date:20100401

One of my favorite scenes in the last terminator movie was the one with the
motorcycles. The probably could program a bot to drive that hill and do it
better than a human at some point. Just as big blue was able to beat a human
in chess once. :)

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Here come those 'bots again... now they'll be able to bump us off on the
> highways.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do
>>
>>- By Chuck Squatriglia 
>> [image:
>>Email Author] 
>>- March 31, 2010  |
>>- 8:00 pm  |
>>- Categories: Cool Cars
>>-
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  The race to the top of Pikes Peak is among the most harrowing in
>> motorsports, a flat-out sprint through 156 turns on a 12.4-mile road to the
>> clouds. It is a test of grit and skill that demands the best from drivers as
>> they brave perilous drops at 130 mph. Audi thinks it can do it *without*a 
>> driver.
>>
>> The German automaker will send an autonomous TTS barreling to the summit
>> in September. It will navigate the course at race speeds — the best drivers
>> make the run in around 12 minutes — with no one at the wheel or even in the
>> car. No one’s ever attempted anything like it before. Although robocars have
>> driven the course, they haven’t done it at more than 25 mph. Audi says it is
>> pushing autonomous-vehicle technology to its very edge in an effort to make
>> the cars the rest of us drive smarter and safer.
>>
>> “We’re interested in the safety opportunities this technology presents,”
>> said Dr. Burkhard Huhnke, executive director of the Electronics Research
>> Laboratory. Volkswagen Group, which owns Audi, works alongside Stanford
>> University at the lab in Palo Alto, California. “We want to understand the
>> best way to use this technology to provide additional support to drivers in
>> critical situations.”
>>
>> [image: 
>> audi_fb]
>>
>> Audi, Volkswagen and Stanford are building on their success with Stanley,
>> a VW Touareg  that
>> won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, and Stanley, a VW 
>> Passatthat
>>  took second in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Those vehicles used
>> radar, sensors and cameras to track the road at relatively low speed on a
>> closed and controlled course. The TTS will use differential GPS and an
>> inertial measurement system to tackle a road where anything can happen.
>>
>> “We’re aiming high,” said Chris Gerdes, director of the Center for
>> Automotive Research at Stanford. “Pike’s Peak has been a challenge since the
>> first race in 1916. It is a place where you have to push to the very limit,
>> and there’s a very stiff penalty if you get it wrong.”
>>
>> The car won’t compete in the Pike’s Peak International Hill 
>> Climbin June. But the all-wheel drive TTS 
>> will follow the same course the racers
>> use. It’s a mix of pavement, dirt and gravel that rises 4,721 feet at an
>> average grade of 7 percent. The current record for a production-based
>> all-wheel-drive car stands at 11:48.434. No one expects the TTS to hit that
>> mark, and it won’t achieve the kind of speeds rally driver Marcus
>> Gronhölm  or
>> four-time winner Nobuhiro Tajima have, but it will make the run faster than
>> you ever could.
>>
>> “I want to go up the mountain much faster than anyone with any sense of
>> self-preservation would go,” Gerdes said.
>>
>> The robocar is a 2010 TTS. The team chose it because it features a
>> fly-by-wire throttle, adaptive cruise control, a semiautomatic DSG gearbox
>> and other gadgetry. That made it relatively easy to make the car fully
>> autonomous using electronics developed at the Electronics Research Lab.
>> [image: Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2
>> centimeters.]
>>
>> Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2 centimeters.
>>
>> “The components we added that actually interface with the car would fit in
>> a shoebox,” said Marcial Hernandez, a senior research engineer at the
>> Electronics Research Lab. “The largest component by far is the gyroscope,
>> and it’s an 8-inch cube.”
>>
>> The TTS is named Shelley in honor of Michèle 
>> Mouton,
>> an Audi rally driver and the first woman to win at Pikes Peak. Shelley uses
>> differential GPS to track its location to within 2 centimeters, though
>> Gerdes says the margin will be closer to 1 meter on the mountain.
>> Wheel-speed sensors and an accelerometer measure its velocity and a
>> gyrosc

Re: [scifinoir2] Knight and Day

Seems like it wouldn't be a good idea to do two "spy" movies in the same
year.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> I don't think so, Mr Worf. It's too over-the-top cartoony for an M:I movie.
>
> I HOPE. Tommy-Boy's already b*stardized the series...
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone seen the trailer for this movie? It made me think about Human
>> Target. I wonder if this is a rip off of that show? What do you think?
>>
>> Could this movie have been mistaken for Mission Impossible?
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>
>
>
>
> 




-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

[scifinoir2] Predators (was Re: Question )

2010-04-01 Thread angelababycat




Thanks for the heads up. I forgot it was coming out.  The trailers look
great.  Here's the web site: http://www.predators-movie.com/
  .

It starts July 9th (not the 29th).  I'm there!

Angela


--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter 
wrote:
>
> Fate,
>
> I keep meaning to peek at it whenever I happen into IMDb, but I always
slip
> back out without doing it. I'll try to remember today.
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Augustus Augustus
> jazzynupe_...@...wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > has anyone seen the trailer for the new Predator movie "Predators"
with
> > Lawrence Fishburn? It opens July 29. The trailor looks freaking
AWESOME!
> >
> > Fate.
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

Just did a search. If you're interested, here's a link to many of his
writings.

http://www.teslaresearch.com/

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

> Mr Worf, I don't know that right off. I have a lot of texts on Tesla, but
> they're all in storage (had to put them there late last year, after a serous
> house renovation, and I can't pull them out yet). I want to say that Tesla's
> family has them, and New Jersey has a few, if memory serves, mostly his
> patent application paperwork.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> What I'd like to know is who has the bulk of his papers and what are they
>> doing with them?
>>
>> Also, what about Edgar Casey's papers?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out
>>> of his way to rip off and ruin him?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf wrote:
>>>


 Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :)

 I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital
 camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours
 and you can pretty much do anything with it.  One story I read was a guy
 took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries.


