04 setembro 2002

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5, 13.03.02
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Neil Young album debuts on the Internet [integral!]
http://www.buzztone.com/neilyoung/
Goin’ Home (video): http://neilyoung.com/ny_video_frame.html

Record companies: Save us from ourselves!
Virtually every song on FM commercial radio has been paid for - indirectly - by five major record labels.
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/03/13/indie_promotion/print.html

What the heck *is* emo, anyway?
A broad title that covers a lot of different styles of emotionally-charged punk rock.
http://www.fourfa.com

La Scala - renovation will cause more damage to the theater than did the Allied bombing during World War II
http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=16214

Chained melodies
Can anything keep geeks from copying the music and movies they crave?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/13/copy_protection/print.html
A Music Lesson on Piracy for Hollywood
RIAA estimates that 3.6 billion songs are illegally downloaded every month; surveys say an astounding 350,000 films are being downloaded illegally every day.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000018088mar12.story?coll=la-headlines-technology

Top of Hollywood's worries is “runaway production”.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1021746

Rated ‘S’ For Smoking?
Health advocates are calling for the film industry to incorporate tobacco as a factor in determining movie ratings.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/12/health/main503504.shtml

New Star Wars “Clone War” trailer
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/index.html

Nobody's laughing any more in British film - Writers urged to switch genres to end long decline in film comedy
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,665448,00.html

II Festival de Cine Comprimido, dedicado a películas de 3,5 megas
http://www.elpais.es/suple/ciberpais/articulo.html?xref=20020307elpcibenr_7&type=Tes&d_date=20020307&anchor=elpcibred

Pro Hart puts DNA signature on his paintings - to make forgeries nigh impossible
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/06/1015365716233.html

New Body Art: Chip Implants
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50769,00.html

With Polaroid in bankruptcy, its remarkable collection of photography is in jeopardy
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/069/living/After_images+.shtml

Unexpected images - It's like a digital kaleidoscope.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/arts/story/85743/

Cow art hits streets of London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,662422,00.html
http://www.cowparade.org

Jay Gatsby tops list of 20th century's greatest literary characters
http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/story.html?f=/news/updates/stories/20020307/entertainment-662027.html
http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue21/100best.shtml

“Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - only be sure always to call it please - ‘research’”
John L. Casti has been accused of lifting a substantial number of extended passages from other sources in his latest book
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/arts/09CONN.html

Author Vise Bought Thousands of Copies of His Own Work - trying to manipulate bestseller lists?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51631-2002Mar6.html

ECO-TERRORES
Programas eleitorais para votar com ciência ou quatro candidaturas rendidas a um formato (não é o futebol, é o PDF):
BE: Razões Fortes para a Esquerda (64 páginas)
http://www.bloco.org/documentos/bloco/manifesto.pdf
PCP: Mudar para Melhor (122 páginas)
http://www.pcp.pt/legislativas02/documentos/programa-eleitoral2002.pdf
PS: Fazer Bem (187 páginas)
http://www.ps.pt/frontend/section.asp?ids=10
PSD: Compromisso de Mudança (190 páginas)
http://leg2002.psd.pt/docs/ficheiros/Programa_Eleitoral_PSD2002.pdf
CDS-PP: “De momento não é possível a ligação... Volte em breve” [Depois das eleições?!!!]
http://www.partido-popular.pt
Os programas eleitorais e as tecnologias de informação
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/03/11/Computadores/TI01.html
Novelas da TVI vencem debate político da RTP (oitavo programa mais visto do dia)
http://ultimahora.publico.pt/shownews.asp?id=72517&idCanal=33
Cavaco Silva: “Vamos a perder crecimiento económico por haber construido 10 estadios de fútbol”
http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?d_date=20020313&xref=20020313elpepiint_21&type=Tes&anchor=elpepiint
Estadística de la noticia
http://www.elpais.es/estadistica.html?xref=20020313elpepiint_21.Tes

