ECO-TERRORES - Ex-conselheiro de Clinton abre site "vote.com" em Portugal: O ex-conselheiro de Bill Clinton Dick Morris vai lançar em Portugal uma iniciativa de e-política em parceria com uma equipa local. O site vote.com, que tem dois milhões de utilizadores só nos Estados Unidos, vai actualizar os temas quentes da actualidade, propondo aos cidadãos portugueses que votem. Os resultados serão depois enviados aos órgãos de soberania nacional, tal como nos EUA são encaminhados para o Congresso e o Presidente.
Demeaning Dick Morris: Unfortunately, Morris has also shown himself to be a craven character. He's the man who betrayed his friend, Bill Clinton, by creating a high risk personal situation that dragged the presidency into a media scandal. He then went from being Clinton's chief strategist to a role as a commentator for Fox, where he did a slow striptease that revealed much of what he knew about the White House.
"High risk personal situation"?... The Morris Resignation (August 29, 1996): President Clinton's top political advisor, Dick Morris, resigned today amid allegations of a relationship with a prostitute.
30 Setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO - New Nirvana song reaches airwaves: A long-anticipated Nirvana song that's been the subject of much speculation and litigation finally surfaced on the nation's airwaves this week, more than eight years after singer Kurt Cobain killed himself.
.DE! Blondes 'to die out in 200 years': Scientists believe the last blondes will be in Finland
[03.10.02] Extinction of Blondes Vastly Overreported: Media Fail to Check Root of 'Study'
The World Health Organization says there is no such study - and that most journalists didn't call to check.
"We've certainly never conducted any research into the subject," WHO spokeswoman Rebecca Harding said yesterday from Geneva. "It's been impossible to find out where it came from. It just seems like it was a hoax."
The health group traced the story to an account Thursday on a German wire service, which in turn was based on a two-year-old article in the German women's magazine Allegra, which cited a WHO anthropologist. Harding could find no record of such a man working for the WHO.
26 Setembro 2002
VITAMEDIAS - When Bloggers Commit Journalism: When do webloggers commit journalism? What do informed amateurs and niche experts bring to the media ecosystem? Should journalists blog? And should they rely on weblogs as news sources? Should bloggers and those in traditional media engage in a dance of fear and loathing, or do both sides stand to gain from the other? Should blogging be taught in journalism classes?
VITAMEDIAS - A Subjective Transcript The September 17, 2002, Panel Sponsored by the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Entitled "Weblogs - Challenging Mass Media and Society"
CULTURAS IN VITRO - A Musician Writes It, A Rapper Borrows It: A Swap or a Theft? The heart of the matter is the Beastie Boys' song "Pass the Mic," which has a willowy, elongated flute sound rising above its cluster of rock instruments, breakbeats and turntable scratches. The exotic sounding tidbit, looped more than 40 times during the Beastie's track, is a six-second, three-note performance that the Beastie Boys clipped out of a 1982 recording called "Choir," a song written and performed by Newton, a professor at Cal State L.A. and former Guggenheim fellow.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - English as She is Spoke By Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino.
In 1855, Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino sat down to write an English phrasebook for Portuguese students. There was just one problem: they didn't know English. Even worse, they didn't own an English-to-Portuguese dictionary. What they did have, though, was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary and a French-to-English dictionary. Perhaps the worst foreign phrasebook ever written, the resulting linguistic train wreck was first published in 1855 and became a classic of unintentional humor. Armed with Fonseca and Carolino's guide, a Portuguese traveler could complain about his writing implements ("This pen are good for notting"), insult a barber ("What news tell me? all hairs dresser are newsmonger"), complain about the orchestra ("It is a noise which to cleave the head"), go hunting ("Let aim it! let make fire him!"), and consult a handy selection of truly mystifying Idiotisms and Proverbs ("Nothing some money nothing of Swiss.") Mark Twain, prefacing an American edition, marveled of its "miraculous stupidities" that "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect."
$12 clothbound.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Captive audiences bite bullet, accept pre-movie advertising: Movie fans who pay seven or eight bucks for a film are, in some cases, bombarded with the same ads they watch on free prime-time TV.
According to the theaters and the companies selling the commercial spots, people enjoy the ads.
CONTAMINANTES - Panel Says Bell Labs Scientist Faked Discoveries: Dr. Schön did not return a phone call asking for comment. In written comments in the report, he admitted he had made mistakes and apologized, but he insisted that his findings were all based on experimental observations. "I am convinced that they are real," he wrote, "although I could not prove this to the investigation committee."
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Hollywood's Gadget Factories: A miniature camera disguised as a lipstick generates a building's 3-D blueprint. An electronic card lets a PC user masquerade as the network system administrator. A wireless device copies all the data from a nearby computer.
No, these aren't exhibits from the International Spy Museum or the latest toys for sale at the local hacker convention. Although some of the underlying technology readily exists, they are Hollywood inventions
ECO-TERRORES - Technology vs. Civil Liberties? Government's Use of Biometrics Security Technology Worries Some Privacy Activists
VITAMEDIAS - As 25 Recomendações do grupo de trabalho sobre o Serviço Público Televisivo (SPT):
1. O SPT deve respeitar e fazer respeitar (...) os direitos de autor (...);
2. É recomendável que o SPT apresente, diariamente, um boletim informativo com informação local ou regional;
3. Que o SPT inclua um boletim de informação para crianças e jovens;
4. Que apresente, regularmente, programas essencialmente baseados em entrevistas;
5. Que apresente, regularmente, programas de debate sobre temas de actualidade (...);
6. Que apresente magazines semanais ou quinzenais dedicados a áreas específicas da informação, como as questões internacionais, as artes, a ciência e tecnologia, o ambiente e a cultura popular (...);
7. É recomendável a criação de espaço regular de programação, pelo menos mensal, no qual o provedor do SPT analise casos que lhe tenham sido submetidos (...);
8. Que apresente, pelo menos semanalmente, um documentário português, bem como integre na sua programação regular documentários estrangeiros de referência;
9. É igualmente recomendável o desenvolvimento de uma linha de programas biográficos e históricos;
10. Que a ficção de mero entretenimento se submeta aos princípios e obrigações do SPT;
11. Que não apresente telenovelas (...);
12. Que promova a criação e produção de teatro adaptado ao meio televisivo (...);
13. (...) Que a programação geral inclua com critério programas de entretenimento, como concursos de conhecimentos gerais ou específicos, talk shows e programas generalistas destinados a crianças e jovens;
14. (..) Que a divulgação da música popular no SPT tenha em consideração três critérios: a qualidade, a novidade e o top de vendas (...);
15. Que envide esforços para gravar e efectivamente apresentar recitais, concertos, ópera, bailado e outros espectáculos (...);
16. Que procure desenvolver uma produção constante de telefilmes nacionais, em produção própria ou co-produção (...);
17. Que fomente obras de novos realizadores e arrisque na descoberta, nomeadamente através de curtas metragens (...);
18. Que procure apresentar provas (...) em que participem selecções e desportistas portugueses (...);
19. Que apresente um programa de informação e/ou magazine desportivo (...);
20. É recomendável que a política de aquisições de produção internacional, proporcione uma alternativa aos canais comerciais (...);
21. Que a televisão do SPT desenvolva a informação relativa às regiões mais desfavorecidas (...);
22. Que inclua obras experimentais e de vanguarda.
23. Que tenha uma importante componente educativa e de ligação às universidades (...);
24. Que preste uma atenção continuada aos arquivos (...);
25. Recomenda-se a preparação de um programa da máxima qualidade pedagógica e técnica destinado ao ensino da língua portuguesa.
[Na realidade, parece mais uma grelha de programação do que a definição do serviço público de televisão...]
25 Setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Corrupt CDs + News: These are the music CDs that:
1. Prevent you from copying it for personal use or from playing it on computerized devices (computers, DVD players, game consoles like PlayStation, MP3 players, consumer CD duplicators, high-end stereo equipment and car CD players).
2. In the United States, Canada and the UK, these "copy-protected" CDs are often unmarked. Once you buy it, you can only exchange it and hope that the replacement isn't garbage too.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Movie Confab Hears Ugly 'C' Word: Intertainer leveled 14 counts of antitrust violations at AOL Time Warner, Vivendi Universal and Sony, claiming they have withheld movies from being licensed by unaffiliated companies while they developed their own on-demand streaming service called Movielink.
.DE! Can't Fool Bush: I've captured from The Daily Show the clip of W struggling to say "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Notice the look of abject fear as he realizes that he's going to muff it and it's going to end up on the news, and on damn fool weblogs.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Schøyen Collection Comprises most types of manuscripts from the whole world spanning over 5000 years. It is the largest private manuscript collection formed in the 20th century.
CONTAMINANTES - Rethinking the Think Tanks: How industry-funded "experts" twist the environmental debate.
PHOTO-GRAFIA - Molecular Expressions Beershots Photo Gallery: Photomicrographs (photographs taken through an optical microscope) of the World's most famous beers, arranged by country
ECO-TERRORES - Secrets of September 11 (The New York Review of Books)
Three-minute discrepancy in tape: Cockpit voice recording ends before Flight 93's official time of impact [...] Aviation experts said there could be several explanations for the gap.
ECO-TERRORES - Unveiled: the thugs Bush wants in place of Saddam: Corrupt, feckless and downright dangerous. Some say they make the Butcher of Baghdad himself look good. Who are they? The contenders for Saddam Hussein's throne.
Perils of Preemptive War: Why America's place in the world will shift - for the worse - if we attack Iraq
The Legality of Using Force: This effort to gain greater authority contrasts sharply with the approach taken by the president's father. In the run-up to the Persian Gulf war, George H.W. Bush first obtained a United Nations Security Council resolution permitting the use of force against Iraq. Only then did he seek and receive authorization for war from Congress. This is by far the better procedure, allowing Congress to make the final judgment after it becomes clear that no peaceful resolution of the conflict is possible.
Why We Didn't Remove Saddam by George Bush and Brent Scowcroft (March 2, 1998)
U.S. sent Iraq germs in mid-'80s: American research companies, with the approval of two previous presidential administrations, provided Iraq biological cultures that could be used for biological weapons, according to testimony to a U.S. Senate committee eight years ago.
U.S. Diplomatic and Commercial Relationships with Iraq, 1980 - 2 August 1990
CONTAMINANTES - 10 Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics
1 Young's double-slit experiment applied to the interference of single electrons
2 Galileo's experiment on falling bodies (1600s)
3 Millikan's oil-drop experiment (1910s)
4 Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism (1665-1666)
5 Young's light-interference experiment (1801)
6 Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment (1798)
7 Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference (3rd century BC)
8 Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes (1600s)
9 Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus (1911)
10 Foucault's pendulum (1851)
ECO-TERRORES - La dépression guette le monde: Pourquoi cette dégringolade ? Tour d'horizon de six «virus» qui hypothèquent une reprise économique mondiale déjà convalescente.
1. Purge de la bulle
2. Mauvaise gestion
3. Crise de confiance
4. Risque géopolitique
5. Contagion régionale
6. Médecins démunis
Recession Cut Incomes and Swelled Poverty Rolls, U.S. Says: The number of poor people in the United States rose last year to 32.9 million, an increase of 1.3 million that pushed up the proportion of Americans living in poverty for the first time in eight years, to 11.7 percent, the Census Bureau reported today.
24 Setembro 2002
CONTAMINANTES - Millionaires Lining Up to Buy Personal Gene Maps: A service to map a person's entire genetic code is being offered by America's genome entrepreneur Craig Venter
CONTAMINANTES - Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers: As more and more teenagers socialize online, middle school and high school teachers [...] are increasingly seeing a breezy form of Internet English jump from e-mail into schoolwork. To their dismay, teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @.
ECO-TERRORES - Nasdaq below point where bubble started: No matter how low the Nasdaq's stocks have dropped in the past two years, they have always remained above their lowest point in 1998, in the middle of the late 1990s tech run-up.
On Monday, even that was lost.
VITAMEDIAS - All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print: Google, the rapidly growing online search engine, introduced a service yesterday that uses its search algorithms - but no human editors - to create a news page that looks not much different from those of many news Web sites.
VITAMEDIAS - That's Advertainment!: Can advertising become entertainment? And vice versa?
It's a hard sell but more advertisers, programmers and cable operators are testing mutations of the traditional 30-second spot, trying to make ads more compelling in the digital broadband era when viewers can skip commercials in a heartbeat.
VITAMEDIAS - BMW Gets Its Own TV Channel: Upscale Carmaker to Run Latest Short-Film Series on DirecTV
VITAMEDIAS - Publishers Trying to Salvage Troubled Magazines: Some of the most troubled magazines are the largest and most storied. Reader's Digest has lost 25 percent of its circulation in the last 10 years, and TV Guide has fallen even more precipitously. Upstarts like Business 2.0, Fast Company, Wired and Red Herring have found out that when the new economy became old news, readers, and especially advertisers, did not necessarily need a new kind of magazine.
VITAMEDIAS - AOL, Disney in Talks to Merge News Operations: Plan would spin off the firms' CNN and ABC News divisions into a stand-alone venture.
ECO-TERRORES - Texas executions are so routine that few notice: His was the 26th execution by the state this year, the third in nine days and the second in 24 hours. Shamburger's finale, like other recent applications of Texas's death penalty, was practically routine.
Of 61 convicts who have been or are scheduled for execution in the United States this year, 35 of them are in Texas.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Canadian bestseller lists are bunk: "We are in the Dark Ages," says publisher Kim McArthur, who has been sitting on an industry-wide committee studying the way suppliers and retailers in other industries and in other countries track sales and exchange electronic data. "Have you noticed how when a movie opens, we know how many people went the first weekend?", she asks rhetorically. "What we do in books is to say, 'Let's hold our finger up in the air and guess how many people bought our books over the weekend.' That would never, ever happen in a grocery store, in the movies or in the record industry."
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Danger: artist at work
I was one of the hopeful punters who pitched up last week for art activist Santiago Sierra's private view at the Lisson Gallery. The whole place was - now infamously - boarded up. There was (and still is) a sign by the door, spelling it out quite clearly: "Space closed by corrugated metal." Most of the gallery guests, however, seemed unable to read. They poked and pushed, rang every doorbell of the neighbouring buildings, as if desperate for that free glass of wine often available at such gatherings. I sat on the wall across the street to observe.
What struck me was how few paused long enough to think about what was going on. The sign tells you everything, or almost. My favourite was the glam Euro couple, one of whom snapped at the other: "I told you we should have come earlier." The comic humanity of the comings and bemused goings, combined with a rugged, industrial, minimal aesthetic, made it one of the most pleasant private views I have been to in a long while. I think it's a great piece.
.DE! Airport Has Ribbon Cutting, But No Scissors Allowed: It was time to cut the ribbon on a new exhibit at the Pittsburgh airport.
But this would have to be a ribbon-cutting without the cutting, because scissors aren't allowed in the airport anymore. So, the VIPs had to tear the ribbon instead.
VITAMEDIAS - Advertising works, claims new research: Unilever founder Lord Leverhulme famously grumbled that half his advertising worked, the trouble was he never knew which half, and advertisers have searched for decades for proof that their campaigns work. Now a new report claims to offer evidence that it does.
The report, entitled The True Cost of Cutting Adspend: the Impact on Premium Brand Shares, claims many of top UK brands have lost market share over the past few years by scaling back their advertising.
Survey Finds Business Confidence Is Rattled by Economic Weakness: [C]ompanies are increasingly skeptical of the power of advertising to boost sales. For instance, when asked how much sales could improve if agencies always provided their best work, the mean figure marketers gave was 20.4%, well below the year-ago average of 27.7% and the lowest average since 1989.
CONTAMINANTES - Renewed surge in popularity of breast implants: Questions remain about safety - women seem undeterred
The number of women electing to have their breasts enlarged through implant surgery is increasing rapidly. A record 206,000 American women chose to undergo breast augmentation last year, and the industry projects an almost 10 percent increase this year.
That is twice the number of women who were getting cosmetic breast implants a decade ago
VITAMEDIAS - Papers Run Nearly Half Of Top 20 News Sites: Nine of the top 20 news Web sites in the U.S. during August were affiliated with newspapers, according to audience statistics from Nielsen/NetRatings. The same nine made July's top 20.
VITAMEDIAS - Daily Papers Prep Youth-Oriented Spinoffs: Recognizing that their core products aren't reaching many 18-to-34-year-old readers, several newspapers, from Melville, N.Y., to Boise, Idaho, are planning or contemplating spinoffs aimed at them. And alternative-weekly publishers are awaiting these new publications with a mix of curiosity and worry about the competition.
ECO-TERRORES - Blair outlines Iraq evidence: Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned of the urgent need to act after the publication of the UK's long awaited dossier of evidence against Iraq.
Oiling the Wheels of War: Two key concerns underlie the Administration's thinking: First, the United States is becoming dangerously dependent on imported petroleum to meet its daily energy requirements, and, second, Iraq possesses the world's largest reserves of untapped petroleum after Saudi Arabia.
Gore Denounces Bush's Iraq Efforts: ``After Sept. 11, we had enormous sympathy, goodwill and support around the world,'' Gore said. ``We've squandered that, and in one year we've replaced that with fear, anxiety and uncertainty, not at what the terrorists are going to do but at what we are going to do.''
Shoot First: Here's a rough translation of the national security manifesto President Bush unveiled Friday: Shoot first, ask questions later.
ECO-TERRORES - The Security Traders: As Washington prepares to spend tens of billions of dollars on homeland security, companies are gearing up for the biggest government bonanza since the Cold War.
CONTAMINANTES - Indiciplina dos alunos não é o principal factor de stress dos professores... mas sim, o estatuto profissional, a constante mudança de legislação e as relações com os órgãos da tutela, pais e encarregados de educação.
In Japanese schools, disorder spreads: Across Japan these days, by the first or second grade, elementary school students commonly talk out of turn and wrestle with one another in class.
By fourth grade, they are using obscene language, often directed at the teacher or written on the blackboard. And by sixth grade, a growing generation of preteenage rebels has begun walking in and out of classrooms at will, mocking the authority of adults and even attacking teachers who try to restrain them.
CONTAMINANTES - Dancing on Hitler's grave: A spate of new merchandise, film and TV shows about Hitler has sparked a bitter controversy about humanising the most infamous villain of the 20th century.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Controversy Shadows Latin Grammys: Carlos Vives, Celia Cruz and La Ley were among top nominees Wednesday for the Latin Grammys, which again were shadowed by a controversy over Cuban participation.
Cuba's 22 nominees, including jazz pianist Chucho Valdes, guitarist Rey Guerra and rapper X Alfonso, couldn't get the proper entry visas to attend the ceremony, Cuba's Vice Culture Minister Abel Acosta said Tuesday. The reasons were unclear.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - When I'm 64: In defense of the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Other Ones: Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is just about youth is a critical fascist.
CONTAMINANTES - Majority of workers won’t quit at 65: Most say they can’t afford to completely retire, survey finds
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Watch and repeat: Hollywood studios continue to reel in moviegoers by repackaging movies from the past.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Globalization ending dream of national cinema: Here's the real question: Have we entered a period where national cinemas, once such a significant category of cinematic study, are now obsolete?
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Taking aim at 'sanitized' films: After months of watching a gradual proliferation of companies offering sanitized versions of Hollywood hits to sensitive or politically conservative consumers, movie studios and filmmakers have decided it is time to get a handle on this phenomenon.
"This is very dangerous, what's happening here," said Jay Roth, national executive director of the Directors Guild of America. "This is not about an artist getting upset because someone dares to tamper with their masterpiece. This is fundamentally about artistic and creative rights and whether someone has the right to take an artist's work, change it and then sell it."
VITAMEDIAS - Presse: la reprise des hostilités
Gratuits, rachats, crise de Vivendi... c'est l'année de tous les coups.
23 Setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Software to Channel Films From PCs to TVs: BroadQ product will use Sony's PlayStation 2 to show downloaded files via digital home network.
ECO-TERRORES - Coincidence? Market starting to resemble the '30s
Chart the percentage rise and fall of the Nasdaq composite index over the past two years on the same graph as the Dow Jones industrial average in 1929 and, bingo! They look uncomfortably similar. [...]
So how does he explain the similarity of charts?
Coincidence. ``A lot of women look like Marilyn Monroe but they can't act''
.DE! - How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
VITAMEDIAS - Reporters Find New Outlet, and Concerns, in Web Logs: Some journalists have already run into trouble with their employers over the contents of their personal sites, with one — a reporter for The Houston Chronicle — having been fired for his efforts. And news media companies may be opening themselves to questions of liability when they set up Web logs on their sites.
VITAMEDIAS - Mr. Greene and His Misdeeds: Back in 1988, Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene had sex with a 17-year-old girl - a senior at Mother McAuley High School - who had recently come to the paper (with her parents, no less) to interview him.
"She seemed to be a bright and perceptive young woman," Greene, then 41, wrote.
But the Tribune's decision to give Greene the boot earlier this month has sparked a debate over whether the punishment was too harsh for what Editor Ann Marie Lipinski called misusing his "status and position at the paper."
CULTURAS IN VITRO - The Cultural Anarchist vs. the Hollywood Police State: A Stanford Professor Is One Supreme Court Decision Away From Ending Copyrights on Thousands of Movies, Books and Songs.
"The world won't end," he says. "Hollywood will just have to find a different way to make money."
ECO-TERRORES - Missing in 9/11 hearings: what 2 presidents knew
Conspicuously absent from three days of riveting hearings chronicling missed opportunities leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks is what was known about Al Qaeda by two key decision-makers: President George W. Bush and his predecessor, Bill Clinton.
The Bush White House says that Congress is not entitled to such information. But a growing number of Republicans and Democrats on the joint House-Senate panel investigating the attacks said last week that if the White House continued its refusal to declassify information on what Bush was told before the attack, they would ask the Senate to take the extraordinary step of overruling Bush's decision to shield the information.
VITAMEDIAS - Jornalista detido em Lisboa por proteger fonte
Mas porque será que apenas o DN explicou que "o que aqui está em causa não são as fontes de um trabalho que tenha sido publicado, mas de uma investigação que (ainda) está a realizar e que poderá, ou não, vir à luz do dia, o que transforma o seu caso em algo de original" (Sigilo protege a investigação)
A Hora da Verdade do Quarto Poder : O jornalista foi agora condenado por recusa de identificar a fonte que lhe declarou ter sido uma cabala a acusação a um dos irmãos Pinto, co-autores do boicote às portagens na ponte 25 de Abril, há sete anos. Certamente meritório, ninguém dirá que este segredo jornalístico protege a santidade.
