The PURGE is overperforming at the box office this weekend. Nikki Finke from DEADLINE.COM attributes it in part to Tropical Storm Andrea.. I’m not buying into that logic though. Instead I think the folks at Universal Pictures marketed THE PURGE for months in a pretty genius way.. they also utilized TUMBLR and pretty much took over Twitter every time I signed on..
So who out there has seen THE PURGE and what did you make of it?
Here is some interesting news direct from Art Bell on his Facebook page.. apparently ArtBell.com is coming back after many years of dormancy..
I bet the ‘under construction’ sign on the page is already getting tenfold more hits than the current Toast to Toast AM site is..
Incidentally, XM radio just dropped Coast to Coast .. and Ground Zero—which is too bad, I like Clyde Lewis..
We’ll be watching Artbell.com with anticipation.
We all need something to get us through life… And if this is how people cope with the insanity in the world, so be it. Jedi.
It’s summer. No better time like the present to get revolted at that American classic: the mysterious hot dog…
This headline reminded me of the scene in THE HAPPENING when the wind just stops..
Before the real storm.
Creepy and unsettling stuff that may be explainable with science but notable since it shows a major change in something is occurring.
Sean Benschop, the 42-year-old crane operator wanted on involuntary manslaughter and other charges stemming from a deadly building collapse in Philadelphia, has turned himself in, Philadelphia police spokesman Lt. John Stanford said Saturday.
Six people died and 13 were injured Wednesday when a wall of a building being torn down collapsed onto a thrift store.
For the first time since this whole cicada thing started I finally heard them way off in the distance just right now.. When the forest is rocking don’t go a’knockin.. 17 years is a long time..
`Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia austerity
From the day that I was born I’ve waved the dime
Philadelphia austerity took me knee high to a man
Yeah gave me a piece of mama, daddy never had
I suppose this truly is cutting off your nose to spite your face…
I like Alexa Ray Joel—not as much as a friend who harbors a long standing crush on her.. But I find her talented like her dad. The problem is she doesn’t have the same attitude that tells the world to go to hell.
Here’s info on an interviewwith her in which she opened up about bullying and plastic surgery.. She appears to have never gotten over when Perez Hilton labeled her a slut at the age of 19..
Worth reading..
And asteroid four times closer than the moon just flew by earth.. It was the size of a truck..
And if you’re wondering why you didn’t hear about it until now, it’s because it wasn’t discovered about a day ago..
When will earth’s luck run out?
Parenting is great….until he weekend virus hits. I assume they occur to my son at the end of the week because five days of germs and filth at day care..
It hopefully will be a silent and peaceful night for the boy. He needs sleep.
As does his parents..
Wish us luck.
Day three; another GUARDIAN blockbuster report…
Amazing how all of these tech companies suddenly DON’T know what we are doing online when they bragged for years that they knew everything..
Everyone wants to.. Break out of the PRISM they suddenly find themselves in…
News of the strange got stranger as an actress has now been arrested in connection with the recent batch of ricin mailings..
She has appeared in WALKING DEAD and the VAMPIRE DIARIES..
U.S. intelligence has access to the servers of nine Internet companies as part of top-secret effort.
I suppose if the government would have attempted to extract data from Tumblr servers, they would have consistently received the same message that users typically receive when they try to update their websites: ‘WE’RE SORRY, SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE’
Police believe a 9-year-old boy was shot by a gunman who had been aiming at his mother’s boyfriend as they drove on the South Side.
Stories like this do nothing but make me sick… totally sick, and frustrated with the inhumanity people harbor..
Wow.. This is a MUST read from the NEW YORK TIMES..
And this was written BEFORE we found out that the FBI and the NSA tap directly into severs of nine top net companies getting just about everything that everybody does online..
Wow..
The UK GUARDIAN reporting continues.. This new amazing story is rocking the rest of the world that wasn’t rocked by the Verizon story this morning…
15 years ago, the Internet pioneer was remarkably prophetic about where journalism was headed.
Interesting story.. And he was right, regardless of your opinion on him. He called this one..
Every era of news reporting has a pioneer.. And often they are flawed, often we’re in awe.. but in the end they are human.
Reporters 15 years ago had disdain for Drudge. They may have more now that he turned out to be spot on..
There are some pretty tough images to see in this story.. But we need to perhaps at least be aware of the issue. If this claim is true, then we are seeing horror before our eyes taking place.
Read the story at your own risk..
No images re-printed on here on purpose..
He asked this:
In the digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
I ask the same. Is it?
According to this document obtained by The Guardian, the federal government, through a court order granted to the National Security Agency, is using the Patriot Act to collect the phone records of millions of Verizon users over a three-month period. Awesome. Read the full document here. It’s like the AP thing, except extended to everyone else.
The court order doesn’t allow the NSA to collect any information whatsoever on the contents of phone calls, or even to obtain any names or addresses of customers. What’s covered instead is known as “metadata”: the phone number of every caller and recipient; the unique serial number of the phones involved; the time and duration of each phone call; and potentially the location of each of the participants when the call happened. All of this information is being collected on millions of calls every day – every conversation taking place within the US, or between the US and a foreign country is collected.
Telephone metadata and what it can tell the authorities about you | James Ball (via rubenfeld)
Big data, federal-style.
(via shortformblog)Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administrationThe National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
Yahoo users informed that company has right to scan and read all of their emails.. So Tumblr users, are we scared yet?
For weeks (actually months) .. wait. .. actually years, my wife has been screaming at me to wash the layers of dead insects off of my car, or at least just take a hose to it. Apparently, last night, Ayden got so convinced that his mommy was right that he decided to wash the car himself. First time in years.. and maybe the last time unless he keeps trying.
Oh, and yes, that is a ‘miracle hose’ and it does in fact work as it does on TV..
Pretty sure this won’t happen again.. I threw some money down on a desk in front of co-workers and a nickel landed on its side, as you can see. Those who saw it are witnesses and can attest to the fact that the photo wasn’t a set up.
For a moment I felt like Dick York from the TWILIGHT ZONE episode where something similar occurs. As for my fate, though, I wasn’t able to hear voices from people walking by me on streets and I could not read anyone’s mind. Which may be fine, since York’s circumstances ended badly in the show—as did most people’s..
Looks like food will have to be cooked early and preserved in aluminum foil..
