A whistle-blowing Web site has posted more than 573,000 pager messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001.
The message were sent by federal and local officials, but most appeared to be from regular people, including frantic people trying to reach loved ones in and around the World Trade Center.
The Web site -- Wikileaks.org -- says it received the messages anonymously and will continue to publish them, in the order they were sent, until 3am tomorrow.
BTW: The messages have been authenticated and they're real.
Here are some of those messages.
8.50am "THE WORLD TRADE CENTER HAS JUST BLOWN UP, WE SEEN THE EXPLOSION OUTSIDE OUR WINDOWS."
8.51am "THERE WAS SOME KIND OF EXPLOSION AT WORLD TRADE CTR."
8.51am "World de Center is on FIRE!!!! No Joke.- Rick."
8.53am "CRASH AT WORLD TRADE CENTER. THIS IS NOT A DRIL (sic)"
8.56am "holy shit! a plane just hit the top of the world trade center! - Kate"
9.15am "Hey Honey! Can you bring some bagels when you get back? The pork chop is now crying about the World Trade Center plane crash."
9.17am "GET OUT OF NEW YORK CALL ME LOVE YOUR WIFE."
9.20am "US military has go to a high level DEFCON alert. Fighter aircraft have been scrambled."
9.55am "Honey Did you hear about the terrorist hijacking etc? I'm totally freaked. My heart is in my throat."
10.31am "ABSOLUTLY (sic) UNBELEAVABLE (sic)!!! The 2'nd tower ha now just fallen GONE just a billow of debris"
10.46am "AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE STAY HOME TODAY, DO NOT COME INTO WORK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. STANDY (sic) BY YOUR HOME PHONES AND/OR PAGER"
10.46am "My goodness, what's happening?"
10.46am "There is NO WORLD TRADE CENTER, ANYMORE! Honey, stay put and be safe. May G-D help us!"
10.47am "If you can please call me and let me know where you are going. I am a wreck. love you"
10.47am "Talk to me... I hoping you are no where near this. Eric"
10.48am "i love you baby....please becareful....i don't want anything to happen to you - Jennifer"
10.54am "YOU ARE ON ALERT FOR POSSIBLE DEPLOYMENT - LOCATION UNKNOWN - PACK AND BE READY TO MOVE"
12.28pm "The carnage/cowardess terroism (sic) pains me 4 those that hav (sic) left life/those left behind in pain/mourning-WHY, my god WHY? - Louise"
Despite a firestorm of criticisms, Google refused to remove a racist caricature of First Lady Michelle Obama that was the first result presented to users of its search engine.
Google has conceded that the picture of MObama, Photoshopped to look like a monkey, is offensive but the company resisted calls to take it down.
“Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority," the company said. “Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it.”
But despite Google’s stated opposition to self-censorship it does have the power to remove pages from its search results – something it frequently does to child pornography and websites that propagate viruses.
BTW: We're not posting the image.
Update: The blogger responsible for the racist image has removed it and issued this apology in Chinese (along with this very loose English translation): "I am very sorry for this article, andthat this is the program automatically issued a document from the article. Do not the subject of race and politics make the discussion too radical and sincere hope that the world is very peaceful."
Usually during the week of Thanksgiving you would tune in to Oprah to see what gifts the talk show queen will bestow upon her unsuspecting audience. (Secretly you hated every moment of it because you wanted to be one of those people jumping up and down because you're going home with a cupcake - or a refridgerator!)
But alas, the days of Oprah's "Favorite Things" episode have come and gone; there will be no such show this year.
In fact, a spokesperson for the show told the Huffington Post, "We have no plans this season for a 'Favorite Things.'"
After being unceremoniously dropped by Good Morning America yesterday, Adam Lambert appeared on the CBS' The Early Show this morning to talk about all the madness surrounding his "outrageous" performance during last weekend's American Music Awards.
During the pre-taped interview with Maggie Rodriguez, he discussed the criticism of the inappropriateness of his performance by saying “I’m not a babysitter, I ‘m a performer.” He also continued drill home that there is a double standard and he's only being targeted because he's gay.
