Frog that changes color worshipped as God in India

via Daily Sun

A FROG that constantly changes colour is being worshipped as a GOD in India.

Hundreds of curious followers flock to Reji Kumar’s home every day to pray and ask for miracles.

Now one of the country’s top zoologists plans to study the rainbow frog. But Reji, 35, who keeps the creature in a glass bottle after finding it while out watering plants, is afraid it might CROAK first.

He said: “My one problem is that this frog does not appear to eat. I keep trying to feed it but it doesn’t eat anything. I don’t know what else to give it.”

The frog was a dazzling WHITE colour when Reji, from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, first spotted it.

Then it changed to YELLOW and had gone GREY by the time he got it home.

[pics] New Balance 575 – Maple Madness Pack

source: SneakerFiles

Earlier today, we saw a new colorway one of Nike’s outdoor sneakers, and we now have our first look at the Maple Madness Pack from New Balance. This pack consists of two pairs of the 575 model. The first pair yields a yellow/black-white color scheme, while the second style yields a green upper with black and white accents. Both variations of the 575 host real camouflage imagery on the mid-panel and toecap in order to further the outdoors feel of the sneaker. The New Balance Maple Madness Pack is expected to hit NB retailers in the coming months.

Via SneakerFreaker.

[video] ALI vs TYSON Trailer

The commercial that ran for this during the NBA Finals had Twitter going nuts but they didn’t show any visuals, it was just cameo heavy. After some searching we found this to please your pallet until the other trailer drops, enjoy!

Editor’s Note: Damn, Mike was having the best comeback of his life before tragedy struck.

[pics] X-1 Mustang Concept w/Jet Cockpit- M1

via RealTalk

[pics] TahiryTV Photoshoot

Mrs. Joe Budden breaks out to do her own thing on her own site, TahiryTV.com. I certainly do hope Joey has an insurance policy on the um, lil’ lady.

New Orleans mayor in flu quarantine in China

via MSNBC

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who traveled on Friday to Shanghai, China on an economic development trip, was placed in quarantine Sunday after Chinese officials found another passenger on his flight to have signs of the swine flu.

That passenger was undergoing quarantine and treatment.  As a precaution, the mayor, his wife and another member of the Mayor’s Executive Protection Unit were also placed in a designated quarantine location in Shanghai, according to the mayor’s communications director.

He and his wife were displaying no symptoms of being ill, said Communications Director Ceeon D. Quiett.

Nagin was scheduled to travel to Sydney, Australia, where he is planning to deliver a keynote address and lead a panel discussion on climate change at the 2009 National Summit of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Quiett said the mayor may need to alter his travel schedule.

[video] FINAL DESTINATION Trailer

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Doctors eager to try ‘mystical mumbo jumbo’

The alternative medicine revolution takes root in the operating rooms of mainstream American institutions, about time!

via MSNBC

BALTIMORE – At one of the nation’s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient’s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.

They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it “mystical mumbo jumbo.” Still, he’s a fan.

“It’s self-hypnosis” that can help patients relax, he said. “If you tell yourself you have less pain, you actually do have less pain.”

Alternative medicine has become mainstream. It is finding wider acceptance by doctors, insurers and hospitals like the shock trauma center at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

People turn to unconventional therapies and herbal remedies for everything from hot flashes and trouble sleeping to cancer and heart disease. They crave more “care” in their health care. They distrust drug companies and the government. They want natural, safer remedies.

But often, that is not what they get. Government actions and powerful interest groups have left consumers vulnerable to flawed products and misleading marketing.

Dietary supplements do not have to be proved safe or effective before they can be sold. Some contain natural things you might not want, such as lead and arsenic. Some interfere with other things you may be taking, such as birth control pills.

“Herbals are medicines,” with good and bad effects, said Bruce Silverglade of the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Contrary to their little-guy image, many of these products are made by big businesses. Ingredients and their countries of origin are a mystery to consumers. They are marketed in ways that manipulate emotions, just like ads for hot cars and cool clothes.

Even therapies that may help certain conditions, such as acupuncture, are being touted for uses beyond their evidence.

An Associated Press review of dozens of studies and interviews with more than 100 sources found an underground medical system operating in plain sight, with a different standard than the rest of medical care, and millions of people using it on blind faith.

