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J-Kwon's 'Tipsy' Road To Success Included Mooning L.A. Reid, Mocking Dupri
Put yourself in 17-year-old J-Kwon's shoes: This is it, your big chance. You've overcome homelessness, permanent disfiguration and dealing crack. You finally have an opportunity to get a record deal. You've landed an audition — not only with So So Def Recordings head Jermaine Dupri but also his boss at the time, former Arista Records honcho Antonio "L.A." Reid.
So what do you do? Easy. You mock Dupri for being vertically challenged and tell L.A. to kiss you where the sun don't shine.
"Yeah, I had to," said Kwon, star of the recently aired "Tipsy" video. "When I went in for the deal I was like, 'What if they don't sign me? Forget them. If they don't sign me, I'mma keep rolling.' That's how I approach every situation. So I'm rapping for L.A. and at the end of the verse, my line was something like, 'You don't like it, L.A., bite me,' and I turned around and mooned him, straight up."
Dupri also received a playful barb while J-Kwon was trying to convince the Arista staff they should sign him for his audacious showmanship.
"J.D. was up in there. I had one-lined and killed them," recalled Kwon, who also jumped on tables during his audition. "I said, 'I use to sling big papa work/ Now my diamonds big and blue like Papa Smurf, the little guy.' And when I said that, I pointed to Jermaine, 'the little guy.' "
Fortunately, Reid and J.D. both have great senses of humor. Reid was so enthralled by the youngster's nervy raps, he pulled out a pair of drumsticks and started beating on the tables. It all worked out.
Months later, with a So So Def contract, J-Kwon finds himself blossoming. In just eight weeks, "Tipsy" is the country's #4 rap song, according to Billboard, and climbing steadily up the Hot 100 singles at #8.
"It's all right," Kwon said matter-of-factly. "I feel there's a lot more work to do."
J said he put his thinking cap on when writing "Tipsy" and that people should use theirs before criticizing his song.
"I'm 17, so I can't get into the club," he explained of the chorus: "Everybody in the club getting tipsy." "I used to stand outside and see people so tipsy, so drunk, they basically did like a two-step away from the club. I took all that and was like, 'OK, what does every teen think?' When I say, 'Teen drinking is very bad, but I got a fake ID though,' people think I'm actually promoting drinking to teens. Nah. When I say, 'Everybody in the club getting tipsy,' I mean we ain't drinking but everybody else is. That's what we see, not what we do. A lot of critics come at me about this. If I was promoting teen drinking, believe me, I would've sold the song for an ad."
"Tipsy," along with 80 percent of J-Kwon's April 6 debut, Hood Hop, was produced by St. Louis production team the Trackboyz (not to be confused with the Track Starz, who produced Chingy's "Right Thurr"). J.D. also produced and rapped on the album, and the whole St. Lunatics clique makes guest appearances as well.
"You had to talk gangsta on Hood Hop or I couldn't let you do nothing with me," Kwon said of making his guests thug it out in their lyrics. The self-proclaimed dysfunctional teen and father of one daughter said he didn't want to saturate too many of his cuts with guests because he believes in standing on his own. Indeed, J-Kwon had to learn independence even before he became a teenager.
"I was in the ninth grade already when I was 12," he recalled. "My mama was like, 'Look, dog, you either gonna do this school thing or you gonna do this rap thing. But if you gonna do this rap thing, you're gonna make it happen, not me.' "
Unwilling to budge from his musical pursuit, J said he was kicked out of the crib at 12 and slept in cars and various friends' homes. He'd used a lighter to write songs at night, and then he'd battle MCs around the city during the day. During one lyrical face-off, he beat a guy so horrifically the other rapper had friends jump him. The result was a broken jaw and misaligned rows of teeth.
"I was constantly flowing," he said of his time on the street. "I got to the point where if I seen my mama, it would be no conversation with her. It was like, 'I'm this young and you putting me out here like this.' When you striving to get something, that be the person's most dedicated time. It's obvious what kept me dedicated. I ain't have nothing. What else you got? Crack, guns and rap — I had all three. Even now, this is all I got. If I flop, cats ain't gonna be looking at me the same."
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Magical AsoBit City faces fate of Atlantis
By Denki Guy
Taro weaves left and right, his thumbs and fingers moving at a frenetic speed as he maneuvers a sword-packing video game hero through a pack of grotesque monsters.