 On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter 
 wrote:

>
>
> Related Sections: Future Tech  
> Portable
> Gadgets  Portable
> power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
> [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from
> Wi-Fi]
>
> Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
> pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
> never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
> jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
> power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
> and constantly recharging the device's battery.
>
>
> http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php
>
>
>
>
>


 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>  
>>
>
>

Re: [scifinoir2] American Greed: Scams - "Funny Money"

I shall.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> No problem. You should also check out next week as well. It is about a
> woman that was doing a foreclosure scam in the ATL area I believe.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Autotuned, and thanks for the heads-up, Mr Worf!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This week's show was about Troy Stroud. An African American man from
>>> Englewood, CA that was the mastermind behind the biggest counterfeiting scam
>>> in the country. With an inkjet printer, photoshop, and hairspray this man
>>> produced 7 million in counterfeit $100, and $20 bills that circulated all
>>> over the country.
>>>
>>> Check it out on Saturday on CNBC.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>>> Mahogany at:
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

Mr Worf, I don't know that right off. I have a lot of texts on Tesla, but
they're all in storage (had to put them there late last year, after a serous
house renovation, and I can't pull them out yet). I want to say that Tesla's
family has them, and New Jersey has a few, if memory serves, mostly his
patent application paperwork.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> What I'd like to know is who has the bulk of his papers and what are they
> doing with them?
>
> Also, what about Edgar Casey's papers?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out
>> of his way to rip off and ruin him?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :)
>>>
>>> I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital
>>> camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours
>>> and you can pretty much do anything with it.  One story I read was a guy
>>> took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter 
>>> wrote:
>>>

 Related Sections: Future Tech  
 Portable
 Gadgets  Portable
 power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
 [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from
 Wi-Fi]

 Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
 pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
 never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
 jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
 power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
 and constantly recharging the device's battery.

 http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php

>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>>> Mahogany at:
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tale of the Titans

2010-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson

I hate to see Rave's review (which was great, Rave) that Alexa Davalos wasn't 
used much. I think she is a nice screen presence, and so nice to see a gorgeour 
brunette instead of blondes all the time. I thought of her as a Wonder Woman 
candidate at one point (a bit slight of build, but then if Meagan Fox was 
considered...) 

- Original Message - 
From: "B Smith"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:20:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Tale of the Titans 

Same here. I was looking forward to this movie but the early buzz has been 
underwhelming. 

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin Baxter  wrote: 
> 
> (writing that down as a must-miss) 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Kelwyn  wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > http://blackplush.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-titans.html 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Knight and Day

I don't think so, Mr Worf. It's too over-the-top cartoony for an M:I movie.

I HOPE. Tommy-Boy's already b*stardized the series...

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> Has anyone seen the trailer for this movie? It made me think about Human
> Target. I wonder if this is a rip off of that show? What do you think?
>
> Could this movie have been mistaken for Mission Impossible?
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do

Here come those 'bots again... now they'll be able to bump us off on the
highways.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do
>
>- By Chuck Squatriglia 
> [image:
>Email Author] 
>- March 31, 2010  |
>- 8:00 pm  |
>- Categories: Cool Cars
>-
>
>
>
>
>  The race to the top of Pikes Peak is among the most harrowing in
> motorsports, a flat-out sprint through 156 turns on a 12.4-mile road to the
> clouds. It is a test of grit and skill that demands the best from drivers as
> they brave perilous drops at 130 mph. Audi thinks it can do it *without* a
> driver.
>
> The German automaker will send an autonomous TTS barreling to the summit in
> September. It will navigate the course at race speeds — the best drivers
> make the run in around 12 minutes — with no one at the wheel or even in the
> car. No one’s ever attempted anything like it before. Although robocars have
> driven the course, they haven’t done it at more than 25 mph. Audi says it is
> pushing autonomous-vehicle technology to its very edge in an effort to make
> the cars the rest of us drive smarter and safer.
>
> “We’re interested in the safety opportunities this technology presents,”
> said Dr. Burkhard Huhnke, executive director of the Electronics Research
> Laboratory. Volkswagen Group, which owns Audi, works alongside Stanford
> University at the lab in Palo Alto, California. “We want to understand the
> best way to use this technology to provide additional support to drivers in
> critical situations.”
>
> [image: 
> audi_fb]
>
> Audi, Volkswagen and Stanford are building on their success with Stanley,
> a VW Touareg  that
> won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, and Stanley, a VW 
> Passatthat
>  took second in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Those vehicles used
> radar, sensors and cameras to track the road at relatively low speed on a
> closed and controlled course. The TTS will use differential GPS and an
> inertial measurement system to tackle a road where anything can happen.
>
> “We’re aiming high,” said Chris Gerdes, director of the Center for
> Automotive Research at Stanford. “Pike’s Peak has been a challenge since the
> first race in 1916. It is a place where you have to push to the very limit,
> and there’s a very stiff penalty if you get it wrong.”
>
> The car won’t compete in the Pike’s Peak International Hill 
> Climbin June. But the all-wheel drive TTS 
> will follow the same course the racers
> use. It’s a mix of pavement, dirt and gravel that rises 4,721 feet at an
> average grade of 7 percent. The current record for a production-based
> all-wheel-drive car stands at 11:48.434. No one expects the TTS to hit that
> mark, and it won’t achieve the kind of speeds rally driver Marcus 
> Gronhölmor four-time 
> winner Nobuhiro Tajima have, but it will make the run faster
> than you ever could.
>
> “I want to go up the mountain much faster than anyone with any sense of
> self-preservation would go,” Gerdes said.
>
> The robocar is a 2010 TTS. The team chose it because it features a
> fly-by-wire throttle, adaptive cruise control, a semiautomatic DSG gearbox
> and other gadgetry. That made it relatively easy to make the car fully
> autonomous using electronics developed at the Electronics Research Lab.
> [image: Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2
> centimeters.]
>
> Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2 centimeters.
>
> “The components we added that actually interface with the car would fit in
> a shoebox,” said Marcial Hernandez, a senior research engineer at the
> Electronics Research Lab. “The largest component by far is the gyroscope,
> and it’s an 8-inch cube.”
>
> The TTS is named Shelley in honor of Michèle 
> Mouton,
> an Audi rally driver and the first woman to win at Pikes Peak. Shelley uses
> differential GPS to track its location to within 2 centimeters, though
> Gerdes says the margin will be closer to 1 meter on the mountain.
> Wheel-speed sensors and an accelerometer measure its velocity and a
> gyroscope controls equilibrium and direction. The algorithms that make it
> all work run on hardware developed by Sun Microsystems.
>
> “The computational power needed to do this is less than you’d find in your
> laptop,” Hernandez said.
>
> Redundant systems ensure a measure of safety, and Shelley can shut itself
> down if the system detects a problem. The car also transmits real-time data
> to the team,

