Jim Hightower: THE NEW AL QAEDA THREAT (jimhightower.com)
Apparently, America no longer needs an extensive homeland security network to detect whether our people are under heightened risk of another al Qaeda terrorist attack. Rather than spending those billions of dollars, officials can henceforth merely listen to the tummy gurgles of Bush's homeland security chief, Michael Chertoff.
Dramatically Changing Climates (climatechoices.org)
Changes in average summer heat index, combining temperature and humidity, will strongly alter how summer feels in the Northeast. Click on a state or region in the menu to the right to track how summer climates "migrate" southward as the region warms over the century.
This is a warning (guardian.co.uk)
Andy Warhol famously flirted with celebrity, but his fascination with modern life contained a much darker edge. It is his obsession with violent death that teaches us the most about the spirit of our age, says Jonathan Jones.
'No one made films like him' (guardian.co.uk)
Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film-maker who died [Monday], transfixed and inspired generations of cinema-goers. Here, some of his greatest admirers explain why he mattered.
zEN mAN (observing a unique camera angle of oak red wine barrels at the Wildhurst Vineyards in Kelseyville...reminding me of the movie "Sideways" (2004))
This guy bought a burger and forgot it in his jacket for one year - and a
year later - nothing
happened to the burger. Upon further discovery he found out - it is filled
with an array of preservatives. Man - amazing story - check it out - and
share it with others, especially kids.
Thanks, KevKev!
Speaking of preservatives, a long time ago I did custom baking for Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw, authors of 'Life Extension'.
Everything I baked for them had copious amounts of preservatives added - specifically, BHT & ascorbyl palmitate.
I baked them a boysenberry pie in October and made a tart out of the leftovers - then let the tart sit, uncovered, on the kitchen counter.
A little over a year later, I finally threw out the tart. It got dusty, but it never got moldy.
Was reminded of it a couple of weeks ago - made macaroni salad, with a mayo-based dressing.
Emptied the Hellman's (Best Foods) Mayo jar, put the lid back on, and set it on the counter in the kitchen.
Things got a little hectic, so it sat there for a few days.
Not so many years ago, the smears of mayo remaining on the inside of the jar would have become a translucent yellow, and finally a gross brown, within a day.
This time, the smears remained white. Never got translucent, even after a week.
Probably doesn't mean anything, but I gotta wonder what's been added to keep it so white for so long.
After almost 30 years as the most prestigious publication in existence, the "Weekly World News" is shutting down - forever.
"The World's only reliable newspaper" will never grace the supermarket stands next to the double-bubble, snickers and condoms....again.
And the greatest Crossword puzzle anywhere! Gone
!
DOWN THE TABLOID TOILET!!!!!
Forget the "Globe," the "National Enquirer" and the "Examiner"....the bold, ballsy and ribald black and white toilet paper is finished.
I am really sad.
The famous country music duo the Bellamy Brothers read a headline in the WWN that said "Expert says that people who have sex frequently tend to have greater life expectancy" - they wrote the #1 song "Lovers Live Longer"!
BEST HEADLINES EVER!!!!!
Who could forget the headline..
"'57 Mercury found on Mars"?????
Or..
"Elvis is still Alive"!
Or
"Dick Cheney is a Robot"!
And of course it's all True !
CRY THE BELOVED SUPERMARKET RAG!!!!!
Purple Gene will cry an extra tear for a human tragedy of the hugest magnitude..My favorite "Shit Sheet" is being flushed. Forever and the world will never be the same.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Brother 8', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Al Franken, Jackie Chan, and Michael Buble.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Julie Delpy, Alfred Molina, and Emerson Drive.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN'My Name Is Earl', followed by a RERUN'30 Rock', then a RERUN'The Office', followed by a RERUN'Scrubs', followed by a RERUN'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Claire Danes, Bob Saget, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Anne Hathaway, Simon Pegg, andMavis Staples.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Marisa Miller and Marie Digby.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Ugly Betty', followed by a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', then a RERUN'Men In Trees'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Adam Brody, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Sean Kingston.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'Don't Forget The Lyrics', followed by a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Mod Squad'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Dallas SWAT'.
