04 setembro 2002

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CULTURAS IN VITRO The Music Industry's Web Of Intrigue http://www.billboard.com/billboard/musictomyears/index.jsp Napster judge denounces recording industry Record labels are “attempting the near monopolization of the digital distribution market”. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24178.html Judge: If You Own Music, Prove It http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50625,00.html Internet Piracy’s Impact on Music Market http://www.riaa.org/PR_story.cfm?id=491 Online Tunes: People Are Paying http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50565,00.html Broadcasters Outraged over Proposed Reporting Rules http://www.radiohorizon.com/index.php3?fcn=displayarticle&id=2424 Can You Trademark the Phrase "Let's Roll"? http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062607 Online Group to Give Advice Regarding Copyrights http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25CHIL.html Do You Know Your Online Rights? http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article/0,2198,3531_980491,00.html Mickey Mouse vs. The People http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/21/web_copyright/print.html Control & Creativity - The future of ideas is in the balance http://spectator.org/AmericanSpectatorArticles/Lessig/Control.htm Consumer claims victory in copy-protected CD lawsuit http://news.com.com/2100-1023-843114.html Label to warn of copy blocking on CDs http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/26/BU201062.DTL&type=tech Movies Get Framed - By Jack Valenti Films on the Net - we'd love it. But not for free. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62085-2002Feb24.html The Digital Link: Understanding the Digital Home Video Controversy on Commercial Content (Copy) Protection http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_9_1/feature-article-digital-home-video-2-2002.html Potter makes movie chart history Harry Potter has overtaken Star Wars: Episode I in the all-time box office chart. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1828000/1828680.stm Lord of the Rings sweeps Baftas http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1836000/1836096.stm The outsourcing of Tinseltown It's hard to tell what constitutes a “Hollywood movie” any more http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2002/02/20/FFXKNJOKUXC.html Australia offers tax incentives to Hollywood http://artscanada.cbc.ca/artsNow/index.jsp?label=australia020226 Michael Jackson buys into Montreal film company http://artscanada.cbc.ca/artsNow/index.jsp?label=jackson020226 Animated Pop Band Gets Interactive Treatment Gorillaz is the first group in the world to star in their own interactive TV game. http://www.tvinsite.com/television-europe/index.asp?layout=story&doc_id=70947&display=breakingNews Think your DJ is local? Think again Via a practice called “voice-tracking”, Clear Channel pipes popular out-of-town personalities from bigger markets to smaller ones, customizing their programs to make it sound as if the DJs are actually local residents. http://www.msnbc.com/news/715538.asp A Novel Idea Takes Wing in the Windy City Mayor Richard M. Daley last fall asked every citizen in this city of 3 million to read Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The response to One Book, One Chicago was electric. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-000012380feb17.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfrontpage Calif. Court Rules Sinatra Kidnapper May Sell Story http://news.findlaw.com/entertainment/s/20020221/courtsinatradc.html The Alphabet Synthesis Machine http://alphabet.tmema.org/  

ECO-TERRORES The Disappeared Since 11 September, up to 2,000 people in the United States have been detained without trial, or charge, or even legal rights. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=139913 White House Angered at Plan For Pentagon Disinformation Whoever leaked the story “did a tremendous disservice to the president”. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61716-2002Feb24.html New Defense Office Won't Mislead, Officials Say http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42427-2002Feb20.html When Things Turn Weird, The Weird Turn Pro - Propaganda, The Pentagon And The Rendon Group http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5188 A Desinformação Orwelliana http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/03/01/Media/RCRONI.html George W. Bush, Movie Star White House sources were under the impression these sessions were off the record, a claim that taxes credulity since Bush is repeatedly filmed referring to [Pelosi’s] “documentary”. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/948vyyzw.asp A Enron na biografia do Secretário do Exército Thomas E. White [Dois momentos de uma vida:] Hoje: http://www.army.mil/leaders/Secarmy/bio.htm 10 de Agosto de 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010810231244/http://www.army.mil/leaders/Secarmy/bio.htm U.S. study ties 15,000 deaths to nuclear tests Preliminary research shows that 15,000 cancer deaths in the United States might have been caused by radioactive fallout from Cold War nuclear weapons testing http://www.msnbc.com/news/717299.asp Authorities Probe Montana Militia's Assassination Plot A Montana militia organization was planning to assassinate as many judges, prosecutors and police officers as possible http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Police-Plot.html Paying for Big Brother: Review of the Proposed FY2003 Budget for the DoJ http://www.epic.org/reports/paying_for_bb.pdf FY03 Justice Department Budget http://appropriations.senate.gov/releases/record.cfm?id=181386 [Contrastes:] White