Re: [scifinoir2] GMail's "Vowel Outage"

That's what I'm figuring. When I log into either of my Gmail accounts, I see
the vowelless (sp?) left side of the page, but a perfectly intact right
side.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Okay, April Fool's Day it is...
>
>
>
>
>
> **
>
> http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html
> Today’s vowel 
> outage
> Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:49 AM Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail
> Engineering Director
>
> If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail
> homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the
> vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you
> who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry.
> We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to
> let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it.
>
> At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our
> datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started
> failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates
> escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to
> avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap
> solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.'
> As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re
> still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an
> update here shortly.)
>
> Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our
> help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Some
> of you have already found creative workarounds for communicating without
> vowels, like Aaron, who sent us this:
>
>
> 
> Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9%
> full letter uptime reliability we strive for. Since identifying the root
> case of this issue, we’ve started bringing vowels back to Gmail, so you
> should see them back in your account within the next few hours if you don’t
> already. In the meantime, while you may still see this issue in Gmail's web
> interface, both IMAP and POP access are functioning normally. We'll post an
> update as soon as things are fully resolved and, again, we're v3ry s0rry.
>
> Update (7:30 am): We’ve determined that the letter 'y' is not impacted.
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] GMail's "Vowel Outage"

They also changed the name from Google to Topeka. Gotta love those guys...

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Okay, April Fool's Day it is...
>
>
>
>
>
> **
>
> http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html
> Today’s vowel 
> outage
> Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:49 AM Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail
> Engineering Director
>
> If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail
> homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the
> vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you
> who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry.
> We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to
> let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it.
>
> At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our
> datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started
> failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates
> escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to
> avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap
> solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.'
> As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re
> still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an
> update here shortly.)
>
> Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our
> help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Some
> of you have already found creative workarounds for communicating without
> vowels, like Aaron, who sent us this:
>
>
> 
> Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9%
> full letter uptime reliability we strive for. Since identifying the root
> case of this issue, we’ve started bringing vowels back to Gmail, so you
> should see them back in your account within the next few hours if you don’t
> already. In the meantime, while you may still see this issue in Gmail's web
> interface, both IMAP and POP access are functioning normally. We'll post an
> update as soon as things are fully resolved and, again, we're v3ry s0rry.
>
> Update (7:30 am): We’ve determined that the letter 'y' is not impacted.
>
>
> 




-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

[scifinoir2] GMail's "Vowel Outage"

2010-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson



Okay, April Fool's Day it is... 





** 

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html Today’s vowel 
outage 

Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:49 AM 
Posted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director 

If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), 
you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are 
missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on 
Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take 
morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all 
know what happened and what we're doing about it. 

At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, 
the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to 
render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the 
strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading 
failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited 
the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're 
experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating 
whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.) 

Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our help 
forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Some of you 
have already found creative workarounds for communicating without vowels, like 
Aaron, who sent us this: 


Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9% full 
letter uptime reliability we strive for. Since identifying the root case of 
this issue, we’ve started bringing vowels back to Gmail, so you should see them 
back in your account within the next few hours if you don’t already. In the 
meantime, while you may still see this issue in Gmail's web interface, both 
IMAP and POP access are functioning normally. We'll post an update as soon as 
things are fully resolved and, again, we're v3ry s0rry. 

Update (7:30 am) : We’ve determined that the letter 'y' is not impacted.

[scifinoir2] Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do

Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do

   - By Chuck Squatriglia
 [image:
   Email Author] 
   - March 31, 2010  |
   - 8:00 pm  |
   - Categories: Cool Cars
   -




 The race to the top of Pikes Peak is among the most harrowing in
motorsports, a flat-out sprint through 156 turns on a 12.4-mile road to the
clouds. It is a test of grit and skill that demands the best from drivers as
they brave perilous drops at 130 mph. Audi thinks it can do it *without* a
driver.

The German automaker will send an autonomous TTS barreling to the summit in
September. It will navigate the course at race speeds — the best drivers
make the run in around 12 minutes — with no one at the wheel or even in the
car. No one’s ever attempted anything like it before. Although robocars have
driven the course, they haven’t done it at more than 25 mph. Audi says it is
pushing autonomous-vehicle technology to its very edge in an effort to make
the cars the rest of us drive smarter and safer.

“We’re interested in the safety opportunities this technology presents,”
said Dr. Burkhard Huhnke, executive director of the Electronics Research
Laboratory. Volkswagen Group, which owns Audi, works alongside Stanford
University at the lab in Palo Alto, California. “We want to understand the
best way to use this technology to provide additional support to drivers in
critical situations.”

[image: audi_fb]

Audi, Volkswagen and Stanford are building on their success with Stanley, a
VW Touareg  that won
the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, and Stanley, a VW
Passatthat
took second in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Those vehicles used
radar, sensors and cameras to track the road at relatively low speed on a
closed and controlled course. The TTS will use differential GPS and an
inertial measurement system to tackle a road where anything can happen.

“We’re aiming high,” said Chris Gerdes, director of the Center for
Automotive Research at Stanford. “Pike’s Peak has been a challenge since the
first race in 1916. It is a place where you have to push to the very limit,
and there’s a very stiff penalty if you get it wrong.”

The car won’t compete in the Pike’s Peak International Hill
Climbin June. But the all-wheel drive
TTS will follow the same course the racers
use. It’s a mix of pavement, dirt and gravel that rises 4,721 feet at an
average grade of 7 percent. The current record for a production-based
all-wheel-drive car stands at 11:48.434. No one expects the TTS to hit that
mark, and it won’t achieve the kind of speeds rally driver Marcus
Gronhölmor
four-time winner Nobuhiro Tajima have, but it will make the run faster
than you ever could.

“I want to go up the mountain much faster than anyone with any sense of
self-preservation would go,” Gerdes said.

The robocar is a 2010 TTS. The team chose it because it features a
fly-by-wire throttle, adaptive cruise control, a semiautomatic DSG gearbox
and other gadgetry. That made it relatively easy to make the car fully
autonomous using electronics developed at the Electronics Research Lab.
[image: Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2
centimeters.]

Differential GPS tracks the car's location to within 2 centimeters.

“The components we added that actually interface with the car would fit in a
shoebox,” said Marcial Hernandez, a senior research engineer at the
Electronics Research Lab. “The largest component by far is the gyroscope,
and it’s an 8-inch cube.”

