Nothing wrong with a nice general-ages mashup. Many prefer that. There's also a large audience who take a liking to a more unrestrained attitude towards expression. Personally, I think there's plenty of room for a mature, adult bootleg, especially if it's 'hip'. To the point, this brings us to the latest collection from the well-respected bootlegger RIAA & his new collection of mashup tracks called "Risque, Illicit & Adult".
With a consistent thematic approach throughout, & many excellent musical arrangements, RIAA's new release is a keeper. It has bawdy material which is never over the top, familiar tunes in unfamiliar clothes.& lots of likeability of music. Having kept a regular visisbilty in the Bootleg community with tracks like "Come as The Eighties" (Nirvana vs Killing Joke) & "Going To The Go-Gos" (Go-Go's vs Chrome vs Smokie Robinson) the scene is primed for a full album such as "Risque, Illicit & Adult".
Here's a look at some highlight tracks.
01 - "(Models Gotta) Fight For Their Right (To Mambo)" (Kraftwerk vs Beatie Boys vs Santana)
has incredible motion X3 with each source artist providing tight integration through RIAA's mixing manipulations.
02 - "Coming To Get Bloodstains" (Agent Orange vs The Who Boys)
is driving punk like you haven't heard. It'll have you replaying the mp3 till the compression wears off.
03 - "Everytime You Touch Titties" (Gravy Train!!! vs Moby vs Rusty Warren)
is a very bouncy track with well-rounded...er, tones. It'll have you noticing it's charms.
There're sixteen more like-minded, successful tracks not be missed. If you've sampled RIAA's other releases like "Recording Industries Are Archaic", or "Sounds For The Sun-Set: 2005" you know you're in for a wonderful listen of creatively successful mashups from a modern artist of much acclaim. You can find "Risque, Illicit & Adult" at
m-1.us/risque.html
Be sure & check m-1.us regularly for new tracks from RIAA.
RIAA covers by shag.com
Very much worth the click to get to all these sites.
Mix Of The Week - Too many to choose just one.I advise going to
http://www.b00mb0x.org/wordpress/
where there are the finest new long mixes every week. With such incredible audio works as Dangerscouse's "Forgive Me (For I Have Spinned)", "Do Not Adjust Your Dial" from Collective Discharge, and DJ Mitzura's "Strange Beautiful Workings Of Karma... Who Will Rock My Soul?". You can even log in to leave a comment,if you want. You know DJ's really go for that.
Mashup Tip: Do Not under any circumstances put BAGPIPES in your mashup.
Record companies don't share money extorted
from file-sharing fans with artists
The
record industry has sued over 20,000 music fans to "protect artists'
copyrights." But they haven't turned over any of the money to artists (of
course, they never forked over any of the money from my.mp3.com, Grokster,
Napster, etc).
A contingent of prominent artist managers claims that little to
none of that money has trickled down to their clients. They are now
considering legal action.
"Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their
artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be
accounted for," said lawyer John Branca, who has represented Korn, Don Henley,
and The Rolling Stones, among others. "Some of them are even talking about
filing lawsuits if they don't get paid soon."
It's hard to know whose side to be on in this issue, assholes like Korn,
Don Henley, and The Rolling Stones, who are more interested in music as a
commodity than anything else, who destroyed Napster and who think you're a
criminal if you ever listen to their music without them making something off it,
and the corporate scumbuckets at the RIAA who are arresting teenagers for
downloading TV theme songs instead of just legally recording them off the TV
with their VCRs or cassette tape recorders.
Recording devices are protected by law, you can tape anything that's
copyrighted as long as it's for personal use. You can tape TV and radio to your
heart's content and even make copies and pass them around, but if you use a
computer, well, thank the RIAA for convincing the Supreme Court of the United
States that computers aren't recording devices, therefore exempt from all
traditional definitions of fair use. Which brings up the real issue, whatayuh
gonna do when the Supreme Court makes a decision that's provably and
ridiculously wrong, incorrect, just a lie, like they ruled that 2+2=5 and that's
that, any arithmetic teacher in the US who dares to teach a student that 2+2=4
can be arrested with an automatic conviction because the Supreme Court has
already ruled in the matter, you can't go any higher up, guilty as charged for
speaking the truth because only a retard, a lawyer for the RIAA, or the Supreme
Court of the United States doesn't know that computers are recording
devices.
