For my New York/East Coast sisters, I give you Newport, Rhode Island as this week’s frugal vacay destination.

Why? It’s scenic, complete with miles of beach front road and a tour of historic mansions. It’s close to the tri-state area, and filled to the brim with adorable bed n’ breakfast lodging. Only thing I’d suggest is the make sure your bed isn’t squeaky if you go with your boo…nothing weirder than trying to get it in and waking up the whole house who stares at you angrily at breakfast the next morning…or maybe that’s just me…Enjoy!

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I’ve been suffering from a serious case of insomnia lately, so last night I found myself following random twitter timelines and it seems that cats were going nuts over Beanie Siegel’s diss-track, “Average Cat” which DJ Kay Slay (aka the Wendy Williams of DJs in my eyes) premiered while most of us were sleeping/partying/etc. This comes days after Beanie was said to go in on Jay at a concert in Philly. As always, props to Minya for holding all of us down.

By now, many of us have already heard the track. Ok, life goes on, it’s Friday and I need to get my eyebrows done. I just have always wondered about the fascination that we have with hip-hop beefs, are we naive enough to assume that rappers always have to get along? And do we make it any better by hyping it all up, since that is probably the (marketing) plan anyway? (more…)

^^^^ this is the funniest thing i’ve seen in a minute!

In Somalia, 112 year-old Ahmed Muhamed Dhore has a new bride, 17 year-old Safiya Abdulle—he says’s its a “dream.” {G}

In Richmond, California, the suspects in the gang-rape case (in which as many as 10 young men raped a girl after a school dance while their peers watched and took pictures with their cellphones) were escorted into the courthouse yesterday wearing bullet-proof vests, which proved to be needed since one of them already received a black-eye while in holding. {SFG}

Seems like Hillary Clinton got them to hug it out in Honduras. The Brazilians are like “whew, we can have some office space back now.” {NYT}

The global economic downturn has been bad, but for some it’s been a blessing in disguise. {R}

And yes, happy Friday…you will now sing “Poker Face” ALLL DAY!

That echo was killing me, but they rocked for my Yankees, so it’s all good. What did you think? Was I the only one secretly wishing for Lil Mama to run streaking across the field?  Peep the vid after the jump. (more…)

I’ve been a Mac since elementary school, when my geeky gifted class had the distinct pleasure of taking apart an Apple IIe just to see what was inside. But my dad is a computer tech from way back, so I grew up using PCs at home until I was flush enough to buy my own Mac after college. That said, I can understand some of the reasons folks give for sticking with PCs—especially the price issue. Hell, I haven’t replaced my five-year-old PowerBook G4, mainly because I can’t afford to buy the system I really want. (That and the fact that it’s still going strong, and how many PC users can say that?) (more…)

Shortly after San Francisco assemblyman Tom Ammiano told California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to “kiss his gay ass”, the governator sent this memo out to his colleagues explaining why he wasn’t signing a bill that had been pushed by Ammiano…which seems to have contained two words that may sum up how he really feels. At least he didn’t just go shooting them like The Terminator.

SF Gate