What MySpace-Facebook Rivalry?

Into the wee hours of the morning on Oct. 18, News Corp.’s (NWS) MySpace treated Silicon Valley’s elite to a very L.A.-style party at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Thumping deejay beats, swirling lights, barely clad blonde models, and an open bar greeted Bay Area bloggers, geeks, venture capitalists, and the wunderkinder running successful Web 2.0 startups.

The message was clear: MySpace is on the move northward. Beverly Hills-based MySpace, the world’s biggest social network, is opening a Silicon Valley office and plans to hire hundreds of Valley engineers, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe had said earlier at a conference. What’s more, Murdoch and DeWolfe said they’ll make it easier for software developers everywhere to create applications for MySpace, a move made to much acclaim by rival Facebook in May.

Those were among the few nuggets of news emanating from O’Reilly Media’s annual Web 2.0 Summit, which also featured Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said as little as possible about reports he’s lining up financing that could value his company at upwards of $10 billion (BusinessWeek.com, 10/17/07).

Iran capable of firing 11,000 rockets into enemy bases if attacked

Iran is capable of firing 11,000 rockets into enemy bases within the first minute after any possible attack, state-run television quoted a top Revolutionary Guards Corps commander as saying Saturday.Gen. Mahmoud Chaharbaghi, the missile commander of the Guards, said Iran has identified all enemy positions and was prepared to respond in less than a minute to any possible attack.

“Enemy bases and positions have been identified. … The Guards ground force will fire 11,000 rockets into identified enemy positions within the first minute of any aggression against the Iranian territory,” the television quoted Chaharbaghi as saying.

Chaharbaghi did not specifically identify the bases or the enemy and did not refer to arch foes Israel or the United States by name. But the U.S. has 40,000 troops on various U.S. bases in other Persian Gulf countries and 20,000 in Mideast waters. Another 160,000 U.S. troops are in neighboring Iraq and about 25,000 are in another one of Iran’s neighbors, Afghanistan.

Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency also quoted Chaharbaghi as saying that Iran’s radar-avoiding rockets cover the entire Persian Gulf and the entire Iran-Iraq border. Both on state-run TV and in Fars, he only used the word rocket, not missile. A rocket is normally an unguided weapon whereas missiles usually have guidance systems. ord = Math.random() * 10000000000000000; document.write(”);

Chaharbagi was quoted by Fars as saying that rockets with a range of 250 kilometers (155 miles) will be delivered to the Guards ground force soon. He didn’t elaborate.

Iran has periodically raised alarms over the possibility of war, particularly when the West brings up talk of sanctions over Tehran’s rejection of a U.N. Security Council demand that it halt uranium enrichment.

Tensions are high between Washington and Tehran over U.S. accusations that Iran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons and helping Shiite militias in Iraq that target U.S. troops. Iran denies the claims.

Washington has said it is addressing the Iran situation diplomatically, rather than militarily, but U.S. officials also say that all options are open.

Last month, a top Iranian air force general said Iran has drawn up contingency plans to bomb Israel should the Jewish state attack Iran. He made the comments days after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that the international community should prepare for the possibility of war in the event Iran obtains atomic weapons, although he later stressed the focus is still on diplomatic pressures.

Iran on Thursday denounced a warning by U.S. President George W. Bush that the Iran’s nuclear activities could lead to World War III, saying the statement was warlike rhetoric geared at diverting U.S. attention from White House failures in Iraq.

The White House said Bush was simply making “a rhetorical point” when he suggested that if Iran could make nuclear weapons, it could lead to World War III.

Another top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander warned last month that U.S. bases around Iran would be legitimate targets.

“Today, the United States is within Iran’s sight and all around our country, but it doesn’t mean we have been encircled. They are encircled themselves and are within our range,” Gen. Mohammed Hasan Kousehchi told IRNA in September.

Last month, Iran showed off its military might during a parade that included torpedoes, surveillance drones and what Iran called its new domestically manufactured warplanes.

Iran also has upgraded its Shahab-3 missile to range of about 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), capable of reaching Israel and carrying a nuclear warhead.

But last month, Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, said he believes Iran is not as strong as it portrays itself. “Not militarily, economically or politically,” he said.

20 October European Leagues Results

England – Premier League
 21:38 October 20 
 
 FT Everton 1 – 2 Liverpool
 
 FT Arsenal 2 – 0 Bolton W.
 
 FT Blackburn R. 4 – 2 Reading
 
 FT Fulham 0 – 0 Derby County
 
 FT Manchester C. 1 – 0 Birmingham C.
 
 FT Middlesbrough 0 – 2 Chelsea
 
 FT Wigan Athletic 0 – 2 Portsmouth
 
 FT Aston Villa 1 – 4 Manchester U.
 
