Archive for July, 2009

House approves $2B more for ‘cash for clunkers’

The House has voted to approve an additional $2 billion into the “cash for clunkers” car purchase program. The bill was approved on a vote of 316-109.
Called the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), is a U.S. federal program intended to help U.S. citizens purchase a new, more fuel efficient vehicle when trading in [...]

David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez’s Name Appears On The List

According to the New York Times, former Red Sox teammates Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz are among the players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 have appeared on the list.
This famous list which was supposedly anonymous, and yet names are still coming out is composed of about 100 MLB Players who tested [...]

Jackson’s Kids Go To Grandma

The custody case regarding the late Michael Jackson’s kids has finally reached a verdict, and the legal guardian of his three children (Prince, Paris, and Blanket) will be Katherine Jackson.
According to her attorney, everything has been settled with Debbie Rowe (mother of Prince and Paris) receiving visitation rights, but no extra money.
Katherine’s attorney Londell [...]

Brett Favre says No to Vikings, for now.

This story is every changing so all I will say is as of 7/29/2009 Brett Favre has said no to a comeback with the Minnesota Vikings. I’m sure we’ll hear more on this in the coming weeks!

The Pirate Bay Sale on Murky Waters

Global Gaming Factory, a Swedish firm, has one weeks time to come up with 7.8 million dollars to buy the torrent tracking site.
The plan was to turn it into a legal download site and talks are seemingly more unlikely as the company’s key business relationship is collapsing. Wayne Rosso, ex-CEO of Grokster who joined [...]

Apple Rejects Google iPhone App

News comes that Google’s official Voice app was rejected by Apple, but whats Apple got against Google Voice?
Google Voice gives you a separate phone number which you can give out as if it is your regular phone number. You can then change your settings to have calls forward to any of your phones. You [...]

UPDATE: 4chan No Longer Blocked, AT&T Speaks Out

Statement AT&T made about blocking img.4chan.org.
“Beginning Friday, an AT&T customer was impacted by a denial-of-service attack stemming from IP addresses connected to img.4chan.org. To prevent this attack from disrupting service for the impacted AT&T customer, and to prevent the attack from spreading to impact our other customers, AT&T temporarily blocked access to the IP [...]

Michael Vick Conditionally Reinstated To Play NFL

Michael Vick was reinstated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday and can play in regular-season games as early as Week 6 pending full reinstatement.
Vick can immediately participate in preseason practices, workouts and meetings but is there a team willing to sign Vick?
He has also taken steps to begin rebuilding his image and showing remorse [...]

AT&T blocking access to 4chan, censoring the internet

AT&T is blocking 4chan, the anonymous Internet message board community and launching pad for hijinks, and Rickrolls.
It looks to be that AT&T isn’t happy and a censorship battle is brewing by blocking 4chan’s most popular and controversial forum, /b/.
AT&T should let users know whether or not they blocked 4chan, and if so, who [...]

Vernon Forrest shot to death

Vernon Forrest was shot and killed Saturday night during an attempted carjacking. Forrest was an former two-division world champion.
RIP Vernon Forrest
Condolences go out to Vernon Forrest’s family and friends.