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8, 05.04.02
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Playtime: There is a new kind of medium, which has begun to close the gap between culture and life. It is an interactive medium, or, more specifically, video games.
http://www.laweekly.com/printme.php3?&eid=33517
A game theory on how to teach kids
http://www.msnbc.com/news/732567.asp?cp1=1
Name of the Game Is Decibels
A typical game has 5,000 sound files, 100 music files and 10,000 voice files.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,51395,00.html
Game design: Now it's serious study
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=53655
Game theory: College adds video-game degree
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/01/28/story7.html
When elephants dance [balanço actualizado sobre “copyright”]
http://www.farces.com/stories/storyReader$414
Moses Avalon Royalty Calculator
http://www.mosesavalon.com/marc.htm
On Plagiarism
We must distinguish in the first place between a plagiarist and a copyright infringer.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/04/posner.htm
Recording Industry “Losing the War”
AfterNapster.com lists more than 100 alternatives to the pioneering Napster.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/17054/
State Art - we show it exists
Newspaper coverage & visual arts: the cutting edge conceptual, installation and video art favoured by the art establishment monopolises to the exclusion of almost everything else visual art coverage in papers.
http://www.newklassical.com/NewKlassical/NewBohemia.nsf/796BB5596AFD31DE80256B7E006556A7/EB60B60BCCEFE2A980256B7F004416A6?OpenDocument
The Times are changing and it’s overdue
Should arts coverage be news or feature oriented? Should the emphasis be on “high culture” or pop culture?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020325/media_nm/bart__column__10
A new New York state of mind
The New York Times has decided to make showbiz stories a priority. Is it a case of facing up to the real world or simply dumbing down?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=280899
A 2nd Novel and a Matter of Money
A high-quality, independent, medium-size publishing house may very well lose its signature author, whom the company discovered and nurtured and whose novel it blasted off into an astonishing best seller.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/28/books/28BOOK.html
Pulped fiction
TBS Returns distributes - and destroys - books for 25 publishers
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/28/1017206134541.html
Classic comedy clips from Monty Python, Benny Hill and Michael Bentine available on new website
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_560687.html
Movie studios form digital venture
When it comes to distributing the films to movie theaters, the indies must use expensive processes to convert their digital movies to film. [Aumentará assim a distribuição de filmes “indies”? Tenho dúvidas...]
http://www.msnbc.com/news/733258.asp?0
Passion, profits and pop
EMI sheds 1,800 jobs - then offers Robbie Williams £40 million. Has the music business gone mad?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/03/28/bmnm28.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/03/28/ixtop.html
Behind the music: big losses
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/2920472.htm
Bertelsmann lanza el CD flexible
http://www.elpais.es/suple/ciberpais/articulo.html?xref=20020328elpcibtec_9&type=Tes&d_date=20020328&anchor=elpcibtec
A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals
http://www.architecturalrecord.com/wtc/newWTC.asp#a
ECO-TERRORES
Photo-radar idea shields adulterers
“The purpose is to increase traffic safety, not to catch people cheating on their wives”.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,61%7E500215,00.html
Inside the District’s Red Lights
Red-light cameras are all over Washington - and coming to a city near you. The police are using them to make money, not save lives. It’s much worse than you thought.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/078ftoqz.asp
Video Objectification
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation60402.asp
Video Arrays for Real-Time Tracking of Persons, Head and Face in an Intelligent Room
http://cvrr.ucsd.edu/publications/pdfs/MVA2001.pdf
Black box or Pandora’s box?
Most new vehicles come equipped with data recording technology that can help accident investigators. But the computer device has its critics, who fear the overstepping of “Big Brother”.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/intelligencerrecord/article1.asp?F_num=1484073
Government Deluged by Security Ideas That Are More Practical Than Innovative
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41390-2002Mar30.html
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (MIT) to develop high-tech body suit for U.S. military
Uniforms that will shield U.S. soldiers from bullets and poison gas, heal wounds and allow them to leap over 20-foot walls
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020402-21004504.htm
New technology helps police tie guns to crimes
IBIS helps determine what weapons fired which bullets.
http://www.detnews.com/2002/oakland/0203/30/d04-449558.htm
Identity Card Delusions
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0402.asp
Why, Hello, Mr. Chips
The FDA has ruled that an implantable microchip used for ID purposes is not a regulated device, paving the way for the chip’s immediate sale in the U.S.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,51575,00.html
Lindh Defense Can’t Have Info
The government “alleged a conspiracy to kill a class of people” - americans around the world. “The government will have to prove at trial that this conspiracy existed” and that Lindh “knowingly joined the conspiracy”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1631037,00.html
Who terrorizes whom?
