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http://www.earthsea.com/metrogamers/nerd-gee.htm - difference between geeks and nerds: or google “geek nerd difference”

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“top secret govt warehouse contents”

interesting list
things that Indiana Jones and the Nazis would be very interested to lay their hands on too………

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something completely unrelated….but maybe interesting
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“heaviest riff ever committed to vinyl”
slayer - raining blood

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discovery channel - 29 Jun 2003 - 9pm Astro - An extraordinary inscription incised on one side of the ossuary reads in clear Aramaic letters: ‘James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. This could be the discovery of the last 2 millenia - proof that Jesus existed.

That’s it - this surely is the end of Mike “Iron Mike” Tyson

Boxer Mike Tyson Arrested in N.Y. Brawl

By ERIN McCLAM, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Mike Tyson was arrested early Saturday after a brawl with two men outside a Brooklyn hotel and was charged with assault and disorderly conduct.

AP Photo

The former heavyweight champion was treated for minor cuts to his hands after the two men apparently retrieved an object from the hotel lobby and used it against him, police said. Police added they had no further information on the object.

The brawl broke out about 5:30 a.m. outside the hotel where Tyson was staying, police said. They did not immediately have information on what started the fight.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office said Tyson was expected to be arraigned late Saturday or early Sunday.

A call to Shelly Finkel, adviser to the 36-year-old Brooklyn-born boxer, was not immediately returned.

The two other men in the brawl also were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Police identified one as Nestor Alvarez, 24, but they did not identify the other.

One of the two men and a woman who was with them were taken to Bellevue Hospital and treated for minor injuries, police said. Tyson was not taken to the hospital.

Tyson, with a long history of legal trouble, was convicted of rape in 1992 and was sentenced to six years in prison. He served three years before being released on parole.

In a Fox television interview last month, Tyson said he was so angry about the conviction he wanted to rape his accuser, former beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington, and her mother.

In 1997, he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a bout. Tyson’s Nevada boxing license was suspended for a year, and he was fined $3 million. In 1999, he was released from a Maryland jail after serving 3 1/2 months for assaulting the two motorists.

Last year, he threw a punch at Lennox Lewis’ bodyguard at a news conference announcing a fight between the two, setting off a brawl between Tyson and Lewis.

The worst city to live in the US : Benton Harbor, Michigan
pop 12,000 (92% blacks)
years of poverty, violence, high employment (25%), highest murder rate per capita in the whole country

in contrast across the river there’s another town of 8,800, mostly whites, hi class, only 2% unemployment

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030619/ap_on_re_us/castro_prank_3

Miami DJs Claim Phone Prank on Castro
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By RACHEL LA CORTE, Associated Press Writer

MIAMI - Two radio show hosts who duped Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez into believing he was speaking by phone with Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) now claim to have similarly tricked Castro.

A recording provided by the Cuban-American radio announcers has a man they say is Castro responding for about four minutes Tuesday to snippets of a tape recording of Chavez, a Castro friend.

He catches on to the prank after he is called an assassin and the conversation disintegrates into him denouncing the caller with a stream of obscenities.

The call was played on Miami’s WXDJ-FM on Tuesday; disc jockeys Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos tricked Chavez in January.

“This was a big, big fish that we were trying to get,” Ferrero said. “Castro really has his people well-trained to avoid these kind of situations, but we were able to persuade all these people.”

In Havana, Cuban officials who did not want to be identified said Wednesday they did not know about the prank and could not comment.

Venezuelan Embassy spokesman Andres Izarra said he hadn’t heard the recording and couldn’t confirm whether the DJs actually got through to Castro.

Regardless, “it’s another prank by these people who are very irresponsible and unethical,” he said. “We totally reject these types of jokes.”
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030618/od_nm/odd_cuba_radio_dc_1

Cuba’s Castro Apparent Victim of Radio Prank
Wed Jun 18, 8:16 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

By Frances Kerry

MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) or someone sounding very much like him fell for a trap laid by Miami radio pranksters on Tuesday, thinking he was talking on the phone to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and abusing the callers when he realized he was being duped.

The radio station, Spanish-language station El Zol 95.7, delightedly and repeatedly broadcast the recording from its popular program “El Vacilon de la Manana” (Morning Joker) in a city that is home to many anti-Castro exiles.

There was no immediate way of telling whether it really was Castro on the line, but to Spanish speakers familiar with the Cuban leader’s well-known voice it seemed to be him. There was no immediate reaction from government officials in Havana.

The Vacilon hosts, Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero, used the same technique they used in January to catch Chavez on the program, when they cobbled together real phrases spoken by Castro to make the Venezuelan leader think he was talking to his Cuban ally.

