Vibe Magazine Declares Algernod the future of Rap
Vibe Magazine has declared Algernod Lanier Washington aka Plies the future of Rap in it’s upcoming December Issue. What a horrible name

Election Night
“WHEN YOU JUST WANT TO CLOSE THE DEAL”



In a recession…you gotta get your hustle on, which means make money by any means neccesary
Reason #10,452, Why Not To Wear Skinny Jeans
Just for you guys! Please, we know that Jay-Z said his knots can’t fit…but imagine if this happened to you
Dame Dash Is a Broke Joke…No Seriously

Dash has gone from owing several companies including shoe company Keds and Armadale Vodka, to dodging his bills. This is a man who in 2005 sold his stake in Rocawear to Jay-Z for $22 million, and even proclaimed himself a “cake-a-holic.” Looks like his cake is running low these days.
“I’ve worked with musicians, artists and entertainers that, in the eyes of the media, are very wealthy,” lawyer Jason Gabbard told the paper. “But to borrow a phrase from my Kentucky homeland, they haven’t got a pot to piss in — they’re broke.”
According to the paper, this week a Manhattan judge ordered the city to seize Dash’s Chevrolet Tahoe, because he hasn’t been making the $714 monthly payment. The lawsuit comes on the heels of one in August from Eastern Savings Bank, who foreclosed on two of Dash’s homes. The once powerful music mogul owed $7.3 million on two Tribeca condos, after Dash and his wife Rachel Roy failed to make their $78,500 mortgage payments for several months.
Dash also faces an outstanding $2.1 million tab with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, a $4,500 bill from the state for not paying workers’ comp, and a suit that says he stiffed a law firm that handled his child-custody case. In 2006, he told New York magazine that he had his own butler, and bragged that he was worth “about $50 million.”
That’s A Man..Yeh the one on the left

