RIP Christopher Rios.  It shames me greatly that it took me most of a decade to realize the level of your genius. Big Pun died in 2000, the same year I moved up to the Bronx, fresh out of college.  A fellow Boricua, his shadow loomed large as hell during my first year living it up in the Boogie Down.  I remember the signs, the flags, the music blaring out of boomboxes.  No one’s death rocked the Bronx like his until Celia Cruz had her epic funeral procession three years later.

The new 5008 Compact MPV 7-seater brings new levels of quality, versatility and innovation to the sector, and goes on sale in January 2010 with prices starting from £16,895. There are three trim levels for 5008 – Active, Sport and Exclusive – that all feature the characteristic Multiflex interior with seven seats, the second row of which folds flat and the third row can be hidden below the floor. This clever folding seat configuration makes it possible to hold up to 578 litres capacity in the boot space that can be extended to 2,104 when the seats are folded.

As the web matures, we’re continuing to see what I think is a good trend. Instead of trying to cram new features into services, emphasis is being place on improving the performance of the services. The latest to do so is Digg . In a post today , Digg’s VP of Engineering, John Quinn, talks about what Digg is doing to try and make the site faster. This includes moving static resources like CSS and JavaScript to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and switching to higher performance distributed databases.

One Laptop Per Child XO-1 needed an OS for adults, On-Disk has created a new Debian distro called Xtra Ordinary 2009. It’s fast, simple, and surprisingly full featured.

They are a bit pixelated, but seeing these promos for the CBS classic “Garfield Halloween” and “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” really takes me back. Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Post this to MySpace Share this on Facebook Add this to Google Bookmarks Subscribe to the comments for this post?

Travis Fitzwater asked: So, you’ve figured out the basis of social media concerning your sales and internet marketing business, but you still don’t know what to do when you begin to interact in social media.  I had this same issue when I first started with social media and web 2.0, trying to figure out how to interact.Well, for starters, to conquer social media and web 2.0 strategies of the top earners, you have to treat social media like a relationship.  If you want people to be interested

Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Buzz up! Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin Add this to Google Bookmarks Share this on Reddit (health-res.com) Childhood Cancer Survivors: A U.S. study found that childhood cancer survivors are 25% more likely to remain unmarried, compared to adult cancer survivors and the general population.

The Flash Game? Oh, What Could Have Been.Game News — By Nix on October 8, 2009 | Playing The Flash on “Mortal Kombat versus D.C. Universe” is nice, but let’s face it, when all the Flash gets to do is run around the screen punching people in the back and what have you, it’s not really the Flash. So what would a game built around the Flash character be like? MTV ran across this video on YouTube that purports to the early stages of the Flash game before the project was canceled.

As always, thanks to Shannon for her work putting together the list! Some of my favorite deals this week include: Birds Eye Stamfresh :  $1 use the $.50 from the 9/13 SS Final Cost:  FREE after doubling Angel Soft :  $1 use the $.50 from the 9/13 RP Final Cost:  FREE after doubling Tony’s Pizza :  $1 use the $.50 from the 10/4 SS Final Cost:  FREE after doubling Freschetta naturally Rising pizza :  $4.50 use the $1 printable coupon Final Cost:  $2.50 To see all the deals this week, check out this post at For The Mommas Stumble upon something good?

The Lovely PosterMovie Images, The Lovely Bones (2009) Movie — By Nix on October 8, 2009 | Yahoo! Movies has a new poster for Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones”, one of those movies I won’t be seeking out, but I get this feeling I’m gonna love when I accidentally run across it on cable. Susie Salmon, a young girl who has been murdered, watches over her family — and her killer — from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.