Detail of M80 ammunition belt, of M60 7.62mm machine gun, the preferred combat ammunition mix for the M60 used by US troops in Iraq, is seen at an observation tower on the roof of the offices of the Civil Military Information Center (CMIC), in downtown Tikrit. US forces killed 46 attackers and wounded at least 18 others who tried to strike military convoys in Samarra, north of Iraq, a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division said.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)





An Iraqi girl covers her face as U.S. army soldiers search for insurgents in the center of Baghdad, Saturday, Nov 29 2003. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

about no big deal, he was prolly drunk

President Bush has a little trouble with the last step during his arrival on Air Force One at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nev. Bush planned to sandwich fund-raising stops in Las Vegas and Phoenix with appearances at senior citizen centers in each city to tout the legislation overhauling Medicare.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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tonight...natasha and i went to pentagon city, and i bought the gunit sneakers !!!!..


then we rolled to alexis' at like 8.. we grubbed on his moms lasagna. ;)
and.....


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then the drinking started





nick and jennifer laughlin ( my hb formal date senior year )





kristin.
( kristin was my photo partner jr year. she did all my prints for me.. where would i be without kristin helgerson ? print less.! )





nick was so out of control.





5$ to buy in. 80$ pot





this shit was serious





mike john blanc was my original partner.. in fact he put the 5 bones down.. but he was too wasted to play, so the first game devin and i, beat erik nordlander and his boy from MIT.. , and then the semifinals i played with dj





dj and i, played nick and his girl from au.. she was beast.
nick however knocked over 2 cups with his drunk self including the last one. lol.
which is how they lost to us. ;)





the semi finals...we played gene and pat.....at the end of the game.. ther was one cup per side left, and dj shoots first.. and makes it... i start celebrating.. and miss my shot. gene .. who wasnt makin shit the whole game.. makes the first shot.... we spent a few minutes arguing over whether or not if pat makes his shot ..do we get a rebuttal shot?. we are talkin shit and basically said fuck it. hes not gonna make this shot.!!!.. pat ......makes it ! it was fuckin money bags. madd props to pat for that,. the whole room saw that. it was hot. at least i lost to one of my best boys... but i spent the rest of the night in shock about that shot.





(tom and andy) and (gene and pat) were in the final match. and after gene almost kickeed robbie whites ass. pat sunk another clutch shot. to win the money. and the crowd goes wild.
i will be hitting pat up for drinks tonight.





i *heart theresa









.robbie vs gene.
so (gene and pat) and (tom and andy) were in the finals of beer pong.. and at one point robbe with a one dollar bill in hand..says ill bet 1$ on toms team.. so gene says ill take that bet. and robbie puts his dollar down.. and looks to gene.. and says "wher is your dollar" .. gene is like i got it, robbie is like blah blah,, lemme see it.. and gene is like lookin at him.. with chewing tobacco in his mouth.. and gene yells "you wanna see my dollar.!", and pulls out like 70$ and shoves it in robbies face.. robbie then is like so "wher is your dollar" and basically gene started charging him. then that boiled down, then at the end of the game. gene won.. he rushes robbie and says if you ever get in my face again . ill fuckin kill you.. or some shit.. and robbie keeps talkin shit.. and basically they never fought but they were being held back, and it was pretty entertaining.. robbie left, and gene stayed and chilled.




LXsiix: eric N pissed in the corner of my kitchen into the dogfood bag

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Denis Gotfrid, of the Ukraine, dislocates his left elbow while attempting to lift 195kg during the Men's 105kg snatch competition at the World Weigthlifting Championships in Vancouver, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003.(AP Photo/Chuck Stoody)

about tatoos are low class

Alexandra Baker, 23, shows on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the remains of a spider tattoo that she is having removed. The tattoo was inked on in college, one of seven now on her body. Now that Baker is in the working world, her feelings toward tattoos has changed. She is also having two others removed. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)


Tattoo Removal More Common, Doctors Say

By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer

ALBANY, N.Y. - At 23, Alexandra Baker figures it's time to get rid of the spider on her ankle. The tattoo was inked on in college — one of seven on her body. But Baker's outlook has changed somewhat. The spider is something to hide rather than exhibit. So it's coming off, along with two little fairies on her chest.

"I can't stand having them anymore," said Baker, who lives in New York's Hudson Valley. "It's just not how I want to portray myself anymore."


Baker is not alone. Doctors say tattoo removals are becoming more common at a time when people frequently sport butterflies on their ankles or barbed wire around their biceps.


"There are a number of people who did this and have said `Geez, this is not what I want.' What seems really great at age 17 or 20 may not seem so great at age 30," said Dr. Brian Kinney, a Los Angeles plastic surgeon and spokesman for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.


Tattoos, once commonly associated with bikers and veterans, proliferated in the '90s on skin of all types of people — from students to bartenders to bankers. In a nationwide poll this year by the Scripps Survey Research Center, 15 percent of respondents said they had a tattoo. The percentage almost doubled among 18 to 34-year-olds.


Some regret it.


No hard numbers exist for tattoo removals, but medical professionals report more people coming in for laser treatments in recent years. Dr. Elizabeth McBurney, a New Orleans-area dermatologist, said she used to do five laser treatments a month in the 1980s. She did twice that one day recently.


All sorts of people come in for removals, doctors say. Some had such slogans as "Tammy Forever" committed to ink, only to find love was fleeting. Others, like Baker, got tattooed in their youth and later regretted being imprinted with a flaming death head or a Flying V guitar.


There are a few common tattoo removal methods — people try to rub them out with chemical lotions or have a doctor abrade or surgically cut them out. State-of-the-art removals are done with lasers that penetrate through the outer layer of skin and fragment the tattoo pigment.


Lasers require several treatments over a period of weeks, can cost hundreds of dollars and can be painful.


Also, a faint trace of the tattoo remains.


Researchers at Wright State's School of Medicine in Ohio are studying the effectiveness of a cream used for genital warts as a complement to laser treatment. The results aren't known yet, though researchers say they have been inundated with offers from would-be guinea pigs.


Professionals — from artists who create tattoos to doctors who remove them — say the best strategy is not to get ill-considered tattoos in the first place. Their advice: Think. Will you enjoy having your fraternity letters on your backside in a decade?


T-Bone, an artist at Lark Tattoo in Albany, said people must sign a consent form before getting a tattoo. Still, the occasional customer has a change of heart after the fact. He echoes the advice of doctors: Don't get a tattoo of your sweetheart's name.


"Unless it's `Mom,'" Kinney said, "because your mom won't go away."

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about Princess Paris : the rollingstone article

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2156



Princess Paris

Paris Hilton wants to be famous for more than just being famous

By Vanessa Grigoriadis

What you think of Paris Hilton, what she thinks of herself and what she's really like are three entities so separate and distinct that if they were people they wouldn't end up in the same room. You think -- if you think of her at all -- that Hilton, 22, is a stupid, spoiled, superficial socialite who dresses like a high-class escort and, given the recently disclosed pornographic video she made with an ex-boyfriend, probably acts like one, too. She thinks she's a pet lover who donates to charity, does not drink or do drugs and hardly ever goes out. "I am not a party person," says Hilton, blinking her catlike royal-blue eyes. "Mostly I like to spend time with my dogs."
There is possibly only one person on the planet from whom this sounds utterly insane, and that is Paris Hilton, America's most famous example of someone who is famous for going out. But at this scene-y Japanese restaurant in West Hollywood, right after she tells the waiter to turn the heat off or she's "going to die," Hilton maintains that this is fact. Fact, even though in the coming week or so she will attend the reopening of Mynt, a nightclub in Miami, a benefit party for the Carl Wilson Foundation, a Whipped Couture party, Usher's twenty-fifth birthday party, the premiere of Scary Movie 3 and the launch party for a new Dior watch. "I hate clubs -- so lame," she drawls, picking at her sashimi, in a Valley Girl voice as deep and low-pitched as Romy and Michele's. "I never go to them."

As if to substantiate this, Hilton, the great-grandchild of the Hilton Hotels founder, is very un-Paris-Hilton-looking tonight, wearing sneakers and sweat pants, with her long blond hair, which is mostly extensions, tucked under a baby-blue trucker cap. She's tired: All day she's been doing interviews for The Simple Life, her new reality show on Fox with childhood friend Nicole Richie, as well as tending to her ill grandmother at the hospital (no, really), so she says that tonight, after dinner and a brief stop at her sister Nicky's twentieth-birthday party held at a promotional party for the MTV show Made, she's going straight home. Nicky -- the younger, plainer and relatively more studious sister (Paris finished high school after a few months of home schooling) -- is already at the club, and Paris' friend Casey Johnson, a Johnson & Johnson heiress, keeps calling her, bugging her to show up already.

"Babe, we're on our way," Hilton says, as she picks up another king crab roll. "Bitch, we're in the car!" Hilton spends an inordinate amount of time on her phone: "This summer, I was in Greece on a boat with no cell phone," she says. "It kind of sucked, but if I had it, someone would call and be like, 'What are you up to tonight?' And I'd be like, 'I'm in the middle of the ocean, asshole.' "

Hilton barely makes it to the club in time for the cake, which is huge and ringed with pink roses. It's dim in here; still, everyone looks vaguely familiar. There are actors from Boston Public and Roswell, the guy who played the guy who owned the club on 90210, a couple of Playboy Playmates, a porn star and Tara Reid, who throws her jacket down next to Hilton.

"I need a drink," says Reid. She grabs a bottle of vodka off the table (when you're a Hilton, there's free everything wherever you go) and doffs her plaid Burberry cap. "Hat? No hat?" she asks.

"Hat is cute," says Paris. "I love hat."

"Yeah," says Nicky.

It's at about this time that Paris disappears for twenty minutes.

She returns refreshed and embraces actress Jennifer Esposito. "I want to go out!" she announces, then smiles broadly, tipping her chin to the sky. "I'm the kind of person that if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it," she says. "I'd run to my friends and tell them, because I want everyone to see it, too."

Hilton makes a beeline for the door through the crowd. "My friend is pregnant, and we have to get to a hospital!" she yells. On the street, she laughs and laughs. Simon Rex, former MTV VJ, appears. "God, he's hot," she whispers. He kisses her cheek. "Where are you going?" he asks.

"Nacional, Nacional," she says, then runs away, toward her car. "We're going to another club -- Deluxe. It's hard for people to get in there, and I don't want them to feel bad."

Pulling into Deluxe's parking lot, Hilton sticks her entire upper torso out of the car and calls to a group of girls with their backs to her, walking away.