Isis King, the first transgender contestant on America’s Next Top Model, will be a guest on The Tyra Banks show tomorrow and Tyra will surprise her with a sex reassignment surgery. Yeeeeeeeeea! In the above clip, Isis breaks down as she talks about how uncomfortable she is being a woman on the outside but still having “man parts”.
I still think they pimped her ass for ratings on America’s Top Model but I am glad she is getting something out of the deal. The surgery has a price tag of $30,000 – 100,000 dollars.
Lil Wayne Hits The Rock Charts
Lil Wayne’s #1 Hit “Lollipop” is back on the Billboard charts, this time in the Modern Rock Category. The song was covered by Nashville rock band Framing Hanley for their new album “the Movement” and is currently flying up the charts. This is definitely a good look for Wayne considering T-Pain confirmed last week that The Carter IV will be a Rock album.
You can fast forward to the 2:18 mark
When you don’t want to be Facebook friends
Social awkwardness
Such examples of social networking faux pas are nothing new to teenagers, who were first forced to figure out the boundaries of acceptable social behavior on MySpace a couple of years ago, said Danah Boyd, a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
“You go through a period of absolute social awkwardness,” she said, as every new wave of people to get connected works out social norms within the technology.
It’s all about dealing with expectations, said Ariel Waldman, community manager for Pownce, a social networking and microblogging site. “In Web 2.0, people have developed expectations of what friending or not friending means. They get put off if their expectations are not met.”
Connecting with your past can bring up those old, uncomfortable feelings
One person might want to follow only 200 people on Twitter, for example. Another might prefer to friend only those in the same geographic location.
“Everyone has different communication protocols,” Waldman said. “The important thing is defining what your own protocols are.”
Then there’s the issue of real friends versus online friends. Take Hal Niedzviecki of Toronto, who wrote about his experience throwing a “Facebook party” for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He invited his nearly 700 online friends to meet him at the neighborhood bar. One showed up.
Loopt
This is the crazy thing I’ve seen..somewhat creepy..and the latest application on my IPHONE..pretty much it uses GPS to tell you where your other friends are at with this application. They sign on their application and I can see exactly where they are at and what they are doing..
Here is the complete review:
In the future, your boss will always know exactly where you are. But why wait; sign on to Loopt, recruit your boss to do the same, and you’re already living in Tomorrowland. Loopt is a location-aware social networking app—it uses the GPS chip in your 3G iPhone (or more crudely, with the cell tower location data in the first generation iPhone) to place you on a map and to show you where your friends are and what they are up to. It’s essentially a social network for the mobile set, allowing you to link up with friends and contacts and then mutually share location information.
The first step getting started using Loopt is adding friends—without any friends, the app isn’t much use. Loopt can scan your iPhone’s address book to look for existing users, much in the same way Facebook or Twitter can scrape your Gmail contacts when you first sign up on those sites, helping you build a network with existing users. Since Loopt already supports the BlackBerry and has Android support on the way, you can even use it to link up with friends on other mobile devices.
You can also manually enter phone numbers, or add contacts from your address book to send new invitations to expand the network, but these invitees will also have to download and install the application. It’s worth noting, however, that these new user invites are sent not via e-mail, but by SMS text message. Many people find this annoying and it has caused a lot of controversy. Unlike e-mail, SMS messages are charged individually, so when you invite a friend via text message, you are, in fact, costing that person money, even if it’s only a few cents. Loopt claims that it is up to the new user as to who gets an SMS invitation, and that a non-user can opt out of getting any additional invites. While both claims are true, SMS invites are still not a best practice. It’s not always clear to new users that they are sending out cost-based (and some would argue annoying) text messages, nor should the burden be on non-users to opt out. Loopt should end this practice and provide an option to send invitations to new users via e-mail only.
However, once you have successfully annoyed your friends into joining Loopt, the app is actually fairly useful, even in its infancy, and promises to grow more so.
The primary window is a map that shows your location, along with any of your friends who are also in your area. You can also tap the magnifying glass icon to show all the restaurants, bars, and shops around you that Loopt has in its database. You can also search for specific places or cuisines—say, sushi. Clicking on a restaurant in the list will take you to a page where you can see what your friends have said about the place or to read reviews on Yelp. You can also add a comment for friends to read later. Puzzlingly, you cannot use this map to check in at specific places (more on that later), which seems like a natural.
The second main screen displays a list of your friends, sortable by distance or name, along with their last update. Tapping on a friend’s icon will take you to their profile page, where you can send them a text message, “ping” them with your location, place a phone call, or even get directions from your current location to whatever hangout your pal is haunting. This is great for getting in touch with friends out on the town and coordinating a meet-up.
Loopt’s other main window is the pace where you go to check in and share your updates with friends. It has a database of user-submitted locations built into the app choose from, but also easily lets you add your own if you don’t get a match. A field for comments lets you add some contextual information—you may want to note how long you’ll be somewhere or provide a reason for others to come join you. You can also snap a photo, or upload one from your library, and include a link to it in your update.
Thankfully, Loopt is not a closed network like Facebook—that would make it hard to share updates with friends who aren’t also using the same service. Rather, Loopt makes it easy to ensure you can pepper your pals with unexpected updates about your latest dining adventure. You can sync it with Twitter and add a Loopt app in Facebook as well, letting your broadcast your location updates and even photos well beyond the confines of the iPhone app itself.
There’s also a more random social networking tool called Mix that you can add as an option for a fourth window. Rather than displaying just your contacts, Mix shows you all the other Loopt Mix users in a given area, sorted by those closest to you. It’s interesting, but unless you enjoy privately messaging and meeting up with strangers in your area, it doesn’t seem that useful outside of a conference setting.
Ultimately Loopt can be very useful on a Friday night, or if you’ve travelled to a large conference out of town and you want to figure out where everyone else is. However, for the most part during the workweek it’s of limited utility. You likely already know exactly where most of your friends are at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday; they’re at work.
Meet Travis Henry