The TTS is named Shelley in honor of Michèle
Mouton,
an Audi rally driver and the first woman to win at Pikes Peak. Shelley uses
differential GPS to track its location to within 2 centimeters, though
Gerdes says the margin will be closer to 1 meter on the mountain.
Wheel-speed sensors and an accelerometer measure its velocity and a
gyroscope controls equilibrium and direction. The algorithms that make it
all work run on hardware developed by Sun Microsystems.

“The computational power needed to do this is less than you’d find in your
laptop,” Hernandez said.

Redundant systems ensure a measure of safety, and Shelley can shut itself
down if the system detects a problem. The car also transmits real-time data
to the team, which can shut it down from up to 20 miles away.

Audi set up a dirt oval about the length and width of a football field and
let us ride shotgun for half a dozen laps (video at top of post). Although
there was a grad student behind the wheel, he was there only to monitor test
data and hit the kill switch should thi

[scifinoir2] Re: First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster

Arcadia of my youth indeed. Can't wait for this one.

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter  wrote:
>
> I'll be over in the corner, rewiring my jaw on and digging out my spare
> bibs... [?][?][?][?]
> 
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I'd like to thank the geeks out there for making my inner kid happy the
> > last couple of years. :)
> > First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster
> >
> >- By Lewis Wallace 
> > [image:
> >Email Author] 
> >- March 30, 2010  |
> >- 6:19 pm  |
> >- Categories: Movies ,
> >animation 
> >-
> >
> >  [image: harlock_660]
> >
> > Get an eyeful of space pirate Captain Harlock, as seen on the promo poster
> > for an upcoming CG animated movie based on the adventuring anime character.
> > The photo, taken during the Tokyo Anime Fair last weekend, came with a rave
> > review for the 90-second trailer show at the festival.
> >
> > The action-packed video was "really jaw dropping-amazing," wrote
> > photographer Jean-Charles van Heurck in an e-mail to Wired.com. "Lots of
> > smoke effect, lighting effects and so on."
> >
> > The character, created by anime legend Leiji 
> > Matsumoto,
> > appears on the poster just as in the trailer  which also shows Captain
> > Harlock's nicely designed spaceships (and "a fantastic weapon"), according
> > to van Heurck. "It's gotten a really impressive/aggressive look," he said.
> > The clip also showed Captain Harlock's bird and Kei 
> > Yuki.
> > "She was really  very sexy for CG," said van Heurck.
> >
> > Japan's Toei Animation plans to release the CG Captain 
> > Harlockmovie
> >  in 2012.
> >
> > Read More
> > http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/first-look-space-pirate-captain-harlock-poster/?intcid=inform_relatedContent#ixzz0jsnjfOJQ
> >
> >
> > --
> > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
> >  
> >
>

[scifinoir2] Knight and Day

Has anyone seen the trailer for this movie? It made me think about Human
Target. I wonder if this is a rip off of that show? What do you think?

Could this movie have been mistaken for Mission Impossible?

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Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

Everyone that challenged the status quo at the time was pretty much a target
in every industry.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Apologies for any anger there, Mr Worf. That's one of my few sore spots,
> the way Tesla got screwed.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>> Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out
>> of his way to rip off and ruin him?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :)
>>>
>>> I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital
>>> camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours
>>> and you can pretty much do anything with it.  One story I read was a guy
>>> took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter 
>>> wrote:
>>>


 Related Sections: Future Tech  
 Portable
 Gadgets  Portable
 power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
 [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from
 Wi-Fi]

 Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
 pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
 never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
 jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
 power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
 and constantly recharging the device's battery.


 http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php





>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>>> Mahogany at:
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> 
>



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Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

What I'd like to know is who has the bulk of his papers and what are they
doing with them?

Also, what about Edgar Casey's papers?

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of
> his way to rip off and ruin him?
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :)
>>
>> I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital
>> camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours
>> and you can pretty much do anything with it.  One story I read was a guy
>> took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Related Sections: Future Tech   
>>> Portable
>>> Gadgets  Portable
>>> power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
>>> [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from
>>> Wi-Fi]
>>>
>>> Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
>>> pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
>>> never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
>>> jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
>>> power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
>>> and constantly recharging the device's battery.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>
>
>
>
> 
>



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Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

Apologies for any anger there, Mr Worf. That's one of my few sore spots, the
way Tesla got screwed.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:

> Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of
> his way to rip off and ruin him?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :)
>>
>> I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital
>> camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours
>> and you can pretty much do anything with it.  One story I read was a guy
>> took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Related Sections: Future Tech   
>>> Portable
>>> Gadgets  Portable
>>> power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
>>> [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from
>>> Wi-Fi]
>>>
>>> Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
>>> pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
>>> never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
>>> jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
>>> power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
>>> and constantly recharging the device's battery.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>  
>>
>
>

Re: [scifinoir2] American Greed: Scams - "Funny Money"

No problem. You should also check out next week as well. It is about a woman
that was doing a foreclosure scam in the ATL area I believe.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Autotuned, and thanks for the heads-up, Mr Worf!
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> This week's show was about Troy Stroud. An African American man from
>> Englewood, CA that was the mastermind behind the biggest counterfeiting scam
>> in the country. With an inkjet printer, photoshop, and hairspray this man
>> produced 7 million in counterfeit $100, and $20 bills that circulated all
>> over the country.
>>
>> Check it out on Saturday on CNBC.
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>
>
>
>
> 
>



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Re: [scifinoir2] First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster

I'll be over in the corner, rewiring my jaw on and digging out my spare
bibs... [?][?][?][?]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> I'd like to thank the geeks out there for making my inner kid happy the
> last couple of years. :)
> First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster
>
>- By Lewis Wallace 
> [image:
>Email Author] 
>- March 30, 2010  |
>- 6:19 pm  |
>- Categories: Movies ,
>animation 
>-
>
>  [image: harlock_660]
>
> Get an eyeful of space pirate Captain Harlock, as seen on the promo poster
> for an upcoming CG animated movie based on the adventuring anime character.
> The photo, taken during the Tokyo Anime Fair last weekend, came with a rave
> review for the 90-second trailer show at the festival.
>
> The action-packed video was “really jaw dropping-amazing,” wrote
> photographer Jean-Charles van Heurck in an e-mail to Wired.com. “Lots of
> smoke effect, lighting effects and so on.”
>
> The character, created by anime legend Leiji 
> Matsumoto,
> appears on the poster just as in the trailer — which also shows Captain
> Harlock’s nicely designed spaceships (and “a fantastic weapon”), according
> to van Heurck. “It’s gotten a really impressive/aggressive look,” he said.
> The clip also showed Captain Harlock’s bird and Kei 
> Yuki.
> “She was really … very sexy for CG,” said van Heurck.
>
> Japan’s Toei Animation plans to release the CG Captain 
> Harlockmovie
>  in 2012.
>
> Read More
> http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/first-look-space-pirate-captain-harlock-poster/?intcid=inform_relatedContent#ixzz0jsnjfOJQ
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>
<<327.gif>><<360.gif>>

Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

Of COURSE Tesla was right. Why ELSE would that toad Edison go so far out of
his way to rip off and ruin him?