You can record anything with impunity, you're protected, as long as
you're actually using antiquated technology like tape or standard CDs, hell, you
can make laserdiscs galore of all your favorite tunes and pass them out as party
favors and nobody would give a shit. But do the same thing with a computer and
you're a thief, a criminal, so please don't believe that bullshit they're
putting at the front of DVDs where they try to criminalize people who are
actually doing them no harm, passing material around on the internet that's
available in most public libraries where you can already check them out for
free, the latest movies and music, a war against a delivery system, how
quaint,
If any douchebag from the RIAA had you arrested because somebody left a
message on your answering machine that had a Madonna song playing in the
background and she's owed royalties, you'd tell them where to stick it, whether
it was technically legal with a tape machine or technically illegal with a
computer. This prejudice against a particular device that can do precisely what
other devices do, only better, has cause a freefall in the world of
copyright, with one side fighting to lengthen the time it takes for any
intellectual property to enter the public domain, literally a battle over Mickey
Mouse, and the public, you know, REALITY, where everything enters the
public domain one nanosecond after it arrives on the internet and there's not a
damn thing anyone can do about it short of confiscating all our computers.
I'm posting a copy of You Can't Always Get What You Wanthere because
fuck if I'm going to post any Korn or Don Henley. If I made a cassette off the
record and mailed it to you, we'd be cool with The Rolling Stones, the RIAA, and
the Supreme Court, but since I've decided to save money on tapes and postage by
offering it to you this way, I'm technically breaking the law, and so are you if
you download it. As a tribute to Rosa Parks and civil disobedience, do it
now.
Fuck 'em, let 'em sue each other. Let the "artists" win, and bankrupt the
RIAA. Serves 'em right.
And here's a picture of Walt Disney with his fly open.
Paul Krugman: The Face-Slap Theory (nytimes.com)
Last week, Tim Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, came as close as a Fed official can to saying that we're in the midst of a financial meltdown.
Jim Hightower: NO PUNISHMENT FOR EXXON MALFEASANCE? (jimhightower.com)
How time flies. For example, think back to 1989. Hillary Clinton was the obscure first lady of Arkansas, back then. Roger Clemens was pitching for the Boston Red Socks and had never even heard of steroids. And The Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
ROGER EBERT: Albert Brooks defends his cinematic life (from 1991)
This is a very small anecdote, but maybe it will lead somewhere. I went to interview Albert Brooks out at his office at Warner Bros. We were going to talk about "Defending Your Life," his new comedy about a man who discovers the afterlife is a place named Judgment City, and you go on trial there. We had a good talk. As I was getting up to go, Brooks said, "Look at these funny coffee mugs the studio sent over."
David Bruce: Wise Up! Problem-Solving (athensnews.com)
Ed Brown, a priest and cook at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (and Hot Springs) in California, and Purple Gene have been friends for a long time. One of Purple Gene's favorite stories about Ed is about the early, rigorous days of monastic training at Tassajara when students were very hungry as they adjusted to the strict vegetarian diet. Sometimes, students would raid the kitchen at night, so Ed was appointed to stop them. He used to sit on top of the refrigerator, with his legs held in lotus position and his hands clutching two knives. When a student attempted to raid the kitchen, Ed would scare them. However, soon a better solution for the problem was found. Founding Abbot Suzuki Roshi advised, "Take the lock off your mind - put it on the door!"
In the book and film of the same name 'The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy,' ____?____ are said to be the most intelligent beings on earth and that they commissioned the building of earth and now own it.
A: Ants
B: Cockroaches
C: Ferrets
D: Mice
E: Squirrels
What product was advertised with the phrase "It's what's up front that counts"?
A: Cruex
B: Jacoby & Meyers
C: Playtex living bras
D: Serutan
E: Winston cigarettes
Source
vic in Alaska was first, and correct with:
Winston Cigabutts but the phrase was also was used by....... ewwwwwww !!!!!!"Tampax" in adverts in the 50's...GAG me with a ...nevermind
Yeah, know what you mean Sally, now the govment prolly knows mom won the money off of Bush's name and will tax her an inordinate amount cuz of it
mj was second, writing:
In an age when filters were sweeping the cigarette world, Winston was proud of what came in front of the filter. I'll go with E.
