Cerebral_Assassin

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Could be, not sure........all I know is it said "Asian".

The Lynx Girls

35 days to go...........

Not sure if ya got $59.00 to drop but if you do get this baby......I did and I love it. I burn most of my movies as data files and they play fine in it. Plays everything except WMV, Real and Quicktime and flicks with that damned Q-Pel codec. Philips DVD Player (DVP642) PHL DVP642 • Progressive scan • Multi-format playback • A/V versatility • Store picture settings

The season can't start soon enough...........

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38 Days to go!!

NEW YORK Coca-Cola is planning to launch Enviga, a soda that is said to burn 50 to 100 calories just by drinking a 12-oz. serving, next year, per one executive. Enviga, a green tea-based, caffeinated, carbonated drink, is in clinical testing and is said to speed up the user's metabolism. The beverage will target active lifestyle consumers. A Coke rep said, "Some [of our projects] may find their way to market and some may not." Studies have shown that drinking green tea may promote weight loss by stimulating the body to burn calories.

Woman sues Denny's over toilet burns Jul. 28, 2005 at 9:56PM A Kansas woman has filed a lawsuit seeking damages for severe burns on her rear end caused by chemicals used to clean a toilet at a Denny's Restaurant. Kathleen Williams' suit names Denny's Corp. and Jomar Investments LLC, owner of the St. Louis-area Denny's where she was injured. Williams claims she did not see the chemicals but felt them as soon as she sat down. Pedro Irigonegaray, her lawyer, said that she had to be hospitalized immediately and suffered permanent injuries. "Sadly, as a result of the chemical injury, nerves were injured that create a sensation of pain 24 hours a day," Irigonegaray told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He said Williams has to take medication for pain and wear special underpants designed for burn victims.

Controversial Wrestler Seen as Both a Stereotype and a Sympathetic Character July 29, 2005 — Arab-American professional wrestler Muhammad Hassan, played by Italian-American Mark Copani for World Wrestling Entertainment, has seen his last day in the ring, according to a WWE spokesman. The smackdown of Hassan during last weekend's "Great American Bash," an annual pay-per-view event, came after UPN and World Wrestling Entertainment received several letters and protests complaining that the character was an offensive stereotype of Arab-Americans and Muslims. Hassan, whose storyline is that he's Arab-American born and raised in Detroit, rants and raves about being profiled and discriminated against, especially since Sept. 11, and is usually accompanied by other angry Arab-American men. An episode featuring Hassan that aired on July 7, the day of the terror attacks in London, turned out to be Hassan's ultimate undoing. The sketch, which included five men dressed in ski masks and carrying Hassan's manager, Khosrow Daivari, over their heads in what appeared to be a funeral for a suicide bomber, convinced WWE to finally have Hassan, played by wrestler Copani of New York, taken out of the game permanently by wrestler Mark Callaway, aka the Undertaker. "He was defeated by the Undertaker and will not return," said Gary Davis, a spokesman for WWE. "Under the circumstances it was a respectful way to tie up the storylines. We have done this with other characters as well. "There's no question in our minds it was the unfortunate timing of that segment being on July 7 that was the ultimate issue with it," Davis said. The segment was pulled from UK broadcasts. UPN spokeswoman Joanna Massey told The Associated Press, "We asked them to remove it because we thought that was the right thing to do." There was no time for UPN to edit the program before it aired in the United States so it opted to put up an advisory to parents because of the bombings, said Davis. "The whole point of the storyline and this character was to point out the injustices Arab-Americans have suffered since 9/11," Davis said.

Doctors: Bush Is in 'Pretty Good' Health BETHESDA, Md. Jul 30, 2005 — President Bush said Saturday that doctors pronounced him in "pretty good" health after his annual physical exam. Bush, 59, told reporters that doctors would release a detailed medical report later Saturday from the morning-long checkup and "I think you'll find it's pretty good." His medical team issued no immediate statement about the president's health. The commander in chief also visited with soldiers recuperating at the National Naval Medical Center in this Washington suburb. He said he spent time with "some braves Marines who have been wounded. It's a remarkable experience to meet with these incredibly courageous souls." Read More.....if you really care.