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :)
>
> I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital
> camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours
> and you can pretty much do anything with it.  One story I read was a guy
> took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Related Sections: Future Tech   
>> Portable
>> Gadgets  Portable
>> power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
>> [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from
>> Wi-Fi]
>>
>> Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
>> pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
>> never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
>> jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
>> power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
>> and constantly recharging the device's battery.
>>
>>
>> http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>

[scifinoir2] The article says this is "NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE"...

... still, break out the boxes of salt before you tale this one.

Is Joss Whedon Really In Line To Direct The
Avengers?

Even if this is a joke, the first comment is, IMO, worth the trip.

[scifinoir2] First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster

I'd like to thank the geeks out there for making my inner kid happy the last
couple of years. :)
First Look: Space Pirate Captain Harlock Poster

- By Lewis Wallace
[image:
Email Author]
- March 30, 2010 |
- 6:19 pm |
- Categories: Movies ,
animation
-

[image: harlock_660]

Get an eyeful of space pirate Captain Harlock, as seen on the promo poster
for an upcoming CG animated movie based on the adventuring anime character.
The photo, taken during the Tokyo Anime Fair last weekend, came with a rave
review for the 90-second trailer show at the festival.

The action-packed video was “really jaw dropping-amazing,” wrote
photographer Jean-Charles van Heurck in an e-mail to Wired.com. “Lots of
smoke effect, lighting effects and so on.”

The character, created by anime legend Leiji
Matsumoto,
appears on the poster just as in the trailer — which also shows Captain
Harlock’s nicely designed spaceships (and “a fantastic weapon”), according
to van Heurck. “It’s gotten a really impressive/aggressive look,” he said.
The clip also showed Captain Harlock’s bird and Kei
Yuki.
“She was really … very sexy for CG,” said van Heurck.

Japan’s Toei Animation plans to release the CG Captain
Harlockmovie
in 2012.

Read More
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/03/first-look-space-pirate-captain-harlock-poster/?intcid=inform_relatedContent#ixzz0jsnjfOJQ

--
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Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

Re: [scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

Hmmm Tesla was right. Who would have thunk? :)

I always liked the fuel cell batteries for video camera use. A digital
camera with a 120gig hard drive and a power supply that runs for 24 hours
and you can pretty much do anything with it.  One story I read was a guy
took one to the amazon for three days and never had to change batteries.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Related Sections: Future Tech   
> Portable
> Gadgets  Portable power
> breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
> [image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from
> Wi-Fi]
>
> Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
> pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
> never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
> jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
> power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
> and constantly recharging the device's battery.
>
>
> http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php
>
>
>
>
> 

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Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show

[?][?][?][?]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> Fox news motto: "Erroneous information for the uninformed..."
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Once again, I *chortle* at Faux/Fixed/Fox's credibility...
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:27 AM, B Smith  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The interview was over 2 years old and sitting in a can. Since the
>>> formerly scary black man is now on a show that the Faux audience watches
>>> they dug it up to give Palin's lame show a boost.
>>>
>>> The thing that was funny was their bs attempt to disrespect him by
>>> calling him a fledgling actor. Really? So being a working actor for just shy
>>> of 20 years makes you a newbieright.
>>>
>>>
>>> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin
>>> Baxter  wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type
>>> this.
>>> > And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center
>>> when
>>> > the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can
>>> hear him
>>> > saying, "She's gotta get her feet wet sometime."
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever
>>> is
>>> > > the head of the news division gets the axe.
>>> > >
>>> > > I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and
>>> Palin
>>> > > will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else.
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson >>
>>> > > > wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who
>>> > >> interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone
>>> whose
>>> > >> beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds
>>> objectionable--is
>>> > >> problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional,
>>> in
>>> > >> suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people.
>>> > >> But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore.
>>> When
>>> > >> they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they
>>> had no
>>> > >> excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he
>>> was
>>> > >> cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was
>>> asked
>>> > >> about it on "This Week", he just joked "we cut away because we're
>>> 'fair and
>>> > >> balanced'".
>>> > >> The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who
>>> was
>>> > >> guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a
>>> "news"
>>> > >> channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And
>>> that's okay?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore...
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> - Original Message -
>>> > >> From: "Mr. Worf" 
>>> > >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>>> > >> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
>>> Eastern
>>> > >> Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of
>>> Palin
>>> > >> Show
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an
>>> > >> interesting story.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE
>>> ITZKOFF
>>>
>>> > >> [image: LL Cool J]
>>> > >> [image: Sarah Palin]
>>> > >>
>>> > >> *Update:* Fox News said<
>>> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/>it
>>> would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of "Real
>>>
>>> > >> American Stories."
>>> > >>
>>> > >> If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of "Real
>>> American
>>> > >> Stories," a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah Palin<
>>> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html
>>> >,
>>> > >> caught you by surprise, you're not the only one. On his Twitter
>>> accounton Tuesday night, LL
>>> > >> Cool J<
>>> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html
>>> >,
>>>
>>> > >> who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox
>>> was
>>> > >> misrepresenting him.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> "Real American Stories" is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox
>>> News
>>> > >> Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site ,
>>> Fox
>>>
>>> > >> News said the show would profile people who have "given back, given
>>> all and
>>> > >> never given up." Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an
>>> > >> advertisement for the first episode<
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0>are the country musician Toby
>>> Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman
>>>
>>> > >> of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of "NCIS:
>>> Los
>>> > >> Angeles."
>>> > >>
>>> > >> But LL Cool J wrote on Twitter

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show

Fox news motto: "Erroneous information for the uninformed..."