To keep a population in line, wage perpetual war against a vague enemy
Has anyone else following the aftermath of Sept. 11 been struck by the similarity to George Orwell’s “1984” - in which a never-ending, faraway war against ever-changing enemies serves as a rationale for political and social repression?
http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/1913245.html
Bush may pursue the terrorist network of Al Qaeda even inside countries that do not ask for an American presence
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/international/10PREX.html
U.S. bypasses law in fight against terrorism [desde 1993, pelo menos]
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=50920
Bush to America: Mind Yer Own Business
[exemplo:] The President has deployed troops for the war on terrorism to the Philippines, Yemen and Georgia without consulting Congress.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12954
Cheney and Blair give Iraq warning: a real threat to world stability
“Mr Blair should stop being the ‘little lapdog of America’ and should steer away from a course that could start a third world war.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1866000/1866909.stm

España propone un banco de datos de la UE para controlar a manifestantes violentos
http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?d_date=20020313&xref=20020313elpepiint_14&type=Tes&anchor=elpepiint
Denver Police illegally monitor peaceful protest groups
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_1025504,00.html

Spying: The American Way of Life? Call it the bureaucratization of surveillance.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50964,00.html
How Much Government Snooping Is Okay? Most Americans willing to sacrifice some privacy to help nab terrorists
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,88684,00.asp
Security cameras show Winona Ryder on shopping spree, but fail to live up to the hype.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-031202winona.story
“Spy” cameras vs. villains in Britain
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=08032002-020813-4448r
Dot’s All You Need for Security
Every new BMW sold in Australia since September is marked with microdots, which each carry the car’s unique manufacturer identification number.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50598,00.html

World Trade Center: Before, During, & After
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15224
Americans Still Consider Sept. 11 Most Tragic Event of Their Lives
http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020311.asp
Post 9/11 by the numbers
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestlife/134418380_lifeindex11.html
Many claims of post-Sept. 11 changes in society have little basis in truth
http://news.theolympian.com/specialsections/TerrorinAmerica/20020117/169929.shtml
In the wake of September 11, homicide and violent crime have been increasing dramatically in virtually every major city in the United States
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=bosman022702
Trading in Disaster - World Trade Center Scrap Lands in India
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1608

Terrorist Pilots’ Student Visas Arrive
Six months after terrorists flew two jetliners into the WTC, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16787-2002Mar12.html

In Appointments, Bush Administration Leaves No Family Behind
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10476-2002Mar11?language=printer
Os “Boys”
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/03/12/EspacoPublico/OEDIT.html

[Onde pára o avião?]
Independent Flight 77 - Pentagon Event Investigation
http://www.humanunderground.com/11september/pent.html
Witness Reports
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=19882

The Anthrax Culprit
Rosenberg’s theory: All of the anthrax letters were sent by one person.
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?talk/020318ta_talk_lemann
Watching the Detectives: The FBI has a “short list” of 18 to 20 people
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/powers2002-03-05.htm

CEOs Plan Network to Link Them In Attack
Leaders of the nation’s largest corporations are designing a new communications network that would alert them immediately to a terrorist attack and enable them to instantly talk with one another and government officials about how to respond.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16827-2002Mar12.html
The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business - In a perfect world, a list like this would not exist.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,38604,00.html
The world's richest people [2002 vs. 2001]
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1023199

[Mas como é possível?!?!?]
Online Porn Site Said to Have Duped U.S. Army
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=WCNVJDNZNR5S2CRBAELCFFAKEEARKIWD?type=internetnews&StoryID=676202
Classified discs found in alley no threat to security, says defence officials
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/08/dnd_disks020308

Bobbies on the byte - E-policing on the beat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1869000/1869106.stm
Policeman Beaten, Spray-Painted by Teen-Age Vandals in London
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA1K5NGRYC.html

EU economic summit: Facing up to failure
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1033372

VITAMEDIAS
WTC Cartoon Ripped
The cartoon is the latest salvo in an increasingly ugly national debate over compensation to victims’ families.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krnewyork/20020307/lo/wtc_cartoon_ripped_1.html
“Terror Widows” (cartoon)
http://www.ucomics.com/tedrall/viewtr.cfm?uc_full_date=20020304&uc_comic=tr&uc_daction=X
Cartoonist Draws Ire From Bravest ... Again
http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-03-13/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-144246.asp

