fanMAIL: Did Usher intentionally blur woman out of photo?
R&B crooner Usher Raymond recently visited the Motherland S. Africa with his producer, Rico Love. One fan emailed Sandrarose.com to inquire about a woman who was blurred out of one of the photos that Usher tweeted to his 3 million followers on Twitter.com on Wednesday. In the photo, Usher is seen sitting at a table with Rico and a LSLH woman whose features are indeed blurred out. But there is a simple explanation for that. View the email, the photo, and my response after the break.
NYPD officers employ body scanners to detect guns on streets
The NYPD is developing body scanners which will detect concealed weapons on the streets. The technology is still years away but it is welcome news to citizens of New York.
According to NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the new technology will be mounted on police cars on the streets. It will detect radiation emitted from a person’s body through any fabric or packaging except metal. The images will reveal the outline of the gun underneath the person’s clothing.
Is Microsoft’s ‘Ghetto App’ Racist?
British tourists James Cooper and James Kouzaris were on their way back to their hotel after an evening of drinking at a bar in Sarasota, Florida last year. Unfamiliar with the area, the two friends took a wrong turn and ended up in the ghetto where they were ambushed by a criminal minded ghetto dweller who riddled their bodies with bullets fired from an AK-47.
A new and controversial Smartphone app probably would have saved the men’s lives. The Microsoft app helps unsuspecting tourists (as well as longtime residents) avoid the ghetto in cities across America.
The name of the app — ‘Avoid The Ghetto’ — doesn’t sit well with critics who fear the app will drive tourists away, thereby hurting the economy in impoverished areas.
“It’s appalling,” says Sarah E. Chinn, author of ‘Technology and the Logic of American Racism.
“Of course an application like this defines crime pretty narrowly, since all crimes happen in all kinds of neighborhoods,” she told AOL. “I can’t imagine that there aren’t perpetrators of domestic violence, petty and insignificant drug possession, fraud, theft, and rape in every area.”
Out & About: Kandi Burruss, Phaedra Parks, Toya, Reginae
Last night, reality TV personality Kandi Burruss held a press event to celebrate the launch of her Kandi Koated Spades (KKS) iPhone/iPad app.
According to publicist, Saptosa Foster, dozens of press and VIPs — including Kandi’s besties Phaedra Parks (RHOA) and Toya Wright — packed a private lounge at ATL hotspot Frank Ski’s Restaurant.
While Kandi and KKS developers Konsole Kingz (owners Cj Peters and Marcus Matthews) demonstrated the app’s features. A few guests had the opportunity to play the app with Kandi, while others played the game on their personal iPhones. Two lucky attendees even walked away with iPads! “Kandi Koated Spades has all of the real action that we use in Spades, like reneging and cutting,” said Kandi. “I love this app and I know my hardcore Spades players will too.”
Kandi Koated Spades is available on iTunes. Visit http://kkspad.es/qWsdfR to purchase. For information on KKS, visit www.KandiKoatedSpades.com or follow us on Twitter (@kandispades).
Photos: James Pray
Audiophile Calls Beats By Dre Headphones “Extraordinarily Bad”
It’s f*ck wit Dre Day over at The NY Times which published an article yesterday ripping the legendary producer’s best-selling Beats By Dre headphones.
If you’re a black male, you probably own one of these sleek $300 headphones just because you will buy anything a celebrity endorses.
According to a music expert interviewed by The NY Times, the sexy headphones produce way too much bass, which distorts the music, and besides that, they suck.
“In terms of sound performance, they are among the worst you can buy,” says Tyll Hertsens, editor in chief of InnerFidelity.com, a site for audiophiles. “They are absolutely, extraordinarily bad.” Source
The Times article goes on to say that back in the day, manufacturers such as Bose “marketed high-priced audio equipment by emphasizing technical merits like frequency response, optimum impedance, ambient noise attenuation and so on.”
Nowadays a dude riding the bus doesn’t care about the sound quality of the headphones, as long as the big booty chick sitting one seat over sees him wearing the trendy headsets.
Celebs Out & about: Kelly Rowland, LeBron James, Angela Simmons, Nicole Murphy, Lance Gross
Singer Kelly Rowland gave the paparazzi an eyeful of her surgically enhanced hooters yesterday while leaving the London studio where ‘The X Factor’ is taped.
Rev. Run’s daughter Angela Simmons took her little sister and a fashionable friend to Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch in West Hollywood, CA yesterday. The ‘Run’s House’ star wore sheer, all black tights that highlighted her curvy physique. Her daddy, the Reverend Run, 47, and his wife, Justine Simmons, adopted Miley as an infant in 2007 after Justine suffered a miscarriage.
Steve Jobs: “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
In 1983, Steve Jobs, a 27-year-old multimillionaire, introduced the world’s first personal home computer with a mouse driven gui, called the Apple Lisa.
According to TMZ.com, this photo of the Apple co-founder and former CEO was taken today — two days after he resigned as the head honcho of Apple.
The post title refers to a Mark Twain quote that Jobs recited at a Apple keynote meeting after a media outlet mistakenly published his obituary in 2008.
In 2004, Jobs announced that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas — one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
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