A few months ago I was attacked by a cybersquatter. We worked things out and they agreed to pass my domain name, disinfotainmenttoday.com, over to me. He let his ownership lapse last week.
This is good and bad news. It is good news because the domain name will now be mine. It is bad news because there's a mandatory 42 day grace period before the name is freed. He could have simply transferred the name to me and everything would have been fine. Instead he let it lapse, which means the site will be down for 42 days and there seems to be absolutely nothing I can do about it. What a putz.
I will continue to write new material which will be posted to Bartcop Entertainment until the grand reopening of disinfotainmenttoday.com near the end of February.
When Justin Timberlake released his single
"Sexyback",he pleased his already-numerous fans &
acquired many more. By December's end his track was in
the top ten for the year & had been mashed into
countless variations, .Remixes, mash-ups & experimental
versions proliferated & soon we were inundated with
more permutations than could be consumed in a full
day of listening.
From the dark angst of Aggro1's "Justin Timberlake's
Sexyback vs She Wants Revenge's Out Of Control" to
the quirky pumping of A Plus D's "Sexy Peek-A-Boo",
which pits it against Siouxsie & The Banshees, mixers
have changed the arrangement of the song more than
donuts in a Krispy Kreme store.
Everytime it seemed like the tune was played
out, another DJ stepped up & grafted it into another
permutation, thus reviving the pop smash & granting it
more life. DJ Kingpin aligned it with the band Mindless
Self Indulgence & sent us "Straight To
Sexyback".Crookdimwit moved it up alongside some
Kraftwerk resulting in his electro-chill "Tour De
Back". . Each time the previous fans & the new
discoverers played them anew, bringing
Timberlake-mania to more throngs of eager listeners.
When the Justin cut slowed a few days, it would soon
return in a new disguise courtesy of an El Barto & Liam B's "SEXY KLF", or the Killswitch Engage pairing
"Sexy Heartache" by DJ Epik213X. It seemed that as
quickly as people tired of the new take, another would
replace it. The availability of the 'a capella', or
'voice only' track, made it easy for mixers to take a
beloved selection & re-do it to please themselves. A
lame track would never inspire such large numbers
of permutations, instead of the customary 7 or 8.
2007 would seem a big invitation to Deejays to move on
to the new years' cache of music, but still the lure of
Justin induces works like Dustria's "Sexy Acha", a
Cornershop -based, sugary confection & DJ Spark's
Bodyrox blended bombshell "Yeah,Yeah,Sexyback". In the
last week alone, major mash player Voicedude has given
birth to twins in the form of the reverse-matching
pair "Don't Cha Smack That Sexy Back!" & "Justin
Smacks That Pussycat!". One features the Pussycat
Dolls vocals over "Sexyback" & the other plays it the
other way with Justin singing over the P. Dolls.
Some may be too familiar with Mr.Timberlake's number
to enjoy the experience anymore, (I, myself am so
burned out on Kelis'"Milkshake" I pass on boots of
it), but I still take the time to sample the
ever-flowing river of "Sexyback" mashups. Lend an ear
& see what your position is. Yeah!
Hey, Marty! If you get some good responses to your question, would you share them with me too? My computer used to be so great processing things. Now it's slow as Christmas.
I have no adware or spyware (check that every week). I dumped most of my pictures and audio and video files on a flash drive thinking that they might be eating up all my memory. But it hasn't really helped.
When I check what processes are running on my computer at any one time, there are a ton of them, but I have no idea which ones are critical or even important and which ones I could shut off. (And if I shut them off once, do I have to shut them down every time I run the computer or will that stop all the unnecessary processes running??)
Wish I knew how to help you. Then I would help myself too. Cure Bill Gates!
Linda >^..^<
Thanks, Linda!
You're the only one who responded, so I'm gonna assume (I HATE assuming) that the message isn't a big deal.
