The 40-year-old rapper ‘ who ‘retired’ from music in 2003 to take up the position of CEO of Def Jam records before making a comeback ‘already has a ‘Marlon Brando retirement plan’ in mind for himself and wife Beyonce Knowles in the future.

Explaining he wants to live on a private island, employ a ‘genius chef’, smoke cigars, drink fine wines and get fat, the ’99 Problems’ star said: ‘That’s what I enjoy. That’s the payback for all the hard work.

‘Beyonce will be on the island too. But I don’t think she plan to get as fat as me. I’m gonna be fat.’

The music mogul ‘ real name Shawn Carter ‘ also revealed one of the high points of his career was when U2 frontman Bono invited him and Beyonce to holiday at the ‘One’ hitmaker’s home in St. Tropez, France.

Jay-Z added to Q magazine: ‘That’s an invite everyone cherishes. Bono is an ambassador for the game. He’s not, ‘I’m Bono. F**k off’. He’s still a musician trying to make the ultimate album.’

Looks like Hip-Hop rapper/singer CEE LO GREEN has another hit on his hands but this time on the internet with ''F'ck You!''

The soul and hip-hop singer Cee Lo Green has a penchant for beautiful music with a dark subtext.

In 2006, as half of Gnarls Barkley, his angelic voice sounded a little unhinged on the huge hit “Crazy.” The song’s surreal video had Cee Lo and partner Danger Mouse appearing within blurry ink smudges like a moving, threatening Rorschach test. The clip was watched by 5 million YouTubers.

Now Cee Lo is back with a new song that is just as melodic and nutty — although in its current form, not quite as radio-ready. Its title is “F**k You!”, which also happens to be its chorus, and it’s an angry kiss-off toward a lover who has left for a richer man.

During the chorus, the expletive rolls off Cee Lo’s tongue like he’s saying grace, but the lyrics are instantly relatable to anyone who’s been scorned: “I guess he’s an Xbox and I’m more Atari, but the way you play your game ain’t fair.”

And people will remember the lyrics, because that’s all the video is — a bunch of words flashing on the screen. “F**k You!” mixes up the text size and occasionally changes background colors. Beyond that, however, it’s basically just video karaoke — a bold choice considering any controversy over the song was sure to be about its words.

According to a New York Times article, the no-frills video was rushed out as a placeholder before a more elaborate clip could be created.

The video garnered more than 3 million views in the past week — a big number considering the song has gotten no radio play. The tune also was No. 26 Monday on iTunes’ top-selling songs list.

Watch the video and try not to sing along by the time the second chorus hits, especially with those “ooh, ooh, ooh”s that sound like some outtake from the ’50s soul group biopic “The Five Heartbeats”. Cee Lo’s video is already spawning imitations, most notably an homage (parody?) remix by hip-hop bad boy 50 Cent.

Cee Lo also has recorded a sanitized version of the song, “Forget You!” which has been played on the radio in England but not in the U.S., according to the Times.

Something tells me that version, if and when it hits the web, won’t be nearly so popular.

Police and emergency workers stand near the body of a man shot dead by a lone gunman on Monday in Bratislava, Slovakia.

A gunman killed eight people and wounded 14 in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, on Monday morning, officials said.

The state news agency TASR, citing the interior minister and police corps president, said seven people were killed in the shooting; a spokeswoman for University Hospital of Bratislava said one of the wounded had died.

After being cornered by the police, the gunman shot and killed himself, Slovak Interior Minister Daniel Lipsic and Police Corps President Jaroslav Spisiak told reporters near the crime scene.

The shooting took place in the Bratislava neighborhood of Devinska Nova Ves, TASR reported.

The gunman, who was using an illegally obtained assault rifle, was carrying two other guns and ammunition, Spisiak said.

Lipsic said a police officer was wounded in the shooting and was in a stable condition.

Of the wounded, who were taken to hospitals in Bratislava, “one patient is in critical condition, three more are in serious condition,” Health Minister Ivan Uhliarik told TASR prior to the reported death of one of the victims. Uhliarik said the remaining victims were “stabilized.” TASR reported a three-year-old child was among those wounded.