(We) consider the notion of the United States as an antiterrorist state a sick joke.
http://www.transnational.org/features/2002/Herman_Peterson_Terrorizes.html
Don’t always trust what they tell you in the war on terror
Downing Street said al-Qa’ida was using chemical weapons: it was wrong. Pentagon said Hussein was to blame for the anthrax attacks on the US: it was wrong.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=280281
Old files contradict U.S. account of war
Documents show conclusively that the United States intervened in Angola weeks before the arrival of any Cubans, not afterward, as Washington claimed
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=53174
Call for Action on the ICC
A new institution to curb crimes against humanity is about to be born [at the United Nations on April 11 but] the U.S. stands on the sidelines, insisting that under no circumstances will it accept a foreign tribunal with authority to try any U.S. nationals
http://www.benferencz.org/establ.htm
A Nuremberg Prosecutor’s Response to Henry Kissinger
http://www.benferencz.org/kislet.htm
Kissinger Watch
A joint project of the East-Timor Action Network, the International Campaign against Impunity and the Instituto Cono Sur.
http://www.icai-online.org/45365,Index.html
Stopping Israel’s Sharon
Twenty years ago, Sharon pledged to uproot the terrorist infrastructure of the PLO, in what he promised would be an offensive lasting a few days. His forces, however, pushed all the way to Beirut, imposing a three-month siege on the city.
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT38UTT3KZC&live=true
Sharon is exploiting America’s “war on terrorism”
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=53476
And Darkness Covered the Land [Dezembro 2001]
Sharon is trying to undermine the Palestinian Authority and delegitimize Arafat. If the US government didn’t hold him back, many observers believe, he’d assassinate the Palestinian leader.
http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20011224&s=friedman
Full text of President Bush’s speech on the Middle East
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-040402text_wr.story
Porn upsets Palestinians
Porn movies and programs in Hebrew are being broadcast by Israeli troops who have taken over three Palestinian television stations of Ramallah
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4049446%5E13762,00.html
IDF soldiers didn’t broadcast pornography on Ramallah TV [negação um dia antes: será dos fusos horários ou por saberem que a história ia ser publicada?]
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=10964
La UE sustituirá en septiembre a la OTAN en Macedonia
Será la primera vez que un ejército europeo as uma misiones hasta ahora reservadas a la Alianza Atlántica
http://www.elmundo.es/2002/03/24/europa/1122498.html
La Grèce bloque un accord sur la relève de l’OTAN par l’UE en Macédoine
http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3214--268129-,00.html
EU: Study Finds Easterners May Be Net Payers Into Budget
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2002/03/26032002104720.asp
Tobin tax: could it work?
http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/664
The Other War Room
President Bush doesn’t believe in polling - just ask his pollsters.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0204.green.html
VITAMEDIAS
Metro terá jornal gratuito diário
Media Capital prepara jornal gratuito distribuído no metropolitano de Lisboa.
http://dn.sapo.pt/noticia/noticia.asp?CodNoticia=36365&codEdicao=214&CodAreaNoticia=17
18 Tales of Media Censorship
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12753
The 2001 Public’s Best Picture of the Year Award
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/ps/poy59/launch.asp
2001’s Best/Worst-Selling Covers
http://www.minonline.com/topstory.htm
Cable TV Serves Business News With Opinions [alvo principal: “Moneyline”, de Lou Dobbs, na CNN]
“Journalistic organizations go to great pains to separate editorial comment from the delivery of the news. I'm not sure you can comfortably wear both hats on the same program.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/business/media/03TUBE.html
Where’s the media mea culpa?
Though the final Whitewater report clearly shows the Clintons were innocent, the New York Times and Washington Post arrogantly refuse to admit they were wrong.
http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2002/03/28/whitewater/index_np.html
Media revel in search for Osama
Bin Laden’s “whereabouts”, in fact, has been covered in 992 newspaper stories, 24 magazine accounts and 510 news-wire reports in the past six months
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020401-53917544.htm
Who really killed Daniel Pearl?
The US is ignoring evidence of links with Pakistan’s secret service
Any western journalist visiting Pakistan is routinely watched and followed. The notion that Pearl, setting up contacts with extremist groups, was not being carefully monitored by the secret services is unbelievable - and nobody in Pakistan believes it.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,679284,00.html
Enron: Uncovering the Uncovered Story
The man who first laid Enron bare was not a journalist. [It was] one ingenious money manager, who, by employing the time-honored techniques of investigative reporting, enriched himself and his clients, and put his country’s press to shame.
http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/sherman.asp
Debunking Lynxgate
What emerges is not a scientific scandal but a case study in media-amplified demagoguery.
http://outside.away.com/outside/news/lynxgate_1.adp
Thinking About Tomorrow At “USA Today” - Publisher Banks On Quality Journalism, TV Presence
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1449908
“NewsInEssence” provides news when you want it
http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/2002/Mar02/r032602b.html
Program-Free Commercials
You thought TV ads were going to disappear in the future. You were silly.
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=206837
Advertising’s Big Four: It’s Their World Now
By deciding when and where to spend their clients’ ad budgets, they can indirectly set network television schedules and starve magazines to death or help them to flourish.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/business/yourmoney/31FOUR.html?pagewanted=all
Soccer reels as TV dream turns to dust
Stars’ greed, team owners’ hubris and TV executives’ miscalculations have pushed professional soccer into a financial corner that threatens weaker teams with failure and fans with a loss of their beloved teams - or, at least, television coverage of them.
