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Paul Wall beat one of his fans in the head with his microphone during a concert in Texas.
Footage captured by TMZ shows the rapper performing with Slim Thug Sunday night at the Low Low Car Show in San Antonio when someone in the front row threw a middle finger in Paul’s face.
Paul can be seen exchanging a few words with the guy — right before the rapper winds up and beats him several times with his microphone.
The bird-flipper was tossed out of the show, according to TMZ, and so far, no police report has been filed.
Oprah has the whole world using Skype, so Facebook said why don’t we get in on it. The word on the web streets according to AllThingsD, they are now considering a venture where all your communication goes down LIVE with all those you love. The popular streamer, Skype, will stand to gain 500 million new customers. Facebook will probably gain another 100 million customers with this deal and Mark Zuckerberg will be laughing like a villain…bwwwwaaahhhahahahahahahahha!
The billionaire boy is cornering the market on communications and our social networks with this deal. Facebook will really get a face with the use of Skype services. The deal between the two will include features like SMS, voice chat, and Facebook Connect. Social networking will never be the same. If they decide to charge one day all of you would whip out the money with no problem.
This suicide will set a precedent in Internet and/or technology use law for some time to come. The young man that killed himself, allegedly jumped from the George Washington bridge because a night he had with another young man was streamed on the Internet thanks to a webcam his roommate set up.
According to the NY Times, the Rutgers freshman, Tyler Clementi, 18, left a note on his Facebook page the day he committed suicide saying, “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.” His page has been kept up as a memorial. The incident even occurred just as Rutgers was launching their “Project Civility” campaign, replete with workshops and other events.
The roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, N.J., and his accomplice who is also a student at Rutgers, Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton Junction, N.J., have been charged with two counts of invasion of privacy for using “the camera to view and transmit a live image. ” The maximum sentence for this crime is five years. Ravi was charged with two additional counts of invasion of privacy because this was the second live feed he tried. The other was the day before Clementi jumped, Sept. 21.
What do you think? Should the law be amended to increase the time for those who have been internet bullying, and using their camera pics and other devices for bad? This man’s family was embarrassed along with the memory of him. If he was gay, he wasn’t out of the closet and this is how he will be remembered. Can you think of something more awful? The memory of him has been tarnished forever…long after his death.
Oprah Winfrey is now admitting that she was once afraid her OWN network would never live up to the success of her daytime TV show.
“All the bells went off. This is why I lived in fear about this network. I kept thinking I have to repeat the 25-year phenomenon of the ‘Oprah’ show. I don’t want to be Michael Jackson,” she tells Fortune magazine, referring to the pop singer once saying he’d never be able to top 1983?s “Thriller.”
But now?
“My fear about, ‘Will the people really follow me?’– I’m past that,” Winfrey says.
Still, getting the network, which is due to launch early next year, off the ground was a challenge.
Winfrey admits she was indecisive about the show lineup, causing backer Discovery Communications to invest an extra $89 million on top of its $100 million launch money, as previously reported. OWN CEO Christina Norman, who joined the network after leaving MTV as chief, was unable to greenlight any series without Winfrey’s input.
“This is part of the reason OWN was stagnant,” Winfrey says. “I was the holdup.”
Also nagging Winfrey: Rosie O’Donnell having her own show after polarizing viewers on “The View.” She brought Tom Freston, Norman and OWN chief creative officer Lisa Erspamer to O’Donnell’s suburban New York home to vet O’Donnell this past June.
Recalls Winfrey, “Rosie said, ‘I know you’re here to assess how crazy I am.’ I said, ‘Basically, yes. I’m doing a crazy check.”
After seeing her kids running around in the back yard, Winfrey says of O’Donnell, “What I found is that she is so generous as a mother.”
But Winfrey banned O’Donnell from airing any grievances on her blog or radio show, as she did with Barbara Walters: “If you have an issue that’s causing a problem, speak to me, woman to woman, so that it doesn’t become a worldwide issue.”
Winfrey downplays that she’s concerned about O’Donnell’s potentially abrasive effect on viewers. “No, it doesn’t worry me,” she insists to Fortune. When asked if she thinks about it, she replies crisply, “Of course.”
She’s also not too worried if the network is not an immediate success. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t think it will be.
“No — technically, I don’t think in terms of being in the top 10. But do I think we will be? Yes,” Winfrey says.
According to analysts Fortune cites, OWN could be worth $3 billion or more within a few years — and she owns half of it. Winfrey is worth $3 billion currently.
Green Bay Packer safety Nick Collins confronted a fan who hurled a racial slur at the player and spit on him after a loss on Monday night against the Chicago Bears.
The league is currently investigating the matter.
Milwaukee’s WITI-TV aired video in which Collins is seen yelling at a fan as he left the field. Collins then appears to throw his mouthpiece into the stands. According to the station’s report, Collins said the fan spit on him and used a racial slur.
WITI said Collins apologized for “losing his cool.”
A misprint on Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco’s namesake cereal boxes has callers to an intended charity being linked instead to a phone sex line.
The phone number is supposed to connect callers to Feed the Children, which benefits from sales of “Ochocinco’s.” But because the box has the wrong toll-free prefix, they get a seductive-sounding woman who makes risque suggestions and then asks for a credit card number.
Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. said Thursday it was pulling all Ochocinco cereal boxes from its grocery shelves because of the mixup. Some local stores had them on special display after the launch about a month ago.
Pittsburgh-based PLB Sports Inc., which specializes in limited-edition products featuring star athletes and their favorite charities, apologized for the error in a statement Thursday. The statement said the boxes will be re-issued with the correct toll-free number.
Ochocinco told WCPO-TV that the number was clearly a mistake and he’s sure that the maker will fix the problem.
LeBron James is being accused of playing the race card for suggesting that his skin color was a factor in the negative media coverage surrounding his decision to join the Miami Heat.
In a CNN interview that aired Wednesday night, correspondent Soledad O’Brien asked about “The Decision,” the one-hour special on ESPN in which James announced that he would play for the Heat.
When asked if he thought race played a role some of the negative headlines it generated, James answered: “I think so at times. It’s always, you know, a race factor.”
His manager Maverick Carter added: “It definitely played a role in some of the stuff coming out of the media, things that were written for sure.”
James turned down a chance to stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers and ultimately decided to join the Heat in the oft-criticized televised special that raised $3 million for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
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Some of you may be familiar with Compass airlines, but we are not. This is probably why they can’t afford to pay their flight attendants enough. Earlier this month, a flight attendant by the name of Kirsten Arianejad was fired for publicly revealing that she is eligible for food stamps. If you’re not able to feed your family and you’re excited you can get stamps to help out, what are you going to do? Keep it hush? Heck no! You’re going to yell it from the rafters! Well maybe not yell it, but you might share the news.
She shared the news with the news and it embarrassed the airlines. She told reporters that she only made $19 per flight hour and that they cut her health insurance, so she was forced to get food stamps. Compass should’ve run to her side and said, “Heeey, there there now! We’re going to up your salary and make it alllll good. If not, please let us know.” Now how is FIRING her going to look? They already got the poor lady on food stamps.