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THE NEW MOBSTERS
Like any good piece of performance art, different people read different things into flash mobs. According to a recent BBC article, organizers of the Duchess County, N.Y., mob see flash mobs as a comment on public surveillance, while San Francisco organizers see the mob phenomenon for its potential to do social good: As long as you?re coming to a mob event, you might as well bring a toy or canned good to donate. But on the surface, flash mobs hold no actual purpose other than to take place, and the participants like it that way. With no agenda, there?s no reason not to participate.
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Film critics raided as Australia clamps down on screen sex
It was a chilly winter's evening, and Balmain Town Hall in Sydney was crammed with people awaiting a screening of a new American film, Ken Park. The lights were dimmed. But the opening credits had scarcely rolled when police burst in and halted the show. Several organisers, including one of Australia's most respected film critics, were taken away for questioning.
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ROBERT KRAMER
This site comes to you Ozric approved.
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Nice Batch of Links From Cup of Chicha
Not book reviews. Book cover reviews. (via iconomy) the pitfalls of having a literary pseudonym. new, cheap self-publishing
more...
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Droplift Project
Droplifting, an innovative distribution method... audio collage artists have their work smuggled into record stores.
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RIAA Ties up District Court in DC
Verizon apparently has become a primary target for the RIAA, as they say they have received at least 150 in the past two weeks. Whereas AOL/Time Warner, a member of the RIAA, and the nations largest internet provider has received none! Universities are reporting receiving subpeoneas as well.
Also: More links about this nonsense here and here.
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The Eyes, They Stare....
"The progressive escape of reality towards delusion is expressed in the pictures below. They have been painted by Louis Wain, an European artist in the beginning of this century. Since Wain was young, he used to draw and paint cats for calendars, albums, postcards, etc. When he became 57 years old, he was affected by schizophrenia, which overtook his life as well his art. The last 15 years of his life were spent in psychiatric institutions. His cat's paintings started to change and to show startling images. Quite revealing of his psychotic condition were the cat's eyes. See how they become fixed with hostility, even in the earliest paintings, because the psychotic probably tends to think that the world is looking upon him in a menacing way. Another sign is the fragmentation of the cat's body. They become altered in a strange way under the psychotic's gaze, and almost always are represented as distorted and phantastic shapes..."
Though..have a look at this guy's "normal" art....
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Tattoo Your Child, He'll Thank You Later
Get yer kids inked here at BabyInk Tattoo! Junior will love that "Tigger" Tattoo when he's 18!
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"Hands-off" Presidencies
Apropos of Pagan's recent discovery [Masturbating Lowers Prostrate Risk], I would like to remind the readers that, famously, Ronald Reagan found prostate surgery to be such an urgent proposition, he temporarily shifted power to George Bush, Sr. (Scroll down to "colon cancer.")
Reagan's most faithful emulator, our current President (if you will), has followed in his hero's footsteps in this regard as well, temporarily shifting power to Cheney for a colonoscopic examination last year after doctors noted the presence of polyps.
In preparation, Tubbs said Bush will take Fleet's phospho soda, a very concentrated solution that will be mixed with ginger ale or lemonade, to flush his system.
"We'll have him ready. His colon will be ready," Tubbs said.
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::: Today Only ::: on WFMU's "Re-MIXOLOGY" Spotlight
Big City Orchestra's
the Chimpy Show
featuring all tracks from BCO's brand new, radio-only release Chimpy
Friday, July 18th
5:00pm-6:00pm (EST) / 2:00pm-3:00 (PST)
check your time zones for any other parts of the galaxy!
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and while you're at it ...
head over to the BCO-webhole and download your very own the Chimpy Show cover art!
This show will not be repeated, archived or released, so record the show for future enjoyment.
... and remember, Big City Orchestra is royalty-free!!
Here's what WFMU has to say about the upcoming show:
The Big City Orchestra have been around since 1979, throwing proverbial audio grenades into the corporate and mass media trenches with samples, found soundbytes, reworked pop nostalgia, dark soundscapes, and more. Today, they present an open mic snapshot of our Commander In Chief, who digs his own trench. You'll laugh, but then, you'll cry.
