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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