How did things get this way?

Fifteen years ago, Congress decided to allow dietary and herbal supplements to be sold without federal Food and Drug Administration approval. The number of products soared, from about 4,000 then to well over 40,000 now.

Japan’s ‘herbivore men’ – less interested in sex, money

It seems as if the emo/metrosexual revolution has taken root in Japan. Unlike the  States though, the females are shooting that sh*t down.

via CNN

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — They are young, earn little and spend little, and take a keen interest in fashion and personal appearance — meet the “herbivore men” of Japan.

Former CNN intern Junichiro Hori is a self-described ‘herbivore.’

Author and pop culture columnist Maki Fukasawa coined the term in 2006 in a series of articles on marketing to a younger generation of Japanese men. She used it to describe some men who she said were changing the country’s ideas about just what is — and isn’t — masculine.

“In Japan, sex is translated as ‘relationship in flesh,’” she said, “so I named those boys ‘herbivorous boys’ since they are not interested in flesh.”

Typically, “herbivore men” are in their 20s and 30s, and believe that friendship without sex can exist between men and women, Fukasawa said.

Hillary Initially Refused Secretary of State Gig

via CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — When then-President-elect Barack Obama first asked Hillary Clinton to be his top diplomat, she turned him down and recommended others for the job, the secretary of state said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Hillary Clinton meets with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan on Friday to discuss North Korea.

Speaking to ABC’s “This Week,” Clinton also said the president has answered the central question she raised about him when she was his chief rival for the Democratic nomination last year.

In her famous “3 a.m.” ad, she questioned whether Obama was the right candidate to handle a middle-of-the-night international crisis.

“Has the president answered it for you?” host George Stephanopoulos asked.

[video] The Evolution of the Videogame

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[video] Barack Obama Receives ‘Bling’ From Saudi King

Obviously these guys watch BET and Worldstarhiphop.

[video] Israelis Spit ‘Racist Hate’ at Obama for his Cairo Visit, and Support of Palestinian State

This video left me speechless, simply for the fact that according to the videographer these are not Israeli-born citizens but dual citizens from the States. They are obviously drunk but I feel they are expressing their true feelings for their Democratically elected president and those feelings are rather disturbing. Not enough is being said about the backroom wranglings that have been taking place between both of these governments, which are normally on the same page. Well, Obama heres what they think about you.

RELATED POST: Why Did HuffPost Censor the Obama Hate Speech?

Its Twitter Time!!

Time magazine chronicles the Twitter craze that has griped the entire world. Let us know what your thoughts are on this phenom, and when you get a chance feel free to send us a tweet!!

@Streetknowledge

@PMoorpheus

@Danijackson

@Knsocial

Hip-Hop’s Biggest Stars & Vets Hit The 30+ Club

Some of these negroes need to act their age

via Thisis50

As the hip-hop inches closer to nearly 40 years since being introduced in the Bronx in New York City in the 1970s, the genre has grown tremendously. That means some of today’s biggest artists have aged along with it. Some of the game’s pioneers have maintained their presence over the years, continuing to grow their brand, while some haven’t.

Either way, it shows how much hip-hop has grown and will continue to grow in the coming years.

Here’s a list of hip-hop vets who have hit the 30+ mark, compiled by the people over at Bossip.com:

* Ice-T (February 16, 1958) – 51
* Flavor Flav (March 16, 1959) – 50
* Uncle Luke (December 22, 1960) – 48
* MC Hammer (March 30, 1962) – 47

[video] James Cameron Talks Avatar videogame

VH1 Hip Hop Honors To Focus Entirely On Def Jam

via HipHopDX

VH1 has decided to have the entire focus of this year’s Hip Hop Honors show to focus on the legendary Hip Hop label, Def Jam.

The show, which takes place on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 9:00 PM, will commemorate the storied label’s 25 years in the industry, including segments on founders Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons.

Also a part of the event, as is now customary, many Hip Hop stars will show to perform some of the label’s biggest hits, both past and present.

In its sixth year, the annual event will be hosted by comedian Tracy Morgan for the third time in a row. It will take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NY.

Last year’s honorees included Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Naughty By Nature, Slick Rick and Too $hort.