Journalism is bloody horrible
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,665741,00.html
Free press creates dirty streets, San Francisco mayor says
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/03/12/state0814EST0031.DTL

Britain’s courts are, in effect, legislating to protect privacy and restrain the tabloids. It sounds good, but it’s dangerous
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1021723

Britain regional press: We’re a nation of newspaper addicts
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-229068,00.html

UK: New rules governing cross-media ownership would set an upper ownership limit of five “prime media assets” on companies
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,5-232157,00.html

Press freedoms in parts of south-east Asia are fast being eroded by governments running scared of criticism.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,665198,00.html

Ovidiu Iane: I was taken away by force with my computer
Internet is no longer the virtual space where anonymity is a given fact and a protection.
http://europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8815&Print=true
The Romanian media landscape
http://www.ejc.nl/jr/emland/romania.html

Slate Gets Duped - Diary by an “automotive CEO” proves to be a hoax.
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062867
Slate Apologizes for Fake Writings
http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=TECHNOLOGY&STORYID=APIS7I6DCCG0

Academic freedom - How should the needs of academic enquiry and national security be balanced?
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1021301

Scandal of Scientists Who Take Money for Papers Ghostwritten by Drug Companies
http://www.sumeria.net/health/ghostwriters.html

Harvard Business Review’s editor stepping aside
Wetlaufer told at least three Review staffers that her relationship with Jack Welch was romantic [mas mesmo assim entrevistou-o…]
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/068/business/Review_s_editor_stepping_aside+.shtml

Masters of the Media - “Television is a toaster with pictures”?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11061-2002Mar11.html

Life In The Torrent Of Image And Sound (“Media Unlimited”, Todd Gitlin’s new book)
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/oped/gitlin.shtml

Revista “Acontece” Pendente das Legislativas
[Prognóstico só no final do jogo:] “Dia 18 digo se será ou não lançada” (Carlos P. Coelho)
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/03/13/Media/R02.html

Surfers pay in jump from “free” to “fee”
This may go down in Internet history as the year millions of people started paying for online content
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=50791

Online Rumor Mill Spins Its Own Myth
Snopes.com: too quick to label politically incorrect news stories as urban legends?
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=207209

TECNO-HOUSE
Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops On Web Searches
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html
Marc Andreessen’s journey from Netscape to Loudcloud shows how much the Internet has changed
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1021456

Spyware watches where you surf
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/03/11/stealthware.htm

Microsoft has the same disdain for law that Enron did
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/enronms.html
Bill Gates Isn’t in the Clear Yet
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_11/b3774041.htm
Sun slaps $1bn lawsuit on Microsoft
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1129914
Let There Be Windows? Nope. On March 8, God created Macintosh.
http://www.takmedia.com/beginning.html

The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing
http://www.weatherhead.cwru.edu/sprouts/2001/010301.pdf
Mobile phones with colour screens and in-built cameras will give the industry a desperately needed boost?
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1033763
Hackers’ next target? Cell phones
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2833740.htm
Cell phones move into hacker realm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0203110003mar11.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed
Wireless companies target the teen market
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/1919768.html
Guess who’s tracking you by cell phone?
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-846959.html

Hacker attacks are growing at a faster rate than the Internet
http://allafrica.com/stories/200203040747.html

Think DSL’s fast? Watch VDSL - at 50 megabits per second
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-856717.html
High-speed connections promise lifestyle improvements - but when?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/03/10/financial1305EST0018.DTL&type=tech

Social Informatics in the Information Sciences: Current Activities and Emerging Directions
http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol3/v3n2p89-96r.pdf

Bringing the Net to the Bedroom - Even an Amateur Can Create a Custom-Designed Internet Appliance
http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0402issue/0402technicality.html

Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing
This pervasive mixture of reality and virtuality may become the primary medium for a new generation of artists, designers and storytellers who will craft the future.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0402issue/0402feiner.html

An Overdue Reform - The Need for Statewide Computerized Voter Registration Systems
http://www.demos-usa.org/Pubs/Overdue/overdue_reform_final.pdf
Rapid rise of internet pollsters has pundits in a spin
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,662126,00.html

