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For Christmas, my wonderful wife bought me the Archos 605 wifi. I told her that I needed something like the iPod touch but I did not want to pay over $300 for 4 gig of space. My 30 gig Creative Zen player is still ticking and has been very good to me, however I needed [...]

$OROS’ IRAQ DEATH STUDY WAS A SHAM
By TODD VENEZIA
January 10, 2008 — Anti-Bush billionaire George Soros helped finance a dubious study of Iraqi casualties that was rushed into print on the eve of the 2006 elections, according to a new report.
Soros, who gave more than $20 million to prevent President Bush’s re-election, contributed $45,000 of [...]

The black elite: Who’s in? Who’s out? Who cares?
Controversy swirls around upcoming book chronicling leading families
By ERNIE SUGGS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Lawrence Otis Graham gets the question all the time.
“Are you bougie?”
For the uninitiated, the word is derived from “bourgeois,” and it’s gained currency in the black culture, both as a compliment or as an insult for [...]

Ice Cube and DJ Pooh Launch UVNTV.com, Web-Based TV Network
(blacktalentnews.com) Hip hop icon, entertainment mogul Ice Cube and legendary DJ Pooh have announced the launch of UVNTV.com (U View Network Television), the world’s first real-time online streaming television network. UVNTV.com utilizes Microsoft’s Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform, and its channels are capable of full [...]