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Reader Question
something goofy about google
Hello Marty:
There is something goofy going on at google
It's happening worldwide - peope are reporting probems about the latest google update.
It seems that you can't right click, and computers freeze up.
We've beem to the google websight(s)
There are alot of complaints....but no solutions from google.
Even on your sight i cannot right click.
What the heck is going on? Is "The Decider" involved?
Please ask about google complaints.
thanks
kevkev
Thanks, kevkev.
The other night every time I used the cache function got a message from AO-hell stating the site I was trying to visit was thought (by them) to be a phishing site, and they were going to deny me access for my own good.
Fuck that - fired up another browser & had no problems.
Just figured it was another AO-hell issue.
Anybody else experiencing anything untoward from google?
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Molly Ivins: Remembering Ann Richards (AlterNet.org)
She knew how to deal with teenage egos: Instead of pointing out to a kid who was pouring charcoal lighter on a live fire that he was idiot, Ann said, "Honey, if you keep doing that, the fire is going to climb right back up to that can in your hand and explode and give you horrible injuries, and it will just ruin my entire weekend."
Sen. Landrieu Strikes Back (senatemajority.com)
"I'm not going to sit here as a Democrat and let the Republican leadership come to the floor and talk about Democrats not making us safe. They're the ones in charge and Osama bin Laden is still at loose."
Joel Stein: The Bow-Tied Cha-Cha (latimes.com)
Learning the moves -- and Capitol Hill politics -- with 'Dancing With the Stars' contestant Tucker Carlson.
Rabbi David Aaron: Choose Good, Feel Great: Secrets to Living Your Best Life (jewishworldreview.com)
If G-d is absolutely good, why did He create a world that has so much evil? Ultimate goodness, which is the goodness achieved through choice, requires the possibility for evil. Once you understand this, you will appreciate how central a role evil plays in this world. What's so good about this world is the evil in it. This world offers the opportunity to beat evil and choose good.
Arthur C. Danto: Andy Warhol's Smirking Genius (The Nation. Posted on AlterNet.og)
Ric Burns's new four-hour PBS documentary on the career of pop artist Andy Warhol is so good and well-researched the reviewer watched it three times.
The Get Well Roger [Ebert] Photo Group
We created a Flickr set called Get Well Roger and uploaded some pictures of the charming yet goofy Chicagoist writers throwing out the "thumbs up" sign to Rog. But it's not enough! So get out your digital camera or your cell phone and snap a picture of yourself flashing the "thumbs up" sign then add it to our Get Well Roger photo group (click on the Join This Group? link in the lower right then select Add To Group on your uploaded picture). When we get enough pictures, we'll send them on to Ebert to let him know we're all thinking about him.
Commentoon: Don't Hire Girls (womensenews.org)
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny fall day.
Urge Action on Darfur
British Celebs
Leading British film and music stars urged the British government Saturday to help end fighting in the violence-wracked Sudanese region of Darfur.
Musicians Elton John and Annie Lennox, musician-campaigner Bob Geldof, and actress Emma Thompson were among those who signed a letter accusing the international community of failing to act.
"We call on our government to move Darfur to the top of its priority list until a U.N. force is deployed and the people of Darfur are protected," they wrote.
British Celebs
Protests Planned Gas Terminal
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities on Friday protested plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal off the coast of Southern California.
The Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas facility is being proposed by Australian-based BHP Billiton, one of the world's largest energy companies. The $800 million terminal would be located 14 miles off the coast of Malibu.
A letter on Brosnan's Web site questioning the project's impact was signed by Barbra Streisand, Cindy Crawford, Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, Sting and Charlize Theron.
Pierce Brosnan
LA Show
Banksy
A live Asian elephant, painted in pink and gold, stands in a makeshift living room.
Giant cockroaches swarm over copies of Paris Hilton's pop CD. A dummy angel wearing a gas mask and a white parachute flaps in the blue skies.
