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4, 08.03.02
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Is music industry killing the single?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/715839.asp
Can The Album Survive Digital Music?
http://www.forbes.com/2002/02/22/0222albums.html
Looking Grim at the Grammys
http://www.msnbc.com/news/718662.asp?cp1=1
Rock stars stand up for their rights
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=50285
The most feared woman on the Internet - But is she for real?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/print.html
2001 was the greatest box office year in film history
http://www.mpaa.org/jack/2002/2002_03_05a.htm
All-Time Domestic Blockbusters
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/blockbusters.htm
Hollywood activists unveil new chubby Oscar
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0203/02/entertainment/entertain4.html
Seeing doubles
Biopics can be the closest we get to lives of the saints - or the sinners.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/01/1014704987942.html
David Lynch
http://www.davidlynch.com
The Customer Is Always Wrong
Media giants can take comfort in history - their reaction to previous technological advances was just as hysterical as it is with the Internet.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/718454.asp
Memo to Hollywood: Downloading Can’t Be Stopped
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/print/0,1650,38553,FF.html
Want To Back Up Your PC? Ask Disney's Permission
http://hardware.earthweb.com/prodop/article/0,,12099_985991,00.html
Publishing, Pressure, Profits and Plagiarism
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000015016feb28
Did Ambrose Write Wild Blue, Or Just Edit It?
http://www.forbes.com/2002/02/27/0227ambrose_print.html
History Is an Art, Not a Toaster
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/books/28BOOK.html
The Art in the Popular
http://wwics.si.edu/outreach/wq/WQSELECT/CANTOR.HTM
It's a novel idea, but nothing can get New York reading from the same page
One city, one book sweeps the US. But the Big Apple can’t even pick a winner
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,658720,00.html
ECO-TERRORES
Bush Ordered 100 Officials to Bunkers Away From Capital to Ensure Federal Survival
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20584-2002Feb28.html
Press Ethics in Shadows [Fomos os primeiros…]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34842-2002Mar4.html
About that Wash. Post scoop [Não, nós é que fomos…]
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/whispwebarch.htm
Interior officials join Cheney in mountain hideaways [E nós já cá estávamos!]
http://www.cleveland.com/terrorism/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/100331106329113179.xml
Executive Orders on Succession in Federal Agencies
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011228-eo.html
The Shadow Government: Its Identification and Analysis (1992)
http://eyesonamerica.org/200203/02030201.htm
Bunkers for All Occasions - Preserving the American way of life.
http://slate.msn.com//?id=2062738
Does bin Laden matter anymore?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0301/p01s02-usmi.html
How bin Laden got away
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p01s03-wosc.html
U.S. Seeks DNA of All Captives in Afghan War
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/international/asia/03DETA.html?pagewanted=all&position=top
[Para acabar com as teorias da conspiração:]
When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12536
[Para alimentar as teorias da conspiração:]
Encontre o Boeing que embateu no Pentágono
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm
Moment of impact at Pentagon
Sequence of images shows American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon on Sept. 11. [Onde pára o avião?…]
http://www.msnbc.com/news/720851.asp
Terrorism as Pretext
…to justify long-standing shopping list of bad ideas and corporate welfare measures
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html
Postol vs. the Pentagon
MIT professor & missile defense technology: the government doesn’t like his pessimistic conclusions.
http://www.techreview.com/articles/print_version/taubes0402.asp
Official Count of Sept. 11 Victims (Total: 3,071)
http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200202252137000168373_aolns.src
Can We Stop the Next Attack?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,214064,00.html
Fears Prompt U.S. to Beef Up Nuclear Terror Detection
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29406-2002Mar2.html
The War Against Propaganda
Why are those men there dying in the first place?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/03/06_propaganda.html
Trade secrets
Charged with betraying his country, Ho Lee was found guilty only of misusing his computer
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=975548
U.S. Agencies Move To Share Online Terrorism Databases
Centralizing personal data is a very dangerous move on the part of government agencies.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/16600/
Internet-based Counterintelligence
…against the CIA with some surprising results
http://www.trustmatta.com/services/docs/Matta_Counterintelligence.pdf
U.S. to Curb Computer Access by Foreigners
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D030702ban
The KGB in Afghanistan - By Vasiliy Mitrokhin
http://cwihp.si.edu/
The Division of Afghanistan Begins
http://www.stratfor.com/fib/topStory_view.php?ID=203298
China cuts power, water to elderly Christians
…detained during U.S. President Bush’s recent visit.