AMC offers the movie 'Marked For Death', followed by the movie 'The Chamber', then a FRESH'Mad Men', and another 'Mad Men'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Daily Cooks! - Episode 17;
[12:30 PM] Rick Stein's Food Heroes - Episode 8;
[1:00 PM] Great British Menu - Episode 3;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 7;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11;
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 4;
[4:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - TBA;
[5:00 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 13;
[5:30 PM] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 14;
[6:00 PM] My Family - Ep 3 Dentally Unstable;
[6:30 PM] My Family - Ep 4 Living the Dream;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News - BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2;
[8:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's;
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo;
[10:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 4 Inferno;
[10:40 PM] The World Stands Up - Episode 4;
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Morgan's;
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Rococo;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 4 Inferno;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 4;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 8;
[3:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 44;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Episode 18;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 3 Ardingly 18;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 4 Shepton 21;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 5 Gill Last;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 6 Finch;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News - BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', 'Hey Paula', followed by a FRESHHey Paula', 'Welcome To Parker', and a FRESH'Welcome To Parker'.
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 'Mind Of Mencia'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Matt Damon.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Michael J. Behe.
FX has the movie 'I, Robot', followed by the movie 'The Sum Of All Fears', and the movie 'The Sum Of All Fears', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH'Boneyard', and 'Ancient Discoveries'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] People I Know;
[08:00 AM] Primer;
[09:20 AM] The Dancer Upstairs;
[11:40 AM] Garage Days;
[01:30 PM] Primer;
[02:55 PM] The Dancer Upstairs;
[05:15 PM] Garage Days;
[07:05 PM] Primer;
[08:30 PM] Sleep with Me;
[10:00 PM] The Dreamers;
[12:00 AM] Indie Sex: Taboos;
[12:55 AM] The Business #201: Back In The Business;
[01:20 AM] Crash;
[03:00 AM] Indie Sex: Taboos;
[04:00 AM] The Dreamers. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', 'Who Wants To Be A Superhero?', another 'Who Wants To Be A Superhero?', and 'Mind Control With Derren Brown'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] The Four Seasons;
[07:00 AM] Zero Degrees of Separation;
[09:00 AM] Lucie Aubrac;
[11:00 AM] Bruce and Me;
[12:00 PM] El Cielito;
[02:00 PM] Dallas 362;
[03:00 PM] Admissions;
[05:00 PM] Sixteen Years of Alcohol;
[07:00 PM] Lucie Aubrac;
[09:00 PM] Episode 3;
[09:00 PM] Episode 1;
[10:00 PM] Craig David, James Morrison & Dave Matthews;
[11:00 PM] Episode 5;
[12:00 AM] Episode 3;
[12:00 AM] Go Further;
[01:00 AM] Episode 3;
[02:00 AM] Spider Forest;
[04:00 AM] Writer of O. (ALL TIMES EDT)
American actor George Clooney tosses special coins he won by the 'Ocean's 13' slot machine set on the stage as thousands of 'Ocean's 13' notes are showered over fans during the Japan Premiere of his latest film 'Ocean's Thirteen' in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. The paper money was specially issued for the film promotion and has no value.
Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi
Whoopi Goldberg, officially named Wednesday as the new moderator of "The View" as the show puts Rosie O'Donnell in its rearview mirror, said her new job is a "big ol' thrill for me."
Goldberg jogged down the aisle of the New York studio, slapping hands with the audience, when the announcement was made live on the air by show creator Barbara Walters.
"I love this show," said Goldberg, one of a select few performers to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy award. "I love coming on it. I love hanging out with you guys."
Goldberg, 51, gives "The View" a big name to fill the slot of moderator, who generally steers the discussion.
Thanks to the Web, the balcony will never close. Clips of movie reviews from the TV show that made the thumb the most prestigious of digits are being posted online.
More than 20 years of televised reviews by newspaper film critics Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel and columnist Richard Roeper will be available beginning Thursday at the Web site AtTheMoviesTV.com.
The site is touted as the largest collection of video-based movie reviews online. Searchable by movie title, director or actor, it features about 5,000 lively - sometimes very lively - discussions of movies that always end with the reviewers' "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" evaluation.
Current members of the Radio City Rockettes, Karilyn Ashley Surratt, left, and Lara Turek, right, participate in a ceremony honoring the high-kicking dance troupe with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, in University City, Mo. The Radio City Rockettes trace their roots to St. Louis where the Missouri Rockets were formed in 1925. Seven years later a performance by the group at Radio City's opening night led to a name change and permanent engagement at the music hall.
