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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 22 May 2010
The next round of the Mac vs. PC cool commercial escalating arms race (I know Microsoft is not actually escalating, but I’m going somewhere with this, work with me) may be settled by a Linux box that will locate and play some better TV for you to enjoy.
Revenge of the nerds? For years Linux advocates had sand kicked in their faces by mainstream IT “experts”. “Linux is too nerdy” would run the familiar debate-ending tag line; “Nobody wants to trust their IT to a bunch of bearded, sandal wearing freaks…” And my own recurring favorite,” A lot of important connections were made at the show, while the Linux contingent sat in the corner shooting down aliens on their homemade computers…”
The condescending laughter ended when Google took Linux to the end of the telecommunications chessboard, and promoted that pawn to a queen: Android, Google’s open handset operating system guise of Linux, now runs a continuously increasing market share of smartphones from an increasing spectrum of manufacturers and carriers.
This week, the brash young monarch displayed some fresh powers, by crossing the board again, this time in just one move.
“Here we are folks — the multimillion-channel TV,” said Google project director Rishi Chandra during a two-hour keynote on Google’s Android operating system at the company’s annual I/O conference in San Francisco, California.
The platform will be available at Best Buy in the fall, US-only launch at first. TV watchers can search for content on TV much as we do on the web. And web content is fair game for the this TV offering, as well as DVR. Oh, and of course, TV. The device will be manufactured by Logitech with an Intel 1.2GHz Atom processor, 4GB memory, 802.11n Wi-Fi, dual HDMI-out ports, Dolby 5.1 surround sound and dual USB ports. Since we are in the world of open-source now, you will be able to hook up a webcam for 720p video chat.
With Android apps on your TV you can see a Twitter stream about a TV show scroll by, for example, while watching the show. You can organize your TV content like on Picasa, and for that matter, view your content on Picasa. And who knows what else! Is it possible to improve TV with apps? Philosophers have struggled with this question for ages, we are the first generation to find out.
But Google wins too, and big. “There’s still not a better medium to reach a wider and broader audience than television,” Chandra said.
Worldwide, 4 billion consumers continue to find refuge from the turmoil of information technology by basking in that soothing glow of perfectly connected yet perfectly solitary illumination…
“Videos should be consumed on the biggest, best, brightest screen in your house,” Chandra said. “That’s your TV.”
And it’s not just the biggest home entertainment market. It’s one that is fully and maturely monetized. And stable. Despite all the drama of web video, the spectacular success of YouTube, the Pyrrhic victory of a huge viewer market that no one knows how to monetize, the standards wars that make some phones Flash friendly and others — ahem — less so.., the old standby is still seated across from your sofa, tranquil as a stone Buddha waterfall, a bowl of potato chips in the demilitarized zone; your little living room Switzerland where the rest of the world is denied citizenship under any circumstances, and no matter how violent the programming, peace always reigns in the phosphorescent oasis…
Hi I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC, and though eye to eye we’ll seldom see,
on this for once we both agree: Nothing is cooler than to watch TV!
Medium Tv Show
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 21 May 2010
The reality TV star’s Web site reports that Michaels had what doctors call a “warning stroke” and had a patent foramen ovale, or hole in the heart, diagnosed. Michaels’s publicist, Joann Mignano, confirmed the report.
The condition is treatable but likely unrelated to the brain hemorrhage he suffered last month.
The Web site says Michaels is “up, walking, talking, continuing his daily rehab and very happy to be alive,” and he hopes to make a full recovery.
The Poison frontman was expected to appear at Sunday’s finale of “Celebrity Apprentice” in New York
Bret Michaels Back In Hospital
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 21 May 2010
Nicki Minaj sex tape video is being shopped around. The video was supposedly recorded several years ago before Minaj became the public figure she is now, and it shows a younger version of the rapper.
The video has been seen by the Mediatakeout.com website, which posted details, stating that they had seen it, and saying it was explicit, graphic, and full of all sorts of freaky stuff. According to blog.zap2it.com, the video is reportedly on sale for $100,000.
Minaj began her career as a backup singer in 2004, until she was discovered on MySpace by Dirty Money CEO Fendi, who signed her to that label. She was later contacted by Lil Wayne after appearing on “The Carter Edition” of Young Money’s The Come Up DVD series. In April 2007, she released her first mixtape, Playtime Is Over, posing as a Barbie doll on the cover.
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Nicki Minaj Sextape Video
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 20 May 2010
“American Idol” sent Casey James back to Cool, Texas after the Top 3 results show. Actually, he probably has to stick around Los Angeles since the finale is next week, but it’s more fun to pretend like he’s amblin’ back to the Lonestar state.
The Top 3 results show was a whole lotta chitter-chatter. First we found out how the Idols feel, then we found out how the judges feel. Then we watched the hometown visits. Then a couple teenyboppers bopped around the stage.
