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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Public or Private?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/758513.asp
Digital cinema slow to reel in fans
Study suggests full acceptance of digital by the film industry may remain a distant possibility unless key players can redefine how they share revenues and can find creative ways to finance the multibillion-dollar cost of the changeover.
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-935557.html
The Myth Of Stars
Of the 100 most popular movies of all time (based on box-office gross adjusted for inflation), 42 were made after 1975. Of these 42, half featured no star actors
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/06/12/0612stars.html
Disney goes back to its roots
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=60864
Not the real Slim Shady
Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry’s war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/10/eminem_mp3/print.html
Praise the Lord and pass the mike: The worlds of gospel and hip-hop are coming together
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/160/living/Praise_the_Lord_and_pass_the_mike+.shtml
Young, male, wired, music rippers
A digitized demographic that’s turning the music industry on its head
http://www.msnbc.com/news/765906.asp
The other superpower
For the first time in decades, American style and culture are facing serious competition - from the land that gave us Godzilla and Hello Kitty: the new Japan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,725634,00.html
Feeding off rejection
Calling all unpublished writers: For a fee, Penguin Putnam will tell you how bad your manuscript is.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/12/rejection_biz/print.html
Number of pirated CDs nearly doubled last year
… according to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/431151p-3448038c.html
An International E-Competition Relies on the High-Tech E-Piano
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/arts/music/13NOTE.html?todaysheadlines=&pagewanted=all&position=top
Within Walls and Memories: Dimensions of Detention
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/arts/design/10ARTS.html?pagewanted=print
http://tenement.org/HardPlace/
Stop Disney and the entertainment industry from trampling your rights.
http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/tinsel.asp
ECO-TERRORES
Active Denial Technology: Directed Energy Non-Lethal Demonstration
A breakthrough non-lethal technology that uses millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy to stop, deter and turn back an advancing adversary from relatively long range. [ver “How does it work?”]
http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/factsheets/activedenial.html
Technical Support Working Group (TSWG)
U.S. national forum that identifies, prioritizes, and coordinates interagency and international research and development requirements for combating terrorism.
http://www.tswg.gov/tswg/home.htm
Brain Fingerprinting: A New Paradigm in Criminal Investigations and Counterterrorism
http://www.brainwavescience.com
Surplus skin used for bioweapons research
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992376
Babylon: Introduction of True Two-Way Multilingual Translation for the Combat Environment
http://www.darpa.mil/ito/research/babylon/babylon-public.ppt
All-American Osamas
Burgert had a terror plan that made Osama bin Laden’s look rinky-dink.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/opinion/07KRIS.html
Environmental Activists Get $4.4m
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1801343,00.html
COINTELPRO: An acronym for the FBI’s domestic “counterintelligence programs” to neutralize political dissidents
http://www.cointel.org
Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counterintelligence
http://www.ivanrdee.com/spTheoharis_Chasing.html
Secret FBI files reveal covert activities at UC - Bureau’s campus operations involved Reagan, CIA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/09/MNCFLEADIN.DTL
Secrets of the service
At a time when the stakes for the Secret Service are higher than ever, the agency is rife with problems […] from alcohol abuse and misuse of government property to criminal offenses and allegations of extramarital relationships by Secret Service personnel with White House employees.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020617/usnews/17secret.htm
Can He Fix It?
As critics get louder, Bush fights back with a plan to reform homeland security. An inside look at how he's managing the crisis
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,260657,00.html
Inside Bush’s Big Plan
Is his new Department of Homeland Security a bold solution or just a big mess?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,260660,00.html
Department of Homeland Security [Table of Contents]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/deptofhomeland/toc.html
Journal of Homeland Security
http://www.homelanddefense.org/journal/
Presidential Powers in Times of Emergency: Could Terrorism Result In A Constitutional Dictator?
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020607.html
War On Error: Live Pictures Taken by U.S. Planes Were Freely Available
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=189&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
Pentagon: Prying Eyes Can’t See Sensitive Videos
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=738&e=3&u=/nm/20020613/tc_nm/nato_surveillance_dc_7
U.S. acts over satellite images
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/13/nato.spyplane/
Cracks in the System: Russia’s cybercrime squad fears the next al-Qaeda attack may be on crucial computer networks
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020617-260664,00.html
FBI searches for al-Qaeda scuba divers: Nationwide probe launched to avert possible marine terrorist attacks
http://www.nationalpost.com/world/story.html?id={43ED87E7-1A99-4B44-B0DD-47B734332FA3}
CEO Ignominiousus
CEOs, once admired as the bastion of ethical leadership, are today in decline and disgrace.