House spurns tech programs left over from Clinton presidency “Only those with ‘an unreal understanding’ of U.S. capitalism would expect the poor, minorities and rural residents to immediately have the same access to the Internet as other Americans”. http://www.msnbc.com/news/716834.asp?cp1=1 Insurers fight in court over WTC losses “It seems to me there were two separate planes, hitting two separate towers at two separate times” [mas as seguradoras viram algo diferente…] http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020225-140421.htm Pssst! Secret ink isn't Is a secret, 85-year-old formula for invisible ink an important tool in our war on terrorism? Apparently, the CIA thinks so. http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/2736130.htm How the Left Undermined America's Security “But it remains a fact that the [Bush] administration had devised in eight months a strategy that Bill Clinton had delayed for eight years”. http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/horowitzsnotepad/2002/hn02-18-02.htm Satellite War Pix Become Available Commercial satellite images of the war in Afghanistan [& Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] are now available to the public. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53755-2002Feb22.html http://www.globalsecurity.org/eye/pic-2001.htm http://www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/war_gallery.htm http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagepump/index.php CD-Rom of key Nato secrets feared sold http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,653471,00.html High-Profile Activists - New Front on Ecoterror? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ecoterror_support020226.html Colleges Fear Anti-Terrorism Law Could Turn Them Into Big Brother http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i25/25a03101.htm Big Brother in the library http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020225-88465531.htm The Literary Web: Web sites featuring the word are thriving http://www.sfgate.com/technology/cultural/ Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Public's or the Officials'? The legal question of who owns public records has not always been clear. http://nytimes.com/2002/02/24/weekinreview/24BOHL.html Strasbourg cost a million more than Brussels Every monthly session of the EP in Strasbourg costs a million euro more than if it was held in Brussels. http://EUobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=5301 EU ambassador in Ankara hacked Turkish opponents of EU accession managed to take over and unveil e-mail dispatches from the EC’s ambassador to Ankara. http://euobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=5285 Extensive abuse of West African refugee children reported http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/pressrels/270202.html Mayor approves London congestion charges Drivers will be charged to enter a toll area policed by 230 video cameras http://www.guardian.co.uk/livingstone/article/0,2763,658421,00.html In the Name of Safety: Video Surveillance (12/3/2001) http://www.justicetalking.org/shows/show198.asp The 2002 UK Big Brother Awards http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/uk2002/ Dutch Big Brother Awards 2002 http://www.bigbrotherawards.nl/index.en.html Big Brother Awards Denmark http://www.bigbrotherawards.dk/news/bba2001winners.html Big Brother Awards France http://www.bigbrotherawards.eu.org/2001/presse.html#win  

VITAMEDIAS War Riddles: Ten Questions the Media Isn't Answering http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12481 Protecting Media Diversity http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/opinion/_23SAT1.html Limits on Media Ownership Voided http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35724-2002Feb19.html Ruling on FCC turns up volume on media mergers http://chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-020221merger.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnologylocal%2Dhed Mega Media Merger Mania http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12451 Oligopolies Are on the Rise As the Urge to Merge Grows http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1014589181477203560,00.html That’s Entertainment: Media Conglomerates Go Global http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?catid=7&articleid=518&homepage=yes Media warned of battle on Europe http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,656676,00.html Let the buying of TV stations begin http://www.emonline.com/topstorys/022502tvstations.html Is allowing one company to own many TV stations good for consumers? Yes: Don't control messenger http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020225/3890364s.htm Opinion - by James Taranto http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=100001704 Viewers, It's Time to Wake Up and Smell the Mergers http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Calendar-X!ArticleDetail-52194,00.html Beyond the Box: How Will Television Evolve? http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=2789&sid=-1&t=special_reports_cyber2002 AOL Time Warner Center http://www.1centralpark.com Do androids dream of First Amendment rights? A Net-controlled robot reporter from MIT may be headed for Afghanistan. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/25/afghan_robot/print.html Robo-Scribe: Perfect for War? http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50698,00.html “Newsblaster” software scans, summarizes news http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0228/p12s02-stct.html Italy Indymedia Under Attack http://italy.