[audio] Jay-Z- D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)

Jay-Z- D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)

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Let the debates begin! Is the GOD MC being blasphemous for taking shots at his peer group, when this issue should’ve been addressed last year when Autotune was running rampant and he was cashing checks from 808 & Heartbreak? Either which way the track is tight and N.Y. needs something to make them get off their arse.

jacked from the goodfellas @RapRadar

Sotomayor is a member of all-female secret society

via Politico

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last year accepted an invitation to join the Belizean Grove, an elite but little-known women’s-only group.

Founded nearly 10 years ago as the female answer to the Bohemian Grove — a secretive all-male club whose members have included former U.S. presidents and top business leaders — the Belizean Grove has about 125 members, including Army generals, Wall Street executives and former ambassadors.

Sotomayor’s membership in the New York-based group became public Thursday afternoon in a questionnaire submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Since then, the group has been deluged with press calls, said its founder, Susan Stautberg, who explained that “we like to be under the radar screen.”

The group — which on its website describes itself as “a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, nonprofit and social sectors; who build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same” — hosts periodic meetings around New York, as well as an annual off-the-record three-day retreat in Central or South America at which its members attend cocktail parties with U.S. diplomats and host-country officials and participate in panel discussions on public policy and business affairs.

At last year’s retreat in Lima, Peru, for instance, Sotomayor and the other members attended a reception at the American Embassy with U.S. Ambassador to Peru P. Michael McKinley and several female members of the Peruvian cabinet, Stautberg said.

NYPD seeks way to let guns ‘talk’ to one another

via Yahoo

NEW YORK – The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers’ guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire that left a cop dead last week.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly asked his inner circle to compile a list of department initiatives that would help prevent confrontations between fellow officers. Omar J. Edwards, 25, was killed May 28 as he chased a burglary suspect. Edwards had just left work and was dressed in street clothes and had his service weapon drawn. Three plainclothes detectives came upon the scene. When Edwards turned after Officer Andrew Dunton yelled for him to stop, he was shot, according to the NYPD.

On Friday, Paul Browne, the deputy commissioner for public information at the NYPD, said the department is talking with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory about the possibility of tailoring technology for the department.

One idea involves the use of radio frequency tags that would allow officers to pinpoint where other cops are in the city, Browne said. Another involves tags that would work gun-to-gun and use an infrared sensor: When a weapon is pulled from an officer’s holster it would trigger a signal that would be sent to the gun of a nearby officer. The signal may be seen or heard.

[video] President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo, Egypt

[video] Tila Teqila Answers Spectacular with a Grind Off

Finally something I can enjoy.

Canada’s ‘Prince of Pot’ at war with US drug war

via AP

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Psychedelic rock booms through The Vapour Lounge. In the store, young and some not-so-young people smoke pot through a variety of devices. And owner Marc Emery stands in the middle of it all, proclaiming his goal of defeating the U.S. war on drugs.

Known as the Prince of Pot, Emery has sold millions of marijuana seeds around the world by mail over the past decade. In doing so, he has drawn the attention of U.S. drug officials, who want him extradited to Seattle. Emery has agreed to plead guilty in Seattle to one count of marijuana distribution in exchange for dismissal of all other counts, and the U.S. District Attorney is pressing for a sentence of five to eight years in a U.S. prison.

The case is the latest twist in Emery’s two-decade-long fight against the prohibition of marijuana in North America. To his supporters, he is a brave crusader for the use and sale of a drug with both recreational and medicinal value. To drug officials, he is a criminal and the biggest purveyor of marijuana from Canada into the United States.

Emery sits “right smack in the middle” of the North American debate over marijuana prohibition, said Allen St. Pierre of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in Washington, D.C. St. Pierre predicted that Emery’s trial would “kick-start it all again.”

But drug officials say they are simply going after one of the world’s top 50 drug traffickers. U.S. authorities claim Emery’s seeds have grown $2.2 billion worth of pot.

[pics] Supra & Kr3w Fall 2009 Collection

via BoomLikea808

The Supra and Kr3w Fall 2009 Collections have landed in the US, at least in part. From the Supra Fall 2009 Collection they present the Skytop in two colorways – cracked black and green/black/red. Their new lifestyle sneaker, the Thunder, comes in a simple black suede colorway. Furthermore Chad Muska also worked with Kr3w on a boombox pendant. The new Supra sneakers and the Kr3w pendant are all available now at Factory 413.