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Once again, I *chortle* at Faux/Fixed/Fox's credibility...
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:27 AM, B Smith  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The interview was over 2 years old and sitting in a can. Since the
>> formerly scary black man is now on a show that the Faux audience watches
>> they dug it up to give Palin's lame show a boost.
>>
>> The thing that was funny was their bs attempt to disrespect him by calling
>> him a fledgling actor. Really? So being a working actor for just shy of 20
>> years makes you a newbieright.
>>
>>
>> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin
>> Baxter  wrote:
>> >
>> > Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type
>> this.
>> > And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center
>> when
>> > the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can hear
>> him
>> > saying, "She's gotta get her feet wet sometime."
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever
>> is
>> > > the head of the news division gets the axe.
>> > >
>> > > I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and
>> Palin
>> > > will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else.
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson >
>> > > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who
>> > >> interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone
>> whose
>> > >> beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds
>> objectionable--is
>> > >> problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in
>> > >> suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people.
>> > >> But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore.
>> When
>> > >> they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they
>> had no
>> > >> excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he
>> was
>> > >> cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was
>> asked
>> > >> about it on "This Week", he just joked "we cut away because we're
>> 'fair and
>> > >> balanced'".
>> > >> The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was
>> > >> guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a
>> "news"
>> > >> channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's
>> okay?
>> > >>
>> > >> Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore...
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> - Original Message -
>> > >> From: "Mr. Worf" 
>> > >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
>> > >> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
>> Eastern
>> > >> Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of
>> Palin
>> > >> Show
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an
>> > >> interesting story.
>> > >>
>> > >> LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE
>> ITZKOFF
>>
>> > >> [image: LL Cool J]
>> > >> [image: Sarah Palin]
>> > >>
>> > >> *Update:* Fox News said<
>> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/>it
>> would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of "Real
>>
>> > >> American Stories."
>> > >>
>> > >> If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of "Real
>> American
>> > >> Stories," a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah Palin<
>> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html
>> >,
>> > >> caught you by surprise, you're not the only one. On his Twitter
>> accounton Tuesday night, LL
>> > >> Cool J<
>> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html
>> >,
>>
>> > >> who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox
>> was
>> > >> misrepresenting him.
>> > >>
>> > >> "Real American Stories" is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News
>> > >> Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site ,
>> Fox
>>
>> > >> News said the show would profile people who have "given back, given
>> all and
>> > >> never given up." Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an
>> > >> advertisement for the first episode<
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0>are the country musician Toby
>> Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman
>>
>> > >> of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of "NCIS: Los
>> > >> Angeles."
>> > >>
>> > >> But LL Cool J wrote on Twitter<
>> http://twitter.com/llcoolj/status/11339785126>:
>>
>> > >> "Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are
>> > >> misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show.
>> WOW."
>> > >

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Re: [scifinoir2] MLK: A Call to Conscience

Amy, thanks for the heads-up. I apparently missed it, but I think it'll
repeat later this week.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Amy Harlib  wrote:

>
>
>
> ahar...@earthlink.net
>
> *Subject:* [PDA Accountability & Justice] MLK: A Call to Conscience
>
>
> I just saw Tavis Smiley's special tonight on MLK: A Call to Conscience.
> It was a great program, and I hope you'll watch it, too! It is especially
> relevant today, with wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the same time
> the gap between rich and poor is growing. Those wars have gone on longer
> than WW II, and the money and lives we're spending in those wars is being
> diverted from our real needs here at home, with high unemployment (unless
> you want to fight in a war half way around the world), and growing poverty
> among people who are losing their jobs, their homes, and their health.
>
> Episode 2 - "MLK: A Call to Conscience" . Tavis Smiley Reports . Tavis
> Smiley | PBS
> www.pbs.org
> The second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King,
> Jr.'s stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today.
> Tavis speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West,
> Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel.
>
>
> The scholars and friends are well chosen.
> I've long felt that MLK Jr. spoke with a prophetic voice, and his "Beyond
> Vietnam"  speech is as relevant today as when he gave it more than 40 years
> ago. Again, highly recommended.
>
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show

Once again, I *chortle* at Faux/Fixed/Fox's credibility...

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:27 AM, B Smith  wrote:

>
>
> The interview was over 2 years old and sitting in a can. Since the formerly
> scary black man is now on a show that the Faux audience watches they dug it
> up to give Palin's lame show a boost.
>
> The thing that was funny was their bs attempt to disrespect him by calling
> him a fledgling actor. Really? So being a working actor for just shy of 20
> years makes you a newbieright.
>
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin
> Baxter  wrote:
> >
> > Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type this.
> > And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center when
> > the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can hear
> him
> > saying, "She's gotta get her feet wet sometime."
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever
> is
> > > the head of the news division gets the axe.
> > >
> > > I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and
> Palin
> > > will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson 
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who
> > >> interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone whose
> > >> beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds
> objectionable--is
> > >> problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in
> > >> suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people.
> > >> But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore.
> When
> > >> they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they
> had no
> > >> excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he
> was
> > >> cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was
> asked
> > >> about it on "This Week", he just joked "we cut away because we're
> 'fair and
> > >> balanced'".
> > >> The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was
> > >> guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a "news"
> > >> channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's
> okay?
> > >>
> > >> Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> - Original Message -
> > >> From: "Mr. Worf" 
> > >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> > >> Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of
> Palin
> > >> Show
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an
> > >> interesting story.
> > >>
> > >> LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE
> ITZKOFF
>
> > >> [image: LL Cool J]
> > >> [image: Sarah Palin]
> > >>
> > >> *Update:* Fox News said<
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/>it
> would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of "Real
>
> > >> American Stories."
> > >>
> > >> If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of "Real
> American
> > >> Stories," a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah Palin<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html
> >,
> > >> caught you by surprise, you're not the only one. On his Twitter
> accounton Tuesday night, LL
> > >> Cool J<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html
> >,
>
> > >> who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox
> was
> > >> misrepresenting him.
> > >>
> > >> "Real American Stories" is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News
> > >> Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site ,
> Fox
>
> > >> News said the show would profile people who have "given back, given
> all and
> > >> never given up." Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an
> > >> advertisement for the first episode<
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0>are the country musician Toby
> Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman
>
> > >> of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of "NCIS: Los
> > >> Angeles."
> > >>
> > >> But LL Cool J wrote on Twitter<
> http://twitter.com/llcoolj/status/11339785126>:
>
> > >> "Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are
> > >> misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show.
> WOW."
> > >> He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various
> followers in a
> > >> two-hour span.
> > >>
> > >> Fox News has responded here<
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/
> >.
>
> > >> Repr

[scifinoir2] Re: Tale of the Titans

Same here. I was looking forward to this movie but the early buzz has been 
underwhelming.