Spisiak told TASR the police received a call reporting shots heard in one of the flats in the apartment building. When police arrived at the scene, the gunman was leaving. Four women and a man were found dead inside an apartment and another man was shot dead in the building’s hallway. All six victims apparently were from the same family.

The gunman then started firing on the street and at the police, who cornered him, Spisiak told TASR.

A woman who apparently stepped onto her balcony as the shooting rampage was in progress also was killed. Her body was found later in the day by her husband, Lipsic told TASR.

The gunman was not immediately identified.

A drawing of the Kepler space telescope on its hunt for Earth-like planets.

For more than a year, the spacecraft Kepler has been combing the vastness of space looking for Earth-like planets.

On Thursday, NASA scientists will share news of what they are calling the “discovery of an intriguing planetary system.”

Since its launch on March 6, 2009, the space observatory has recorded tiny blips from more than 150,000 stars.

If a planet happens to cross — or transit — in front of a star, the star dims in brightness.

That is how Kepler determines it may have come across a planet.

In June, NASA announced that the space observatory had identified more than 700 planet candidates, including five solar systems that had more than one transiting planet.

But scientists need to examine further to make sure it is indeed a planet that is crossing in front of a star, and not another orbiting star.

Elias Abuelazam is accused of slashing 18 victims in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio.

Elias Abuelazam, suspected of stabbing 18 victims in a three-state slashing spree, is set for a pretrial hearing in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday morning.

Abuelazam is not expected to be at the proceeding.

Abuelazam was arrested August 11 at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. He was trying to board a flight to Israel when he was taken into custody, police said.

He is accused of slashing 18 victims in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio, killing five of them, from May through August.

Authorities had Abuelazam in custody twice in a recent two-week stretch, both within hours of when stabbings were reported, but he was released. Police said he had not been linked to the attacks at the time.

He was arrested August 5 after a traffic stop and July 29 for allegedly providing alcohol to a minor. He was fined $125 in July.

In the traffic stop arrest, in Arlington, Virginia, police arrested Abuelazam after learning he had an outstanding warrant for assault. A knife and hammer were found in his car.

Authorities now believe both weapons were used in the string of stabbings. One of the attacks took place in Virginia hours after Abuelazam was released.

Most of the stabbing victims were African-American. Federal officials have not provided a motive for the attacks, but Leesburg, Virginia, Police Chief Joseph Price has said he believed the attacker was targeting African-Americans.

Abuelazam is believed responsible for three attacks in Leesburg, the stabbing deaths of five people and the wounding of nine others in Flint and a stabbing that wounded a man in Toledo, Ohio, authorities have said.

The suspect is said to have approached victims who were walking during the early morning hours, asking them for directions or other assistance to lure them near his car, police said.

'Craigslist Killer' Philip Markoff found dead in prison...most likely from suicide.

Authorities say a former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist apparently killed himself inside a Boston jail.

Ed Geary, a spokesman for the Suffolk County sheriff’s office, says Philip Markoff’s body was found Sunday morning in the Nashua Street Jail. Geary called it an apparent suicide.

Geary says no additional information is immediately available, and an investigation has begun.

Markoff’s trial was expected in March.

John Salsberg, who was Markoff’s lawyer, said he was shocked and saddened about his client’s death. He would not comment further.

Markoff, a former Boston University student, pleaded not guilty in the April 2009 fatal shooting of Julissa Brisman, of New York City, and the armed robbery of a Las Vegas woman, both at Boston hotels.

BAD DOG......gets a bad rep for eating petition (this ain't the dog, by the way).

The dog really did eat the homework, or, in this case, the petition a South Carolina man was going to file to run for school board. The Beaufort Gazette reported Friday that Terry Thomas of Ladys Island had a petition with almost 200 signatures when he went out to check the mail. But when he returned from the mail box, Spencer, his 8-month-old Labrador and bull mastiff mix, had chewed up the petition.

Now Thomas won’t be able to run for in November for a spot on the Beaufort County School Board. The retiree is a substitute teacher and an assistant football coach at Beaufort High.

But he said when students use the old “the dog ate my homework” excuse in class, he just might believe them.