O condenado é colaborador do "Expresso" - o semanário que abriu uma guerra particular ao dito Portas. O Pe. António Vieira via em tais coincidências a mão de Deus.
O interessante naquela condenação é que talvez não seja coincidência. Ocorre em paralelo com a afirmação do poder da imprensa anticorrupção - e tem lugar porque um jornalista parece querer dificultar a justiça anticorrupção. É uma decisão rara: a outra foi há mais de cinco anos. Coincidência? Talvez os juizes achem que a imprensa tem poder a mais. Talvez, neste particular, os juizes reflictam a opinião da maioria dos portugueses.
ECO-TERRORES - Protecção de dados chumba protocolo entre PJ e Fisco: A Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados (CNPD) chumbou o acesso da Polícia Judiciária (PJ) a dados do Fisco e alfândegas, de acordo com um parecer a que o DE teve acesso. O parecer – que não é vinculativo mas que, na prática, trava o tratamento dos dados – analisa o protocolo anunciado pelo Governo como chave para reforçar o combate aos crimes fiscais. O protocolo «viola os direitos fundamentais dos contribuintes», sustenta a CNPD
VITAMEDIAS - Send in the SMS: Text messaging is the darling of the new technology crowd, but media owners are only just waking up to its potential as a medium in its own right.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Movie spoilers galore! Moviepooper ruins the ending for hundreds of movies!
22 Setembro 2002
ECO-TERRORES - Left Behind: Lynne Stewart found a home in the remains of the radical left, defending clients most lawyers wouldn't touch. But now, as she faces trial for aiding and abetting terrorists, she has never been more alone.
PHOTO-GRAFIA - What They Were Thinking: 'The tower has an unobstructed view of every cell in this round cell house.
CONTAMINANTES - Sexed Ed: What is troubling about this breezy new enthusiasm for segregation is not that it may lead to new single-sex schools, some of which will be good schools whatever their gender makeup. What is troubling is the tenor of the arguments. There is no solid body of evidence showing that single-sex education is better for girls or boys.
20 Setembro 2002
.DE!!!!!!! - Right-wing governments 'increase suicide rates': Right-wing governments may sap some people's will to live and result in more suicides, conclude studies in Britain and Australia. The researchers speculate that losers are more likely to kill themselves in the individualistic, "winner-takes-all" societies favoured by right wing governments, because they are left to fend for themselves. Wide disparities in wealth also sharpen any sense of hopelessness [eu realmente não tenho andado muito bem disposto :-)]
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Disney preps martial arts "Snow White": Disney is negotiating with the Chinese choreographer of groundbreaking action films "The Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," to direct a live-action take on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
The project was until recently known as "Snow White and the Seven Shao Lin."
.DE! - The Antikythera mechanism: [T]he device was an astronomical computer capable of predicting the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac on any given date.
VITAMEDIAS - The operation was a success (but the patients died): How media spin distorted the outcomes of a study comparing radical prostatectomy with watchful waiting
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Getting the most out of Imax: Imax Corp. [...] says it has developed a technical process that can transform existing 35mm movies into bigger, more vivid 70mm Imax experiences.
VITAMEDIAS - Jornalista José Manso Preto detido por recusar revelar fonte: Segundo Óscar Mascarenhas, secretário [do Conselho Deontológico do Sindicato dos Jornalistas], este é um caso inédito em Portugal.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Marvel Superheroes to Move Online: Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men and other superheroes will be heading to the World Wide Web as characters in multi-player online games.
VITAMEDIAS - Rangel em entrevista: Pela primeira vez, desde o 25 de Abril, julgo que estamos confrontados com um problema, grave, de concentração em Portugal. Há situações em que os órgãos de comunicação fazem campanhas em defesa dos interesses dos seus próprios accionistas. Há também casos concretos de sonegação de informação, sobretudo nos jornais.
- E na rádio? E na televisão?
A rádio e televisão estão mais distanciadas, os jornais não. Há campanhas feitas contra pessoas, contra instituições. Há jornais que, pura e simplesmente, se colocam ao serviço de partidos políticos e de grupos económicos...
- Não é algo de conjuntural?
Já é estrutural. É, aliás, engraçado ver como uma campanha contra a pessoa A, começa na revista X, estende-se ao jornal Y e, de repente, estão dez órgãos de comunicação a dizer o mesmo, incluindo a televisão...
- Como é que se pode romper esse cerco?
Há varias hipóteses. Uma delas é criar maior diversidade. Esse é, julgo, o grande segredo. [...]
E há o projecto anunciado para a RTP, que, pelo menos na sua origem, conduz ao desmantelamento da RTP.
- Está a falar da RTP2?
Não só, ouvi há dias o dr. Almerindo Marques dizer, com enorme clareza, que a RTP, serviço público actual, acaba no dia 31 de Dezembro. Não fui eu que o disse, foi ele.
- O que é que isso pressupõe?
A convicção que tenho é a de que se está a cometer um erro. Há um Governo legitimidado para tomar decisões, e que será julgado por isso, mas parece-me também que temos uma administração da RTP incipiente e desorientada. Em última instância, o que dr. Almerindo Marques anunciou foi o fim da RTP como serviço público e o nascimento de uma nova empresa em Janeiro. E julgo que isso vai envolver também a rádio...
- Uma fusão entre a RTP e a RDP?
Sim, julgo que será criado um serviço público com um canal de televisão e dois de rádio, retomando-se um modelo antigo não fundado nem no estudo, nem na avaliação das situações.
- A que é que se refere quando fala em desmantelamento da RTP?
Que a RTP vai fechar no dia 31 de Dezembro. É verdade que o dr. Almerindo Marques também anunciou a criação de uma nova empresa. Mas quais serão os seus objectivos? Que publicidade terá? Haverá um ou dois canais? Isto é, avança-se para um projecto sem que exista uma definição clara do que se pretende. É uma pena que se termine com a RTP como serviço público. Não há razões que o justifiquem. Ninguém pensaria, sob pena de haver uma sublevação nacional, em acabar com a BBC ou com a TVE. Em Portugal caminha-se nessa direcção.
Rangel "abre o livro", gestor e ministro recusam fim do serviço público: Presidente do Conselho de Administração, Almerindo Marques: "os portugueses já conhecem bem o conceito de serviço público do Dr. Rangel, desde os tempos da SIC". [...] Almerindo Marques rejeitou que o serviço público de televisão termine em Dezembro, deste ano, ideia sugerida por Rangel, admitindo porém que vai surgir "uma nova empresa".
Opinião corroborada pelo ministro da tutela, Nuno Morais Sarmento, que afirmou à TSF que "se a intenção fosse acabar com a RTP bastaria ter deixado continuar a situação como estava". "É preciso que os portugueses saibam que a RTP gastava um milhão de contos por semana, mais do que o Orçamento de Estado contempla para a cultura e para a educação pré-escolar", justificou.
VITAMEDIAS - 9/11 - Sanitizing the News: The journalists’ restraint was a sign that the day belonged to the victims and their families. Taken to an extreme, however, such restraint can easily turn into something much worse -- and more dangerous -- than laudable self-censorship. Historians, and any citizen who cares about historical memory, must ask: “Who controls these images? Who is to be allowed to view them, and under what circumstances, with what limitations?”
ECO-TERRORES - Não, não e não: Portas gastou o último cartucho (a aparição na TVI). O almirante John Fisher deu um memorável conselho para tratar com escândalos: não se desmente, não se explica, não se pede desculpa. E um escritor americano acrescentou: os que estão do nosso lado não precisam e os que não estão não acreditam.
CONTAMINANTES - 6 Quick Tips on Managing Your Time:
1. One size does not fit all.
2. Paper piles only grow.
3. Heading to a meeting? Go unplugged.
4. The next killer business app? Instant messaging.
5. Delegate: It's the ultimate time-saver.
6. Working in hard-to-reach territories? Voice-mail it.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - James Brown’s Kids Sue Papa: James Brown’s daughters have filed a federal lawsuit against the Godfather of Soul, seeking more than $1 million for 25 songs they say they co-wrote.
CONTAMINANTES - Milk, Cookies And Meds: Use of prescription drugs is growing faster among children than it is among senior citizens and baby boomers, the two traditionally high consumer groups, according to a new study.
ECO-TERRORES - Text of Bush’s draft resolution on Iraq: The President is authorized to use all means that he determines to be appropriate, including force, in order to enforce the United .Nations Security Council Resolutions referenced above, defend the national security interests of the United States against the threat posed by Iraq, and restore international peace and security in the region.
Iraqi foreign minister says country is free of weapons, ready for UN inspection
U.S. Drops Bid to Strengthen Germ Warfare Accord: The Bush administration has abandoned an international effort to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention against germ warfare, advising its allies that the United States wants to delay further discussions until 2006.
Evidence on Iraq Challenged: Experts Question if Tubes Were Meant for Weapons Program
The Economic Costs of Going to War with Iraq
Selling the War on Iraq
CONTAMINANTES - Immigrants arrive healthier: Recent immigrants are healthier than people born in Canada, but the longer they have been in the country, the more the gap narrows, two new studies show.
CONTAMINANTES - More Sci-Than Fi, Physicists Create Antimatter: Physicists working in Europe announced yesterday that they had passed through nature's looking glass and had created atoms made of antimatter, or antiatoms, opening up the possibility of experiments in a realm once reserved for science fiction writers. Such experiments, theorists say, could test some of the basic tenets of modern physics and light the way to a deeper understanding of nature.
19 Setembro 2002
CONTAMINANTES - Vision of the Future: Researchers are on the right track to produce artificial sight for the blind.
ECO-TERRORES - Five Ways To Spend $1 Billion: We looked at five classic billionaire personality types: the Geek, the Limousine Liberal, the Thrill Seeker, the Hedonist and the Narcissist, and came up with some fanciful ways that they might squander their fortunes.
ECO-TERRORES - U.S. had 12 warnings of jet attacks
U.S. Overlooked Terrorism Signs Well Before 9/11: A House-Senate panel report says Al Qaeda was focusing on a domestic attack and the use of planes as weapons as far back as mid-'90s.
TECNO-HOUSE - PS2 shipments reach 40 million: Sony has shipped 40 million PlayStation 2 game consoles worldwide, after passing the 30 million mark on May 5. Of the 40 million units, 10.97 million shipped to Japan, 17.01 million to the United States and 12.06 million to Europe.
TECNO-HOUSE - Audio's Next Big Thing?: We've heard hypersonic sound. It could change everything.
CONTAMINANTES - Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Diamonds: Space lovers can choose to have their cremated remains launched into earth orbit, or for $25,000, to the moon.
.DE! - Bush related to Churchill & Diana: President Bush, Princess Diana and Winston Churchill are distant relatives whose ancestry can be traced back to a 15th century English squire, genealogists say.
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Pay-Per-View Movies Come to PCs: Studios and Web Companies Test Distribution of Movies on the Net
.DE! - City's "Loaded" With Women: Want to marry a millionairess? You're in the right place. [...] And the No. 1 location to score a megabucks babe is an Alcoholics Anonymous center on the Upper East Side.
VITAMEDIAS - An Old Media Idea Reborn: Content Is King: Three years after the 1990's Internet boom turned into an online debacle of failed acquisitions, plunging stocks and management turmoil for media companies, an old lesson must be re-learned, News Corp. President Peter Chernin said on Wednesday: "content is king."
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Villette Numerique: Festival International de la Création et des Nouveaux Médias
CULTURAS IN VITRO - Shameful Art Attack: Is this art? Or assault? A violently disturbing sculpture popped up last week in the middle of Rock Center's busy underground concourse - right in front of the ice-skating rink. It depicts a naked woman, limbs flailing, face contorted, at the exact moment her head smacks pavement following her leap from the flaming World Trade Center.
18 Setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Finally, a Fair Fight with Big Music: Telecom giant Verizon is battling the industry's bid to make it name a file-sharing subscriber. It's also defending your right to privacy
Golden Nica: Los 'Oscars' del Arte Digital [Ars Electronica 2002]
ECO-TERRORES
Liberty Wins - So Far: Although they weren't directly attacked, the countries of the European Union passed anti-terrorism measures during the past year that are far more sweeping than anything adopted in the United States.
Special Report: Big Brother
The Open Door: How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001
A Decade of Deception and Defiance: Saddam Hussein’s Defiance of the United Nations
Iraq's letter accepting U.N. inspections
VITAMEDIAS
Expresso vai acabar com Revista
Contas da Impresa do 1º Semestre 2002
Emap gives away 1m mags to get Closer to readers: The publishing company behind Heat is giving away a staggering 1 million copies of its latest celebrity magazine as part of a £10m promotional push.
The Hollywood Reporter and the Internet Movie Database link to share info
Comic Teetotalers: Like the rest of America, the characters in the comics pages are sobering up.
TECNO-HOUSE
One click away from humiliation: New York woman mistakenly sends e-mail to date
What are the ethics of forwarding an e-mail you were not mean to receive? What if it is sure to humiliate the sender?
QVC Sues Former Star Host Over E-Mail: Television shopping network QVC Inc. is suing former host Kathy Levine, claiming she violated her contract by e-mailing QVC customers to promote her new apparel line just before it debuted on archrival Home Shopping Network.
U.S. cybersecurity plan under fire: Critics say it leaves too much up to users
What Microsoft doesn't want you to know: White Paper [by Novell...]
Beating Bill: Giants like AOL, Palm, and Sony have tried and flailed. But that doesn't mean it can't be done. Some little guys are actually sticking it to Microsoft now -- and what they've learned can mean as much to your business as it does to theirs.
Japanese Game Developers Gear Up for Cyber Wars
Bikes, sex and volleyball: Holiday video games may be a lot more 'adult' than you think.
DVD groups agree to disagree: The two industry groups fighting to set a rewritable DVD standard are showing no interest in working together, but technology tricks and behind-the-scenes talks could inch the sides toward a compromise.
Free Software vs. Open Source
Audio Spotlight - Put sound where you want it
CONTAMINANTES
The incredible shrinking ozone hole: The level of chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere is falling, and the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica should close by 2050
Physics in Crisis: Physics is in crisis. We have lost our ideals and focus as a unified field.
The Brain as User Interface: Scientists hijack a rat’s brain to robotize the rodent and train a monkey’s brain to move a cursor
Nanosecrets of Everyday Things
ICT and Urban Form - Urban Planning and Design
A Life on Skid Road: From plain old tire marks, crash reconstructionists can extract a ton of dirty secrets - some that can send you to jail.
.DE!
Death Becomes Them: Pet Preservation Is the Latest Thing in the Taxidermy World
'English only' lands cabbie in trouble: Driver faces assault charge for trying to boot Spanish speaker
The sign inside the taxi said "English Only," but Mauricio Camargo figured talking on his cell phone in Spanish during his ride in from Bush Intercontinental Airport Friday would be no problem. He was wrong.
Man divorces quarrelsome wife for mute woman: A Yemeni man divorced his first wife because she was loud and argumentative and picked a deaf and mute woman as his new bride
Was Sept. 11 really the time to lay a dozen people off? On the anniversary of last year's terror attacks, stock markets delayed their openings. Major League Baseball observed a moment of silence. The president grieved with survivors. Some businesses closed. Many churches opened. And Pulsent, a Milpitas digital imaging company, executed a round of layoffs.
Patriot Troll
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
September 11: One Year from Space
Tuwaitha Nuclear Center, Iraq
Space Imaging: Top 10 Images (2001)
ZITE
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Why We Must Invade Iraq?
17 Setembro 2002
Qual o tamanho da blogosfera? 200 mil a 500 mil blogs?
Sexta-feira, Setembro 13, 2002: Mais um artigo sobre weblogs e jornalismo, desta vez no "Los Angeles Times".[...] A autora do artigo cita "unofficial estimates" para dizer que existirão entre 200 mil e 500 mil weblogs actualmente. Já vi o número noutros lados, nomeadamente neste artigo do "Mercury News" e neste do "Daily Californian", mas ainda não percebi qual é a fonte. Alguém sabe?
Number of Web logs could be overstated: Web log experts admit, however, that there is currently no accurate way to measure the total number of blogs.
Catholics Are ´Blogging´ On the Internet... to Evangelize: "It´s impossible to keep up with them all, but we estimate that there are more than 500,000 Web logs," said Evan Williams, CEO of Pyra Labs, the San Francisco-based company that designed the Blogger Web-based software in the fall of 1999. "There are approximately 1,000 new Web logs created every day," he noted.
Crashing the Blog Party: Though no official statistics exist, unofficial estimates put the number of blogs at 200,000 to 500,000.
Blog bonanza: About 500,000 people have started blogging, according to most estimates.
Blogging for Dollars: Diversity in blogging is good. Conformity in blogging is bad. The last thing we need is 500,000 blogs all written in the same style with the same business model.
Love, Yale, and survival of the Internet: The International Herald Tribune reported this week that three-quarters of the 500,000 accounts created at blogger.com have been abandoned.
Fucked Weblog
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Why Listening Will Never Be the Same: Last Year, for the first time, blank compact discs outsold pre-recorded ones. This statistic has been widely reported in the news media, usually in connection with the fact that sales of pre-recorded CD’s in the U.S. dropped by 10 percent in 2001. To most observers of the music business, all this was further proof that the recording industry is in a state of acute crisis. But nowhere was it suggested that the CD-R (to use the trade name by which blank, recordable CD’s are known) might be anything more than a superior replacement for the now-obsolete audio cassette—much less that its burgeoning popularity is the latest sign of a radical and irreversible change in the way we experience music.
[...] One thing is already clear: hard though it may be to imagine life without records and record stores, it is only a matter of time, and not much time at that, before they disappear. Unlike museums and opera houses, they serve a purpose that technology has rendered obsolete. The triumph of the digit - along with the demise of the record album as culture-shaping art object - is at hand.
Music industry shows a note of desperation: Cheaper CDs
Record company seeking to gum up early releases: Epic Records Group, a unit of Sony Corp., is approaching the sticky problem of prerelease music being traded online with an even stickier solution. Critics receiving review copies of two soon-to-be-released albums - Tori Amos's "Scarlet's Walk" and Pearl Jam's "Riot Act" - are finding the CDs already inside Sony Walkman players that have been glued shut.
Rights issue rocks the music world: Record companies see it as mutiny. Musicians call it an overdue rebellion. Either way, the artists' rights movement has set the stage for combat that could revolutionize the music industry.
Hip-Hop Goes Commercial: On any given week, Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks chart is filled with songs that serve as lyrical consumer reports for what are, or will be, the trendiest alcohol, automobile, and fashion brands.
McDonald's, Intel Pay to Be in Game: The 'Sims' product placement deal with Electronic Arts is a milestone for the video game industry.
Entertainment Sees Dearth of Women Execs:[A]t the top of the leadership positions of 10 entertainment conglomerates, women comprise only 13% of directors on corporate boards and only 14% of the firms' executives.
Locked out of Hollywood’s boys’ club: With more than 90 per cent of its films directed by men, Hollywood is still very much a boys’ club.
Clancy and the overflow: Two books have recently been published with the name of the best-selling author, Tom Clancy, emblazoned on the cover. One is Red Rabbit, the latest in his Jack Ryan series. The other is Mission of Honor, the latest in his Op-Centre series. Both will undoubtedly sell well - Clancy is reported to be the highest-paid author in the world. But the thing is, Clancy wrote only one of these books.
Bribes, threats and naked readings: In a world where more and more new books get less and less attention, authors will do anything to promote their work.
Even pornographers found Lady Chatterley too much
Bath time for Michelangelo's David: The last time Michelangelo's David had a bath Ulysses S. Grant was President of the United States, Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain, Napoleon III died and Jesse James stalked the Wild West. But now, what is probably the most famous statue in the world is to have a seven month-long public wash.
Sticks and Stones and Lemon Cough Drops: From Joseph Beuys to Eva Hesse to Zoe Leonard, many postwar artists make works in unstable or ephemeral materials. Curators and conservators dealing with latex, lard, bodily fluids, and banana peels are coming up with new preservation strategies
Screen Savers: How to preserve an artwork that depends on electronic parts that might be obsolete in a few years? They're working on it
How Mondrian was on right lines and fakes cannot fool the eye: Chris McManus, a psychologist at University College London, took studies by the giant of post impressionism, altered the balance of composition a little with a computer, and tested them on the public. More than half, 55% to 60%, could distinguish the original
Secrets of Digital Creativity Revealed in Miniatures: "Codedoc," an online exhibition of digital artworks that focuses on their underlying computer code, is a daring endeavor. It asks viewers without any programming knowledge to step back from the animated lines and interactive elements of computer art and instead consider the geeky techniques that digital artists use to create those works. This would be like studying the artist's brush and paints and not the painting.
ECO-TERRORES
Stories of Prior Knowledge of Sept. 11 More Than Urban Legend
Virtually Helpless: The Threat of Cyberwar Looms Large. Our Best Homeland Defense May Be Surprisingly Small.
"The concept of 'homeland security' is essentially retarded," says Michael Wilson, a former hacker and current partner in Decision Support Systems Inc., a Reno, Nevada-based consultancy advising sovereign states, companies, and the ultrarich about dealing with cyberwar. "The contracts are going to the very people who got us into this mess to begin with. None of them can tell you what the current cyber-threat is, and they don't know what to defend with."
VITAMEDIAS
www.libel.com: Bloggers beware.
"It's obvious that individuals are unaware of the risks of libel and invasion of privacy, and don't realize that what they're saying on these websites could set themselves up for libel lawsuits from individuals and entities from around the world"
Why your favorite TV shows get zapped: As you sit down to watch the new shows this fall, no doubt you will find yourself wondering about some of your old favorites. Some will have moved, some will be gone altogether, and most aggravating of all to loyal fans, some will be pitted against one another.
"Why?" you might ask, as you mutter: "The old schedules worked just fine for me."
American composers reflect on the state of music criticism in America today
Learning on the Job: Anticipating the New Season, the Critic Reflects on His Role
Much art criticism is adulatory or merely descriptive (some will say I add to this). Many critics have never seen a show they weren't enthusiastic about. There's nothing wrong with being an enthusiast, but enthusiasts can be some of the toughest critics around (Beavis: "This show sucks." Butt-head: "Yeah, it should change"). Future generations will peruse today's art magazines and suppose ours was an age where almost everything that was made was universally admired.
