The Fernando Poniente Show

Imeem Service seems flanking.

Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article
about Imeem, pegged to
the news that this fledgling site has signed a third major label, EMI, leaving
only Universal in the “not yet” column. The service is getting credit for trying
to pioneer a new business model for digital music distribution: users can select
songs and stream them for free, as long as they’re willing to sit through the
occasional advertisement.
I registered and fired the service up, and while
I’m not ready to call ad-supported music DOA, Imeem isn’t about to unseat the
current digital music leaders. The main problem: I don’t know what I’m supposed
to be doing on the site.
The registration process asked me to invite some
friends, so there’s obviously a social-networking aspect to it. But what would
those friends get? Access to my home page? Well, thanks, but I’ve already got a
blog and a MySpace and a Facebook page, all of which give me ample opportunity
to tell them about my favorite music.
OK, there’s a “music” heading–so
maybe I’ll browse some
music. Most of the artists on the front page aren’t tailored to my over-30
tastes, so I’ll run a search for my usual guinea pig, Pink Floyd. The results
are a complete mess: songs, videos, user playlists featuring Pink Floyd songs, a
Pink Floyd user group, a Dream Theater live medley featuring a cover of “In the
Flesh” (it’s
not bad!), and on and on. There’s no order, no organizing principle that I
can discern. What am I supposed to do with all this stuff?

This funny , although he apoligized

A University of Florida student who was filmed being shocked by police with a Taser stun gun after persistently questioning Sen. John Kerry will not face criminal charges and has apologized for his actions, his attorney said Tuesday…
“I made the decision to supersede the rules, and for that I apologize,” Meyer wrote. “I should have acted calmer and obeyed the directives of the officers. If I had, none of the subsequent issues would ever have arisen.”…
University police had recommended Meyer be charged with resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school administrative functions, a misdemeanor.

cmon u can’t taze this..

That’s total of 250 good Taliban since last month alone, geez, it’s slow season.

SCORES of Taliban fighters were killed by American-led troopsduring a
six-hour battle in Afghanistan, US army officials saidyesterday.
The attack
took place near Musa Qala in Helmand - a heartland ofheroin production.
It
is the fifth major fight in the notorious province since thestart of last month.
These have left more than 250 Taliban dead.
The latest fight began on
Saturday when insurgents attacked acombined US coalition and Afghan patrol with
rockets and gunfire.
The US army said aircraft were called in and four bombs
droppedon a Taliban trench, leaving 84 dead.
He said there were no immediate
reports of civilian casualties.
Major General David Rodriguez, the top US
commander inAfghanistan, yesterday declined to comment on the Musa Qala
battles.

read the rest

Another his own record that is .
so here is the main run down

The Broncos (3-4) sent it into overtime with a drive that began at their
own 7 with 2:27 left. Out of timeouts, the field goal unit scrambled onto the
field and Elam calmly nailed the kick, just as he did two months ago when the
Broncos ran the same fire drill to beat Buffalo as time expired in the opener.
The Packers won the flip and Favre found Jennings isolated along the left
sideline just as Jones was in the first half, when he beat Champ Bailey for the
score. Denver almost had to share the spotlight with the Colorado Rockies, who
were scheduled to play Game 5 of the World Series on Monday night at Coors Field
before they were swept by the Boston Red Sox Sunday night. Favre, who was
criticized for a series of underthrown passes against Washington last week, made
it a double-whammy.

Sweet just plain sweet.

This is where we draw the line…————-

Oct. 29–Blame Captain Underpants. At least a little.
This year –
partly because three Long Beach High School seniors last year just had to
emulate Mr. Underpants in all his tighty-whitey glory, Halloween costumes will
be banned from the school this week.
No Wonder Womans, no pirates, no bloody
ghouls allowed.
Principal Nicholas Restivo, who was on the front lines in
the Captain Underpants drama, said the incident helped cement a decision he
already was leaning toward.
“Captain Underpants certainly convinced me again
that banning costumes was the right way to go,” he said. “As a result of Captain
Underpants, I found out that we are definitely in the minority of schools that
allowed kids to come in wearing costumes.”
Restivo sent a letter home last
week to parents and has been announcing his decision on the public address
system at school as a reminder to students.
It is the post-Captain
Underpants world they live in, but some students said they aren’t going to let
what they say is this so-not-fair ban stand without a fight. If the chubby star
of Dave Pilkey’s children’s books can take on such adversaries as Professor
Poopypants and the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies, well, they have their
methods too.
They are circulating a petition, and the word is some are
planning to protest by showing up in costume anyway.
“The costume ban is
ridiculous,” said Meghan Beck, 16, a junior who said she would nevertheless
abide by the ban. “It’s one thing if the school won’t let us wear outfits that
are revealing or inappropriate, but if it is an innocent Halloween costume we
should be allowed to wear it.”
But “innocent” is subjective.