Travis Deion Henry (born October 29, 1978 in Frostproof, Florida) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Tennessee.
A Pro Bowl selection with the Bills in 2002, Henry has also played for the Tennessee Titans and Denver Broncos.
Travis attended the University of Tennessee from 1997 to 2000. In his sophomore season, Travis was a member of the 1998 national championship team. He shared the backfield with fellow NFL running back Jamal Lewis his junior season and collected 916 yards and eight touchdowns. After his senior season, in which he rushed for 1,314 yards and 11 touchdowns, he was named first-team All-SEC by the Associated Press and the Sporting News.
Travis Henry also has At Least 9 Kids with At Least 9 different women….(among some other issues.On September 30, 2008, Henry was arrested by the DEA after allegedly being involved in a multi-kilogram cocaine transaction that occurred in Centennial, Colorado[12]. Henry, portrayed by court documents “as the ruthless ‘money guy’ in a cocaine trafficking ring”, faces 10 years to life on federal drug trafficking charges.)
So Now Travis Henry meet contraception
Role Models: Tony Romo and Homeless Man

A homeless man who goes by Doc was cashing in change at a Cinemark theater in Dallas when a guy walked up and offered to pay his way into the movie. Doc, who planned to spend his day passing out flyers for a few bucks, accepted a rain check before realizing that he recognized the generous gentleman.
“Was that Tony Romo?” Doc asked the kid behind the counter.
It sure was. Doc hustled across the street to the consignment store that paid him to occasionally pass out flyers and requested the day off. By the time he got back to the theater, “Role Model” had already started.
Romo, who confirmed the story but didn’t want to elaborate, waved Doc over to sit by him and his buddy. Doc sheepishly mentioned that he hadn’t showered in a few days.
“Don’t worry about that,” Romo said. “I’m used to locker rooms.”
And so the $67 million quarterback and a man who doesn’t have $6.70 to his name sat next to each other and shared laughs for 90 minutes or so.
For Romo, who made news by changing a couple’s tire on the side of the road on the way home the night of the season opener, it was just another kind gesture to a random stranger. It meant the world to Doc.
“For me, it was a blessing,” Doc said. “It came at just the right time. It gave me some encouragement and faith in mankind. I just wanted to say thank you.”
Worse Than A Party Foul
Arizona’s head-shakingly bad loss to UAB
Because it finished so very late last night, today’s Cram Session didn’t get to a discussion of Arizona’s complete and utter mental collapse. Really, though, that’s all the better, because the thing deserves its own post. It’s just that unbelievable.
First, the video (thanks to College Hoops Journal and Awful Announcing). The relevant fouls take place at about the :25 second and 3:50 marks, respectively:
After the first foul, my default emotion is forgiveness. I think I would feel the same way even if I was an Arizona fan. (Though, given the team’s various offseason travails, maybe not.) Kyle Fogg makes a hustle play, scores a bucket on a free throw rebound, and — in the process of sincerely trying to help his team — forgets that he just tied the game. Dumb foul? Sure. But I could get past it, as Arizona coach Russ Pennell clearly did.
The second one, wherein UAB and Arizona are still tied with time running out, and Jamelle Horne intentionally fouls Paul Delaney — that’s beyond inexcusable, or inexplicable, or any word starting with “in” that comes to mind. It’s the sort of thing that never happens at the highest levels of competitive basketball.
Most college basketball players are drilled so hard from such a young age, not only on skills but on obvious late-game strategy, and they play so many games at AAU tournaments growing up, that eventually these things come naturally. You keep an eye on the scoreboard, and for the most part, it tells you what you need to know. Losing with time running out? Probably a good idea to foul. Tied? Lock in on defense, keep your hands straight up, and never, ever foul. Especially at half-court. Ever.
Horne, somehow, forgot, and I can’t think of anything clever to say about it. It’s just that unbelievable.
If you see him…
Point HIM OUT
I just watched Madagascar 2

I saw these things and I remembered this guy Simon called a “bushbaby”

Shout out to jonathon jayne too!