Photo by Jeff Roberson
Marilyn Monroe's prescription medication bottles, Tony Soprano's Chevy Suburban and Uncle Rico's van from "Napoleon Dynamite" are among the more than 1,000 Hollywood items and personal effects going on the auction block tomorrow and Friday.
Worldwide bidding in the Profiles in History auction will begin at noon both days, and bids can be placed in person at 26901 Agoura Road in Calabasas Hills or by mail, phone, fax or at www.ebayliveauctions.com.
The auction will also include eclectic items such as the Apollo space suit glove worn by Gene Cernan on the last NASA moonwalk and original concept artwork from "Lord of the Rings."
Screen-worn costumes will be a big part of the two-day event, including William Shatner's screen-worn costumes from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and Clark Gable's trousers from "Gone With The Wind."
Beijing's Olympic organizing committee said Wednesday it didn't know Hollywood director Steven Spielberg might be planning to resign as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Games.
Spielberg sent an open letter to President Hu Jintao in April urging China to take a harder line against Sudan over the Darfur crisis. Last week, ABC News and other U.S. media cited the director's spokesman Andy Spahn as saying Spielberg was considering dropping out of the Olympics because of China's inaction during the crisis.
At a news conference Wednesday, the director of cultural activities for the 2008 Beijing Olympics organizing committee was asked to confirm Spielberg's possible exit.
"I was not aware of that," Zhao Dongming said. "I had not heard of that."
The Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Phil Vassar and Nas will perform at a special concert for Virginia Tech at the university's Lane Stadium on Sept. 6.
Free tickets will be available to students, faculty and staff.
All four musical acts have waived their fees for the event. Corporate sponsorships and the sale of commemorative concert items will help cover expenses.
Tickets are not being made available to the general public at this time.
An artiste poses backstage during a "Lao Sai Tao" Teochew opera performance in Singapore August 1, 2007, as part of the upcoming Hungry Ghost festival.
Photo by Nicky Loh
Most of the works of literary master William Faulkner chronicle a troubled, tortured South. But an original handwritten manuscript donated to Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies shows his generous, funny side.
The university announced the acquisition to its collection of Faulkner letters, manuscripts and artifacts on Tuesday. The six-paragraph, one-page manuscript, titled "Sorority," is not a serious, literary work.
Faulkner wrote the manuscript in 1933 for a friend of his stepdaughter; both attended a Mississippi junior college. While on a visit to Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home in Oxford, Miss., the friend asked him to copy her sorority pledge in his handwriting.
The young woman, who couldn't decipher Faulkner's cryptic handwriting, never believed it was anything but the sorority pledge she asked him to copy.
He's almost 80 years old, but Popeye the sailor man is still strong to the finish.
Strong enough, it turns out, to carry into video stores a four-disc DVD set from Warner Home Video and King Features Syndicate, "Popeye the Sailor, 1933-1938, Vol. 1."
The result is 60 of the classic Max and Dave Fleischer black-and-white cartoons, plus bonus shorts and interviews with animators, voice actors and historians.
Later volumes will include the more recent color cartoons and other features, said Caruso, vice president of creative for King Features, as he prepared to leave for a DVD release party where spinach was on the menu.
Grammy Award-winning R&B singer R Kelly will go on trial September 17 on child pornography charges, five years after the accusations were first made, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Kelly, 40, whose real name is Robert Kelly, faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl. Prosecutors have said the girl could have been as young as 13, but defense attorneys have disputed her age and whether Kelly is on the tape. The underground videotape was widely circulated.
Kelly pleaded not guilty to the charges and in the interim has released hit songs, gone on tours, and released a DVD set of "hip-hopera" skits.
The picture shows artifacts found in a site of pre-hispanic ruins uncovered recently by archaeologists from the INAH (Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History) in Mexico city and believed to be part of the ancient city of Iztapalapa, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007.
Photo by Alexandre Meneghini
Spice Girl Melanie Brown filed a petition in Superior Court that seeks to legally establish Eddie Murphy as the father of her 4-month-old daughter, Angel Iris Murphy Brown.
Brown will also seek sole custody and reasonable child support, attorney Gloria Allred said at a press conference.
Allred said Murphy took a DNA test in June.