But finally the results were upon us and, in no surprise, Casey James was sent home. He’s a talented contestant to be sure, but the Crystal-Lee finale has been coming for weeks now. We would’ve been more surprised if Casey had stayed.
So who you think wins it all next week, gang? Crystal or Lee? We can tell you that Crystal won the pre-taped coin toss — did she choose to go first or second?
Cool Texas
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 20 May 2010
Or perhaps it is “American Idol” that believes in Travis Garland, because they welcomed the 20-year-old singer on a high-profile results show to perform his new hit “Believe.”
Garland was originally part of the boyband NLT (Not Like Them), which also featured “Glee’s” Kevin McHale (Artie). Garland struck out on his own and has used an endorsement from blogger Perez Hilton to really make it big.
What did you think of Garland on “American Idol”? Are you going to buy his single “Believe,” which was penned by Jessica Simpson, interestingly enough. Garland’s album is set to debut later this year, but getting to perform on the penultimate “American Idol” results show is a pretty good jumping-off point
Travis Garland
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 19 May 2010
The judges didn’t back the soulful 27-year-old musician from Fort Worth, Texas, on the Fox singing contest Tuesday, the final showdown before next week’s season finale. His mellow renditions of Eric Hutchinson’s “OK, It’s Alright With Me” and John Mayer’s “Daughters,” which was selected by Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson, drew little praise from the panel.
“If you were having dinner, that’s the salad,” Simon Cowell said of his “Alright” song choice.
Instead, the judges were wowed by Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze, the other two remaining finalists. Bowersox, the 24-year-old musician from Toledo, Ohio, beguiled with her selection, Melissa Etheridge’s “Come To My Window,” as well as Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed,” a tune hand-picked by Ellen DeGeneres that inspired Bowersox to strut across the stage.
“You may be thanking Ellen for putting you in the final,” declared Cowell.
Lee DeWyze delighted with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man” and the Cowell choice of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” which concluded with the reserved 24-year-old paint sales clerk from Mount Prospect, Ill., surrounded by backup singers. After the soaring performance, Jackson deemed it “unbelievable” and DioGuardi called DeWyze “the heart of the show this season.”
Lee Dewyze Hallelujah
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 19 May 2010
The Dancing With the Stars results for May 18th decided the top three. These Dancing With the Stars results for May 18th were not that pleasant for Chad Ochocinco and his partner Cheryl Burke though. After a tough week where they had to perform two dances on the show, Chad Ochocinco found himself as the latest celebrity that was voted off the show. They had made it into the final four, but during a week where all of the couples were performing to the best of their abilities, there was just no longer any room at the top for Chad and Cheryl.
Each of the couples performed two dances this past week, with Chad and Cheryl performing a Waltz and a Samba. They compiled a total score of 52 out of 60 for the week, which normally would be a very good score. This week however, the other three couples did a lot better according to the judges.
Nicole Scherzinger and Derek Hough scored 59 out of 60, Evan Lysacek and Anna Trebunskaya also netted 59 out of 60, and Erin Andrews and Maksim Chmerkovskiy put together a score of 56 out of 60. During one of the most competitive weeks on the show, it was the end of the road for Chad Ochocinco.
This has been a great work-out for the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, and he can now head back to the football field in great shape for the mini-camps this summer. For the 10th season of Dancing With the Stars, Chad Ochocinco and Cheryl Burke finished in fourth place
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 11 May 2010
Do you remember how only three weeks ago David Cameron was inviting us all to join his government? Odd, isn’t it, how quickly that invitation has been withdrawn? Did a political prospectus ever melt at such incredible speed? Those of us who were never taken in by the phoney evangelism of the big society and the great ignored – “Hey, let’s get volunteers to rise up and replace the state! Hey, let’s get philanthropists to do the work of tax!” – have enjoyed a resounding vindication.
The first ray of sunlight through the curtains, and the little blue book is dust! If Conservatives really did believe, like Elmer Gantry, in a new and welcoming spirit of openness, generosity and national unity, would they have chosen as their television spokespeople for the morning of their faltering ascension those twin vipers of hysterical partisanship, Theresa May and Michael Gove?
It had been, you may say, a satisfyingly bad night for all three political parties, and one, I suspect, which may yet not turn out badly for the rest of us. Not all candidates will, like Joanne Cash in Westminster North, have been dragged from office, shrilly complaining of personal attacks and “lies” in the media that brought them down; nevertheless most politicians will have got the public’s basic message: not so much “a plague on all your houses” as “a warning to all your houses”.
