April 2010

The Right To Go Topless?

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Yesterday, Saturday, April 3, 2010, in America,  two dozen women bare breast rights activists marched down the streets of Portland, Maine for their Constitutional right to bare their breasts as men are allowed to go about with bare chests. These women drew a large crowd. Of supporters? Well, most in the crowd were young men who seemed very appreciative and fortunate to be eye-witnesses to the demonstration, and according to press accounts were "eagerly snapping away with cameras and cell phones." They took many, many pictures as reminders of this moment, when these few dozen ladies of Portland did their part for public equality, and for women to have an equal opportunity for public toplessness.

Everybody Was Pillow Fighting ...

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Yesterday, April 3rd, was International Pillow Fight Day. Press reports say that the day was observed in a hundred and fifty cities worldwide, part of the so-called urban playground movement. The day by all reports was a great success. Street pillow fighting  is better than kungfu street fighting. No one gets hurt, no riot or SWAT team cops are called, and it makes for fun looking video.

R.I.P. Kanyon

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The Internet is buzzing this afternoon with reaction to the announcement of  the death of  Professional Wrestler Chris Kanyon, formerly a  WWE and WCW wrestling star. Last night, Friday, April 3rd,  he was found dead in his apartment in Sunnyside Queens, New York. He was 40 years old. Reports are stating that the cause of death was a deliberate overdose of pills, and that a pill bottle and several notes were found beside his body, but details of his death have not been officially made available, at this time, the particulars are sketchy.

Erin Andrews Gets Death Threats

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What makes people do creepy things? TMZ reports that Erin Andrews, the  ESPN sportscaster and contestant on  "'Dancing with the Stars,"  is the target of death threats, which are being investigated by the FBI.  Last year, (2009), she was harassed by the stalker, Michael David Barrett, who  before he was arrested and plead guilty to stalking charges, and sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, .tried to sell to gossip sites a nude video of  Ms.Andrews that he videoed her through a peephole in several hotel rooms.

The death threats came in the form of emails. TMZ reports that the emails were sent from a man in Newport News, VA. -- all were direct threats against Ms. Andrews' life.  In one, the man wrote, "Somebody should shoot her in the face". In a second email  he wrote, "I'm one in a million. She'll never see me coming.."

The "Father" of the PC Passes

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Dr.Henry Edward Roberts, engineer, entrepreneur, farmer, physician, inventor of  the Altair 8800, the  first commercially successful personal computer, the man who is being remembered as the "father of the personal computer,"  died yesterday,  Thursday, April 1, 2010, in a hospital in Macon, Ga., after a long bout with pneumonia. He was 68.

"Roberts, whose build-it-yourself kit concentrated thousands of dollars' worth of computer capability in an affordable package, inspired Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen to come up with Microsoft in 1975 after they saw an article about the MITS Altair 8800 in Popular Electronics."  Bill Gates and Paul Allen contacted Dr. Roberts and asked to write the basic software for the machine.

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