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Yahoo Messenger allows you to see when friends are online and you can send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals account, or when you have an upcoming meeting recorded in Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger offers firewall support; a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet connection is made; the ability to save and print your conversations; and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks, news, and sports scores. Other features include the ability to create a chat room automatically, stock price alerts, the ability to send messages to friends even if they're not online when you are, a Quick Compact mode that hides the Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and the Online Presence, a small HTML button you can put on your Web site to allow your Yahoo buddies to instantly see if you are currently online, and voice chat, which allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet.
Boffins blast ill-informed stars
But before holding forth on their favourite remedy, celebrities should get their facts straight, experts say. The two Hollywood actresses, along with fashion designer Stella McCartney, are singled out by a charity founded to increase the public's understanding of scientific issues. Sense About Science warned: "A small group of people in the public eye promote pseudo-science without embarrassment and cannot be dissuaded from it." Kidman, Paltrow and Mini-Macca are not the only ones to raise ire. Pink has been blasted over her meddling in mulesing and a host of other stars have caused controversy by backing animal rights group PETA. Alice Tuff, who helped compile the list of celebrity pseudo-science, said: "Celebrity lifestyles and comments have a lot of social weight.
Dan DeLuca's 2007 Mix CD
Full-length CDs still have their place, but the iPod revolution has seen to it that the song reigns supreme. Here's a mix of 21 of the year's best that can fit on one disc. 1. "1 2 3 4," Feist. Canadian coffeehouse queen counts off the simple pleasures on her iPod ad and excellent The Reminder. 2. "Annabelle," Hail Social. Irresistibly airy synth-pop longing from Philadelphia band's Modern Love & Death CD. 3. "The Coolest Kid In School," The Teeth. Kinks-y catchiness from these gleaming incisors, whose You're My Lover Now is the local indie-pop album of the year. 4. "A-Punk," Vampire Weekend. Bloggers went bananas over these Afro-pop-flavored Ivy Leaguers, whose debut is due in January. 5. "Girlfriend," Avril Lavigne. Let the courts decide if this is a bald rip-off of the Rubinoos' "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"; enjoy the meanness in the meantime.
ABC's Obamacan: 'Lashing Out' Hillary 'Brazenly' Attacks Barack
This is too perfect! Barely an hour after Pat Buchanan proclaimed on NBC that the MSM is full of "out-of-the-closet Obamacans," ABC's David Wright provided a perfect illustration of the genre. In fact, I'm nominating the GMA segment Wright narrated this morning as the single most slanted episode of the MSM primary season. The screen graphic "On the Attack," set the theme: Hillary is unfairly attacking Obama, and to the extent Barack's gone negative, it's only to rebut Clinton's unfair criticism. Oh, and Hillary's demographic is crumbling. And by the way, Bill's dissing Obama supporters. View video here. .
US school killings not on the rise: report
The study found that from 1992 to 2006, student homicides at US schools dropped from a rate of 0.07 per 100,000 students to 0.03 per 100,000. From July 1999 to June 2006, 116 students died in school-associated homicides. Only eight of the 109 incidents resulted in more than one death. William Modzeleski of the US Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, which took part in the study, said he is encouraged. "You have this constant drumbeat of news about these events," he said. "The perception is they're always occurring. The reality is they're not always occurring. They're damaging when they do occur. And even one school shooting is one too many." In tracking school deaths, the researchers searched media databases and confirmed the facts of each event with law enforcement authorities and schools, the CDC said.
Museum displays military exhibit
A special military exhibit, composed of a collection of weapons, uniforms and commemorative items dating from the 1880s, is on loan to the Sparks Heritage Museum. Veterans are invited to visit the museum free of charge for the month of February and March. Also, any military personnel who arrive in uniform also will receive complimentary admission. This exhibit is part of the museum's continuing tribute to locals serving on active duty. If your local loved one is serving on active duty anywhere in the world, bring in a 5-inch-by- 7-inch or smaller photograph, and he or she will be included in the unique exhibit. "Many of our members are veterans and collectors of military memorabilia," said museum manager Anthea Humphreys.