Only the most loyal Labour apparatchiks can doubt that the Shirtsleeved One will eventually get to upgrade his aspirational lifestyle by making the drive from Notting Hill to Downing Street. But once there, he will unpack his 10m votes in the knowledge that, before he has even begun to rule, he already inspires feelings of dislike and distrust in the majority of the electorate who did not choose him.
For myself, I can recall little in a lifetime of tuning in to public discourse which has sounded uglier than the relish with which he and George Osborne have both spoken of public service cuts. To most of us, cuts are the terrifying means by which real people will lose their livelihoods. To the Conservative bigwigs, they are the purgative medicine which it would be morally good for the rest of us to take.
The familiar Tory habit of treating the electorate at large as bad people who implicitly need to be corrected has been rewarded with an outcome of no overall majority. Better still, Cameron’s wheeze to gerrymander a Conservative bias in the House of Commons to add further backward momentum to the drag of the monarchy and an unelected House of Lords, will, with a bit of luck, soon be dead in committee waters.
The challenge for a new government will be to find an answer to the question: how can an economic crisis precipitated by the iniquity of bankers be managed in such a way as to cause least harm to its entirely innocent victims? How can a measure of social justice be guaranteed at a time of fear and impoverishment? But for Labour in opposition, the likely short period before the next election will offer a chance to do some welcome thinking.
After a creaking campaign run with inappropriate insouciance by old men – Lord Mandelson appeared to think that because he himself had been so bewilderingly in and out of power, it wouldn’t matter too much if Labour was as well – nothing could be more enlivening than the long-awaited break with the past. In Birmingham Edgbaston, Gisela Stuart, against the swings of the night, pulled off a remarkable victory by standing on the distinctively modern platform of: “My values are Labour but I think for myself.”
This has been, as the mayor of London observed, “a peculiar election in peculiar times”. The underlying story is of how Labour lost almost a third of its support in 13 years.
It is of a Liberal Democrat duststorm which blew away as fast as it blew up. And it is of a Conservative party whose failure to rein in its own tribal instincts left it fumbling the victory it had been handed on a plate.
By the time Michael Howard, of all people, appeared daring to say that “it would be nice if Gordon Brown for once showed a little bit of grace” and Cameron himself had sermonised tendentiously about “Labour’s poisonous legacy”, we had dismaying proof that British politics was unlikely to change overnight.
This is my last column. To those of you who have stayed with me, many thanks.
I can’t do better than finish these fascinating weeks with the words of Lyndon B Johnson when he inherited the war in Vietnam: “If you think there have been problems so far, I can only suggest you hold on for the next round.”
Elmer Gantry
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 10 May 2010
The Boondocks is a Peabody Award-winning, American animated series created by Aaron McGruder for the programming block of Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoon Network, based upon McGruder’s comic strip of the same name. The Boondocks is a social satire of American culture and race relations (or stereotypes in the world), revolving around the lives of the Freeman family: ten-year-old Huey, his younger brother, eight-year-old Riley, and their grandfather, Robert. The series is produced by Rebel Base and has finished airing its second season on. Season three is currently running, with all animation pre-production and production work being produced at JM Animation in Seoul, Korea.
The Boondocks takes place in the same place and time frame as its comic counterpart. The Freeman family, having recently moved from the South Side of Chicago, Illinois to the peaceful, fictional suburb of Woodcrest, Illinois (compared to Crestwood) find different ways to cope with this acute change in setting as well as the drastically different suburban cultures and lifestyles to which they are exposed. The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, and races provides for much of the comedy in this series.
The satire premiered on November 6, 2005. The 15-episode first season ended on March 19, 2006. The second season premiered on October 8, 2007 and was, according to McGruder’s MySpace page, pared to 13 episodes; however, 15 episodes were created. Series creator Aaron McGruder states that a third season is currently under production due to air May 2, 2010.
Boondocks Season 3 Episode 2
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Written by Sami Khan Meo on 10 May 2010
Near the end of Mother’s Day, it was announced that Elena Kagan, currently the Solicitor General of The United States under President Barack Obama, and Professor of Harvard Law School (on leave), and Dean of same is now Obama’s pick to be Supreme Couty justice, replacing the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
Elena Kagan, who would be the third woman on the Supreme Court of The United States if confirmed, and the fourth in history, is also only the second solicitor general to be named to such post after the legendary Justice Thurgood Marshall. Kagan, is a safe pick and yet daring at the same time because Kagan has no bench experience yet is widely regarded as a brilliant legal mind who has argued cases before the Supreme Court.
Kagan is a choice right for this time in Obama’s Presidency: in the middle of a hot mid-term election season made all the hotter by economic, ethnic and racial tensions, Obama could not afford another controversy to deal with. Kagan gives her opponents little to attack that would not make them sound sexist or homophobic in the process. Have doubts, let’s look at the attacks that have already been issued as evidence.
Elena Kagan
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