a rambling media blog
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Teacher DOGWALKS 13-Year-Old student (VIDEO)
via myfoxdc.com And here's the actual video of the @$$whoopin'... According to the teen, it all started as he and other classmates watched and laughed as a mentally challenged girl danced. That's when he says the teacher attacked the 13-year-old. Isaiah said he was beaten by the teacher, with other teachers looking on, right there in the classroom. ...I think he may have been acting a damn fool in the class for a long time, and she just snapped. Is this justified? Probably not. If it was my kid though...
May, 12 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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An evolutionary perspective on penis size
via buzz.google.com and Guardian.co.uk "The origins of the primate sex drive go back more than 60m years to the late Mesozoic era when the first primate evolved. A lot of sex has taken place since then, and a significant proportion has been motivated by female choice between rival males.1 Female primates can experience multiple orgasms, and it has been theorised that ancestral hominid females sought out males who would sexually satisfy them. Through the mechanism of sexual selection, this will have increased...
May, 10 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Princess Aiko unable to go to school after boys treated her harshly - The Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Princess Aiko, the only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, has been reluctant to attend school since Monday after being "treated harshly" by boys in her grade, an official of the Imperial Household Agency said Friday. But an official of the school denied that the 8-year-old princess was directly subject to rowdy behavior of the boys, after the unusual announcement by Issei Nomura, the top aide to the crown prince and princess, about the princess' absence citing problems in...
March, 8 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Unsuitable — Japanese snowboarder busted for bad fashion
Pay no attention to the foreign characters or language unless you understand them. Instead, focus on the dreadlocked gentleman on the left. You'll notice his outfit looks just a little different than his teammates'. That's snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo. He's apologizing at the end of the clip because Japanese officials aren't too happy with the way he wore his suit. With his sagging pants, untucked shirt, and loosened tie, Kokubo looked like any sloppily dressed 21-year-old. But that's not going to fly. According...
February, 26 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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‘Family Guy’ Vs. Palin - Can Disability Be Funny? Can Palin take a frikkin' joke?
Chris Hatcher/Getty Images Family Guy, the Fox animated comedy series, is either irreverent or crass, depending on your tolerance for unmannerly humor. Viewers come for its pop-cultural free associations and flatulence gags, not necessarily to debate pressing issues of the day. Andrea Fay Friedman, with the director Jim Sheridan, says she was not making fun of Sarah Palin's son with Down syndrome. via nytimes.com Yo. Palin. You are an effing politician. And not a good one. You are gonna be talked...
February, 20 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Future Journalist: Thoughts from 2 Generations
Something I think anyone that writes or shoots news in this day and age should be reading. My opinion? Darwin said it best: Adapt or become extinct. via Mashable! by Sree Sreenivasan on 2/5/10 Sree Sreenivasan is a professor and Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia Journalism School and contributing editor at DNAinfo.com. Ask a journalist about the state of the media and the answer you get may range from dire predictions about journalism’s imminent demise to cautious optimism. The doomsayers point to...
February, 7 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Google Apps: Use a newer browser, or get left behind!
Dear Google Apps admin, In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We plan to begin phasing out support of these...
January, 30 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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An #iPhone app helped man survive #Haiti quake
via WTVJ/NBC 6 Miami and news.cnet.com "Need to survive an apocalyptic disaster? There's an app for that." And some here tell me I play with my phone too much. Surprised he didn't text someone his GPS coordinates along with "SOS" or "HELP", but he probably didn't have a signal. Good to know that this piece of tech I call "my second brain" has lifesaving capabilities for the resourceful.
January, 21 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Haiti is in my heart and on my mind...
I wanna take some time to pray for the people of Haiti today. I have had a close friend from there for years-- we used to date in fact, and she is one of the sweetest people I've ever had in my life...
January, 13 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Astrological Sign: Virgo | Zodiac Year: Snake | Industry: New Media | Occupation: Multimedia Designer | Location: Nagoya : Aichi : Japan
