Daniel Pádua [pt] (also known as @dpadua on Twitter) had been recently diagnosed with cancer and lost the battle this week, in Brasília. Always present in open source software and free culture events in Brazil, he was a strong reference for many bloggers in [...] 
Tuition [...]
Had nothing to do Friday night (for a change) so I turned on the TV and found a 1964 movie: One Potato, Two Potato... it's a black-and-white drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver, Faith Burwell and Bernie Hamilton... and [...] 
A recently released music video for "Popular Demand" by the Clipse featured the awning of the infamous Obama Fried Chicken joint in Brownsville, Brooklyn. But in comparing versions of the video airing on MTV and [...] 
Rihanna called into the Bert Show in Atlanta and discussed her ex, Chris Brown. Miss Info has the DL
Imagine the horror this poor little girl must have felt... the things that might have rushed through her mind as she realized she was dying at the hands of a young looney. I can imagine. When I was around 11 I [...] 
Poetic & Photogenic::: Bai Ling!
A great band, criminally overlooked... Wish someone would upload the ORIGINAL music video!!! Pearl Harbor and the Explosions...
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Beyonce and Lady Gaga leak a clip from their forthcoming music video for Beyonce's song Video Phone. The deal, announced on the Twitter blog by Thau, allows Orange UK Twitter users to send picture messages to a number (86444) to be posted to their tweet streams. The reason this works is because Orange UK runs a [...]
My favorite is #3 on NYMag's Brooklyn Top 40
My buddy, who is always careful about where he goes online and what he downloads, just had to wipe his harddrive clean and reload Windows. The other night he went to download a movie (legally!) and of course when he tried to watch it Windows Media [...] 
Above Left, Wendy Cheng (Xiaxue). Right, Monica Tang.
Rainy day! This is the view from the front booth in Spinner's, where I had lunch today.
Will Joe Bruno rise again?
The General Lee::: Spotted in Brooklyn...----------
This message is from [...]
Dear Dave,
I'm continuing to devote all my energy to determine the facts surrounding the tragic accident at Sedona. I've instructed my representatives to meet with the authorities in Arizona and to share with those authorities the facts they learn. That process is ongoing.
In the meantime, I want to let [...]
As many of their supporters feared, and on the same day as a round table on the case against two detained video blogging youth activists, a court in Baku, Azerbaijan, earlier passed sentence on Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The verdict and first reaction spread on [...] 
PETA pisses me off. It's wrong to exploit animals but it's OK to exploit women?
A far cry from the innocent days of Rowlf...
Sex Tapes from J. Lo's first marriage won't be in a movie... For Now
Mouseover and click on his calling card (at left), then check out Nidal Hasan Did the Right Thing ::: radical Muslim blogger Anwar Awlaki calls the Fort Hood shooter “hero” and “man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a [...] 
My two trusty tools: the VM Kyocera Wild Card and the Fly Ying F003. I added this photo in a re-post of my "World In Pocket" article on posterous, all about how mobile telephony is changing the way we exchange information. But [...] 
Something happened to James Arthur Ray on his way to spiritual enlightenment: he bumped into the dollar. Not that there's anything wrong with making a buck. JAR went a little buck-a-rooney, it seems. "James Ray pretty much abandoned all of us. He left us there'" [...] 
Yoaní Sánchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor) and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo. Bloggers express their views [...] 
Patience. Death has more than enough. Thursdays papers carried two articles: one about NYS Trooper David Lane. The 30-year old stationed at the Catskill barracks was driving northbound on 32 Wednesday afternoon when his cruiser bumped a vehicle he was trying to pass, sending the police [...] 
Raucous crowd Weds PM at the Elks Lodge in albany bemoaning the pending closure of the underused Pine Hills Post Office. Jeepers, if you wanna save it so badly, GO there - BUY stamps - BUY money orders instead of using checks - SEND packages outta [...] 
"We didn’t know the sad side of her. She was vibrant. She had a lot of friends…"
Killer::: Photo of Nidal Malik Hasan! 
The world's largest maker of microprocessors finds itself in the crosshairs of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo...
Barack Obama's brother in China is out with a book: In the past, Mark Ndesandjo dodged journalists. Now, he tells the world "My father beat me. He beat my mother." Here's press-conference VIDEO from Kenyan TV.
Victory in Albany County for Jerry Jennings & Paula Mahan!
Rihanna speaks to Glamour: “I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears…” (H/T Miss Info)
It's an interesting (and a great) time to be alive, as far as the ability for one to communicate goes... these days that's pretty far! The meshing of internet with mobile phone technology diminishes the space between us all quite impressively. 
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2009!
Alicia Keys “Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart”
The wisest owl hears all before he flies... 
People have been asking what happened to my old Capital Region People blog (AKA Dave Lucas' Archives).
I just found out that a certain blogger whose website you've probably visited at one time or another isn't real! The blog is actually written by a collective which employed the services of a local model who acted as the base for the composite photograph which [...] 
Albany is getting more and more like Manhattan (at least along Central and Washington Avenues, from about the Boulevard to the Capitol) - just about everybody on the street is talking to somebody else, through a cellphone!
1 down, 8 to go... Dog lovers click here. Bug lovers go here (I see lots of these particular creatures lately!)
Michelle Malkin once adorned herself in an iPhone costume! Maybe this year she'll be an "Android" - or not!
Keep up with Wendy on twitter! Xiaxue writes: "...tonight is the Nuffnang Asia pacific blog Awards!!" Good Luck, Wendy!!!
H/T Miss Info:::Angie Martinez got the chance to sit down face-to-face with Chris Brown (who also shot the cover of the new Vibe Magazine in Brooklyn apparently) and seeing as how Hot97 and DJ Enuff were the first to ever play CB (”Run It”) [...] 
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. Andy Warhol 
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, The University at Albany will remember the life of student Richard Bailey with a ceremony on the first anniversary of his tragic death. During the ceremony, which will take place outside the University Police Department building at the 1400 Washington Ave. uptown [...] 
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For some, life is pleasure. For others, pain. For most, a collision of the two extremes, resulting in various degrees of emotional and physical fallout.
Good Morning! Time for another one of our little trips through the blogosphere!
...there isn't any, anymore. And those days are gone...4EVER!
Politics and popular thinking appear to be taking a few funny turns. The line that seperated Republicans and Democrats has blurred, along with the subset definitions of Conservatives, Liberals and Independents. The group of clear Conservatives, once a tight-knit unit, has broken off into satellites: talk-show [...] 
♫ San Francisco Girls
Sweat lodge deaths cast negative spotlight on guruThe Harmonic is a bit off this evening for self-help guru James Arthur Ray. I'll be your guide for this internet experience, at no charge to you!Sweat lodge deaths being investigated as homicides (photos, video)
Crunching the numbers, that comes to $533000 per job “saved or created.” To put those 30383 jobs in perspecitve, consider that the U.S. economy lost 263000 net jobs just last month and has lost 3.6 million net jobs since President … Read the rest here:
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Stretch your imagination beyond its usual field of protection. Consider whether oil (crude, black gold, texas tea) might just be the "blood" of our Mother Earth. That the entire planet is a living breathing being (just as we have millions of microbes [...] 
The NEW T-rati:::let's see how it goes... I knew they were on shakey ground when it was revealed that the world's #1 blog at the time (XU Jinglei) wasn't even listed on Technorati! And the last few changes they made (especially allowing MySpace pages to' [...]
Of course, there will be radio and TV coverage GALORE!!!!
will I be tonight???
