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Archive for July 16th, 2009

Gary Oldman Prick Up Your Ears, betty, dorian & I are all airheads

Posted by princessxxx on July 16, 2009

betty, 4:20 in is for you.  4 minutes 20 seconds into the video i mean.  hahahah

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L.A. tops cities ‘meanest’ to homeless, Florida has 4 in the Top 10

Posted by princessxxx on July 16, 2009

UPI.com

LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI) — Los Angeles is the “meanest” city in the United States when it comes to the treatment of homeless people, advocates for the homeless say. Read the rest of this entry »

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The AIAS, The Guild Hall At SMU And GameStop Announce The Indie Game Challenge

Posted by princessxxx on July 16, 2009

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, The Guild Hall at Southern Methodist University, and GameStop are combining forces for the Indie Game Challenge, a huge game development contest with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line.

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Anything but Sue

Posted by Peter Kenneally on July 16, 2009

Covert art for the album, Johnny Cash At Fulsom Prison.

‘Boys growing up with popular names such as Michael, Joshua and Christopher have a good chance of leading law-abiding lives.

But young men named Kareem, Walter or Ivan could run afoul of the law.

That’s according to a recent US study that claims the more unpopular, uncommon or feminine a boy’s first name, the greater the chance he will end up behind bars.

While Shippensburg University professor David Kalist’s report in Social Science Quarterly shows that “unpopular names are likely not the cause of crime,” he explains that factors often associated with those names can “increase the tendency toward juvenile delinquency.”

Boys with unpopular, girlish or uncommon names often are ridiculed by peers, come from families of low socioeconomic status and face discrimination in the workforce based on a preconceived bias about their names, according to the study, which analysed more than 15,000 names.

Jay Corzine, chairman of the University of Central Florida’s sociology department, said, “Some kids could have a name that leads to teasing and being picked on and, in return, that child could become aggressive with others.”

Top 10 bad-boy names

Alec, Ernest, Garland, Ivan, Kareem, Luke, Malcolm, Preston, Tyrell, Walter.’

Wow. Alec?  Luke?  Malcolm?

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