"Tatiana!" she screams. "Tatiana! Get that fucking bitch over here!"

The girls don't turn around.

"Shit," says Hilton, ducking back into the car. "Maybe her name isn't Tatiana."

The paparazzi are gathered outside Deluxe, a celebrity hangout attracting the likes of Ashton and Demi, and Hilton vamps for the cameras for a few minutes, making that pout she always makes, prancing back and forth. "Paris is the best," one cameraman says.

A friend of Hilton's puts it this way: "The girl is really strange."

That Hilton is strange, or at least not at all how you imagined her, is immediately apparent: She's loopy, kooky, possessed of that vacant It Girl quality wherein you're never supposed to know exactly what you're doing, but whatever you're doing is fabulous. Though Hilton got a credit card at nine, started going to nightclubs at sixteen and has been on intimate terms with both ever since, to this day she remains childlike, maintaining an excessively close relationship with her mother, herself a minor child TV star. In some ways, Hilton is best described as resembling a teenage raver, a gawky, lanky adrenaline junkie with a bad case of attention-deficit disorder (she says she was diagnosed with it as a kid). It's the ADD, Hilton says, that gives the false impression that she's on drugs, and at least a half-dozen times tonight, she tells me that she doesn't do them. But on three separate occasions, friendly acquaintances ask, "Paris, you got any weed?" Hilton also says that she doesn't drink, and she doesn't at all tonight -- except for Red Bull. About ten of them.

What she spends most of her time doing this evening is dancing: From the time she starts, she never stops, calling out the words to every club hit, all of which she knows, from "Black Sheep" to "Nether," and moving around in a way that's loose, takes up a lot of space and is surprisingly asexual. "My boyfriends always tell me I'm not sexual," says Hilton. "Sexy, but not sexual."

This is a statement that's hard to square with Hilton's most notorious moment to date, a twenty-five-minute pornographic tape that is supposedly soon to be available on the Internet but won't be if her family's lawyers have anything to do with it. It's a graphic, grainy home video that she made with Rick Solomon, a very well-endowed online-gambling entrepreneur once married to Shannen Doherty and with whom Hilton had a fling when she was nineteen (Solomon denies any role in the release of the tape). Despite claims from Hilton's spokeswoman that she was nearly unconscious, Hilton, wearing little more than heavy eye makeup and a mischievous grin, scampers about the bed with glee during the goings-on. As they fuck, she waves at the camera. "Hi," she says. Then her cell phone rings.

That someone would release such a video at the exact moment that Hilton is going to be a national TV star may be atrocious, but it certainly lends credence to myriad tabloid reports that have painted Hilton as an epic slut. After all, she's been romantically linked in gossip pages to Nicolas Cage, Lance Bass, Ashton Kutcher, Oscar de la Hoya, Leonardo DiCaprio, Edward Furlong, Jared Leto, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, Girls Gone Wild impresario Joe Francis, lesbian club owner Ingrid Casares, seventy-three-year-old Hollywood producer Robert Evans, Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, Sum 41's Deryck Whibley and model Jason Shaw (she will cop to only the last two and says that she was in love only with Shaw).

The reality is that Hilton gets hit on with Pamela Anderson-style frequency -- tonight, it happens about once every five minutes -- and it's probable that she takes what she wants from what's offered. She's offered a lot, because any guy who finds himself in the same club as Paris Hilton is compelled, as if by some higher force, to try his luck. She'll humor him for a minute or so, then turn to whatever friend may be nearby, extending her middle finger and rolling her eyes.

"All the guys talk to Paris," Johnson says. She had a date tonight, but he stood her up and is now across the room with someone else. Paris wants to know who he is.

"Don't tell her," says Johnson. "She'll go over there!"

Paris cranes her neck; Nicky leans toward her sister's ear.

"No!" yells Johnson, pulling them apart. "Don't!"

Paris backs away. "Whatever," she says, walking out of the club. "It sucks balls here."

For hilton, the worst thing that you can be is a "Debbie." That means you're "desperate" or "hungry," that you want fame and attention, but you can't yet figure out how to get it. It's also what she calls a lot of people who have, in her estimation, used her name to get theirs into the press, such as Joe Francis, who went on Howard Stern a few months ago and said that Hilton was a nice girl -- when she's not drunk. When is that? Stern asked. "Sundays," Francis said.

Indeed, Hilton won't take any responsibility for the nocturnal high jinks that she's been a part of, at least according to the press. She blames Shannen Doherty for their catfight at Deluxe last spring, which supposedly ended with Doherty pelting Hilton's car with eggs. ("[Doherty] said, 'Let's go outside and fight,' but that's so trashy," Hilton said. Doherty, naturally, denies this.) Then there was the time that Lisa Marie Presley threw a drink at Hilton, who ran out of the bar screaming, "Lisa Marie just threw a drink at me because she thinks I fucked Nic Cage!" (Presley denies tossing the cocktail.) Nor will Hilton admit to the report of March 2003, also at Deluxe, that she threw ice cubes and cigarette butts at Sarah Howard, a wanna-be actress who was flirting with Shaw.

Howard, Hilton says, is a Debbie: "She's desperate. That girl wants to be something."

Ten minutes after hilton leaves Deluxe, she's dancing at another club, Nacional, with the crowd from the MTV party -- JC Chasez, Cris Judd, Reid and "so many cheesy girls, jeez," says Hilton. There's Miss Hawaiian Tropic 2003, in a fishnet bodysuit, a black leather cap set high on her winged hair. "I love your outfit," Hilton tells her, laughing. Next she sees a chesty blonde in a tiny red halter top and jeans slung so low she must be entirely shaved. "She's, like, a hooker Barbie," Hilton whispers. She taps her on the shoulder and says, "Hey, Debbie."

"Debb-a-Debb-Debb Debbie," Reid sings, up in her face.

The hooker Barbie looks confused. "But my name is Tiffany," she says.

Paris turns toward Nicky, who's dancing with rap star Eve. "You should've come to Nicky's birthday party," Paris tells Eve.

"I just turned twenty-five," says Eve and covers her face with her hands. "So old!"

"No, you're not, you're young," drawls Paris, hitting her in the thigh playfully.

Eve starts talking about how she spent her birthday. "And I went to Bliss," she says, puffing up her chest, paw tattoos peeking over her top. "It was dope."

"Eww," says Paris. "I hate that place."

This moment reveals the class rift between Hilton and Eve: Bliss is a New York spa that's marketed as upscale and exclusive but isn't pricey or luxurious enough for the likes of Paris Hilton. In the same way it's uncool to talk shit about a friend's cheap car if you have a BMW, it's verboten among women to dis another girl's spa -- to imply that a massage she thinks is awesome isn't good enough for you. Eve reels back and doesn't talk to Hilton for the rest of the night, though Hilton keeps offering her encouraging smiles.

In any case, it's getting late. Reid is shrieking into her phone: "Tell him if he doesn't get here in five minutes, I'm going to fuck him up personally!"

"Red Bull!" yells Hilton, to no one in particular.

Outside the club, it's like a carnival. There are video cameras from E!'s Celebrities Uncensored, a corn-dog stand, a bunch of bums begging, at least a dozen paparazzi, a line of cops yelling for people to move it along and everyone from the club asking everyone else where the afterparty is. An endless stream of guys thrust invites to other parties into Hilton's hand. "This is for tomorrow, Paris," says one.

"God, Debbie," she says.

"What?" he asks.

"Nothing," says Hilton, putting the flier in her pocket. "Cool."

Johnson gives her keys to someone she thinks is a valet, but he never returns. She starts to freak out, running up and down the street trying to find him. "This is hungry," says Hilton, dashing toward the parking lot. "Let's get out of here." A bum runs after her, yelling, "Paris! I saw you on the TV!"

"Aww, thank you, honey," Hilton says, then tells me, "Jack Osbourne and I took that bum to dinner once."

A minute later, he speeds by in a white Volkswagen van, tooting his horn.

"Look, the bum has a car," says Hilton excitedly. "So cute!"

Though Hilton has both beauty and money in spades - her inheritance is estimated at $30 million -- for all her talk of Debbies, Hilton is stuck in a weird purgatory of celebrity that is itself crowded with Debbies. She herself is desperate -- desperate for respect, desperate for someone to recognize that she is more than just a party girl, a face famous for being famous.

Though Hilton has been taking acting classes three times a week, she's found it difficult to land roles that aren't riffs on her public profile, such as her cameos in Wonderland and Zoolander. In Japan, she and Nicky are superstars -- they are spokes-women for a line of local handbags as popular as Gucci is here, and their faces loom on billboards. ("We have to wear wigs," says Hilton of her trips to Tokyo. "I love wearing a wig.") Stateside, though, Hilton has little more going on than a jewelry line, a makeup line she says she's launching in the spring and, most important, The Simple Life.

"People have this preconceived notion of me that is not who I am," says Hilton of her decision to do the Fox show. "I'm not a little rich girl who hasn't worked a day in her life. I'm smart, I'm sweet, I'm nice. I'm a good person." It's odd, this defensiveness; Paris Hilton shouldn't have to answer to anybody, and she repeatedly insists that she doesn't care what people think of her. Plus she gets offers daily from all sorts of people who want to "work with her." She's recording an album with one of Chasez's producers, Rob Boldt; Chasez has written a song for her as well. "Paris' stuff is like old Prince, old Michael Jackson," says Boldt, who accompanies her out tonight.

This evening's afterparty is at the recording studio of DJ Lethal, a.k.a. Leor DiMant of Limp Bizkit. He's in the parking lot, zipping around on a yellow motorbike with the plate 666. "Sammy Hagar's in Mexico, but rock & roll's gotta live," he says.

In the studio, a dozen people dance around, including Bizkit drummer John Otto and some Iranian girls from the club. Someone is using a pipe made out of a Slinky covered with lampshade paper. Simon Rex and Hilton sit on a couch, playing with a Mini-Me doll. Lethal talks to Paris about recording a song. "I don't want to be Paris Hilton," she says solemnly. "What is that? Who cares? So my family owns hotels. I didn't do it. I want to be 'Paris.'"

"My car," wails Johnson, who is now calling impound lots. In the meantime, I go to get my purse, and it's not where I left it. Hilton's is gone, too. We look all over. She's worried about her passport -- she's supposed to go to Germany in two days -- plus her platinum-and-diamond Franck Muller watch, worth about $20,000. Nervous, she's gone from supermodel perfection to Macaulay Culkin, all clownlike lips and doleful eyes. The room empties out; the Iranian girls leave along with Rex. A couple of guys ask what's happening.