PAUL KRUGMAN: Gold-Plated Indifference ( The NYTimes )
On the radio, Mr. Bush suggested that we should "treat health insurance more like home ownership." He went on to say that "the current tax code encourages home ownership by allowing you to deduct the interest on your mortgage from your taxes. We can reform the tax code, so that it provides a similar incentive for you to buy health insurance." Wow. Those are the words of someone with no sense of what it's like to be uninsured.
Beth Quinn: 'Went missing' should go missing from the language (recordonline.com)
I see that the phrase "went missing" made this year's list of banned words, put out annually by Lake Superior State University in Detroit. Called the List of Words and Phrases Banished From the Queen's English, it includes overused items such as "ask your doctor," "awesome," "we're pregnant," and celebrity combos like "TomKat."
In Rocky's footsteps (guardian.co.uk)
Ever since the first Rocky film, fans have been running up the most famous steps in America in homage to their boxing hero. And their stories are just as inspirational as that of their idol, Sarfraz Manzoor discovers.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Children
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of "The Lord of the Rings," was born in South Africa. Shortly after he was born, a family servant borrowed him without first asking permission so he could show him to his friends and neighbors -- they had never seen a white baby.
I have a complaint. You have such fantastic "links" in-between the articles, that I am becoming addicted. For instance, tonight I hit the web kaleidoscope link, and spent an hour playing around with it because it was SO much fun.
Can you please tell me where can I find a "recovery" group, which will help people like myself, people who are BartCop and/or BartCop Entertainment junkies? It's really becoming a problem here...
Yours truly,
Sally P
PS You guys are the best! I hope your readers are taking the time to click on some of the above-mentioned "links." I've found some real gems on your site. Thanks for your daily dedication. :)
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Armec & Famous', followed by a FRESH'Criminal Minds', then a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Frank Caliendo and Mandy Moore.
On a RERUNCraig (from 1/8/07) are Mario Lopez, NeYo, and Shawn Colvin.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Friday Night Lights', followed by a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', then a FRESH'Medium'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Sienna Miller, Phyllis Diller, and Branford Marsalis.
On a RERUNConan (from 7/12/06) are Stephen Colbert, Rainn Wilson, and Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 11/30/06) are Minka Kelly, Matt Costa.
ABC begins the night with the SEASON PREMIERE'George Lopez', followed by a FRESH'Jim', then a FRESH'Kinghts Of Prosperity', followed by a FRESH'In Case Of Emergency', then 'Primetime: Medical Mysteries'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Andy Garcia and John Mellencamp.
The CW offers a FRESH'Beauty & The Geek', followed by a FRESH'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a FRESH 2-hour 'American Idol'.
MY has a FRESH'Wicked Wicked Games', followed by a FRESH'Watch Over Me'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The Sopranos', and more 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Dances With Wolves', followed by the movie 'Hoffa', then the movie 'All The President's Men'.
BBC -
[1:00 PM] As Time Goes By - Episode 1;
[1:40 PM] Are You Being Served? - Ep. 4: Shedding The Load;
[2:20 PM] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 8;
[3:00 PM] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 27;
[4:00 PM] The Saint - Ep. 12 Little Girl Lost;
[5:00 PM] The Avengers - Ep. 23 Homicide and Old Lace;
[6:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[6:30 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 5;
[7:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 12 Anderson;
[8:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[8:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 4;
[9:00 PM] Turn Back Your Body Clock - Episode 1;
[9:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[10:00 PM] The Wow Factor - Episode 2;
[11:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 6;
[11:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 10;
[12:00 AM] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 28;
[1:00 AM] Turn Back Your Body Clock - Episode 1;
[1:30 AM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[2:00 AM] The Wow Factor - Episode 2;
[3:00 AM] Dealing With Dickinson - Episode 1;
[4:00 AM] Dealing With Dickinson - Episode 2;
[5:00 AM] Dealing With Dickinson - Episode 3;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', yet another 'Top Chef', and a FRESH'Top Chef'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Naked Trucker'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Scott McClellan.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Lou Dobbs.