TECNO-HOUSE
The New New Evidence: The smoking gun of the future consists not of fingerprints and gunpowder residue on metal, but of ones and zeroes.
Saving Dying Data
The Coming Virus Armageddon: In addition to being stealthy, experts said, the ultimate computer virus would be polymorphic - able to change its code, message and form to avoid detection.
Issues that will shape the Internet: [1) Freedom to create and innovate. 2) Customer choice and competition policy. 3) Security and liberty.]
New AES crypto standard broken already?
XP Update Is a Failed Attempt at Simplicity
Microsoft's new deal with Uncle Sam: Why does the White House refuse to tell Microsoft to get tough on security?
One explanation for the draft report's marked silence is that there is an unusually close relationship between Microsoft and the White House.
Maid to Order: A little robot called Roomba vacuums your house while you lounge by the pool. Is this the beginning of the end?
CONTAMINANTES
Living Color: Pantone owns the monopoly on every tint, tone, and shade you've ever seen. Now it wants to control the colors you'll see in the future.
Though Pantone doesn't sell inks, dyes, or paints, it has come to hold a monopoly on color. Of course, frequencies of light, like naturally occurring sounds, are free for anyone to use. But Pantone owns their names - or, more specifically, their designated numbers and spectro-photometric descriptions. Ultimately, printers and manufacturers have to translate those numbers into atoms - pigment, dye, or varnish. In order to check that the final product matches the design spec, there needs to be an agreed-upon point of reference. And that's what Pantone sells, to designers of every kind and a thousand ink licensees in 65 countries - a standard reference, in the form of $3,600 cotton-swatch binders, $150 fan decks, and $300 chip books.
More Than Zero [ou porque são más as propostas para a zona do World Trade Center]
The fault lies not with the hapless architects who were asked to dress up this pig of a project, but with the clients themselves, most notably the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It holds title to the land under the now-vanished structures on which the developer Silverstein holds a ninety-nine-year lease. Loath to stem any of the considerable revenue stream that the WTC poured into its coffers, the Port Authority insisted that the redevelopment schemes replace virtually all thirteen million square feet lost in the Twin Towers' destruction. Given that the bulk of the space had been contained in the megalithic superstructures, it does not take an architecture expert to understand that if you redistribute the same quantity of volume in considerably shorter, safer buildings - deemed prudent by all concerned - then more ground will have to be covered. And because of the considerable - and to my mind justifiable - public pressure to leave the footprints of the towers vacant (a central demand of the missing victims' families and a feature of four of the six LMDC schemes), the gross overcrowding of the site is inevitable.
Are we on top of the world? According to C Northcote Parkinson, the inventor of Parkinson's Law, the final and terminal decline of an institution is often signalled by a move into a gleaming, towering, purpose-built headquarters.
Cloned Food Products Near Reality: Items Could Reach Shelves by 2003
Cow and dog genomes next up: Cows, dogs and a single-celled predator called Oxytricha trifallax are next in line to have their genomes sequenced when the mouse, rat and human projects wrap up within the next year.
.DE!
Speed of light broken with basic lab kit: Electric signals can be transmitted at least four times faster than the speed of light using only basic equipment that would be found in virtually any college science department.
You have been invited to invade Iraq! How the Web can make planning your next war hassle-free and fun for all.
War on Iraq!!
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Item # 2100456623: Our Christian President-George W. Bush- 9-11
Scientists Hope to Monitor Space Junk Hitting Moon
ZITE
The Sugar Packet Collector's Page
16 Setembro 2002
First Smiley Found (fui eu, fui eu...)
First "smiley" shows its face
First ever smiley found, preserved for posterity: The original smiley, or emoticon, invented in 1982 by Scott Fahlman but subsequently lost, has been retrieved through the efforts of Microsoft researcher Mike Jones and facilities staff at Carnegie Mellon University.
The First Smiley :-)
Original Bboard Thread in which :-) was proposed: Here is the original message posted by Scott Fahlman on 19 September, 1982
Nov 1982: Early reference to emoticons [on Usenet]
Smiley Lore :-) (by Scott Fahlman): Yes, I am the inventor of the sideways “smiley face” (sometimes called an “emoticon”) that is commonly used in E-mail, chat, and newsgroup posts. Or at least I’m one of the inventors.
The Man Who Brought a :-) to Your Screen: Fahlman might not have the first claim to the emoticon. A mysterious Netizen named Kevin Mackenzie is often cited for having first typed a -) symbol, meaning "tongue in cheek," back in 1979. "As far as I know I was the first, but nobody can ever be sure," says Fahlman
1979: On April 12, Kevin MacKenzie emails the MsgGroup a suggestion of adding some emotion back into the dry text medium of email, such as -) for indicating a sentence was tongue-in-cheek. Though flamed by many at the time, emoticons became widely used
Smiley faces are said to have been invented by Kevin MacKenzie on April 12, 1979. MacKenzie, a newcomer to the Msg Group (one of the early collaborative partners in ARPAnet development), anguished over the “loss of meaning” in the textually-bound communications mode of email. He says that after reading an old copy of Reader’s Digest, he got the idea that particular email sentences could be punctuated with meaning marks to indicate how they were to be understood: i.e. tongue-in-cheek, with laughter, just-kidding, sarcastically. etc. [taken from Katie Hafner and Mathew Lyon's "Where Wizards Stay Up Late, The Origins of the Internet", 1996, Simon & Schuster.]
Emoticons and Internet Shorthand: In 1979, Kevin McKenzie of the Arpanet's MsgGroup made the following suggestion:
Perhaps we could extend the set of punctuation we use, i.e.: If I wish to indicate that a particular sentence is meant with tongue-in-cheek, I would write it so:
"Of course you know I agree with all the current administration's policies -)."
A Brief History Of Smiley's: The very first emoticon possibly appeared in 1979, first used by someone named Kevin Mackenzie. He is believed to have first used the -) symbol, which meant "tongue in cheek". The technique didn't appear to catch on, and it remained for another to start the fad. Between 1981 and mid-1982, emoticons are believed to have been invented (or at least they took hold of the popular imagination) by Scott Fahlman on the CMU bulletin board system.
First smileys date back to time of Plato, apparently: Brian Dear bounces in with the information that he's writing a book about the Plato system, which originated in 1961, and where smileys were used at least a decade ahead of their 'invention' at CMU.
More prior art comes from (and no, we are not making this up) Ken Smiley, director of Research at Giga Information Group: "With all do respect to Mr. Fahlman who thinks he invented the Smiley face in the world of computers, he is incorrect, in fact he's off by a good 10-15 years. My father, the head of IT for Coca Cola in the midwest region in the 60's and 70's used to print out Smiley faces on both punch tape (60's) and punch cards (70's) to entertain me while I was tagging along with him at the office and 'playing with the computers."
Despair, Inc. Secures Official Trademark Registration for ":-(", Announces Plan to Sue Millions for Trademark Infringement
Alphabetical (by Emoticon) List
CULTURAS IN VITRO
L'art ASCII toujours vert
Barbican festival to woo EU sceptics: The Foreign Office is funding an international film festival to combat ignorance over European Union expansion. The initiative has been prompted by a study which shows three out of four Britons cannot name a single country planning to join the EU in 18 months' time.
The Recording Industry is Trying to Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg: Given the slight dip in CD sales despite so many reasons for there to be a much larger drop, it seems that the effect of downloading, burning, and sharing is one of the few bright lights helping the music industry with their most loyal customers.
ECO-TERRORES
Seven Surprises on the First Anniversary of September 11th (Military superiority does not guarantee national security; Moral clarity does not beget strategic consistency; Will Saddam Hussein become one of the victims of September 11?; New alliances, new frictions; Anti-Americanism as a surprise; Al Qaida, Enron and Worldcom: who did the most economic damage?; Globalization is alive and well)
Une personne meurt de faim dans le monde toutes les quatre secondes
Greens accused of helping Africans starve: U.S. AID Administrator Andrew Natsios accused environmental groups of endangering the lives of millions of famine-threatened Africans by encouraging their governments to reject genetically modified U.S. food aid.
Patently problematic: An important new study shows the promise, and pitfalls, of intellectual-property rights for the poor
Its central message is both clear and controversial: poor places should avoid committing themselves to rich-world systems of IPR protection unless such systems are beneficial to their needs. Nor should rich countries, which professed so much interest in “sustainable development” at the recent summit in Johannesburg, push for anything stronger.
Imitation v inspiration: How poor countries can avoid the wrongs of intellectual-property rights
Third Annual E-Government Study: Governments Improve Web Security but Offer More Restricted Areas
Has Terrorism Curtailed E-Government? Seeking to fortify national defense in the months following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. government reevaluated its massive presence on the World Wide Web. But a year later, federal government officials aren't clear on what information remains online, what's been taken off, and whether any of it will ever return.
They who must be obeyed: What do Madonna, JK Rowling, Kate Moss and Cherie Booth have in common? According to Cosmopolitan magazine, the singer and actor, the bestselling author of the Harry Potter books, the model and the barrister are among the 100 most powerful women.
Forbes: Kluge, Redstone, Coxes top media billionaires
The rich are getting less rich in America. For the second straight year, the combined worth of Forbes' 400 wealthiest declined. Billionaires John Kluge, Sumner Redstone and the Cox family topped the media entries. The top 10 remained the same, with some reshuffling of the order. The biggest loser on the list released Friday was also the richest person: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. He lost $11 billion for a net worth of $43 billion. Gates now has lost $20 billion since the tech meltdown began in 2000, due largely to the drop in value of his Microsoft shares.
VITAMEDIAS
Why Aren't U.S. Journalists Reporting From Iraq?: The trouble is, the journalists with the guts and means to go in country aren’t doing their job. Maybe they’ll all try to get visas when the bombing begins, and report from the Rasheed Hotel at the point when informing Americans will mean snagging footage of dead civilians - instead of asking Cheney why isn’t he more worried about nukes in Pakistan - where the jihadis are actually in the army and intelligence?
In the filing line: If there is a war in Iraq, what can and cannot be broadcast or written?
What Did He Say? The official White House transcript doesn’t always record the flubs and malapropisms uttered by presidents and their press secretaries. When should stenographers correct the record, and when does cleaning up look like sanitizing?
During an April visit to Connecticut, President Bush inadvertently urged Americans to volunteer for "4,000 years" and misidentified the state's lieutenant governor. But in the official White House transcript, the president encouraged Americans to volunteer for a less ambitious "4,000 hours" and correctly stated the lieutenant governor's last name. The crowd's laughter at his "4,000 years" gaffe was not included, nor were the taunts of hecklers a day earlier in Tennessee.
ISP dream: We can do TV too
Internet companies' newest hope is to model themselves after the business successes of cable TV.
AOL Updates Its Content To Draw Broadband Users:
Digital media world aims to survive by doing less: Microsoft, which last year boasted its first customer for its interactive TV middleware software in Portugal's TVCabo, went on the record saying that it was no longer trying to sell products with all the bells and whistles, because clients could no longer afford expensive set top boxes.
Warning over TV 'red key fatigue': Interactive TV, the technology that gives viewers extra choice and information through remote controls, faces the risk of being stillborn [...] "Red key fatigue", referring to the button viewers press to access interactive TV (iTV), has already set in because many of the current features are not good enough
Watch Out! NYC Taxis Get TVs
Youth powers TV, but is that smart business? If you get 'em while they're young, they'll be yours for life. That's the assumption behind much of TV advertising, a $36 billion industry (according to Nielsen Monitor-Plus) that increasingly caters to 18- to 34-year-old males. Once a Chevy guy, always a Chevy guy, this reasoning goes. [But a] growing number of experts are suggesting that the "get 'em while they're young" premise is an outdated assumption about both the young and the old. First, women, not men, control 85 percent of all personal and household spending, according to recent research. And the over-49 crowd in general has more disposable income than younger people.
TV Viewing Time Linked to Kids' Behavior Problems: Kids who spend more time watching TV - regardless of the content of the programming - are more likely to behave aggressively and have other types of social problems
TECNO-HOUSE
Information Technology Litigation and Software Failure: The costs of failed software or computer related services can be substantial, including lost sales, legal fees, litigation costs, system failure costs, lost management time, lost employee time, incidental expenses, vendor charges for phone support, and damages to the business. When failure occurs, one of the first remedies is often instigating litigation against the vendor or service provider. Unfortunately, using the law as a remedy is widely misunderstood.
Cybersmearing: A Legal Conflict Between Individuals and Corporations (Cybersmearing is the act of anonymous communication of false information about a corporation over the Internet, which causes economic damages.)
Here comes Internet2: The dot-com implosion has left many managers wary of the promised wonders of information technology, but those who ignore the next phase of the Internet--dubbed Internet2--do so at their peril,
Porn outfit bids for Napster: Because the [Private Media Group Inc.] has a track record of legal compliance, owns the largest library of adult content in the world and has strong technological know-how, [...] is "uniquely suited to manage a viable and legal P2P network for consumers of adult content."
Video E-Mail Reviewed
The video-mail era is by no means a sure thing, however. V-mail lacks many of the juicy features that made e-mail a smash hit. For example, you cannot very well search your saved videos for a certain phrase, as you can with e-mail.
Video-Conferencing Hole Exposed: Even a relatively unskilled attacker can transform some video-conferencing systems into video-surveillance units, using the devices to snoop, record or publicly broadcast presumably private video conferences.
Traffic Patterns for August 2002: Nearly 46 million Americans accessed the Web at work during August 2002, representing a 17 percent increase over the same time last year
Firms Can Monitor Internet and E-Mail Activity: From snoopware to nonviral mailware, firms can limit liability by monitoring employees' computer activity
Microsoft warns of thieving Word docs: A security flaw in Microsoft's flagship word processing software could allow a document to hijack files from any Windows PC on which it's opened
One Man's Retro Mac Revival: Simunovich is part of a thriving Mac underground obsessed with retro machines. He, and thousands like him, lovingly maintains Macs that should have been landfill decades ago.
Interactive Linux Kernel Map
Enhanced Thumbnails: a proprietary visualization technique that makes it easier to find relevant content quickly within documents and document collections.
CONTAMINANTES
Dirty Online Campaigning? Saying "the Web is crucial" in today's political campaigns, California Assembly candidate Dan Dow has an official Web site: Dandow.com. But he's also registered the URLs JohnDutra.com, JohnDutra.net and JohnDutra.org. And incumbent Assemblyman John Dutra - Dan Dow's opponent in the upcoming election for California's 20th District - is none too pleased that his name is being used against him in the campaign.
For the record: You have the right to remain silent, but lying's even better
[S]ome years ago, Mike Royko, the late columnist of the Chicago Tribune, urged readers to lie through their teeth to political poll-takers. His goal was to break the pollsters' stranglehold on politicians, and he argued that if political leaders discovered that poll results were unreliable, they'd have to start thinking for themselves. It would also put all pollsters out of work, which would be another plus. [...] But after reading Royko, I adopted his suggestion with gusto. I now tell pollsters the exact opposite of what I think, and if I have no opinion, I make one up. [...] Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about the databases of official records that governments maintain, but there is something that I - and you - can do about private databases. Don't just skip the optional questions. That's not good enough. Lie.
Txts get teenz 2 take inhalR: Youngsters choose mobile-phone medication reminders.
Proposed Guidelines Would Distinguish a Pain-Free Death From Euthanasia
International Crime Statistics
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Euros break EU allergy directive: New coins release more than enough nickel to trigger dermatitis.
Four Fort Bragg Soldiers Accused in Wives' Slayings: [T]hree of the men alleged to have killed their wives had returned from duty in Afghanistan.
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Unpiloted aerial vehicles, like this Predator craft, can be navigated via Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites
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11 Setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Le Japon, tête de pont digitale à Linz
File-Sharing Networks Relying on VCR Ruling
Want Video on Demand? Press Pause
The company received a patent in 1992 for technology that delivers video on demand. USA Video didn't do anything with the patent immediately, waiting for technology to take off. Now that it has, the company wants video-on-demand providers - starting with Movielink, a joint venture between five major studios - to pony up the licensing fees.
Was Hitler human? John Cusack talks about his new movie, "Max," which is sparking a firestorm even before its opening.
ECO-TERRORES
9/11: One Year Later [Scientific American]
Making a date: There will be similar but decreasingly grandiose ceremonies on every successive 11 September - with minor blips at anniversary years divisible by 10 or 25. Unless 11 September is removed from the calendar altogether.
The Complete 9/11 Timeline
Seismic Evidence Points to Underground Explosions Causing WTC Collapse
Enquêtes sur le 11 septembre 2001
Geopolitics have changed for the worse: The temptation of hegemony
As President George W. Bush himself recently said at West Point, America is the "single surviving model of human progress."
Their complacence is that they think American power can bring this new international order into being. They believe in using American power without compunction. They are hostile to international constraints and regard international law as in important respects outmoded.
Europe and Japan, they say, are irrelevant because, as Robert Kagan has written, on "the all-important question of power - the efficacy of power, the morality of power, the desirability of power - American and European perspectives are diverging." Europe "is turning away from power." Only the United States can reorder the world.
It's a connected world, so watch your language: "Jihad" and "fundamentalism"
A Recruiting Tape of Osama bin Laden: Excerpts and Analyses
The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored: [T]he message was disregarded because of what sources describe as "warning fatigue".
Surveillance Society: Don't look now, but you may find you're being watched
Muslims in UK jails tell of plight: Two of the nine men detained without charge for nine months under British anti-terror legislation introduced in the wake of the September 11 attacks have spoken for the first time about their imprisonment and their fears that they will be held for many years.
U.S. Will Fingerprint Some Foreign Visitors: Immigration agents at the nation's border crossings, airports and seaports this week will begin to fingerprint foreigners who they suspect may pose security risks and will require those visitors to regularly report where they are staying and what they are doing in the United States.
Legal Issues Concerning Military Use Of Non-Lethal Weapons
China's New Rulers
VITAMEDIAS
One year on: September 11 remembered
Stephen Evans, the BBC's business and economics correspondent in North America, was sitting in the foyer of the World Trade Centre when the two planes flew into the twin towers. One year on, he assesses the effect 9/11 has had on the media.
The Information Squeeze: Openness in government is under assault throughout the United States - at every level. Can the news media, reluctant combatants thus far, mount a successful counterattack?
Douglas C. Clifton, editor of Cleveland's Plain Dealer, says many newsrooms place so little emphasis on freedom of information "that reporters accept as a given that they are going to be shut out of open records."
"Reporters are more than willing to go to court," Harry Hammitt, the editor of Access Reports, a Virginia-based government watchdog publication, has observed, "but editors and publishers have decided they don't really want to spend the money."
Peeling the Onion: With its often hilarious, pitch-perfect parody of news-writing conventions, the Onion has attracted a dedicated audience for its print and online incarnations.
After the tiers, comes analysis
The research involved a hefty 4000 respondents throughout the US, and spun off from a similar survey in 1997. The aim was to see how media usage had changed in three years.
In a nutshell, newspaper usage as a source of news was down, from 76 per cent to 68 per cent, but so, too, were alternative sources, such as local TV news (88 to 80 per cent), world/national news (73 to 64 per cent) and radio (68 to 62 per cent).
The use of the internet as a source of news rose from 15 per cent to 34 per cent. The strongest internet rises were among younger people who felt more comfortable with the technology.
Audience priorities were pretty stable over the three years. Top of the list was weather information, with 75 per cent saying they were extremely or very interested in it, followed by local news on 71 per cent, world/national news on 69 per cent, news and information that helps communities deal with problems, 67 per cent, and state news on 61 per cent.
On the middle tier of priorities was local government and political news (54 per cent), science and technology (52), environment (51), health (48), news and information about local entertainment in your area (48), local business news (47), personal finance information (45), national business news (43), faith and religion (44), and professional sports (41).
On the bottom tier were TV listings and news (37), opinion and analysis (37), theatre/movie listings (36), sports scores and statistics (35), college sports (31), high school sports (27), fashion (27), and women's sports (23).
I'll bet there will be plenty of raised eyebrows among editors chewing over that list, and it will be good for more than a few pub debates.
But my advice is to ignore it.
The Glossies: The Un-magazines
Look closely: The most successful magazines of the moment may not actually be magazines
Authors attack "propaganda" of government-sponsored novels: "Sponsored" novels are about to come into their own with the launch of a new company that aims to provide respected authors to write specially commissioned novels for government departments and big business.
One $30 Million Happy Meal, to Go: ABC, McDonald's in Prime-Time Pact
The Happy Hour deal represents an increased level of involvement between broadcast networks and advertisers as networks seek to increase ad revenue and advertisers look for new ways to reach viewers beyond 30-second commercials. McDonald's sponsored a tie-in game for ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" show, but this deal is believed to be the first in which a company has promoted an entire time slot.
Sexism in blogging
TECNO-HOUSE
Serviço de Acesso à Internet - 2º Trimestre de 2002
Número Total de Clientes: 4.413.578
Clientes de Acesso Gratuito (dial up): 3.934.470 [que podem ter várias contas...]
Clientes Individuais de acesso pago: 178.157
Clientes de Acesso de Banda Larga (ADSL e Cabo): 268.841 (o ADSL apresenta um crescimento de cerca de 40% face ao trimestre anterior, contando no final do período em análise com 5.161 acessos.)
The Risk Taker Returns: Xbox cocreator Seamus Blackley floats a radical business model
Video and computer gaming has since grown into a $10 billion industry. Today’s titles are made by teams of as many as 100 people, cost on average $12 million to $15 million, and are some of the most intricate creative and technical works the entertainment world has ever seen. So how come every new release is just the same old crap? What happened to the days of seemingly endless innovation?
The answer, of course, is economics.
Sony to Unveil Head-Mount Display for PS2: Gadget will allow PlayStation users to feel as if they're part of the game, but it may only be available in Japan.
Court allows Greek gamers to play on
Intel to make hacker-resistant chips: Intel Corp. next year plans to build special security features into its microprocessor chips for the first time, a move designed to address problems such as computer viruses and tampering by malicious hackers.
Predicting the Future of Instant Messaging: IM will move beyond person-to-person text messages, and become a tool that connects us to machines--and machines to each other.
Companies Snooze on Cyber-Security: To a shocking degree, top execs remain largely uninvolved with this critical issue, and their businesses remain vulnerable
Hacking Las Vegas: The Inside Story of the MIT Blackjack Team's Conquest of the Casinos
Replacement of Google with Alternative Search Systems in China: Documentation and Screen Shots
Gates Stocks Up On Health Care: Bill Gates has sold 9 million shares of Microsoft and bought millions of shares in health-care firms.
