The massive weight gain didn't make Michael "D'Angelo" Archer see the darkness that was looming. Neither did the hermit-like isolation, the shattered friendships, the years wasted without a new record in sight, or even the car accident that nearly killed him. By the time he careened off a lonely stretch of road near Richmond, Virginia, in September 2005, hitting a fence and rolling his Hummer three times, he'd already failed two stints in rehab—including one where his counselor was Bob Forrest, the guy on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. Bob had been cool, D'Angelo says, but his message of sobriety didn't take. "I went in under a fake name so people wouldn't know who I was, right?" D'Angelo tells me, in his first sit-down interview ... Continue reading →
by Joe Grimm Published May 21, 2012 11:43 am Updated May 21, 2012 11:46 am Give the students credit. They were handed an ambitious goal and, when I lost my nerve and pulled the plug on their journalism project, “The New Bullying,” they plugged it back in and made it work. The advanced reporting class at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism is expected to go in-depth and produce multimedia content for the Web. A topic emerged in December 2011, when Michigan became the 48th state to adopt an anti-bullying law for schools. The law set a six-month deadline for public districts to adopt or update their policies. When the class met on Jan. 9, 17 juniors and seniors were asked whether they had ever ... Continue reading →
Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web’s most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change of leadership happened last week. The firm’s latest figures — spotted by Global Nerdy blogger Joey deVilla – show that Chrome’s line of usage creeped overtook IE’s for the first week ever, with Firefox, Safari and Opera completing the top five respectively. Statcounter’s findings give Google a double win, after the analytics site found that its mobile browser — Android Robot — had leapfrogged Opera to become the most popular option for mobile-based Web surfers in March. Measuring the Web is an imprecise science, very often based on scaling up small scale measurement surveys, ... Continue reading →
The White House visitors database contains meetings with lobbyists, members of Congress and celebrities including Hilary Rosen, left, John Boehner and Oprah Winfrey. A scrub of more than 2.2 million entries in our new White House visitors database yields a steady stream of lobbyists with access to the Obama administration, as T.W. Farnam reports in today’s editions. Farnam examined the visitors logs (which you can search here) to examine how often registered lobbyists are given access to the White House and surrounding executive offices. He found frequent visits by lobbyists such as Hilary Rosen (of recent ‘war on women’ fame), Marshal Matz (lobbyist for food and agriculture interests), Bill Samuel (AFL-CIO), and Nancy Zirkin (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights). But the logs also ... Continue reading →
The White House visitors database contains meetings with lobbyists, members of Congress and celebrities including Hilary Rosen, left, John Boehner and Oprah Winfrey. A scrub of more than 2.2 million entries in our new White House visitors database yields a steady stream of lobbyists with access to the Obama administration, as T.W. Farnam reports in today’s editions. Farnam examined the visitors logs (which you can search here) to examine how often registered lobbyists are given access to the White House and surrounding executive offices. He found frequent visits by lobbyists such as Hilary Rosen (of recent ‘war on women’ fame), Marshal Matz (lobbyist for food and agriculture interests), Bill Samuel (AFL-CIO), and Nancy Zirkin (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights). But the logs also ... Continue reading →
Saving your Space is a snap, and lets you customize and edit it. To save this Space: 1. Register for a Posterous account here. Already have an account? Skip this step. 2. Add Twitter username "amzam" to your Autopost settings. Continue reading →
Malik, a regular Twitter user, told the Post on Sunday evening that Prime Minister Raza Yousuf Gilani ordered Pakistan’s information technology ministry to restore access to the site.The offensive tweets apparently referenced “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” a competition on Facebook that Muslims worldwide have denounced for encouraging depictions of Islam’s prophet, which adherents consider blasphemous. A Pakistani court ordered the Facebook page blocked two years ago when the competition was launched.It was not immediately clear who in the government directed that the site be blocked on Sunday afternoon, but “this is not a simple decision, it is a high-level decision,” said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority. Some Pakistani Twitter users immediately downloaded software to circumvent the ban, while others were able to ... Continue reading →