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CAREFUL: THE FB-EYE MAY BE WATCHING
"Two FBI agents. They say you're not in trouble, they just want to talk. They want to come to the store." I work in a small, independent bookstore, and since it's a slow Tuesday afternoon, I figure, "Sure." Someone I know must have gotten some government work, I think; hadn't my consultant friend spoken recently of getting rolled onto some government job? Background check, I think, interviewing acquaintances ... No big deal, right?
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You Don't Even Need to Have a Cellphone For Them to Track You
Secret radar technology research that will allow the biggest-ever extension of 'Big Brother'-style surveillance in the UK is being funded by the Government.
The radical new system, which has outraged civil liberties groups, uses mobile phone masts to allow security authorities to watch vehicles and individuals 'in real time' almost anywhere in Britain.
The technology 'sees' the shapes made when radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts meet an obstruction. Signals bounced back by immobile objects, such as walls or trees, are filtered out by the receiver. This allows anything moving, such as cars or people, to be tracked. Previously, radar needed massive fixed equipment to work and transmissions from mobile phone masts were thought too weak to be useful.
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Shaolin Science
"The Shaolin monks world touring show The Wheel of Life is an incredible spectacle. The feats performed by the highly skilled practitioners of Iron Jacket Kung Fu seem death-defying, and mystifying. Behind every stunt, however, lies some straight forward physical principles.
Daily Planet uncovered them in a week-long series featuring the Shaolin monk performances and physicist David Willie's labratory demos. What did he discover? Watch and learn..."
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Your Cell Phone is a Government Tracking Device
..even when you turn it off. (In Russia, I've read, they remove their cell phone batteries when having sensitive conversations.)
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Game Review- Real Life: The Full Review
Volumes have already been written about real life, the most accessible and most widely accepted massively multiplayer online role-playing game to date. Featuring believable characters, plenty of lasting appeal, and a lot of challenge and variety, real life is absolutely recommendable to those who've grown weary of all the cookie-cutter games that have tried to emulate its popularity--or to just about anyone, really.
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The Year's Most Serious Attack Against Press Freedom
Catia TV in Caracas, a community television station that is not merely at the service of the community but, rather, is directed by the local people, has just been closed in a maneuver more often seen under the old military dictatorships: The orders came from the current Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas, Venezuela (and an ex-"journalist"): Alfredo Peña, supporter of the attempted coup d’etat of April 2002 that Catia TV, among others, defeated.
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Step Right Up
See the amazing and stupifying drawings of artist Jason D'Aquino.
Using a pencil of impossible sharpness and a magnifying glass, Jason does tiny intricate drawings on found vintage paper and matchbooks-using subject matter culled from circus sideshows to H.P. Lovecraft...
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miellpssed words
randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text. This is easy to denmtrasote. In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work. The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang
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Artery: Machinima
22-minute Broadcast TV documentary on Machinima, featuring the production of the Eschaton series. Features Machinima producers including Strange Company, the Ill Clan, Uwe Girlich, James Hamer-Morton and more!
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Cliff Pickover's "Waiting for Time Travelers" Experiment
We will assume that, someday, advanced beings will exist with exceptional powers. For example, if future humans ever develop methods for altering past events, then perhaps they would be trying to send us a message from the future. Technology should be sufficiently advanced for a future researcher to insert a message inside this frame:
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What Really Happened at Port Chicago?
It's the 59th anniversary of the Port Chicago disaster today. Was it the world's first nuclear explosion?
Everyone within a 50-mile radius of Port Chicago - located in Contra Costa County, felt a tremendous blast. At first most residents in the Bay Area, including Napa County, thought it was an earthquake. The night was Monday, July 17, 1944. Port Chicago has now been named the Concord Naval Weapons Station.
The Hiroshima blast was a year later, in August 1945. Not until the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki blasts was the general population of the world aware of terms such as "bright white light" and "mushroom cloud" in reference to a military explosion.
The coincidences and the oddities surrounding the Port Chicago explosion are only surfacing today.