CONTAMINANTES
Words to the wise on the Web
Is the language changing at all with the new technology?
It depends what you mean when you say "the language." We've added a few new words, but we always do that with new technology. Sailing gave us a whole bunch of new words, railroads, aviation--computers are giving us a bit more of that than they did. People, of course, are fascinated by that. But it's not a big deal in any sense - so we'll have a bunch of new words from technology.
I think there are two more-interesting consequences for language, at least. One is the fact that huge numbers of people are communicating online either via e-mail or discussion lists or forums or Web pages. The number of writers, the proportion of writers to readers in society - which has been growing slowly - has changed enormously in a short period of time. And that's a very interesting difference, it's one of the things that explains the impression that grammar is going downhill. Because you go online, and you see it seems that nobody knows when to (use) an apostrophe...But those are people who never knew when to put an apostrophe on "it's."
The second consequence of that - particularly forums and e-mail and so on - is that the language of public discussion - and blogs are a good example of this - has gone from the kind of high, neutral, public style that's exemplified by the op-ed pages of The New York Times, to something more informal, more colloquial, more conversational, which rests more, in fact, on the norms of middle-class speaking. It's something poised, as it were, between the formal style of official journalism and the informal conversations that we have with one another. And that's a very interesting development, it's a profound development - in one sense, it opens the discussion to a larger number of people. In another sense, it closes the discussion to people who aren't familiar with the implicit norms of that kind of interaction.
Should Court Records Be Available on the Internet? Striking the proper balance between public disclosure and protecting privacy rights will be a challenge going forward.
Moon opens for business: The first private Moon landing has finally been given the green light by the US Government
Missed ZZZ's, More Disease? Skimping on sleep may be bad for your health
The Great Thirst: Drought and disease threaten to set off a water war in volatile Central Asia. US scientists are fighting back with a data-crunching system that could pump fresh hope into the region. Call it the New Hydronomy.
Parents pay to choose baby's sex: A controversial technique that promises to help couples choose the sex of their child is being offered to British families at a Belgian clinic.
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Genetic modification alters hair colour
Blood banks threw away more than 200,000 units in weeks after Sept. 11... as donations from a shaken public far outstripped the needs of victims.
Pirate talk could shiver your timbers: [A] concept that is going to make you kick yourself for not thinking of it first: Talk Like a Pirate Day. As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea or what? There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all.
Hawk gets stuck on Wing: "Call 911! I have a hawk stuck to my arm." It didn't take long for gas station customers to see Jamie Wing wasn't kidding.
Record Number of Japanese Live to 100 or More: The number of centenarians rose by 2,459 to reach 17,934 this year, compared with just 153 in 1963 [...]. More than 80 percent of the centenarians are women.
Owner denies spatula attack: The owner of the Springfield Mobil station on River Street has pleaded innocent to charges that he threw raw hamburger at a customer and beat the man with a spatula.
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Cauchemar: l'an 1
Images of September 11 on the Web
ZITE
Hold the Button: How Long Can You Hold the Button?
Coffee Break Arcade: Free Internet Games Directory
Large Hot Pipe Organ: the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ
10 Setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Ratings Board, Studios Need Separate Beds: [T]he MPAA operates a shadow rating system that can only be decoded by knowing Hollywood insiders. If your movie is full of gross-out jokes about flatulence and penis size - and is made by a major studio with scores of promotional partners - it can get a PG-13 rating. If your movie deals with sex from the point of view of smirky teenagers or sultry movie stars - and is made by a powerful studio with big marketing dollars - it can get an R rating. But if your movie deals with sex in a frank or unsettling manner, as if it were actually close to reality - and it's being released by a tiny independent distributor - it is almost guaranteed to get an NC-17 rating, a rating that virtually kills any hope of your film being accepted by major theater chains and advertising buyers.
Film fests: Beware the buzz
When you get more than 300 movies, major-league distributors and an excitable press in one place, not everything is as it seems
As a breed, film festivals don't have a great track record of predicting movies that will catch on with the public. Time and again, movies that ignite festival crowds and set off bloody feeding frenzies among the sharks who bid for distribution rights are released to a limp commercial reception.
Why we like to watch: Figuring out festivals
[T]here is a global shift in how people apprehend movies, which in turn has given rise to a world in which there are more than 1,000 film festivals a year.
Paradoxically, the economic importance of festivals is subverted by the fact that audiences behave in unpredictable ways. "In the regular course of human events, people do not see these films in the numbers that their popularity at festivals would lead you to think they would".
Hollywood Has A Record Summer: By Labor Day, domestic ticket sales will have totaled about $3.15 billion since Memorial Day weekend, surpassing the record of $3.06 billion set last summer. Factoring in higher ticket prices, movie admissions this summer likely will come in slightly lower than last year's 542 million and well below the modern record of 589 million set in 1999.
Big Hollywood Hits Don't Ensure Big Profits
Linking to Dance's Future in a 21st-Century Workshop: With the formal opening on Oct. 2 of the new Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, New York dance officially enters the cyber universe. The new D.T.W. is the most technologically sophisticated dance theater space in the nation and perhaps the world, judging by anecdotal evidence from touring dance companies.
Bringing music to life: [T]he real problem isn't that kids don't like Beethoven or Wagner any more - it's that dreary and snobbish phrase "classical music".
Shakespeare and da Vinci named as composers in child survey: When a recent sample of British six- to 14-year-olds was asked to name a classical composer they chewed their pencils and suggested: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.
A survey published by Classic FM magazine as part of its Instruments for Schools campaign shows 65% of children under 14 cannot name one classical composer. Only 14% of 600 children nationwide knew Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven wrote music.
"Sickening" paedophilia books rock French literary world: The first scandal of France's week-old literary season has erupted over two violent and sexually explicit novels whose heroes are an obsessive paedophile and a perverted serial killer with a preference for very young girls, including his two-year-old daughter.
Sense and sensitivity: Museums are restricting access to certain artefacts so as not to give offence
West finally gets to listen to Soviet musical archives: [A]fter years of legal and technical wrangling, the performances recorded over nearly seven decades by the Soviet Ministry of Radio and Television are being released. They number more than 400,000 - enough to fill 12,000 compact discs.
"Thou shalt worship the arts for what they are": All arts funding is now judged by the Treasury according to whether it delivers the predicted outcomes. From patient survival rates in hospital operations, to literacy rates in schools, to punctuality rates in railways, to attendance at museums, to seats sold in theatres, future public funding turns on the achievement of agreed performance indicators.
A farcical extension of this principle came in summer 2001, when the head of UK Sport - the organisation responsible for delivering international sporting success - conceded that Britain's comparative failure to get gold medals in the European athletic championships, after targets for medal numbers had been agreed with the Treasury, could lead to less funding for training athletes in the future.
Kahlo and Picasso works stolen: Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo have been stolen from a doctor's home in Texas, USA. The haul, worth more than $700,000 (£450,000), was taken from the San Antonio house of Dr Richard Garcia while he was asleep upstairs. [...] Dr Garcia, who has not publicly identified the paintings on the advice of his lawyer, said he had not insured the works because the premiums would be too high.
Size matters for artist: A life-sized picture of a tree - claimed to be one of the world's largest paintings - was unveiled yesterday. The picture of an oak tree is 975cm high and 670cm wide. It is going on display in the middle of Golden Square in Soho, central London.
How to Build a Creative City: The forces that forged classic arts scenes are pushing the edge farther and farther away
The World’s New Culture Meccas: A look at some creative locales on the rise in the new millennium. From Marseilles and Cape Town to Tijuana and Kabul
Al Feldstein [ex-MAD editor] on the FBI Experience
ECO-TERRORES
Remembering the Lost: Telling the stories of each victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States
9/11 News and Resources
Things Go Better
Justice Department Accomplishments in the War on Terrorism: The Shift From Investigation to Prevention
What Price Safety? Security and freedom in an age of fear.
Tech firms urged to aid security efforts: [L]egal restrictions against spying on U.S. citizens are not controversial, but those same limitations pose a problem when immigrants and tourists can benefit from the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable" searches.
Inquiétant rapport sur le poids des armes: Irak possède toujours des armes de destructions massives, mais son potentiel est aujourd'hui plus faible qu'il ne l'était à la veille de la guerre du Golfe (1991).
A report on Iraqi arms spells out risks: Iraq probably does not have enough chemical or biological weapons or long-range missiles to offer serious military resistance to U.S. armed forces protecting nearby countries or even invading Iraq itself, according to an independent assessment by a leading Western think tank. But the Iraqi threat could achieve a quantum leap overnight thanks to a "nuclear wild card" in Baghdad's armaments drive
Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment: The retention of [Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)] capacities by Iraq is self-evidently the core objective of the regime, for it has sacrificed all other domestic and foreign policy goals to this singular aim. [...] This Strategic Dossier does not attempt to make a case, either way, as to whether Saddam Hussein’s WMD arsenal is a casus belli per se. Wait and the threat will grow; strike and the threat may be used.
Iraq and IAEA Inspections: Vienna, 06 September, 2002 - With reference to an article published today in the New York Times, the International Atomic Energy Agency would like to state that it has no new information on Iraq's nuclear programme since December 1998 when its inspectors left Iraq.
Ten Reasons Why Many Gulf War Veterans Oppose Re-Invading Iraq
Bush mistakes Saddam for Osama bin Laden: The Bush administration's monomaniacal focus on Saddam Hussein as the fount of all terrorism was starting to sound like a clinical case of transference until, in recent days, the White House seemed to take a deep breath. Wouldn't any clinician worth her salt observe that Saddam, without having done much of anything since last September, has become immensely bigger and more menacing precisely as Osama bin Laden - remember him? - has become less available?
What Makes Dad Clench His Jaw: It's his son's war, so why do pundits keep calling it unfinished family business?
What is the International Community?
The Hunting of Steven J. Hatfill: Why are so many people eager to believe that this man is the anthrax killer?
VITAMEDIAS
Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
Beyond breaking news: Online news delivery must change with the consumer
The real lesson to be learned from Sept. 11 or from any major breaking news today is not how the news media have changed - we're slow to change - but how the public more routinely goes to the Internet to seek news and information. And there is still a gap between the power of this new technology now in the hands of news consumers and the reporting made available to them from established newsrooms.
Seattle publisher sounding alarm: "Can American democracy survive the loss of the independent press and diversity of voices? The answer is no"
There are lies, damned lies and newspaper circulation figures
'Philly Daily News' Ponders Photo Controversy: It's a tabloid tradition: using your cover as a most-wanted poster in the hope of helping police catch criminal suspects while giving readers a chance to help. What could be a better public service than that? And if some of the alleged bad guys are caught because readers happened to recognize them, well, so much the better, right? Not necessarily.
Clássicos da Rádio: Os Anos Dourados da Telefonia em Portugal
Who listens to the radio? It's the multimillion-dollar question and two companies have developed high-tech devices to find out.
More Views on Reviews: Corigliano vs. Davidson, Round II: The composer and critic exchange closing salvos on how to cover new music.
Am I saying that critics need to be trained musicians, thorough scholars, and snappy writers - all on a freelancer's meager salary? Yes. "What professional standards should critics be held to?" You need to be able to read like a conductor, research like an historian, judge like a parent and write like a playwright. "How should critics reconcile the demands of accuracy with the realities of the deadline and the music business?" Take this question to your editors, Justin. Critics must improve the business of criticism: composers cannot. It's tough out there, from what I hear. But it's tough for composers, too. Sorry. You tell me "the field is strewn with recovering pianists, musicologists, and tuba players." From what are they recovering? Hard work? I hope they didn't expect to escape it in music criticism.
Must a Critic's Heritage Dictate His Opinions? Irish writers aren't expected to promote U2. Canadian critics aren't bound to back Neil Young. So why must a Mexican reporter be partial to singer Paulina Rubio just because she's Mexican too?
AOL Online Unit Sees Ad Shortfall: Internet and media conglomerate AOL Time Warner Inc.said results at its America Online Internet unit will be below expectations for the year, citing the prolonged advertising slump.
Internet Ads Hit Rock Bottom; Some on AOL Are Free as Air: America Online is running Nutri/System's ads free for two months, and Nutri/System only has to pay $50 when one of its ads sparks a customer to buy a weight-loss package. [...] These days, Internet publishers are so downtrodden they are doing whatever it takes to win advertisers to their Web sites.
Pop-ups strike out with Internet advertisers: The Internet had 11.3 billion impressions — or distinct appearances — of pop-ups ads between January and July
Marketers Explore Product Placements in Music: Music Studio Offers Ads in Artists' Song Lyrics
Jornalistas Impedidos de Fazer Reportagem em Consulado: No dia 6 do corrente, os jornalistas Ivo Caldeira e Rui Marote entraram no serviço de atendimento [do consulado português em Londres], quando este abriu ao público, para observarem a forma como são atendidos os nossos compatriotas a residir em Inglaterra. Eis senão quando são abordados por duas funcionárias que, de forma desabrida, lhes dizem que não podem trabalhar ali e exigem a entrega do rolo fotográfico. Perante a recusa dos jornalistas a sair e a fornecer o referido rolo as funcionárias chamaram a polícia. [antes da "forma desabrida", eles não se deviam ter identificado como jornalistas?...]
TECNO-HOUSE
AltaVista Joins Google in 'China Block' Club: According to analysts, the blockage is probably occurring because search engines like Google and AltaVista can serve as work-arounds for users trying to access sites blocked by the Chinese government.
China, Google, and press spin: Chinese officials may be worried that Google logs all search terms together with the IP number, a time stamp, a unique cookie ID, and browser information. If this information is available to the National Security Agency from Google - and current U.S. laws almost require Google to provide this information to the feds, especially when the Internet user is a non-U.S. citizen in a country that's of national security interest to the U.S. - then China may be well-advised to block the use of U.S. engines to protect their own national security.
Year After 9/11, Cyberspace Door Is Still Ajar: So what has changed in the year since the attacks? Not so much, actually.
Balancing Linux and Microsoft
CONTAMINANTES
WTC Cough: [P]ublished early to coincide with the release of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on illnesses among rescue workers after the World Trade Center disaster.
Tuned In: Science may not have yet figured out exactly how, or why, human beings respond to music. But research across many disciplines shows that music is a powerful stimulator, shaper and maybe even sharpener of memory.
The green Gestapo: The only way to save the planet is to get rid of poverty, but at Johannesburg the eco-fascists missed the point
Obesity is changing human shape: The abundance of food in affluent societies is presenting the human species with one of its greatest evolutionary challenges.
Big Brother watches you drive: Imagine being watched from the moment you get behind the wheel. Every glance is tracked and every blink monitored, with your car warning you before you are going to have an accident. This is now possible thanks to a system that studies the human face to detect fatigue or distraction and then alerts the driver.
Hey, Loser, Got a Message for You: Don't want to date that jerk? Give out this phone number and let the recording do the dirty work.
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Crystal b*lls: the sorry secrets of the psychics who have been doing brisk business since 11 September
Russian officials claim credit for rain: Light showers relieve smoke-choked Moscow, but how?
D'oh! There's One Tiny Flaw in This Plan...
ColonialMint $2001 Bush Memorial Dollar Bill
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Spider Vendor
ZITE
Le Cri du Peuple (Tardi)
09 Setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Digital Divide [Hollywood & Silicon Valley em contexto histórico]
Labels loosening up on CD copy locks: Fearful of consumer backlash, major record labels in the United States have slowed controversial plans for making CDs more difficult to copy, even as tension over online music piracy mounts.
Planet's PDA enables CD shoppers to browse music… or listen to the contents of music CDs simply by having the PDA sensor recognize the bar code attached to CD's plastic cover.
Peter Gabriel video makes Internet debut: Singer released a video online Friday to promote his first studio album in 10 years.
Scammed by Small-Time Crook, Simon & Schuster Sues: Simon & Schuster recently learned that it had been scammed out of a hefty advance by a small-time crook who claimed to be the illegitimate grandson of wiseguy Carlo Gambino
D.FILM Movie Maker 2.0
ECO-TERRORES
9.11: What Has Changed: The Economy. Homeland Security. The View from Abroad.
One Year After
The Height of Ambition + Thinking Big
From Photos to Relics, Remembering the Unforgettable
Documenting the Tragedy
Forbidden thoughts about 9/11: A spectrum of improper responses to the terror attacks.
Sept. 11: US Nice Guy says 'enough': There is a theory in the Arab world, frequently aired on the TV discussion shows of Qatar's Al-Jazeera news channel, that the real impact of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 was less the 3,000 dead than the devastation wreaked on the American and broader Western economy.
In this grisly arithmetic of terror, the $7 trillion knocked off the value of American stocks, the body blows to the airline industry, the rise in the oil price and the global slowdown, targeted with gruesome precision the true vulnerability of American power. Osama bin Laden was not just the mastermind of the most devastating single terrorist strike in history; he was also the ultimate financial criminal, the Wall Street ghoul of all time.
This theory has its flaws.
The Informant Who Lived With the Hijackers: One of the FBI’s informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers
Netizens: Sept. 11 justifies Web blitz: Americans don't necessarily care if the government removes public information from the Net in the name of national security.
Businesses Draw Line On Security: While the Bush administration has waged its campaign to strengthen homeland security since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many of the nation's largest and most influential businesses have quietly but persistently resisted new rules that would require them to make long-term security improvements.
Hate Literature Blitz Planned By Neo-Nazi Groups To Coincide With Jewish Holidays And 9/11
Criminal Enforcement Against Terrorists
A Real War on Terrorism: Wars on terrorism have very little in common with regular wars. The initial, sheerly military phase - which the Bush administration had handled capably - was just the beginning. Now, a year after 9/11, pretty much everyone realizes that we'd better have a very good, very long-run strategy.
I don't think we do. I think the Bush administration's long-run plan, to the extent that one can be discerned, is at best inadequate and at worst disastrous. So, what's my long-run plan?
Special Report on Iraq: No one, in either London or Washington, is understood to have incontrovertible proof that Saddam is developing nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. The evidence simply proves that he has the means and the inclination.
In war, some facts less factual: Some US assertions from the last war on Iraq still appear dubious.
Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11… barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon
Satellite photos show Iraq has rebuilt on bombed weapons sites: What new facilities are used for is “the great unknown”
Ex-arms inspector defends Iraq: A former senior UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter, has told the Baghdad parliament that Iraq is not a threat to the outside world and that military action against the country would not be justifiable ["told the Baghdad parliament"!?!?!?]
Scientists join war on terror: Now the great minds are being called, once again, to battle. Deeply aware that new scientific ideas - from radar to the atomic bomb - gave America a crucial edge in World War II, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and across the country are working on weapons for the war against terrorism. And for those who have thought deepest about the march of technology, the mission is as urgent as the Manhattan Project.
Steven Hatfill's Rights Infringed by “New Gestapo”; Media Unmoved: Hatfill is getting the Richard Jewell treatment, only worse. Jewell was the security guard at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics who spotted the knapsack bomb and moved people away before it exploded. Lacking a suspect, the FBI theorized that Jewell planted the bomb himself in order to become a hero.
The FBI had no evidence whatsoever against Jewell, but neither ethics, professional integrity nor the lack of evidence prevented a steady stream of leaks to an obedient media insinuating that Jewell was the bomber.
[…] As in the Jewell case, the FBI has substituted a theory for evidence. The theory is that Hatfill, a patriotic American serving his country, sent the anthrax letters to demonstrate America's lack of preparedness against terrorists.
MoD rejects fears over defence sell-off… to a US-based company that has several former international leaders on its payroll. George Bush senior, his former secretary of state James Baker, the former prime minister John Major and many other figures from international big business and politics are employed by Carlyle Group, a US-based private equity and defence group. The government has dismissed union fears that the British national interest may be compromised by the influence of diverse overseas lobbyists linked to the company.
Qinetiq's new battle: Qinetiq - currently owned by the Ministry of Defence - is on course for privatisation, wooing venture capitalists with a view to a stock market listing. But can secretive government scientists hope to thrive in the private sector? [30 April, 2002]
America’s 40 Richest Under 40: Easy Come, Easy Go: [T]heir combined wealth has been chopped by more than half since 2000, when it peaked at a mighty $73.7 billion.
What If We'd Already Privatized Social Security?
Project on Social Security Privatization
Social Security trust fund is misleading
WTO Stands For "Worship The Oligarchy"What is the World Trade Organization? Quite clearly it's a cover for transnational companies to open up new markets in underdeveloped countries hiding under the guise of once-fashionable late-20th century economics dogma. Multinationals are a lot like vampires: they know that they can destroy any developing nation's industry and take it over for their own profit, if only they can get invited in the house. The question is how to convince the local population that it's in their interests. Bribing the dictators or the parliaments to pass laws allowing them to take over isn't enough -you need a dogma to make people BELIEVE that when they lose their jobs, it's for their own good, or at least, it's no one's fault but the natural laws of history. That, it seems, is what the WTO's job is.
RDV place Bill-Gates, Paris VIIIe: Un “commando” a rebaptisé douze lieux pour protester contre le grand capital.
VITAMEDIAS
Birth of a media: TV too often condemned rather than celebrated
The 75th anniversary of Farnsworth's invention is worth celebrating because the medium of television has such remarkable communicative powers and such distinctive artistic qualities that a world without it is almost unimaginable today.
Placement, People! Television's 30-second spot is lurching toward extinction. For the show to go on, the ads will go in.
As 2003 Nears, Where Is Online Newspaper Biz? It's less than four months from 2003: Do you know where your online newspaper industry is?
Forbes.com Guarantees Effectiveness of Ads... after 60 days of advertising or their money back
The Post-9/11 Rise of Do-It-Yourself Journalism: [A new study found that] growing numbers of Americans seem to want to use the Internet to supplement the information they get from traditional media. The study cautions, though, that because these "do-it-yourself" accounts were written by amateurs, most of them did not follow the hallmarks of good journalism such as fact-checking and impartiality, and as a result "read more like rumors."
The Information Squeeze: Openness in government is under assault throughout the United States - at every level. Can the news media, reluctant combatants thus far, mount a successful counterattack?
Views of Sept. 11, Through The Web's Sharpest Eyes
Reliving the terror: Last September's devastation may be consecrated as an annual TV event. "Like the Super Bowl, [...] it's going to become a media-declared holiday. It's setting itself up as a memorial day we're going to experience on television. Remember when we were kids, and had to watch the State of the Union address or turn off the television? Occasionally, TV forced a common message on all its citizenry then, because there weren't any other choices".
