Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[SlaveNoMore]

Did you just call me Coltrane?
You can't really get a good gauge on the girl in the photo's body. Rasputin's cock is blocking it.

Ah, the always annoying cock-block

Less is all too familiar with this. He must be a distant relative.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
From CNN:

"ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- T-Boz of the female R&B group TLC has filed for divorce from her husband, rapper Mack 10, saying he committed adultery and threatened to kill her."

And here's the photo CNN is using for the story:



Are you fucking kidding me? That's the only photo they could find? Jesus. That's worse than darkening the skin on OJ's mug shot for your cover.

I won't argue if someone wants to say Mack 10 is a talentless fool, but this is ridiculous.



His side (and the necessary link):

"Mack 10, whose real name is Dedrick D-Mon Rolison, denied the allegations in court documents filed Friday. In them, he said his wife has made the claims "for the sole purpose of attempting to gain an advantage in these proceedings" and to prevent him from seeing their daughter."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html

TM

Outrageous? Maybe a little, but don't forget that collectively, Mack 10, Ice Cube and WC went by the alter egos "The Gangsta, the Killa and the Dope Deala." I never sorted out which was which. So I think Mack-10 fans (of which I am one - I really like his delivery) would have to expect such coverage. But CNN should still be ashamed.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The Brothers Karamazov

I've tried 5 times and can't get past page 10. And I enjoyed The Idiot (softball).

Funny story from this morning's SF Chronicle about trying to get through the Brothers K on a cross-country road trip:

• Listening: We took our iPod along for the ride. We loaded it with 700 of our favorite songs, we selected the "random" option, and we let fate choose our music, Diana Krall followed by Mavis Staples followed by Waylon Jennings. We also downloaded some non-music: Adam Gopnik at the Commonwealth Club, David Sedaris at Carnegie Hall and, because we knew we'd never read it any other way, "The Brothers Karamazov."
  
  "The B.K." is a very long book -- Dostoevsky never uses one adverb when three will do -- and is interspersed with long speeches about the existence of God and the meaning of consciousness. My mind tended to wander in the soft hum of the highway, so sometimes I was confused as to who was speaking to whom. The book is about the activities of about 10 people in the same Russian town, so there aren't a lot of signposts for the inattentive listener. Still, I was liking it.
  
  "Isn't it interesting," I said to Tracy, "how experimental this seems for a 19th century novel? Notice how everyone talks about Dimitri, but we never actually see him."
  
  It was not until Pennsylvania that we realized that we had neglected to turn off the "random" feature of the iPod, so we were getting chapters in arbitrary order, the plot entirely in the mischievous hands of fate.
  
  We loved the part at the beginning, where everybody died.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Funny story from this morning's SF Chronicle about trying to get through the Brothers K on a cross-country road trip:

• Listening: We took our iPod along for the ride. We loaded it with 700 of our favorite songs, we selected the "random" option, and we let fate choose our music, Diana Krall followed by Mavis Staples followed by Waylon Jennings. We also downloaded some non-music: Adam Gopnik at the Commonwealth Club, David Sedaris at Carnegie Hall and, because we knew we'd never read it any other way, "The Brothers Karamazov."
  
  "The B.K." is a very long book -- Dostoevsky never uses one adverb when three will do -- and is interspersed with long speeches about the existence of God and the meaning of consciousness. My mind tended to wander in the soft hum of the highway, so sometimes I was confused as to who was speaking to whom. The book is about the activities of about 10 people in the same Russian town, so there aren't a lot of signposts for the inattentive listener. Still, I was liking it.
  
  "Isn't it interesting," I said to Tracy, "how experimental this seems for a 19th century novel? Notice how everyone talks about Dimitri, but we never actually see him."
  
  It was not until Pennsylvania that we realized that we had neglected to turn off the "random" feature of the iPod, so we were getting chapters in arbitrary order, the plot entirely in the mischievous hands of fate.
  
  We loved the part at the beginning, where everybody died.

If the book was loaded with each chapter as the equivalent of a song, wouldn't the chapters have been randomly interspersed with music?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
If the book was loaded with each chapter as the equivalent of a song, wouldn't the chapters have been randomly interspersed with music?

Buzz killer.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
To the people who run yahoo mail.

Thank you for the increasing my mailbox space to 100 MB. I appreciate it. It would be really cool to have that much space if my mail worked.

You know, in addition, what's up with Suze Orman's face being there everytime I log in, WHEN I can log in.....she is one unattractive bug-eyed woman. What's the point of being rich if you look like you're jumping out of your skin........





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[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
You know, in addition, what's up with Suze Orman's face being there everytime I log in, WHEN I can log in.....she is one unattractive bug-eyed woman. What's the point of being rich if you look like you're jumping out of your skin........

Yes, it's better to be poor and unattractive. Just ask any ugly schlub you see on the bus.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Outrageous? Maybe a little, but don't forget that collectively, Mack 10, Ice Cube and WC went by the alter egos "The Gangsta, the Killa and the Dope Deala." I never sorted out which was which. So I think Mack-10 fans (of which I am one - I really like his delivery) would have to expect such coverage. But CNN should still be ashamed.

No. You are absolutely wrong.

If this was a story about him as an artist, I would agree with you.

If this was a story about him being convicted of a crime or even losing his house and kid to T-Boz because the judge found her story more credible than his, I might let it slide.

But it is neither of those two things. It's an accusation for which he has submitted a credible defense in the proper forum. That makes CNN's usage of this photo disgusting. Especially when I found the one I posted here of him on the first page of a Google search. It's not like it was hard to find a normal photo of him.

TM

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. You are absolutely wrong.

That makes CNN's usage of this photo disgusting. Especially when I found the one I posted here of him on the first page of a Google search. It's not like it was hard to find a normal photo of him.