Around him, a small crowd gathers to watch the action as it is beamed onto one of several huge plasma TVs near the entrance to the huge entertainment complex.
Beeps, grunts and groans of all sorts roar out as Taro -- oblivious to the din -- makes another kill on the game he's been playing free of charge for almost an hour, courtesy of AsoBit City, the huge retail outlet Laox Co. opened amid great fanfare in October 2002.
Unfortunately, it's game over for Taro and the thousands of others like him following the shock announcement earlier this month that AsoBit City would close its doors on April 11.
Even as most were singing the praises of AsoBit City, writer and former Akihabara salesman Kichinojo Saibara predicted it would struggle to keep up with the demands of its clientele.
"Gaming styles change quickly and it'll be hard to adapt to those changes. AsoBit City's task will be to keep on top of all the new trends. If it sticks only to what it's offering now, people will eventually get sick of it. It's not easy to maintain an aggressive sales policy that will keep drawing people back in every day," Saibara writes in "Akiba PC Shop no Himitsu (Secrets of Akiba PC Shops)," a book published just days before Laox drew the curtain on AsoBit City.
Officially, Laox is pulling the plug because the owner of AsoBit City building has sold it.
Laox PR chief Iwao Yamashita confirms to the Mainichi that his company is looking at an alternative site, or perhaps even sites in the case it decides to separate the numerous forms of entertainment AsoBit City caters to.
Occupying a prime plot on Chuo Dori, AsoBit City was initially hailed as the symbol of the new face of Akihabara, an area best known for being Tokyo's electronic district.
Instead of the purely electronic face of many major outlets in the district, AsoBit City clearly catered to the Akiba-kei otaku crowd that has come to dominate the district.
However, with about 800,000 people passing through its doors each month, AsoBit City will be sorely missed when it's gone.
During its brief life, AsoBit City has been something close to Heaven for the average anime fan, hobbyist and gamer. Its top floor is reserved for special functions, most of which are for book signings and "handshake" greetings with top manga or anime artists.
Visitors enter the seventh floor to the site of a meters-long advertisement for the latest adult cartoons, heralding the level's focus on output of Japan's over-productive porno industry.
At least half the floor's sales space is dedicated to anime characters taking part in the most sordid activities imaginable, whether for a movie or a computer game. And products are not just for the guys, either, with a space set aside for raunchy cartoon games for women.
Much of the merchandise handled on this floor can be found at AsoBit City Sanbankan, an outlet opened in late January on a back street of Akihabara
Immediately below is a shooting range, where air gun replicas of the latest firearms from across the globe can be tried out, while adjacent are aisles packed with software for kids and another corner is set aside for online gaming.
AsoBit City's fifth floor is a haven for hobbyists, with plastic models of all shapes and sizes sold alongside aisles of glass display cases packed with parts for train sets, including just about every engine running in Japan and intricately detailed landscape accessories.
On the fourth floor are all sorts of toys, mostly statuettes and figurines, but also movie memorabilia.
Even critics of AsoBit City's comparatively high prices laud its fine collection of books and magazines on the third floor, keeping computer and game savvy types up to date with the latest information or strategies for high scores.
A wide array of CDs and DVDs can be found on the second floor, while the ground level is devoted to video game displays and related equipment.
It's here where Taro and his ilk hone their skills at the newest release games, but even the digital hero Taro manipulates can do nothing to stop AsoBit City's demise.
With Ryann Connell, Staff Writer
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Web site details low-tech hack of iTunes promotion
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Music fans have found a decidedly low-tech way to hack a promotion sponsored by soft drink company PepsiCo Inc. to garner a high-tech treat: a download of a single song from Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL) online music store.
By tipping a specially marked Pepsi bottle about 25 degrees and peering under the cap, it is possible to see whether the cap says "Try Again" or bears a winning 10-digit redemption code, according to MacMerc.com, a Web site for Mac developers and users, which published a detail description, complete with schematics, on Wednesday.
A representative for MacMerc (http://www.macmerc.com) could not immediately be reached for comment. Apple declined to comment.
The trick of tipping a bottle to peer at the cap's underside to see if the cap is a winner in an ongoing promotion is hardly new, but the association with Apple in this case has caused a buzz on Mac-related Web sites the past few days.
