Digital Product Reviews

Jeanne Louise Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment was  a French women that by birth has been tagged as the longest living person in the known history of the world. Jeanne  lived to the ripe old age of 122 years and 164 days. (WOW don’t you think ).

Also Jeanne lived in France her whole life and outlived her own daughter and her grandson. (again just WOW), Jeanne became a media celebrity when she was 113 because she was believe to be the last living person to see Vincent Van Gogh alive.

Jeanne entered the Guinness Book of World Record in 1988 after she surpassed the old oldest person until then (who was a Japanese women).

I wish we could keep living that long now…

Larry Gelbart

For those who don’t know, Larry Gelbart was a  veteran comedy writer who composed gags and zingers for comic greats like Sid Caesar, Bob Hope and George Burns, and whom work experience of 60 years included radio, theater, television and film, has died at the age of 81, according to CNN.com.  His wife, Pat Gelbart, said that he died from cancer at his home in Beverly Hills.

He developed the television adaptation of “M*A*S*H,” and wrote its plot, along with 56 more episodes of the show; wrote the books for the musicals “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and “City of Angels”; and wrote the screenplays for “Tootsie”  and “Oh, God!” among other comedy films. He won two Tony Awards (for “Forum” and “City of Angels”), and earned 12 Emmy nominations  and two Academy Award nominations.

James Traficant

This is for people with a good memory

Remember the guy in the picture above?

That’s James A. Traficant, the Ohio Democrat who was expelled from Congress and arrested after being found guilty of bribery and racketeering, walked out of prison in Minnesota yesterday  after  seven years behind bars.

Traficant, now 68 and still an eccentric former sheriff, did not answer questions as he left the prison alone and rode away in a taxi.

Linda Kovachik, a close friend who has kept in touch with him, said Traficant wanted some quiet time before deciding what he might do next. Many of his supporters say they hope he becomes a radio talk-show personality and hey, who knows?…

Shawn Johnson Dead

Remember a couple of weeks ago when every day  a celebrity turned out dead? Well, looks like that since there aren’t more deaths people have started to “fake them” at least that’s what “they” say… Following on from yesterday’s reports that Matt Damon is dead is a new one that claims that Gymnast Shawn Johnson is dead.

But the Shawn Johnson is dead rumors though have some history: The Onion created a fake story last June this year saying that Johnson was dead, and it seems this time round that it could just be a case of the same story going on again.

That Onion report claimed that Shawn Johnson was like a “racehorse” and that her parents decided to “put her down” after she suffered a knee injury. Her parents and fans didn’t see the humor at the time nor this one either.

Caster Semenya

Caster Semenya, the 18-year old South African runner that won women’s 800m title is a hermaphrodite according to the medical reports. In Berlin, at the World Championships Caster Semenya won a gold medal and after that race, people started questioning Semenya´s Gender.

The early gender tests have said that Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite,  has testosterone producing internal male sexual organs but does not have womb or ovaries.

It was confirmed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) earlier this week that Semenya entered the women’s event in good faith and the gold medal that Semenya win would not be taken back.

Poor girl, i really hope she can keep the medal she worked so hard to win…

Indicted ACORN Employees

2 employees of the liberal community organizing group ACORN from its branch in Baltimore, Maryland, were caught on tape offering some advice to a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring and evading the IRS.

In the video you can see O’Keefe approaching two women working at the ACORN Baltimore office and asking them for advice on how to set up a prostitution ring with more than a dozen underage girls from El Salvador (those #$%& probably have no daughters…).

One of the ACORN workers said to O’Keefe that he could refer himself as a “performing artist” on tax forms and declare some of the girls as dependents to receive child tax credits.

I think those women could use some quality time in prison, don’t you?

Also you can see one of the videos here:

Vampire Diaries

Apparently since The Twilight series is so much of a hit TV directors think that the only thing people want to see now is Vampires with relationship issues… So now,  apart from True Blood, we have a new vampire show this season and its called “The Vampire Diaries” (yes you read right…).

Here is a short version of the show´s plot:

The plot revolves around Elena Gilbert, a young heroine who is the object of passion for two vampire brothers—one good, one evil—who are at war for her soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia.

I still don’t know if i will watch this show but if i do i’ll write a review out of it for all of you to see

Blackberry Outage

In the last hour its been reported that the Blackberry Network Service is down for some user. The user are saying that they are experiencing problems when trying to connect to the Research In Motion/Blackberry service.

Blackberrys are famous among the business people for their compact productivity pack of applications and, lets admit it,  very elegant look and design. So i hope the Network is  reestablished soon, before some mad business guy have a panic/anxiety attack and decides that, since he can access the internet trough his Blackberry, the world is not worth living for anyone (and we all know what happens next…).

John Graziano

John Graziano was released this morning from the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, after two years, when he suffered severe brain damage while riding in a car with a friend.

But recently doctors determined Graziano’s condition had improved enough that he can go home, where he will have 24-hour care.

The 24-year-old  has been in the hospital since the Aug. 26, 2007, wreck in which his friend lost control of his Toyota Supra in downtown Clearwater and smashed it into a palm tree. The crash broke parts of Graziano’s skull.

Graziano, who was in a wheelchair in the back of a minivan, got out from the hospital at 12:42 p.m. His mother, Debra Graziano, and siblings, Michael Graziano and Christin Carson, rode with him.

Aeromexico Hijack

All the people who where in the AeroMexico flight that was hijacked from Cancun to Mexico City recently, got out safely from the plane (!!yay!!).

U.S. officials say that the reports indicate at least eight people, who are suspects, have been arrested included U.S, Mexican and French citizens.

The suspects hijackers were demanding to speak with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were  not met (nothing new here i guess, looks like terrorist aren’t very imaginative people…). But the funny things is that  when the police got to the plane they said there were no explosives aboard despite the threat.