50 Cent says company overbilled for mansion repair

I guess buying that house was a big mistake all around. He will probably win this lawsuit but not as much as the millions he is asking for, though he could lose because they could say he should have gotten a second opinion.

via Miami Herald

By KATIE NELSON
Associated Press Writer

HARTFORD, Conn. — Rapper 50 Cent said Tuesday that he never would have bought a Connecticut mansion once owned by boxer Mike Tyson had he realized it would require millions in repairs and renovations.

The entertainer, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, testified in Hartford Superior Court as part of his lawsuit against BVH Integrated Services, a Bloomfield, Conn.-based engineering firm.

50 Cent testified that his attorneys hired the firm to inspect the 52-room, 48,000-square-foot-plus mansion in Farmington, Conn., in 2003 before he bought it from Tyson’s ex-wife. The company was to make a visual inspection to determine how much it would cost to repair the roof, decks, driveway and other aspects of the property.

“I thought it was necessary because I didn’t know what damages or what it would take to keep the house uptight and up to speed,” the rapper testified. He said the mansion was the first house he bought.

The company’s estimate was for about $500,000, but 50 Cent spent about $6 million on repairs and renovations. Lawyers said about $3 million of that was spent on maintenance repairs that should have been included in the firm’s estimate, and the rest was spent on additional “betterments and improvements.”

[video] Joe Budden: Up Close & Personal

Say what you will about the nonsensical beef brewing between Joe Budden and Method Man, but you have to commend the man for speaking his mind and sticking to his opinions, of which everyone is granted one. Keep it lyrical and arrange a pay per view this way everyone gets to benefit from the spectacle, Hip Hop needs it right about now. Shout out to the Exec for another tight one-on-one.

seen@nahright

[video] WTF? Joe Jonas Does Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’

Why?

[video] Inside the White House Pt 1

This may be Emmy worthy. NBC takes us on an unprecedented trip inside the corridors of the White House and gives us a look into the daily inner workings of President Obama, his staff and family.

Nintendo Reveals 4 Player Super Mario Bros. at E3

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Europe’s fastest supercomputer unveiled in Germany

via Yahoo

A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000 home PCs — the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide — was unveiled on Tuesday in Germany

The “Jugene,” capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, ranks behind the “Roadrunner” and “Jaguar” computers in the United States, said Kosta Schinarakis from the Juelich research centre, where the computer is located.

Jugene will be used for a wide variety of operations, including research on fuel cells for electric cars, weather forecasting and the origins of the universe, the centre said.

The machine is no ordinary PC, requiring 295,000 processors located in 72 lockers each the size of a telephone box.

PROJECT NATAL – XBOX 360 MOTION SENSOR – LIST OF FUNCTIONS AND ABBILITYS

This is just totally next level.

Major Lazer “Zumbie” ft. Andy Milonakis(LMAO)

Here is Andy taking on the dancehall scene with “Zumbie” by Major Lazer.

Obama Has 250,000 ‘Contractors’ Deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and is Increasing the Use of Mercenaries

via AlterNet

A couple of years ago, Blackwater executive Joseph Schmitz seemed to see a silver lining for mercenary companies with the prospect of US forces being withdrawn or reduced in Iraq. “There is a scenario where we could as a government, the United States, could pull back the military footprint,” Schmitz said. “And there would then be more of a need for private contractors to go in.”

When it comes to armed contractors, it seems that Schmitz was right.

According to new statistics released by the Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander in chief, there has been a 23% increase in the number of “Private Security Contractors” working for the Department of Defense in Iraq in the second quarter of 2009 and a 29% increase in Afghanistan, which “correlates to the build up of forces” in the country. These numbers relate explicitly to DoD security contractors. Companies like Blackwater and its successor Triple Canopy work on State Department contracts and it is unclear if these contractors are included in the over-all statistics. This means, the number of individual “security” contractors could be quite higher, as could the scope of their expansion.