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Art Meets Aerogel
There is no doubt that the heavens and the exploration of space have inspired beautiful art. However, a NASA center that is associated with science and engineering is not often compared to the likes of the world's greatest museums in terms of artistic inspiration.
Science and art melded, however, on a tour of JPL when one industrial artist with a keen eye noticed the creative potential of the truly space-age material, aerogel.
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United States Patent: 6,506,148: Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors
Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near 1/2 Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set.
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Viral marketing has virus-like effects
Viewing a promotional video on the Web can lead to symptoms of a virus attack that are actually part of a marketing campaign.
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P2P Networks Try to Throw RIAA Off Their Trail
The cat and mouse game between the recording industry and the public peer-to-peer networks has spun around again with StreamCast Networks adding an anonymizer feature to its popular Morpheus service.Record Labels Send ISPs Subpoenas in Piracy Battle RIAA sword-waving scares off file-swappers (record company sponsored propaganda?) Hot spots elude RIAA dragnet Upload a File, Go to Prison Piracy linked to terrorism (From the SPARE ME file)
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Remote Viewing for Fun and Profit
Whether or not you believe in remote viewing, you've always wanted to know how it's done, haven't you? C'mon, admit it! Well, now you can learn with this large collection of remote viewing documents to show you the way.
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From the unfuckingbelievable file
Can you say, "BLOW ME!" ?
...and don't forget: "RESETTING OR UNINSTALLING YOUR PEER-TO-PEER SOFTWARE TO KEEP IT—AND YOU—LEGAL" |
Not making any money on your music? Ever thought to blame the record companies?
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Vincent Price, art dealer
I just found out that not only was Vincent Price an art enthusiast, but he opened a gallery that still exists! And it's pretty good!
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A Little Folding Of The Hands To Sleep
A site devoted to euphemisms about death and dying...such as:
bought a pine condo
dangle in the sheriff's picture frame
go for a burton
retroactive abortion
shit the bed
negative patient care outcome
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Today In History
July 16th, 1860
A decree from Emperor Norton I of San Francisco, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, dissolves the United States of America.
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AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers
It has been learned through public and private sources that AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings). Some will remain working on Mozilla during the transition, and will move to other jobs within AOL.
Looks like folks are starting to post to ex-mozilla.org.
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Mangle Random Link Generator
Mangle randomly sends you to one of over 3 billion webpages on the internet
using the Google search engine.
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Ten Thousand Monkeys 54th issue
You know, I should have kept my mouth shut whining about how summer never seemed to start. It's hotter than the blazes, I tell you what ... and it's not even the dry heat!
Welcome to the 54th issue of Ten Thousand Monkeys, our official icky, sticky, hot, humid, mosquito filled stagnant pool of mid summer fun. Boy, have we got some great gooey gunk for you to dredge around in! So slather on that Skin So Soft, try not to get too many gnats stuck in your eye lashes, and set right down for a nice long read. I promise it'll be more interesting than the latest from Harlequin.
As always, check it out. Let us know what you think (even if it's "It's not the heat, it's the humidity!"). Think about contributing to the cause—we're always looking for new monkeys to add to the mix—and pass us on!
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Roll-Your-Own Net TV Takes Off
Despite regular improvements in the technology, adoption of Internet TV has been slow even in the more developed countries. For all the innovations in the past two years, Internet TV remains a choppy image in a small window opened on a monitor.
Even so, Internet TV is beginning to take off in a serious way.
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Rent-a-cow scheme opens for Swiss cheese lovers
Lovers of Swiss cheese can now lease their own cow on an Alpine pasture to provide the personal touch that store-bought products just cannot offer.
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Jakob Nielsen Proclaims: PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption
Summary: Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.
Dan Gilmor agrees.
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Delusion and religion linked
"Studying the mechanisms of religious belief could lead to a better insight into the minds of people with delusions.
An international conference in Sydney this week will hear that some religious beliefs -- including that a virgin gave birth to the son of god -- qualify as delusions.