Who's laughing now? Maybe it was the crack cocaine that made the man laugh in court. Cocaine is one hell of a drug!

Court is no laughing matter as far as one North Carolina judge is concerned. A Fayetteville man who was waiting for his case to be heard Friday drew the ire of Judge Toni King after starting to laugh in a Cumberland County courtroom. Authorities said King asked 47-year-old Johnny Montgomery why he was laughing, but the man refused to say.

King ordered Montgomery to jail on a misdemeanor charge. As deputies were preparing to take Montgomery to jail, they searched him and found more than 3 grams of crack cocaine.

Montgomery was charged with felony drug possession. Authorities said he was being processed Friday evening and does not yet have a court date nor an attorney.

The calendar says mid-August. But out in the fields, it looks like late July.

A wet spring and cool summer have delayed ripening one to three weeks — and created nervous farmers, who see a shrinking window of time left to harvest. Urbanites can just grab a sweater when temperatures drop. But fruits and vegetables have their own responses, such as thickened skin, astringent flavor and slowed maturation. Once produce are finally ripe, farmers must rush harvesting.

And if damaging rains and frost arrive first, crops can be ruined.

“It’s crazy. This is the strangest summer I’ve ever seen,” said Tim Chiala, 32, of Morgan Hill’s esteemed Chiala Farms, which grows vegetables such as peppers, beans and squash. “If there’s an early frost, we’re in trouble.”

A forecast early this week promised warmer temperatures next week and gave farmers reason for hope.

“If we can get some more warm weather over the next few days, we can catch up a little,” Dave Kranz of the California Farm Bureau Federation in Sacramento said when the news was good. “And if we avoid rains in September, there will be time to get most of the crops in. This could just be a footnote — if the weather cooperates.”

But on Saturday, state meteorologists changed their outlook, saying the weather would remain essentially unchanged.

Hectic harvesting

Due to spring rains, planting got off to a slow start, said Kranz. The mud was thick enough to sink equipment. And the soil stayed cool, posing risk of rot. Late storms also knocked off blossoms, reducing pollination.

Since then, the mild temperatures mean that crops “have not really picked up any speed,” he said. That’s because plants have internal thermometers and need a certain number of hours of warmth to mature.

This all points to delayed and hectic harvesting come September. Farmers plant their fields in sequence, designed to create time between each harvest. But this year’s early-planted fields grew slowly — and although they’re finally catching up, they’ll be ready for harvesting the same time as the later-planted fields.

In the haste, “there will be plants skipped over, things missed, money lost,” said Chiala. “September is going to be a very busy month.”

To be sure, there are things worth celebrating. For the first time in years, wells have plenty of water and reservoirs are full. Even in the dusty San Joaquin County, there’s been less need for irrigation.

The Farm Bureau heard happy news from San Diego County nursery producer Janet Kister, whose flowers stayed fresh and aren’t so thirsty. The walnut crop is heavy at Stan Lester’s orchards in Yolo County. Olive trees have thrived and aren’t at risk of rain damage.

And all over the state, it’s an excellent year for livestock. Late spring rains triggered thick pasture grasses; cattle are still munching on their favorites: oats, vetch and clover. Dairy cows are producing milk at quantities well above last year.

“When it comes to cattle, everybody’s happy, thanks to the nice crop of grass out there,” said Steve McShane of Monterey County.

Vineyards on the coast, which produce premium table wines, say their grapes seem to have a little more acidity and less sweetness, creating a more desirable complex flavor.

Mixed fates

But here in southern Santa Clara County, Morgan Hill orchardist Andy Mariani says it’s a mixed picture, depending on the fruit.

His apricots are thriving. “They stayed on the tree longer, ripened more evenly and tend to be firmer,” he said. “When it’s too hot, fruit ripens quickly. It can be watery and softer, not so flavorful and can bruise.”

But other fruit, like peaches and plums, haven’t yet gotten the extreme temperatures needed to develop sugars. If the cool persists, their skins may thicken, and turn more bitter.

Chiala says his squash thrived in the cool weather.

But his beans — while tasty — are laggards. “They usually take 58 days to mature,” he said. “We have two plantings that have 62 days on them, and they still need four to five more days!”