"We got jacked, man," says Hilton, scraping the floor with her sneaker. "People are always stealing my stuff. This happens all the time. Everyone is mean."

"No way," says a guy in a hoodie. He starts to look for the bags -- and he finds hers behind the couch, minus her wallet and watch. A few seconds later, he finds mine under some movers' blankets. It seems strange that he could have found both purses in such a messy place in such short order, and we leave hurriedly, confused. It's still black outside as we wind through the Hollywood hills, but dawn is near.

"God, I can't believe I stayed out this late," says Hilton. "I never do that."

(November 19, 2003)

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about + last night +

for alexis and natashas birthday we went all over arlington
good times.
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5pm : natasha and nicole. cafe asia.




i *heart her body




we grubbed at sushi happy hour.. 2$ appetizers, and 2$ millers




then we went to : rockbottom




i love this shot




moose, marissa, natasha, me, shannon, bridget, kim




my favorate people




beers were $1.10. life is good.




then we went to : baileys




yeah right.




s. trumps and j.thomas

(how many chins do i have ?)




then we went to : mr days




2am : then we went to nicks house at AU.

Biznickman: jesse you ware passed out on nicks couch like you got 99 problems and a couch aint one
Biznickman: by the way this is compton ass tenny

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from me and mines to you and yours.... happy thanksgiving. !



only in america.


Petite Woman Wins Thanksgiving Eating Contest

By Lauren Weber

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Petite former Burger King manager Sonya Thomas wolfed down 7-3/4 pounds of holiday food in 12 minutes on Wednesday to defeat a pair of 400-pound rivals and win the Thanksgiving Invitational eating contest.



The 106-pound Thomas of Alexandria, Virginia, devoured massive helpings of yams, green beans, cranberry sauce and turducken, a turkey stuffed with duck, chicken and sausage, to win the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) event.


"I'm full but I could eat more," Thomas, 36, said. Asked her secret, she said, "I just eat fast, that's all."


Thanksgiving, which traditionally centers around a family feast, brings out the overeater in many Americans, but Thomas ruled supreme as she ate her way past 400-pounders Ed "Cookie" Jarvis and Eric "Badlands" Booker, who came in second and third, respectively.


"You need four things" to participate in this sport, said Booker before the contest. "Capacity, strategy, mental toughness and stamina."


"I'm an eating machine," said Booker, who holds world marks in the matzo ball, corned beef hash and doughnut contests.


Being big is no requisite for success, as Thomas proved.


The glamour event on "the circuit" of competitive eating is Nathan's Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest held in New York's Coney Island neighborhood. Takeru Kobayashi, a slender Japanese man who ate a record 50-1/2 hot dogs and buns in 2001, is the current superstar.


In the Thanksgiving contest, most of the nine competitors used their hands to stuff in the food, while Richard and George Shea, the brothers who head the IFOCE, stood behind them offering commentary.


The IFOCE hosts official eating contests and tracks the world's top eaters, like record-holder Oleg Zhornitskiy, who downed four 32-ounce bowls of mayonnaise in 8 minutes.


Asked her plans for Thanksgiving, Thomas replied, "I'm going to eat more turkey."


The victory earned Thomas two airline tickets anywhere in the continental United States, and a turkey statuette.

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Drunken Al Qaeda: oh
Drunken Al Qaeda: that goddamn squirrel
Drunken Al Qaeda: I hate that fag

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Early morning shoppers at K-Mart in Philadelphia reach their arms out for video games, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003. Several department stores and other retailers are offering enticing consumer discounts this Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)

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hova rates hova

Jay-Z's skills have been a gift and a curse: He's been so consistent over the past seven years, people expect a classic LP every time he drops an album. While Jay is not perfect all the time, fans and critics will tell you he certainly comes close in most of his efforts.

But what does Hov think? After years of having his music dissected and scrutinized, we finally let the Jiggaman rate his own albums, on a scale of 1-5. Here's what he had to say ...





Reasonable Doubt (1996): 5
"I had my whole life to make that. That's my favorite. It's gonna always be my favorite because it's the first."





In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997): 4.5
"I love Volume 1. I just did it wrong. I shot [videos for] the wrong singles. I had 'Where I'm From,' 'Streets Is Watching,' 'Imaginary Player,' I just went about it wrong. I'm thinking with two different records I would've killed that."





"Streets Is Watching" soundtrack (1998): 4
"We did the 'Streets Is Watching' movie because we just wanted to give people a background on Roc-A-Fella, how it got started, the type of people that we are. We was in the middle ground. Everybody on the underground knew what we was about. On the commercial level they didn't really know what Roc-A-Fella was about. That was the inspiration for the movie and soundtrack."





Vol. 2 ... Hard Knock Life (1998): 5
"I love Volume 2. That's my biggest album ever. I was just in a zone. Everything was just poppin.' "





Vol. 3 ...The Life and Times of S. Carter (1999): 4
"Very solid. It's a more mature album. It's a little deeper than 'Money, Cash, Hoes' and a little deeper than 'Jigga What.' It's dealing with real issues."





The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000): 4
"I talked about my life within that year. All the things that happened to me and the way people reacted to me, just off hearsay and off assumption. That album is so strong, so powerful."





The Blueprint (2001): 5
"The Blueprint was that foundation and everything was that one theme and it was sewed together. It's the blueprint of my life, the things that made me the way I am, that shaped me. It's all my beliefs and ideas. There's also a blueprint for rappers in this business."





The Best of Both Worlds (2002): 4
"One feeling that I have when I think about the album is blown opportunity. The whole reason the album came together was to do something creative that nobody really done before. Let's bring these two genres of music together and make something really crazy and let's go on tour and make history."





The Blueprint 2/2.1: The Gift and the Curse (2002): 3.5
"I'mma give that the lowest [rating]. Too many songs."





The Black Album (2003): 5
"My most introspective album."

Sinking feeling : Half of a bus emerges from a sink hole at the Lisbon bus terminal.

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my xmas card idea for the fam
this is draft 1, im gona get some better anagrams.. i dont like how so many end in mrsmy.. lol

they are gonna be printed on nice postcard stock paper.

about * only in america *

Jones Soda Co. founder and CEO Peter van Stolk holds bottles of his seasonal Turkey and Gravy Soda, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003, in Seattle. The producers of the Thanksgiving-themed beverage at Jones Soda are surprised by the demand for the drink. They sold out all 6,000 bottles online within about two hours last week. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

about * Toy hand grenades *

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Toy hand grenades sit at a street vendor as people shop in preparation for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the main market in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 24, 2003. The holiday comes at the end of the the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

about we lost in overtime

my boy mike (from corcoran..) hooked it up with executive suite passes for the caps game

free food and beer. it was awesome..




clear shot. right ?




thats me, and alexis's girl in the background....jk..lol




the blimp mascot




it was fun




good times...




bling

about last night. = drunk

i look wasted in all these pics. because we went to mcfaddens tonight.. and drank 1$ yienglings all night !



and it was natashas birthday !




and im wasted.




pete, me, nick and dj




dj and jeff




Snuff703: wasted last night
makaveliblaze: wassssteed
Snuff703: rock bottome tonight

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legos for adults.. you can do lots of cool things with these.

about "the comfort of a full-size keyboard in a form factor that works with handhelds -- and only requires the use of one hand. "

http://frogpad.com/

The FrogPad promises the comfort of a full-size keyboard in a form factor that works with handhelds -- and only requires the use of one hand.

With only 20 keys, FrogPad "offers full functionality and ease of use, making it the keyboard of choice for the mobile worker," Marroquin told NewsFactor.

Fifteen keys that read like a far-out poet doing In-Synch -- FARWPOEHTDUINSY -- enter the letters FrogPad claims cover 86 percent of the English language. Five additional keys handle space, number, symbol, enter, and shift/caps lock.

The space key toggles to green letter keys that cover the other 14 percent of the English language. The number key toggles to additional functions, such as escape, insert, and backspace.

Do You Frog?

Marroquin and her 4-year-old firm -- whose Yahoo-styled slogan is "Do You Frog?" -- are targeting a market of portability seekers who want ergonomic comforts in a smaller space.

"The only element that has kept personal computers from being smaller is the keyboard," she writes in a recent white paper on the subject. "The opportunity to have full functionality and full computing power in a handheld device can now easily be accomplished with FrogPad's revolutionary, single-handed fully functional keypad design."

The primary benefit of FrogPad is "that it is full-sized; users are not trying to manipulate tiny keys," said Ramamirtham Sukumar, associate professor of marketing at Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management.

Sukumar -- who also serves as Director of Research Sciences at market research firm IPSOS-NPD -- said he "is fairly confident that the FrogPad will see a successful market."

Moose and Squirrel, Mouse and Frog

On a desktop populated by mice, Marroquin says she wants to add a frog.

The first FrogPad is right-handed because "research indicated that right-handed mouse users preferred right-handed FrogPads," she explained. A left-handed FrogPad will be available in the first quarter of 2004.

One potential market for FrogPad is people with disabilities that limit their movement on one side.

"Christina Hansen is a lovely, twenty-something woman who suffered a stroke that has limited movement on her left side," Marroquin said. "She's found the FrogPad to be a godsend."

"I can tell you many great things about FrogPad," Hansen told NewsFactor.

In another example, an inquiry on the "Frog Blog" asks when the left-handed keyboard will be available. "I suffer from Repetitive Strain Injury in my right hand," the right-handed writer says. "Should I wait for the left-hand version or buy the right-hand version to use with my left hand?"

FrogPad may have freed some hands, but it has also unleashed a barrage of chat-room snickers, Marroquin said. "About what a person might be doing with their free hand," she quipped -- "I won't go there."

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Ohio State tackle Shane Olivea (71) holds his head in his hands as Michigan takes possession of the ball in the closing minutes of their game in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003. Michigan defeated Ohio State 35-21 for the Big Ten title and a trip to the Rose Bowl.




Montreal Canadiens goalie Jose Theodore exhales during a second period of NHL outdoor action against the Edmonton Oilers at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on Saturday Nov. 22, 2003.




A penguin dressed as Santa Claus greets visitors during a Christmas show at Hakeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, south of Tokyo November 23, 2003.