 
 
 Italy – Serie A
 22:38 October 20 
 
 FT AS Roma 4 – 4 Napoli
 
 FT Reggina 0 – 1 Inter Milan
 
 
 
 Spain – Primera Division
 22:38 October 20 
 
 FT Deportivo La Coruna 2 – 4 Valencia
 
 FT Levante 0 – 2 Sevilla
 
 FT Villarreal 3 – 1 Barcelona
 
 
 
 
 Germany – Bundesliga I.
 22:38 October 20 
 
 FT Bayer Leverkusen 2 – 2 Borussia Dortmund
 
 FT Bochum 1 – 2 Bayern Munich
 
 FT Hamburger SV 4 – 1 Stuttgart
 
 FT Hansa Rostock 1 – 1 Schalke
 
 FT Nurnberg 5 – 1 Eintracht Frankfurt
 
 FT Werder Bremen 3 – 2 Hertha BSC
 
 
 
 France – Ligue 1
 22:38 October 20 
 
 FT Auxerre 5 – 3 Lorient
 
 FT Caen 1 – 0 Lille
 
 FT Nice 3 – 1 Metz
 
 FT Rennes 3 – 0 Le Mans
 
 FT Strasbourg 1 – 1 Bordeaux
 
 FT Toulouse 0 – 2 Saint-Etienne
 
 FT Valenciennes 0 – 0 Paris S.G.
 
 FT Lyon 3 – 1 Monaco

Paris Hilton wants to be frozen with her pets

Paris Hilton wants to be frozen with her beloved pets when she dies.

The hotel heiress is keen to live forever and has invested a large sum of money in the world’s biggest suspended animation cemetery, Cryonics Institute.

She wants her body to be preserved and then brought back to life, along with her favourite pets, including her famous Chihuahua Tinkerbell and new mutt, Yorkshire Terrier Cinderella.

The Simple Life star said: “It’s so cool. Almost all the cells in the body are still alive when death is pronounced.

“And if you’re immediately cooled, you can be perfectly preserved.

“My life could be extended by hundreds and thousands of years.”

Earlier this week, Paris revealed her partying lifestyle left her feeling “empty inside”.

The 26-year-old blonde – who spent 23 days in jail for driving offences in June – is now determined to turn her life around and do worthy things instead of being seen falling out of nightclubs.

Paris – who is planning a visit to Rwanda – said: “Before, my life was about having fun, going to parties – it was a fantasy. But when I had time to reflect, I felt empty inside. I want to leave a mark on the world.”

Moore and Kutcher upset about candid lost photos

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are reportedly “embarrassed and angry” after learning that candid camera phone snapshots are circulating in cyberspace.

The photos, taken on a phone Kutcher lost during a trip to Spain in April, include nude shots of Moore posing on a bed, according to US tabloid the National Enquirer.

Reports suggest the man who found the phone in the back of a taxi is now offering the snapshots to sleazy websites – for $1m (€722,000).

A source tells the Enquirer, “In some of the 35 pictures, Demi lies sprawled naked on a bed with a light and dark red-patterned pillow propping her lower back.

Eva Longoria stars in ’sex tape’

Eva Longoria’s ’sex tape’ is actually a comedy video on Will Farell’s video website FunnyOrDie.com. [Agencies]The Desperate Housewives star revealed the minute-long video which was leaked on the internet this week was staged for actor Will Ferrell’s comedy website FunnyOrDie.com.

Longoria told KIIS FM DJ Ryan Seacrest yesterday: “I’m so amused. It’s so funny. Oh my gosh. I’ve gotten like 100 calls on it saying it’s so hilarious, even my husband thought it was freaking hilarious!

“We’ve got this comedian called Perry Hilton, who does everything that Paris Hilton does. If you go on there, he’s gotten a DUI. He goes out clubbing.

So, they go, ‘We want to do a sex video in that night vision – kind of like the one she did’.”

In the clip, Longoria is seen playing with her hair, jumping on the bed, and sitting on Perry – played by License to Wed actor Eric Christian Olsen – while he does push-ups.

The video has a fake time stamp of February 3 2004, a year before she started dating her now husband Tony Parker.

Longoria insisted she and Parker are “too square” to ever make a real sex tape.

She laughed: “We’ve never made a tape. We’re very square, boring people.”

Borat !!!

Borat Sagdiyev (Kazakh and Russian: Борат Сагдиев) is a fictional Kazakh journalist portrayed by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. He is the eponymous protagonist of the mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Humour is often derived from Borat’s taboo social and cultural viewpoints, deadpan behaviour, repeating phrases, overexaggerated “third-world” status, and physical humour. Borat is very racist and hates all Jews. He also fears the Gypsies. Especially, he says, the ones who suck blood.

Baron Cohen had played an unnamed foreign reporter with identical looks and similar mannerisms as part of BBC Two’s Comedy Nation in the mid-1990s. By the late 1990s he had developed this character into Borat. Borat’s first appearance was on the BBC in 1998,^[1] and by late 2000 Borat was, in his own words, “great success”. 20th Century Fox has stated that a sequel to the popular movie is currently under consideration.^[2][3]

Borat is said to have been born on July 30, 1972 in the fictional village of Kuzcek, Kazakhstan, to Asimbala Sagdiyev and Boltok the town Rapist (who is also stated to be his maternal grandfather). He has a 13-year-old son named Hooeylewis and 12-year-old twin boys, named Biram and Bilak, as well as 17 grandchildren. He has an older sister, Natalya (who he says is the number four and the number two prostitute in Kazakhstan [Borat has said both numbers]) and a younger brother, Bilo who is mentally retarded. It is also revealed that he has two wives as well as a mistress, a girlfriend, and a prostitute with whom he has had affairs on several occasions.

