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26, 06.09.02
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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...]