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Bethany Hamilton, 13, rising surfing star who lost her arm to a tiger shark while surfing on Halloween on Kauai's North Shore, is interviewed on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2003, at Kilauea, Hawaii. She said, 'I wasn't that scared.' Hamilton said she will continue to surf and the worst part of losing her arm to a shark was seeing her loved ones cry. (AP Photo/Dennis Fujimoto)

Emmy Award-winning host Bob Barker is joined by Barker's Beauties, from left, Lanisha Cole, Rachel Reynolds and Brandi Sherwood, as he celebrates his 80th birthday at a taping of television's longest-running game show, 'The Price is Right.' The birthday episode is scheduled to air on the CBS Television Network on Barker's birthday, Dec. 12. (AP Photo/CBS, Monty Brinton)

The mushroom cloud from a GBU-43/B, also known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), can be seen rising in this Air Force video still image after it was launched successfully from a MC-130E Combat Talon I aircraft on Nov. 21, 2003. The 21,700-pound bomb was dropped from 20,000 feet to reach its target on one of Eglin's test ranges. Upon detonation, it created a plume over the Florida Panhandle that rose more than 10,000 feet and can be seen from 40 miles away. (AP Photo/HO) Released.

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Georgian students who wrapped themselves with plastic sheets to symbolize the lack of freedom in the country, rally in downtown Tbilisi. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

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about fri nov 28

alexis' 22nd birthday party is on the 28th.
hollller hovito

A fountain in Trafalgar Square, London is dyed with red paint by anti-war protesters (unseen) to coincide with the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, London, November 19, 2003. Bush is on a four-day state visit to the UK.



ahha. red paint.. that will stop the war..surely. ! good thinking britinonians

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http://www.6forty.com/jesse/thursday




after class, i went to whitlows to see soldiers of jah play.. and i started drinking







josh smiraldo and john lamotta
that W is for wakefield




the dude aka dude your scaring me





that is a arlington county fair hat he is wearing ..
whitlows was all about arlington last night.





rainbow suspenders and a bright yellow hat ...?
he needs to be in the next OutKast video or something.!





lisa was chillin





compton ass tenny was chillin





"the dude" was leaving (notice the jacket in dudes hand) ..
and compton ass tenny jumped over a table, and chairs to get this shot... lol

about typography class

we critiqued our typography posters today in class...




i like this one the best..





great detail





















my classic typeface tribute posters.. to the great bauhaus... for typography class..

---

the gangster computer setup


as a short assignment we redesigned a bad typographic example of our choosing.. i choose the ny film academy.. a respected school. but ther catalog looks sooo wack.
in the negative color space....imagine a picture of someone like woddy allen wearing a new york city shirt. or some other nyc film legend next to something typically nyc....



the image above is the original
the ones below are my designs










my teacher said "you made a good choice.. you couldnt help but do better than that."

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the biger version

peep the shout out i gave myself...

Arlington, near tenth and Barton there is a house with a little plaque on it that says
"Real World D.C."...

i saw it tonight !..

i will be investigating..
im gonna take a pic tommorow

about you notice that the dude is flicking the camera off ?

US Army soldiers take rest during patrol in Baghdad suburb, Monday Nov. 17, 2003. U.S. forces have reacted to the increasing attacks in which dozens of Americans and their allies have died by mounting a massive show of force in central and northern Iraq

about Man Dies After Winning Vodka-Drinking Contest

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care.


"The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-liter bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk.


"Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink."


Popov said the director of the shop organizing this month's contest had been charged with manslaughter. He had offered 10 liters of vodka to the competitor drinking the most in the shortest time.


Russians drink the equivalent of 15 liters of pure alcohol per head annually, one of the highest rates in the world. Some experts estimate one in seven Russians is an alcoholic.

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CAM'RON & DAMON DASH ON "THE O'REILLY FACTOR"
This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, November 12, 2003.

BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the Impact Segment tonight, last week, the principal of John Reynolds Elementary School in Philadelphia, Salome Thomas-El, told us he believes gangsta rap music is extremely harmful to his inner-city students.

So we decided to get Grammy-nominee Cam'ron, who raps about pimping and bitches -- among other things -- and rap producer Damon Dash, co-founder of Rockefeller Records, together with Mr. Thomas-El, who joins us now from Philly. And here they all are.

Now we're going to have a nice, intelligent discussion here, gentlemen, and I'm going to moderate this discussion.

CAM'RON, RAPPER: Pimping and bitches.

O'REILLY: Yes. You know.

CAM'RON: Pimping and bitches.

O'REILLY: You've got it in your record "Purple Haze" right here.

But, anyway, let Mr. Thomas-El direct his questions, and then you guys can answer, and you can ask him questions or whatever you want.

Go ahead, sir.

SALOME THOMAS-EL, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: Yes. Good evening, gentlemen.

CAM'RON: Hey, how are you?

DAMON DASH, RAP PRODUCER: How are you doing?

THOMAS-EL: Good, good, good. I'm a big fan of yours. I grew up on hip-hop.

CAM'RON: Thank you, sir.

THOMAS-EL: I'm a little older, so, you know, I was a Run DMC fan, KRS1.

CAM'RON: Yes, sir.

THOMAS-EL: But I'm always promoting the positive of rap. I mean Jay-Z's an excellent example of someone who's started his own label. He's an entrepreneur. So always promoting that with my young people.

But I spoke to some students today in preparation for our conversation tonight, and they were just so excited about the fact that I would be conversating with you guys, but also began to talk about the impact of the rap business on our young people, and many of them talked about how they understand that it's to sell records and it's, you know, for promotion.

But there are many young people who are affected by the lyrics, by the example of the videos. They talked about how Ludacris -- many of them knew about a video that Ludacris has where there's strippers and lap dances and those kinds of things, and these are 11-, 12-, and 13-year-old students who are very aware of what goes on.

And I was just wondering what your thoughts were on whether you thought you really had an impact on the lives of young people and whether you thought it was negative or positive.

O'REILLY: Cam'ron, why don't you go ahead?

CAM'RON: At the end of the day, yes, you've got an influence on it, but so do movies. Like with me, I'm just an author. So what I do is I write what goes on in the ghetto. I'm not a liar. So what I tell you goes on in my album, that's what goes on on the streets of Harlem.

Now I'm like a reporter. When you look at the news, you don't get mad at the person reporting the news. A lot of influence, I think, go to movies. A lot of people look at the movies, and then they react. The kids that killed them kids in -- where was that, Damon? Colorado?

DASH: Columbine.

CAM'RON: Columbine. Yes. You feel what I'm saying? I don't think they were listening to rap at all. I think that was more like a Marilyn Manson jump-off, you know, like...

O'REILLY: What if an 11-year-old kid imitates you, Cam'ron? What if he uses four-letter words and he develops a lifestyle based upon the street, he gets tattooed, he gets all of this, do you feel badly about that?

CAM'RON: No, I don't.

DASH: Can I interject?

O'REILLY: Go ahead.

DASH: If an 11-year-old were to imitate Cam'ron, what they would be doing is becoming a CEO Of their own company, controlling their own destiny, taking a bad situation and making it good. He has a record company. He's sold a lot of records. He's acted in movies. I feel like he's a positive...

CAM'RON: I have a cologne also.

DASH: He has a cologne.

CAM'RON: I have a clothing line.

O'REILLY: Well, you know what I'm talking about, Damon.

DASH: Well, no, he's an entrepreneur by his own right.

O'REILLY: If you have a child who is unsupervised and then Mr. Thomas-El has to try to teach and he's using four-letter words inappropriately, he's dressing inappropriately, he doesn't have value of education then that kid's in trouble.

DASH: Who's to say what's inappropriate as far as dressing goes? But, on another level, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the Terminator, he was shooting up everyone in sight.

O'REILLY: It's a cartoon, though. This is real, though, isn't it?

CAM'RON: Everybody's rap isn't real.

O'REILLY: This is real. It's not a Terminator cartoon.

All right. Mr. Thomas-El, what else do you want to ask these guys?

DASH: You didn't let me finish, Bill. That wasn't very fair.

O'REILLY: All right. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'll let Mr. Dash finish.

DASH: Now we're talking about the good governor of California right now.

O'REILLY: That's right. And I'm telling you his movie's a cartoon, whereas this rap stuff is real life.

DASH: Now -- whoa, whoa, whoa. If there's an unsupervised child, how is he going to know whether it's real or not? How is he to determine what's real and what's not real? Who's the supervisor?

O'REILLY: All right. And you think that the "Terminator" movies are just as damaging or more so than gangsta rap.

DASH: I would have to say being that there's a visual and being there's no explanation to them and being that it's...

O'REILLY: There's visuals on these rap videos, too, though.

DASH: But what I'm saying is it's glorified. There's no justification for all the shooting that goes on.

O'REILLY: All right.

DASH: So if he's reporting on what goes on around the street, he's a product of his environment, he's reporting what is a product of his environment. How is that wrong for him to report that?

THOMAS-EL: Gentlemen, let's be honest.

(CROSSTALK)

O'REILLY: Let Mr. Thomas-El get in here. Go ahead.

THOMAS-EL: Gentlemen, let's be honest. Who do these kids relate to someone from the inner city or someone from another country or someone from the suburbs? Let's be quite honest.

DASH: Well, what I was trying to...

THOMAS-EL: You came up the same way I did, the same way millions of these kids do every day.

DASH: Right, right.

THOMAS-EL: We're growing up in a fatherless society. A lot of our friends -- your friends, my friends -- didn't have a lot of supervision at home. Most of time, they were at our homes. We had good parents. We had parents who didn't allow us to do, or watch these kinds of things.

I'm a critic of the movie industry also. I think that the kids are watching too much TV period. But my issue is that when you rap, you rap about what these children relate to because it's in their environment. You've already stated that they don't know your story because you're a CEO, and I agree.

But, see, you don't promote this and your company doesn't promote that. They promote the four-letter words.

DASH: We don't promote entrepreneurship? We don't promote positive and ownership of your company? I'm making it cool to be smart. I'm making it cool to be a businessman.

O'REILLY: All right. Look, but it's not about business.

DASH: It's not about business for you because you feel like it might give you better ratings to portray something negative with the image of hip-hop.

O'REILLY: It is negative. It is negative.

DASH: It's not negative to be a businessman.

O'REILLY: Sure it is. It's negative to make money, Mr. Dash, if you hurt children.

DASH: How do you hurt children by promoting to be an entrepreneur and a CEO and to do right...

(CROSSTALK)

O'REILLY: Hold it! Hold it! You're looking at a principal...

CAM'RON: Why don't you want to let him talk? You mad. You mad.

O'REILLY: You won't let me finish.

CAM'RON: Where did you start covering up the fear, right?

O'REILLY: No, wrong.

CAM'RON: I'm going to get at you in a minute.