"We always put redemption limits in place for promotions like this, but we've found that most consumers play by the rules," said Dave DeCecco, a Pepsi spokesman.
Apple and PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) launched the marketing campaign and promotion to give away 100 million free songs at the Super Bowl in January, Apple's biggest yet for its music store. One in three Pepsi bottles is a winner.
Lucky music fans enter the redemption code at Apple's online music store and then download a song into Apple's iTunes digital jukebox software.
iTunes, which only works with Apple's popular iPod player, runs on both Apple and Windows computers.
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EMI blocks Beatles album remix
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3493091.stm
A DJ who has remixed The Beatles' White Album and rapper Jay-Z's Black Album to make The Grey Album has been ordered by record label EMI to stop it being sold.
DJ Danger Mouse created The Grey Album using Jay-Z's vocals and beats made by sampling music on The White Album.
EMI, which releases Beatles records, has served cease and desist orders to the DJ and record shops stocking it.
The DJ is complying - but is happy for fans to copy and distribute promotional copies that have already been pressed.
Those copies are circulating in the hip-hop community, and the legal wrangle is set to make it more of a sought-after underground rarity.
"He's not going to produce any more, sell any more or distribute any more - which is what they're asking of him," a spokesman for DJ Danger Mouse told BBC News Online.
"He's done that in an effort to avoid any legal proceedings. But the album's very much out there."
The DJ was "just happy for people to burn it, bootleg it and post it on the internet", the spokesman said. "Consequently, people are doing it."
When the album was being promoted, DJ Danger Mouse - real name Brian Burton - boasted that all the music on The Grey Album could be traced back to The Beatles' 1968 classic.
"Every kick, snare, and chord is taken from The Beatles White Album and is in their original recording somewhere," the press release said.
But that did not impress EMI, which took action because of copyright infringement. EMI was unavailable for comment.
Self-titled 'sculptor roboticist' David Hanson, right, poses with his creation, Hertz, left, on Thursday, Jan., 8, 2004, in Dallas. Hertz is an animated robot head he built in about nine months. Hanson and other robot makers believe that social robots, like Hertz, will one day serve a variety of functions: tutor, companion, even security guard. But should they look human?
ASIMO, the world's most advanced humanoid robot, developed by Honda Motor Company, shows off its dance moves at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California February 14, 2004. The 4-foot tall robot can walk forward and backward, turn smoothly and climbs stairs, and was created for the purpose of someday helping people in need. The 'Say Hello to ASIMO' North American Educational Tour is designed to encourage students to study robotics and science
One of many robotic dogs is seen on exhibit at the Gigantic Artspace in New York, Friday, Feb. 6, 2004. The dogs, which are wired to sniff out toxic materials, are the brainchild of Natalie Jeremijenko, a lecturer in engineering at Yale University and self-described technoartist.
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Sega's net profit nearly doubles on arcade game sales, cost cuts
TOKYO (AFP) - Computer game maker Sega said net profit in the nine months to December surged 92.3 percent from a year before to 7.7 billion yen (73 million dollars) on arcade game sales and significant cost cuts.
Sega Corp.'s recurring profit also rose 19.8 percent to 10.6 billion yen although overall sales slipped 4.1 percent to 144.5 billion yen, the company said in a statement.
"Sales of commercial-use game machines rose sharply during the period, helping boost our profits," a spokesman for the Japanese company said, adding popular amusement equipment included the 'UFO Catcher' crane to pick up cuddly toys and horse racing game machines.
Sales of computer game software grew steadily with the company selling 760,000 units in Japan, 1.15 million in the United States and 520,000 in Europe.
The company also managed to lower development costs in the nine-month period to 15 billion yen from 17 billion yen a year earlier, Sega executive officer Shoichii Yamazaki said at a press conference.
It also reduced sales promotion costs by 25 percent to 6.0 billion yen, and slashed sales, general and administration costs to 8.0 billion yen from 10 billion yen a year earlier.
"Our restructuring efforts, aimed at correcting high cost structure of our consumer software business, are showing steady progress," Yamazaki said.
