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16, 29.05.02
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Elvis vs. Elvis
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/spike/1022099121.php
The other jubilee
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1146063
Give it away now
FightCloud.com offers CDs free, but says it’s making a profit. How can that be?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/23/fightcloud/print.html
Napster rebirth or requiem?
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-923012.html?tag=fd_nc_1
With Napster, Bertelsmann faces new hurdles
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=59192
Copyright is Not About Copying
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/MF.pdf
Hollywood’s Bounty Hunters
Ranger Online’s new software tracks digital pirates. Does it work?
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40347,FF.html
Media firms lobby piracy controls to EU
Every CD or DVD manufactured in the European Union would have to carry code designed to help track down pirated discs if proposals by media trade groups are adopted.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-922706.html
Why Dilbert loves the Internet
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-923069.html?tag=fd_lede
Why did Neil Young try to squelch “Shakey”, a 786-page biography?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066240
I’d prefer not to: Why it is embarrassing to dislike reading writers widely regarded as great is obvious.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/05/28/great/print.html
Judge gives go-ahead to sell 1000 fake paintings
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1022038435765.html
ECO-TERRORES
The New Face of Another Gilded Age
The 30 largest U.S. family and individual fortunes in 1999 were roughly ten times as big as the 30 largest had been in 1982
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8284-2002May25.html
In new era, corporate security joins the board
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=59205
The Cops Are Watching You
Police departments are creating, rebuilding or strengthening intelligence units and antiterrorism squads
http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020603&s=dreyfuss
Busy Year for Big Brother
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52781,00.html
The Attack on Civil Liberties
http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/civil_liberties/
Patriot Act’s supposed justification is gone
http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/2848003.html
Face recognition used at NYC sites
http://www.msnbc.com/news/757630.asp
Enhanced Security Measures to Protect NYC Landmarks Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty Include Visionics’ Facial Recognition System
http://ir.shareholder.com/vsnx/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=81358
US plan to strike enemy with Valium
Pentagon scientists aim for future battlefield victories with the aid of tranquillising drugs and GM bugs
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,722395,00.html
[01.09.13] Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks [afinal funciona?!?!]
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G1B9243F
Carnivore interfered with anti-terrorism investigation [afinal não funciona!?!?]
http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/fisa.html
DOD Documents Go From Being Classified To Webified
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176777.html
Webmasters Agree: Not All On Web Is Archive-worthy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20930-2002May28.html
F.B.I. Inaction Blurred Picture Before Sept. 11
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/27/national/27THRE.html?pagewanted=print
F.B.I. Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/25/national/25INQU.html
FBI’s “Phoenix” Memo Unmasked
http://www.fortune.com/articles/phoenix_memo.html
Coleen Rowley’s Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html
Patterns of Global Terrorism
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/
Comcast faces $1 billion privacy suit (illegally collected the Web-surfing habits of its users)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M299463F
Vigilante Justice
How ordinary citizens have become watchdogs policing the gateways to this country.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020603&s=bach
Crime Without Punishment: As American streets get safer, crime in Europe soars.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/266umtwb.asp
EU Law Turns ISPs Into Spies?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52829,00.html
European Parliament poised to cave in on Internet privacy?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25483.html
Anti-snooping operating system close to launch
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992335
VITAMEDIAS
Sensing the censor
http://news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=168734
Many Dailies Will Convert To Tabloids
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1500270
Sexier than sex
The World Cup will attract a global audience of billions. No wonder advertisers are clamouring to align their brands with football
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,722660,00.html
FIFA [que tem 204 membros, mais do que a ONU] lucra 375 milhões com o Mundial de 2002
http://www.de.iol.pt/index.php?article=14490&visual=1
RTP ganha na notoriedade [estudo sobre “O Valor das Marcas” nos media]
http://www.de.iol.pt/index.php?article=14697&visual=1
Newspapers top reading survey
Online browsing takes up a large chunk of the reading day, ahead of magazines and reference books
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2009000/2009746.stm
Family Business: How Media Dynasties Keep It Together
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/05/24/0524media.html
A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction
If the […] decision stands, online publishers could be sued for defamation in any state or country that an online article is read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/27/technology/27ELAW.html
Pay to Play
Slashdot’s Rob Malda is pioneering a clever new model: optional advertising.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40365,FF.html
Community and sympathy
Local radio is a lifeline, a forum and a comfort in times of crisis
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-305253,00.html
Media conglomerates: Tangled webs
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1143374
For Cosmo, it’s sex and the world
Cosmopolitan has increased its circulation to 8.2 million worldwide, even extending its brand to places where readers have to hide the magazine from their husbands
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=58996
AOL Prepares New Formula For “Popular Science”
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,BT_CO_20020524_002626,00.html
Altered images: So what now for Benetton’s Colors?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,722663,00.html
Civil service at the BBC as editor sets up “polite police”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/24/nmed224.xml
Playing the ratings roulette
Canada: No other country buys so much fresh U.S. programming, or pays as much for it.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H33D243F
Company to Broadcast Video Games Via Digital TV
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1004055
TECNO-HOUSE
Paulo Azevedo (SonaeCom)