O'REILLY: You go ahead. You get at me.

CAM'RON: I'm going to get at you in a minute.

O'REILLY: Listen, you guys, you're looking at a guy who teaches inner-city kids and who is telling you face to face that he has problems with kids based upon the rap music, and you're rationalizing it all up and down.

DASH: I thought you were going to mediate

O'REILLY: I am.

DASH: No, what you're doing is you're giving opinions. That's not being an objective mediator now, Bill.

O'REILLY: No, I can give my opinion. It's my program.

DASH: Well, now it's your program.

O'REILLY: Yes, it's my program.

DASH: Bill. Come on, Bill.

O'REILLY: We’ll have The Dash Factor some other time.

DASH: Let's stand back. I have The Dash Factor.

O'REILLY: No, I've got a question for Cam'ron based on what you just said.

DASH: Don't yell. Come on. Let's keep this civil.

O'REILLY: This is civil. Come on.

THOMAS-EL: I've got -- I've got...

O'REILLY: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Mr. Thomas-El.

Now, look, if the principal tells you that there are children in his school, Cam'ron, who are being adversely affected by your music, do you care?

CAM'RON: I care, but you've got to talk to their parents.

O'REILLY: What if they don't have good parents?

CAM'RON: Why are they in school? They have to have parents to be in school. Somebody sent them to school.

O'REILLY: No, they don't.

DASH: No, you don't. No, you don't.

CAM'RON: If that's the case, homeboy, whoever's minding the television -- you need to have parent-teacher conferences with your students. Whether it's they aunt, they cousin, they sister, somebody's sending these kids to school. They're not 11 years old staying at home by their self.

I can't go home and talk to these students. You need to have more parent-teacher conferences if you have problems with your students.

O'REILLY: All right. Let him reply.

DASH: Same with the television.

O'REILLY: Let him reply. Go ahead. Mr. Thomas-El, reply.

DASH: That was a good point, Cam.

CAM'RON: Thank you.

THOMAS-EL: No, it's an excellent point. But, actually, you are talking to these students because they listen to you every day. So you are...

CAM'RON: So I've got more influence than their parents. That's a problem.

THOMAS-EL: No.

CAM'RON: That's a problem. That is a problem.

THOMAS-EL: That is a problem.

CAM'RON: So you need to have parents-teachers conferences because these are your students. You feel me? If you want me to come to your school and talk to your students, I could do that for you.

THOMAS-EL: No, I don't...

CAM'RON: All right. I don't want you...

(CROSSTALK)

O'REILLY: Go ahead. Go ahead. Let him get in.

CAM'RON: You have to talk to your parents.

THOMAS-EL: You're cutting me off, sir.

DASH: You mad.

O'REILLY: Go ahead, Mr. Thomas-El. Go ahead.

THOMAS-EL: No, what I'm saying...

(LAUGHTER)

THOMAS-EL: What I'm saying to you is that you're making millions of dollars off of these kids, the same kids that you're now denigrating...

CAM'RON: How do you know how much I'm making? How do you know how much money I'm making?

THOMAS-EL: The same parents that you're now denigrating, you make millions of dollars off these people.

CAM'RON: How do you know how much money I'm making?

DASH: Cam...

O'REILLY: Go ahead. Now you reply.

DASH: Let me ask you a quick question.

O'REILLY: Go ahead.

DASH: I think it's pretty unfair for you to judge the circumstance without properly understanding it. But every opportunity we get, we try to say as positive things as we can, which is why when we do make this money, we give back to our community.

Me and Cam'ron our self are from 142nd Street at Lennox. We do have a program there that teaches kids to be positive. We make them go to school. We support a basketball program.

And we personally know 150 kids in the neighborhood and speak to them and tell them to stay in school, incentivize them to stay in school. What's not positive about that?

OREILLY: Mr. Thomas-El, we're going to give you a minute to make a statement. And then we're going to go to Cam'ron, and then we're going to go to Damon Dash. And I think that's the fair way to do it. So you go first.

THOMAS-EL: OK. I'd like to thank you gentlemen for what you do. I'd like you to promote more to these young people, and maybe even if you can influence the folks who are around you to promote the positive things that you're doing. I know you're doing positive things.

But also these children are watching you tonight. Many of these children have parents who are incarcerated, parents who are drug addicted. They don't have the parental involvement they need.

They look up to a lot of you guys. A lot of you are men. They don't have a lot of contact with positive men. And tonight, you're making a mockery of their situation.

So, you know, tonight to an intellectual people, you didn't make rap look good, you didn't make the industry look good. And we aren't highlighting the positive.

I'm hoping in the future that we can send a better message not only to our young people but to America that this industry does have some talented people who do care because you're out there doing some good and great things for the young people.

O'REILLY: All right. Good.

All right. Cam'ron, you go.

CAM'RON: Cool. I just want to say I think that we got off to a bad start tonight, but I think everything that we said was very positive. I think that what me and Dash are doing is very, very, very positive for the youth.

You just jumped on everything that we done bad, and there's nothing that we done bad. You took it based on one song of lyrics. Like I think what you need to do is get more in tune with your students. You know what I mean? You need to have parent-teacher conferences.

If you need some of these rappers to come in, call the record company, call Rockefeller Records, call Diplomat Records, and ask us to come in and speak to your students. We do things like that.

THOMAS-EL: I want...

CAM'RON: No, your statement is over. It's my turn to talk. You're done for the night.

THOMAS-EL: OK. Well, you cut me off earlier.

O'REILLY: No, no, no. Come on. Let him talk.

CAM'RON: You're done for the night. Take it to school tomorrow. You're done for tonight.

O'REILLY: All right. If he needs you to come in...

CAM'RON: Call us. Diplomat Records. We'll come speak to his kids.

O'REILLY: Good.

(CROSSTALK)

THOMAS-EL: Thank you.

CAM'RON: You're done for the night.

O'REILLY: Let Mr. Dash wrap it up.

DASH: Going along with what Cam'ron said, I think a lot of what we said was positive and informative.

It's kind of obvious that maybe you don't understand that everything affects everything, whether it be movies, books, literature, a reporter on television, and if you're going to promote anything, I would think that to the culture of the kids that are watching, you'd promote the positive aspect of it.

So, if you know there is negative in something, try to find the positive as opposed to always talking about the negative. That's the thing I don't understand, why we're criticized so hard within hip-hop.

No one talks about the jobs we create, no one talks about the things we do within our community, and no one talks about the businesses we've done, how we've opened the doors and shown people that it's cool to be smart, it's cool to be a CEO, and it's cool to not to take advantage but to reap the benefits of all your labor and to do it fairly.

I can't see how that could ever be considered a negative, and I'm disappointed in the fact that you would be thinking that.

O'REILLY: All right.

DASH: But, anyway, I just want to say one thing.

O'REILLY: Quick.

DASH: Rockefeller Records will be all in stores soon. Cam'ron's album's coming out along with a lot of...

O'REILLY: All right. That's capitalism.

OK, guys. We appreciate it very much. And, you know, I just want you guys to think about, as the principal said, the kids...

DASH: Are we off?

O'REILLY: No. The kids who don't have responsible parents. Just think about that.

DASH: And we need to you think about that as well.

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Hossein Barkhah of Iran dislocates his elbow attempting to lift 157.5 kilograms in the snatch category in group A of the men's 77 kilogram weight class at the World Weightlifting Championship in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 18, 2003

The Source Digs Up Tape Of Eminem Using Racial Slurs

Eminem found himself on the defensive Tuesday (November 18) after The Source magazine owners Ray Benzino and Dave Mays held a press conference to play a recording of the MC delivering racial slurs.

On the first of two tracks purportedly recorded in 1993, an audibly young Slim Shady raps, "All the girls I like to bone have big butts/ No they don't, 'cause I don't like that n----- sh--/ I'm just here to make a bigger hit."

The second track featured Eminem rapping about a black girlfriend he broke up with. "Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/ But black girls only want your money, 'cause they're dumb chicks," he rhymes. Later in the freestyle Em raps, "Never date a black girl, because blacks only want your money/ And that sh-- ain't funny."

The first track was only a few lines long, but the second track went on for several minutes with Em — seemingly rhyming off the top of his head — repeatedly saying he did not like black girls and that they were only out to get money. Both tracks sounded amateurish.

"Don't make this right now a double standard," Benzino said at the press conference. "We gotta treat this the same way you treat Mike Tyson, like you treat Kobe Bryant, like you treat R. Kelly, like you treat O.J. Simpson."

Eminem responded by insisting he isn't racist and explaining that the recording was made when he was young, foolish and angry.

"Ray Benzino, Dave Mays and The Source have had a vendetta against me, Shady Records and our artists for a long time," Eminem said in a statement. "The tape they played today was something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager. I'd just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today."

Eminem, 50 Cent and the rest of the Shady/Aftermath team have had a long-running feud with The Source, fueled by Benzino's accusations that the media operate on a double standard when it comes to the multiplatinum white MC and that an artist of color could never get away with saying some of the things Em says in his music.

After their comments, Benzino and Mays refused to entertain questions about the tape and its origins. They did say they plan to include a CD of the Eminem recordings in February's issue, and they promised another press conference concerning Eminem will be held in the future, when they'll answer questions and have civic leaders and members of the hip-hop community on hand.

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about this weekend was tiiiight

http://www.6forty.com/jesse/elbridgeto/



22




party in bridget and mooses apartamentos..







el bridgeto and compton ass tenny




birthday girls




ms ellen

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http://www.6forty.com/jesse/shannontour/



then we road tripped it to VTech.




shannon !~ is 21 !!




!. the offical tour .!




and we pregamed..




then we went to el rod, for margaritas and crazyness













then we went to this other bar.


good times

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about KeyKatcher

http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/keykatcher-keylogger.shtml


Key Katcher - Capture keystrokes by attaching this small piece of hardware to the back of your computer and keyboard. This tiny device comes in two sizes, the only difference is the amount of keystrokes it can hold, it is available in 32k, 64k and New 128k! The 32k can hold approximately 32,000 keystrokes and the 64k unit will hold about 64,000 keystrokes and the 128k holds aprox. 128,000 keystrokes (Think dictionary size).

The device is hard-coded and does not require batteries or power supplies to remember everything recorded. The device can be attached and detached freely without losing any data by storing the data on non-volatile memory. The device is self-standing and does not require any software to be installed or to read the data, simply plug this device between the keyboard and computer and it's actively recording everything typed on the keyboard.