Alan J replied:
Winston Cigarettes
Bill K responded:
Winston......the one that "tastes good, like a cigarette should!"
Joe S ("Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive."
~ Loni Anderson
"I started smoking at age of eight, and I smoked for 46 years."
~ I said that
"Winston tastes good, like a cigarette (cough, cough) sh... sh... cough, cough, COUGH COUGH, COUGH, COUGH, gasp, wheeze, aaagggghh, gasp, cough, sh... gasp, sh, sh, sh...ould. Cough.
) nailed it with:
The answer is E: Winston cigarettes, the brand that hooked me.
PURPLE GENE answered:
THE ANSWER IS E. WINSTON.
THE OLD AD WENT....
"ITS WHATS UP FRONT THAT COUNTS....WINSTON TASTES GOOD LIKE A ....(CLAP CLAP) CIGARETTE SHOULD"
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER EDIE ADAMS????
DanD responded:
If Playtex bras really were alive, then I would choose "C" just for the
ironic poetry of it all. ANYWAY, I think that "E" takes the prize this
time.
Chipshot in Tyler, TX replied:
That was Winston cigarettes, claiming that it was the tobacco up front that made the difference, rather than the innovative new fancy-dancy filters that all the other brands were touting at the time... "the time" being before Congress in its infinite wisdom, took cigarette advertising off the air, thus preventing bazillions of teenagers from taking up the foul killer habit. As for myself, I still smoke, because I've heard second-hand smoke is more dangerous than smoking. I'm no fool!
Charlie answered:
E: Winston cigarettes
ducks replied:
Winston cigarettes.
Or politics.
Take your pick.
Sally said:
WINSTON tastes good, like a (clap clap) cigarette shouldl trivia reply
If I recall correctly, in an old TV commercial, A DOCTOR (an actor in a physician's coat) told us that, "It's what's up front that counts" when smoking "E" Winston cigarettes. Oh yea, all you youngsters, cigarettes were actually touted as "good for your throat (or mood)" back in the day.
Anyhoo, come to think of it, "C" would have been a better answer after the fact...
Marian the Teacher replied:
Of course I know this....my brand, Winston cigarettes
Robert C answered:
E. Winston Cigarettes
bebo responded:
it's got to be C: playtex living bras.
And, Mike in Des Moines said:
Although C: Playtex living bras seems to be more applicable with "It's what's up front that counts", I was watching TV before they made cigarette commercials illegal (January 1, 1971) and the correct answer is E: Winston cigarettes.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Big Brother 9', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Charlize Theron, Lewis Black, and British Sea Power.
On a RERUNCraig (from 1/28/08) are Denis Leary and Deana Carter.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a FRESH'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Bill Cosby, Novak Djokovic, and Gavin DeGraw.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Snoop Dogg and Carson 'The Scab' Daly. .
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Kerri Kenney and Hellogoodbye.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Supernanny', then a FRESH'Men In Trees'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Adam Carolla and Sheryl Crow.
The CW offers a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN'Pussycat Dolls Present'.
Faux has a FRESH'Moment Of Truth', followed by a FRESH'American Idol'.
MY has 'Whacked Out Videos', another 'Whacked Out Videos', and 'Secrets Of Street Magicians'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather, Part II', followed by the movie 'The Matrix', then the movie 'Species'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 2 Glass House;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 4 Singleton;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 8 Newark 7;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 10 Detling 24;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 3 Desperately Squeaking Susan;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 6 Gotcha;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 10 Smoke and Mirrors;
[9:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 1 Project Friendly Fire;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 10 Smoke and Mirrors;
[12:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 1 Project Friendly Fire;
[1:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 10 Smoke and Mirrors;
[2:00 AM] MI-5 - Ep 1 Project Friendly Fire;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 13 Formby;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 14 Putney;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 8 Newark 7;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 10 Detling 24;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 20 Hirst;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 21 Innes;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', still another 'Project Runway', and 'Top Chef'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', and the SERIES PREMIERE'Lewis Black's Root Of All Evil'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Ronald Kessler.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Howard Kurtz.
