Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 57 for Friday, February 23, 2007

Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 57 (64 kbps .mp3 10:42 4.5 Mb)

A daily roundup of things that seemed important.

Wrestling gators is for pussies-- try wrestling lemurs!



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A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .





http://consumerist.com/consumer/hewlett%20packard/14-hewlettpackard-company-secrets-from-a-former-employee-236517.php

CONSUMERIST PRESENTS - 14 SECRETS FROM FORMER HEWLETT-PACKARD EMPLOYEES. HERE'S ONE:

Many HP Printers, like their laser printers, have a built-in page-count after which they won't work. This resides in the transpart sometimes called image or drum kit. Rather than get the printer fixed, it's often cheaper to buy a new printer, OR you can do a NV ram reset. It resets everything in the printer, including all the page counts, but it's not without risks.



http://amsam.org/2007/02/blackwater-brass-forms-intelligence.html

ISN'T SPYING ILLEGAL? ASKS POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO. TELL THAT TO THE GOOD PEOPLE AT BLACKWATER, U-S-A! AND THEY'LL PROBABLY SPY ON YOU. AMERICAN SAMIZDAT REPORTS: Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, announced Tuesday the formation of a new CIA-type private company to provide intelligence services to commercial clients.

A spokeswoman for Total Intelligence said there is no corporate affiliation with Blackwater, the Moyock, N.C.-based private military company, but the new firm clearly has a Blackwater stamp.

"Total Intel brings the intelligence gathering methodology and analytical skills traditionally honed by CIA operatives directly to the board room," Black said in a statement Tuesday.



http://www.alternet.org/story/48278

ALTER NET DOT ORG EXPLAINS HOW THE BUSH BUDGET SCREWS YOU IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN SEVERAL BILLION A YEAR. FROM THE ARTICLE: the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite. Not only does it make many of Bush's tax cuts permanent, but it envisions a complete repeal of the Estate Tax, which mainly affects only those who are in the top two-tenths of the top one percent of the richest people in this country.

I*f the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family -- the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune -- would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years.

The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion.



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http://www.vbs.tv/

HERE'S POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE CONTRIBUTOR JIM'S REVIEW OF VBS.TV

If you're like me, the thing you hate most about TV is that it isn't the Internet. Vice is working on a fix for that that's a little more structured than the pirated music videos and teenagers fighting that Youtube bings you.

We got a press release from one of their flunkies encouraging us to check out VBS and I spent my lunch time doing it. Nifty stuff. It's shows, just like regular TV, and with the irony and fashion-forwardness that you expect from Vice, plus you can share the videos like Youtube, all you bloggy types.

Nifty stuff so far. My favorite so far is Soft Focus, the interview show.

REMEMBER, THAT'S V-B-S DOT T-V.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_dc

The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report Iran had installed two cascades, or networks, of 164 centrifuges in its underground Natanz enrichment plant with another two cascades close to completion, ACCORDING TO WIRE SERVICE REPORTS.

This amounted to an effort to escalate research-level enrichment of nuclear fuel into "industrial scale" production.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_sc/new_zealand_colossal_squid

IT'S GIANT SQUID CATCHIN' WEATHER OUT THERE, FOLKS! THE LESS-AND-LESS ELUSIVE CREATURE MAKES THE NEWS AGAIN. MOJO TOLD OF A SQUID CAUGHT OFF OR , WELLINGTON, New Zealand . IT GOT REELED IN WITH THE SEA BASS IT WAS EATING.

BRET FOUND THE M-S-N-B-C VERSION OF THE TALE, WITH THIS WONDERFUL SUB-HEADLINE If calamari rings were made, expert says, they'd be size of tractor tires.



http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-19-hungary-porn_x.htm?csp=34 IS HUNGARY LEGALIZING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY? THERE IS A BILL IN ITS PARLIAMENT WHICH WOULD LEGALIZE IMAGES OF 14-YEAR OLDS AND UP HAVING SEX. MOJO THOUGH ABOUT IT:

My first reaction to this was, "Ewww, Hungary is legalizing child porn." But then the idea of "for home-use only" stuck with me, and I remembered a case that's happening here in America where two seventeen-year-olds videotaped themselves having sex. And they are both being charged as adults for creating child porn. Charged as adults, but still considered children enough to qualify as child porn. That makes no sense.

Maybe Hungary is trying to deal with this kind of situation?

FROM THE U-S-A TODAY ARTICLE:

Hungarian Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei SAID the proposal had taken into account the age in Hungary — 14 — at which consensual sexual relations are allowed.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_re_us/old_child_porn

IN A RELATED STORY, AN EIGHTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD MAN MUST HAVE FIGURED IT WAS SAFE TO HIDE HIS VIDEO RECORDINGS OF HIM HAVING SEX WITH UNDERAGED GIRLS DURING THE PAST 40 YEARS, ACCORDING TO U-S-A TODAY. A FLOOD DISLOGED HIS STASH FROM ITS HIDING PLACE NEXT TO THE SEPTIC TANK LAST AUGUST. OFFICIALS HAVE CHARGED Walter C. Stevens with one federal count of possessing child pornography.



http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2044649020070221

STILL SMOKING TOBACCO? Smoking causes long-lasting changes in the brain similar to changes seen in animals when they are given cocaine, heroin and other addictive drugs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

A study of the brain tissue of smokers and nonsmokers who had died showed that smokers had the changes, even if they had quit years before, the team at the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported ACCORDING TO REUTERS..



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http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/riaa_contests_d.html

DO YOU HAVE WI-FI? DO YOU LEAVE IT OPEN, SO THAT YOUR NEIGHBORS CAN USE YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION? IF SO, YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTON TO A COURT CASE THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA IS WORKING PRETTY HARD TO WIN. FROM THE ARTICLE:

Debbie Foster was sued by RIAA member company Capitol Records for allegedly sharing copyrighted material on a P2P file sharing network. However, the alleged infringement was apparently committed by someone else with access to her ISP account. Foster had the case dismissed last summer, and as reported by Listening Post earlier this month, was awarded attorney's fees in excess of $50,000.

Predictably, the RIAA has filed a "motion for reconsideration" of Judge West's decision to force the RIAA to pay for Foster's legal fees. they want the judge to rule that the owner of an ISP account is responsible for all activity on that account, which could have a chilling effect on public wireless access and open hotspots.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6383833.stm

WE CLOSE WITH NEWS OF THE BAT-DEMON, AND IT'S NEED TO RAPE MEN IN TANZINIA, AS REPORTED ON THE-B-B-C

: Men in parts of Tanzania's main city, Dar es Salaam, are living in fear of a night-time sex attacker.

A BBC correspondent says the attacks are being blamed by some on a demon called "Popo Bawa" meaning winged bat.

Some men are staying awake or sleeping in groups outside their homes. Others are smearing themselves with pig's oil, believing this repels attacks.

Reports of the demon's existence have been common for many years in Zanzibar, where locals claim it originated.



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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:



Clowns murdered on stage in Colombia

YOU TUBE VIDEO | Purple and Brown by PenWard

A new drive-by attack on wifi routers

Cover-Your-Ass Security; or, Why Boston Went Apeshit Over Blinky Signs

The end of the uncanny valley?





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