tweet feat. Missy Elliot – Turn Da Lights Off (9th Wonder Oh No You Didn’t Remix)
22. John Legend feat. Renee and Angela – Used To Love You (9th Wonder Playmates Imaging Remix)
23. A Tribe Called Quest feat. Consequence – Wordplay (9th Wonder Lounging Around Remix)

Download — 9th Wonder Presents 9th Invented The Remix…Again | Alt. Link

As an extra, here’s the first volume for those that slept.

Download — 9th Wonder Presents 9th Wonder Invented The Remix

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I was a Super Nintendo kid growing up. But even the biggest Nintendo nerds couldn’t fake on Sonic. Mario games had more content, secrets and are arguably better in terms of replay value. But Sonic 1-3 were dope for their break neck speed, new moves and edgy flavor that truly showed they were a product of the 90’s. The first batch of sidekicks were great too as anything created after Knuckles can kick rocks.

Then the Sonic name fell off with one mediocre release after the other. You’d think that the franchise should’ve retired as its popularity waned over the years. But Sega decided to actually try to revive the glory days of everyone’s favorite Blue Hedgehog with Sonic 4 Episode 1. Like NBA Jam, the game (and trailer) obviously feeds on nostalgia as it’ll strictly be a 2D affair like the trilogy it’s based on. I’m happy the game is returning to its roots because that’s when the franchise was at its best. That also means Sonic will be the only playable character going by Joystiq’s word.

The trailer suggests that this will be a downloadable game from Xbox Live, PSN or Wii Ware. With that out of the way I’m somewhat skeptical about this “episode” malarkey they’re trying to pull. We haven’t seen any official word on how many levels are in an episode or how much each will cost. Let’s just hope consumers won’t have to break out the wallet too tough for the full experience. Anyway the blue bomber will be back in business this summer. Here’s hoping Sega knows what they’re doing with this one.

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“With a great first week under our belts, we’re happy to bring back ‘Lost in Astoria‘ again next week. We’ll have the same amazing drink specials of $5 sangria and $12 pitchers–as well as “Lost on the Beach”. Bring your Lost friends as we will again be playing Lost trivia in the commercial breaks. Each week, the winners will get VIP seats in leather recliners with their own 60″ tv and a round on the house. Spread the word! We’re poised to become the best Lost party in the City. The episode starts at 9, but we’ll have some surprises for the early birds.”

For the 7th, and final, installment of our Svedka Vodka Session series, Giant Step brings you a very special evening jam packed with some of the best emerging artists to watch out for in 2010. Amanda Blank will start off the evening with her high energy style, followed by a very special acoustic set by Daniel Merriweather, and then Ebony Bones will close up the set with a bang. Making sure there is not a dull moment the whole night, guest DJ Moni will be spinning all through the evening. Entrance is free but strictly RSVP only. 21+


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Eastville Comedy Club kicks open their door to FreeNYC readers tonight with a free comedy showcase. Catch sets by Mike Britt, DC Benny, Nicole Korkolis, and Geno Bisconte. All you have to do is call them up and mention FreeNYC to by pass the usual $20 cover. Keep in mind there is still a 2 drink minimum ($5-$8) but what’s a little stand-up with out a few cold ones. Show repeats Saturday and there are two seatings – 9pm and 11pm – each night. 18+

They’re back at it again. The iPhone dev-team has released an update to their popular jailbreaking software, PwnageTool, for Mac OS X. The new PwnageTool — version 3.1.5 — boasts the ability to properly jailbreak Apple’s recently released 3.1.3 iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. Before you get too excited, the dev-team does offer up this proclamation, “Unless you’ve personally observed a problem with the reporting of your battery percentage, there’s no reason to update to 3.1.3.” For those that feel the need for a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch with the 3.1.3 firmware follow the read link; let us know how it goes in the comments.

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Motorola has been going toe and toe with RIM over alleged patent infringement both here in the US and across the pond in the UK. Motorola’s UK case focused on BIS and BES technologies, claiming that the two messaging systems infringe upon patents that Motorola holds for an RF-based message communication system. In ruling against Motorola, the judge noted that messages from BES servers were not suitable for RF transmission and that RIM’s BIS servers are physically located in Canada and are out of the court’s jurisdiction. In a further blow to Motorola, the court held that there was no inventive step and the patent itself was declared invalid. Sorry Motorola, better luck next time, we guess.

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A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Syndey apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives

Plot: Unemployed Dave Peck (Samuel Johnson) still lives at home with his dad, Jim (Anthony LaPaglia) in an apartment block where his neighbours are a mixed bunch. Pensioner Albert (Barry Otto) is visited by what seems an angel, who in a previous life was a homeless man (Geoffrey Rush) and retired, broke magician Marcus Parcus (Roy Billing) is getting repossessed. Loser Ron (Joel Edgerton) is at odds with his girlfriend and keeps company with three miniature beer swilling students who live in his room. Dave’s brother, Lenny (Ben Mendelsohn) is chasing supermodel Tanita (Leeanna Walsman) who likes her men hairlessly smooth.