http://www.odwyerpr.com/0610comm_seitel.htm
Staying One Step Ahead of Government Censors
New regulations on the export of knowledge require US research deans and principal investigators to narrow contacts with foreign scientists
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/jun/prof_020610.html
MIT panel urges off-campus sites for classified research; reaffirms openness on MIT campus
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/publicinterest.html
VITAMEDIAS
Media Protect Bush On 9/11 Security Failure
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-05/29herman.cfm
End of an Era
Rolling Stone magazine has abandoned its commitment to literary journalism
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/spike/1023990980.php
U.N. Court Orders Reporter To Testify
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28161-2002Jun10.html
Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
http://www.poynter.org/special/colorproject/colorproject/color.html
BlogComp: Blog Tool Feature Comparison Table
http://www.urldir.com/bt/
A Rift Among Bloggers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10BLOG.html?todaysheadlines
Union Fights Hidden Cameras At 'Washington Post'
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1506518
Children’s TV Catches Up With How Kids Watch
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/arts/television/09SALA.html
A Theoretical Agenda for Entertainment-Education
http://ct.oupjournals.org/current.shtml
The Curse of the InStyle Wedding
When InStyle published a string of happily-ever-after stories about marriages that ended before some readers had a chance to crack the pages, the result was a string of embarrassments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/fashion/02WEDD.html
Hoax release carried on news wire
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-935188.html?tag=fd_top
Couple Sues MTV Over Hidden-Camera “Corpse” Prank
http://news.findlaw.com/entertainment/s/20020613/leisuremtvsuitdc.html
TECNO-HOUSE
[30.000] Public Comments on the United States v. Microsoft Corporation Settlement
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/usvms/msfr.html
Prints and the revolution
Digital cameras are popular, but making prints is still too hard
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1169625
Web design “causes confusion”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2041000/2041040.stm
A New System for Storing Data: Think Punch Cards, but Tiny
The equivalent of 200 CD-ROM’s on a surface the size of a postage stamp.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/science/physical/11DATA.html
Paying the Price for Software Piracy
The software industry is losing less money to pirates, but the use of unlicensed apps continues to rise.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101760,tk,dn061002X,00.asp
Power to the Players
Why video games need the protection of the First Amendment
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins060702.asp
Video games attracting older players
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/429467p-3435110c.html
Making online gaming pay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2040000/2040732.stm
Make Love, Not War Games
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52894,00.html
Israeli Device Detects Cell Phones Acting as Bugs
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20020611/tc_nm/tech_israel_netline_dc_1
Stalker tech: Students at the University of California at San Diego are tracking their friends' locations with PDAs
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/11/stalker_tech/print.html
New Apple ad campaign aims to convert PC users
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/3442949.htm
New Apple ads no longer preach to the converted
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0206/10.realpeople.php
http://www.apple.com/switch/
Old code in Windows is security threat
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-934363.html?tag=fd_top
Microsoft vs. open source gets political
http://www.idg.net/ic_874742_1793_1-1681.html
Glasses Not Required
New software may bring 3D television into your living room.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_cameron060502.asp
First JPEG Virus Identified
McAfee studies lab virus that could change the way digital infections spread - and are contained.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,101910,tk,dn061302X,00.asp
European Digital Rights launches
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25712.html
UK gets Telecoms Ombudsman
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/25714.html
Bush: Broadband must be “aggressive”
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-935874.html?tag=fd_top
CONTAMINANTES
You Are Where You Live [p. ex.: 92121, ZIP Code da Claritas]
http://cluster2.claritas.com/YAWYL/Default.wjsp?System=WL
A qui profitent les 35 heures
Ou comment cette réforme sociale audacieuse tourne à l'avantage des cols blancs plutôt qu'à celui des moins favorisés,
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=35068
Wireless switches rely on finger power
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992382
Gunslinger science
Barry Commoner, “has set off a contentious debate” by arguing that “the central scientific philosophy used to justify genetic engineering is wrong.”
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0222/news-downey.shtml
Productivity and Profitability Make Odd Couple in Odd Recession
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/06/business/06SCEN.html
When Peer Review Yields Unsound Science
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/health/policy/11DOC.html?ex=1024815781&ei=1&en=bb8a3aca209fabf6
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n21/toc.html
Fat-Free Foods Can Undermine Weight-Loss Efforts
The introduction of more than 5,000 low-fat and non-fat foods over the past decade has contributed to an epidemic of obesity in America
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020610/hl_nm/food_fatfree_1
Lawyers poised to sue US junk food manufacturers
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7351/1414
Bush to Americans: Get Off Your Duffs and Exercise
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020612/hl_nm/bush_exercise_1
Who’s Sorry Now? Apologies Can Benefit Both Society and Individuals
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/apology_020613.html
The Future of Text: An imaginative museum exhibit shows electronic text writ large, loud and liquid
http://www.msnbc.com/news/765360.asp
Researcher Finds Most People Lie In Everyday Conversation
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/020611070813.htm
Worldwide Lexicon
Linking dictionaries and semantic networks throughout the internet
http://picto.weblogger.com
.DE!
Shoppers Rival Drivers for Worst “Rage”
“Shopping rage” is as prevalent in our society as road rage and air rage.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54971,00.html
A labor of love is rewarded
Parents who spent years collecting cans to pay tuition see son graduate from MIT
http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/159/metro/A_labor_of_love_is_rewarded-.shtml
The world’s flags given letter grades
http://138.251.140.21/~josh/flags/intro.html
[Portugal:] Nove séculos, dez bandeiras
http://semanal.expresso.pt/revista/artigos/interior.asp?edicao=1545&id_artigo=ES61013
Republicans debate state party’s makeup
Texas Republicans […] declared the United States a Christian nation and favored posting the Ten Commandments on public property.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1445856
Wisconsin company offers extra-long T-shirt to solve plumbers’ embarrassing problem
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/10/odds_tshirt.htm
Even monkeys prefer PlayStation to Xbox
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=53757
Pranks: Terrace Café Sculpture Replacement
http://cockeyed.deadtrout.com/pranks/mall/plazaprank.html
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Protest to draw attention to the lack of running water and other public services in Bogota
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020613/161/1otgu.html
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Unanswered Questions: Thinking for Ourselves
http://www.unansweredquestions.org