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=38750 Berlusconi comes under fire as crowds remember 'Clean Hands' bribe inquiry http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=139499 Multi-multimedia With media saturation coverage, you often don’t have to choose; the choices are made for you. http://www.msnbc.com/news/715724.asp?cp1=1 Ferro e Durão vistos por 1,2 milhões de espectadores, “Anjo Selvagem” por 1,9 milhões [Desinteresse? Qual desinteresse?] http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/02/28/Media/RBREVES.html#ST2 Investigadores Lançam Carta Aberta à Comunidade Científica “O documento evidencia (ainda que sem o referir explicitamente)”... http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/02/28/Ciencias/H05.html [Contexto:] Mariano Gago teme um regresso ao passado http://dn.sapo.pt/noticia/noticia.asp?CodNoticia=30010&codEdicao=176&CodAreaNoticia=1 À procura de um projecto coerente para o Serviço Público de Televisão em Portugal http://dn.sapo.pt/noticia/noticia.asp?CodNoticia=30089&codEdicao=176&CodAreaNoticia=17 Prada-backed magazine unveiled and? will attempt to introduce new thinking in areas including art, fashion, architecture and science. http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,659515,00.html The Times They-Are-A-Changing Is the E edition worth it? As a once-in-a-while substitute or add-on, yes. Every day? Not for us. http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=703 A Time to Catch Up Although America remains the cradle of all things online, Western European is catching up http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=702  

TECNO-HOUSE I, Chip? Technology to Meld Chips into Humans Draws Closer http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/chipimplant020225.html Computer chip implanted in humans? http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/27/human.computer.chip.ap/index.html Executivo lança Portal do Governo... ... desenvolvido em parceria com a Microsoft Portugal http://www.negocios.pt/noticias/NoticiaDetalhe.asp?CdDoc=69092 Mariano Gago defende Linux nas empresas e administração pública http://www.recortes.org/223/22355.php Why sex still leads the net Porn websites are making millions. Now mainstream dot.coms are asking them for advice. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,659159,00.html Cybersex follows Mars, Venus patterns “It's just like offline”. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/02/26/cybersex.htm The Next Web Think the Web is a godsend? By 2005, Tim Berners-Lee aims to be replacing it with the Semantic Web, which will understand human language http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_09/b3772108.htm Planet Internet Intelligent highways and digital genomics http://www.techreview.com/articles/print_version/qa0302.asp HTTP a barrier to Web services? http://news.com.com/2100-1023-846583.html The Net is running out of space, says EC http://www.electricnews.net/print.html?code=6284594 The Murky Debate Over an Internet Address Database http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/25/technology/ebusiness/25NECO.html “Distributed” Web Projects Raise Security Issues http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174660.html Can't Read Your ISP's Service Pact? http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,,8_979171,00.html Click, no film A new type of image-processing chip […] means the end of film has got a lot closer http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1000240 Ready for photos on your phone? http://news.com.com/2100-1033-844608.html The secret life of your own laptop http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=139444 Egg delivers money transmission by email http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,658257,00.html Amiga hardware makes a comeback OK, on a set-top box. In Sweden. But hey, it's a Nokia set-top box, running Linux. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/24209.html This Suit Makes No Sense Why can't AOL Time Warner executives just bury Netscape and get on with their lives? http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=206521 Apple picks up technical Grammy http://news.com.com/2100-1023-846111.html Moog and Apple Computer Honored http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/27/arts/music/27APPL.html He Writes the Songs: Mac Songs http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50161,00.html Should Apple Sell PC Software? http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2002/nf20020227_9415.htm Should Our Schools (or Anybody Else) Have Macs or PCs? http://homepage.mac.com/mac_vs_pc/Intro.html At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sgoyal/pervasive/22010256.pdf “Smart Environment” Research [Recolha de projectos] http://www.equator.ac.uk/projects/domus/documents/Smart_Environments_booklet.pdf People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-279.pdf Functionality Needed in Middleware for Future Mobile Computing Platforms http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mmc/02%20Raatikainen.pdf Sotto Voce – an electronic guidebook http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/guidebooks/default.html Electronic Guidebooks and Visitor Attention [entre outros] http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/guidebooks/publications.html Timex trials e-wallet wristwatch The prototype Speedpass Timex allows wearers to pay for petrol and food instantly. http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_532427.html 10 things Google has found to be true 1) Focus on the user and all else will follow. http://www.google.com/corporate/today.html The 5K http://www.the5k.org Online Students Don't Fare as Well as Classroom Counterparts http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022501u.htm Hack a PC, Get Life in Jail http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50708,00.html  

