In efforts to make sure my (future) children never see or know what a compact disc is, MySpace has launched a new digital music service rivaling iTunes today.
According to an AP report, MySpace will give its estimated 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs.
The catch is that the music can only be played on personal computers connected to the Internet. Online users who want to transfer songs to portable devices have to buy the music through Amazon.com.
In West Virginia, a man was pulled over for DWI and told officers he had a bad case of gas. According to the police report, the guy farted by raising his leg into the air and fanned the gas onto the cop.
Awesome! I call that move a “Lift-N-Shift.” My little brother has been a victim of those on multiple occasions.
Yep, that’s right. A few Ivy League tech geeks start a social networking site out out of their dorm rooms in 2004 — and poof — in a few short years they are gazillionaires and will now have a movie made about them. (Now all they need to complete the superstar recipe is to have some sort of substance addiction, downfall and recovery.)
Former Scarsdale guy and Hollywood writer and producer Aaron Sorkin will be writing the movie about how the imperial power of virtual stalking was invented and has even started a Facebook page (how appropriate it) to announce it. The knee-slapper in all this is that Sorkin admits he didn’t even know what Facebook was — apparently his g-ma was more tech savvy — until he was approached to do da flick.
I wonder who will play dreamy but only because he’s super rich 24-year-old Mark Zuckerberg? Any ideas?
Strangely, this idea seems incredibly baller to me.
A Swedish inventor was trying to come up with a way to solar power charge his iPhone, but the lack of sunlight in his area made that difficult. So he created the iYo, a device that induces electricty by acting like a yo-yo. Check it out in action:
As a customer of Verizon Wireless, I have become very accustomed to the sms delivery confirmation feature on my mobile device. If I send you a text message, and you are a Verizon customer also, a little check mark appears next to the message that I sent you. God doesn’t kill a kitten, and I can sit in peace knowing that you received my text message.
Suddenly, my world has collapsed.
I sent a text message to a friend the other day. I obsessively checked my sent messages folder, as I usually do, only to find that no confirmation check mark appeared next to the message. I resent the message and again I saw no confirmation. When I received a reply to the original message, I was a little perplexed. I immediately consulted the Google to see what was going on.
That annoys me, and I intend on letting Verizon know. If you troll some of the popular cell phone message boards, like Howard Forums and DSL reports, my opinion is not of the minority.
You’re not the only one. With the credit crunch roiling the financial markets, it’s becoming harder and harder for students to secure loans for college.
As I’m sure people reading this blog are well aware, the federal funding available for students is well below what it actually costs to attend college.
So to help close that gap, students in recent years have increasingly turned to private lenders for additional money to pay for their education. Problem is, many of these private lenders are now backing out of the game.
Of the privae lenders still awarding loans, the credit requirements have tightened, and cosigners are all but necessary, experts say.
I’m currently working on a story about this issue, so if you are a student struggling to secure loans for college, pretty please (with a cherry on top!) give me a ring at 914-694-3528. I’d love to chat about your experience.
For young women who continue to dream of coming full circle with successful professional careers and love lives, the movie “Sex and The City” hits shelves today. The show, a pop culture classic that showed the beauty of fashion and city life, continues with the four friends as they mature from where the series ended in 2004. The DVD also features unseen clips. Even if you don’t take each step wearing Carrie’s $500 Manolo’s, remember:
“When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.”
Now that mortgage-backed securities and credit-default swap markets are words that have slipped into everyday lingo like “wardrobe malfunction” and “carbon footprint,” the question now becomes: what next?
Anyway, I gotta agree more with cynical Kurt Soller who points out that the nifty “trickle-down” effect that pro-capitalists say will make us all richer works the same way when things go bad.
In short, as the credit crunch gets worse and business growth screeches to a halt, you can expect to have to dole out more dollars for stuff.
Michael Moore released a new documentary today called Slacker Uprising about his failed attempt to get young voters to help swing the 2004 election in John Kerry’s favor.
Moore stopped at my college when he was filming and about 76 minutes into the film, you can see yours truly in the bottom right hand corner for less than a second. Don’t let the slicked back Sonic the Hedgehog haircut fool you. It’s me son, I’m famous!
This has now doubled my film credits. In Spiderman 3, you can see me towards the end of the film walking into a building as Green Goblin chases Spiderman through downtown (they shot that scene in Cleveland near where I went to school, and my friend and I hustled roles to be extras).
I was reading what my fellow minions colleagues Cathey O’Donnell and Dwight Worley wrote today about rent going up in the area. Check out these numbers they threw around :In Westchester, 41 percent of renters are in the “extreme” category because they spend 35 percent or more of their income on housing. In Rockland, 41 percent of renters are in the extreme category compared with 36 percent in Putnam.
I guess I’m not the only one feeling the pinch.
Here are the average monthly rent prices, courtesy of Da Census:
Putnam: $1,187
Rockland: $1,206
Westchester: $1,150
Let’s say you get an average annual salary raise of 3-5 percent. Well, rent seems to be going up at that rate too. So if you think about it, our salaries are simply staying flat year after year.
Written by 20-somethings for 20-somethings on dealing with the transitional decade that is filled with detours, delights and disappointments on the way to finding a so-called destiny.
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I sent a text message to a friend the other day. I obsessively checked my sent messages folder, as I usually do, only to find that no confirmation check mark appeared next to the message. I resent the message and again I saw no confirmation. When I received a reply to the original message, I was a little perplexed. I immediately consulted the Google to see what was going on. 
In Westchester, 41 percent of renters are in the “extreme” category because they spend 35 percent or more of their income on housing. In Rockland, 41 percent of renters are in the extreme category compared with