This time, they used phrases spoken in a speech by Chavez.

A presenter posing as a Chavez aide wound his way through a series of Cuban official switchboards — receptive because Chavez is a strong Castro admirer — with a story that Chavez needed to speak to Castro because he had lost a suitcase with sensitive documents on a recent trip both leaders made to Argentina.

Finally, Castro came on the line and listened to the story of the suitcase.

The Chavez “aide” asked Castro if he agreed to help by getting his security detail hunt down the suitcase and the Cuban leader said, “I absolutely agree.”

“Do you agree with the shit on the island (Cuba), killer?” the Chavez “aide” asked, quickly adding, “You fell for it” and announcing he was on the Miami radio program.

“What did I fall for, you shit?” said Castro. “What did I fall for, bastard?,” he said. He added a few more words of strong abuse before hanging up, as whoops of joy erupted at the Miami end of the call.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030618/ts_alt_afp/us_cuba_prank_030618222322

Castro apparently falls victim to Miami radio prank
Wed Jun 18, 6:23 PM ET Add U.S. National - AFP to My Yahoo!

MIAMI (AFP) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro (news - web sites) apparently fell victim to a prank by a Miami radio station, and used crude expletives against Miami talk show hosts who led him to believe he was on the phone with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez.

AFP/File Photo

The recording of the conversation was repeatedly aired since Tuesday by the Spanish-language radio station El Zol 95.7, which had already played a similar prank on Chavez in January, pretending Castro was on the line.

The make-believe Chavez sought help from Castro in tracking down a suitcase containing secret documents he said he lost during the leaders’ recent trip to Argentina.

Eventually, a man posing as a Chavez aide asked Castro: “Do you agree with the shit on the island, murderer?” and added, “You fell for it … the whole of Miami is listening to you, Fidel Castro.”

“What did I fall for, you shit,” the irate Cuban leader answered, adding further crude expletives, including references to the anatomy of the host’s mother.

“He used very obscene words the president of a country should never use,” said the radio host Joe Ferrero said later.

Castro eventually hung up, ending the 25-minute conversation.

The radio station used the same technique it had employed for the Castro imitation in January, piecing together fragments from Chavez speeches.

Miami is home to close to 700,000 Cuban exiles and Cuban-Americans, many of whom staunchly oppose Castro’s communist government.

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Lyrics to Indonesian songs - look out for the oldies
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http://www.tempointeraktif.com/news/2001%5C5%5C7/1,1,3,id.html

In Memoriam Charles Hutagalung
7 May 2001 17:56:10 WIB

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta: Setelah tiga tahun menderita stroke, Charles Hutagalung, menghembuskan nafas terakhirnya pukul 07.53 WIB, Senin (7/5). Menurut putra pertamanya, Immanuel Hutagalung, kepada Antara, Charles meninggal dalam perjalanan menuju Rumah Sakit Pusat Pertamina Jakarta. Dia akan dimakamkan hari Rabu (8/5) di Pemakaman Joglo, Jakarta Barat. “Papa minta saya menjaga mama,” ujar Immanuel tentang pesan terakhir ayah empat anak itu.

Vokalis sekaligus pemain organ grup musik The Mercy’s ini, mengidap stroke sejak tahun 1998. Penyakit itu membuatnya tidak seproduktif ketika The Mercy’s masih berkibar di blantika musik nasional tahun 1969 hingga tahun 1978. Meski demikian, sampai akhir hayatnya, Charles tidak pernah berhenti berkarya. Suami dari Deli Sriati ini masih menciptakan beberapa lagu-lagu daerah Manado.

Masyarakat mengenal Charles ketika dia mulai bergabung dengan The Mercy’s yang dibentuk di Medan tahun 1969. Waktu itu, grup musik dan vokal ini masih digawangi Rinto Harahap (bas), Erwin Harahap (gitar melodi), Reynold Panggabean (drum), Rizal Arsyad (gitar pengiring) dan Boen (organ). Boen kemudian mengundurkan diri, dan Charles mengambil alih posisinya. Pada tahun pertama terbentuk, The Mercy’s masih berpetualang dari satu klub malam ke klub malam yang lain, mulai dari Medan hingga ke Penang, Malaysia.

Tahun 1972, The Mercy’s hijrah ke Jakarta dan masih tampil di beberapa klub malam, membawa lagu-lagu yang mereka ciptakan sendiri. Kemudian, mereka merekam lagu-lagunya di Studio rekaman Remaco. Tercatat sudah 30 album yang dihasilkan The Mercy’s, mulai dari album pop, keroncong, dan rohani.