In his presentation to the Cognitive Science Conference today, Macquarie University PhD student Ryan McKay will outline the latest thinking on how religious belief relates to delusion. 'The line between psychosis and intense religiosity is a difficult one to draw,' he said." |
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All hail the new Über Editor
...or just say hi, as the case may be. Bsti: tekno-industrial musician, student of Enochian Physics, minister of Chapel Perilous, et Tibiale Socius Venditor.
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Pencil me an ass
Because I'm going to ASSUME that THIS came down because blogger is on the warpath this morning and not because anyone felt or feared that the PC Police were going to kick down their door. It's FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This man does not look like Anton La Vey
...but he sure sounds like him, since the spooky organ recordings that the deceased head of the Church of Satan put out were actually the work of Richard Hunter, the man in the picture.
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'Responsible Fox.mp3'
Don Horton has sampled Fox News' "responsible" coverage of the Iraq War -- O'Reilly pontificating, retired military expert blustering and more -- then mixed it with his own improvised synth forebodings to produce a great piece of electronica (c. 6 MB). He's been invited to present it at the Electric Rainbow Coalition music fest in August at Dartmouth College.
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MS DRM is pure smoke [July 15, 2003]
Folks on AVSforums say they have successfully used tools from the Microsoft software development kit to rip and re-encode audio protected by Microsoft DRM in the WindowsMedia 9 format. This is only a rumor at this point -- I haven't seen the crack myself, but WM9 developers seem to be taking it as gospel.
How did these criminal masterminds pull off this incredible feat? Did they crack an encryption key? Did they beat an MS employee with a rubber hose? Did they heat a CPU in a microwave oven? Was it a buffer overflow? An underflow? What was this remarkable feat?
Incredibly, there was no exploit needed. These wily crackers merely had to write a program using well documented 100% aboveboard functions provided by Microsoft. It was not hard, involved no breakthroughs, did not depend on reverse engineering, and did not need a key. All they did was build the right DirectShow graph, and since DirectShow is a tool for third party software developers to build shipping software, ISVs can easily offer an all-in-one solution to strip DRM from content without fear of the DMCA.
What this means is that the DRM on which both Microsoft and their many partners in the RIAA and MPAA are counting on is nothing but a sham. There is no DRM in MS DRM.
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exhibition all month: August
the situationist
international & after:
what IS living? & what IS dead?
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Tune in tonight: kpfa's No Other Radio Network
Attention Internet Radio Listeners! )))))
Tuesday . July 15 . Midnite - 1:30am (PST)
Tune into kpfa.org ....... 94.1fm . Berkeley
| No . Other . Radio . Network |
experimental music and live interviews
with ... dAS & special guests............
wobbly
Steev Hise
Mr. Meridies
SPOTLIGHT Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age (see illegal-art.org for details)
Interview and discussion of upcoming San Francisco show, featuring many special things to put in your ears *plus* the usual hand-selected audio delicacies...
Brought to you by the good chefs at uB.kitchens
More Articles On Illegal Art
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Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta)
Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel.
Several freaks have even accused me of bringing on the modern world by my novels.
My writing deals with hallucinated worlds, intoxicating and deluding drugs, and psychosis.
But my writing acts as an antidote, a detoxifying, not intoxicating, antidote.
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Lifelog
Is this a cure for Alzheimers (or maybe an end to using the imagination?)
and then there's this guy...
Also see: Pentagon Alters LifeLog Project
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Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram
How much information does it take to describe a whole universe? Could that description fit in a computer's memory? Could we, as William Blake memorably penned, 'see the world in a grain of sand,' or is that idea no more than poetic license?
Remarkably, recent developments in theoretical physics answer some of these questions, and the answers might be important clues to the ultimate theory of reality.
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Images of Transformation
Two-Day Workshop on Laws of Change
From time immemorial, the science of Alchemy -- the study of the laws of change -- has provided humankind with some of its most potent and inspiring images and texts. At the many points when we seek to transform our lives, or to see the past from a new vantage- point, this ancient wisdom can provide inspiration. This weekend writing workshop will include guided visualizations based on Alchemical engravings. We will also write to music written for a 17th century alchemical work. We will work on new poems, and also apply cut-up and random techniques to Alchemical texts and to our own older work (if we wish to do so). Over the two days, other excercises will be introduced to enlarge our imaginations and open us to a larger sense of the poem and of ourselves. All levels of expertise, from to beginners to professional writers, are welcome.