Genre: Animation
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 (358 votes)
Directed by: Tatia Rosenthal
Starring: Josef Ber, Tom Budge, Joel Edgerton, Leon Ford

Release Name: 9.Dollars.99.Cents.2008.LiMiTED.DVDRip.XviD-NODLABS
Size: 700MB
Audio Quality: English – AC3 – 192kbps
Video Quality: XviD – 624×336 – 1102kbps – 25.000fps

Links: HOMEPAGE – IMDB – Trailer
Sample: Here
NFO: Here
NewTorrents Search: Here

Download: HOTFiLE : HERE

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Usenet is a not so popular method of obtaining new scene releases, but it’s actually one of the faster and more convenient. All you need is a NZB file, which is often linked with new posts here at Releaselog (or you can search the files directly as well). There are virtually hundreds of different Usenet providers, but if you want to try this service for the first time and enjoy some advanced functions, Binverse is a good place to start.

Binverse offers a completely FREE 14-day trial, to try their service. The service offers two methods of downloads – unlimited downloads capped at 1 Mbps or Full speed downloads with data cap of 30 GB a month. All you need to activate the free 14-day trial is to register and submit your credit card or PayPal details. You can cancel the service at anytime before the end of trial without being charged, or you can continue paying $14.99 a month for the service afterwards.

With Binverse, you can access over 5 new Terabytes per day of new files and messages. Binverse will also provide you with a special Usenet client with features as Usenet search, built in RAR / PAR support for dealing with large compressed files, intergrated chat, email alerts and many more. There’s really nothing to lose, if you won’t like it, you can just cancel it.

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Hey guys after few days im here with first R5 of film “Daybreakers” released by Noir p2p group,Daybreakers is a vampire thriller film written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig.The film stars Ethan Hawke,Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill,and the film recieved a good votes and rating on imdb. Audio quality is good and video is great for R5 released,I`ve Added the Sample  you can check it out. Enjoy.

Update 2: Daybreakers R5 LiNE XViD – IMAGiNE
NFO | Sample: Video | #1 – #2 – #3

Update: Daybreakers.2009.R5.LiNE.XviD-Rx
NFO | Sample: Video | #1 – #2 – #3

Plot: In a world 10 years into the future, vampires make up the vast majority of the population with only 5% of the human race remaining. This presents particular challenges as the vampires’ food supply – human blood – is dwindling and rationing is now the norm. There is growing evidence that vampires deprived of an adequate blood supply are themselves evolving into wild, vile creatures that attack anyone and anything in order to survive. Dr. Edward Dalton, a vampire and hematologist who works for a pharmaceutical firm, has been working on finding an artificial blood supply that will meet the vampire society’s needs. He is sympathetic to humans and sees his work as a way of alleviating their suffering but his views on finding a solution change considerably when he meets someone who found a way to transform himself from being a vampire to again take human form.

Genre: Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 (8,393 votes)
Directed : Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
Starring: Ethan Hawke,Willem Dafoe,Sam Neill

Release Name: Daybreakers 2009 R5 Xvid-Noir
Size: 701 MB
Video: XVID, 672×288, 961 kbps
Audio: MP3 , 112 VBR
Runtime: 01:33:00
Filename: Daybreakers.2009.R5.Xvid {1337x}-Noir.avi

Links: IMDb – RT – trailer – Official Site
Samples: Video | #1 – #2 – #3
NFO: Here
Torrent: NTi – TPB

DOWNLOAD Noir Released:  Hotfile:- Part1 – Part2 
DOWNLOAD Rx Released:  Hotfile:- Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4
DOWNLOAD IMAGiNE Released: Rapidshare

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“HAYWIRE has been the quickest record we’ve ever made from start to finish,” says Josh. “But I’m glad our haste didn’t make waste. I love every single song. One thing I’ve noticed is that you are definitely hearing more of my range, high and low on this album. I’m really proud of this record.” And that’s saying something, given what he’s accomplished so far. Since earning a standing ovation as an unknown singer on the Grand Ole Opry stage in 2001 with his impressive delivery of “Long Black Train,” he has established himself as one of the most identifiable male vocalists in country music.

Label: NCA Nashville
Genre: Country
Quality: VBR kbps (208kbps avg)
Time: 0h 40min 09sec total
Size: 60.10MB

Tracklist:
01. Why Don’t We Just Dance
02. I Wouldn’t Be A Man
03. Haywire
04. Your Smile
05. Lovin’ You On My Mind
06. As Fast As I Could
07. I’ll Be There
08. All Over Me
09. Eye Candy
10. Friday Paycheck
11. The Answer

Release name: Josh_Turner-Haywire-2010-VAG
Links: Amazon – Wiki – Homepage – Myspace

Download: HOTFiLE

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Usenet is a not so popular method of obtaining new scene releases, but it’s actually one of the faster and more convenient. All you need is a NZB file, which is often linked with new posts here at Releaselog (or you can search the files directly as well). There are virtually hundreds of different Usenet providers, but if you want to try this service for the first time and enjoy some advanced functions, Binverse is a good place to start.

Binverse offers a completely FREE 14-day trial, to try their service. The service offers two methods of downloads – unlimited downloads capped at 1 Mbps or Full speed downloads with data cap of 30 GB a month. All you need to activate the free 14-day trial is to register and submit your credit card or PayPal details. You can cancel the service at anytime before the end of trial without being charged, or you can continue paying $14.99 a month for the service afterwards.

With Binverse, you can access over 5 new Terabytes per day of new files and messages. Binverse will also provide you with a special Usenet client with features as Usenet search, built in RAR / PAR support for dealing with large compressed files, intergrated chat, email alerts and many more. There’s really nothing to lose, if you won’t like it, you can just cancel it.