Pasang surut yang melanda blantika musik Indonesia juga dirasakan oleh The Mercy’s sejak memasuki dunia rekaman. Rizal Arsyad kemudian meneruskan sekolahnya ke Jerman. Albert Sumlang kemudian bergabung sebagai peniup saksofon. Tahun 1978, The Mercy’s melakukan rekamannya yang terakhir. Sejak itu, anggota The Mercy’s kemudian mulai terlibat dengan kegiatannya sendiri-sendiri. Erwin Harahap memilih di jalur produser rekaman dan mendirikan perusahaannya sendiri. Rinto Harahap menjadi penyanyi solo dan pencipta lagu. Demikian pula dengan Charles Hutagalung, lebih dikenal kemudian sebagai penyanyi Solo dan pencipta lagu.

Sebagai pencipta lagu, Charles Hutagalung tergolong sukses menciptakan lagu-lagu yang terkenal saat itu. “Kisah Seorang Pramuria” adalah salah satu buah karyanya yang masih terkenal hingga saat ini. Bahkan beberapa lagu ciptaannya, seperti “Dalam Kerinduan” dirilis ulang dan dinyanyikan oleh Dewi Yull. Demikian pula dengan lagu “Hidupku Sunyi”, direkam kembali dan dibuatkan video klipnya oleh Tantowi Yahya yang menyertakan puluhan MC (master of Ceremony) terkenal. Hasil penjualan lagu ini menurut Tantowi Yahya ditujukan untuk membantu biaya pengobatan Charles. Album-album lama The Mercy’s juga belakangan dirilis ulang dalam bentuk VCD maupun VCD karaoke.

Sejak menderita stroke, Charles tetap mendapat perhatian dan bantuan dari sesama artis. Tanggal 16 Desember 2000 yang lalu, Charles, secara pribadi mendapat bantuan Rp 50 juta untuk biaya pengobatannya, dalam sebuah acara amal yang dimotori oleh Benny Panjaitan, vokalis Panbers, grup musik seangkatan The Mercy’s. Pada bulan yang sama, bersama 100 artis lainnya, dia mendapat santunan dari Yayasan Paramawidya Artis Indonesia, pimpinan Ratna Djuwita, aktris terkenal tahun 1970-an.

Namun pada akhirnya, semua itu tidak dapat menghentikan kehendak Yang Di Atas. Pada pagi hari yang cerah hari ini, dunia musik Indonesia kembali kehilangan maestronya. (Deddy Sinaga)

www.surga.org/hutagalung.html

Salah seorang Ikon Musik Pop Indonesia berpulang. Charles Hutagalung menghembuskan napas terakhirnya, Senin, 7 mei 2001, akibat stroke yang telah dideritanya sejak tiga tahun lalu. Senin itu, Charles sempat jatuh lagi. Dalam perjalanan dari rumahnya di bilangan Meruya LLir ke Rumah Sakit Pertamina, Jakarta, ia meninggal. Charles meninggalkan Deli Sriati, istrinya, dan empat anak yang beranjak dewasa.
Orang akan mengenang suaranya yang melengking tinggi ketika bernyanyi dalam lagu-lagu sederhana dan mendayu-dayu. Laki kelahiran Medan 14 Oktober 1948, ini sempat bergabung dengan group band The Mercy`s bersama Rinto Harahap, Erwin Harahap, Rizal Arsyad, dan Reynold Panggabean. Band itu sempat menjadi idola anak-anak muda tahun 1970an. Dengan rambut gondrong, celana lebar di ujungnya yang biasa “menyapu”jalan, serta wajah keras khas Bataknya, Charles sangat mudah diingat.Lagu Mana Lagi jadi hit dimana-mana. Tiada Lagi dan Semua Bisa Bilang biasanya dinyanyikan anak-anak muda Indonesia Kala itu. Charles sebenarnya bergabung dengan The Mercy`s belakangan, Ia menggantikan Iskandar, yang absen sebagai pemain organ saat The Mercy`s akan melakukan pertunjukan ke Penang Malaysia. Saat itu Charles sudah mulai dikenal orang sebagai pemain organ dan penyanyi yang andal kala masih bergabung dalam band Bhayangkara, Medan.
Tidak dapat dimungkiri bahwa peran Charles ikut membesarkan The Mercy`s, hingga mereka harus berpisah sendiri-sendiri pada 1978. Charles pun masih rajin bersolo karir sampai akhir hayatnya. Tercatat 30 album rekaman The Mercy`s telah diluncurkan dan ratusan karya Charles Hutagalung bergulir di masyarakat penggemar musik pop Indonesia