Kanye West was crowned the “Hottest MC in the Game” Friday night by the MTV News hip-hop brain trust. The Grammy-winning rapper topped Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Snoop Dogg, who rounded out the top five.West landed at number five on last year’s list, which Weezy easily soared to the top of. The New Orleans rapper’s stock seemed to drop due to the time it’s taking for him to deliver his long-waited Tha Carter III album.’ Ye’s last 12 months have been nothing short of outstanding. The Chicago lyricist bested 50 Cent in their much-hyped SoundScan showdown, notched a number one album with his third LP, Graduation, and has sold out seats for weeks now on his “Glow In The Dark.” The Roc-A-Fella rapper also lost his mother, Donda West, to complications that arose from cosmetic surgery. He immortalized her in performances overseas and at last year’s Grammy performance.

To say that Kanye has been resilient is an understatement. 50 Cent landed at number six on the list, rising two spots from his eighth place standing previously. The G-Unit general rebounded with several solid mixtape efforts and the launch of his new business venture, ThisIs50.com. Lupe Fiasco, Young Jeezy, Andre 3000, and T.I. make the complete top-ten list. Ross, Snoop, and Lupe were the only new additions compared to the 2007 edition.

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"In my cooperation with the Chicago Police Department, I provided them with all the phone numbers I had provided the Obama Campaign as requested.  I was told by the CPD that once they had received the numbers from me, then the CPD would obtain a Grand Jury Subpoena to obtain the phone records directly from the cell Phone company.

Now that leads me to the question: Will the Chicago Police Department subpoena the records of Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the investigation of the murder of Donald Young?"

Read more about the Allegations regarding Obama's drug use, down low activity and possible knowledge of Donald Young's murder here:

http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/chicago-police-are-they-going-to-subpoena-obama-wrights-records/#comment-13022

Now, I couldn't name any songs she's done in the past five years (if she's done any), and I think she does covers for Redbook and magazines like that.

How far she's fallen, eh?

Now, she's getting a divorce from her husband. It'll be interesting to see what happens to her in the next year or two. Will she reinvent herself with her music career? Or will she continue to not be that noticable to the mainstream?

Hopefully it's the former.

XKCD Tribute.

* Kstar (Akarsh Simha, GSoC candidate of KDE Project, Kstars) is in city (I mean his hometown!) enjoying his vacation, so I decided to meet him on Friday. I wanted to do it on Saturday but some other plan was there which indeed never happen and that is another story itself. Anyway, we met near MG Road/Brigede Road junction and went to Pizza Hut. Nice disucssion of 2 hours, nice pizzas and finally mandatory click. We talked from Debian to FOSS culture in IITM (Note that IITM has 2 most active DDs from India!).

* So, my Saturday was totally wasted due to silly things. Dear Kushal was not there in town -- so, none was there to annoy from me. I thought I was able to wash my all dirty clothes in the morning but, it was power cut! I waited till 12PM to bathe (Indeed, you can't take bath without power as bathroom is too dark, and I fear cockroach too much).

Power went again around 6 PM and I went outside, wondered here and there, came back to home. Still no power. OMG, it came after 10.30 PM!

Yet another reason to hate this city, BLR.

Read full story @ Techteam

I also copied the words he called me... 

1. Explain how I'm a "N-O-O-B," and how you aren't. You don't use any proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, or capitalizations.
2. I'd say I'm important. I have a job moderating the forums (ie: deleting posts by noobs like you)
3. You won't be laughing when you're banned, you'll be crying.

P.S. I have more of a life than you will ever have. I have a family, friends, a girlfriend, and I don't waste my entire day on Roblox. Have a nice day. Get ready, you'll be punished for a personal attack soon enough. P.s I did not personaly attack him hes's being a little lier!!!  

Onsales Updates include additional shows for:

• Coldplay at least eight shows now on sale this weekend
• Toby Keith at least seven shows now on sale this weekend
• Def Leppard at least six shows now on sale this weekend
• Jerry Seinfeld in Phoenix
• My Morning Jacket
• Stevie Wonder at Hollywood Bowl
• Walking with Dinosaurs - the Live Experience at Madison Square Garden
• Widespread Panic
• Carlos Mencia
• The Mars Volta in Boston
• Extreme

Dans un communiqué officiel sur le site !