For the full year to March 2004, Sega revised down projected sales to 190 billion yen from 195.7 billion yen seen earlier but left net and recurring profit forecasts unchanged at eight billion yen and 11.5 billion yen respectively.
The company aims to slash debt to 50 billion yen by the end of March from 95.3 billion yen in March last year.
Martina the dog is presented by her owner Jessica Labella during a Carnival parade through the French Quarter, at the 12th Annual Mystic Krewe of Barkus parade in New Orleans, February 15, 2004. More than 1,000 dogs were presented by their owners in this year's parade. The theme was 'Fistful of Collars.' Fat Tuesday is February 24.
Robotics Institute student Mark Michalowski, right, looks over the kiosk where 'Valerie', the new Roboceptionist at Carnegie Mellon University operates from before the indroduction of the school's latest foray into interactive robots on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004 in Pittsburgh. Students and professors from the computer science and drama departments created the personna that greets people and gossips on the phone. Instead of just giving out directions or telling visitors about the weather, Valerie is programmed with her own personality.
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Andre 3000, Keitel Are Cool
Hip-hop star and Hollywood veteran join Get Shorty sequel.
Outkast's Andre 3000 is getting set to make the jump from music to film. According to today's Hollywood Reporter, Andre will appear in Be Cool, MGM's forthcoming sequel to Get Shorty which is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard.
In addition to Andre, THR scoops that Harvey Keitel has been added to the awesome ensemble cast which includes John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Danny DeVito, Joe Pesci, James Gandolfini, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Cedric the Entertainer, Vince Vaughn and Christina Milian.
Be Cool reacquaints audiences with John Travolta's Chili Palmer, a loan shark-turned-feature film producer who gives up the movie business when he discovers a singer, Linda Moon (Milian), whom he wants to make famous.
Andre 3000 will play the leader of a rap group called the Dub MDs, with Keitel starring as a record promoter. Andre's role was reportedly tailored specially for the hip-hop star.
The sequel is being directed by Italian Job helmer F. Gary Gray. Elmore Leonard's novel was adapted by Peter Steinfeld (Analyze That, Drowning Mona).
The project started lensing today in Los Angeles with a holiday 2004 release planned.
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Anna Nicole Smith poses with the Hello Kitty character after the Heatherette Fall 2004 collection fashion show, February 12, 2004 during New York Fashion Week in New York
Jim Sautner and his pet 'Bailey D. Buffalo' spend some time in the kitchen of the Sautner home near Spuce Grove, Alberta, February 11, 2004. Bailey has been raised from infancy by Sautner and his wife Linda and is unusually tame. The 1650 lb animal enjoys daily visits to the inside of their home. Photo by Dan Riedlhuber
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Method Man
The Recher Theatre , Towson, MD
Tue, Apr 13, 2004 07:00 PM
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Jerry Seinfeld
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall , Baltimore, MD
Sat, Apr 10, 2004 07:00 PM
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Bob Dylan
American University , Washington, DC
Sat, Apr 3, 2004 07:00 PM
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Chris Rock
Dar Constitution Hall , Washington, DC
Thu, Mar 25, 2004 07:00 PM
Producer Of The Grey Album, Jay-Z/ Beatles Mash-Up, Gets Served
It was an ingenious idea, and one that played so dangerously close to the third rail of copyright law that it was sure to get shut down eventually.
Cease-and-desist orders went out last week to the producer who created The Grey Album and the few independent retail stores that were carrying the CD.
DJ/producer Danger Mouse married vocals from Jay-Z's recent The Black Album with beats made from the Beatles' classic The White Album to create The Grey Album. The "mash-up" CD is one of several bootlegs created using vocals from Jay-Z's supposedly final LP. But it was the only one that dared to use music from the Beatles' guarded catalog.
A representative for EMI Records served the cease-and-desist orders to Danger Mouse and stores such as Fat Beats and hiphopsite.com. EMI Records controls the sound recordings for the Beatles on behalf of Capitol Records Inc. The publishing side of the Beatles' catalog is owned by Sony Music/ ATV Publishing, a venture between Sony Music and Michael Jackson.
Danger Mouse said he created The Grey Album strictly as a limited-edition promotional item (only 3,000 copies were pressed), but it quickly caught the ear of everyone from Damon Dash to the Neptunes to Jay-Z himself, and copies found their way to hip-hop retail outlets and auction sites like eBay.
