Recently at last.fm, someone seems to have been able to get into user accounts, and make postings completely at odds with what the poster was known to do, when they were active @ last.fm.

Specifically, I noticed the account of the user 'obbrio' which has been in disuse for about 7 months, and now suddenly is posting shouts about about some promotion that sony is doing. Otherwise, there's no activity on that account, in other words, no scrobbling, et cetera.

Earlier this week, someone hacked into my facebook account, and although facebook locked my account until I changed my password,…

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Next week features Ecuador.

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An Impressive Gesture

I confess that many times I have meditated on the dramatic story of John F. Kennedy. It was my fate to live through the era when he was the greatest and most dangerous adversary of the Revolution. It was something that didn’t play a part in his calculations. He saw himself as the representative of a new generation of Americans who were confronting the old-style, dirty politics of men of the sort of Nixon whom he had defeated with a tremendous display of political talent.

He had behind him his history as a combatant in the Pacific…

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From the Los Angeles Times

Couple sentenced in Mother's Day stabbing of guitarist

Husband is given 15 years to life while his wife gets three years for fatal confrontation in diner parking lot over a near-accident with a restaurant employee.

By Jack Leonard

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

October 8, 2008

Walking across the parking lot of a Hollywood diner, Roderick Poole was on his way to dinner with his wife on Mother's Day when a car backed out of a parking space and bumped into a restaurant worker standing nearby.

"Watch it!" Poole called out. The vehicle's driver…

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Co-creator of mambo, Cachao, dies in Miami

Last Updated: Saturday, March 22, 2008 | 4:14 PM ET

Israel (Cachao) Lopez, the Cuban musician regarded as the pioneer of mambo music, has died at age 89 in a Miami-area hospital.

Family spokesman Nelson Albareda revealed that Cachao, as he was popularly known, died early Saturday after falling ill in the past week. The Miami Herald reports the bassist died of complications from kidney failure.

Cuban bassist Cachao is credited with inventing mambo music with his brother Orestes in the late 1930s.

"It was not only a great musician who died,…

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Mort Garson, 83; composer used Moog synthesizer

By Dennis McLellan

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

January 11, 2008

As an arranger and conductor in the 1960s, Mort Garson worked on albums by artists such as Mel Torme, Joanie Sommers and Glenn Yarbrough.

As a composer, he wrote music for Mel Brooks' and Carl Reiner's 1975 animated television special "The 2000 Year Old Man," "The Untamed World" documentary series, game shows, movies and "Marilyn! the Musical," which debuted in London in 1983.

And teamed with lyricist Bob Hilliard, he co-wrote the 1963 Ruby and the Romantics hit "Our Day Will…

Stockhausen Is Dead

Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose electronic works made him one of Germany's most important postwar composers, has died, German state broadcaster ZDF reported Friday. He was 79.

Stockhausen, who gained fame with avant-garde compositions in the 1960s and '70s and later moved to huge music theater and other projects, died Wednesday, ZDF said, citing the Stockhausen Music Foundation. It gave no cause of death.

Stockhausen's electronic compositions are a radical departure from musical tradition and incorporate influences as varied as psychology, the visual arts and the acoustics of a particular concert hall.

He provoked controversy in 2001 after…