Graffiti artist and prankster Banksy opened his first Los Angeles show on Friday in an obscure warehouse in industrial Downtown, bringing his subversive humour and anti-capitalist message to a city better known for wealth and self-obsession.
"Barely Legal," a free three-day event billed as a "vandalized warehouse extravaganza," opened with the excitement and puzzlement that has come to be the hallmark of the elusive "guerrilla artist."
Banksy
Prices Up
Disneyland
Effective Friday, the Disneyland Resort has increased its single-day admission price by $4, from $59 to $63 for adults, and from $49 to $53 for children (ages 3-9)*. The previous increase was on Jan. 3, 2006.
For Southern California residents living in zip codes 90000 through 93599, the Disneyland Resort is offering a $15 upgrade ($5 savings off the regular price) from a one-day ticket to a one-day park hopper, which allows access to both Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. The offer lasts through the fall months.
Disneyland
*Disney considers anyone over 10 an adult.
Toronto International Film Festival
Awards Ceremony
The winners at this year's Toronto International Film Festival's awards ceremony:
Swarovski Cultural Innovation Award - "Takva - A Man's Fear of God." A Turkish-German co-production about a man whose belief in God is put to the test.
People's Choice Award - "Bella," an American film written and directed by first-time film-maker Alejandro Monteverde, about two people whose lives converge on a single day in New York City.
Diesel Discovery Award - "Reprise," a Norwegian comedic tale about two young men with a shared dream of becoming writers.
Prize of the International Critics (Fipresci Prize) - "Death of a President," a British drama about the fallout from the imagined assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush.
CityTV Award for Best Canadian Feature Film - "Sur La Trace d'Igor Rizzi," a film by Noel Mitrani about a former professional soccer player who leaves his native France for Montreal after the death of his Quebecois girlfriend.
Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film - "Manufactured Landscapes," a portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky.
Short Cuts Canada Award - Maxime Giroux's "Les Jours," an exploration of loss in the days that follow a tragic death in the woods.
Awards Ceremony
Digs Into Archives
Old Town School of Folk Music
After almost 50 years of teaching folk traditions in Chicago, the Old Town School of Folk Music is making a bigger move into the world of music retailing.
The school, which is linked with the city's Bloodshot Records for its Old Town School Recordings, will advance beyond the world of kids' music this fall, issuing the first of a multi-volume set of songs taken from the school's songbook.
On October 24, Bloodshot will issue "The Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook: Vol. 1," a 23-song set designed to provide an overview of the music taught at the school. Robbie Fulks, Dan Zanes, the Mekons' Jon Langford and Freakwater's Janet Bean are among the artists who will contribute renditions of traditional songs ("Trouble in My Mind," "Amazing Grace," "Worried Man Blues," among others).
Old Town School of Folk Music
Life To Be Digitized
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu's alma mater said on Friday it is launching an Internet archive with thousands of documents and audio tapes on the life of the South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
The 4.5 million-pound project will provide a free, interactive digital resource about his humanitarian teachings and South Africa's struggle for democracy, King's College said.
King's computer experts will collaborate with the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town to digitize up to 200,000 pages of documents and over 1,000 hours of live audio.
Hundreds of hours of video as well as films, photos and personal letters will also be included.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Out On Bail
Duane "Dog" Chapman
TV reality star Duane "Dog" Chapman and two co-stars accused of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters' capture of a cosmetics company heir in Mexico posted bail and were released Friday.
Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending the night in a federal detention center and his co-stars on the popular A&E show "Dog The Bounty Hunter" were freed on $100,000 bail each.
Chapman, his son, Leland Chapman, and associate Timothy Chapman, no relation, were arrested Thursday on charges stemming from the capture of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster on June 18, 2003, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, officials said.
Bounty hunting is considered a crime in Mexico, and charges have been pending against the three since local police in Mexico arrested them shortly after they roped in Luster. They posted bail but never returned for their court hearing in July 2003, officials said.