Viewing the data recorded to the device is easy, simply attach to a computer and type in the password while in a text editor. Upon typing the password the device interprets the data and spits out interactive menus where you can view all the data, export it, delete it, search it, view website addresses typed in and more. The password can be changed at any time and the device can be set to not record keystrokes by toggling it on/off while still plugged in.

The device can connect to any PS/2 keyboard and does not require any software to read or record the data. This KeyKatcher can be plugged into one computer and plugged into the next without any installations or hard work.

Singer Jessica Simpson and her husband, singer Nick Lachey, stars of 'Newlyweds,' pose for photographers backstage after presenting an award at the 31st annual American Music Awards, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2003, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

about happy birthday shannon !!!!!!!

happy birthday shannon !!!!!!!
this weekend is gonna be soo hot.

jmu friday night for bridgetos bday party.
vtech saturday for shannons pub crawl celebration.


bling!

U.S. Army combat engineers inspect the damage November 14, 2003 to a building in a former Republican Guard compound in Baghdad, which was shelled by the U.S. Air Forces. U.S. forces destroyed a building in the compound that they said resistance fighters used to launch attacks and struck more suspected mortar and rocket-launch sites

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KRS-One
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check my classic type face assignment for typography class....

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about thats my girl

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Paris's Ex-Boyfriend Sues Over Sex Tape in L.A

The man seen having sex with Paris Hilton in a notorious amateur videotape that has surfaced on the Web has filed a $10 million slander lawsuit against the 22-year-old hotel heiress, her parents and her publicist.



Video entrepreneur Rick Solomon claims in his Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed on Wednesday that the Hiltons and publicist Sari Garber have sought to portray him as a criminal. He is seeking $10 million in damages.


The Hiltons have threatened to sue anyone who releases the tape, which was made when Paris Hilton was 19 and before Solomon, then 30, married actress Shannen Doherty.


Garber had no comment on Solomon's lawsuit. His name is spelled "Salomon" in the court papers.


The sex tape, which was made in 2001 when Solomon and Paris Hilton were dating, has become fodder for countless gossip columns and is being offered for sale or viewing on a number of Web sites.


"Hilton, her family and at least one of her publicists have ... embarked on a cold, calculated and malicious campaign to portray Salomon as a rapist who took advantage of a sweet and innocent girl who had no idea what happened to her," the lawsuit says.


"Defendants then cleverly hinted to the press that there might be an issue as to whether Hilton was underage, which they obviously could have dismissed with one phone call," the lawsuit says.


Paris Hilton stars in an upcoming FOX reality show, "The Simple Life."

about M$

http://www.alpern.org/weblog/2003/06/16.html


M$ takes over

A blogger named Micah Alpern just wrote on his blog about a new Microsoft evangelical book coming out and his thoughts about the future of Flash and Microsoft. Its a interested read

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about beauty is in the eye of the beholder

LXsiix: not feelin it
LXsiix: change it back man


Biznickman: I kinda prefer the old version


Soundsinthepath: I LIKE THE OLD SITE YO


TLBsACowboy4Me: say no to the new Jess3
TLBsACowboy4Me: dude we want the old jess3
makaveliblaze: really ?
makaveliblaze: damnnnn
TLBsACowboy4Me: yessssssss
TLBsACowboy4Me: i mean
TLBsACowboy4Me: its cool to be all stylish and shit
TLBsACowboy4Me: but sometimes, you just gotta keep it real


Tenny727: keep it this way
Tenny727: dont listen to everyone else
Tenny727: they just dont know if somethings hot or not


DoodleMcDoogle: I like it better
DoodleMcDoogle: It seems like a more professional site
makaveliblaze: thanks
makaveliblaze: ppl have been hatin
DoodleMcDoogle: YEah I saw that
DoodleMcDoogle: THey're just lazy


liqudbass: dude. fuck the bullshit. the new site is spottieottiedopaliscious. lol, comparatively, the other site was some cloudy piss. god i love outkast.

about HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIDGET !!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bridget !!

my favorate person ever


wish bridget a happy birthday instant message ! barbiegirl1381

about new + zealand

Young 'All Blacks' fans at the world cup. Children in rugby-obsessed New Zealand are turning up to school bleary-eyed and grumpy and the rugby World Cup in Australia is getting the blame




new zealand has some ghetto ass people.



yeah that is a real tattoo




South Africa's Joost van der Westhuizen, right, tackles New Zealand's Justin Marshall during their Rugby World Cup quarter-final in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003. The All Blacks won the match 29-9.




New Zealand's Carlos Spencer, center, leaves South Africa's Faan Rautenbach, left, trailing in his wake as he sets up the opening try for the All Blacks during their Rugby World Cup quarter-final in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003

courtney looks hurt up


Actress-singer Courtney Love responds to questions after leaving Los Angeles County Superior Court Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2003, in Beverly HIlls, Calif. Love was arraigned Wednesday on two felony counts of drug possession.

http://www.stolenshirts.com

about damnit

http://www.6forty.com/jesse/roots


Babys1Croat: do you remember when we walked into the concert and i talked to my boy?
Babys1Croat: aight...well he was like "hit me up after this shit is out"
Babys1Croat: and i didnt
Babys1Croat: bein a little biatch....so
Babys1Croat: your gonna be pissed
makaveliblaze: what
Babys1Croat: these niggaz stayed after the concert and met up with the roots, then they went to their hotel and then back to their crib...SMOKIN BLUNTS WITH THEM ALL NIGHT
makaveliblaze: damn
Babys1Croat: no joke
Babys1Croat: that woulda been hot
makaveliblaze: >:o
Babys1Croat: we could have rolled on their bus and chilled with them
Babys1Croat: damn dog...that woulda been hot
Babys1Croat: im out
Babys1Croat: think about that shit though
Babys1Croat: fuck

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http://swissposters.library.cmu.edu

http://www.rockstargames.com/



'Grand Theft Auto' Makers Fight Lawsuit

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The creators of the video game series "Grand Theft Auto" want a federal judge to dismiss a $246 million lawsuit filed by the families of two people shot by teenagers.

Rockstar Games and its New York City-based parent, Take-Two Interactive Software, said the victims' families were trying to hold them liable "based on the expressive content of the video game."


Retailer Wal-Mart and marketer Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., are also named in the lawsuit.


Aaron Hamel, 45, was killed and Kimberly Bede, 19, was seriously wounded when their cars were hit June 25 by .22-caliber bullets while driving along Interstate 40.


Stepbrothers William Buckner, 16, and Joshua Buckner, 14, were sentenced in August to an indefinite term after pleading guilty in juvenile court to reckless homicide, endangerment and assault.


The boys told investigators they got the rifles from a locked room in their home and decided to randomly shoot at tractor-trailer rigs, just like in the video game "Grand Theft Auto III."


Responding Oct. 29 in U.S. District Court, Rockstar and Take-Two contend that such ideas and concepts as well as the "purported psychological effects" on the Buckners are protected by the First Amendment's free-speech clause.


A lawyer who represents the victims dismissed the claim, saying he would seek to move the case back into state court for consideration under Tennessee's consumer protection act.

about Neue Grafik'

http://www.burodestruct.net

about last night when i saw elf i saw the trailer for this.. funy stuff

http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/shrek_2/

about so funny

http://jokke.dk/media/balmer.html


this shit has me done !

about that is gangster

An English supporter watches the Rugby World Cup quarter-final match between England and Wales, at Lang Park in Brisbane, November 9, 2003. England won the match 28-17 and will play France in the semi-final next weekend in Sydney.

about Penn State Students To Get Free Napster Next Semester

Starting next semester, Penn State University students will be able to take advantage of the new Napster at no additional charge. The partnership was announced at a conference Thursday, and it attempts to stem the tide of rampant illegal file-sharing believed to take place at colleges and universities due to students' access to high-speed Internet connections.





http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031107/ap_on_bi_ge/penn_state_napster_4


Penn State-Napster Deal May Be Limiting

Associated Press Writer

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State University students are getting the new Napster (news - web sites) 2.0 service with their tuition. But will they stop downloading free music from elsewhere? That's another question.


University officials on Thursday announced details of a new arrangement with Napster that will give students access to free streaming music and free, but limited, downloads. Songs burned onto a hard drive or compact disc cost 99 cents per song.


Napster's collection of some 500,000 songs will be available in January to some 18,000 students living in residence halls on several Penn State campuses, including the main University Park campus; the service will be available next fall to all 83,000 students throughout the university system. In addition, Penn State faculty, staff and alumni will be offered discounted Napster memberships.


"When I went to search all the different songs that I like, it was very rare that anything wasn't there that I wanted," said Julie Vastyan, one of six students who tested the service. "In my opinion, I think it's a great program. I think the positives far outweigh the negatives with this program."


For some students, though, those negatives — specifically, the fee for regular downloads — are substantial.


"It sounds OK, but when I download a song I don't want to be limited," said Kristen Marks, a sophomore from Maryland who said she often downloads music free from Kazaa and other peer-to-peer file-sharing sites. "I definitely don't want to pay a dollar a song."


But Joshua Smith, a junior from Philadelphia who has curtailed his music downloads because of difficulties with Kazaa, said he thought the service was a fine way to offer students access without making them pay right away.


"If I like a song, I'm willing to pay to download it," Smith said. "There's no way I'm going to pay a dollar just to listen to a song. But this way, I can listen to it, and if I like it, I can buy it."


That's what both Napster and Penn State were shooting for — a service that would give students the options they need for free, eliminating the incentive to use peer-to-peer file-sharing sites, Napster president Mike Bebel said.


Penn State president Graham B. Spanier would not say how much the university will pay for the service, nor how long the contract would run. He did say that, to his knowledge, Penn State is the first university to make such an arrangement.


Software maker Roxio Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., launched Napster 2.0 on Oct. 29, having acquired the Napster brand from the ashes of the pioneer free file-swapping service, which was forced to shut down in 2001 after a protracted legal battle with recording companies.


___


On the Net:


Penn State University: http://www.psu.edu


Napster 2.0: http://www.napster.com

about i got both of em

from mtv.com

G-Unit, Jay-Z To Duke It Out In Stores


All of sudden, Friday, November 14, has become a major day for record releases.

One day after Jay-Z announced he was pushing his The Black Album release up two weeks from Friday, November 28, the G-Unit are bumping their due date for Beg for Mercy to November 14 as well.

Not only do 50 Cent and company now share the same release date as Jay, their representatives say the thugged-out collective has been plagued by the same problems as the Jiggaman: bootlegging. Originally, Beg for Mercy was supposed to come out on November 18, but the LP has been leaked to the Internet and the streets already, thus the need to get it in stores officially.

