Other old ladies might still think the foxtrot’s hot, but this group of retired grandmothers in Beijing have fallen in love with what Afrika Bambaataa once called “the perfect beat” : hip-hop.

Hip-Hop Chinese Grandma

The women, led by 71-year-old Wu Ling, have been dancing to American hip-hop for the exercise and positive energy it offers – and they claim it’s even been improving their health.

Go here if you’re looking for Reuters’ full story. 

Now go call your grandma, it’s the holidays.

From The DL Show

The inimitable and always entertaining Lee “Scratch� Perry has taken to sending messages directly to his fans through his Myspace page. In his most recent message, Lee tells his fans to quit eating meat and sniffing cocaine. Listen up! This is coming from a guy who routinely huffed paint and gasoline into his 50s, and he knows what he’s talking about. And check out our Tuff Gong issue to read about how Lee gave Bob Marley the name Tuff Gong.

“I’m dying to change. I can brag about a lot of shit I did or accomplished in the game but it was a lot of pain behind that…a lot of regrets and mistakes.” - EZStakGeez

Frank 151 traded emails with Harrisburg, PA’s EZStakGeez to find out what’s up with him, his music and life in Central Pennsylvania. EZStaks discusses among other things, the faith healing that helped him beat cancer and why he thinks Lil’ Wayne is a phony. Check him out at www.myspace.com/ezstakgeezgmc and go to the Frank Radio to hear his certified classic, “Double Dutch� produced by Aganee. Enjoy.

EZStakGeez: “Ain’t nothing going on in Harrisburg right now. What do we have to attract attention? We have nothing professional of no sort and we are the state capital. I’m the hottest out my city but I’m not gonna let this city’s plague shit on my talent or artistry. So I’m taking my music else where. But if you wanna go to jail then this is the place to be.�

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Mathematicians have proposed a theory as to how traffic jams are caused.

Holidaze is here.

Microsoft had to pull the plug last week on an instant messenging system the company had devised so children could email Santa their xmas lists.  Why?  Because of a bug in the system, the automated Santa was talking dirty to the kids.

The problem came to Microsoft’s attention when a UK reporter documented the program’s chat session with his underage neices.  Apparently, after the girls repeatedly asked if he would eat their pizza, the online Santa couldn’t stand it anymore and began talking about oral sex.  Literally.

And this is the guy we’re telling kids is going to come down their chimney late at night?

Go here for more of the story… direct from Microsoft’s own news source.

FreeRice is an online game – a free, neverending vocabulary quiz.  Even if vocab’s not your thing, it’s surprising how fast playing the game can improve your lexicon.  The site also monitors your vocab as it improves, and adjusts gameplay to match.

More importantly, for each word you correctly identify, the website donates 20 grains of rice to starving communities around the world, paid for by advertisements on the gamepage.  They also keep daily and monthly tallies, which have been growing exponentially ever since the website launched in October. 

So this holiday season, consider making a donation that doesn’t cost you a cent — and will improve your communication skills at the same time….  Everybody wins.

Watch out though – it gets addictive.

Relationship Between Money and Problems…

Frank151 teamed up with the likes of Decon, Vtech and 2K Sports to tear the roof off Stones Throw’s Bounce Tour, which just wrapped up in Baltimore.  Stones Throw stalwarts Madlib, Percee P, Peanut Butter Wolf and J.Rocc put it down hard at New York’s Highline Ballroom last Sunday Dec 2.  The tour was in support of the forthcoming team-up compilation from Stones Throw & 2K, Peanut Butter Wolf presents 2k8: B-Ball Zombie War.  Check out the album preview here.