Duane "Dog" Chapman
Strangled 'Intruder' a Hit Man
Susan Kuhnhausen
When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
Neighbors praised the woman for her bravery, and investigators said they believed the dead man - Edward Dalton Haffey - was burglarizing Kuhnhausen's home. But after an investigation, police now say the intruder Kuhnhausen strangled was apparently a hit man hired by her estranged husband - Michael James Kuhnhausen Sr. - to kill her.
The 58-year-old husband was taken into custody Thursday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder. He was ordered held on $500,000 bail.
Haffey had worked as a custodian under Kuhnhausen at an adult video store, according an affidavit filed by the Multnomah County District Attorney's office.
Susan Kuhnhausen
Bans 5 Too-Thin Models
Madrid Fashion Show
Organizers of Spain's top annual fashion show on Saturday rejected five models as being too thin to appear in this year's event.
Five of the 68 models who showed up for appraisal failed the test, the doctors said. The models were over 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed less than 121.25 pounds, Monereo said.
The body mass index is a calculation doctors normally apply to study obesity. It is calculated by dividing weight in pounds by height in inches squared, and multiplying that total by 703.
If the resulting number is between 18.5 and 24.9, a person's weight is normal. Below 18.5 they are underweight. In the case of the Madrid show, organizers rejected women with an index below 18.
Madrid Fashion Show
Stray Body Found
'CSI: NY'
Cast and crew members on the Los Angeles set of CBS' CSI: New York got a big surprise on Tuesday when real-life human remains turned up in the same building where filming was taking place, a network spokeswoman confirmed.
Authorities believe the dead body belonged to a tenant who had died some time ago on the building's fifth floor--two floors up from where the hit forensics series was temporarily stationed.
The corpse was said to be "mummified," meaning that it was well-preserved, and was discovered by a building superintendent who was trying to collect unpaid rent from the tenant.
'CSI: NY'
Another Stray Body Found
'CSI: Miami'
A man's body floated up near where a crew was filming a scene for the crime show "CSI: Miami," authorities said.
The body washed up early Friday in Biscayne Bay at Bicentennial Park, which film crews were using as a helicopter staging ground for aerial shots of a fictional offshore investigation for the CBS show, police said.
A homeless man spotted the body and alerted an off-duty police officer who was working security on the set, police said. The body had no signs of injury, and the death was not considered suspicious, according to authorities.
'CSI: Miami'
Highlighting The Benefits
Guantanamo
The Harry Potter stories are the most popular books in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre's library, the Pentagon has revealed.
The Defence Department also said detainees enjoyed watching World Cup football games and playing table tennis.
The revelations came in a new document released by the department called "Ten Facts About Guantanamo", which seeks to highlight the benefits available to those incarcerated at the camp in Cuba.
Departing detainees are given a Koran, a denim jacket, a white T-shirt, a pair of blue jeans, trainers, a gym bag of toiletries, and a pillow and blanket for the flight home.
More money is spent on meals for detainees than on those for the US troops stationed there, the list claimed. Detainees are offered up to 4,200 calories worth of food a day and gained an average of 20 pounds on weight.
Guantanamo
In Memory
Pablo Santos
Teenage actor Pablo Santos, who starred in the television series "Greetings from Tucson," died after a small plane in which he was riding crashed in Mexico, a hospital official said Saturday.
The Piper Malibu crashed Friday just over a mile short of the runway as it was making its approach to the airport in Toluca, some 35 miles west of Mexico City, according to the Mexico State Security Agency. Six other people were hospitalized.
Santos, 19, was taken to the Social Security Hospital, where he died Friday, hospital spokeswoman Irma Garcia Guardarrama said.
He had appeared in numerous episodes on other television programs, including "Boston Public," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ," The Shield" and "American Family," as well as films such as "Sea of Dreams" and "Party Animalz."
Born in Monterrey, Santos moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 12.
Pablo Santos
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