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- A chacune de ses apparitions, Promod fait l’unanimité. Cette version que bon nombre de personnes attendent avec grande impatience semble arriver à grands pas. Un nouveau communiqué vient de sortir sur le site officiel, tout d’abord concernant la communauté steam, suite à la création d’un groupe CSPromod, qui vient d’élargir la quantité maximale de membres à 10 000 étant donné les 2000 inscrits actuellement.

En second lieu on y trouve une nouvelle plus qu’importante, celle de la date de sortie de CSP. Il est écrit noir sur blanc que la première version CSPromod fera son apparition à la fin du mois, avec notamment un certains nombre d’entrevues et de communiqués de presse.

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Nous sommes en mesure d’annoncer officiellement la sortie de la première version CSPromod à la fin du mois, comme promis à l’aide d’entrevues et de communiqués de presse. Nous n’avons pas de date précise encore, mais nous pouvons définitivement dire que l’attente sera bientôt terminée.

- D'autre annonces officielles seront à la rencontre ^^ , dans les jours qui viennent :) !

Pointless?? Maybe. But its still sick. Spotted over at my future boss KanYe's blog.

BONUS MUSIC:

LISTEN/DOWLOAD: G-Unit - My Buddy (Prod. Eminem)

Si racconta che il potente Cra XI volle adornare il giardino della sua villa ad Hammamet con una fontana che gli ricordasse l'Italia, più precisamente Milano. Da Hammamet il potente Cra XI, avendo nostalgia del suo paese, guardava la tv italiana: amava seguire i programmi di un suo grande amico, ma vedeva, nel tempo libero anche un giorno in pretura, per tenersi aggiornato sulle vicende giudiziarie italiche.

Mi auguro che i suoi amici di sempre possano un giorno, speriamo a breve, seguire le orme del grande Cra XI. Inoltre mi permetto di consigliargli il souvenir da portare ad Hammamet o in qualsiasi parte del mondo emigrino: nel loro futuro grande giardino potrebbero portare parte dei rifiuti che stiamo conservando con cura a Napoli per le strade; nel caso l'immondizia fosse troppo, potrebbero costruirsi nelle vicinanze un TERMOVALORIZZATORE che aiuterebbe loro a vivere in maniera più sana.

So che molte di queste persone saranno a breve, mi pare mercoledì, in visita nella città partenopea, forse proprio per dividersi in parti uguali i souvenir.

Andrea Valentino

OSO star Deepika Padukone receives the 'Most Promising Debut (Female)' honour from veteran artist M F Hussain

Source : Zee Awards

TOKYO — Japan is running out of engineers.

After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields.

Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.” The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import foreign workers, or sending jobs to where the engineers are, in Vietnam and India.

VANCOUVER -- The provincial government is confirming big changes for the 60,000-seat B.C. Place domed stadium but refusing to put a price tag on upgrades that will include a new retractable roof after the 2010 Winter Olympics puts the stadium in the global spotlight.

Woot! Long weekend, everyone! ^^ Well for Canadians like myself it is (Monday is Victoria Day). :P I haven't had a PA Day is FOREVER. I need this long weekend. I have lots of homework, though. First I have the rough draft of my Geography ISU to complete (hehe I only have about two of the eight done).
And I also have to re-do my poetry assignment. -.- My English teacher says I can 'do better' so I'm just going with a whole new poem. This time I will do "Acquainted With The Night" by Robert Frost (at the end of blog). It's a really good poem, it might actually be my favourite, next to a haiku (also at the end of blog).