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siTe Newz
New Dawgs onboard, new guest sidebar editor, new guest über editor, new ozric, new links.
Ok, Patrick is not so new, he's been at it for a week now, but we're gonna make him stay until he BEGS US to leave, and then we'll think about it. ;-)
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As a matter of fact, we're all bozos on this blog
Phil Austin, 1/4 of Firesign Theater, has a blog. His latest post is from May. He explains:We sneer at people who update their blogs daily. We don't care. We're about quality and to hell with dailyness. Unless things change. Unless I actually get it together and buy a new computer for our Mystery Island House and so not have to trudge next door to Ed and Darci's house to use their computer and so slow down on my entire life. I'll get it together any minute. That and a new cell phone. And the rain gutter on the Willow Glen House that I haven't finished. And the Nick Danger for July fourth I haven't written yet. And the trip to Mystery Island only a week away. I've got to make a list. By my standards, we're a big success on this blog.
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Pentagon Alters LifeLog Project
Monday is the deadline for researchers to submit bids to build the Pentagon's so-called LifeLog project, an experiment to create an all-encompassing über-diary.
But while teams of academics and entrepreneurs are jostling for the 18- to 24-month grants to work on the program, the Defense Department has changed the parameters of the project to respond to a tide of privacy concerns.
Lifelog is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's effort to gather every conceivable element of a person's life, dump it all into a database, and spin the information into narrative threads that trace relationships, events and experiences.
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Bananaslug
BananaSlug was designed to promote serendipitous surfing: finding the unexpected in the 3,083,324,652 web pages indexed by Google. Directed Google searches return pages most relevant to your search term, based on the pages' popularity on the Web. You may never see some of the pages way down the list that are relevant or interesting, but off the beaten path.
So we give you a little boost. We 'seed' your search with another word, chosen at random, and this accidental encounter results in pages you may have overlooked. What, if anything, do all the results have in common? You tell me! We show the seed word at the end of the page, along with the number of results, and how many seed words we needed to try before we got results (it doesn't always happen the first time!).
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Klint's Journal
Our buddy Klint is doing a personal journal with some lively idea and mobile blogging included. Go give it a gander.
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Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism
But futurist Howard Rheingold says the ultimate democratization of the media will not be about technological advances; rather, it will entail upholding old-fashioned standards to earn viewers' trust.
We asked Rheingold to pull together his thoughts on moblogging and how it will change journalism: Does the nascent moblogging movement mean journalism will eventually become more democratized, or is moblogging a fad destined to only ever be chic among a geeky minority?
Rheingold's prediction: The answer is being formed today, and moblogging "is one of the leading indicators to watch as the shape of the new mediasphere becomes visible ... Because the winners and losers of the era of mobile media aren't decided yet ... the uncertainty of the situation presents an opportunity: Informed action in the near future could influence the way this nascent media culture develops -- or fails to develop -- for decades to come." MORE->
Also see: Bloggers take on politicians
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The politics of open-source software
Mike Wendy says he doesn't hate open-source software.
Wendy, spokesman and policy counsel for the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), says he just wants to make sure government agencies don't unduly favor open-source or free programs over proprietary software.
"We want a process that is not based on automatic preferences," Wendy said.
The ISC is by far the most vocal opponent of a growing trend: Legislation that, if enacted, would all but prohibit government agencies from purchasing proprietary software for their own use. The ISC asserts that such legislation could jeopardize the future of the worldwide commercial software industry.
So far, the ISC says more than 70 such proposals have surfaced in U.S. state capitals and in about two dozen other countries. The reasons for the initiatives are complex and varied, but some governments have cited Microsoft's relatively expensive licensing terms. Other measures in some foreign countries are probably driven by issues such as anti-American sentiment.
