Ms Hilton must start her jail term next month Hilton outside court

Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton has been jailed for 45 days after being found guilty of violating her probation for a drink-driving conviction.

A Los Angeles judge ruled she must start her sentence on 5 June and has no prospect of an early release.

Ms Hilton told the judge she was very sorry and that she would “pay complete attention to everything” from now on.
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The judge didn’t buy it either and told her she’d get 90 days if she didn’t show up for incarceration.

You have to wonder how many guys in LA will now be cross-dressing and committing felonies just to get a shot at Hilton’s ass behind bars.

So much for Tinkerbell Linux (See BeLow).

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It’s indubitable: Linux geeks are now the ultimate in hip, chic, cool or what have you.

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Paris Hilton Releases Tinkerbell Linux By Nikolaj Borg

New York, NY - The Linux world grew by yet another distribution this summer, as Paris Hilton announced the release of Tinkerbell Linux. On her MySpace blog, the New York socialite announced the release named after her famous Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.”First,” she writes, “I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I’ve been dabbling with coding for ages, but it’s taken me some time to find the courage to release it. As you know, I’m a shy and modest person, and wasn’t sure if it was good enough for the strict standards of the coding community.” [cut] It’s almost too much to even imagine: Paris hammering away at 10,000 lines of code with her tanga twisting deep into her toosh… ((;)))- ADM

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And now we have a Linux-powered icecream machine, MooBella. It can make and freeze a scoop in 45 seconds. Move over Ben & Jerrys, some say.

The Mrs would likely love one. Personally, i’d prefer a Linux BarMonkey v.5:

This is truly what three-dimensional sound is about. No expensive sound cards needed, just headphones.

A series of “multichannel compositions” apparently made by Aaron Ximm while he and his wife travelled about VietNam in 1998. The QuietAmerican recordings have been played “on numerous radio programs and streaming internet stations”.

The recordings are produced by subdividing source recordings into many frequency bands which are distributed spatially around a selected setting, diffusing them into a number of sound channels.

Pretty cool. I remember Wayne Morris and others at the Uni of Waterloo recording the sounds of rocks being dropped down the stairwells of the Architecture building on high-performance tape decks back in the ’70s. They were “industrial music” for the masses at the time. I suspect Ximm’s work is another wonderful extension of such techno-sound-buzz subcultures.

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If you have been using Skype for a while, it is time to reach the next level and spice things up.

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“How romantic”, lauds El’ Reg, quoting Les Lailey saying, “It was all right. But I don’t like chicken.” Food scientists affirm edibility of ancient grub. Les plans to hawk the foul’s container on EBay, noting “It’s a part of history.” Don’t skip related yarns.

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