Is NewsMax Corrupt? Using the standards NewsMax itself applies to the New York Times, absolutely.
Just Do It. Again. Dan Wieden created Nike's famous slogan, and he's been pushing the limits ever since. Now he's blending advertising and entertainment into a new art form - "branded content."
Naming rights deal valued at $30-million: The St. Petersburg Times will pay $2.1-million annually, plus other concessions, for the right to put its name on the old Ice Palace arena.
TECNO-HOUSE
POSI aposta em Portugal
[Como? Entre outras para] Fazer da criação de plataformas de excelência e competitividade no interior e nas áreas mais desfavorecidas uma verdadeira oposta de correcção das assimetrias de desenvolvimento (neste aspecto, a dinamização da cooperação regional transfronteiriça com a Galiza, Castela e Leão e outras regiões espanholas é um verdadeiro desígnio que se terá que assumir de forma estratégica)
Sociedade da Informação: Governo tem de fazer esforço transversal: A tutela da Sociedade da Informação pela Presidência do Conselho de Ministros, anteriormente na dependência do ex-Ministério da Ciência e da Tecnologia, visa garantir um esforço transversal do governo nesta matéria, afirmou hoje Morais Sarmento
Subidas Telefonicas: La Sociedad de la Informacio se va a Pique: El ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología Josep Piqué, anunció ante los empresarios del sector una próxima revisión del sistema de precios máximos de Telefónica e incentivos fiscales para reactivar el sector de las telecomunicaciones.
The United States Government Manual
IDC Cuts 2002 PC Sales Outlook, Sees Slow Holidays: [T]he key year-end holiday sales period would prove disappointing.
Sony, Philips Working on New Ways to Network… that will allow wireless transfer of data between all your devices.
Wearable computers to go mainstream… over the next couple of years
Nokia 3650 (Availability: Early 2003)
Cell Phone Records Playing Key Role in Criminal Cases: Now detectives are relying on a new tool: cell phones. Because more than 40% of Americans own mobile phones, law enforcement personnel see them as a powerful resource in investigations and trials. Detectives say phone records, from both suspects and victims, can provide key evidence in murder, robbery, drug and rape cases.
Computer forensics specialists in demand as hacking grows
Radio ID locks lost laptops: The researchers' Zero-Interaction Authentication system combines two well-known security techniques: a hardware token that authorizes the person holding it to use a particular computer, and encryption software that locks and unlocks files on a computer. The user wears the token in the form of a watch or piece of jewelry.
An Alternative to Microsoft Gains Support in High Places: More than two dozen countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America, including China and Germany, are now encouraging their government agencies to use "open source" software.
Apple: Windows Media Player shows anti-standards behavior
Microsoft courts Hollywood with Windows Media 9
Switch to Mac OS X From Microsoft Windows (A guide to key user experience [interface] differences)
Slide show TV: [Planetweb] hit the pavement with software that could turn a DVD player into a viewer for still digital-camera images. The combination sounds crazy, but in June, Samsung began marketing a DVD player that uses Planetweb's software to display the images. The device enables users of Sony digital cameras to remove the camera's memory stick, a chewing gum-size memory chip module, and put it into the DVD player to display the images instantly on a TV. Consumers can view slide shows and edit or print the pictures. Now that basic, no-frills DVD players sell for as low as $60, manufacturers are pleased to be able to add new functions and, thus, charge higher prices for their products.
The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools
How Some Universities Encourage the Creation of Prime Research Web Sites
10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
Spoof site no joke for eBay: A parody Web site called "eGray," which takes aim at California gubernatorial incumbent Gray Davis, has drawn the attention of auction giant eBay - and its lawyers.
CONTAMINANTES
Panel Urges Hour of Exercise a Day: Americans need to exercise more - at least an hour a day, twice as much as previously recommended. [T]o meet daily needs for energy and nutrients while minimizing the risk of developing chronic ills like heart disease and diabetes, adults should get 45 percent to 65 percent of their daily calories from carbohydrates. It recommended a maximum of 25 percent of calories from added sugars, 20 percent to 35 percent of calories from fats, and 10 percent to 35 percent of calories from protein. In addition, the panel recommended that adult men 50 and under consume 38 grams of fiber a day and adult women 21 grams a day.
Study Finds Over 40 Drug Errors Daily at Hospitals
Doctor in the mouse: "The Internet is the greatest collection of misinformation about health the world has ever known."
Genomes & Machines: Reviews, databases and general resources on genomics and bioinformatics systems.
First commercial Moon landing gets go-ahead: Small step for commercialization of Moon surface.
.DE!
A president's insecurity detail: Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney, speaking before business leaders, recalling the Olympic opening ceremony last winter: ''[T]he president of the United States, as he goes out to an audience like that, with three and a half billion people looking at him, he turned to me and he said, 'Do I look fat?'"
Leonard Nimoy sings about Bilbo Baggins
Almost Organic: MIT Develops Life-Like Robotic Creature of the Deep
Pick a Murderer, Any Murderer: In theory, Florida prosecutors believe convicted child molester Ricky Chavis and two baby-faced brothers are both innocent and guilty of the same murder.
A Smart Weapon for the Links: The G.P.S.-Enabled Golf Cart: The crucial component in ProLink's golf course management system is a computer and a 10-inch color display mounted on the roof of a golf cart. The display offers a detailed graphic overview of every hole. When a golfer drives up to the ball, the computer can provide the exact yardage remaining to the hole and dispense strategic advice from the club pro on how to play the shot. The player can call up different hole views, including an aerial shot, and keep an eye on his or her score and pace of play, using ProLink as a kind of personalized closed-circuit broadcast.
Worth giving tourism the big banana
Here are all the BIG things!!!
Big Banana
Big Pineapple
Big Prawn
Big Bull
Learn Logic with Beavis and Butthead!
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Treasures in Turning the Pages
Secret Satellite Photos To Be Unveiled: The intention to release the intelligence imagery has taken several outsiders by surprise.
ZITES
All About Glaciers
Groovin’ Granny
Internet Killed the Video Star
Ape Logic
Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal
06 Setembro 2002
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
The Digital Dark Age: We're storing almost all of the world's total information on hard drives with one-year limited warranties. What's to become of our cultural and personal history?
Power of force leads to census farce
More than 70,000 fans of the "Star Wars" movies have upset Australia's statistics agency by identifying their religion as "Jedi" during last year's national census.
State Senate to Examine Music Firms
Royalties: A second hearing on recording industry accounting is planned to probe allegations that artists are being cheated.
Periférica: Uma Aldeia Periférica. Uma Região Periférica. Um País Periférico. Uma Revista Pouco Preocupada Com Isso.
A Story Of Piracy And Privacy
A New Tactic in the Download War
The most downloaded album in Internet history - the recently released "The Eminem Show" - is also the best-selling album of the year
It's All Over For Napster
Napster's Internet 'Death Page' Is Latest in a Web Tradition [w/ Notable Death Pages]
Why You Shouldn't Upload Independently Produced CDs
Music Sharing as a Computer Supported Collaborative Application
Peercast
Anonymous $1m grant to test copyright laws
Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s
A Long, Staid Trip: How Deadheads ruined the Grateful Dead.
Lawyers, Tiggers & Bears, Oh My!
An 80-year-old grandmother's lawsuit has threatened to yank Winnie-the-Pooh out of Disney's Magic Kingdom. […] A bedtime story in ten chapters
The man who launched 1,000 journals
The Simpsons Top 100
Pop Culture Junk Mail
School Makes Offer Sopranos Can't Refuse: The University of Calgary is offering a course this fall that will examine how the gritty, award-winning HBO series that features mob boss Tony Soprano, his wife Carmela, his gang and his troubled psychiatrist fit into the gangster film genre.
ECO-TERRORES
One year on: Remember
September 11 - A Nation Remembers
For whom the Liberty Bell tolls: Almost everywhere, governments have taken September 11th as an opportunity to restrict their citizens' freedom
The Enemy Within: Intelligence Gathering, Law Enforcement, and Civil Liberties in the Wake of September 11
Nearly half of Americans think First Amendment goes too far, survey finds
Police ask stores to take fingerprints
9/11: ‘American Idol’ seizes the day: Ta-dah! Winner to sing national anthem at Lincoln Memorial
World Trade Center flag is missing
[!!] US 'was partly to blame' for terror attacks': 55 per cent of respondents from six European countries agreed that US policy had contributed to the attacks.
On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building
Iraqi air defence site attacked
Cheney vs. Scowcroft: How to duck the arguments against attacking Iraq.
Hypocrisy now!
How low can we go?
We wait and wait for someone in charge to ask: Invade Iraq? Are you nuts?
We wait and wait for the media to stop showing deference and start showing some defiance.
You want to send soldiers to Iraq? Didn't we do that already? Is it a measure of cynicism if we think that this is an attempt to take everyone's attention away from endemic regulator-ignored corporate criminality?
A Few Good Geeks: The FBI's attempt to enlist America's top hackers and computer security experts in the war on terrorism may have hit a snag: many of the highly prized geeks are too old, fat or stoned to join up.
Extent of Money Laundering through Credit Cards Is Unknown
You Bought. They Sold.
All over corporate America, top execs were cashing in stock even as their companies were tanking. Who was left holding the bag? You.
“Buy, Lie and Sell High”
How investment banks sold the American economy down the river.
The History of Economic Thought
War of the worlds: It has become synonymous with the terrorist attacks of September 11 - but what is the origin of the name al-Qaida? Bin Laden may have been inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation
Bitter sweet
Not so fast, say the honest burghers of Hershey in Pennsylvania (population: 12,000). Sell a controlling interest in the company, they claim, and the town and its sense of community will suffer. Not only would a sale put at risk the jobs of 6,200 people employed by Hershey Foods, says Mike Fisher, Pennsylvania’s attorney-general and a candidate for state governor; it would also jeopardise a way of life and philanthropic tradition begun a century ago by Milton Hershey, the company’s founder.
The Best Corporate Complaint Sites
What revolution Are You?
VITAMEDIAS
Project Censored 2001 (The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2000)
TV Remembers On Sept. 11
Anniversary not a day for advertising
Solemnity Slips Under the Covers: Nearly a year after sweeping predictions that the news business would be permanently transformed by the events of Sept. 11, the media world has largely returned to business as usual.
Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in Utah: As the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, terror-related urban legends are running rampant
Magazine readership is up: 5.3% increase since 1998
After years of gain, the pain: […] Many media companies have become progressively less productive, particularly since 1992, because the market has applied relatively little pressure to become more efficient.
A dirty business [detectives contratados por jornalistas]
Media "Ground Rules Agreement" in Afghanistan
It's an Ad, Ad, Ad World: As conventional methods lose their punch, more marketers are going undercover to reach consumers
Have Web pop-ups peaked? Internet publishers want ads that bring in more revenue
Are Weblogs Changing Our Culture?
[Descubra as diferenças - e ainda são algumas...]: Arte pouco natural
Behold: “Ebola Is Beautiful”
Código do Trabalho (Anteprojecto) - Artigo 118º (Título profissional)
1. Sempre que o exercício de determinada actividade se encontre legalmente condicionado à posse de carteira profissional ou título com valor legal equivalente, a sua falta determina a nulidade do contrato.
2. Se, por decisão que já não admite recurso, a carteira profissional ou título com valor legal equivalente vier a ser retirado ao trabalhador, posteriormente à celebração do contrato, este caduca logo que as partes disso sejam notificadas pela entidade competente.
Anuário da Publicidade e Comunicação 2002
TECNO-HOUSE
E-Terrorism: Have Digital Myths Diverted Attention From True Threats?
Bush administration OKs report making nano a terror war priority
Girafa (free web navigation service that works alongside your browser providing you with visualization capabilities when searching and navigating the web)
How Many Online?
Don’t Link to Us! (Stupid linking policies)
JPEG.org: Concerning Recent Patent Claims
Errorwear: embrace your computer problems
Name your baby “Turok”, win $10,000
Five people adopt name of video game character
Sony Playstation Launches Suspense Cinema Trailer
Sony PlayStation 3 Seen Out of the Box by 2005
PC Hardware in a Nutshell (Sample Chapter: Building a PC)
99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete
An excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards
Television’s Digital Dilemma
Novad MuVo (both a digital music player and a device for storing any digital data)
CONTAMINANTES
Document Retention Policies: Legal Reasons to Keep E-mail, Web Pages and Other Records
Online video games are the newest form of social comment.
Born Digital: Children of the Revolution
Finland's hunting dogs get mobile phones
Totally Uncooked: a growing number of people […] believe that eating uncooked “living foods” extends youth and staves off disease
The Food Timeline: Ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world?
Write Your Name in Runes
As the World Burns: What will global warming do to the Bush ranch?
The Slow Lane: Can anyone solve the problem of traffic?
Surgeries often unnecessary, study suggests
.DE!
[Finalmente!] Routine security questions eliminated
Air passengers will no longer be asked who packed or handled their baggage
Weapons still fly at airports: To test the supposedly more stringent security imposed at the nation's airports after the Sept. 11 attacks, Daily News reporters boarded flights over the Labor Day weekend carrying contraband - including box cutters, razor knives and pepper spray.
SDR-3X Sony Robot
Star Wars Land Speeder
Full-size space shuttle flight deck simulator
LetsBlowItUp [quality computer destruction images]
Crash Bonsai
The Epitaph Browser
Death Test [Macabro!]
ONE: A Space Odyssey
Quizzes
City to tax rainwater
Plastic island paradise: A british carpenter who dreamed of living on a private sunshine isle built himself one using 250,000 plastic bottles.
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Stunning asteroid picture revealed: The nearest it came was 750,000 kilometres of the Earth - twice the distance to the Moon.
The Strangest Town in Alaska
African Aperture
ZITE
Time Travel Fund [qualquer coisa serve para ganhar uns dólares...]
04 Setembro 2002
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25, 02.08.02
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Copyright as Cudgel: Copyright […] is supposed to be an economic incentive for the next producer, not a guarantee for the established one. But after more than 200 years of legal evolution and technological revolution, copyright no longer offers strong democratic safeguards. It is out of balance.
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm
Hollywood Vigilantes vs. Copyright Pirates
The entertainment industry doesn't need a law letting it hack and disable file-sharers. Why is Congress even considering it?
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2002/tc20020731_4889.htm
Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/technology/29DIGI.html?todaysheadlines
Webcastrated: Will Independent Webcasters Survive The New Copyright Royalties Recently Adopted By The Library Of Congress?
http://www.weeklydig.com/?ContentId=1234
Artists slam music industry over royalties: Singers and entertainment attorneys criticized California's $41 billion recording industry, testifying that it routinely underreports royalties and cheats artists of millions of dollars.
http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/475982p-3803176c.html
Dan Gillmor: Hacking, hijacking our rights
Every challenge to the DMCA so far has been a failure.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3752446.htm
Sour notes: The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading - it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/30/file_trading/print.html
When the Music Stopped
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/BookExcerpt.asp
RIAA Web site disabled by attack
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947072.html?tag=fd_top
New Pressplay offers unlimited downloads
http://www.iht.com/articles/66541.html
The New Napsters: There's more free downloading of music than ever. The big labels hate it - but shutting down the outlaw networks won't be so easy this time.
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208834
Eighties-Rocker Renaissance
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=259481
The Remixmasters
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068368
A Novel Way to Write Hit Songs
As he was working on his latest novel, Anything Goes, he came up with the idea of writing actual songs, with the help of a songwriter friend, to include in the book.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53668,00.html
Screenwriting
If you really want to be creative, write for television and not for the movies
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1259140
Gallery gets controversial work 18 years late
http://www.cbc.ca/artsCanada/stories/gallery300702
Gale's Biggest Digitization Project Ever Covers Eighteenth Century
Believed to be the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800 will be available over the Web beginning June 2003.
http://shorl.com/hehyfonyfrele
Robin Hood Project: information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.stm
Movies! (The Gauntlet + Rise of the Empire)
http://users.eastlink.ca/~jaysilver/
Bugs Bunny tops greatest cartoon characters list
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/30/cartoon.characters/index.html
Games Kids Play
http://www.gameskidsplay.net
ECO-TERRORES
Portuguese protest over eurozone austerity: "After more than 16 years in the Community, we are exactly where we started, at the tail end of Europe," says Manuel Villaverde Cabral, a leftwing sociologist and columnist.
http://shorl.com/godregredretuse
Um Boeing à deriva? Portugal está, dezasseis anos e meio depois de ter aderido à CEE, exactamente no mesmo lugar em que estava então, isto é, na "cauda da Europa"
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=2494&codEdicao=345
Statement by Commissioner Solbes on the Portuguese deficit data
http://shorl.com/bemubrahegrybe
Italy warns EU agriculture chief: “hands off our pasta”
http://shorl.com/gadipobebyti
Italian police planted petrol bombs on G8 summit protesters: Italian police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school where anti-globalisation pro-testers were sleeping to justify a brutal crackdown during last year's G8 summit in Genoa.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=319760
Terrorized by Numbers: Between the start of the second Intifada almost two years ago and the end of June, the war had killed 561 Israelis and 1,499 Palestinians. But a new study claims that these numbers obscure the reality of the conflict
http://shorl.com/jesabristomofy
The Corporate Scandal Sheet: With the avalanche of corporate accounting scandals that have rocked the markets recently, it's getting hard to keep track of all the transgressions. Our Corporate Scandal Sheet does the job
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/07/25/accountingtracker.html
Internal Memos: Internet’s largest collection of corporate memos and internal communication
http://www.internalmemos.com
The Corporate Abuse-reform Cycle
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-06/29herman.cfm
The world's biggest companies
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1263776
Stop the War Before it Starts
http://www.progressive.org/August%202002/oren0802.html
Its Own Worst Enemy: Washington spends more on its armed forces than any nation in history […] The member states of the EU between them have more soldiers than the US, and collectively their defense spending totaled nearly 70 percent that of Washington's pre-2002 outlays; but the results in technology and hardware are simply not comparable. The US can intervene or make war almost anywhere in the world. No one else even comes close.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15632
Profound Effect on U.S. Economy Seen in a War on Iraq
…because the U.S. would have to pay most of the cost and bear the brunt of any oil price shock or other market disruptions
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/international/30COST.html
How bin Laden's huge convoy gave American forces the slip
“We don’t understand how they weren’t all killed the night before because they came in a convoy of at least 1,000 cars and trucks”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-362078,00.html
US accused of airstrike cover-up: American forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-368297,00.html
9/11 probe panel on deck? A surprise House vote reopened the issue of how to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and raised the possibility that President Bush might be forced to accept an independent commission he has long opposed.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-07-26-house-panel_x.htm
Council Task Force urges the Bush Administration to upgrade public diplomacy
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pub!4681
Bush to Create Formal Office To Shape U.S. Image Abroad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18822-2002Jul29.html
Learning to love Big Brother: George W. Bush channels George Orwell
Here's a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?
http://shorl.com/folonuvubradi
Buying Trouble: Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.php
Higher Education Contribution to National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/word/NET0027.doc
Blair told not to rush voting online
…despite the success of both methods in experiments in May's local elections.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,768009,00.html
From Jail Cell, Unabomber Finds a Forum
Essay in Newsletter Pits Prison Rules vs. First Amendment Claims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7705-2002Jul26.html
Crimes of War Project
http://www.crimesofwar.org
Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html
VITAMEDIAS
“Anjo Selvagem” atinge o maior número de inserções comerciais
O episódio de 25 de Julho [...] obteve o maior número de inserções com 65 spots [...] distribuído por 1414 segundos. [com indicação de “publicidade”?]
http://www.meiosepublicidade.pt/?id=2388
Impresa aposta na integração dos portais do Expresso e SIC [e muito mais...]