Danger Mouse said he's complied with the order not to distribute any more copies of The Grey Album. Because of the small number pressed, he didn't expect any further legal action to take place.
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A model for designer Oscar de la Renta takes a tumble onto the runway during the presentation of the Oscar de la Renta Fall/Winter 2004 Collection in New York, February 9, 2004. Many of America's top designers are showing their 2004 collections throughout the week in New York.
A Beijing businessman has filed an application to trademark the Chinese name of US President George W. Bush to help market his disposable nappies. In Japan his image has already been used on toilet paper.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
Long Live the DC Mojito
By Fritz Hahn
The classic mojito should only contain five ingredients.
Probably the best-known cocktail from Cuba, the sweet, minty mojito is a perfect summer drink. Too bad so few places make one properly. The traditional mojito recipe includes the following: white rum (preferably Havana Club), a half-teaspoon sugar, the juice of half a lime and -- most importantly -- crushed mint leaves and stems. Top up with sparkling water. In America, however, Cuban rum is illegal and it can be hard to find the right kind of mint leaves, whose oils are so essential to the mojito’s taste. Therefore, less-knowledgable bars use spearmint leaves instead, which alters the taste. (The difference is about as subtle as switching spearmint and peppermint gum.) Some bars add 7 Up. Some only shake the leaves in or add them as a garnish instead of firmly grinding them. These might just be variations, but they lead to substandard drinks. Don’t get us wrong -- there are good mojitos to be had around town, so we compiled this list of our staff’s favorites. We all agreed on some, like Habana Village and Cafe Atlantico; but there was disagreement about others, including the drinks at Gabriel and Rumba Cafe. In the spirit of fairness, we’re putting all the names out here, and it’s up to you to decide.
DC Mojito Makers
Habana Village
One of the best drinks you’ll find in the city, this is a strong, well-executed mojito, served up with a huge stalk of sugar cane (for stirring, then chewing on). The authentic Cuban atmosphere gets high marks as well.
1834 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, DC,
202-462-6310,
Hours: Wed-Sat 6:30 pm-3 am
Cafe Citron
Again, a classic mojito, with the mint, sugar and lime chunks "muddled" in the glass with a wooden pestle before the rum is added. Delicious.
1343 Connecticut Ave., Washington, DC,
202-530-8844,
Hours: Daily 10 am-midnight
Cafe Atlantico
Along with the standard mojito, Cafe Atlantico makes a “nuevo mojito,” which uses similar ingredients, including a large stalk of sugar cane, but looks (and somewhat tastes) like a frozen margarita. There's a hint of sour mix in there.
405 Eighth St. NW, Washington, DC,
202-393-0812,
Hours: Daily 11:30 am-2:30 pm Fri-Sat 5-11 pm Sun-Thu 5-10 pm
Ortanique
The mojitos here are tangy but sweet, perhaps because of the secret syrup ingredient. Our bartender hinted that it contains ortaniques -- a Caribbean fruit that's a mixture of an orange and a tangerine.
730 11th St. NW, Washington, DC,
202-393-0975,
Hours: Mon-Fri noon-2:30 pm Mon-Wed 5:30-10 pm Thu-Sat 5:30-11 pm
Gabriel Restaurant
The bar area is small, and the mojitos are good, if unspectacular. The lime juice, however, can come off too strong.
2121 P St. NW (in Radisson Barcelo Hotel), Washington, DC,
202-956-6690,
Hours: Mon-Fri 6 am-10:30 am Mon-Sat 11 am-2 pm Tue-Thu 5:30 am-8:30 pm Fri-Sat 6 am-10:30 pm
Rumba Cafe
When the bar is slow, we enjoy sipping Rumba’s minty mojitos and listening to Latin jazz. On weekends, however, we’ve watched bartenders “pre-mix” mojitos with mint leaves and Limeade – as in Minute Maid -- and set them aside for later. Ouch. They also don’t take as much time crushing the mint. But the mojitos are still better than many.
2443 18th St. NW, Washington, DC,
202-588-5501,
Hours: Daily 5:30 pm-2 am
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dvd copying tutorial
Step 1: Decrypt the DVD
Production companies encrypt DVDs, so you'll need to decrypt the video files before you can do anything else. Insert the DVD into your DVD drive and run an application called DVD Decrypter. It will decrypt (go figure) and store the disc's video object (VOB) files to your hard drive. You're going to need at least 10GB of free hard-drive space per DVD.