FX has the movie 'The Mask Of Zorro', followed by the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', then the movie 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'World's Sharpest', 'MonsterQuest', and 'UFO Hunters'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] My Brilliant Career;
[08:00 AM] My Left Foot;
[09:50 AM] IFC News Special;
[10:05 AM] The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat & Beers;
[11:45 AM] My Brilliant Career;
[01:30 PM] My Left Foot;
[03:15 PM] The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat & Beers;
[04:50 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[05:00 PM] My Brilliant Career;
[06:50 PM] Tadpole;
[08:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #205;
[09:00 PM] Boogie Nights;
[11:45 PM] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery;
[01:35 AM] Boogie Nights;
[04:15 AM] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery;
[05:45 AM] My Left Foot. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', still another 'Ghost Hunters', and 'Destination Truth'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Seamless;
[06:30 AM] I'm Not Rappaport;
[09:00 AM] Episode 1;
[10:00 AM] Chapter 5. A weak case;
[11:00 AM] Chapter 6. The prosecution's revenge;
[12:00 PM] Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon;
[01:30 PM] A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries;
[03:45 PM] I'm Not Rappaport;
[06:00 PM] Opal Dream;
[07:30 PM] The World;
[10:00 PM] A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries;
[12:10 AM] Renee Zellweger on Christiane Amanpour;
[01:00 AM] Episode 6;
[01:30 AM] Tell Them Who You Are;
[03:10 AM] Six Shooter;
[04:00 AM] Episode 4;
[05:00 AM] Radiant City. (ALL TIMES EST)
Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen poses with his award backstage after Cohen was inducted during the 23rd annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York March 10, 2008.
Photo by Brendan McDermid
Madonna spoke of being possessed by magic as she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Leonard Cohen, rocker John Mellencamp, British pop band The Dave Clark Five and instrumental group The Ventures.
While The Dave Clark Five and Mellencamp had been nominated before, this was the first year Madonna was eligible. Iggy & The Stooges performed rock versions of her pop hits "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light" after her induction.
Songwriting and producing team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, architects of the Philly Soul sound of the 1970s, were inducted in the non-performer category, while musician Ben Harper inducted the late Little Walter in the "sideman" category for his pioneering use of the microphone that helped establish the modern blues harmonica.
Box-office favourite George Clooney is stepping up the pressure on one of the main Olympic sponsors to take a stand over China's foreign policy, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
A longtime critic of China's role in the Darfur crisis in Sudan, Clooney advertises Omega Watches, one of the worldwide partners for Beijing 2008.
"I have talked with Omega (about China) for over a year and will continue to talk to Omega," the Hollywood superstar told BBC Sport.
Omega Watches is one of 12 "worldwide Olympic partners" for Beijing and has been the official timekeeper for every Olympics since 1932.
David Mamet accepts an Award of Excellence in Filmmaking at ShoWest, the annual convention for movie theater owners in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 11, 2008.
Photo by Isaac Brekken
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said Tuesday she has regained Czech nationality more than 30 years after fleeing communism in the country of her birth to live in the United States. The 51-year-old former world champion said she was maintaining dual nationality and keeping her US passport.
Born in Prague, Navratilova fled to the United States in 1975 at the height of the Cold War, angering communist authorities who stripped her of her nationality. She became a US citizen six years later.
But Navratilova said last year that while she was once ashamed about Czechoslovakia, she was now ashamed of the United States under resident George W. Bush.
"The thing is that we elected Bush. That is worse! Against that, nobody chose a communist government in Czechoslovakia," she told the Czech daily Lidove Noviny.
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has come out in support of Chinese actress Tang Wei, whose advertisements have been blacklisted in China following her steamy turn in Lee's "Lust, Caution."
China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) last week demanded local stations cease airing ads starring Tang, including her skin care commercials for cosmetics brand Pond's, local media reported.
Taiwanese-born Lee, who accepted cuts to "Lust" for it to be screened in China last year, had contacted Tang Wei to "console her," the Beijing News said, citing the director's assistant, Li Liangshan.
"She gave a great performance in this properly produced and distributed film. I will do everything I can to support her in this difficult time," Lee said.
Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood says writing for opera is not anything she would ever do as a living, but it is a thrilling excursion from time to time.
Atwood has written the first draft of the libretto for an opera based on the life of Canadian poet Pauline Johnson.
She discussed the process in Toronto, where she and composer Christos Hatzis joined a Vancouver press conference via satellite.
The story follows the dramatic life of Johnson, who was born on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ont., in 1861 and is known for her poem, "The Song My Paddle Sings."
This undated photo released by the Norman Rockwell Museum shows the 1948 Norman Rockwell painting 'The Lineman.' Verizon recently donated the $2 million painting to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. where it has been displayed on loan for two years.
Billy Crystal will get to "look mahvelous" in pinstripes. The actor will sign a one-day, minor league contract with the New York Yankees and play in Thursday's exhibition game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Crystal, an avid Yankees fan, will work out with the team on Wednesday and will wear uniform No. 60 for the game - to be played one day before his 60th birthday. The Yankees said Monday they have the approval of baseball commissioner Bud Selig.
"I've been waiting 50 years for this call," Crystal said in a statement released by the team. "I'm overwhelmed by the generosity of the Yankees and commissioner Selig. I know this'll be tougher than the Broadway Softball League, but I'm looking forward to helping the younger players, which by the way is all of them. Oops, I have to go, Scott Boras is on the phone."
At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts.
Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens' own sense of invulnerabilty. Because some sexually transmitted infections can cause infertility and cancer, U.S. health officials called for better screening, vaccination and prevention.
Only about half of the girls in the study acknowledged having sex. Some teens define sex as only intercourse, yet other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some diseases.
Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing - 40 percent had an STD.
A handout photo of the winning entry for the Bald Archy portrait prize, titled "The Official Portrait of the Danish Royal Family" by artist James Brennan, which was announced in Canberra on March 10, 2008. The portrait, which shows a breastfeeding Crown Princess Mary and the Crown Prince Frederik in his underwear with their two children, won the major prize in the satirical competition.
The Game is back in play. Los Angeles County sheriff's records show that the rapper was released from jail just before midnight on Sunday after serving just eight days of a 60 day sentence.
The 28-year-old entertainer - whose real name is Jayceon Taylor - turned himself in March 2nd at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
He was convicted last month of possession of a firearm in a school zone after being accused of pulling a gun on a player from an opposing team during a pickup game at a South Los Angeles school nearly a year ago.
Kid Rock caused another scene at a Waffle House - this time, for charity.
The entertainer came to sign autographs for hundreds of fans during a fundraiser at the suburban Atlanta eatery. The event came just a week after Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, pleaded not guilty to a charge of battery from a fight last fall at another Waffle House.
Waffle House spokeswoman Kelly Thrasher said the Atlanta-based company wanted to "take a negative situation and turn it into a positive situation."
Proceeds were to go to Nicholas House, a homeless shelter for families in DeKalb County, where the 37-year-old entertainer was arrested last October following a fight with a customer. Ritchie was scheduled to serve food to Waffle House customers Tuesday but changed plans when he realized he would only have time to sign autographs before his concert scheduled for later in the evening at nearby Gwinnett Arena.
Satellite photographs show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico, threatening the insects' habitat, a researcher said Monday.
The images show illegal loggers chopped 1,100 acres of trees since 2004 in the core of a wooded park in Michoacan state where clouds of orange- and black-winged butterflies nest each winter, said Lincoln Brower, a professor emeritus of biology at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, who has studied the monarchs for 52 years.
A Mexican presidential decree issued in November, 2000, forbids logging in the central zone of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a 124,000-acre area that spans Michoacan and Mexico states. However, regulation has been spotty.
An Aurora Borealis spins above the Talkeetna Range and a hay field on Farm Loop Road near Palmer, Alaska, on Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. The center of the circular corona, usually near Earth's north pole sometimes fluctuates further south and can be seen from a lower latitude as in this instance.
Photo by Bob Martinson
Liechtenstein's royal household said Tuesday it will suspend loans of art works from its collection to Germany, marking a new low in ties between the two countries embroiled in a tax scandal.