That's all for now, I have a busy weekend, so I'll try my best to keep with everyone. (:

Acquainted With The Night by Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

The Problem With Haiku by Michael S. Glaser

Of all the things I
Wish would be, the one that most
Occurs to me is

Metà della popolazione italiana è raggiunta dalla sua fibra ottica. Ventiseimila mila chilometri di Rete che rappresentano una struttura all'avanguardia a livello internazionale e una corsa all'innovazione che non accenna ad arrestarsi. Perché l'obiettivo di espansione dei vertici Fastweb consiste in due obiettivi strategici ed essenziali per poter mantenere una posizione d'eccellenza nei confronti degli altri operatori: diventare un operatore mobile virtuale ed espandere il proprio business verso un modello quadruple play. A questo proposito pubblico le parole di Mario Mella, CTO Officer di Fastweb tratte da il nuovo mercato.it:

"Abbiamo raccolto tutte le sfide tecnologiche del futuro''. Merito anche, spiega il manager, della forte politica di investimenti che il Gruppo di Tlc ha messo in campo nei primi 10 anni della sua storia: dalla fondazione a Milano nel 1999 Fastweb ha investito 3,6 miliardi di euro nella realizzazione di una rete in fibra ottica di nuova generazione che oggi supera i 26 mila chilometri e che garantisce la copertura al 50% della popolazione italiana. Oggi gli operatori di Tlc in tutto il mondo promettono di adottare le cosiddette Ngn - new generation network - le reti di nuova generazione in grado di garantire la convergenza tra voce, dati e video. In Fastweb questo e' una realta' dall'inizio del decennio grazie all'adozione del protocollo IP e allo sviluppo di una rete alternativa in fibra ottica che hanno reso possibile il lancio di servizi voce, dati/Internet e televisione (il cosiddetto triple play) fruibili contemporaneamente, con un solo collegamento, da tutte le tipologie di clienti, residenziali e business.

Inoltre, Fastweb e' stata la prima azienda al mondo a lanciare un servizio di iptv per i propri clienti. Oggi si stima che nel mondo ci siano oltre 13 milioni di abbonati iptv e che nei prossimi cinque anni cresceranno in maniera esponenziale''. Insomma, insiste Mella, ''grazie all'architettura e alla flessibilita' della propria rete, Fastweb raccoglie tutte le sfide tecnologiche del futuro. In particolare, stiamo implementando la convergenza tra telefonia fissa e mobile, grazie all'accordo con 3 Italia, che ci permettera' di diventare operatore mobile virtuale e quadruple player. Inoltre siamo molto attenti agli sviluppi della TV digitale''.

via il nuovo mercato.it

More Europeans do not want their leaders to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games than do, with the strongest opposition coming from France and Germany, according to an opinion poll carried out for the Financial Times.

The Financial Times/Harris poll shows that 54 per cent of French people and 55 per cent of Germans oppose their leaders going to the opening on August. 8. Support for attendance in both countries runs at a little less than 30 per cent.
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Opposition is strong in Italy, where 48 per cent oppose attendance and 32 per cent support it, and in Britain, where 43 per cent oppose and 25 per cent favour Gordon Brown’s presence. The view is more balanced in Spain, where 39 per cent oppose and 35 per cent favour José Luis Zapatero going. In Japan, 45 per cent oppose the attendance of Yasuo Fukuda, the prime minister, 10 percentage points more than favour it.

The opinions appear correlated with knowledge about recent protests against China’s rule over Tibet.

In France, 84 per cent of people said they had heard a lot about the protests, while 16 per cent had heard a little. In Germany, 51 per cent had heard a lot and 44 per cent a little. In China, 46 per cent of people had heard a lot about the protests and 50 per cent a little.

According to the poll, a majority of Europeans believes Tibet should not be under Chinese rule, ranging from 53 per cent in Britain to about three-quarters in Germany and Italy.

Sixty-nine per cent of Japanese thought Tibet should not be governed by China.

A majority of Europeans also believes that human rights should be a central feature of foreign policy. But support in Britain (53 per cent) is weaker than in other European countries polled. In France, Italy and Germany, 80 per cent or more of people support the notion and 77 per cent do in Spain.

Backing for that idea is also weaker in Japan, where 56 per cent see human rights as a central plank of foreign policy and in China, where 45 per cent take that view.

The poll was conducted online by Harris Interactive among more than 1,000 adults in each country. Harris does not estimate the poll’s margin of error, arguing that to do so would be misleading.