I can handle hot stuff, I’m a hombre, but this pepper is way too hot for , like I don’t want to try it co’z I’ll probably die. that kind of hot...

It’s hot. Scorching hot. Guinness World Records hot.

Researchers at New Mexico State University have discovered the world’s hottest chili pepper. It’s called the Bhut Jolokia, a variety originating in Assam, India.

In tests that yield Scoville heat units (SHUs), the Bhut Jolokia reached 1 million SHUs, almost double the SHUs of former hotshot Red Savina (a type of habanero pepper), which measured a mere 577,000. The result was announced today by the American Society for Horticultural Science.

Chili is spelled “chile” by some, including Paul Bosland, director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State’s Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Bosland collected seeds of Bhut Jolokia while visiting India in 2001. He grew the plants for three years to produce enough seeds to complete the field tests.

“The name Bhut Jolokia translates as ‘ghost chile,’” Bosland explained. “I think it’s

because the chile is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it!”

Flamin’

As death toll climbs Politicians started finger pointing as always, I said this before “Someone is responsible for this so-called historic tragedy” and it is, no doubt about it.
Now here’s MM takes on this

Fox news reported Feds found more bodies

Agents found the charred remains of four apparent illegal migrant workers in a wooded area in Barrett Junction, a hard-scrabble hamlet just a few miles from the Mexican border.

“They could have been out there a while,” said Paul Parker, a spokesman for the San Diego County medical examiner’s office. They were tentatively identified as three men and one woman.

and we wait……

I can’t say I don’t.
WASHINGTON — It was bad enough when the TV and lightsinexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When herdaughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighborssaid children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move.
Put Conrad, a homemaker from Hampton, Va., firmly in the camp ofthe 34 percent of people who say they believe in ghosts, accordingto a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That’sthe same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects –exceeding the 19 percent who accept the existence of spells orwitchcraft.
Forty-eight percent believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP.But nearly half of you knew we were about to tell you that, right?
Conrad, now 40, lived in Syracuse, Ind., when her family wasscared from the house they rented.
“It kind of creeped you out,” she recalled this week. “I neededto get us out.”

read more here it’s scary

Like people would say “tell me something I don’t know” , BBC has proven that through there broadcasting stragedy. Man Not just BBC , look at CNN and NBC/msnbc .
see , you can hide it but it will come eventually.

The BBC has frequently been accused of having a liberal bias.
But now
the corporation’s own staff appear to have confirmed this by revealing their
political views on the networking website Facebook.
A survey of BBC
employees with profiles on the site showed that 11 times more of them class
themselves as “liberal” than “conservative”. Critics seized on the figures
as evidence that the supposedly impartial corporation, paid for by the licence
fee, is dominated by liberals.
All Facebook members can record their
political views in their profile – choosing between very conservative,
conservative, moderate, liberal, very lib “other”.
They can also keep their
stance a secret.
Research by the conservativehome. com website showed that
1,340 staff put themselves in the “liberal” or “very liberal” category, compared
with just 120 who were “conservative” or “very conservative”. Some 340 regard
themselves as “moderate”.
BBC employees went Facebook mad earlier this year,
with thousands signing up to log their profiles.
A total of 10,580 are
registered on the site, but not all have declared their political views.
Because the website was created in the U.S., there is no choice of “Labour”,
“Conservative” or “Liberal Democrat”.
But separate research revealed that
nearly 80 per cent of those who describe themselves as “liberal” on Facebook
either vote Lib- Dem (49.9 per cent) or Labour (38.5 per cent).
Just 3.9 per
cent in the liberal category said they vote Tory. The research was carried out
by Samuel Coates, the deputy editor of conservativehome, a Tory grassroots
Internet site.
He said: “The sheer size of the ratio of liberals to
conservatives surely goes some way to confirming what many Conservatives already
feel about the BBC.
“They can rightly feel aggrieved that their licence fees
don’t go to a more representative institution.
“Its employees are very
professional but the self-perpetuating institutional bias of them all sharing
similar world views makes it hard for them to diagnose this problem.
“This
disillusionment partly explains the dominance of conservatism on the internet.”
Senior BBC journalists such as John Simpson and John Humphrys have
questioned the corporation’s bias in favour of the Government.
A search of
the UK-wide Facebook “population” reveals a much smaller liberal to conservative
ratio – just 2.5 to one.
Narrowing it down to the London network – which
most BBC employees have joined – the ratio is around three to one.
Earlier
this year, an independent review commissioned by the BBC found that it was out
of touch with large swathes of the public and guilty of a “bias of omission”.
The report noted that the BBC had “come late” to several important stories
in recent years, including Euroscepticism and immigration.