FX has 'That 70s Show', another 'That 70s Show', followed by the movie 'The Clearing', then the movie 'The Clearing', again.
IFC -
[07:05 AM] The Barbarian Invasions;
[08:50 AM] Invincible;
[11:00 AM] Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.;
[01:05 PM] Ararat;
[03:05 PM] The Barbarian Invasions;
[04:50 PM] Invincible;
[07:05 PM] Max;
[09:00 PM] Crawlspace;
[10:25 PM] The Great Silence;
[12:15 AM] Max;
[02:10 AM] Hopeless Pictures #7;
[02:30 AM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2007;
[03:00 AM] Crawlspace;
[04:25 AM] The Great Silence. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Dark Prince: The True Story Of Dracula', followed by the movie 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'.
Sundance -
[06:45 AM] The Firefly Man;
[07:00 AM] Festival Dailies 2007: (1/23/07);
[07:30 AM] A Different War;
[07:45 AM] Very Annie Mary;
[09:30 AM] Unfolding Florence;
[11:00 AM] Festival Dailies 2007: (1/23/07);
[11:30 AM] Little Otik;
[01:45 PM] Control Room;
[03:15 PM] A Different War;
[03:30 PM] Festival Dailies 2007: (1/23/07);
[04:00 PM] The Firefly Man;
[04:15 PM] The Mighty Celt;
[05:45 PM] The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan;
[07:30 PM] Unfolding Florence;
[09:00 PM] Festival Dailies 2007: (1/24/07);
[09:30 PM] Down to the Bone;
[11:15 PM] Through My Thick Glasses;
[11:30 PM] Festival Dailies 2007: (1/24/07);
[12:00 AM] One Punk Under God: Episode 1;
[12:30 AM] IN SHORT: Festival 7;
[01:00 AM] Iconoclasts Season 2: Episode 1: Eddie Vedder + Laird Hamilton;
[02:00 AM] City of Men - Season 3: Episode 1: Opening Night;
[02:30 AM] Bad Guy;
[04:15 AM] Little Otik. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Salma Hayek and Academy President Sid Ganis announce the 79th Academy Awards nominees for best actress at the at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, January 23, 2007.
Photo by Phil McCarten
Thirteen Nobel laureates said they had applied to the authorities in military-ruled Myanmar for visas to visit detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The laureates, who included Iran's Shirin Ebadi and the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, said their visa applications had been submitted earlier this month but there had been no response from the regime in Yangon so far.
Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy overwhelmingly won 1990 elections but was never allowed to take office, has now spent around 11 of the past 17 years under house arrest.
Her most recent period in detention began nearly three years ago, when her convoy was ambushed by suspected government supporters while she was travelling upcountry.
Actor Leslie Jordan tells a story about his Emmy Award getting broken in his luggage because authorities wouldn't let his take it on an airplane because it has sharp edges. Jordan was a presenter at the Eclipse Awards for horse racing in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, Jan. 22, 2007.
Photo by Mark Avery
Lily Tomlin will star in an hour-long comedy series for HBO, created by husband-and-wife producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason of "Designing Women" and "Evening Shade" sitcom fame.
The comedy, "12 miles of Bad Road," features Tomlin as Amelia Shakespeare, head of a real estate company and matriarch of a wealthy Dallas family, HBO said Monday.
In the pilot, Mary Kay Place plays Amelia's sister and Leslie Jordan plays a cousin. An air date has yet to be set, and HBO didn't indicate how many episodes of the show it had ordered.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has joined the Chandler family in its bid to buy newspaper and television station owner Tribune Co., a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The source said News Corp.'s participation is considered small and Murdoch's goal is primarily to cut printing and back- office costs at his media conglomerate's money-losing New York Post newspaper.
