Phone Hacking Scandal

Check the latest at The Guardian UK

AND - now the US is investigating News Corp on this side of the Atlantic, I can't be anything but gleeful, this has been a LONG TIME COMING. Thanks to The Guardian and The New York Times for keeping up on this story for years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking

US authorities are probing two separate lines of inquiry -- one into whether Murdoch journalists hacked the phones of September 11, 2001, victims, and bribed officals. Hopefully this will bring down if not heavily damage News Corp - which includes Fox News, 20th Century Fox film studios, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Harper Collins publishers, satellite broadcasters including BSkyB in Britain, plus Sky channels in Italy and Germany, and newspapers including the Sun and the Times.

Timeline of the phone hacking scandal
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/18/uk.phone.hacking.explainer/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Borders Closing All Stores

Apparantly due to people either wishing to download e-books, or purchase online.

Do you still shop in book stores?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576454353768550280.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_Media%26Marketing

Wow, kids are still asleep

Usually, they are up before I am, so it's a nice moment of peace, it's difficult for me to get work done during the day in the summer, I can't stay up until 4am as I used to.

Speak of the devil, one of them is up.

Maybe if the fates are kind, you'll see the Sherlock version of the tattoo pic! I think I nailed the background.

Let me know whats up with you today!

Happy Birthday Beautiful Boy!

More Pretty! (English Subbed)

GACKT appears on program, is his crazy self, and sings new single Episode O! (He's in purple wig in guise of his character for Gackpoid vocal synthesizer, with various artists from Visual Kei bands (his old style) as backup.

BTW, GACKT is now the #1 Best-Selling Male Solo Artist in Japan.
(Male Soloists with the Most Top 10 Singles )39 Singles in a little over a Decade, YAY GACKT!

thanks gackt_army for link!