http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200203010324000241911_aolns.src
Families of June 4 [Tiananmen] victims demand accountability
http://iso.hrichina.org:8151/iso/news_item.adp?news_id=708
Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679457682/ref%5Fase%3Dnewstrolls/104-6909344-9461563
John Kamm's Third Way
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/magazine/03CHINA.html?pagewanted=all&position=top
FAA’s Sex Scandal
Federal sky marshals ignoring potential threats to U.S. aviation security
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/195010.html
Militia Movement [eventos antigos...]
http://www.geocities.com/progpop/Samizdat.1.html
Incidents of Hate Violence and Intimidation
http://www.mhrn.org/news/hateviol.html
EU to set up intelligence services
http://euobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=5399
Surveillance & Control: an event
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/webcasting/surveillance.htm
VITAMEDIAS
“Top 10” 2001 News Stories
http://www.worldpress.org/0302top10.htm
PR Cuts Into Commercial World’s Share of 2001 Media Impressions
Microsoft dominated America’s corporate “news hole” in 2001
http://www.inside.com/product/mbd030402.html
Adweek Magazines' Hot List Names Maxim Top Title
http://www.mediaweek.com/mediaweek/magazine/hotlist.jsp
Four Of The Top 10 Media Deals in 2001 Concerned Consumer Magazines
http://www.fipp.com/scripts/showfile.plx?Template=NewsDisplay.html&datafile=news/archive/20020307190514.html
Freedom From the Press
For now at least the administration’s infotainment strategy may be working.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/opinion/02RICH.html
Perspectives on War: The British See Things Differently
http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/kennedy.asp
Secret Finger-Pointing over Danny Pearl’s Death
[Morte ligada à entrega pelo WSJ de um portátil da Al Qaeda ao departamento de Defesa - sem confirmação mas interessante]
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12541
Censors and sensibilities - an everyday tale of literary folk
David Marquand v. London Review of Books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,660297,00.html
Naomi and privacy: a model case
We might not want to read about Naomi Campbell’s private life, but we need the right to do so.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D446.htm
Those Jaunty Issues of the New Economy Take a Sober Turn
September 2000 issue of Red Herring: 552 ad-stuffed pages
March 2002 issue of Red Herring: 100 pages
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/business/media/04MAG.html
Faking It: Sex, Lies, and Women's Magazines
http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/featherstone.asp
Anchor Caught In Cable Bind
News going away from the traditional broadcast networks to cable
http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-03-02/News_and_Views/Media_and_Business/a-143130.asp
Disneyfication of ABC News strikes at Arledge’s small world
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020305/3912350s.htm
Judge says amateur news gatherers on public access TV have same rights as professionals
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/065/nation/Judge_says_amateur_news_gather:.shtml
Les Européens auraient du mal à se passer de la télévision
[Porque insistem em falar de europeus quando se referem apenas a 5 países?]
http://www.ipsos.fr/CanalIpsos/articles/912.asp
End of the line for free Web?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/03/01/norway.net/index.html
Media chiefs reject internet business model
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3XNV0EEYC
Pesky Web ads are here to stay
http://www.msnbc.com/news/717296.asp?cp1=1
Les antipub s'affichent
http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/020302-040021067ECON.html
Trial examines war crimes, free speech and journalism [no Ruanda]
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=50150
TECNO-HOUSE
The Church of Scientology’s Supremacy over the search term “Scientology” on Google
http://www.operatingthetan.com/google/
How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week
http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googleblog.shtml
Ballmer: States would break Windows
…and withdraw the Windows operating system from the market [Ora aí está um cenário interessante!]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-851229.html
Waiting for Wi-Fi
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/05/wi_fi_nation/print.html
Good (or Unwitting) Neighbors Make for Good Internet Access
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/technology/04WIRE.html?pagewanted=print
The Corner Internet Network vs. the Cellular Giants
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/technology/04MESH.html
What is a freenetwork?
http://freenetworks.org/
Ominous Wi-Fi Bannings
http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article/0,4000,1781_984941,00.html
Boingo Creates a Firestorm With Wi-Fi Communities
http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,,8_984931,00.html
The E-Mail Monster
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/email.htm
Half US Net access is via broadband
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/24313.html
What’s missing from this picture of broadband Britain? Content.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,660920,00.html
Online Privacy Is Dead - Now What?