"What can you expect when you're the hottest rapper around?" 50 Cent said Thursday (November 6) in a statement. "The streets are used to gettin' my music the unconventional way. So if they want it, why not give 'em the real deal as soon as you can? Why make 'em wait?"


"i got 99 problems but a bitch aint one"

jayz

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about fuckiinnn hot !!!!!

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the press release:




http://www.neue-digitale.de/english

NEUE DIGITALE Launches Sabrina Setlur’s New Website

The New Internet Presence Offers Personal Insights of the Rap-Artist

Date: 20 October 2003

Abstract:


When the upcoming Sabrina Setlur album "SABS" will be released on November 3rd, the new website of Germany’s most successful rap-artist - www.sabrinasetlur.de - has already been online for a couple of days. NEUE DIGITALE, which in the past has regularly worked for the artist’s label 3p (pelham power productions), designed the new online presence. The label was founded by famous german rap artist Moses Pelham, who has coached Sabrina Setlur since the beginning of her career.


Accordingly to NEUE DIGITALE creative partner Olaf Czeschner the intention of the internet presence was "to transport the ambitious element in Sabrina’s music to her website". By breaking up the linear rules of conventional interviews, the section "Close Up" offers fans the possibility to lead their own special interview with Germany’s most successful black music singer.


Additionally, typographic and sound effects reflect the playfully handling of words and samples typical for Sabrina’s music. Samples of the new songs as well as lyrics constitute a further vital element of the website.


"The website completely corresponds with my artistic claim", Sabrina Setlur complements NEUE DIGITALE on its creation. "The new site is much more than a simple promotional measure. Moreover, like the album itself, the website shows important parts of my personality".

about Duddddde

http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/dudewheresmycountry/

about haha

http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2160562


'Fastest Computer' TV Advert Banned

By PA News Reporter


Computer giant Apple has been banned by advertising watchdogs from claiming its latest product is “the world’s fastest, most powerful personal computer”.

The claim was made in a television advert for the Apple PowerMac G5.

But the Independent Television Commission branded the advert “misleading” and banned it from being broadcast.

Eight viewers contacted the ITC to complain that the claim was based on the results of limited tests in which the specification of the computers used was configured to give Apple the best results.
ple said the tests, carried out by an independent third party, were “fair and even”.

But the ITC found that the claim was not supported by independent reviews and that, at best, the G5 was only “generally as fast” as its competitors.

In its advertising complaints report, it ruled: “The ITC considered that there was insufficient evidence to support the claim ‘world’s fastest, most powerful personal computer’.

“Furthermore, it shared one viewer’s doubt that the claim could be substantiated at all because, as evidence for and against the claim had shown, computers were constantly being updated and had many different applications and benchmarks.”

It concluded that “the advertising was misleading and ... should not be re-shown in its current form”.

about buy some damn clothes !

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/031110/482/lon80511101323&e=10

Host Christina Aguilera on stage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2003 in, Edinburgh, Scotland Thursday Nov. 6, 2003.

about lol

TLBsACowboy4Me: but its always nice doing business with you
TLBsACowboy4Me: come again soon

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This collection of links represents some websites related to graphic design and visual culture.

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http://www.panism.com/pansnap/

lomorific

about + p a n i s m +

http://www.panism.com/

about peep the skills

http://www.liamkaska.com/

http://www.designobserver.com/

about 15 Trends Taking Shape In Logo Design

http://www.gdusa.com/feature/4_03/trends.php

about i invented the remix

click to view the .doc version




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check out the jesse resume remix

**.new as of nov 11.**

about words of wisdom from nicks aim profile

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-Buddha

"Dwell in the past, get nowhere fast" - Nick O'Neill

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
-John Burroughs

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
-W. M. Lewis

about + t y p o r g a n i s m +

http://www.typorganism.com/

about click the pic

http://www.designiskinky.net/

about DONT FEED PHIL

DONT FEED PHIL

about bling

http://www.desksite.net/



“In a few years over half of the nation's 108 million homes will have digital recording technology that will let them zap past commercials effortlessly or choose from a vast selection of commercial-free shows. That will threaten the economics of most TV programming and force networks and marketers alike to find new ways to reach elusive masses of ad-evading consumers.”

-Forbes
September 2003

about the asian walkabout

http://www.kenexner.com

this is a great personal site....

this guys got travelouges, recipes, and pictures...
personal site designers take notes

about THE ROOTS

http://www.6forty.com/jesse/roots/

last night i went to visit my boy Chris and see the roots at his college in baltimore (Loyola)



i took the 7$ train











then we went to this awesome bar.. with too much shit to mention, i wouldnt do it justice..
sooooooo fun.

about my horoscope

http://astrology.yahoo.com/us/astrology/today/taurusdailyhoroscope.html

your emotional and professional unvierse will once again glow with positive energy...the coming weeks will be quite promising for you...

you tend to be motivated, ambitious, understanding, and stubborn...you like nice things and want status in your world...you are extremely loyal and committed

you also set high goals and more often than not achieve them...your expectations are always high and you expect the same of those around you...and you love to argue especially with those who dare challenge you

about Microsoft patents widely used IM feature

Microsoft patents widely used IM feature

Jim Hu
CNET News.com
October 08, 2003, 08:34 GMT


Microsoft has been granted a patent for the instant-messaging feature that lets people see when the person they are chatting with is typing a message


Microsoft has won a patent for an instant-messaging feature that notifies users when the person they are communicating with is typing a message.


The patent encompasses a feature that's not only on Microsoft's IM products but also on those of its rivals America Online and Yahoo. The patent was granted on Tuesday.


Patent No. 6,631,412 could serve as a weapon in Microsoft's battle for IM market share. Microsoft is investing heavily in IM as a springboard for selling communication software to businesses. Later this year, Microsoft plans to launch Live Communications Server, a software product that will initially offer IM for the enterprise and then expand into Internet voice calling and video services.


The software giant currently offers MSN Messenger as a free download off the Web, as well as Windows Messenger, the IM client for its XP operating system. Both services have amassed millions of users.


Having a patent can be a powerful tool, but only if it can be proven in a court that its owner has bulletproof claims to the invention, according to legal experts. Companies that challenge a patent have to prove the patent owner was not the first one on record for the invention.


"This means that if someone tries to invalidate the Microsoft patent, they would try to find examples of instant messaging that predated the filing date," said Carl Oppedahl, an intellectual property attorney at Oppedahl, Larson & Frisco in Colorado.


A Microsoft representative declined to comment on the patent. Both AOL and Yahoo representatives declined comment as well.


Microsoft is not the first company to pursue a patent over IM. In December 2002, AOL subsidiary ICQ won a patent that claimed rights as the inventor of IM. AOL has not flexed its muscle on the patent, and competitive IM services remain active.


The rush to patent elements of IM underscores the application's popularity and potential. IM has become widely used by millions of Web users who exchange text messages with each other in real time. Some of the most popular IM services -- AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and MSN -- have added features, such as video conferencing, animated emoticons and mobile access.

about gangster

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/031028/481/jrl80410282057&e=11&ncid=1756


In this handout picture made available Tuesday Oct. 28, 2003 by the Israel-based Cornershot Co. in Tel Aviv, Israel, a rifle is seen composed of two parts; the front, that can swivel from side to side, containing a pistol with a color camera mounted on top, and the back section which consists of the stock, trigger and a monitor. According to a report by the Israeli daily 'Maariv' newspaper, the pistol, produced by the Florida-based Cornershot Holdings, is being tested by the Israeli military and has already been bought by a number of special forces around the world. The unique weapon allows a soldier to remain behind cover, with only the barrel of the rifle exposed in the direction of the hostile fire. (AP Photo/HO, Cornershot)

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about gangster

http://www.seakone.com/

about HOT

http://www.neckcns.de/

about MIKE

http://www.thomasmichaelcorcoran.com


check out my boy mike corcorans photo blog, a jesse creation.

Tenny727: p diddy looks like he went to wakefield

roll your mouse over the blue jar....

about ggggggggggggg G-unit

http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=0TERpznA7vE%3D

Every magazine i open you on your kneez takin prayer pictures
And you aint even got shot yet you scared bitchez
You dont know nothin bout what pain is sucker
I put put your ass in the ground like a train conductor motherfucker

thats lloyd banks talkin about ja rule..

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Tenny727: i heard about that
Tenny727: all these kids were calling PGC saying that kids in schools were getting in fights with each other b/c of it
makaveliblaze: lol
Tenny727: i thought that was hilarious

about Melbourne Cup

in melbourne australia ther is this annual race.. and women traditionally wear cool elaborate hats

about jump in the wayback arlington machine.....

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check out these pics from high school...

erova dot com: yo does your license plate say jess3 too?
makaveliblaze: haha
makaveliblaze: yup
erova dot com: thas funny, i guess i saw you drive by on the key bridge one day

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http://www.jamesberglie.com

you can view jamies photos and his hot girllfriend here


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about ggggggggg G-unit

Mobb Deep Dream Of Securing Eminem For Their Nightmare

The infamous Mobb Deep are almost done cooking up their latest serving of macabre street tales and battle rhymes. Their next LP, Amerika's Nightmare, is now due early next year.

"The album is definitely coming in February," Havoc, half of the hip-hop mainstays, said Tuesday. "When it comes out, there will be no disappointments. You have a lot of dudes putting out albums and they're not even putting their full efforts into it. We're putting in our full efforts."

The duo, which also includes Prodigy, have a first single dropping in the next few days called "Gangsta Roll."

"It's a definite street banger," Havoc boasted. "One of those dark-sounding bass joints. Basically we're rapping about the streets and how n---as roll, how we hold it down."

Mobb Deep had a little help holding it down this time out. Nate Dogg appears on a track called "Dump," and Nelly and Lil Jon appear on two other records that have yet to be titled.

Productionwise, Havoc did most of the beats as usual, while their good friend the Alchemist contributed two tracks. Another producer they hope to secure before wrapping up is Eminem. "That would be a shining moment," Havoc wished aloud.

In the meantime, Mobb Deep are getting ready to join the G-Unit on the road. Originally Mobb Deep's camp and the LOX's camp said both factions would be touring this fall with 50 Cent and company, but the LOX have yet to be added.

The G-Unit have been on this particular run by themselves since October 27. Mobb Deep join the bill on Thursday for 14 dates. Havoc said more road stops will likely be added.

