Ving Rhames: a worker at Ving Rhames' home was mauled to death today by Rhames' dogs. That is so scary. I could not imagine the fear this poor guy felt. These dogs were huge -- mastiffs around 200ish lbs. That is totally whack!
PeekYou: this is a new search engine to find people online. They issued a big press release on July 17 to announce the service's beta launch. I did a search on my name, and there was a link to a Friendster profile I set up a zillion years ago. Curiously enough, it didn't have my MySpace profile or Blogger profile. I use these two services routinely. I haven't been in Friendster again since the day I set it up. The service is intended to "round up" all the various internet identities for a single person and offer a central search engine for finding all the information you can about an individual. It's a bit spooky in ways. This could be a pedophile or a stalker's dream. Watch out what you are posting about yourself, friends, family, and coworkers. Chances are that info could end up in PeekYou at some point.
Pipl: This is another service like PeekYou. Blah blah. Same old crap, different search term. I searched on this service, and I didn't find much about me on there. That's good. I don't have anything that I have posted that I am embarrassed about -- except maybe grammar errors -- but I don't like the idea of just an weirdo looking crap up about me either.
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