39 days til kickoff.......let's count it down with an NFL player wearing a jersey with the number of days left. (Multiple posts with the same number are okay) Thursday, Sept. 8 Oakland at New England (9 p.m. ET, ABC)

IE 7 Beta: Improved Security, Resembles Firefox Review: Developers now have their hands on the first IE 7 beta, and at first glance it has better security and some rather familiar Firefox features. The first beta of Microsoft's new standalone Web browser, Internet Explorer 7, is now in developers' hands. Microsoft wasn't going to release a new IE browser, apart from the embedded version in Windows Vista, but then increased security worries and the rise in popularity of Mozilla's Firefox browser may have changed the Redmond giant's plans. This new version of IE only runs on XP SP2. Eventually, there will be a version for Server 2003, but Windows 2000 and 98SE users are out of luck. There will be no IE 7 for these systems. Gytis Barzdukas, director of product management in Microsoft's security business technology, hasn't completely ruled out porting IE 7 to other Windows platforms. In an eWEEK.com interview, Barzdukas said, "When we do all this engineering work, the architecture is changed significantly. In some cases, it's more expedient for customers to just move to a new operating system where the enhancements are easier to deploy." The new IE boasts several improvements for browser security. The first of these are a variety of defenses against malware (malicious software). For example, IE 7 now has a single data handler for Web addresses. By "drastically reducing the internal attack surface," Microsoft hopes to make it much harder for crackers to use malformed HTML links to trick browsers into running malware. In addition, the new IE includes a feature that appends the originating domain name to any script you might run. The browser will also restrict a script's ability to only interact with its own domain's Windows and content. This feature's intent is to prevent cross-domain scripting. These are commonly used in phishing attacks—attempts to swipe your user login and password information. In informal testing, this first beta of IE 7 did do a better job than earlier versions of IE in preventing both malformed HTML and cross-domain scripting. Some of the new anti-phishing tools may not be to everyone's taste. The Microsoft Phishing Filter, which users may opt out of, checks all sites you visit against a Microsoft-hosted list of phishing sites. Also, support for administrators setting group phishing restrictions is not present in this beta. IE also sports a new look, some of which closely resembles Firefox. For example, you'll find a search box to the right of the URL address bar. As with Firefox, users can search through one of several popular Web search sites by entering text into this box. Additionally, IE now supports tabbed browsing—a feature that has been previously available in Mozilla, Opera and Netscape. This feature worked well during first hours with the browser. The new IE is also following in the footsteps of the other browsers by including RSS support. The program currently supports the RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.3 formats. When Atom 1.0 is released, Microsoft will also support that format. This feature, however, is still a work in progress. On several occasions, the program crashed while accessing RSS feeds. While this beta is not feature-complete—really making it more of an alpha release—it did not have any other critical failures on a Gateway 503GR PC with a 3GHz Pentium IV and a gigabyte of RAM running XP Professional SP2. In many ways, this seems more of a catch-up release to Firefox than an attempt to advance the art of the browser. It was also somewhat puzzling to see a beta, with final release scheduled for this year, which didn't include both minor and major features. For example, in this beta the default way to find out if a site has an RSS feed is to press the RSS icon and see if it displays a feed. In the next beta, the icon is to change its appearance on sites with feeds. In addition, the Mozilla Foundation will also be releasing its next beta release for Firefox 1.5, code name 'Deer Park,' in August, with the final release scheduled for September. This new Firefox will incorporate many minor improvements, better performance and more significant advances. The bigger and better improvements will include an automated update system, support for SVG (scalable vector graphics), better cross-domain script protection, and drag and drop tabbed browser placement. If Microsoft is to gain back the imitative in the new browser wars, IE 7, as it's laid out now, may not be enough.

Tatyana Ali

Doesn't mean 75 million people are using it though, just means it was downloaded that many times.......I myself have downloaded it several times myself. Here's a bit of info from Download.com.... "Kazaa Media Desktop sets most downloaded software record ... The record for most downloaded applications, as counted by CNET’s industry-leading Download.com" but who uses it? I don't, and won't. I did, but not anymore.