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You’re on You Tube! (Well…the court case at least)

A court has ordered You Tube to hand over records of every video ever watched on the site, including users’ names and IP addresses – i.e. YOU. Viacom, which is suing owners Google, wants the data to prove the popularity of copyrighted material and increase their legal liability.
Read more HERE

Source: Wired

Caribbean to expect more deportees from the British

The number of foreign criminals sent home from the UK has gone up by 22 per cent this year as authorities work harder to meet a new quota.
Read more HERE

Source: Pine Hill News

The Sweet Vandals make the greatest ever car ad music

An unlikely car, the Fiat Bravo and an even more unlikely band, the Sweet Vandals. They’re from Spain, she sings in English but…it’s just great.
If the ad’s not enough you can listen to the full length version of the song Beautiful HERE; or their live session on Spanish TV HERE.
Funky Spaniards
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Tip: Black Nerds Network

New York City summer means Jamaican Jerk

From jerk pans in Prospect Park, Brooklyn to a jerk van in Manhattan, Jamaica’s signature dish is all over the Big Apple. After all jerk, with its unique balance of flavours is one of the world’s great BBQ traditions, reasons the New York Times.
Oh, and they also compiled some Jamaican recipes.
“You have to taste that [...]

Bible being translated into patois as debate rumbles on

We think it’s a little strange that despite the many challenges facing our education sector that some people want to take what is an oral tradition, Jamaican patois, and turn it into a written language. Translators are needed for the US$1 million project that could take 12 years to complete.
Read more (not yet in patois) [...]

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