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/36.htm
A Shift Registers in Willingness to Pay for Internet Content
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/01ONLI.html?todaysheadlines
Factiva CEO: News will cost in two years
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-947155.html
Survey: Web Doesn't Affect Print Readership: Sites Draw New Audiences For Publishers
http://shorl.com/dyfrelehetosty
Print media loses out to internet: The internet is now the third source for news, views and entertainment - after TV and radio, beating newspapers and magazines
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,764264,00.html
Internet Profit: Finally, about a third of newspapers' Internet operations are in the black. New-media executives share strategies.
http://www.naa.org/Presstime/PTArtPage.cfm?AID=4409
Unethical Media Practices
Survey reveals widespread incidences of “cash for editorial”
http://ipranet.org/press16.htm
IPRA Charter On Media Transparency
http://ipranet.org/media.htm
Who Needs Dr. J? If a virus were to strike our universities tonight, wiping out - by tomorrow - all schools of medicine, would the sudden disappearance of med-school graduates throw America's hospitals into crisis? Of course, and you'd better believe it. But if, instead, the virus were to kill off all our schools of journalism, would America's newspapers seize up? Of course not
http://opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110002042
Media giants: What’s new is old: Thomas Middelhoff's departure as CEO of Germany's Bertelsmann this week has all but cemented the victory of the old guard in big media following years of costly ventures by bold Internet experimenters.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947260.html?tag=fd_top
Death of the American dreams: Middelhoff and Messier tried to give Europe's two big media groups a US-style makeover. They both must rue it now
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765494,00.html
The traditionalists’ revenge: Thomas Middelhoff, the chief executive of Bertelsmann, a privately-held German media conglomerate, has been forced out after a boardroom battle. The board disagreed with his plan to take the company public by 2005. Following the departure of Jean-Marie Messier from Vivendi and Bob Pittman from AOL Time Warner, Mr Middelhoff’s ouster is further proof that the much-vaunted convergence between old media and the Internet has yet to pay off
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1258076
Bertelsmann: départ d'un patron novateur: Middelhoff avait la même ambition que Jean-Marie Messier, PDG de VU, et Ron Sommer, celui de Deutsche Telekom: changer en profondeur l'entreprise dont il avait pris les commandes.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44473
Liberté de la presse: Paris peut mieux faire
En moins de quatre ans, la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme de Strasbourg a condamné cinq fois la France pour “violation de la liberté d'expression”.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44469
And finally: After 20 years as a top television news executive, Richard Tait retired […] as editor of ITN. Media freedom, he warns, is under more pressure than is good for the state of our democracy
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764712,00.html
Reality bytes: "Our aim was to reinvent television for the web"
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764719,00.html
OneWorldTV: Filmmakers, civil society organisations and activists around the world have contributed footage to create this unique collaboration for social change.
http://tv.oneworld.net
One in three viewers are digital refusniks: The government's plan to turn the UK into a nation of digital TV viewers was dealt a blow after new research showed one in three people will not even pay £25 to upgrade their TV sets.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765254,00.html
Boas perspectivas da DVB-T apesar dos casos britânico e espanhol
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/28.htm
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The first newspapers in this initiative are New York Times (1851-1999), Wall Street Journal (1889-1985), Washington Post (1877-1987), Christian Science Monitor (1908-1990)
http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/histdemo/
Read All About It
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54030,00.html
Magazines Jump on Maxim's Bandwagon: Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, according to editors of today's leading men's magazines.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59051,00.html
How Weblogs Keep the Media Honest
http://shorl.com/dafobrysigraly
Flogged by bloggers: Keep an eye on bloggers. The main arena for media criticism is not going to be books, columns, or panel discussions, and it certainly won't be journalism schools. It will be the Internet.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/opinion/5john.htm
Weblog competition a “bloody stupid idea”?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,7496,765161,00.html
Does Your Weblog Own You?
http://wannabegirl.org/quiz/owned/
Top Twenty Blogger Insults
http://www.davezilla.com/index.php?p=1277
TECNO-HOUSE
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros que nomeia um novo gestor da Intervenção Operacional da Sociedade da Informação [Francisco Jaime Baptista do Paço Quesado] e exonera, a seu pedido, o actual gestor.
http://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/Conselho+de+Ministros/Comunicados/20020801.htm
Piracy and free software not always counted: The annual software piracy statistics […] are compiled from several sources but none take into account the growing use of open-source desktop applications.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/20/1026898931824.html
How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail
A short history of the Postal Service's long relationship with electronic mail.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/7045.asp?p=0
Online users starting to embrace pay sites
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=66526
Instant Messages, Slower Profit
“The computer industry has never seen a phenomenon like instant messaging”.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2002/07/25/0725simons.html?partner=newscom
When the toys talk back via IM
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947010.html?tag=fd_top
Children's text messages are “the key to their future”: The way children write text messages on a mobile phone could hold the key to their future career
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology
Phone gamesmanship: Operators want to ring up some revenue
http://shorl.com/fapabibokisti
PAMPAS: Focusing on the area of privacy and security for beyond-3G mobile systems and applications
http://www.pampas.eu.org
Man indicted in alleged hacking of county's system: A Houston man who once showed a Harris County official how easy it was for an outsider to access a county computer system was accused by a federal grand jury […] of doing just that.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/news/1507766
Free Firewalls for Windows
http://www.iopus.com/guides/free-firewall.htm
New Trends in Virus Technology
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18796.html
Los discos flexibles, al borde de la desaparición
http://www.idg.es/pcworld/noticia.asp?idn=25047
“El disquete sobrevivirá varios años”
http://shorl.com/bufryvymipupo
The 19th-Century Internet
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Catalyst2.asp
A (very) brief overview of cookies
http://www.rbj.net/sitetemplate2.cfm?incpage=cookiespage.htm
Spam filter: A boon or a bomb?
New software promises more order for your in-box, separating the critical messages from the “reply all” excesses. But it could pose a political problem for managers
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120002,00.html
Why Use A Search Toolbar?
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/826
New Search Engine Tool Searches Javascript Files
http://www.urlwire.com/news/073002.html
The Seven Myths of Knowledge Management
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Insight1SevenMyths.asp
Investing in Innovation: A strategy for science, engineering and technology [UK]
http://www.ost.gov.uk/science_strategy.pdf
Sony loses Aussie Playstation suit: The Australian subsidiary of Sony was suing Sydney man Eddy Johnson for selling and installing modifications to its PlayStation machines, claiming his actions breached copyright laws.
http://shorl.com/hykegrugiprupru
Gamers get into “The Zone”: What have a Buddhist Monk, a sports person exhibiting peak performance, and a computer gamer got in common? […] The answer is actually alpha brainwave activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2154092.stm
Practical Technology… for pratical people.
http://www.practical-tech.com
CONTAMINANTES
Portugal y España
http://shorl.com/fadolakarobra
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side: You may think you are more productive under deadline pressure - but you probably are not.
http://shorl.com/bugrastipramabu
More may lose jobs due to vulgar e-mail
More state employees are expected to be fired for using state computers to distribute e-mail messages involving vulgar jokes and cartoons
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/18833074.html
Online resumes make it difficult for companies to follow federal regulations
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/3767127.htm
Too posh to push?
Cesarean sections have spiked dramatically. Progress or [medical] convenience?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/biztech/5demons.htm
Older Americans “Shacking Up” More: There aren't many trends where grandparents are imitating their grandchildren, but cohabitation is one of them
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/national/main516814.shtml
Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992589
The origins of violence: Nurturing nature
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1259045
Don’t Be Rude: Part 1, Kindness
http://shorl.com/bamoresybida
A Black Box for Your Car: Event data recorders could make cars safer - and tell accident investigators what really happened.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_baldwin073002.asp?p=0
Criminal care at a high price
More prisoners are sicker than ever. And you're paying for their medical bills
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/health/5prison.htm
Cruel and usual: How some of America's best zoos get rid of their old, infirm, and unwanted animals
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/usnews/5zoos.htm
Moon Metro [example of what a 21st-century travel guidebook series can be]
http://www.moon.com/metro/index.html
.DE!
O premiê Tony Blair vai passar o Dia Mundial do Orgasmo no Brasil...
http://www.jt.estadao.com.br/editorias/2001/07/31/ger025.html
...tal como todos os Presidentes e Chefes de Estado da CPLP
http://ultimahora.publico.pt/shownews.asp?id=166768&idCanal=12
“But Officer, I Didn't Do Anything!”
They call it a “Voluntary Roadside Interview.” But for hundreds of motorists flagged down by state troopers on Interstate 4, there was nothing voluntary about it.
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA5WPU8Z3D.html
Woman sues Delta over sex toy incident… saying she was publicly humiliated.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/07/26/airline.sex.toy.ap/
Saudi prince found dead in desert: The prince apparently died of thirst. Prince Fahd was the third member of the extensive Saudi royal family to die in a week.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_28319,0005.htm
What Are the Odds of Dying? [United States, 1998]
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
Extreme Survival Quiz
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/extremesurvival/extremesurvival.html
Dining in The Dark: Germany's Unsicht-Bar restaurant offers its customers a whole new way of looking at food: Waiters are either completely blind or visually handicapped
http://shorl.com/dedrubroguvore
Beetle Bailey [Recruta Zero]? At The World Trade Center?
http://www.royaljournal.com/projects/200203/beetle_bailey_at_the_wor.shtml
Origami Gifts
http://origamiboulder.com
The Making of a BattleMech
http://shorl.com/gysebojesopre
Tantive IV - World’s Largest “Star Wars” Toy
http://www.pegwarmer.com/tantive/
R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
http://www.creaturelabs.com/toys_r2-d2.html
Mouse Pad Couch
http://www.rit.edu/~jpsdss/couch/
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Visible Earth (Portugal)
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/Countries/Portugal/
Postcards and Postcard Collecting
http://www.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/postcard.html
If Hackers Ruled
http://shorl.com/bofamekagrity
The Ultimate Computer Chair
http://www.robotics.com/chair/
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream [gelado de polvo?!?!?!]
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/1.html
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately
http://www.jaguaro.org/feature/03-09-02_wesk.shtml
Sound investment
In the latest act of revolt against the record labels, Jake Shillingford’s new band is cutting out the middle men altogether - by financing itself on the net.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,759375,00.html
Bill Lets Music Firms Hack Napster-Like Systems
Media companies would be allowed to sabotage Napster-style networks to prevent songs, movies and other copyrighted materials from being swapped over the Internet under a bill introduced in Congress on Thursday.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54120,00.html
Hollywood vs. the Internet
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13651
Hollywood, tech make suspicious pairing
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3703600.htm
Hollywood heads up anti-piracy charge
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945691.html
Homer Simpson is Canadian, creator says
http://www.canoe.ca/Television/jul19_homer-cp.html
Spy museum opens
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/19/spy.museum.opens/index.html
The World’s Ugliest Buildings [2 em Londres, o resto nos Estados Unidos…]
http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/03/0503home.html
Action Comics, No. 1
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/cover.html
ECO-TERRORES
The euro-zone's stability pact: Rules are made to be bent, aren’ they? Some of the 12 countries that use the euro are struggling to stick to the strict fiscal policies that they have signed up to. Will they change the rules instead?
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1247238
America reaps the fruit of European impotence… over the tiny islet of Perejil
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=7052
The NSA Draws Fire: the agency is badly mismanaged
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,322587,00.html
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Federal Efforts Require a More Coordinated and Comprehensive Approach for Protecting Information Systems
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02474.pdf
Beyond the Rubber Bullet: The Pentagon’s effort to create nonlethal weapons that hurt but don’t kill has set off its own fire storm
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,322588,00.html
The Privacy Torts: How U.S. State Law Quietly Leads the Way in Privacy Protection
http://www.privacilla.org/releases/Torts_Report.pdf
Journal of Economic Crime Management [The Inaugural Issue]
http://www.jecm.org/current_home.html
When going gets tough, execs pray
Survey: Business people prefer divine counsel over spouse’s
http://www.msnbc.com/news/782774.asp
Executives need employees: In 2001, the average chief executive's pay was more than $11 million […] Two decades ago, chief executive officers in America were paid about 40 times more than the average hourly employee. Now they make more than 500 times […]. Last year the CEO of my company made 592 times more than I did. I wonder if that makes me underpaid or the CEO overpaid. […] But I wonder if corporate executives appreciate the role workers play in their success. Free enterprise is a system of risks and rewards. As it now stands, employees suffer most of the risks while executives enjoy most of the rewards.
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=65409
Democracies are backsliding
New freedoms and better quality of life are said to be threatened […] as authoritarian leaders manipulate elections and millions lose faith in democratic systems.
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=65481
Commission launches free advice and problem-solving services to help citizens and business
http://tinyurl.com/v9k
VITAMEDIAS
How Big Media Missed the Big Story
Orville Schell blames megamergers, market mania and misplaced priorities for the press’s failure to blow the whistle on Corporate America’s excesses
http://www.msnbc.com/news/783126.asp
Deep Linking Takes Another Blow: Using a search engine to locate stories on newspapers’ sites violates European Union law
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54083,00.html
Linking Down the Rabbit Hole
http://www.rklau.com/tins/2002/07/25.html#a363
Don’t bury your life in just the facts: Amy Rabideau Silvers does remarkable work for the Journal Sentinel and I want her to write my obituary. But not soon. I’m sure she’ll do a much better job than I did when an editor ordered me to write my own obituary.
http://www.jsonline.com/lifestyle/people/jul02/59914.asp
Write my story: Don’t like the way the advert you are watching is playing out? Then change it. That is the option TV viewers are being offered in a pioneering interactive advertising scheme.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,759378,00.html
Are You Blogging Yet? Web journals could have business value.
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle?doc_id=IWK20020719S0001
Six Degrees of Blogeration
http://www.uselessthoughts.com/sixdegrees/
Geek Immortality for Editors at GamePro: About 2,500 magazine-inspired action figures will reach stores in September. […] Executives at the magazine hope the promotion will increase the current circulation of about 500,000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/technology/22GAME.html?todaysheadlines
When Kids Go Missing: Especially for the highly competitive all-news channels, these gut-wrenching stories grab eyeballs and, presumably, increase ratings.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/782888.asp
[Germany’s] Newspaper Publishers Face Worst Financial Crisis Since World War Two
http://tinyurl.com/v9m
TECNO-HOUSE
IT&Society: web-based scholarly journal devoted to the scientific analysis of the social impact of Information Technology on society
http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/itandsociety/abstract.html
Japanese Firms to Offer ATM Access Via Phones
http://tinyurl.com/v9n
Governo quer fiscalizar IRC e IVA através dos pagamentos Multibanco
http://www.tvi.iol.pt/informacao/noticia.php?id=52092&ed=4
Microsoft’s Canary phone - the first pics
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26308.html
Five Things You Should Know About Internet Identity
http://www.internetwk.com/security02/INW20020718S0008
With False Numbers, Data Crunchers Try to Mine the Truth: People give false answers to protect their privacy. Then, because the data is so unreliable, companies can’t use it to help them run their businesses. Two I.B.M. researchers have devised software that seeks to get around this information age impasse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/technology/circuits/18NEXT.html
Researching People on the Internet
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1027538596.php
Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
http://tinyurl.com/v9o
Search Engine Relationship Chart: Where Engines are getting their results
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum5/1234.htm
The Straight Story on Search Engines [+ Sites for Special Searches]
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,97431,00.asp
Search Engine Gigablast Enters Beta
And while they have a comparatively small index, there are some good ideas here.
http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/2002/jul18jul2402.shtml#searchengine
Internet extends long arm of the law: foreign citizens and businesses are now being subjected to copyright, speech, consumer protection and other laws enacted by governments in countries where they’ve had no voice.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/22/borderless.internet.ap/index.html
Investors May Have Repudiated the Internet, but Consumers Have Not
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/technology/22NET.html?todaysheadlines
Dive Into Accessibility: Why & How can I make my web site more accessible?
http://diveintoaccessibility.org
Disability Issues Information
http://accessiblesociety.org
Computers: Why the party’s over: Over the next three to five years, fewer software upgrades and the near saturation of the consumer and, especially, the business markets could push growth below what it was before 1995.
http://news.com.com/2009-1003-945218.html?tag=fd_nc_1
PC sales still slow
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/19/020719hnpcsales.xml
Computer, Heal Thyself
IBM is developing computer systems that monitor themselves and repair glitches as they arise - which could dramatically cut the cost of network maintenance.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,41511,00.html
Taking Programming to the Extreme: The quest for quality software may require programmers to lose the cowboy attitude and learn to cooperate.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_sherman071902.asp
Is Anti-Virus Software Obsolete?
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1429911
Virus Dials 911: Police Show Up Only to Find Infected WebTVs.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_911virus020723.html
China plans software to rival Windows
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992573
Fuck your Macintosh Lifestyle
http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchback/
Disney expanding its brand to phones, DVD players and PCs
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3720398.htm
The accelerator: The PlayStation 3 could conquer the home-entertainment and computing markets
http://redherring.com/insider/2002/0719/playstation071902.html
Top 10 Reasons that Videogames Will Kill Your Love Life
http://www.drunkgamers.com/f0030.shtml
Hackers to corporate America: You’re lazy: 90% of all attacks stem from poor configuration and administrators that do not consistently update the software they use
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,72802,00.html
Hard Disk Will Have Hackers Seeing Double: Web sites could be kept safe by using a hard disk with two heads, security company says.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102881,00.asp
Is This A Good Time To Buy A PC?
A recent Forrester survey of over 9,000 consumers found that PC penetration has nearly reached its limit for home users. For the most part, then, it's a buyer's market.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18742.html
Wireless Security Blackpaper
http://arstechnica.com/paedia/w/wireless/security-1.html
CONTAMINANTES
La violence routière, l’autre ennemi public
“Je suis horrifié par le fait que les routes françaises sont les plus dangereuses en Europe”, Jacques Chirac, le 14 Juillet [lá como cá…]
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=43208
Stop the Corporate Takeover of our Water
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13664
The march toward destruction of the environment
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=65407
Climate Change: Myths and Realities
http://www.pewclimate.org/media/transcript_swiss-re.cfm
Pennsylvania Traffic Calming Handbook
http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/hwyinths.nsf/frmTrafficCalming
Anti-Telemarketing Script: Telemarketers always use a script: why shouldn’t you?
http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/script.html#top_of_page
Popular Baby Names Lists
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html
Patients could be put at risk by a new European directive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2134000/2134664.stm
Choosing a trademark
http://www.savannahnow.com/exchange/stories/072002/NETlegalviewpoint.shtml
Cool! A century after its birth, air conditioning is as common as the air we breathe
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020729/misc/29air.htm
Boeing's futuristic aircraft: Batwings and dragonflies
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1247382
.DE!
dot16: The REAL world’s smallest website
http://www.dot16.com
Root Zero
http://www.rootzero.com
Hello Kitty Psychological Test
http://www.sanriotown.com/psycho/psycho6/psycho6_us.htm
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
o n e - T o u r : Database of Urban Exploration
http://www.zone-tour.com
Convictions - A Photo-Rogue’s Gallery from the Northwest at the Beginning of the Century
http://www.jaguaro.org/feature/04-01-02_bert.shtml
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Ami Vitale
http://www.amivitale.com
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23, 19.07.02
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Morse Code Translator
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/morse/trans.html
CULTURAS IN VITRO
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2002 Results
Literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm
Filming Without the Film: High-definition digital cameras, feared by some directors, could end the careers of those unable to make the transition.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fi-highdef11jul11005058.story
A Minority within the Minority - By Jaron Lanier
I was asked to help Steven Spielberg brainstorm a science fiction movie he intended to make based on the Philip K. Dick short story “Minority Report”.
http://www.21cmagazine.com/minority.html
Auld Lang Syne: A restored print of the silent classic “Metropolis” has footage not seen since the film debuted in 1927.
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=258202
Superman vs Batman. Investigating the All American Hero
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/12/101657/202
Someone’s Watching You: The Web’s Secret Police
So far this year, the MPAA has sent nearly 50,000 complaints to ISPs worldwide and anticipates that number will reach 100,000 by the end of 2002.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18584.html
Copyright enforcer Ranger Online caught stealing content
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26250.html
Springsteen Protects His New CD’s Online in an Old-Fashioned Way
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/technology/15SPRI.html?todaysheadlines
Music Companies Seek New Piracy Protection
…to prevent Internet radio songs from being redistributed online.
http://shorl.com/gyfrastojyfybru
Tech activists protest anti-copying
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-944668.html?tag=fd_top
Can newspapers help make record companies obsolete?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/07/15/146221&mode=nested&tid=5
ECO-TERRORES
House OKs life sentences for hackers [& expands police ability to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order.]
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-944057.html?tag=fd_top
U.S. government plans online ID gateway
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/943924.htm
Users Must Beware of Legal Trends
http://shorl.com/japyvomigopri
Public Knowledge: the Public’s Voice in the Digital Age
http://www.publicknowledge.org/projects/
US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies
The TIPS means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185141232.html
What Is Operation TIPS?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63924-2002Jul12.html
Operation TIPS
http://www.citizencorps.gov/tips.html
Operation RATS
http://www.onepotmeal.com/rats.htm
Terror suspects challenge Sept 11 laws: Emergency detention powers imposed [in the UK] are unlawful and breach the human rights of innocent people
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-358536,00.html
Air Traveler ID Requirement Challenged
Civil libertarian John Gilmore challenged as unconstitutional a secret federal rule that requires domestic US travelers to identify themselves.
http://cryptome.org/freetotravel.htm
Fear of Flying [a coincidência das datas…]
http://hotwired.lycos.com/netizen/96/37/special3a.html
U.S. held 600 for secret rulings: Immigrants jailed for terrorism investigators
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/secret18_20020718.htm
The great charade: As the West prepares for an assault on Iraq, […] “war on terror” is a smokescreen created by the ultimate terrorist... America itself
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,754972,00.html
War clouds gather as hawks lay their plans
Some in the US are asking why a blueprint for the conflict was leaked at the moment when sleaze scandals hit a new peak.
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,755059,00.html
Justice Department To Attempt Shut Down of 9/11 Evidence
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00087.htm
The CIA Commits Over 100,000 [highly illegal activities] Per Year
http://www.thememoryhole.org/ciacrimes.htm´
Nukes you can use: The Pentagon is looking to build a nuclear weapon tailor-made for the fight against terror
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020722/usnews/22nukes.htm
The National Strategy For Homeland Security: Office of Homeland Security - Conclusion: Priorities for the Future
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/book/sect5-1.pdf
War, the Mother of Inventions: Billions in new spending for homeland security inspire the retooling of devices, from aerial whale drones to cargo snoopers.
http://shorl.com/hibrysibrikedri
Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (X-45)
http://www.boeing.com/phantom/ucav.html
Homeland Security May Require Environmental Sacrifices
http://ens-news.com/ens/jul2002/2002-07-12-07.asp
EE UU aprueba el uso de un sonar para barcos militares que desorienta y enloquece a las ballenas
http://shorl.com/demyprydrinufu
Bioterror policy questioned: The current US strategy for containing a deliberate release of smallpox could lead to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020708/020708-5.html
Informatique et libertés
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dossiers/cnil.asp
Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés - 22e rapport d’activité 2001
http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/BRP/024000377/0000.pdf
Who’s Afraid of 1984? Orwell’s nightmare vision of technology wedded to tyranny was fatally flawed [he assumed that only the state would be able to afford high-tech]
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_muller071202.asp?p=0
Bush’s task force chief [on corporate crime] was director in firm settling fraud charges for $400 million
http://shorl.com/byprirosevedre
Bush Harken Deal Faces New Scrutiny: Bush signed a letter in 1990 saying he wouldn’t sell any stock for at least six months in the struggling Texas oil company where he was a director. But 2½ months later, […]cashed out his shares for $848,560.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10786-2002Jul16.html
[Bush] Top Career Patrons
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/index.asp?L1=20&L2=24&L3=20&L4=50&L5=20
Whose Side Is Bush On? Did you know that roughly one third of all profits in the boom years was the result of a single accounting gimmick?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/780027.asp
A New Ethic of Corporate Responsibility
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/corporateresponsibility/
An Idea Gone Haywire: Linking Executive Pay to Sales
http://shorl.com/gohyfukivubro
Why do bad people happen to good systems?
Don’t blame the system. Blame the bad people within it.
http://shorl.com/disegropibrafro
Capitalism in crisis
http://shorl.com/bobutalehefru
Fraud, Inc.