The test "established paternity but paternity has not been legally acknowledged," she said in a statement.
The Walt Disney Co. delivered higher third-quarter profits on strong performance from its TV networks and theme parks, and acquired the online virtual world Club Penguin, expanding its presence in Web entertainment, the company said Wednesday.
The Burbank-based media conglomerate reported net income for the three months ended June 30 of $1.178 billion, or 57 cents per share, compared to $1.125 billion, or 53 cents per share, in the same period last year.
The company saw double-digit growth in its theme parks, media networks and consumer products division in the quarter.
Despite the success of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," profits fell at Disney's film studio amid lower revenue from DVD sales.
Costa Rica's patron saint 'La Negrita' is seen at the Basilica of Los Angeles in Cartago, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. Thousands of Costa Ricans made the pilgrimage to pay their respects to Costa Rica's patron saint the 'Virgin of Los Angeles', who first appeared to a local girl in 1635.
Photo by Kent Gilbert
The Italian Culture Ministry and the J. Paul Getty Museum have reached an agreement for the return of 40 artifacts to Italy - including a prized statue of the goddess Aphrodite.
It was the latest victory in Italy's efforts to recover antiquities it says were looted from the country and sold to museums worldwide.
Italy and the Getty also agreed on widespread cultural cooperation, which will include loans of other treasures to the Los Angeles museum, the two sides said Wednesday in a joint statement.
The Getty has denied knowingly buying illegally obtained objects.
The publisher of Eminem's music has filed a federal lawsuit against computer giant Apple Inc. for selling downloads of his songs without permission.
Apple has an agreement with Universal Music Group, the record company that owns the recordings, but doesn't deal directly with publishers, who own the rights to scores and lyrics.
In the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, the rapper's music publisher, Eight Mile Style, and copyright manager Martin Affiliated seek more than $75,000 for copyright infringement, unfair competition and a violation of the Michigan consumer protection act.
The lawsuit also asks for damages of up to $150,000 per infringement - or each time a song is downloaded
In this handout photo provided by Greenpeace organization, activists set a giant inflatable toilet protesting against sewage discharge into the sea of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. The sign on the inflatable toilet reads in Spanish: 'Clean Beaches Now'.
Photo by Gustavo Graf
Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys - including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters - because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.
The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has heightened global concern about the safety of Chinese-made products.
The recall is the first for Fisher-Price Inc. and parent company Mattel Inc. involving lead paint. It is the largest for Mattel since 1998 when Fisher-Price had to yank about 10 million Power Wheels from toy stores.
The recall follows another high-profile move from toy maker RC2 Corp., which in June voluntarily recalled 1.5 million wooden railroad toys and set parts from its Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line. The company said that the surface paint on certain toys and parts made in China between January 2005 and April 2006 contain lead, affecting 26 components and 23 retailers.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 23-29. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 5.36 million homes, 7.28 million viewers.
2. "Saving Grace" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNT, 4.86 million homes, 6.42 million viewers.
3. Auto Racing: NASCAR Nextel Cup (Sunday, 2 p.m.), ESPN, 4.65 million homes, 6.57 million viewers.
4. Movie: "Spongebob The Movie" (Saturday, 11 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.68 million homes, 4.92 million viewers.
5. "Monk" (Friday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.64 million homes, 5.01 million viewers.
6. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.63 million homes, 4.95 million viewers.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 5 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.4 million homes, 4.93 million homes.
8. "Hannah Montana" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 3.36 million homes, 4.85 million viewers.
9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 11 a.m.), 3.35 million homes, 4.57 million viewers.
10. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), 3.33 million homes, 4.48 million viewers.
11. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.29 million homes, 4.8 million viewers.
12. "Cory in the House" (Sunday, 8:30 p.m.), Disney 3.27 million homes, 4.59 million viewers.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.26 million homes, 4.47 million viewers.
14. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 11:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.21 million homes, 4.2 million viewers.
15. Movie: "High School Musical" (Monday, 1 p.m.), Disney, 3.19 million homes, 4.36 million viewers.
A photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo shows Gordie, a female southern hairy-nosed wombat joey next to her mother, Kambora, at the zoo's Australia House on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. Goldie was born on Oc. 29, 2006, and is the first born in North America since 2000 and the first at Brookfield Zoo since 1993.
Photo by Jim Barnes
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