Who should oversee a global computer network of 500 million users?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/03/12/icann.reut/

The ‘New Economy’ re-examined
Economists offer a variety of explanations, including the possibility that it was not a recession at all, despite the net loss of more than 1.5 million jobs last year.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/720239.asp?0si=-
Is Dot-Com Fever Gone Forever?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&u=/nf/20020313/tc_nf/16741
The Labour History of the Information Revolution (Call for Papers)
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=129879

Trust me – I’m a website [dossier “Saúde na Internet”]
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7337/0/j

No Pain, No Game
The game ends only when one of the players decides that the pain is too much to bear
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50875,00.html

Victorian-era robots
http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html

CONTAMINANTES
Coke is no longer playing to win; it is playing not to lose - analysts figure that Pepsi is already five years ahead [com descrição de compra via DoCoMo no Japão]
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/magazine/10COKE.html?pagewanted=all&position=top

Globalization and Cities
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/whatsnew.html
World-wide quality of life survey
Lisboa em 73º em termos ambientais e em 57º em qualidade de vida
http://www.wmmercer.com/uk/english/resource/resource_news_topic235.html#Environmental rankings

Community Knowledge Sharing in Practice
What are missing are the concrete, empirical details of how “knowledge”actually works in organizational life.
http://www.viu.unive.it/courses/ictfall2001/documentation/eureka_storyfinal.pdf

A smaller world
Demographers are rethinking their forecasts of population growth because of an unexpected fall in the fertility rates of many developing countries
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1033513

Part Man, Part Film, All Mann
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50976,00.html
The Transhumanist Declaration (modified and re-adopted on March 4, 2002)
http://www.transhumanism.org/declaration.htm

The Forgotten Ukranians – Chornobyl and AIDS
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0203/js_intro.htm

Price of Freedom, in Blood
Case of Kurdish woman killed by her father for rejecting his authority illustrates Sweden’s cultural double standards
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-030702honor.story

Treva Throneberry, 28, didn't want to grow up, so she became Brianna Stewart, 16.
She swears that this is all a vast mistake, a conspiracy, a waste of everybody’s time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/magazine/10FRAUD.html

Virtual country gets thousands of citizenship applications
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_542359.html

Monkey Moves Cursor by Thinking
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020313/ap_on_hi_te/brain_cursor_1

The Psywar Society - International Association of Collectors of Aerial Propaganda Leaflets and Psychological Warfare Historians
http://www.kaymoore.demon.co.uk/psywarsoc.html

Human Virus Scanner
http://totl.net/VirusScanner/

. DE !
Tugboat - Do not try this at home
http://www.graddon.net/towboat/towboat.htm

Dartboard with its own IP address and a wireless connection to the Internet
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sander/dip/

Miserable Melodies
Warning: Some material on this site has been known to disturb household pets.
http://www.miserablemelodies.com

The Teddy Borg
http://draco.mit.edu/teddyborg/index.html

1001 things to do with liquid nitrogen
http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/~ubws/nitrogen.html

Famous Stutterers
http://members.aol.com/cjroach/famousstutterers.html

Sicily wants to copy Mount Rushmore
Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa and the recently beatified priest Padre Pio are to look down from a rock near the city of Segesta
http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={3AFE27E5-93BF-4C6C-9994-3763EE1C40E2}&width=1280&height=996&agt=explorer&ver=4&svr=4

Artist granted right to an afterlife in arms of latex love
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=27&si=709105&issue_id=7026

Man clicked to others’ bank account
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=1190521&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general

Um portal: muitos países: www.onlyonesite.com
“O portal está representado em 195 países”
http://dn.sapo.pt/noticia/noticia.asp?CodNoticia=32621&codEdicao=191&CodAreaNoticia=16
How Many Countries Are in the World?
CountryWatch.com covers a total of 191 countries
http://www.countrywatch.com/@school/number_countries.htm#_ftn1

ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Porte W – une webgare de départ vers des sites singuliers
http://www.lewub.com/portew/