TM

The photo, intended or not was inflammatory. Especially in the context used. It's biased and in addition racial stereotyping, rap artist or not.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
If the book was loaded with each chapter as the equivalent of a song, wouldn't the chapters have been randomly interspersed with music?

I would guess that was sort of the point, to get a chapter thrown in between the songs.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
You know, in addition, what's up with Suze Orman's face being there everytime I log in, WHEN I can log in.....she is one unattractive bug-eyed woman. What's the point of being rich if you look like you're jumping out of your skin........





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I keep getting Paige's face. Who is Suze?

I guess it was a roll out that unfortuantely came at the same time as a web attack:

Attack Blocks Access to Popular Web Sites

41 minutes ago Add Technology - washingtonpost.com to My Yahoo!


By Brian Krebs, washingtonpost.com Staff Writer

A widespread electronic attack on a company that handles traffic for some of the world's most-visited Web sites knocked several high-profile sites offline for at least 45 minutes early Tuesday.


•The attack targeted Internet servers run by Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies, which distributes and manages Web data for companies such as Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), Federal Express and Xerox Corp. It also handles traffic for the FBI (news - web sites) and washingtonpost.com.


Akamai spokesman Jeff Young said the attack interrupted service to the Web sites around 9 a.m. ET and lasted for just under an hour. All the sites are currently accessible.


Young said that the attack was targeted at the Internet infrastructure on a large scale, and that "We have no reason to believe that the attack was directed solely at Akamai."


Amit Yoran, chief cybersecurity officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said federal authorities are working with Akamai and the companies that operate the Internet's underlying infrastructure to determine the source of the attack.


One of those companies, Ashburn, Va.-based MCI, noticed no unusual traffic on its network, a spokeswoman said.


Akamai manages high-traffic Web sites by storing its 1,100 customers' Web content on thousands of Internet servers around the world. It manages approximately 15 percent of the traffic on the Internet.


Young said that most of the sites that were affected are search engines that use Akamai's services.


The company's important role makes it an attractive target for hackers who use "distributed denial-of-service attacks" -- huge bursts of data sent by computers that they have taken over -- to overwhelm computer servers and render popular Web sites inaccessible to Internet users.


Akamai's clients often can withstand these data blasts because attackers must knock out all of Akamai's thousands of servers before they can claim success. Microsoft, one of Akamai's biggest customers, used the company's service to keep its Web site online last August, when the "Blaster" worm told infected computers to attack Microsoft's Windows security site.


Young said the attack seemed to be designed to interfere with its "DNS servers" that convert numerical Internet addresses into more recognizable names like "www.microsoft.com."


"Essentially an attacker would need to have enough [compromised computers] under his control to knock out the thousands of Akamai servers and achieve the kind of global outage we saw today," Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Bethesda, Md.-based SANS Institute.


Ullrich said the assault was most likely launched from an army of home computers infected with a virus or worm that gives attackers full control over the machines, which can then be used to send out spam or crippling Internet attacks like today's assault on Akamai.


Security experts have been warning about the growing number of computers infected with such programs. One of the most aggressive and powerful such programs, called "Phatbot," has already spread to millions of machines over the past several months.


Russ Cooper, chief scientist at TruSecure Corp. in Herndon, Va., said the attack probably involved "at least tens of thousands of systems that would be needed to busy Akamai's network so much."


Cooper said the attackers also might have targeted a previously unknown design flaw in Akamai's software.


The company said that a similar incident last month was caused by a software flaw in one of its Web site management programs.





Computer security experts and law enforcement authorities said that it is often extremely difficult to find out who is responsible for denial-of-service attacks.

In October 2002, a denial-of-service attack disabled most of the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. The Department of Homeland Security is still trying to find out who launched that attack, Yoran said.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
But it is neither of those two things. It's an accusation for which he has submitted a credible defense in the proper forum. That makes CNN's usage of this photo disgusting. Especially when I found the one I posted here of him on the first page of a Google search. It's not like it was hard to find a normal photo of him.

TM

I agree. By using the picture they picked for him against the picture they picked for her, they are putting a bias in the minds of people to suggest he must be guilty of battering her. I think it is worse than the OJ Simpson picture simply because you are forced to directly compare the images of the two people involved.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
The photo, intended or not was inflammatory. Especially in the context used. It's biased and in addition racial stereotyping, rap artist or not.

Agree. I'd wager he doesn't always dress like a red ninja.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I keep getting Paige's face. Who is Suze?

I guess it was a roll out that unfortuantely came at the same time as a web attack:

Attack Blocks Access to Popular Web Sites

A widespread electronic attack on a company that handles traffic for some of the world's most-visited Web sites knocked several high-profile sites offline for at least 45 minutes early Tuesday.

The attack targeted Internet servers run by Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies, which distributes and manages Web data for companies such as Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), Federal Express and Xerox Corp. It also handles traffic for the FBI (news - web sites) and washingtonpost.com.

Wow. What a day for freaky coincidences. First, your school friend shows up on the new Yahoo page. Then, a company run by a guy who went to band camp with my best friend from high school is mentioned in a WaPo story that also mentions Yahoo. Plus, the other day, Anderson Cooper was on my plane to NY, and fringey loves Anderson Cooper, and she loves TM, and TM lives in NY. This almost makes me believe in a divine entity.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Wow. What a day for freaky coincidences. First, your school friend shows up on the new Yahoo page. Then, a company run by a guy who went to band camp with my best friend from high school is mentioned in a WaPo story that also mentions Yahoo. Plus, the other day, Anderson Cooper was on my plane to NY, and fringey loves Anderson Cooper, and she loves TM, and TM lives in NY. This almost makes me believe in a divine entity.

six degrees of separation....