Borat is shown to have been married several times, after first having been betrothed to his half-sister’s plough while in his teens. His first wife, Oxanna, was said in the Borat film to have been raped, violated and killed by a bear while taking his brother Bilo for a walk in the forest. Borat was not negatively affected by this tragedy; he thanks the man who brought him the “good news”, and on the contrary, the movie shows that he celebrated his new-found freedom by pursuing Pamela Anderson and eventually marrying Luenell, an African-American prostitute he met while filming his documentary.

In his fictional, professional life, Borat is a journalist and presenter on Kazakh television. According to various in-character interviews given by Sasha Baron-Cohen, Borat attended Astana University, where he studied English, journalism, and plague research. During this time, he created five new plagues which he says “killed over 5 million goats in Uzbekistan.”^[4] Prior to this he worked as an ice maker, animal sperm retriever, gypsy catcher and the person who removes dead birds from a computer.^[5]

Borat was nominally pagan for most of his life. However, in the film he attends a Pentecostal church service and later converts his village neighbors to Christianity.

Borat greatly admires the political views of Joseph Stalin, saying that both he and Stalin are strong and have powerful “khram” (penis). He is strongly against women’s rights and was especially stunned upon learning of women’s suffrage. In his spare time, he enjoys playing ping pong, sunbathing in a green mankini, disco dancing, spitting, sitting on comfortable chairs, and taking pictures of unsuspecting women while they “make toilet”.

Dj Tiësto

Tiësto /tiɛsto/ (born Tijs Verwest /tɛɪs vɛɹʋɛst/ on January 17, 1969 in Breda, The Netherlands) is one of the world’s most famous trance DJs. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto. On his latest productions, however, he has dropped the “DJ” label and he is now known simply as “Tiësto”, an alias which is an Italian twist on his childhood nickname. He has also been voted “best DJ in the World” 3 consecutive times by DJ magazine and is currently ranked #1 according to the world DJ rankings, compiled by The DJ List, the worlds largest DJ directory. As of May 2006 Tiësto is the official worldwide ambassador for the Dance4Life foundation, fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS, for which he recorded the track “Dance4life“.

Tiësto’s motto is: “I feel the energy from the crowd and I try to give it back.”^[1]

No Sex Please , We Are Hungry!!

ITS bad news for men  women really do prefer chocolate to sex.

A survey for a shopping centre  has found that while women put chocolate at number four in their list of things that makes them happiest, sex comes in at number five.

Among the other findings are that the top way for women to cheer themselves up is eating. It doesnt say what. Lettuce? Celery sticks? Not likely. More chocolate, surely?

Number three in the happiest moments category is in bed. Having wild sex? Dont be silly, weve already made ourselves quite clear with the chocolate question. At least there is no mention of actually booting him out of bed.

Had they given interviewees a choice of in bed with other-half or in bed alone with crisp sheets (ironed by someone else), bottle of Chardonnay, family pack of Maltesers and Prison Break on the telly, the latter would have won hands down.

This is pretty grim reading for men all round, but then had they asked chaps the same questions, I reckon the fairer sex would be pretty miffed by the results. So, just to even things up a bit, here are the official her lists, joined by my own him lists.

Things that make you happiest

HER

1. Being with family;

2. Being in love;

3. Holidays;

4. Chocolate;

5. Sex.

HIM

1. Her going to her family, so he can stay in and watch rugby on the telly in peace;

2. That bit at the beginning of a relationship, before mortgages and babies, when she is so in love with him she will have sex with him a lot;

3. Holidays  she might have sex with him;

4. Beer;

5. Internet porn.

Top 10 best gifts

HER

1. A weekend away;

2. Cash for a shopping spree;

3. Chocolate;

4. Flowers;

5. A beauty treatment.

HIM

1. A dirty weekend away;

2. Not being forced to go on the shopping spree with her;

3. Beer;

4. A subscription to Auto Trader magazine;

5. Her giving him a massage (yeah, right, like thats going to happen! Try emptying the dishwasher every so often&).

Happiest moments

HER

1. At home;

2. By the sea;

3. In bed;

4. Shopping;

5. In the bath.

HIM

1. At the pub;

2. In the sea  fishing;

3. In bed, having sex, or anywhere having sex, really;

4. Cataloguing his CD collection;

5. In the shower. Its the only place in the house he can shut the door to shut out the noise of her nagging.

Secrets from the women’s toilets

MEN often wonder what goes on in ladies loos. Now the truth can be revealed. Women have punch-ups.

Jockey Kieran Fallons estranged wife Julie, 41, has just been fined £400 and given a 12-month unconditional discharge for attacking another woman in the toilets of a pub.

All waiting for Hariri

All Waiting For Saad Al Hariri!!