15 Minutes for 1500 Phillipino Prisoners

(Guess prison isn't as bad as I once thought--RIP M.J.)

Their youtube video received over 23.6 million hits and this number is expected to sky-rocket since the news of Michael Jackson's untimely passing.

The 1500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines who created this Internet sensation, are just as heart-broken as the rest of us at the news of the King of Pop's death.

“My heart is heavy because my idol died,” said Byron Garcia, security consultant at a Philippine prison who organized the famous video of 1,500 inmates doing a synchronized dance to “Thriller.”

Watch the tribute done by the CPDRC Inmates on June 27, 2009 below:

Have scientists fully imagined the risks of this project?

Microbe Wakes Up After 120,000 Years
After more than 120,000 years trapped beneath a block of ice in Greenland, a tiny microbe has awoken. The long-lasting bacteria may hold clues to what life forms might exist on other planets.
The new bacteria species was found nearly 2 miles beneath a Greenland glacier, where temperatures can dip well below freezing, pressure soars, and food and oxygen are scarce.

"We don't know what state they were in," said study team member Jean Brenchley of Pennsylvania State University. "They could've been dormant, or they could've been slowly metabolizing, but we don't know for sure..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31370889/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Wondering how to legally behead that pesky iguana?

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2009/04/28/0428iguanas.html

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Ganhdi

Urinating dog triggered argument 3 officers dead

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/05/pittsburgh.officers.shot.dog/

Oooops...

69 COMPUTERS MISSING FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS LABS

By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 69 computers, including at least a dozen that were stolen last year, a lab spokesman said. No classified information has been lost, spokesman Kevin Roark said.

The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight on Wednesday released a memo dated Feb. 3 from the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration that said 67 computers were missing, including 13 that were lost or stolen in past 12 months.

Roark initially confirmed those figures, but later updated them. He said a total of 80 computers were lost or stolen in 2008, but 11 were recovered.

The lab was initiating a monthlong inventory to account for every computer, Roark said. The computers were a cybersecurity issue because they may contain personal information like names and addresses, but they did not contain any classified information, he said.

Also missing are three computers that were taken from a scientist's home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 16, and a BlackBerry belonging to another employee was lost "in a sensitive foreign country," according to the memo and an e-mail from a senior lab manager.
The e-mail was also released by the watchdog group.

The theft of the three computers in January triggered the inventory and a review of the lab's policies regarding home use of government computers, Roark said.

Only one of the three computers stolen from the employee's home was authorized for home use, which raised concerns "as to whether we were fully complying with our own policies for offsite computer usage," he said.

Roark said computers with classified information are "kept completely separate from unclassified computing."

"None of these systems constitute a breach of a classified system," he said.
The e-mail from Los Alamos senior manager Stephen Blair to lab co-workers said the missing computers and Blackberry were "garnering a great deal of attention with senior management as well as (nuclear security administration) representatives.

The security administration memo said the "magnitude of exposure and risk to the laboratory is at best unclear as little data on these losses has been collected or pursued given their treatment as property management issues."

The lab, located in Los Alamos, N.M., employs about 10,000 people.
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On the Net:
Los Alamos National Laboratory: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/storytext/los_alamos_computers/30934842/SIG=10loi7coj/*http://www.lanl.gov
Project on Government Oversight: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/storytext/los_alamos_computers/30934842/SIG=10h7kc3lt/*http://pogo.org

John Beats Paul

A Night of Grammys and Soul Searching

While suffering through the Jonas Brothers performance with Stevie Wonder during the recent Grammy Awards, I stayed glued to the telly-like a sick voyeur unable look away -I continued to watch the horror as it unfolded.

As I watched the performance, my mind began to wander as I wondered about a number of chilling questions in

need of answers:

Was I a masochist? Why would I subject myself to this? Was I enjoying any part of the mental torture and anguish I was voluntarily putting myself through?

Then John Mayer beat Paul McCartney for best solo rock vocal performance--and I changed the channel and watched I Love Lucy... and I felt better--but then suddenly, my mind was filled with a number of new questions: Like, why did they pair Ethel with some dude that looks like her grandfather--

Finally! A Job I Was Born To Do!

NY museum seeks women, 18-40, for $10/hr sleep art

NEW YORK - Looking for work? You don't even need to be awake for this gig. The New Museum of New York City is seeking women between the ages of 18 and 40 to participate in an art installation where a woman sleeps in a bed in the gallery space. The pay is $10 an hour. The museum's director of special exhibitions calls the work by Chinese artist Chu Yun "a living sculpture, but one in which you have someone there and doing almost nothing." He says the artist selects the women. The installation is part of an exhibition called "The Generational: Younger Than Jesus," featuring emerging international artists born after 1976. It opens in April.

The museum says women hired for the bed installation are expected to sleep for 6 hours. ___ On The Net: The New Museum: http://www.newmuseum.org Chu Yun: http://www.chuyun.net/

I wonder if he's on Facebook...

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0124/1232474679217.html

Tired of the liberal leaning liberal elite comic book movement?

Well, you're not alone.

http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/01/09/do-comic-books-lean-left

related: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-01-07-obama-spiderman-comic_N.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/l090107_obamaspidey/flash.htm?gid=842&aid=3995

Canadian woman mistakes labor pains for kidney stone

Kind puts a damper on the baby shower and pre-blessed event celebratory gift giving.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090108/kidney_stone_090108/20090108?hub=Health

Your youth, your heart, time...

What are---things you can never have back after a divorce...

Unless of course you're New York surgeon, Richard Batista, who would now like the donated kidney that he shared with his estranged wife, to be returned promptly or at the very least, a large sum of cash. (Hope he gets the money since I suspect that this kind of publicity may not only diminish his medical practice--but also, his potential dating opportunies, but just a guess on my part...)