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16592.html
‘Distributed’ Projects Raise Security Issues
http://www.washtech.com/news/netarch/15278-1.html
Credit card fraud hit 1 in 20 users…and identity theft hit 1 in 50.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/718115.asp
Stolen card data surfaces on Web site
http://www.msnbc.com/news/720306.asp?0si=-
Worker Accused of Selling Colleagues’ ID’s Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/technology/02INTE.html?todaysheadlines
Human Identification Theory and the Identity Theft Problem
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=263213
Identity Theft - Prevalence and Cost Appear to be Growing
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02363.pdf
Fraud Continues to Haunt Online Retail
More than $700 million in online sales were lost to fraud in 2001
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article/0,,4_984441,00.html
Riding the Disinformation Superhighway
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16607.html
Expect More Shoppers with Less Money as Web Grows
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/16615.html
Stop Him Before He Hacks Again
Lamo has done no harm - but that’s not the issue.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2002/nf2002035_9312.htm
He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50811,00.html
Seeking signs of Microsoft security push
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-850232.html
Lawyer says Internet outside U.S. law - “It’s a novel argument”
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-851418.html
Internet Boom Could Just Be Starting, Says U.S. Economist
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/16637.html
Online Kit Lets Even Novices Create Viruses
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=1884&a=23503,00.asp
For veteran Net users, quality counts
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/03/04/online-experience.htm
Getting Serious Online
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=55
Paper That Acts Digital
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,38392,FF.html
Newspapers of the future may refresh automatically
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/04/1014705021032.html
Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,661585,00.html
PC rage “rivalling remote control rage”
Britons spend an estimated 3.5 million hours a year waiting to use the family PC.
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_535790.html
CONTAMINANTES
Pets of the Future
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020311/misc/11pets.htm
The False Promise of “Therapeutic” Cloning
Human cloning is not going to lead to useful medical treatments.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/972qujyx.asp
Clones, Free Love and UFOs
The group that says space aliens have instructed them to start cloning humans will cause lawmakers to ban the technique
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000016510mar05.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
Stealing DNA material must be a crime to prevent celebrities facing demands from blackmailers
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,660991,00.html
Gene Regime - by Francis Fukuyama
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_marapr_2002/fukuyama.html
The Next Sixty Years - A Business Perspective [exemplos:]
2011: First global marketing and sponsoring contracts for synthetic person.
2025: Hiring decisions based on brain scan.
2050: Wealthiest person in the world is synthetic.
http://theharrowgroup.com/articles/20020304/TNSY.htm
How many black scientists do you know?
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23335
Scientists Develop Plastic That Mends Itself
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/05/science/physical/05PLAS.html?todaysheadlines
Don't Leave College Without It
Universities are cutting big-dollar deals with credit card companies, and students are paying the price.
http://www.motherjones.com/magazine/MA02/creditcards.html
You're So Money
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.07.02/gambling1-0206.html
The physics of personal income
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/6/2/19
World Status of National Spatial Data Clearinghouses
Australia, Canada, Portugal and USA have the best existing national clearinghouses
http://www.urisa.org/Journal/Under_Review/crampvoets/world_status_of_national_spatial_data.htm
The Ten Most Expensive Cars In The World
http://www.forbes.com/2002/03/04/0304feat_print.html
Quick! Somebody Bring a Picnic
First complete database of the world's 11,000 known ant species
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50839,00.html
. DE !
Arma da Polícia Fere Agente
“Ter-se-á tratado de um ricochete no seguimento de disparos efectuados para o ar”
http://www.correiodamanha.pt/showNews.php?id=26792
How to fry an Egg on an XP!
http://www.handyscripts.co.uk/trubador_egg.htm
Turn your PC into a love machine
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001550000-2002090344,00.html
Microsoft pushes Windows for automobiles [BMW 1.0]
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/03/04/microsoft_cars.html
A British Royal’s Gaffe in Australia [exemplos:]
To aborigines: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
During the 1980’s recession: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed”.
To a driving instructor in Scotland: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
Speaking to deaf students in Cardiff, Philip acknowledged the school’s steel band and said: “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf”.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000015754mar02.story
Speedy Millennium Wheel safety scare
Closed because it was turning too fast. [gandadrenalina!]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1850000/1850592.stm
Man Stuck in Garbage Chute for Love of Sweater
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020303/od_nm/sweater_dc_1
Yes, God Is Everywhere, Even at the Local Mall
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/02/national/02RELI.html
A Sentence of No TV? Unusual, Yes, but Cruel?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/nyregion/07SENT.html
Family of Latrines
http://www.sbccom.army.mil/products/field/latrines.htm
Girls Master Toilet Training Sooner Than Boys
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020305/hl_nm/training_2
Fungus-Based Meat Substitute Approved
http://www.mycfnow.com/sh/health/stories/health-128442320020304-080318.html
Baghdad to bid for 2012 Olympics
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20020305-73662470.htm
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association
http://www.letsmow.com