DVD Decrypter
Download http://cache.techtv.com/binaries/2004/dvddecrypter.exe
Step 2: Shrink the DVD
Store-bought DVD movies use dual-layered discs to store twice as much information as home-burned DVDs. You'll need to shrink the VOB files you just decrypted so they can fit on a single DVD-R or DVD+R disc. Using an application called DVD Shrink, select the features, scenes, and compression rate for your final DVD backup. Click the Backup button to begin the burn.
DVD Shrink
Download http://cache.techtv.com/binaries/2004/dvdshrink314setup.zip
Step 3: Burn your DVD
Assuming you have a DVD-burning application installed, the burning process should begin when you click the Backup button from Step 2. If you still need burning software, I recommend Nero and Pinnacle Instant Copy.
Production companies encrypt DVDs, so you'll need to decrypt the video files before you can do anything else. Insert the DVD into your DVD drive and run an application called DVD Decrypter. It will decrypt (go figure) and store the disc's video object (VOB) files to your hard drive. You're going to need at least 10GB of free hard-drive space per DVD.
DVD Decrypter
Download http://cache.techtv.com/binaries/2004/dvddecrypter.exe
Step 2: Shrink the DVD
Store-bought DVD movies use dual-layered discs to store twice as much information as home-burned DVDs. You'll need to shrink the VOB files you just decrypted so they can fit on a single DVD-R or DVD+R disc. Using an application called DVD Shrink, select the features, scenes, and compression rate for your final DVD backup. Click the Backup button to begin the burn.
DVD Shrink
Download http://cache.techtv.com/binaries/2004/dvdshrink314setup.zip
Step 3: Burn your DVD
Assuming you have a DVD-burning application installed, the burning process should begin when you click the Backup button from Step 2. If you still need burning software, I recommend Nero and Pinnacle Instant Copy.
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Colorful bunch : Monkeys whose fur was dyed red and yellow to celebrate the Year of the Monkey, sit on a tree at the Forest Safari Park in Shenyang, northeastern China.
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A Friesian cow took a detour from a wedding where she was meant to be a guest of honour, wandering into a German bank where she was caught on security cameras sidling up to the tellers. Top German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Friday published four robber-style photos of the cow, named Paula, strolling into the Sparkasse savings bank in Wunstorf, a small rural town in northern Germany
Workers for CBS' 'Late Show with David Letterman' remove snow from a snowboarding ramp outside the midtown Manhattan studio Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004 in New York. A snowboarder performing a stunt for David Letterman's talk show veered off a ramp outside the show's theater and fell 25 feet to the ground officials and witnesses said. The 30-year-old woman was hospitalized in stable condition, fire department spokesman Sean Johnson said.
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"One of the most assured debut albums of the last five years."
Album Description
Young, angry, articulate, and frighteningly talented, 18-year old Dizzee Rascal is the voice of a new generation. Alongside Wiley and his fellow Roll Deep Entourage members, East London's Dizzee was propelled to underground fame. His record is Spin's #12 Album Of The Year, it went gold in the UK, and it won the prestigious Mercury Prize in 2003. This domestic release contains one bonus track plus the first two videos.
this dude is tight, devin game me his album cause he said someone said he was "the streets' protege... i dont know about all that. but this dude has an original interesting style, never heard in america. jess3 recommended ttracks. "i luv u", "vexed"
Seen in a photo released Friday, Jan. 30, 2004 by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejects from the USAF Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted the ground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Sept. 14, 2003. Stricklin, who was not injured, ejected after both guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 people and ensuring he couldn't save the aircraft. This was only the second crash since the Air Force began using F-16 Falcons for its demonstration team in 1982. Nobody was injured in the crash. The Air Force blamed the incident on pilot error. The Thunderbirds are based at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.
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Everything I Need To Know About Web Design I Learned Watching Oz
by Brian Alvey
by Brian Alvey
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/oz/
Running on HBO from the summer of 1997 through early 2003, Oz is everyone’s favorite don’t-drop-the-soap opera. Reflecting on the same years in my web design career, I see considerable parallels. Many of the lessons I learned watching Oz and designing websites are too similar to be coincidental.