Jalapeño peppers are another headache. He’s already invested $5,000 to $7,000 per acre, but he fears they’ll all mature simultaneously and create a harvesting bottleneck, with reduced yields.

Almost everywhere, recent winds caused avocado trees to drop fruit. Lemons are scarred.

Some tomatoes are still green, worrying ketchup and sauce processors. Raisin producers anticipate rain damage, because grapes may not dry in time, according to Fresno County’s Mark Borba.

Cotton growers are struggling, due to late planting and lower production. And in Colusa County, early-planted rice “will take some pretty hefty degree days to catch up,” said John Garner.

All over the state, the weather has delivered bumper crops of two things: weeds and fungus.

“Mildew is everywhere,” said Santa Barbara County wine-grape grower Jeff Frey.

If you want to know more about GOOGLE then you need to 'google' them to find out (lol).

At Google’s headquarters Saturday, Bosco So from San Francisco and Anil Pattni from Orange County were collaborating on an online social game that would allow groups of kids with diabetes to compete with each other to stay current on their diet and medication. Before this weekend the two were complete strangers.

A few feet away, Palo Alto middle school students Alex Hwang, 13, and Panini Raman, 14, musician friends, were crafting an audio application for easily composing music on a computer. Despite being up until 3 a.m. the boys were back coding at 7 Saturday morning, they reported with evident pride.

And nine time zones away in Munich, Germany, Nils Hitze and a team of software developers were working on a location-based combat game that would use some of the newest features of HTML5, the next big revision of the computer language that supports the Web.

About 170 independent software developers converged on the Googleplex this weekend, pitching tents as they did last summer on the verdant lawns of the Internet giant’s Mountain View campus for a three-day computer coding marathon in which bleary eyes are a red badge of honor. What’s different about this year’s camp-out, which ends today, is that it’s global, with developer teams in Germany, Mexico, Australia and other countries checking in through a video feed while building their own applications.

Colorful nylon tents dotted the lawn outside a building in a corner of Google’s campus Saturday afternoon, while inside, developers, some working alone, but most working in groups as large as 10 or more, hunched over their laptops.

Going global

The event, organized through grass-roots communities of programmers called Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs), is one measure of the rapidly expanding global reach of Google, which now gets a majority of its revenue from outside the United States. The first Mountain View-based GTUG launched in January 2008, and while there were a few random GTUG groups outside the United States before last year, Google did not formally launch the international program until its annual developer conference in May 2009. There are now GTUGs in 56 countries.

“All this interest has grown up over the last year,” said Stephanie Liu, who shepherds Google’s ever-spreading international network of GTUGs. “We decided to see how much interest there was, and there’s a lot of interest.”

A global network of independent programmers is crucial to Google because of the explosive growth of smartphones that run its Android software, and the continued expansion of its Chrome Web browser. Just like Apple’s iPhone App Store, the Android Market includes thousands of smartphone apps consumers can download. Google is expected to soon launch a Chrome Web Store where consumers will be able to buy games and other online apps for desktops and laptops.

Google depends on a far-flung system of independent developers to dream up the apps that will keep consumers buying software in those online stores. Liu also noted that developers in other countries can not only produce software products tailored to their home country, but can also serve as evangelists for new Google products.

Artist in residence

In one room full of programmers at Google on Saturday afternoon, San Francisco new-media artist David Newman was using an iPad to create digital portraits of GTUG campers. Newman, who does digital portraits that document life in Silicon Valley, said he wanted to be the “artist-in-residence” at the camp-out to capture its spirit of creativity.

“They’re all ready to spend the weekend to create something new. They inspire me,” Newman said.

The global sweep of this year’s GTUG camp-out sometimes made it tough for some developers to stay in sync with Mountain View.

In Germany, Hitze had just left a group of nine software developers hacking deep into the night on a problem with detecting overlapping polygons. It was early afternoon in Mountain View.

Still, to be directly connected to Google’s headquarters for an event “is great,” Hitze said in an instant-message conversation. “Even though we’re a bit ahead due to the time zone shifting, it is great to see all the ideas of the different chapters running through the Web.”