No open-source preference legislation in the U.S. has yet become law, though the ISC is tracking proposals in Texas, Oregon and Delaware. On its "Open Source Now" Web site, Red Hat posts a copy of a California proposal--never introduced -- that says government-purchased software must offer "unrestricted access" to source code. |
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Happy Bastille Day!
or Happy "Expose the Godless, Illuminati Occult Plot to Destroy the World through the Evil, Humanistic Liberalism of the French Revolution" -- as it's know to fervent Anti-Freemasons everywhere...
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Cybersecurity Laws Expected
Businesses will get legal guidelines this year on how to secure their pieces of cyberspace, but lawmakers aren't giving details yet.
Forthcoming cybersecurity legislation will be "meaningful regulatory approach to securing private-sector critical infrastructure" says Representative Adam Putnam (R-Florida), who chairs a Congressional subcommittee dealing with cybersecurity.
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MP3 creator speaks out
The term MP3 is well-known to millions of the world's teenagers but its mere mention sends shivers down the spines of record industry executives.
The format responsible for a musical revolution allows you to compress sound into a file which is a fraction of the size of the original.
But a name which will be unfamiliar to many is that of Karlheinz Brandenburg - the German researcher who was one of the inventors of MP3.
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Jim Pinkoski: Real American Hero
Jim Pinkoski:
- has worked for Jim Steranko, famed psychedelic Marvel artist of the 1960s
- been a San Francisco rock poster artist
- runs his own museum in Nashville, TN dedicated to the scientific truth behind Bible Stories
- has illustrated more Bible illustrations at the Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible Project than anyone else
- tried to convert Carl Sagan
- has illustrated many Bible tracts, some of which you've probably seen
- has written Christian versions of Star Wars and Star Trek
Jim Pinkoski is an American hero. I love Jim Pinkoski, and you should too!
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Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle
Many question: "But is it Art?" Others reply: "All I know is it's visually stunning and it has Masonic lore and Celtic myth with tabloid news, thugs, comics, chorus lines, vamps and fairy tales, marinate in male vanity all stirred together. "
Then some reside in the middle of the road: "Since 1994, the celebrated artist Matthew Barney has been working on a five-film series called the "Cremaster" cycle, arty visual extravaganzas as obscure as they are inventive. Along with his other installations, and his own glamour (he's a former model, currently involved with the rock singer Bjork), the films have made Barney the toast of the Manhattan art scene. The last, and biggest, in the film series is "Cremaster 3" (the movies are numbered, but made out of order).
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Astronomers debate the universe
About 2,000 professional astronomers from around the world are gathering in Australia for two weeks of debate about the state of the universe.
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U.S. satellite feeds to Iran jammed
Jamming signals are coming from Cuba, sources say
U.S. government officials as well as Iranian Americans and communications satellite operators confirm that all U.S.-based satellite broadcasts to Iran are being jammed out of Cuba, one of Iran’s major allies and a nation increasingly dependent on Iranian oil.
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N.J. Lawmakers Vote to End Poet Laureate
State lawmakers voted Tuesday to eliminate the position of poet laureate of New Jersey ? an effort that began after Amiri Baraka wrote a poem suggesting Israel had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The Assembly approved a bill Tuesday that passed the Senate in January. Gov. James E. McGreevey, who cut off the $10,000 annual stipend that goes to the poet laureate after Baraka refused to resign, intends to sign the bill, according to a spokesman.
Abolishing the position was the only way to remove Baraka because the governor and Legislature cannot fire the poet laureate.
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Yoga Will Be Our Downfall. That and Indie Overkill.
If you've spent too much time among thought-policing subcultures, you know how tangled the swamp vines grow. Hard to tell a slithering boa around your neck from an innocent stretch of rope.
A certain LiveJournal rant-story, cyberpunk: Dystopia for the cyber generation, captures the feeling nicely. Mm-hm. Let's hear it for cashing in yr hipsterism and canned spirituality on some genuine individual thinkin' and action. Can I get a witness?
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 Ong's Hat: The Beginning |
| "I got really into this "time-travel cult" called Ong's Hat when a computer-game programmer I know told me she was contacted by a physics scholar who said that a bunch of her recent games reflected their canon. This dude told my friend that someone from Ong's Hat had befriended her and inspired her to create certain games without her realizing it. Whoa, right?" - Jane Magazine |
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