Learn to thrive within constraints
The first thing new web designers usually figure out is that the web is all about compromise.
If they are coming from a print design background, they are handed a box of 216 crayons, a list of a half dozen available typefaces and a 72 dpi limit on image resolution. When the shock wears off and they get used to working within these web limitations, they encounter page weights, arbitrary standards support and CSS hacks.
If they are programmers, they learn that web servers were built to forget browsers after every single page visit and that many of the form controls they know and love — like combo boxes — aren’t available in HTML.
At last year’s GEL conference, Stuart Butterfield gave a fantastic presentation on constraints and their effects on creativity. He launched the 5k competition in 2000, challenging web developers to create the most innovative and stunning web sites — using files that totaled less than 5,120 bytes.
Butterfield explained that constraints can be found everywhere in music, architecture, poetry and design. Adding constraints to a project motivates artists to come up with more creative solutions to the design problem at hand. Extreme constraints like “48-hour filmmaking,” “three-day novel writing,” “Bush in 30 Seconds” and the 5k contest can lead artists to extreme creations.
Every new web design is the solution to a design problem that can be summed up in a series of constraint questions: Who is my audience? What am I trying to get them to do? How do I want them to feel about this site? What browsers and platforms are we targeting? Can I use Flash?
When Jeffrey Zeldman reviewed the 5k competition in an earlier ALA article, he found that “Limitations are the soil from which creativity grows.”
Fear solitary
When you’re already serving a life sentence with no chance of parole, what else can they take away?
They can threaten to throw you into solitary confinement and strip away all human contact.
The Internet is all about being connected. That “plugged-in” feeling is addictive and panic attacks are what fill those empty spaces between opportunities to check email. For many of the people who spend their lives online blogging, chatting, emailing and building websites, the unwired life is not worth living.
The ultimate punishment is being disconnected.
Play to your own strengths
Every week or two I get email from someone asking me how they can get ahead in the web business. I assume it’s because they’ve already written someone else, but they didn’t get a response quickly enough and some college admissions deadline is looming.
So I tell them this: Cheat. Stack the deck in your favor. Use your own unique skills to compete on the web.
If you’re a shoe salesperson and you want to break into the web game, don’t start out as a novice Java developer competing with expert Java developers. Unless you have some latent mutant ability that will help you scale Java’s steep learning curves, you’ll be crushed. Instead, take on a sales role for a small web shop somewhere and pick the brains of the rest of the team to get up to speed on what can and can’t be done on the web.
Don’t start out on the bottom. Start out as high up as you can and make lateral career moves.
I’ll never be the best artist or the best programmer in a room full of web designers, but I’m pretty well rounded. So if I’m competing with creative people, I try to beat them technically. Likewise, if I’m competing with technical people, I do my best to pound them on the creative side.
In Oz, the people who rose to power were the ones who made the best use of their unique talents and attributes.
Give away free samples until your users are hooked
Whether it’s heroin in Oz or a never-ending parade of CD-ROMs offering 61,034.8 free hours of AOL 9.0, nothing lowers a consumer’s resistance to trying something new like getting a free sample. Not surprisingly, canceling your free trial subscription to an online service usually involves completing a 12-step program.
Microsoft converted a good portion of Netscape’s browser customer base by offering Internet Explorer as a free alternative. When things weren’t moving fast enough for them, they sped up Netscape’s demise by making IE an integral part of their dominant Windows operating system and by signing a deal to make IE the default browser for trillions of AOL users.
Because products like software and email newsletter subscriptions don’t have the same fixed costs to the producer as products in the real world like gasoline or clothing, it is much easier to give out free trial offers or otherwise undercut competition online.
Don’t get too attached to anyone because they might not be around next week
I learned this one when I was working as a CTO in the twilight of the dot com years and our vendor contacts were changing almost daily.
When business was good, web developers would jump from company to company getting raise after raise. When business was bad, they would be pushed.
Luckily in Oz — and in real life — there has been a core group of characters that were all considered too important to be killed off.
Sleep with everyone you meet so you have something to talk about at lunch
Oh wait — I learned that one watching Sex and the City and it doesn’t have much to do with web design. My mistake.
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