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A subculture of hip-hop music has developed recently among computer science professionals, who taunt each other in verse much as mainstream rap artists do, according to a June report on Wired.com. “Geeksta” rappers like Ytcracker and MC Plus+ spin verses such as the latter’s “I’m encrypting shit like every single day / sending it across a network in a safe way / protecting messages to make my pay / if you hack me you’re guilty under DMCA” (referring to a federal copyright law). Explained another, “Monzy”: “(I)nstead of boasting about our bitches, blunts, Benzes or Benjamins, maybe we talk about our math skills or the efficiency of our code.” A hip-hop journal editor doubted the genre would endure, though, because so far the major artists are males: “You’re going to need some females.”
Andre Guthrie, 22, faced with a special five-year-minimum sentence under the law because he robbed a Sovereign Bank in Lowell, Mass., “while masked,” argued to his sentencing judge in June that he wasn’t actually in disguise but merely in his transvestite mode (“Andrea Guthrie”), including wig, false breasts, and a fake nose and facial moles. “This is what he does,” said Guthrie’s lawyer. “This is who he is.”
Maureen Faibish, the owner of two pit bulls that attacked and killed Faibish’s 12-year-old son in June in San Francisco while he was home alone (after Faibish had ordered him to stay away from the dogs and shut him in a room), denied that she was in any way responsible for little Nicholas’ death. “It (was) Nicky’s time to go,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle. “When you’re born, you’re destined to go, and this was his time.”
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