Mobb Deep's tour dates with the G-Unit, according to Jive Records:
11/6 - Chicago, IL @ Congress Theater
11/7 - Minneapolis, MN @ Quest
11/9 - Philadelphia, PA @ TBA
11/14 - Denver, CO @ Paramount
11/15 - Tucson, AZ @ Pima County Fairground
11/16 - Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theater
11/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
11/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
11/19 - San Francisco, CA @ TBA
11/22 - Boyton Beach, FL @ Ovasion
11/23 - Orlando, FL @ Hob
11/24 - Jacksonville, @ Plush
11/25 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
11/26 - Detroit, MI @ State Theater

about my breakfast of champions...

about vtech

about crikkkey !

crocodile hunter Steve Irwin has declared politicians more dangerous than crocodiles

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http://www.raspage.com/

DONT FEED PHIL !

about NZ in the hizzle

New Zealand's Ali Williams, left, goes in to score a try as Wales' Robin McBryde, right, and Shane Williams tangle before they can defend during their Rugby World Cup Match in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003. New Zealand won the match 53-37. (AP Photo/Ross Land)



Robert Sidoli from Wales (L) evades the tackle of New Zealand's Aaron Mauger during their Rugby World Cup game at Sydney's Olympic Stadium, November 2, 2003. Both teams have qualified for the quarter-final round of the 2003 Rugby World Cup. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian



New Zealand's Joe Rokocoko dives over to score the first try as Garen Evans from Wales lies on the ground during their Rugby World Cup game at Sydney's Olympic Stadium, November 2, 2003. Both teams have qualified for the quarter-finals round of the 2003 Rugby World Cup. REUTERS/Simon Baker

about mike corcoran

http://www.thomasmichaelcorcoran.com/

check out mike corcorans site.. i made it .. and mike puts up cool pics that he takes.. his captions are priceless

about i made pizza from scratch tonight..

the gangster pizza





mmmmmmm




it was soooooo fuckin gooooooooood !

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Tenny727: gangster pizza= me done

top5ive records: have you sold the book rights to that story?

http://www.hi-res.net/

about 804

some nice pics of some art someone might have done in the 804

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on a completley unrelated note: my boy andrew funk (of fairlington fame) is starting a custom hat company out of richmond.. called FatCapz (dont you think he could of come up with a more original name than that ?) and hes gettin someone else to design the site.. (how come i got no web design love andrew?) .. ill post the url when its up.. it will mos def be tight tho.. i saw what hes tryin to do in nyc.. in fact here is a image of the hat place i saw in brookyln..




i was gonna get one that said jesse, jess3.com or the beastmaster.. but i kept puttin it off and walked too far away from where the stand was and gave up...

so imagine it being online and custom and being approx 20$.. good deal.. throw in some cool stickers and your money bags.

about HALLOWEEN 2003

http://www.6forty.com/jesse/boo

last night was soooo fun.. alexis and i went to brandons party for the begining of the night..




5pts if you can figure out who that is on the left.. lol lol lol




lizz spinning...




then... we went to zanzibar on the waterfront.. alexis' GW boys were throwing a party.. and we got in without payin the 25$ cover charge.. bling...




funny story...
i almost got alexis in to a drunken bar fight with this man.. Felicious. "the pimp.."
i cant remember what it was about at this point in time.. but it was funny...

this motha fucka may not look like a pimp but "your girl already looked at him twice" or so he says.. lol, good times... nat not naottta




by this point alexis and i, and the rest of the vip section were fuckkkkkeedddd uppppppppp
the theme in vip was ggggggg G-unit.. alot of these dudes had bought kevlar vests..
ie 50cent..




chillin in vip.




and we were partyin like it was our birthday...
fyi thats alexis' hat shes wearin.. and fyi2 alexis had already passed out at this point.... lol




i was like blahhh at this point...




then i started to hallucinate....




and i didnt want it to stop




you know how we do




Hurt.. with a capital H




good night moon
(alexis should thank his lucky stars ther isnt a "draw on alexis game".. ie nick)

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elingro: felicious
elingro: ha!
makaveliblaze: he was classic
makaveliblaze: he had the magic stick
elingro: he had the ugly stick


DFink2117: i went to a costume party last night
DFink2117: i love how girls just dress real slutty
makaveliblaze: what were you ?
DFink2117: kriss...from kriss kross
DFink2117: it was so hard to piss the whole night


orMeganO: where's this?
orMeganO: and who the hell is this girl who HAS MY HAIR!! Hahahaha

about i *heart my computer

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/031102/241/5qqsw.html&e=16


Two-time grand world champion Gerhard Knapp of Pforzheim, Germany poses during the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Carson City, Nevada. Entrants were to be judged in 17 categories with the best overall facial hair winning the top prize.(AFP/Paul Handley)

about tonight only !

http://www.fandango.com/movie_page.asp?distance=15&mv=80304&refresh_date=11/3/2003

Big screen DVD Premiere of Coldplay Live 2003 concert & tour documentary.


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7:30

about atown

http://www.ajberni.com/

http://k10k.net/

from k10k.net
The simplest of interfaces hide an abundance of gorgeously designed work from NYC's own Adam Berninger. Highly inspirational, very recommended.

madd props to adam, amazing work

about urls for inspirtaions are:

Uailab – http://www.uailab.com
Tales Simon – http://www.tales.com.br
Caos e Efeito: http://caoseefeito.criativos.net
Computer Love - http://www.computerlove.net
Lobo – http://www.lobo.cx
MonoVolume - http://www.monovolume.com.br
ANTZ – http://www.antz.com.br

about "Playing around with life TWICE as hard, so you don't have to."

Justin Simoni
Playing around with life TWICE as hard, so you don't have to.

http://skazat.com - meta sketchbook
http://prolix.nu - art for your computer
http://justinsimoni.com - the portfolio of playing.

http://www.ideo.com/


fuckin cool design layout

http://www.cubancouncil.com

about i want one

http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/products/story/0,23008,3493760,00.html


Vinyl Killer Gets Your Groove On

Miniaturized record player lets good tunes roll.

By Allen Woo


Used record stores, garage sales, dark basements -- you never know where the urge to spin wax will strike. But you can't haul around a turntable now, can you? Go ahead and unearth those old Night Ranger LPs, 'cause "Fresh Gear" has a portable record player perfect for getting your groove on anytime, anywhere.

Low-fi, high-kitsch


Straight from Japan, the toy-like Vinyl Killer takes the form of a Volkswagen Type 2 Camper Van. It comes equipped with a stylus under its "chassis" and a speaker under the roof. Switch on the 9-volt, alkaline-powered Vinyl Killer and the bus cruises along a record's grooves on thick rubber wheels while blaring music through the roof.


Words of caution


Record collectors and DJs will adore the Vinyl Killer. But storeowners will cringe at the thought of this pocket-sized hippie bus. The Vinyl Killer has no volume control and is set louder than normal conversation level. Scratchy and tinny sound quality just might get you banned for life.


As the name suggests, Vinyl Killer can wear your records down over the course of numerous plays. Do not play your mint 1971 Jimi Hendrix import with this one. Old disco records collecting dust in your attic are fair game.


Not for singles


About 5 inches long and 3 inches tall, the Vinyl Killer works best on a record lying flat (duh). The plastic-bodied bus plays only 33-1/3-rpm records (it won't play 45-rpm or 78-rpm vinyl correctly).


The rare and collectable Vinyl Killer costs between $80 and $150.

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Title: Popdelic Patterns

Price: $42.99

Description: This book contains a CD of 100 royalty free jpg files with a book full of patterns from 60's pop culture. A must for any designer wanting a larger library of stock to work with and a great reference guide.

about atown

http://www.ajberni.com/


adam berningers site

about ingrid has me done

elingro: oh my gawd. i just spent three hours in a gay bar
elingro: queer eye for the straight ingrid
elingro: it was awesome. hehehe.

about "The president was never in any danger whatsoever"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=2&u=/nm/bush_security_crash_dc

Screaming Woman Rams Car Into Arena at Bush Rally

By Randall Mikkelsen

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (Reuters) - A woman rammed a car carrying children into a building where President Bush was campaigning on Saturday, drawing a swarm of police in her wake before being dragged away at gunpoint.

Bush was in his limousine ready to leave the arena when the screaming woman hit the same side of the building, near the exit the president's motorcade was to use. Bush was one level below, down a ramp about 75 yards away.


"We don't think there was any malice against the president. ... It was a matter of very bad timing," a DeSoto County Sheriff's Department official, who wished to remain anonymous, said.


Employees of the DeSoto Civic Center said they ran away from the crash, scared that it was an attempted car bombing.


But the Sheriff's Department official said the woman had been awake all night arguing with her husband, was late for the event and grew increasingly frustrated as she was turned away from the building at checkpoint after checkpoint.


"She then took the matter into her own hands," he said.


The sheriff's department charged the woman, Betina Mixon, 29, with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.


While Bush was apparently in no direct danger during the security scare, the incident raised questions about how well the president is protected at a time when he is leading a war on terrorism.


"The president was never in any danger whatsoever," White House spokesman Trent Duffy told reporters.


Several minutes after the incident, the president's motorcade left the scene from the exit near the crash.


BUSH STAYS ON SCHEDULE


Bush kept to his schedule, traveling to Paducah, Kentucky, for the second of four speeches to rally support for Republican gubernatorial candidates.


Mixon, who lives a few miles from the 10,000-seat convention center in a poor area of the county, had two young children in the car with her.


Television footage showed helmeted police officers surrounding the car and struggling with the blond-haired woman who was pushed to the ground and later led away, apparently resisting.


"Bush had to have seen what happened," said Chad Payton, 18, a center employee who was waiting to watch Bush leave.


Security officials had chased the car as it crossed a VIP parking lot, breaching the security perimeter around the building, witnesses said. Some security personnel were seen running with guns drawn toward the exit of the arena, where Bush had given a speech.


In Washington, a law enforcement official said the woman disobeyed a local police officer's command to stop. She hit a curb, her tires blew out and the car then crashed into the building, the official said.


The woman also was being interviewed by the Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting the president, the official in Washington said. The Sheriff's Department said federal authorities could bring further charges against the woman.

Duffy, the White House spokesman, said no shots were fired.

He declined to provide more details or say whether the president saw the incident or what his reaction was.

The president was in Southaven campaigning for Haley Barbour, the former head of the Republican National Committee who is running for governor in next week's election.

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do your self a favor and watch the show reel

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http://www.threeoh.com/

http://www.crashshop.com

about they use other colors

http://www.redandgreydesign.ie

http://diddyrunsthecity.com


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