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/corruption/
A guide to corporate scandals
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1224700
“I was embarrassed to tell people I was a CEO”
http://shorl.com/bustesorufadre
A Long Way to Find Justice: They’re coming to our courthouses to seek justice from global corporations for exploitative business practices abroad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63990-2002Jul13?language=printer
Convergence, period: Is global inequality really getting worse? A new study says no
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1234903
VITAMEDIAS
Une interview télé comme si de rien était: Elise Lucet (France 3), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (TF1) et Béatrice Schönberg (France 2) entament le traditionnel entretien du 14 Juillet avec Chirac, mais ne lui posent aucune question sur la tentative d’attentat
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=42109
The Big Picture for TV: free commercial TV will become extinct within five to 10 years because of digital recording devices
http://shorl.com/gagrafrenujujo
Visual Communicator [New Way To Create and Share TV-Style Videos]
http://www.seriousmagic.com/products.htm
Eye TV Digital Video Recorder
http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/index.html
Web Friend or Faux? Digital “buddies” are elaborate marketing tools, but their lifelike responses in online instant messages can be misleading.
http://shorl.com/fobibedrynynu
Genetic algorithm tunes up public speakers: For some, having the right voice can make the difference between success and failure
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992560
“Jerry Springer” tops list of worst TV shows
http://shorl.com/gestalukebuno
Meow Mix To Launch TV Programming For Cats
http://www.local6.com/orlpn/news/stories/news-155988220020715-170753.html
Whose life is it anyway? The docu-drama Shipman […] portrayed real people without their permission. What are their rights?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,755177,00.html
The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook [sample chapter]
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olc/dl/24076/013_042.pdf
Did Reporter Go Too Far With Web Posting [on a competing daily]?
http://shorl.com/gofobropabomu
So Long, and thanks for all the posts [ou “Porque estou farto do meu blog?”]
http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000370.php
What We’re Doing When We Blog [ou “O que é um blog?”]
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html
Guardian’s first competition to find the best British weblog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/bestbritishblog/0,12252,756320,00.html
Blo.gs: tracking 33462 weblogs for 353 users
http://blo.gs
Japan Acea: Searching for News - The Best Resources
http://www.japanacea.com
Quintas Secretas nos EUA Produzem Drogas Experimentais
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/07/18/Ambiente/G02.html
Secret U.S. Biopharms Growing Experimental Drugs
http://ens-news.com/ens/jul2002/2002-07-16-05.asp
TECNO-HOUSE
AOpen announces AX4B-533Tube - World’s first vacuum tube motherboard
http://shorl.com/bunusuvibohi
http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/Pax4b-533tube1.htm
Meet the Nigerian E-Mail Grifters
About 2,600 people in the United States reported problems last year with [this] scam, and of that number, 16 claimed financial losses totaling $345,000.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53818,00.html
A clause for alarm: How To Spot Red Flags in Large Software Contracts
http://news.com.com/2009-1017-943258.html
Microsoft’s charges confuse big users
http://shorl.com/dadefadrodratra
Microsoft fails to use own security product
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/12/020712hnnetscreen.xml
The Most Dangerous Software Ever Written
The combination of IE, Outlook, and Windows can make for a treacherous trio.
http://shorl.com/hajytyjynufa
Linux attacks on the rise? Attacks […] appear to have risen sharply this year, while attacks on Windows systems are markedly down.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26177.html
The Cult Of Linux
http://shorl.com/gisagripryfresta
Are Mac users smarter? Those who surf the Web using a Mac tend to be better educated and make more money than their PC-using counterparts
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-943519.html?tag=fd_top
I’m Ellen Feiss and I’m a student [pub]
http://shorl.com/bystisysyvyme
Computers without Clocks: Asynchronous chips improve computer performance by letting each circuit run as fast as it can
http://shorl.com/boporedrahifru
The great telecoms crash: Behind the general jitters in stockmarkets lies the biggest and fastest rise and fall in business history
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1234886
Too many debts; too few calls: The telecoms industry is in a mess. What went wrong, and how can it be fixed?
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1234711
Le mobile/appareil photo, une fausse bonne idée?
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=41696
Camera Phones Conquer Japan, Take Aim at the World
http://shorl.com/hisedragopruta
Where 3G Is First-Rate [South Korea]
http://shorl.com/fedrigadadumi
Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/rheingold/rheingold_print.html
Mobile end-user service adoption studies: A selective review
http://ikt.hia.no/perep/pedersen_ling.pdf
Domestication and Mobile Telephony
http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Domestication.html
We will be reached: The use of mobile telephony among Norwegian youth
http://www.telenor.no/fou/program/nomadiske/articles/12.pdf
From Mobile to Mobility: The Consumption of ICTs and Mobility in Everyday Life
http://www.cost269.org/working%20group/Mobility%20and%20ICTs2.htm
Blurring Boundaries: When Are Information and Communication Technologies Coming Home?
http://shorl.com/hovijifybipre
Designing Everyday Computational Things
http://www.viktoria.se/~johan/thesis/
Designing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaborative Applications [for restaurants]
http://shorl.com/besosakimobro
Will XML Kill HTML?
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18604.html
The Importance of ISPs in the Growth of the Commercial [High-Speed] Internet
http://www.consumerfed.org/backpage/ispstudy070102.pdf
Identity rules [Net IDs, Microsoft & Liberty Alliance]
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1240843
Do y*u Y*h**? Yahoo has long been replacing complete English words in the text of HTML mail sent to its users.
http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/
Email security filter spawns new words
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992546
When size does matter: Google’s superiority is under threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,756881,00.html
131 (Legitimate) Link Building Strategies
http://sewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0711-linktips-long.html
UltraBar: IE Toolbar For Your Browser
http://www.ultrabar.com
Minimalist Web project: collection of websites that are built with minimalism in mind
http://www.textbased.com/~minimalist/
The 5K 2002 entries
http://www.the5k.org/list.asp
Avoiding Information Overload: Knowledge Management on the Internet
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch/reports/tsw_02-02.html
Column Two: News and opinion on all things Knowledge & Content Management
http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/index.html
The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut
http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html
Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science
http://wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC_frontmatter.pdf
Nanotube Struts Its Stuff: “This is the strongest material that will ever be made”
http://shorl.com/jekofyjidrogro
Betting on Flip: Negroponte is a digital pathfinder [&] he’s back with a new project.
http://shorl.com/byfrodistaprodu
America’s Army: The Army’s making a game that just might surprise you. Not only is it good, it’s also free.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/361/361145p1.html
America’s Army game
http://www.americasarmy.com
gameLab: a new kind of game developer
http://www.gmlb.com
Jovens Vêem a Net como Meio de Diversão [estudo de 2000, divulgado em Julho de 2002, sem referir número de entrevistados!!]
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/07/19/Destaque/X01.html
CONTAMINANTES
Human Origins: The Face of The Deep: This 6-7-million-year-old skull will have a seismic impact on our understanding of human origins.
http://www.nature.com/nature/ancestor/
All in the Family
http://www.msnbc.com/news/779611.asp
Ask the pilot: Do airlines cut down the flow of oxygen in the cabin to save fuel?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/18/askthepilot3/print.html
A Sneak Peek at NASA’s Plans for Exploring Mars and Beyond
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/nasa_plans_020718a.html
The Future of Tourism
http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-BZTRAVEL_Front.asp
Hospitals get alternative: Acupuncture, massage, and even herbs pop up in mainstream medical settings
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020722/health/22alternative.htm
The Truth About Hormones
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020722/
The End of the Age of Estrogen
http://www.msnbc.com/news/779607.asp
Microflat: around two thirds the size of a conventional inner-city one bedroom flat.
http://www.themicroflatcompany.com
Think You Own the Sidewalk? “People no longer know how to walk on the sidewalk”
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/nyregion/16WALK.html
La prostitution, un débat sur la place publique: Ceux qui prônent davantage de répression s'opposent aux partisans du retour des maisons closes.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=42754
.DE!
What Lies Behind Door No. 2?
Officials are cracking down on a form of conspicuous consumption that seems more common among the relative have-nots than the have-a-lots: two front doors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/nyregion/15DOOR.html
L is for lawsuit: Increasing numbers of parents are suing teachers.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/07/12/parents_rule/print.html
Polyphasic Sleep Experiment aka Uberman sleep
http://polyphasic.blogspot.com
Polyphasic Sleeping Experiment
http://www.slightlymad.net/polyphasic/
Happy to Be In Over Their Heads [Underwater Hockey]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36550-2002Jul7.html
A 10,000-year marking system for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site
http://www.halcyon.com/blackbox/hw/wipp/wipp.html#2.%20The%20Problem
Quadriplegic Sues Strip Club
…Because Lap Dance Room Does Not Have Wheelchair Access
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020715_648.html
Man steals car to get to theft hearing [for a previous car theft]
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/news/jjournal/ncop15.html
Man stops attack by biting dog’s head [isto é “A” notícia…]
http://boston.com/dailynews/197/region/Police_Man_stops_attack_by_bit:.shtml
Save Karyn: Help her pay off her credit card debt!
http://www.savekaryn.com
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Twelve Flowers [Introduction by Kevin Kelly]
http://www.katinkamatson.com/exhibits.html
The Night the Lights Went Out in New York City
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/milky_way_020712.html
The Bandwidth Capital of the World [Seoul]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/korea_pr.html
Cyber-Chameleon [Alanis Morrissette changes with the New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/20020512_ALANIS/
Bred To Be Wild
http://shorl.com/gihomubrohubo
TV Watch
http://shorl.com/buregyjapuvu
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
The Tetris Saga
http://atarihq.com/tsr/special/tetrishist.html
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Why I download: Confessions of a music junkie
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/display/inn_cover_story/cover.txt
Just desserts for scofflaws: Each illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) download of a song robs the songwriters of the 8 cents they are due under the mechanical license. [W]hen you multiply 8 cents by the reported 1.1 billion downloads on one P2P system in one month, it calculates out to $88,000,000 dollars.
http://news.com.com/2010-1078-942325.html?tag=fd_nc_1
Labels to Net Radio: Die Now: You’d think the record companies would love Internet tunes - instead they’re trying to kill them
http://www.msnbc.com/news/777023.asp
Imitation nation: Is piracy-crazed China a nightmare vision of the future, or just a developing country going through some severe growing pains?
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/08/imitation_nation/print.html
Fox recommends hacked DVD players for The Simpsons
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26139.html
DVD padlocks: Hollywood’s region controls deserve to be overturned
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=63754
Technology Is Movies’ Angel, but Record Industry’s Devil
Consumers are on pace to spend $11 billion on DVD sales and rentals this year, making it the fastest-growing home-electronic product ever.
http://shorl.com/gepobygosadro
The Road From Oscar: After “American Beauty”, Sam Mendes heads to “Perdition”
http://www.msnbc.com/news/776969.asp
Just-High-Enough Art
http://shorl.com/dodragatemoba
[Trailer:] http://www.roadtoperdition.com
Acting jobs on the decline: The number of movie and television roles for Screen Actors Guild members dropped 9.3 percent last year
http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/454511p-3636850c.html
It’s a Bollywood blitz: It’s the most organised chaos in the world; nothing should work yet everything does
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/05/1025667050504.html
Strains of music that no musician wants: In any orchestra performing on stage, “60 per cent (of people) will be carrying some injury”.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4616592%255E16422,00.html
In a World That Sings Together, Music is Bridging Cultural Chasms: Traditions that have hung on through decades or centuries aren’t about to go away quietly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/05/arts/music/05WORL.html?pagewanted=print
The great American idea, symphony, opera, jazz, musician, TV show novel, play, painting, jazz tune, dance, song, house, movie, filmmaker
http://shorl.com/fadranovabruko
The First Four Printed Bibles
http://www.princeton.edu/%7Erbsc/exhibitions/scheide/scheide_bibles.pdf
If You Build It, They Will Drink: Ever drink a building?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53700,00.html
ECO-TERRORES
Governo Lança “Operação Especial de Emergência” Contra Evasão Fiscal:
Será feito [...] o cruzamento informático de dados dos contribuintes e serão seguidos os movimentos com cartões de crédito e de débito.
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/07/09/Economia/E11.html
Vigilantes e fora-da-lei
E se de repente um desconhecido serviço de segurança o filmar, isso é crime.
http://www.oindependente.pt/site/section.asp?tipo=detalhehome&codDetalhe=2487
Software That Sniffs [and] “detect government corruption in five minutes”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/technology/circuits/04CORR.html
All Eyes Are On You
Tollbooths, ATMs, doctors’ offices, online chat: You leave critical personal data behind wherever you go. Let’s follow one American as he scatters his digital DNA.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,260388,00.html
Your Phone Knows Where You Are: With E911, your cellphone’s location can be tracked within seconds. Sounds great for emergencies, but is there a dark side?
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,266052,00.html
Rental car tracking spurs suit… over its use of sophisticated technology that tracks customers and for charging them extra - up to $7,500 in one case - for driving beyond certain state boundaries.
http://www.azstarnet.com/star/sat/20706rentalcar2ftracking.html
Halt! Who Goes There? The fledgling business of biometrics is suddenly a center of attention for legislators, venture capitalists, privacy advocates and even Disney World
http://www.msnbc.com/news/778019.asp
[The million-dollar, space-age bomb-detection machines that Congress wants installed in every airport] can mistake chocolate for bombs [as well as toys and knickknacks]
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3613447.htm
E-mails show civil servants hiding information: Supposedly neutral civil servants deliberately planning to hide information about Government activities from MPs.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-351466,00.html
Bush’s Speech on Corrupt Corporate Executives
http://shorl.com/godregidruraha
Bush’s clean up: But will the president’s new tough talk make any difference?
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1223331
Investors skeptical of Bush plan
http://www.msnbc.com/news/777992.asp
US giants “inflating their profits by billions”: [Dupont, IBM, General Electric, Microsoft and Cisco] are overstating their earnings by billions of dollars.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=310455
Crime Pays for White-Collar Specialists
http://shorl.com/hyladapryjavy
Feeling Burned by Accounting Scams in the U.S.? Just Look Overseas
http://shorl.com/jedryfrasutypy
Bush Got Loans He Now Wants Banned
http://news.findlaw.com/business/s/20020711/bushfinancialdc.html
The George W. Bush Success Story
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1111/1797_300/59086099/print.jhtml
Bush Family Value$: The Bush clan’s family business
http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html
Dynasties! [The menace of economic and political dynastization]
http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020708&s=phillips
Who Wants This War? And why don’t we find out before we start one?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067896
Bush Threatens Future of Peacekeeping
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13554
Bin Laden no longer exists: Here is why
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=16637
Osama bin Laden: Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13581
America’s 22 Most Wanted terrorists
Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon [e o terceiro avião?!?!]
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/mostwanted.html
5,000 in U.S. suspected of ties to al Qaeda
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020711-95269204.htm
After 9/11, a steep drop in foreign patients
http://shorl.com/gydrumylosisto
A Compendium of DARPA Programs
http://www.darpa.mil/body/NewsItems/pdf/DARPAfactfile.pdf
Le traitement judiciaire de la cybercriminalité: Guide méthodologique
http://www.justice.gouv.fr/publicat/Infraviaint.pdf
Freedom of Information and Access to Government Records Around the World
http://www.freedominfo.org/survey/survey.pdf
The Business Week Global 1000 [Portugal: 485º PT; 565º BCP e 682º EDP]
http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2002/0228-leaders.pdf
EU Database Directive Draws Fire
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/jul/russo_p18_020708.html
VITAMEDIAS
The News of My Death...
The newspaper business is going to die within the next 20 years. Newspaper publishing will continue, but only as a philanthropic venture.
http://shorl.com/bagobredropypo
...Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Newspapers will be very much around twenty years from now. That’s because there are two separate words in “newspaper”, and the essence of it isn’t “paper” but “news”.
http://shorl.com/halujygamyro
Newspapers’ Web Traffic Exploding [generally at the expense of print readership]
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/advertising/article/0,,5941_1382001,00.html
Newspaper Web Audiences Grow Faster [&] Spend More
http://shorl.com/fuprahyhudrotu
The Club Vs. the Silo: Online news providers have not yet exhausted the alternatives to doing the right thing to arrive at a viable economic model.
http://arnoldkling.com/~arnoldsk/aimst4/aimst406.html
The Tip Jar: Non-coercive payments for artists
http://indiemuse.sourceforge.net
“Superarchives” Could Hold All Scholarly Output: “The whole power of science is the power of shared ideas, not the power of hidden ideas”
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm
Media groups take sources case to Europe
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,753978,00.html
Celebrity pill pushers: Under the guise of “public service”, pharmaceutical companies are quietly paying stars to solicit new customers on TV talk shows with tales of personal suffering and blessed relief.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/07/11/celebrity_drugs/print.html
Man Who Videotaped Beating Arrested
http://shorl.com/dypruhuprabroti
Tales of the Tapes: Do Two Videotapes Show Obvious Police Brutality?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/police_brutality020711.html
The Truth Laid Bear
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.shtml
The Blogosphere
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/Blogosphere.JPG
Blogging for Beginners: What You Need to Know to Start a Weblog
http://shorl.com/fafrylopyfefri
The Blogware Family Tree
http://www.microcontentnews.com
International Blog MEETUP Day
http://blog.meetup.com/
MediaGuardian 100: how we got there [most powerful movers and shakers, using three criteria: cultural influence, economic clout and political power]
http://media.guardian.co.uk/top100/0,10251,500000,00.html
Digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
TECNO-HOUSE
Net users seek first and surf later: Finding information via net search engines is rapidly becoming the most popular activity for people going online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2097000/2097032.stm
Is the Dot Com Bust Coming to an End?
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1381331
Yippee: Yahoo Posts a Profit
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,53759,00.html
After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_7/bates/
Company unplugs phones, takes e-mail only
http://shorl.com/gipybredrysopre
Ban email, work harder? Liverpool Council trials “no email Wednesdays”...
http://shorl.com/bekukovybribu
European administrations should share open source software resources
http://shorl.com/febrihestotogra
A Linux user goes back [to Windows]: It’s simply too hard for the average home user.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~knigits/articles/switched_back.html
First legal Linux program runs on Xbox
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26078.html
More life in Moore’s Law, creator says
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-942671.html?tag=fd_top
Phones, tones and mobile music [&] “polyphonic” ringtones
http://shorl.com/fysulikosupu
Now That Ringing Cellphone May Be a Telemarketer’s Call
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/05/business/05JUNK.html
Enter the Dragon: China will soon be the biggest PC market in the world, and everyone wants a piece of it. One problem: A homegrown powerhouse called Legend.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/legend_pr.html
China’s New Dynasty
http://news.com.com/2009-1001-940094.html?tag=fd_lede
Notorious Net thief pleads guilty: Jay Nelson admits scamming 1,700 auction users
http://www.msnbc.com/news/777607.asp
Some EBay Users Seeing Double: 91,000 sellers were double-billed last weekend, but the online auction giant isn’t offering any details.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102599,tk,dn071102X,00.asp
TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.00
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Unique Internet Pranks!
http://cgi.slygreetings.com/page.pl
elgooG
http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/
Hackers on Planet Earth 2002
http://www.h2k2.net
Connected Earth
http://www.connected-earth.com/fe/index.jsp
This site will make you cry
http://shorl.com/durabaverufy
CONTAMINANTES
Earth “will expire by 2050”: Earth’s population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,750783,00.html
Russia proposes manned Mars mission by 2015
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992511
Chew On This While I’m Running Errands
http://www.vodkapundit.com/archives/002273.php#002273
Light turns into glowing liquid
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992497
Black-and-blue in ones and zeros: Digital photography is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence cases.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/10/digital_violence/print.html
Bell Labs Convenes Committee to Investigate Questions of Scientific Misconduct
Is there an innocent explanation for the appearance of similar figures in different publications?
http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-7/p15.html
What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? [fat-versus-carbohydrate controversy]
http://shorl.com/hoprujyjafera
Red is stop, green is go: Gallop’s GI diet makes room for proteins and carbohydrates, but notes that not all carbs are the same.
http://shorl.com/dikidrojilyli
Should We All Be Vegetarians? The risks and benefits of a meat-free life.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020715/story.html
Gender affects the brain’s response to food: Men may derive a more rewarding feeling from eating than women do, the researchers speculate.
http://www.sciencenews.org/20020706/fob4.asp
Prozac vs. Placebos: A new study concludes that America’s favorite antidepressants are little better than sugar pills. Have the drugs been overhyped? It’s not that simple
http://www.msnbc.com/news/777026.asp
Un premier bébé cloné prévu pour décembre: L’enfant serait le jumeau de son père
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=41482
What the Law Should Say About Cloning: So long as any nation allows cloning, then rich Americans can travel there to do their cloning, regardless of American law.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067783&entry=2067803
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067783&entry=2067839
IVF mix-up heads for court: A judge may have to decide what happens to black twins born to a white couple after an apparent blunder at an IVF clinic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2115000/2115522.stm
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002310737,00.html
Meet the Oldest Member of the Human Family
http://shorl.com/fomanugrovovi
New database collecting all species names
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=02072002-033846-5544r
http://shorl.com/beprubostohole
AIDS: Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1224027
Face time is key factor in promotions
Employees who stay later are often viewed as more productive
http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/articles/070702_face.html
.DE!