Does Obama Want to Replace Your Facebook Profile with Your Social Security Card?

via AlterNet

Today U.S. President Obama announced plans for a “cyberspace strategy” that includes everything from possible offensive cyberwar strategies to education. It also contains a little-discussed “identity management” plan that makes me wonder if Facebook profiles are about to become the new Social Security cards.

The big news right now is who will be running Obama’s broad new cyberspace programs — in particular, who will manage the cybersecurity and cyberwarfare aspects. Right now, it appears that there will be a “cyberczar” (as yet unchosen) who will report to the National Security Council and National Economic Council (the latter because part of this role will involve bank security). The Pentagon may also be setting up its own cybersecurity division.

These are the immediate issues, but when I read through Obama’s Cyberspace Policy Review (released today with his announcements), I found an odd nugget of information buried at the bottom of his “near-term action plan”:

Microsoft Unveils New Controller

via BBC

Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360, at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles.

Project Natal is a fully hands-free control system that will use face recognition and motion sensors to allow users to play games.

Film director Steven Spielberg, attending the launch, said it was “a window into what the future holds”.

Although still in the early stages, Microsoft has sent prototypes to all the main game developers.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Spielberg said he had always stated that “the main barrier stopping people getting into video games was the complexity of a games controller,” and that Natal was “a whole new world”.

“There is technology now that recognises not just your thumb, it recognises your entire person. The technology knows who you are,” he said.

Mr Spielberg drew an analogy with the film industry, saying it was evolutionary step for games.

“It’s like the square screen we saw all of our movies on in the early 1950s. Then The Robe came out in Cinemascope. And then came CinRam and Imax followed. That’s what this [Natal] is.

Nader Says GM Bankruptcy is ‘Gov’t Conspiracy’

via Breitbart

WASHINGTON, June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Consumer advocate Ralph Nader today issued the following statement on GM’s bankruptcy filing:

Today’s bankruptcy declaration in federal court by General Motors is an avoidable, crude weapon of mass devastation for workers, dealers, auto suppliers, small businesses and their depleted communities. For GM’s voiceless owners — the common shareholders — it is a wipeout.

The proximate cause of the bankruptcy was supposed to be the inability of GM and the government’s auto task force to reach an accommodation with GM’s bondholders. But late last week, the bondholder problem was moving toward rapid resolution, and was clearly resolvable. Why then are GM and its multibillion government financier proceeding with bankruptcy?

The bankruptcy and the GM restructuring plan are the product of a secretive, unaccountable, Wall Street-minded government task force that assumed power because of a Congressional abdication of historic magnitude. By all rights, the restructuring plan should have been submitted to Congress for deliberative review and decision.

Introducing the e-Cigarette, Smokeless Nicotine

via NY Times

FALL RIVER, Mass. — During 34 years of smoking, Carolyn Smeaton has tried countless ways to reduce her three-pack-a-day habit, including a nicotine patch, nicotine gum and a prescription drug. But stop-smoking aids always failed her.

Then, having watched a TV infomercial at her home here, Ms. Smeaton tried an electronic cigarette, which claimed to be a less dangerous way to feed her addiction. The battery-powered device she bought online delivered an odorless dose of nicotine and flavoring without cigarette tar or additives, and produced a vapor mist nearly identical in appearance to tobacco smoke.

“I feel like this could save my life,” said Ms. Smeaton, 47, who has cut her tobacco smoking to a pack and a half daily, supplemented by her e-cigarette.

That electronic cigarettes are unapproved by the government and virtually unstudied has not deterred thousands of smokers from flocking to mall kiosks and the Internet to buy them. And because they produce no smoke, they can be used in workplaces, restaurants and airports. One distributor is aptly named Smoking Everywhere.

Police: Phoenix mom coached youthful armed robbers

via Breitbart

PHOENIX (AP) – Police in Phoenix say they’ve arrested a woman accused of leading an armed robbery gang involving her 12- and 14-year-old sons.

Police say 51-year-old Cynthia White Roberson coached some of the four boys and three men who were charged with her. The suspects are accused of at least 20 armed robberies in Phoenix and Glendale since late April.

Police say Roberson lost her job six weeks ago and guilted her sons and some of the others into committing the robberies to pay for rent and a car loan.

Many of the robbery victims were also youngsters and were physically assaulted.

One 13-year-old victim was beaten up and forced to empty his pockets—which contained only an orange lollipop.