CONTAMINANTES DNA needs to be protected by law http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7335/443 Genome liberation The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/26/biopunk/print.html UK gives go-ahead for human cloning http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991975 Gene test spares baby from defect Inherited disease avoided, but birth fuels ethics debate http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0202270323feb27.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed Scientists say 'Doomsday' time nearer http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=49618 File-Sharing Could Mean Revenue For Everyone http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174861.html Steven Johnson on “Emergence” Emergence is what happens when the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts. http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a//network/2002/02/22/johnson.html Ads Play to Users' Privacy Fears http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50555,00.html?tw=wn20020221 Error 404 http://homepages.karoo.net/404.html In God we trust. All others we monitor. http://www.swssec.com The Invisible Whiteness of the Olympic Beer Riot http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12479 Pagans Vs. Hells Angels: One Dead, 73 Arrested http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020224/ts_nm/crime_bikers_dc_1 http://www.hellraisorball.com Sins of the Father Boston’s cardinal kept on priests who had been accused of molesting children. Now Catholics across America are confronting similar scandals and questioning the secretive culture of the church http://www.msnbc.com/news/714636.asp?cp1=1 [A Economist escreveu sobre isto a 31 de Janeiro...] A priestly scandal in Boston - Better admit it http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=965891 [...e o Público a 23 de Fevereiro...] Ex-padre Condenado a Nove Anos de Cadeia por Pedofilia http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/02/23/Sociedade/S05.html [...e o Kansas City Star desde Janeiro de 2000 sobre SIDA entre padres] A church's challenge - Catholic priests are dying of AIDS, often in silence But it appears priests are dying of AIDS at a rate at least four times that of the general U.S. population http://nl9.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=list&p_topdoc=21 Tap Dancing Gets Its Feet Web http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50465,00.html Who let the NeoPets out? http://news.com.com/2100-1023-844994.html Metric Martyrs lose battle to save pound and ounce The fact that legislation in Britain is done by a group of bureaucrats in Brussels over whom “we have no democratic control”. http://EUobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=5226 Members of the Convention on the Future of Europe http://euobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=5202 The World's Billionaires http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/02/28/billionaires.html Gates [The Richest of the Rich] Files to Sell 1 Million Shares http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&u=/nm/20020228/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_gates_dc_2 Ninety percent of young white male workers now doing worse than they would have 20 years ago The new economy has not distributed prosperity equally http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-02/uow-npo022002.php Wine with dinner? £44,000 bill When some of the bankers tried to pass off their part of the bill as client expenses, Barclays began firing them one by one. http://www.boston.com/dailynews/057/world/The_meal_was_costlier_than_it_:.shtml Man arrested for eating half a muffin http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,1116715a10,FF.html The fat of the lands Obesity is no longer just a western disease. It is becoming a problem in the developing world too http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=998456 Does Size Matter? 240-Pound Woman Wants Right to Teach Jazzercise http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/size020226.html International Federation of Competitive Eating http://www.ifoce.com Dinner and a Movie Sardines are inevitably considered annoying because they're so small, and one suspects they yip at each other a lot underwater. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/24FOOD.html?pagewanted=print Stolen Restaurant Napkins Are Just a Start http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/27/dining/27THEF.html?pagewanted=all “The Aboriginal Science, Arts and Technology Handbook” details native innovations in science http://artscanada.cbc.ca/artsNow/index.jsp?label=lakehead020225 

.DE ! Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/research/nonlinear/tacoma/tacoma.html http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/research/nonlinear/tacoma/tacnarr.mpg shakeitbabe Comentário do emissor: “Simplesmente genial... mesmo que demore a abrir, vale a pena esperar...” [o resto também é interessante] http://www.lebonze.co.uk/stuff/move.htm Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.html The Downward Spiral http://vatican.rotten.com/spiral/ I’m a Cow http://riddleme.com/html/cow.html Michael Flannigan - A life of invention http://emilychesley.com/mike/mike.htm Liza Minnelli and David Gest, March 16, 2002 “Hi! I found Liza and David's registry at WeddingChannel.com. Thought you might like to check it out...” http://wedding.weddingchannel.com/search_purchase/guest_view_store.asp?retailer_registry_uid=172575368&listby=dept&retailer_uid=10710 ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs): Design Addict http://www.designaddict.com