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Cliff Thier
Big Brother is coming. Intel’s new chip has the ability to track what a viewer is watching. Which commercials he is watching. Which commercials he’s turning off or reducing the sound. Another device can track you when you go to a movie, or shopping, or loiter in a book store.
Be careful what you write on social networking sites.
That’s the recent message from a California appellate court. Those who post on MySpace cannot assert invasion of privacy claims if their words are republished in a newspaper without consent.
The case, California’s first on the issue, concerns a University of California student who ranted on her MySpace account about how much she hated her hometown of Coalinga in the Central Valley. The Coalinga Record, the local newspaper, published Cynthia Moreno’s “Ode.” She sued the paper for invasion of privacy after members of the local community allegedly ran her family out of town and threatened to kill them.
The state appeals court, however, ruled she had no privacy rights to her internet speech.
MySpace Diatribe Brings Death Threats | Threat Level | Wired.com
‘Beautiful, athletic’ women on Lingerie Football League field
The Chicago Bliss and other teams of the newly formed Lingerie Football League hope to put a spin on “Friday Night Lights.”
Decked out in thin-looking shoulder pads, lacrosse-style helmets and skimpy uniforms, the Bliss debut Friday at Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates against the Miami Caliente.
It will be one of two home games during the four-game season. The 10-team league includes the Dallas Desire, San Diego Seduction, Philadelphia Passion and more mildly named New York Majesty.
In its promotional ad, the Bliss promises “some of Chicago’s most beautiful and athletic women competing in 7-on-7 full-contact tackle football on Friday nights.”
The mythical chupacabra is a hairless, nocturnal wolf-dog; the name, roughly translated, means “the goatsucker.” Widely regarded as the Mexican Bigfoot, tales of the bloodsucking beast originated in Puerto Rico, but alleged sightings have been reported over the last few years in the U.S. Last week a Texas taxidermist got what might be a chupacabra, and CNN and Telemundo rushed over to interview him faster than you can say “Look at that hairless goatsucker”
Is that a chupacabra being stuffed by a taxidermist in Texas? | L.A. Unleashed | Los Angeles Times
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