In December 2004 Brown was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was successfully treated with surgery. He appeared at Edinburgh 50,000 - The Final Push, the final Live 8 concert, on July 6, 2005, where he did a duet with British pop star Will Young on “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag.” He also did a duet with another British pop star, Joss Stone, a week earlier on the UK chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Before his death, he was scheduled to perform a duet with singer Annie Lennox on the song “Vengeance” on her new album Venus, scheduled for release in early 2007.

In 2006, Brown continued his “Seven Decades Of Funk World Tour”, to be his last, performing all over the world. His latest shows were still greeted with positive reviews. His last Irish performance was at the Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006.

Brown was admitted to the Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia on December 24, 2006 after a dentist visit where he was found to have severe pneumonia Brown died the next day on December 25, 2006, Christmas Day, at around 1:45 a.m. (06:45 UTC) aged 73. The cause of death was heart failure, according to his agent. James was quoted saying “I’m going away tonight” sometime before he passed away. He then took three long, quiet breaths, and closed his eyes.

James Brown’s WIki

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The creator of such shows as Scooby Doo, The Flinstones, The Jetsons and many other cartoons I remember as a kid died yesterday of natural causes.

Joseph Barbera died at the age of 95 of natural causes at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles on December 18, 2006, ending a successful seventy year career in animation. His wife, Sheila, was at his side at the time according to Warner Bros.

Joseph Barbera’s Wiki

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What is Network Neutrality?

Network Neutrality — or “Net Neutrality” for short — is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.

Net Neutrality ensures that all users can access the content or run the applications and devices of their choice. With Net Neutrality, the network’s only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service. Net Neutrality prevents the companies that control the wires from discriminating against content based on its source or ownership.

Net Neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online. It’s why the Internet has become an unrivaled environment for open communications, civic involvement and free speech.

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Thousands of Michigan Residents Tell State Senate: Protect the Future of Broadband and Defend Internet Freedom

Protect Net Neutrality in Michigan

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From Stephan Spencer’s Scatterings Blog
It’s getting a bit ridiculous how often Wikipedia shows up on the first page of Google for just about every search imaginable. Micropersuasion has noticed it for brand searches. Google’s getting a bit lazy I think to give Wikipedia carte blanche access to page 1 of the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). Often times Wikipedia doesn’t deserve to be there (like when it’s only a stub, for instance).

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Here is a list of 4 of my favorite programs. I use all of these everyday. They’re wonderful and most importantly…they’re free! Enjoy folks!

Winamp 5.32

Winamp is a multimedia player made by Nullsoft. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware. It also now plays streamed video content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. Winamp 5 includes support for classic Winamp skins and Winamp 3 (Modern) skins; a fancy new Modern skin; the same classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel; a vastly more powerful media library; CD-ripping support (AAC@2x in the Free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in the Pro version); CD-burning support (limited to 6x in the free version); advanced title-formatting logic for file types that support it; huge AVS updates; support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams; global hot-key support; a new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in; options for disabling plug-in exception-handling for developers; a new Winamp icon; and the addition of XP manifest.xml to winamp.exe.

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive e-mail experience. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Thunderbird provides the most effective tools for detecting junk mail. Our tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail. View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird’s new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your messages.

OpenOffice.org 2.1

OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

VLC Media Player 0.8.6

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

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If you surf the web with any kind of regularity I’m sure you’ve seen those spam bot characters when signing up for a website. You know the ones that have a graphic with a random list of letters and numbers. I understand the need for these and in fact use them on a couple sites of my own, but none are as illegible as the following I ran into when trying to sign up for an account at the social bookmarking site Smarking.com.

Check em out.

I eventually got through with that last one. It says smile if you can’t tell. I understand the need for these to ward off spam bots, but why must they be so impossible for those of us with heart beats to recognize?

I almost didn’t sign up for an account because these were so hard to read and annoyed me to no end. To the guys at Smarky. I’m sure I can’t be the only one complaining about this. Why doesn’t someone get on that over there?

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