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22, 12.07.02
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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