The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/
Coke/Pop/Soda vs. Bush/Gore
http://www.theagitator.com/2002_07_01_archive.php#85226922
Put down your beer and make a long-distance phone call
http://shorl.com/dubifugemedo
Free Prozac in the Junk Mail Draws a Lawsuit
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/06/national/06PROZ.html
[Cape Canaveral] Wonders Why It Has Highest Divorce Rate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33743-2002Jul6.html
What is hidden under Moscow? [May/June 1997]
http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1997/mj97/mj97ilnitsky.html
Judge allows bail for DWI suspect: A man was charged with driving while intoxicated after he stopped to ask for directions at the Cortlandt state police barracks.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/071002/10dwidirex.html
Ohio town ends prohibition: For the first time in more than 80 years, alcohol sales became legal in Tallmadge
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/10/odds_alcohol.htm
For My Dog, Who Listens to All My Poems
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/bowers/formydog.htm
Climatic Extremes and Weather Events
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/extremes.html
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Modern technology had kept him out of harm’s way
http://shorl.com/dusoguvudobe
Panoguide: guide to panoramas and panoramic photography
http://www.panoguide.com
Best Photos of 2001 [título exagerado…]
http://home.pacbell.net/rds33/best_photos/index.html
Descubra as diferenças (entre Harrison e Ford, da fotografia para o poster)
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/k19thewidowmaker.html
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/usa.htm
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Dez Hospitais Públicos Atribuídos a Privados
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/07/02/Sociedade/S01.html
Contrato de Gestão com Os Mello Gera Polémica
Resultados da experiência de gestão privada em causa
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/07/03/Sociedade/S05.html
Decreto-Lei que define o regime jurídico das parcerias em saúde com gestão e financiamento privados
http://shorl.com/barusydifrydry
U.S. for-profit hospitals show higher mortality rates than non-profits
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-05/uab-ufh052202.php
Death rates are 2% higher in for-profit hospitals
http://www.nupge.ca/news_my02/n28my02a.htm
A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals
http://shorl.com/jedudelajedo
What price for-profit hospitals?
http://shorl.com/jarofruprasote
For-Profit Hospitals Costlier And Less Efficient
http://www.pnhp.org/Press/1997/hospress.HTML
The Case Against Private, For-Profit Hospitals [September 1998]
http://www.friendsofmedicare.ab.ca/briefs/0998full.htm
A tad of profit-making can benefit social goals, research finds
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/may29/profitmaking-529.html
Portugal cedes financial control to EU: Portugal is to face austerity measures imposed by Brussels under threat of punitive sanctions, making it the first country to lose control over tax and spending policy as a result of joining the euro.
http://shorl.com/batredudadryju
Euro policy faces a double challenge: Forecasts darken in Portugal and France
http://shorl.com/dikefraprymebry
Europe may act on Portuguese Finances
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/30/12222/1285
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Egoyan versus Cronenberg: Is one really darker and more difficult than the other?
http://shorl.com/jemasohotafy
Free music downloading from the Net - An Alternative View
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
Music labels go after song-swappers
Recording companies plan lawsuits against individuals
http://www.msnbc.com/news/775684.asp
Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell Their Songs Online
http://shorl.com/hynybynokapru
Judge Finds Warner and Universal Fixed Prices of Three Tenors Recordings
http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=17499
What a Drag It Is Getting’ Old: Mick Jagger, knighthood, and the death of rock’n’roll.
http://reason.com/hod/ng061402.shtml
Musica & America: A Special Issue
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020708/misc/8opener.htm
Sound + Vision: He’s a techie who thinks conceptually, a designer who makes art, a humble collaborator with ideas of his own. But what, exactly, does multimedia maestro Ben Rubin do?
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0702/rub/index.html
Tate Gallery buys canned crap
[Manzoni …] said he canned his own excrement and sold it for the price of gold at the same weight as a statement on the art market. In fact, the Tate paid about $1,700 per gram for the feces, more than a hundred times the going rate for gold.
http://cbc.ca/artsCanada/stories/canned_crap020702
The Most Beautiful Office Building in the World
http://shorl.com/dakopriveprydru
ECO-TERRORES
Forças Policiais Não Trocam Informações
A necessidade de criação de uma base de dados comum às diversas forças policiais foi [apontada...] por vários elementos a elas ligados.
http://shorl.com/gijydrydriprobu
“En el futuro podremos conoceros a todos”, augura un asesor de Bush: Las fuerzas de la ley tienen cada vez mejores herramientas para la vigilancia electrónica y “el cuerpo social deberá adaptarse”.
http://shorl.com/jabopranybropa
Feds Deny Asking ISPs to Watch E-mails… but the federal government may not be far from forcing Internet service providers to keep copies of all e-mail exchanges in the interest of homeland security.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56443,00.html
Unionized They Can’t Stand: [Bush] dissolved a handful of existing unions that represented about 500 Justice Department employees around the nation. “They are using homeland security as an excuse to eliminate the rights of employees”.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024078914123
Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud: A Consultation Paper
[BI em Portugal:] Voluntary though widely held belief that they are compulsory. Must carry proof of identity in public place.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/entitlement_cards.pdf
ID cards: arguments for and against
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,343-345482,00.html
ID cards: the overseas experience
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,343-345477,00.html
Report says CCTV is overrated
Between 1996 and 1998, three-quarters of the Home Office crime prevention budget was spent on CCTV, it said. But […] the overall reduction in crime was 5%, compared with a figure of 20% from a Home Office review of street lighting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450705,00.html
Va. Police To Test Face Software [in the beach…]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1855243,00.html
How to Disappear
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/start.html?pg=14
Camera/Shy will be released on July 13th: A browser-based steganography application from Hacktivismo, developed for democracy activists operating from behind national firewalls, allows trade in banned content across the Internet.
http://shorl.com/damysohagrudri
The Eagle Has Crash Landed: Pax Americana is over.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_julyaug_2002/wallerstein.html
America’s role in the world: Bush’s plan for the Middle East was a let-down. It did not advance the cause of peace, and may have set it back…
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=1200661
Equal Pay for Equal Death: Does the 9/11 fund think bankers matter more than electricians?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067575
350 revenge crimes after September 11… against people of Middle Eastern origin or appearance in retaliation for the September 11 attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,744142,00.html
Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309084814/html/
Fourth Generation Warfare: Roughly speaking, […] includes all forms of conflict where the other side refuses to stand up and fight fair.
http://www.d-n-i.net/second_level/fourth_generation_warfare.htm
Understanding USA
http://www.understandingusa.com
Know Your Place! Shut Your Face!
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
List of White House “enemies” [Facts on File, “Watergate and the White House”]
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm
Idiot Time [É sobre concentração da riqueza mas...]
As Lord Bryce noted in 1888 […], the American way of choosing presidents rarely produces politicians of quality.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020708&s=wolfe070802
The Power of the Super-Rich [“Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich” by Kevin Phillips]
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15605
Worldcon: The Fall of a Telecom Titan: A survey showed that 82% of CEOS admit to cheating at golf. The same percentage hate others who do the same. “We’re in a period of corporate Watergate, and Nixons are popping up all over”.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,267789,00.html
Supreme Court Rules Earnings Should Be Protected As “Art”
… as they “create something from nothing”
http://www.satirewire.com/news/june02/worldcom.shtml
Everyone Is Outraged: Bush and Pitt say they are outraged about WorldCom. […] Bush “has more familiarity with troubled energy companies and accounting irregularities than probably any previous chief executive”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
Bush Violated Security Laws Four Times, SEC Report Says
http://www.public-i.org/story_01_100400.htm
Bush’s Insider Connections Preceded Huge Profit On Stock Deal
http://www.public-i.org/story_01_040400.htm
The Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources
http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm
Supermarket Cards: The Pricing Issues
http://www.nocards.org/savings/index.shtml
VITAMEDIAS
Portuguese Version of Pravda.ru Causes Great Interest [diz o Pravda…]
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/06/27/31321.html
Treating Viewers as Criminals: Networks say watching TV without the ads is theft. Will blipverts be next? […] The networks do not and never have had contracts with consumers, compensating us for the labor we perform in watching commercials. […] I don't know about you but I want to renegotiate my contract!
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/wo_jenkins070302.asp
A Word From Our Sponsor? He’s Here Now: Viewers are not told the [Dockers] appearances are part of advertising arrangements.
http://shorl.com/hifreprekurinu
Falun Gong’s on TV [“Hacking” de um canal de televisão!!…]
Millions of Chinese television viewers got a shock this week when Falun Gong propaganda was beamed into their living rooms as members of the banned sect hijacked one of China’s main television satellites.
http://shorl.com/hofagygagiru
China suspends BBC World transmission
…after objecting to an item about the banned Falun Gong movement.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,749454,00.html
Online News Consumption Is Flat: Bad News For Newspapers, Web Sites
http://shorl.com/dinytratukadry
Newspapers Produce 7 Of Top 20 News Sites [down from eight during the previous month]
http://shorl.com/dugrufubisteru
Online ads, e-mail don’t click: Viewers just aren’t responding to online marketing
http://www.msnbc.com/news/774972.asp
Los sitios de periódicos y la rentabilidad
En Norteamérica, el 38% de los sitios de periódicos son rentables (un 17% en el mundial) y el 26% llegaron al equilibrio (un 25% en todo el mundo)
http://shorl.com/humostostatradry
The European Media Landscape: Facts and Figures (The wider context for media innovation)
http://www.mudia.org/results/FF-Mudia-final.pdf
Net radio raises a pirate flag: Inspired by Britain’s iconoclastic history of pirate radio broadcasting, Iain McLeod wants to save Internet radio. [He’s] the author of Streamer, a new software program designed to let people create online radio stations that are difficult for the authorities to trace.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941392.html?tag=fd_lede
Tale of the shadow revealed on Web [fotos e desmentidos…]
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place”
http://shorl.com/fymygyrotafra
A Tale of Two Books: There are two fast-selling books in the marketplace that are remarkable in their repudiation of the general feeling, often reinforced by the media, that George Bush enjoys enormous popularity and stands invincible in the wake of 9/11. […] But you wouldn’t know it from media appearances, book reviews and bookstore readings.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13476
Politicians fear power of VJs
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/News.View.aspx?ContentID=1066
Le docu dopé par le 11 septembre: Pour le documentaire aussi, il y aurait donc un avant et un après l'attentat. Une mutation que certains voient déjà comme une poussée inédite du documentaire. Et pas seulement aux Etats-Unis.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=39493
After September 11th: TV News and Transnational Audiences Conference
http://www.afterseptember11.tv
TECNO-HOUSE
Software bugs cost the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion per year
http://idg.net/ic_879970_1794_9-10000.html
Broken trust: The real question is, for whom does Palladium make computing safer? It will surely make the digital world safer for Microsoft and Disney. But who will defend us from Bill Gates?
http://www.tweney.com/2002/0628trust.html
Palladium tech up for discussion, says MS security chief
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26037.html
Games designer to sue Microsoft
It was nervous about the popularity of the futuristic Project Entropia, a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Asheron’s Call game.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133161
Happy Hacking [Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software]
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0226/dibbell.php
Moby gets his own back on hate emailers
The star had to change his personal email address after […] he began receiving hate email. Now everyone who emails his old address receives a message telling then they’ve been automatically enrolled in his fan club.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_617739.html?menu=
How One Spam Leads to Another
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53617,00.html
In the war on spam, victory is nowhere in sight
http://shorl.com/fastefigyfure
How to keep junk e-mail out of your in-box
http://www.iht.com/articles/63066.html
No Subscription for Spam Relief
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,51517,00.html
The Spamdemic Map
http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/index.html
Defamed on Web? Just One Year to Sue
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/technology/04PUBL.html
Cyberlaw: Cybersmart or cybersilly?
Is there really a cyberspace full of “cybercitizens” who need only be accountable to their own “cyberlaws”? A loose-knit group of law professors is bucking one of the big fads in the legal field by calling that whole idea “cybersilly.”
http://www.msnbc.com/news/774871.asp
Top of the Heap: It started as a joke, but it became an obsession. I wanted to be the top-ranked David Gallagher on Google, and I wasn't going to let some 16-year-old TV star stand in my way.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,41488,FF.html
Star of “I Kiss You” Site Moves From Farce to Folklore
Mahir Cagri, who lives in Izmir, Turkey, has for the past two and a half years made a living as a full-time, low-budget Internet celebrity, willing to fly anywhere in the world to hang out with anyone who will cover his expenses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/technology/circuits/04MAHI.html
Chalk symbols expose London’s wireless points
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133055
Warchalking: Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking
http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/
New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/business/04SCEN.html
The End of the Road for Bar Codes
Chip-embedded radio tags could revolutionize retailing
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_27/b3790093.htm
Babbage’s Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System
http://cci.wmin.ac.uk/schaffer/schaffer01.html
Project Cryo [um novo tipo de “rato”…]
http://metku.net/cryo/
[Outras modificações: http://metku.net]
CONTAMINANTES
A Doação: Nos últimos cinco anos, 16 pessoas [oriundas de nove países diferentes] doaram todos os seus órgãos na Andaluzia. [...] “Praticamente todos os emigrantes, procedam do país que procedam, doam os seus órgãos sem problemas de maior”.
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/07/03/EspacoPublico/O04.html
Órganos sin papeles: Y también ha habido negativas entre los familiares de emigrantes fallecidos. Hasta 15 tenía contabilizadas el Servicio Andaluz de Salud hace menos de un mes.
http://shorl.com/hopriryjirede
Mitos [e paixões…]
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=2325&codEdicao=320
Education being compromised by economic fallacy
http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=1397&1397_1=5508
Education policy needs rethink, claims book
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/education/story/0,9853,724236,00.html
The education shibboleth: Extra years of schooling and wider access to university are everywhere supposed to be good for growth. Think again
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1165373
The Effects of Education on Political Opinions: An International Study
Research has found that education is associated with more liberal opinions on a number of issues, but there is uncertainty about the scope and interpretation of these findings.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/intpor/hdb/Volume_14/Issue_02/140141.sgm.abs.html
The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.: Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world's most sophisticated IT infrastructures. It's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,41206,00.html
You Snooze You Win, Learning Study Reveals: New research indicates that morning sleep and afternoon naps aid mental and physical learning.
http://shorl.com/hydrajupidiru
Narcissists brilliant workers, but terrible colleagues
http://shorl.com/hasunujodyly
Ethics of undisclosed payments to doctors recruiting patients in clinical trials
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7354/36
Soccer robots could beat humans by 2050
http://shorl.com/gysenavufrosto
Portugal Recebe Campeonato Mundial de Futebol Robótico [início dos treinos para o Mundial de 2050?...]
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/07/03/Ciencias/H05.html
More Than the Patch: New Ways to Take Medicine Via Skin
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/health/02SKIN.html?8hpib
World Report on Violence and Health [edição em Outubro]
http://www5.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/main.cfm?p=0000000117
Fireworks: Breathtaking... and Deadly
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13501
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
http://www.wired.com/news/gallery/0,2072,53598-4407~4406,00.html
.DE!
José María Aznar: “Corro 10 kilómetros en 5m 20s”
[Mentiroso, eu?] El récord mundial de los 10.000 metros [...] lo estableció el etíope Haile Gebreselassie en 26m 20s 75c.
http://shorl.com/bakimuhefruku
Man tried to rob a gun shop with a knife
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jun02/55103.asp
Mountaineer Saved by the Bell [by the phone…]
http://shorl.com/fibidejahymo
Beach-Sex Couple Ordered to Apologize [with newspaper advertisements]
http://shorl.com/fyfrifyparitu
Woman hit by subway train awarded US$10 million: Police say she walked into tunnel and lay down on track
http://shorl.com/hinapebemedy
Americans Make Trip on Boat of Corks [in Douro]
“People used to shout to me in the street, ‘Hey, cork guy!’” he recalled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8782-2002Jul1.html
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Inventors Devise “Telephone Tooth”
http://shorl.com/gygumevustigy
“Sweating mannequin” has been designed to help designers develop more comfortable military clothing, sportswear and even spacesuits.
http://shorl.com/hadijogibrule
Satellite image of an American flag made of flowers
http://shorl.com/fuhapresigribra
Mathematical Lego Sculptures
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mathlego.htm
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
They Rule [ideia brilhante]
http://www.theyrule.net
Haypenny: Concept Fiction for Concept People
http://www.haypenny.com
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[Vale a pena explicar-lhes que o futebol era “apenas” um desporto?]
The Global Economics of Soccer: Since 1966, stock markets of developed countries that have won the soccer World Cup have outperformed global indices by 9% on average during the lucky year.
http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/factsheets/2002/06-09-02.shtml
Referees aid Korean miracle after blowing call against Spain: This tournament has descended into farce. FIFA is asking a global audience to accept that human error was to blame for Spain having two legitimate goals disallowed in a match that was an affront to sport.
http://shorl.com/gurelihefrope
Pluck off: If I hear the Irish football team described as plucky, brave or courageous one more time, I’ll spit. […] The squad is made up of bogtrotters and builders who wandered into world-class football by accident.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006D93D.htm
Japanese techies accused of bending balls
The hackers believe that the magnetic field was actually used to bend the penalty kick away from the Japanese goal that cost Russia the game.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1132719
“’A Bola’ apresenta hoje aos seus eleitores” [sic] o relatório Boronha
http://www.abola.pt/wdom/wdia.htm
The King is dead cool: Elvis is back at No 1 with a soccer song. [He] never showed much interest in sport.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-328892,00.html
Shaolin Soccer [“Kung Fu Soccer” for the USA release]
http://www.upcomingmovies.com/shaolinsoccer.html
Stop Violence: A government-organized workshop meant to prevent violence among soccer fans ended in a fistfight late Sunday in southwestern Macedonia.
http://shorl.com/hakuprerigeli
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Halting Crime in Advance Has Its Perils: “Minority Report” may be the most adult film Spielberg has made in some time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/movies/21MINO.html
“Minority” Reports Product Placement: You’re about to see the latest and greatest in Hollywood advertainment.
http://shorl.com/doprogrysunomu
This ad’s for you: Spielberg’s new film is set in a future world where people are happy to divulge personal information in return for a crime-free society. The spin-off for advertisers is that they can target individuals. Some of the concepts are already coming true.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,742587,00.html
In Future, Ads Could Rely on Eyes: Much of the technology portrayed in the movie is already being developed and tested
http://shorl.com/fidrejelyraru
Defending the PC invasions
http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-939057.html
Assault on the senses: The horror legacy of Dario Argento
http://www.kinoeye.org/index_02_11.html
[Real Life v.] Reel Life: “The Hustler”
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/closer/020617.html
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers (Teaser Trailer)
http://www.theonering.net/movie/preview/ttt_teaser_01.html
Star Trek Nemesis (Trailer)
http://nemesis.startrek.com
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html
Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property
http://www.americanassembly.org/PDF/ATIPspreads.pdf
“Ranger” Vs. the Movie Pirates: A piece of software that acts like an Internet search engine. It is the latest, most far-reaching weapon in the movie industry’s constant and escalating battle against movie piracy.
http://shorl.com/femiprebakafi
Hollywood, high-tech battle over digital content - At stake: Hollywood says the very future of its industry. Public advocates say the free-wheeling nature of the Internet. Tech product makers say innovation that benefits consumers.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/06/25/bonus-cover.htm
Every Montage Tells Another Story
Ever since the dawn of photography, people have manipulated images. But digital media has transformed the art of montage to create new fake realities.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53348,00.html
The [Forbes] Celebrity 100… combines earnings with media exposure to calculate the relative status of a vast array of stars
http://www.forbes.com/static_html/celebs/2002.html
ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show
http://artbots.org/2002/
Record Labels Around the World
http://www.lights.com/scott/allrecordlabels/
ECO-TERRORES
Piqué se disculpa por la agresión en la frontera a dos diputados portugueses
http://shorl.com/dagehynipryfro
[Mas porque foi o governo português tão “soft”?]
Fernando Seara Defende Revisão Constitucional a Pensar no Euro 2004
O autarca explicou que não bastará a Portugal suspender o espaço Schengen durante o Euro 2004...
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/25/Nacional/P04.html
[Dois dias depois, Durão Barroso confirma:] Portugal Deverá Repor Fronteiras para o Euro 2004
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/27/Nacional/P01.html
Schengen Permite a Recusa de Entradas
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/25/Nacional/P01CX02.html
EU accused of pooling money for propaganda purpose… with the intention of manipulating public opinion to support the integrationist vision of Europe.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=6739
Federalist Thought Control: The Brussels propaganda machine
http://shorl.com/bojuvydrufopy
TV to end regime of secrecy… that has surrounded EU ministerial meetings for more than 40 years. Ministers will meet privately when discussing executive, security and defence matters.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-332630,00.html
“Data retention” scheme marches forward in European Parliament
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03691.html
El Congreso aprueba la “Ley de Internet”... que obliga a los proveedores de servicios de Internet a retener en el plazo de un año los datos de tráfico de la Red.
http://shorl.com/datralytebrimu
FBI checking out Americans’ reading habits
8.3 percent of [public libraries] had been asked by federal or local law enforcement officers for information about patrons related to Sept. 11
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/23/MN75593.DTL
Big Brother at the office: Software makes it easy for the boss to spy on your Net usage
http://www.msnbc.com/news/769455.asp
Two Conceptions of Worker Privacy
http://www3.oup.co.uk/indlaw/hdb/Volume_31/Issue_02/310135.sgm.abs.html
Sound to make an army flee [E se o oponente ripostar com a mesma arma?!]
A new sonic weapon being developed for the Pentagon makes use of one of the most fearsome sounds known to humans: a baby crying.
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/paperboy.cfm?id=685942002
Science and Security in the 21st Century Information
http://www.csis.org/css/ExecSummary.pdf
Think Tanks and Other Policy Research Resources
http://www.nira.go.jp/linke/tt-link/
US cartoonists under pressure to follow the patriotic line
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=308068
RIP Order: Sometimes, you win.
http://www.stand.org.uk/weblog/archive/2002/06/19/000199.php
The fax machine uprising
How did a loose collective of internet users force a government U-turn on controversial changes to digital privacy laws? Using simple technology
http://shorl.com/daprygritivubi
Hollering into Cyberspace
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13433
Conspiracy Theory Grips French
Sept. 11 as Right-Wing U.S. Plot: In the book, “L'Effroyable Imposture”, Thierry Meyssan challenges the entire official version of the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/22/international/europe/22FRAN.html
French Author’s Book Slants 9/11 Acts: Thierry Meyssan says he got four death threats on Monday alone - and that’s a normal day for him.
http://shorl.com/hypruvyfruhami
Avec son “Pentagate”, Thierry Meyssan confirme sa thèse sur le 11 septembre
http://shorl.com/dohatragropeny
Disaster for an Obscure Industry: Estimates of the insurance payouts from the World Trade Center attack run from $40 billion to as much as $70 billion. That means that insurance companies are paying out a lot of money. Where are they coming up with all of that cash?
http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/richter/2002/06-20-02.shtml
The Corporate Pyramid Scheme: How WorldCom Lost Billions in the Biggest Pyramid Scheme of All Time
http://www.beyondvalueinvesting.com/articles/worldcompyramidscheme.htm
VITAMEDIAS
RTP pôs no ar notícia falsa sobre a guerra em Angola [em 1992]
http://shorl.com/higebrokibryso
Charge for Your Content? The Three Criteria
Is the content unavailable elsewhere? Are you the premier source of that content? And, can your content help readers make money or advance their careers?
http://www.clickz.com/design/freefee/article.php/1366851
Getting to Know You: Thanks to mandatory registration policies on many online newspaper sites, new data has produced “eye-opening” insights into audiences and indicates future sources of revenue.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1025227718.php
Message to Online Publishers: Unite or Die
Let’s face it, most online mags will never earn a dime if they try to go it alone.
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/print/0,1650,41756,00.html
Board The Weblog Bandwagon Now, Please
Newspapers Missed Most Internet Trends; Isn't It Time To Catch One?
http://shorl.com/hekibytrafasu
Newspapers in good position to offer wireless news
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cybernews/story/0,1870,128035,00.html?
Newspapers eye wireless future: Wireless technology is two years to five years from becoming an everyday function of newspapers’ operations. “I