P. - Como vão aplicar os 40 milhões de euros provenientes do aumento de capital da SonaeCom?
R. - 33 milhões vão para a Novis e sete milhões vão para um projecto secreto de banda larga no Clix.
http://dn.sapo.pt/noticia/noticia.asp?CodNoticia=46462&codEdicao=277&codAreaNoticia=28
The new wave of tech piracy
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-927318.html?tag=fd_lede
An Education in Hacking
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc20020528_8754.htm
Hackers take a bite out of Apple
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2D9143F
Apple “iBrowser” insurgency denied by AOL techs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25451.html
Eight Technologies That Will Change the World
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,40435,FF.html
Silicon Is Slow
The Goal: Computers millions of times faster. The research into single-molecule transistors, DNA strands, and quantum effects provides tantalizing clues.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,241609,00.html
New Material Could Form Basis for Novel Electronic Devices
http://www.sciam.com/news/052402/2.html
Paper-thin phone could replace letters
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2006000/2006407.stm
Waiting for Wi-Fi: Europeans trail U.S. in wireless Net hubs
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=58988
More Wireless Trends in the Making
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17944.html
[Planeta Microsoft] Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon: Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60050-2002May22?language=printer
Microsoft Changes Software Options
http://www.wwwnetdaily.com/p/01/4c440264f53e.html
EU probes Microsoft over privacy law
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-922911.html?tag=fd_top
Microsoft, WinXP, jornalistas e intenção de “Create the largest and most leveragable database of profiles on the planet”
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/apr02/04-22ntranscriptam.asp
How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time [vírus informáticos e disseminação]
http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/index.html
Passwords: The weakest link
http://news.com.com/2009-1001-916719.html?tag=fd_lede
Recession? Don’t Tell the Video Game Industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/technology/24GAME.html?todaysheadlines
Of Doom, Gloom, Fun and Games
Lawmakers, who are generally older, see this explosion of video games with mature themes and outright violence with troubled eyes
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52661,00.html
Now, Video Verite
Computer games used to look like crude cartoons. Now they’re looking a lot like Hollywood movies
http://www.msnbc.com/news/757316.asp
Why Won’t We Read the Manual?
Stupid Question, Perhaps, but Manufacturers Have Heard Stupider
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8275-2002May25.html
Terabyte Territory: The notion that we may soon have a surplus of disk capacity is profoundly counterintuitive.
http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/Issues/Comsci02/Compsci2002-05.html
Why Your New Car Doesn’t Have a Built-in PC
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020523.html
CONTAMINANTES
Research offers new ways to study, alter brain function but benefits come with social policy questions
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E25E524F
Why We See What We Do
A probabilistic strategy based on past experience explains the remarkable difference between what we see and physical reality
http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/02articles/Purves.html
A World at Your Fingertips
The Worldview project […] plans to open real-time windows around the world
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52580,00.html
Should the moon be developed?
Lunar golf courses, largescale industrialization under debate
http://www.msnbc.com/news/756847.asp
Our shiny happy clone future
Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids - it’s all good, says scientist Gregory Stock
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/28/goodclones/print.html
Cloning to revive extinct species
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/05/28/aust.thylacines/index.html
Myhrvold’s Exponential Economy
Microsoft’s former technology chief is […] looking for industries where efficiencies multiply every couple of years - in infotech, sure, but biology too.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/print_version/qa0602.asp
London on a chip: Mini-map gives tourists neon route signs
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020520/020520-12.html
Bionic Eye Follows Bionic Ear
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/3347167.htm
Meanings of Meow: Cornell Researcher Seeks to Prove How Cats Manipulate People
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/cats020514.html
Risky business: Teens are having more sex–and getting more diseases. But is telling them to wait the answer?
The White House is driving home a controversial message: Don’t teach kids how to have sex. Teach them how not to have sex until they’re married.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020527/misc/27teensex.htm
U.S. Tells Teen Girls Worldwide to Just Say No
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/914/context/archive
Court Spells Out New Patent Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Patents.html?todaysheadlines
Castration bill sent to governor
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C2AE544F
.DE!
Seven secrets to the perfect shave
The average man will spend 145 days of his life shaving and remove around 25 metres of beard from his face by the time he retires at 65.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2FC523F
Man sues Pepsi over [telephone] error on cans
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/top/a24popcan.htm
Israel gives flying casinos go-ahead for liftoff
http://boston.com/dailynews/148/world/Israel_gives_flying_casinos_go:.shtml
Iran outlaws [the un-Islamic] Barbie
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1021882066487.html
Three die in “female” Mafia shoot-out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_2011000/2011548.stm
Singapore couple wed in shark tank
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/05/28/singapore.sharkwed.ap/
The Obsession With Witchcraft
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F239213F
Shower Shock Caffeinated Soap
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a65.shtml
Factual Error Found On Internet
http://www.theonion.com/onion3819/factual_error_found.html
Ant City [jogo]
http://www.bossmonster.com/games/antcity.html
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
VeriChip Personal Medical Information Devices
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/sc/051002verichip&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=0&l=&e=1&t=
Naked Chicken
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L1F9123F
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Glurge
http://www.glurge.com
Christmas tale: http://www.glurge.com/glurge140.html