“Lady Gaga, smashing whiskey bottles, Janet Jackson grabbing a male dancer’s crotch, Eminem talked about how Slim Shady has 17 rapes under his belt,” he said. “There was a lot of very adult material on the AMAs this year, and I know I wasn’t the only one.”
Adding, “If it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage I don’t think there’d be nearly as much of an outrage at all…I think it’s a double whammy. I think it’s because I’m a gay male."
But when CBS showed rebroadcast part of his performance, they blurred out the image of Adam kissing a man, but in that same piece, they showed the image of Madonna kissing Britney. Talk about double standards!
Update: CBS responds to why they blurred out Adam's man-on-man kiss, but showed Madonna's famous 2007 kiss with Britney Spears. Said a A CBS representative: "We gave this some real thought. The Madonna image is very familiar and has appeared countless times, including many times on morning television. The Adam Lambert image is a subject of great current controversy, has not been nearly as widely disseminated and, for all we know, may still lead to legal consequences."
You know this was inevitable. There's a new pop group on the horizon and it features the daughters of two of the biggest names in hip-hop: TI's daughter Zonnique (a.k.a. Star) and Lil Wayne's daughter Reginae (a.k.a. Baby Carter). There are two other girls in the group, Basha (a.k.a. Beauty) and Lourdes (a.k.a. Lolo), but they're like Kelly and Michelle, no one will pay much attention to them. And that's sad.
The group, called OMG Girlz, is managed by TI’s fiancée Tiny. She's teaching the girls the rules of the game, like the importance of writing their own songs, because that's where the real money is.
The OMG Girlz have recorded a single called “Ain’t Nobody." It's not half-bad, actually. The girls sing about teen love and getting over boys, then Baby Carter drops her 16 bars, "My name is Reginae/ But you can call me Baby Carter/ They love me and they hate me cuz I'm Weezy F's daughter/ Yeah, I'm a brat and I think it's my world/ And I'm stuntin' like my daddy, cuz I'm daddy's little girl/ When I walk up in the spot, upgrades the room/ And if you standin' next to me, I will upgrade you too."
Lil Wayne has promised to collobo on a track with them before he heads to prison.
You can hear a snippet of "Ain't Nobody" on their Myspace page.
In an age where everyone is lip syncing, we applaud Miss Whitney for singing live. But, unfortunately, during her performances last night on the season finale of "Dancing With The Stars" her voice - how do we say this delicately - cracked more than a few times. At least she looked fabulous.
If you go to the BP gas station/convenience store on Nursery Road in Tampa Bay, Fla. you're greeted not by a store clerk, but by a chocolate Labrador retriever named Cody ready to take your order.
"He hears the bell and goes running. When he pops up, that sets it off," Karim Mansour, the store's and dog's owner told the St. Petersburg Times. "Uncontrollable giggling."
It all started one day five months ago when Karim decided to bring his dog to work. He didn't think much of it at the time — he just wanted to have his best friend with him while he worked the sometimes slow, and occasionally, dangerous, early morning shift. The dog was given free rein of the store, and as a joke, Mansour put a shirt with a BP logo on the dog, and gave him a name tag.
"While he's here, he's an employee. My rule is, 'all employees need to wear the shirt,'" he said.
Cody has quickly become a fixture around the store and a celebrity in his own right. everyone wants to take his picture and, for Karim, Cody is keeping his business afloat.
"That Hess down the street is a superstore. It wipes me down. But people might come the extra half mile or so to get the more personal service — or just to see the dog. In a dog-eat-dog world, when our economy sucks and business is hard, you've got to find a way to stand out," he says.
Last week police arrested 58-year-old Lester Henry after someone saw him masturbating while watching a video on a public computer in a Burlington, Kentucky library.
But wait, it gets better.
Old man Lester wasn't watching porn, he was masturbating to a wrestling video. (Then again, that could be considered porn to a lot of people.)
He was arrested and charged with 2nd degree indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.