News Corp. is restricted from buying Tribune's Newsday outright as U.S. media ownership laws prevent the company from owning another newspaper in the New York region.
Tribune, which owns the Los Angeles Times newspaper and the Chicago Cubs baseball team, has received at least three bids and is in the process of reviewing the offers.
USA Network's "Monk" kicked off the second half of its fifth season in fine style, ranking as the most-watched basic cable program in primetime Friday among total viewers
The obsessive-compulsive detective show, which recently aired two "special" episodes, averaged 5.2 million total viewers from 9-10 p.m., slightly higher than the Season 5 premiere tally of 5.1 million in July. The episode was also the most-watched basic cable program in primetime Friday among adults 18-49 (1.7 million) and adults 25-54 (2.2 million).
On the other hand, USA's fake-psychic series "Psych" averaged 3.8 million total viewers from 10-11 p.m., down sharply from the July series premiere of 6.1 million. Friday's episode was the most-watched show in basic cable that night among adults 18-34 (600,000).
Actress Parker Posey (L) poses with director Zoe R. Cassavetes as they arrive as guests for the premiere of the film 'Dedication' at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 22, 2007. The film, directed by Justin Theroux, is a modern love story centering on a New York children's book author and stars Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup.
Photo by Fred Prouser
The director of the Edinburgh Fringe, credited with guiding the offbeat festival to international acclaim over eight years, is standing down, festival officials said Tuesday.
Paul Gudgin will leave June 7 to produce a variety of festivals and events in Britain and abroad, said festival spokesman Leroy Harris.
The three-week summer event is a cutting-edge celebration of performance, standup, theater and music that bills itself as the world's biggest arts festival. The smaller Edinburgh International Festival, which runs at the same time, specializes in more traditional opera, theater and dance.
Franco Zeffirelli was in good condition at a Rome hospital after being admitted with an irregular heartbeat, his son said Tuesday.
The 83-year-old Italian filmmaker was undergoing medical tests at San Giovanni hospital after being admitted late Monday with heart fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat, his son said.
It wasn't clear when he would be released, but it would likely be over the next few days.
Ted Nugent says Gov. Rick Perry had no problem with his decision to wear a Confederate flag shirt during his appearance at last week's inaugural ball - and even complimented his performance.
Nugent, 58, said Perry talked to him backstage after the black-tie event, complimenting him on "the greatest rock 'n' roll" and thanking him for coming, several newspapers reported Tuesday. The governor also called over the weekend, ending the conversation by telling Nugent to "give 'em hell," Nugent was quoted as saying.
Perry spokesman Robert Black said the governor wouldn't wear such a shirt, but told Nugent he has the right to wear whatever he wants.
Cellist Yo Yo Ma talks with students at Charles Allen Prosser Career Academy Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007, in Chicago. Ma, who is interested in multicultural connections, helped launch a first of its kind partnership between public schools and the Genographic Project which uses DNA from cells scraped from inside the cheek to traces humans' migration back 60,000 years to ancient roots in Africa.
Photo by M. Spencer Green
Coca-Cola Co. has reached an agreement with an unsigned London ska band over the global soft drink giant's use of the band's material in TV ads.
The band, called 7 Seconds of Love, had argued that Coke used their video and song "Ninja" without permission in a South American commercial for Coca-Cola Light.
Coke agreed Monday to an out-of-court settlement. The ads have been taken off the air, and the band retains all the rights. The amount of the financial settlement wasn't disclosed.
A San Francisco-area pastor who pleaded guilty to helping smuggle young leopard sharks from California to aquariums in Europe and the United States has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Kevin Thompson, 48, a Unification Church pastor in San Leandro, was one of six men charged with harvesting thousands of sharks smaller than 36 inches (91.5 cm), which are protected by law. The five others have also pleaded guilty.
In the sentencing, which took place on Monday, Thompson was also ordered to pay restitution of $100,000 (50,500).