The royal family was due to lend some examples of "Biedermeier" art from mid-nineteenth century Vienna to an exhibition at a new art gallery in the German city of Munich from May to September, but this will now not go ahead.
"The prince's collection will refuse to lend paintings to Germany, as long as the respect of fundamental principles of the state of law by Germany, in relation to its relationship with Liechtenstein, continue to be questionable," said a statement from the prince's secretariat.
Liechtenstein has come under intense pressure in recent weeks after Germany began investigating 600 of its citizens whose names were allegedly on a client list of a Liechtenstein bank -- containing a total of 1,400 names -- that it then made available to other nations.
Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess champ who famously squared off against Bobby Fischer in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, visited his former rival's grave on Tuesday at a small cemetery near the capital.
Fischer, who died in January aged 64, bested Spassky in that headline-grabbing 1972 match to become the first, and still only, American world chess champion.
The Russian-born former champion, who now lives in Paris, was in Iceland with his wife for a chess event dedicated to Fischer's memory.
Hulu.com, a joint venture between News Corp (R-Rupert's Republican Propaganda Machine). and NBC Universal (R-Arms Manufacturer), plans to open its vast online library of ad-supported TV shows and movies to the public on Wednesday, the company announced.
Users of the service will be able to view more than 250 full-length episodes of shows such as "The Simpsons" and "The Office," as well as some 100 movies, including "The Big Lebowski" and "Ice Age."
Short clips from films and TV shows such as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Saturday Night Live" are also available through the service, which is accessible at Hulu.com, as well as on America Online, Yahoo and other popular Web portals.
Stormy seas hit coastal sea defences and a lighthouse at Seaford in Sussex in southern England March 10, 2008. A storm rushing in from the Atlantic lashed the south west on Monday as high winds and tides brought the risk of coastal flooding.
Photo by Toby Melville
A meteorite that struck Peru in September, digging out a deep hole and startling nearby residents, traveled faster and hit harder than would have been expected, researchers reported on Tuesday.
The object, which left a 49-foot-wide (15 meter) crater, was made of rock and, in theory, should have disintegrated in the atmosphere long before reaching the Earth's surface, said Peter Schultz, a professor of geological sciences at Brown University in Rhode Island.
And it may have. But the pieces stayed together and were speeding at 15,000 mph (24,000 kph) when they hit, Schultz told the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in League City, Texas.
Schultz said his team's observations suggest that scientists may need to change theories about the different ways objects can hit planets. "We have to go back to the drawing board and think again," he said.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for March 3-9. 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. (1) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 28.46 million viewers.
2. (2) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 28.32 million viewers.
3. (X) "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 26.5 million viewers.
4. (6) "The Moment of Truth," Fox, 14.72 million viewers.
5. (X) "20/20: The Royal Family," ABC, 14.14 million viewers.
6. (19) "New Amsterdam" (Tuesday), Fox, 13.5 million viewers.
7. (10) "Lost," ABC, 13.01 million viewers.
8. (14) "Survivor: Micronesia," CBS, 12.64 million viewers.
9. (19) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 12.41 million viewers.
10. (14) "Oprah's Big Give," ABC, 11.88 million viewers.
11. (14) "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.74 million viewers.
12. (14) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 10.82 million viewers.
13. (45) "The Price is Right Primetime," CBS, 10.3 million viewers.
14. (13) "NCIS," CBS, 10.25 million viewers.
15. (X) "New Amsterdam (Thursday)," Fox, 10.12 million viewers.
16. (21) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 9.96 million viewers.
17. (8) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.71 million viewers.
18. (26) "Law & Order," NBC, 9.63 million viewers.
19. (21) "Without a Trace," CBS, 9.57 million viewers.
20. (14) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 9.36 million viewers.
Having found a path through the snow, a fox squirrel nibbles on a piece of seed beneath a bird feeder in Moreland Hills, Ohio on Monday, March 10, 2008.
Photo by Amy Sancetta
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amused or entertained?
Do you have a great album no one's heard?
How about a favorite TV show, movie, book, play, cartoon, or legal amusement?
A popular artist that just plain pisses you off?
A box set the whole world should own?
Vile, filthy rumors about Republican musicians?
Just plain vile, filthy rumors?
This is your place.