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter  wrote:
>
> (writing that down as a must-miss)
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Kelwyn  wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > http://blackplush.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-titans.html
> >
> >  
> >
>

[scifinoir2] Re: What Is 'Music by Prudence'?

Yup. I usually DVR it and watch the segments that catch my eye. He routinely 
has interesting guests on their all the time that aren't "big" enough for other 
late night shows to book and lots of musical guests that are on the verge of 
breaking into the mainstream. So folks like Lee Daniels, Roger Ross Williams, 
Idris Elba, Charlie Hunman, Morena Baccarin and others get some face time. Plus 
he's a bit of a geek so it's pretty common to see familiar faces from the world 
of sci-fi pop up on there from time to time.

Recently he had Lupe Fiasco on talking about the climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro that 
he Kenna, Santigold, Jessica Biel and others took to raise awareness about the 
worldwide safe drinking water initiative. I'd been following the the story for 
a while and it was cool to hear about the climb and the reasons that he got 
involved with the charity.

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
>
> You actually watch Carson Daly?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:01 AM, B Smith  wrote:
> 
> > The music is beautiful and Prudence's incredible story of overcoming almost
> > insurmountable odds gets you in the heart. I saw Roger Ross Williams on
> > Carson Daly before the Oscars and they did an in depth look at the movie and
> > I was hooked.
> >
> > BTW the movie premieres on HBO next month. Can't wait to watch.
> >
> > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf"  wrote:
> > >
> > > What Is 'Music by Prudence'?
> > >
> > >- March 8, 2010
> > >- |
> > >- By: Eric Larnick<
> > http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/bloggers/eric-larnick/>
> > >- Comments (0)<
> > http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/03/08/music-by-prudence-oscar-short/#comments
> > >
> > >
> > >  With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in
> > the
> > > house. Live wirelessly. Print wirelessly.
> > > PRINT  EMAIL
> > > <
> > http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemovies&v=250&source=tbx-250&tt=0&s=twitter&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2F&title=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Movies&content=&template=%7B%7Burl%7D%7D%20via%20%40moviefone&lng=en
> > >
> > > <
> > http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemovies&v=250&source=tbx-250&tt=0&s=facebook&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2F&title=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Movies&content=&lng=en
> > >
> > > <
> > http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemovies&v=250&source=tbx-250&tt=0&s=myspace&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2F&title=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Movies&content=&lng=en
> > >
> > > <
> > http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemovies&v=250&source=tbx-250&tt=0&s=digg&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2F&title=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Movies&content=&lng=en
> > >
> > > <
> > http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=insidemovies&v=250&source=tbx-250&tt=0&s=aim&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.moviefone.com%2F2010%2F03%2F08%2Fmusic-by-prudence-oscar-short%2F&title=What%20Is%20%27Music%20by%20Prudence%27%3F%20-%20Inside%20Movies&content=&lng=en
> > >
> > > MORE
> > >  It achieved some notoriety at the Academy Awards last night, when
> > > director Roger
> > > Ross Williams<
> > http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/roger-ross-williams/10018237/main>and
> > > producer Elinor
> > > Burkett  > >fought
> > > for microphone time during their acceptance speech (you can read more
> > about
> > > it over on PopEater<
> > http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/08/music-by-prudence-elinor-burkett-oscars/
> > >,
> > > where they explain why it has become the "Kanye" moment of the Oscars).
> > But
> > > what's the story behind the Oscar-winning Best Documentary Short, 'Music
> > by
> > > Prudence' <
> > http://www.moviefone.com/movie/music-by-prudence/10026603/main>?
> > >
> > > The 32-minute film documents the story of Prudence Mabhena, a Zimbabwe
> > > native suffering from a debilitating condition known as arthrogryposis
> > that
> > > has left her body crippled. Unwanted by her father, Prudence was raised
> > by
> > > her grandmother and taught the joys of singing. Living as a migrant
> > worker
> > > made it difficult for Prudence's grandmother to support both of them --
> > and
> > > as a result, she was forced to go back to her abusive, neglectful father.
> > >
> > > Eventually Prudence was able to escape her upbringing, thanks to a
> > > scholarship from the King George VI School & Centre for Children with
> > > Physical Disabilities, where her singing talents were encouraged. She
> > > quickly excelled at the school, joining multiple bands and leading the
> > > school choir. The film looks at how she and her bandma

[scifinoir2] Re: LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show

The interview was over 2 years old and sitting in a can. Since the formerly 
scary black man is now on a show that the Faux audience watches they dug it up 
to give Palin's lame show a boost.

The thing that was funny was their bs attempt to disrespect him by calling him 
a fledgling actor. Really? So being a working actor for just shy of 20 years 
makes you a newbieright.

--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter  wrote:
>
> Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type this.
> And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center when
> the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can hear him
> saying, "She's gotta get her feet wet sometime."
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever is
> > the head of the news division gets the axe.
> >
> > I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and Palin
> > will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson  > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who
> >> interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone whose
> >> beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds objectionable--is
> >> problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in
> >> suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people.
> >> But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore. When
> >> they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they had no
> >> excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he was
> >> cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was asked
> >> about it on "This Week", he just joked "we cut away because we're 'fair and
> >> balanced'".
> >> The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was
> >> guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a "news"
> >> channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's okay?
> >>
> >> Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore...
> >>
> >>
> >> - Original Message -
> >> From: "Mr. Worf" 
> >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> >> Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin
> >> Show
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an
> >> interesting story.
> >>
> >> LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE 
> >> ITZKOFF
> >> [image: LL Cool J]
> >> [image: Sarah Palin]
> >>
> >> *Update:* Fox News 
> >> saidit
> >>  would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of "Real
> >> American Stories."
> >>
> >> If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of "Real American
> >> Stories," a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah 
> >> Palin,
> >> caught you by surprise, you're not the only one. On his Twitter 
> >> accounton Tuesday night, LL
> >> Cool 
> >> J,
> >> who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was
> >> misrepresenting him.
> >>
> >> "Real American Stories" is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News
> >> Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site , Fox
> >> News said the show would profile people who have "given back, given all and
> >> never given up." Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an
> >> advertisement for the first 
> >> episodeare the country 
> >> musician Toby Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman
> >> of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of "NCIS: Los
> >> Angeles."
> >>
> >> But LL Cool J wrote on 
> >> Twitter:
> >> "Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are
> >> misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW."
> >> He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various followers in 
> >> a
> >> two-hour span.
> >>
> >> Fox News has responded 
> >> here.
> >> Representatives for LL Cool J were not immediately available.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> >> Mahogany at:
> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to per