Actresses Isabelle Fuhrman (L) and Piper Laurie, stars of the film 'Hounddog', poses as she arrives for the film's premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 22, 2007. The film directed and written by Deborah Kempmeier, is set in the 1960's South about a young girl who overcomes debilitating obstacles.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Peter Sachs was only a year old in 1938 when the Nazis seized his father's collection of rare posters and the Jewish family fled to the United States.
He returned to Germany on Tuesday for the first time in nearly seven decades to try to recover the thousands of first-run prints that could be worth as much as US$50 million.
Sachs, 69, of Sarasota, Fla., will testify Thursday at a government commission that will determine if the collection should be returned to him or stay at the museum, which inherited it from East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He contends that although his father received some compensation, it came from West Germany when it was believed the collection had been destroyed during the war. Now that it turns out that 4,300 posters survive, he said they should be returned to his family.
Work on Rome's Palatine Hill has turned up a trove of discoveries, including what might be the underground grotto where ancient Romans believed a wolf nursed the city's legendary founders Romulus and Remus.
Archaeologists gathered Tuesday at a conference to save crumbling monuments on the Palatine discussed findings of studies on the luxurious imperial homes threatened by collapse and poor maintenance that have forced the closure of much of the hill to the public.
While funds are still scarce, authorities plan to reopen some key areas of the honeycombed hill to tourists by the end of the year, including frescoed halls in the palaces of the emperor Augustus and of his wife, Livia.
Only a quarter of the Palatine's nearly 500 buildings are above the ground and just 40 percent of the hill's 67 acres can be visited.
A woman walks past a figure of Blue Dragon, a character from a Japanese video game, at the Toy Forum 2007 in Tokyo January 23, 2007.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
A magic spell to keep snakes away from the tombs of Egyptian kings, adopted from the Canaanites almost 5,000 years ago, could be the oldest Semitic text yet discovered, experts said Tuesday.
The phrases, interspersed throughout religious texts in Egyptian characters in the underground chambers of a pyramid south of Cairo, stumped Egyptian experts for about a century, until the Semitic connection was found.
In 2002 one of the Egyptologists e-mailed the undeciphered part of the inscription to Richard Steiner, a professor of Semitic languages at Yeshiva University in New York. Steiner discovered that the phrases are the transcription of a language used by Canaanites at some point in the period from 25th to the 30th centuries B.C.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Jan. 15-21. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (X) "AFC Championship Post-Game Show" (10:18-10:23 p.m., EST)," CBS, 47.70 million viewers.
2. (X) "AFC Championship: New England at Indianapolis," CBS, 46.70 million viewers.
3. (1) "American Idol," (Tuesday), Fox, 37.44 million viewers.
4. (2) "American Idol," (Wednesday), Fox, 36.94 million viewers.
5. (X) "AFC Championship Post-Game Show" (10:23 to 10:41 p.m.), CBS, 29.39 million viewers.
6. (7) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 21.94 million viewers.
7. (6) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 21.41 million viewers.
8. (X) "Golden Globe Awards," NBC, 20.04 million viewers.
9. (4) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 17.14 million viewers.
10. (17) "NCIS," CBS, 15.95 million viewers.
11. (20) "24," Fox, 15.73 million viewers.
12. (24) "Shark," CBS, 15.10 million viewers.
13. (23) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 14.17 million viewers.
14. (27) "Ugly Betty," ABC, 14.10 million viewers.
15. (11) "CSI: NY," CBS, 13.77 million viewers.
16. (14) "Without a Trace," CBS, 13.72 million viewers.
17. (11) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.99 million viewers.
18. (27) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 12.62 million viewers.
19. (X) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 12.03 million viewers.
20. (32) "The Unit," CBS, 11.93 million viewers.
A Pacific Ocean sunset is seen from Silver Strand State Beach on Coronado island in San Diego on Friday, Jan. 19, 2007.
Photo by Dr. Scott M. Lieberman
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