Do they really want to know how big little Janie’s fan base is? Apparently not.
SIRI AGRELL
From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail
May 1, 2007 at 12:00 AM EDT
“Parents either don’t know, don’t care or don’t want to know,” says Arni Stinnissen of the Ontario Provincial Police. “The piece that’s missing in all this is the parents. They haven’t had that talk.”
Former OPP officer Rob Nickel with his daughters, eight and 10, in his Cambridge home. (J.P. Moczulski/The Globe and Mail)
What the kids are typing
Did Johnny scaffle something from your purse this morning? What if your kid’s robotripping and you totally don’t know? Florida-based Parents on Patrol sells software that monitors online chats and notifies parents if their child uses any “watch words.” Each month, 500 Canadian families sign up to find out if their kids are typing words such as these:
Robotripping: A dissociative state induced by ingesting excessive amounts of dextromethorphan (DXM), or cough syrup, usually Robitussin. Also known for distinct “robo-walk,” a jerky movement caused by the lack of sensory control.
Scaffle: To steal a small or insignificant object, or to steal something that belongs to someone who won’t care upon discovering the object was stolen.
Yesca: Mexican slang for weed.
Skeet: To pull out of a woman during sex and ejaculate on her.
Woolah: A hollowed-out cigar refilled with marijuana and crack.
Splim: Low-quality, “not into it” sex offered in exchange for addictive items ranging from cigarettes to heroin.
Source: UrbanDictionary.com
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Friday, Mar. 30, 2007 By KAY JOHNSON/HANOI
Catholic priest Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly in a courtroom in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien Hue, Friday March 30, 2007. A Vietnamese court sentenced the dissident Catholic priest to eight years in prison for “anti-government activities” [ie, speaking and organizing folks freely - ADM (quotes mine)], after a dramatic trial Friday in which a defiant Ly shouted denunciations of the ruling Communist Party.
Osamu Hirabayashi / Kyodo News / AP
Another bit of nice flack handling by Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture and Information (MoCI).
This ever-so evocative pic of a handsome priest being hauled off in cuffs by two ugly cops to a communist gulag for almost a decade, simply for speaking his mind and trying to promote an alternative to one-party rule, got published in AP and the Kyodo News, among others.
The full story, beyond the caption above, was ripped from the online version of one of the world’s biggest print publishers, Time, Inc.
Read the full Time article. Learn more about Vietnam and media scene from the BBC.
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It’s indubitable: Linux geeks are now the ultimate in hip, chic, cool or what have you.
Thursday, August 31 12:00 AM ET
Paris Hilton Releases Tinkerbell Linux
By Nikolaj Borg |
New York, NY – The Linux world grew by yet another distribution this summer, as Paris Hilton announced the release of Tinkerbell Linux. On her MySpace blog, the New York socialite announced the release named after her famous Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.”First,” she writes, “I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I’ve been dabbling with coding for ages, but it’s taken me some time to find the courage to release it. As you know, I’m a shy and modest person, and wasn’t sure if it was good enough for the strict standards of the coding community.”[It's almost too much to even imagine: Paris hammering away at 10,000 lines of code with her tanga twisting deep into her toosh... ((;)))- ADM] |
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