New York City passes trans fat ban

The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation’s first city to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants — from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.   The board, which passed the ban unanimously, did give restaurants a slight break by relaxing what had been considered a tight deadline for compliance.  Restaurants [...]

MySpace building tool to block sex offenders

MySpace, the popular online hangout that has drawn complaints about sexual predators and other dangers to teens, said Tuesday it will develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders.  MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build a database containing names, physical descriptions and other identifiable details on sex offenders in the United [...]

Taco Bell Set to Reopen

In a followup story of the last blog entry I had, I read tohis morning that the Taco Bell restaurants on Long Island are set to reopen.  While the 4 locations in Nassau County were closed, a disinfection process and discarding of all their food was being conducted.  It is still not known whether the E. [...]

E. Coli Breakout

14 Long Islanders contracted E. coli in late November.  Three cases were reported in Nassau, and the rest in Suffolk.  Of the three Nassau cases, only the boy had visited a Taco Bell, officials said. In Suffolk, nine of the 11 had patronized Taco Bell.  This hits home because I am from Nassau county on Long [...]

Casual Games Go Upscale

 
Casual games are simple, one-player puzzles that can be played on desktop computers, gaming consoles, cell phones or hand-held computers.  It takes less than a minute to understand the rules, structure and plot.  The games often revolve around spelling, trivia, arithmetic or geometry.  It is odd that these games would undergo a transformation and use [...]

9 Out of 10 Emails are Spam

According to U.S. email security company Postini, the number of “spam” messages has tripled since June and now accounts for as many as nine out of 10 e-mails sent worldwide due to criminal gangs using hijacked computers.  To me this is an absurd amount of spam email.  I used to use AOL for my email [...]

Jared Jordan Video Game Style

The video game College Hoops 2k7 has included Marist in the game.  This is quite the norm, but this year Marist point guard, Jared Jordan, is ranked the 14th highest point guard in the game.  This is quite an accomplishment and it is great that Jordan is being recognized.  The video game version of Jared [...]

Football Coaches in Suits???

   
This past Sunday marked the first time that NFL Head Coaches were able to wear a suit on the sidelines.  Mike Nolan, head coach of the 49ers had requested to wear a suit, but the NFL declined because head coaches are required to wear attire manufactured by Reebok.  Nolan had requested again to sport [...]

Kramer’s Racist Tirade

 This footage was rather surprising because unusual to see a celebrity have a tirade like this, especially a racist tirade.  Michael Richards, known as “Kramer” from Seinfeld was seen calling an african american male the “n” word.  This started when the male was seen talking to his friends during the show and [...]

OJ’s Book and TV Special

OJ Simpson’s book and TV special “If I Did It” have both been canceled.  The TV special was going to air during Fox’s Sweeps Week, but Fox thought better of it.  I think that this was a good idea because it would only surround more controversy around OJ.  Some would view these publications as a [...]