NY Times to offer TimesSelect free of charge

The New York Times announced that it willoffer TimesSelect subscription service free of charge, which had kept older articles and its roster of op-ed writers in a pay-to-view area of its website, opting instead to open its archives to potential advertising revenue.

The TimesSelect service cost users $7.95 per month or $49.95 per year.

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Latest Facebook rumors: IPO, IPO, IPO

Facebook filling out for an IPO? The company is growing , doing $100 millions in revenues, and has powerefull advertising clients.

Here is the link from Facebook job postings

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Paris Hilton smokes a joint before heading to the joint

Pictures have surfaced of Paris Hilton surreptitiously smoking cannabis.

Paris Hilton was photographed allegedly smoking a joint while backstage at last month's Coachella music festival.

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Paris Hilton to go to jail?

Paris Hilton will be attending a hearing Friday for allegedly violating the terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction. Prosecutors have asked that she be jailed for 45 days,stay away from alcohol for 90 days, wear a monitoring device. They also seek to have her license suspended for an additional 4 months.

City Attorney said Hilton is being treated the same as anyone else.

"Anyone who would have conducted themselves in a way that resulted in this set of facts, we would have made the same recommendation of 45 days in county jail, regardless of whether they were a celebrity or not," he said Thursday.

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32 killed in shootings on Virginia Tech campus

The deadliest shooting massacre in American history savaged Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on Monday, as an unidentified gunman killed 32 people and wounded 15 more, then killed himself, his motive and identity unknown as of early evening.

Campus Police learned about accident about 7:15 a.m., and didn't secure campus immediately! The first email was sent by police to students was at 9:26 a.m. They wasted more than 2 hours! What were they thinking!


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Barack Obama launches his own social networking website

U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who recently announced his intention to run for President, has become the first candidate to launch his own online social networking website.

While many campaigns have created profiles for their candidates on sites like MySpace and Facebook for previous elections, Obama appears to be the first to launch a social network on his own site.

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Helpline for distressed Harry Potter fans

A British book retailer is planning to set a Harry Potter Helpline because two popular characters in the J K Rowling saga will die in the final installment.

"This could be a similar moment to when Take That (a pop band) split up - there could be a lot of upset teenagers out there. We are looking to set up a helpline for them," Debbie Williams of the book chain Waterstone's was quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph.

The final book will be published at midnight on July 21.

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Man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer wins million dollars a month later

A man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, wins a million dollars next month broken down into installments for 20 years. Unfortunatelly, he doesn't expect to receive all the money because his doctors have given him a year to live.

He picked up his first payment last week - 34,000 dollars after taxes. Other than a hunting trip to Alaska, he says he doesn't want to buy anything fancy with his winnings. He says he just wants more time.


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Global warming is very likely man-made

The most extensive report on global warming to date was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today. In the report, an international collection of leading scientists warn that the Earth's climate will continue to heat up for centuries.

For the first time ever, the report confirms that global warming is very likely man-made.

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Thailand approves copycat drugs

Thailand government said today it had approved a cheap, copycat heart disease drug, the first time a developing country has ignored an international patent for such a treatment.

As well as the "compulsory licence" of Plavix, made by US and European pharmaceutical giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis, Bangkok approved a generic version of Abbott Laboratories' Kaletra to treat HIV/AIDS.

"We have to do this because we don't have enough money to buy safe and necessary drugs for the people under the government's universal health scheme," Health Minister Mongkol na Songkhla told reporters today.

The move, was critised by the drug industrya and praised from AIDS activists.

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CIA Now Recruiting On Social Networking Site Facebook.com

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been using Facebook.com, the social networking site, to recruit potential employees into its National Clandestine Service. It marks the first time the CIA has ventured into social networking to hire new personnel.

The CIA's Facebook page (login required) provides an overview of what the NCS is looking for in a recruit, along with a 30-second promotional YouTube video aimed at potential college-aged applicants. U.S. citizens with a GPA above 3.0 can apply.

"It's an invaluable tool when it comes to peer-to-peer marketing," says a CIA spokeswoman.

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