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Wow, did they get ripped off, for one, I thought it was Monster.com, not Monster Cable that bought the rights to the former Candlestick Park for $6M over 4 years. So every time people mention Monster Park now, Monster.com gets a free plug and Monster Cable, well, they don’t really get their voice heard. And then, there’s the use of the stadium. As far as any sports fans know, it’s only used 8 times a year in the NFL regular season, not many dates to get your name out. And at 0-3 this year, the 49ers don’t look like they’re gonna make the playoffs. SBC got a way better deal ($50 million for 24 years) for the SBC Park, where the SF Giants play. They’ve got 81 home games there each season.

Of course, their audio/video cables are overpriced plenty, so there’s nothing wrong with the city of San Francisco getting Monster Cable to overpay for some naming rights (bad ones at that!) At least Monster Park sounds cool and makes me think of a horror-movie theme park.
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Candlestick Park, home of the San Francisco 49ers (news) NFL team, was renamed “Monster Park” on Tuesday in a $6 million deal with an electronics cable company.

“It’s a only-in-San Francisco-name and San Francisco prides itself on being different and this is just another example of us standing out in a crowd,” said Sam Singer, spokesman for the 49ers. The name comes from its new sponsor, Monster Cable Products, a San Francisco-area company that sells audio cables.

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Dang, that’s a crazy figure, but then ICQ #s are over 170 million or so now (hey, I still gotta sub 5 million ICQ #!). It’s still annoying when people don’t respond back to an IM, so you get to wondering if they are ignoring you, or if the server just ate the message. Then, you ponder the thought of resending the message, because the receiver may think you’re nagging them or they may be away. Usually this kinda thing only happens when they are away from their computer, or perhaps offline (I think you can only send offline messages in ICQ, which is still why I prefer that overall). IM still beats email easily for one-on-one communication. But I think for group efforts, IRC or chat rooms are the way to go.
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A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that some 42 percent or 53 million of Americans online use instant messaging. “IM” is especially popular among younger adults – the Generation X demographic – and technology enthusiasts.

IM is more than a tool for chatting. It is also a popular tool for self-expression. It’s starting to be adopted in the workplace as well.

http://www.webtalkradio.com/news/000014.shtml

Woohoo! Being one not to learn from her mistakes (or wait, it was free publicity, wasn’t it?), Paris Hilton has apparently made sex tapes since One Night in Paris was released to the public. And said tapes were the ones that were stolen from her house last month. You can bet the tapes are up for sale to the highest bidder now. Tapes showing her with ex-Backstreet Boy and ex-boyfriend Nick Carter (ya know, the one that mighta left some bruising on Paris) and some runaway model Jason Shaw (who? looks like Vanilla Ice to me). We’ll be sure to let you know when and where the video will be available (we suspect within the next month or two). Paris rolling a joint? We would have never thought, doesn’t she have people to do that for her…
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This time, London’s News of the World claims to have obtained a tape showing the high-stepping Hiltie getting naughty with ex-boyfriends Nick Carter and Jason Shaw. Hilton is said to be shown “writhing in the back of a car as she is groped intimately” by former Backstreet Boy Carter. In another scene, Paris answers the the door buck naked — wearing only a “pore strip” across her nose — for Tommy Hilfiger model Shaw, tattles the tab.

Elsewhere in the video, Hilton reportedly puffs on a joint, chirping, “Paris Hilton, part two: How to roll a joint!”

The 11 minutes of steamy footage obtained by the British paper is believed to have been culled from about 12 hours of video stolen from Hilton’s rented Hollywood Hills home last month.

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm

Pretty good guide with all the most popular spyware removal tools and lists some free antivirus programs as well. Having dealt with my share of viruses and spyware the past month, the more information you know about this BS the better off you are. Worth a read…

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/article.php?t=7086&page=1