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Teenager Sues Busta Rhymes

NEW YORK - Busta Rhymes has been sued again,this time by a 19 year old who alleges the rapper and his crew beat him after he spit on one of their cars.In the lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan state Supreme Court, Roberto LeBron, who is now 20, charged that he was kicked in the head after an encounter with Rhymes and his nine bodyguards in August 2006.

“Me and my friends were walking across the street. I spit on the street and it landed on a moving car. It was a Maybach. That car stopped, along with two black SUVs.

“People came out and they were walking up to me. We realized it was Busta Rhymes,” Lebron said in a phone interview arranged by his lawyer.

So let me get this straight here. LeBron has a habit of just spitting any which way regardless of who or what may be in the direction of his spittle? See that is what we refer to as a lack of home training. See any time I have to spit (thankfuly a rare occurence) I go to the side of the street and spit directly down in a such a manner that nothing other than ground is hit. Furthermore THAT is if and only if I do not have a napkin or some other disposable paper product which I can spit in.

LeBron is simply low class and got dealt with in a low class manner. Live by, deal with. Parents, please teach your children how to properly evacuate phlegm (the only reason to even THINK about spitting in public) from their mouths.

I guess I'll be said to be blaming the victim.

IMovie '08

Umm did I just read that iMovie '08 will not run on a G4?

"iMovie requires a Mac with an Intel Processor, a Power Mac G5 (dual 2.0 Ghz or faster), or an iMac G5 (1.9 Ghz and faster)."

My 12" PB is insulted. Someone confirm this quick.

Pooping yourself Skinny

An Alternet article. I could not keep from smirking when I read the headline.

It offers a beguiling promise: a weight-loss regimen involving alli will help you shed pounds by inhibiting your body's ability to absorb fat. The newly excess fat exits your body by means of 'gas with oily spotting, loose stools, or more frequent stools that may be harder to control.'

Just so I understand this. There are people out there who want to lose weight and up until Alli, refused to heed the advice of those of us who are in shape to stop eating fatty foods and to make other lifestyle changes, but will now take the risk of getting the runs while out in public and pay someone for the priviledge? I am certainly in the wrong line of work.

Our Fat Is Doing Us a Favor

NY Times reports on the function of fat cells, though I saw no mention of the fact that fat cells form a lubricating buffer between organs. But that other favour that fat is doing?

Dr. Spiegelman and others have shown that with the onset of obesity — defined as 25 or more pounds above one’s ideal weight — the fat tissue starts releasing potent inflammatory hormones. That response is complex and harmful in the long run. But in the short term, said Dr. Spiegelman, “inflammation clearly has an anti-obesity effect, and it may be the body’s attempt to restrain further accumulation of adipose tissue.”

Yeah..so that burning sensation..that would be your body saying put that ish down.

Apple Releases iWork 2008

What's this little statement in the documentation?

"Numbers handily imports spreadsheets created in earlier Excel formats, as well as Excel 2007 documents created in the new Office Open XML formats."

Really?

So Apple manages to do something the Mac BU cannot do: provide a program to actually read the new Excel file format.

Thanks Steve!

[Update]

Apparently Pages will open Office 2007 documents as well. Can I do that with MS Office 2004? No of course not. But I can download a little program that will convert it to a RTF document. How nice. Hop skip jump. Thanks MS!

Bourne Ultimatum

Enjoyed the movie.

BUT.

This handheld camera action during close up dialog; not to good. Extremely annoying actually. A little camera wandering I can stand, but a huge screen that has a camera moving when I'm trying to focus on the convo is annoying. Please stop.

Webmail Gotchya

As stated earlier I have an N800 which can use any WIFI access point to get on the net. Unfortunately the product will also by default check mail automatically. The clear problem with this is that my web traffic is passing through an unknown network and is available for hacking. Proof of this is here:

The attack is actually quite simple. First Graham needs to be able to sniff data packets and in our case the open Wi-Fi network at the convention fulfilled that requirement. He then ran Ferret to copy all the cookies flying through the air. Finally, Graham cloned those cookies into his browser – in easy point-and-click fashion - with a home-grown tool called Hamster.

The attack can hijack sessions in almost any cookie-based web application and Graham has tested it successfully against popular webmail programs like Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. He stressed that since the program just uses cookies, he only needs an IP address and usernames and passwords aren’t required.

I constantly warn people about the usage of public WIFI. Heck I warn people about using networks that aren't theirs, ask my ex (and why she's an ex).