[scifinoir2] MLK: A Call to Conscience

2010-04-01 Thread Amy Harlib


ahar...@earthlink.net

Subject: [PDA Accountability & Justice] MLK: A Call to Conscience




I just saw Tavis Smiley's special tonight on MLK: A Call to Conscience. 
It was a great program, and I hope you'll watch it, too! It is especially 
relevant today, with wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the same time 
the gap between rich and poor is growing. Those wars have gone on longer than 
WW II, and the money and lives we're spending in those wars is being diverted 
from our real needs here at home, with high unemployment (unless you want to 
fight in a war half way around the world), and growing poverty among people who 
are losing their jobs, their homes, and their health.
  Episode 2 - "MLK: A Call to Conscience" . Tavis Smiley Reports . Tavis Smiley 
| PBS
  www.pbs.org
  The second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 
stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today. Tavis 
speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent 
Harding and Susannah Heschel.

The scholars and friends are well chosen.
I've long felt that MLK Jr. spoke with a prophetic voice, and his "Beyond 
Vietnam"  speech is as relevant today as when he gave it more than 40 years 
ago. Again, highly recommended.
 

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[scifinoir2] Portable power breakthrough

 Related Sections: Future Tech
  Portable
Gadgets  Portable power
breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi
[image: Portable power breakthrough: RCA AirPower absorbs energy from Wi-Fi]

Imagine perpetual power to your cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera,
pocket camcorder or other low-power portable. No more battery recharging,
never again having to plug your iPhone, iPod, Flip or whatever into an AC
jack. A new technology being developed by RCA, initially as an emergency
power supply, may promise just that — by sucking power from Wi-Fi signals
and constantly recharging the device's battery.


http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/rca-supplies-po.php

Re: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show

Axe? Mr Worf, there's probably a bonus check in his inbox as I type this.
And don't be surprised if the Wasilla Wingnut isn't front-and-center when
the cameras are rolling, probably at Roger Ailes' insistence. I can hear him
saying, "She's gotta get her feet wet sometime."

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> I hope and believe that they will do something so stupid that whoever is
> the head of the news division gets the axe.
>
> I think they have actual journalists conducting the interviews and Palin
> will do intros and wrap ups. She's too stupid to do anything else.
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Keith Johnson  > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Well, I'm sure LL didn't know it was for a Palin-hosted show. Who
>> interviewed him at that time? To wrap it up under Palin--someone whose
>> beliefs and actions I have to believe he probably finds objectionable--is
>> problematic at best. The Fox response is typically unprofessional, in
>> suggesting he doesn't want to inspire other people.
>> But nothing--nothing--Fox does surprises or disappoints me anymore. When
>> they cut Obama's meeting with top Republicans a few weeks ago, they had no
>> excuse. It was news, it was live, and they just cut away, because he was
>> cleaning the Republicans' clocks. When Fox chairman Roger Ailes was asked
>> about it on "This Week", he just joked "we cut away because we're 'fair and
>> balanced'".
>> The rest of the panel, including good friend Barbara Walters, who was
>> guest hosting, all laughed. I was incensed. He made a joke of a "news"
>> channel flagrantly ignoring news because of personal bias. And that's okay?
>>
>> Nothing Fox does surprises me anymore...
>>
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Mr. Worf" 
>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:43:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: [scifinoir2] LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin
>> Show
>>
>>
>>
>> Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an
>> interesting story.
>>
>> LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE 
>> ITZKOFF
>> [image: LL Cool J]
>> [image: Sarah Palin]
>>
>> *Update:* Fox News 
>> saidit
>>  would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of “Real
>> American Stories.”
>>
>> If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of “Real American
>> Stories,” a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah 
>> Palin,
>> caught you by surprise, you’re not the only one. On his Twitter 
>> accounton Tuesday night, LL
>> Cool 
>> J,
>> who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was
>> misrepresenting him.
>>
>> “Real American Stories” is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News
>> Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site , Fox
>> News said the show would profile people who have “given back, given all and
>> never given up.” Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an
>> advertisement for the first 
>> episodeare the country musician 
>> Toby Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman
>> of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of “NCIS: Los
>> Angeles.”
>>
>> But LL Cool J wrote on 
>> Twitter:
>> “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are
>> misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW.”
>> He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various followers in a
>> two-hour span.
>>
>> Fox News has responded 
>> here.
>> Representatives for LL Cool J were not immediately available.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
>> Mahogany at:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Tale of the Titans

(writing that down as a must-miss)

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Kelwyn  wrote:

>
>
> http://blackplush.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-titans.html
>
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] (unknown)

?

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Augustus Augustus
wrote:

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>
>
>
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Question

Fate,

I keep meaning to peek at it whenever I happen into IMDb, but I always slip
back out without doing it. I'll try to remember today.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Augustus Augustus
wrote:

>
>
> has anyone seen the trailer for the new Predator movie "Predators" with
> Lawrence Fishburn?It opens July 29.  The trailor looks freaking AWESOME!
>
> Fate.
>
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] This is cool: Infected PC? AVG Rescue CD to the Rescue!

AR! A fellow pirate, ye be, Dax me mate! [?]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Rogue  wrote:

>
>
> I think this is great and something that I will look into. I personally use
> Avast which has a option to scan the boot drive.
> --Dax
> I love mankind - it's people I can't stand!
>
>  *From:* Mr. Worf 
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:33 AM
> *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* [scifinoir2] This is cool: Infected PC? AVG Rescue CD to the
> Rescue!
>
>
>
> This will work on a cd or you can put it on a thumb drive.
>
> Infected PC? AVG Rescue CD to the Rescue!
>
> By Rick Broida 
>
> March 30th, 2010 @ 8:09 am
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] American Greed: Scams - "Funny Money"