Kylie's Dr Who tops BBC downloads
THE Christmas special episode of Doctor Who, which guest-starred Kylie Minogue, was the most viewed program on the BBC's iPlayer website in the first two weeks after its official launch, the broadcaster says. The iPlayer is the BBC's catch-up service which allows viewers to download or stream BBC programs online, for free, up to seven days after they have been broadcast. The BBC said more than 3.5 million programs had been streamed or downloaded in the fortnight after the iPlayer's Christmas Day launch, with more than 1 million people visiting the website. Director of BBC Future Media and Technology Ashley Highfield said the viewing figures were wonderful start for the iPlayer. "Typically, people who use the BBC iPlayer are spending nearly half an hour a day watching streams of their favourite programs, suggesting that it looks set to revolutionise the way BBC Television programs are viewed in the UK." With more and more viewers turning to the internet, the BBC and other broadcasters are under pressure to put their content online.
Courtship Rituals of Cornellians: An Ethnography
There was, I imagine, a moment in history when courtship rituals among the young men and women far above Cayuga's waters were fairly homogenous. That moment having been summarily executed in a parking lot, our current dating repertoires are sorely in need of documentation. It was the practice of pre-1990s anthropologists to write ethnographies that trampled all hopes of agency and otherized with grace rarely seen in today's literature. It is my intent to follow in that tradition with this column. Hipsters — Although sometimes thought to be a twenty-first century construct, the Hipster genealogy is long, with Bob Dylan throwing the term around the East Village in 1959 and Billy Corgan beseeching Hipsters to unite in 1993's “Cherub Rock." Any such illustrious lineage must carry entrenched norms of courtship and reproduction.
Dear Abby: Man plans to make proposal a family affair
DEAR ABBY: I have waited 36 years to marry. Most would say I was the quintessential bachelor. When I was younger, I never thought I'd date anyone with a child. I didn't want to deal with the "baggage" I thought came with dating a single mother. Needless to say, I have been dating a delightful woman who has a 4-year-old son with whom I get along great. We've dated for a year and a half, I love her, and it's time I propose. The three of us are a little team, and I'm wondering, when I ask her to marry me, should I involve her son and buy something for him - and if so, what? I was thinking of a custom-made charm for a chain (remember, he's only 4). I would like it to be something he can keep with him the rest of his life. Your advice would be greatly appreciated. - Bachelor in Dover, N.H.
Internet Pushes Polyamory to Its 'Tipping Point'
The internet is famous for hooking people up for everything from blind dates to political activism. For people into polyamory -- a way of life in which participants engage in multiple intimate relationships simultaneously, with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved -- the internet provided a handy label for their lifestyle and a launch pad for injecting the concept into mainstream consciousness. "Around 1990, we found this nifty name to call ourselves, instead of 'responsible, consensual nonmonogamy,'" says Dr. Kenneth Haslam, a retired anesthesiologist and curator of the Kenneth R. Haslam Collection on Polyamory at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. "About that same time, the internet came along -- and it was at exactly the right time.
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No disrespect to J-Hood, but he is on here in disproportion to his name in the game. You can say what you want about 50 Cent and the Lil Wayne rumors but the are all over the place for good reason. Nevertheless, I heard a rumor that Hood was robbed and made to strip his gear all the way down to his boxers this weekend in Yonkers. Now, here is where it gets weird. I heard “they" put the whole ordeal on tape. I'm hearing they are threatening to put it on the net to embarrass the young homey. No word on who did this, but there are a few guys I think have motive.
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A tuxed out Snoop Dogg was on the red carpet for the Critic's Choice Awards with this wife yesterday. Usually, there is at least an h-word or a leash nearby.
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