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=53631
Avec “QI, le grand test”, M6 multiplie les synergies entre la TV et le Net
Tandis que la chaîne a réuni 6 millions de téléspectateurs avec un pic d’audience de 7.4 millions vers 21h55, 52.000 internautes ont passé le test en direct et 270.000 visiteurs se sont connectés
http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/article/20020329155152
The View From Europe
The Old World puts its own stamp on new media
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1017820504.php
Bill Gates - April Fool! [Muito criativo…]
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-874728.html
April Fool’s Day Hoaxes, 2002
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilframe7.html
Cada Vez Menos “Mentiras” na Imprensa
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/04/02/Media/R03.html
April fooliganism
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/2973406.htm
Media Responsibility in the Modern Era (media e mentiras do 1º de Abril)
http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/3/31/154751/181
Latino Groups: Free the Mouse
Fans have mobilized to get Speedy Gonzales back on the airwaves.
http://www.hispaniconline.com/a%26e/people/free_speedy.html
Cignones Surprises en Plein Vol
Depuis 15 jours, les Allemands suivent la migration de six oiseaux en direct à la télévision
http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/020403-050022058SCIE.html
TECNO-HOUSE
The Secret Art Of Chip Graffiti
http://caffeine.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/mar02/chip.html#f1
http://www.chipworks.com/art/gallery01.htm
Anti-Microsoft Scandal
The symbiotic relationship between state attorneys general and Microsoft’s foes
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20020401.shtml
Microsoft Says Court Should Not Design Computer Systems
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/technology/04SOFT.html?todaysheadlines
Microsoft called threat to interactive TV market
Liberate CEO urged a federal court to impose tough new sanctions on the (“Freddy Krueger of software”) to prevent it from extending its monopoly grip into the nascent interactive TV market.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2986427.htm
MS accuses Liberate CEO of offering anti breakup deal
Liberate CEO accused of trying to cut an interactive TV deal with Microsoft in exchange for his support in fighting a breakup of the company.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24686.html
Interactive TV Arrives, Sort of
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/technology/circuits/04INTE.html?pagewanted=all&position=top
High-profile anti-Unix site runs Unix
A Web site sponsored by Microsoft and Unisys as a way to steer big companies away from the Unix operating system is itself powered by Unix software.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872266.html
Anti-Unix Web site goes off-line after switch to Windows 2000
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO69778-,00.html
Microsoft, Apple Reassess Their Relationship
Cooperation on new projects could improve compatibility between Macs, Windows PCs
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,92464,tk,dn040202X,00.asp
Microsoft Office 97 and 2000 for Linux [A sério!]
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/
El movimiento “abandonware” no cree que liberar programas antiguos dañe a la industria
http://www.elpais.es/suple/ciberpais/articulo.html?xref=20020328elpcibtec_2&type=Tes&d_date=20020328&anchor=elpcibtec
Software for the People
Technologies such as instant messaging and e-mail are popular precisely because they facilitate relationships among people who aren’t connected by a line on the corporate org chart
http://www.cio.com/knowledge/edit/040102_software.html
A la i-mode
Will Japan’s successful mobile-Internet system take off in Europe?
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1059370
High Profile Challenge to Google [vs Teoma]
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Search-Showdown.html?todaysheadlines
Google Technology [mentira do 1º de Abril]
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
Get ready for advertisers to take over your Web browser
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/UNMAPPED/2980593.htm
Is your e-mail watching you?
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-875992.html
Los videojuegos clásicos se incluyen en las cámaras fotográficas digitales
http://www.elpais.es/suple/ciberpais/articulo.html?xref=20020328elpcibtec_7&type=Tes&d_date=20020328&anchor=elpcibtec
Top 20 IT Anthem!
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/specials/2002/it-anthems/
The Living Internet
Internet's most comprehensive reference about the Internet
http://livinginternet.com
Boy says credit card thefts taught 200 AOL’ victims a lesson
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/mar02/31664.asp
CONTAMINANTES
Older and richer
The world’s population is getting bigger and older. This poses challenges for rich and also for poorer countries, many believe.
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1056363
A Dim View of a “Posthuman Future”
Fukuyama says he wonders whether Caesar or Napoleon would have felt the need to conquer Europe if either had been able to pop a Prozac tablet occasionally.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/science/social/02END.html?todaysheadlines
Phrenicea
Pronounced fren-EEE-shuh, it is a vision of our future - a 21st-century prophecy predicting the ultimate outcome of the Internet and biotechnology revolutions.
http://www.phrenicea.com
Cyborger
http://brunching.com/toys/toy-cyborger.html
Seeing Around Corners
The new science of artificial societies suggests that real ones are both more predictable and more surprising than we thought.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/04/rauch.htm
The 2002 Fortune 500 America’s Largest Corporations
http://www.fortune.com/lists/F500/
2002 Most Admired Companies
http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/index.html
NASA Invention of the Year Competition Winners
http://icb.nasa.gov/invention.html
Handhelds of Tomorrow
http://www.techreview.com/articles/tristram0402.asp
Living on Internet Time, in Another Age
Thomas Alva Edison: the patron saint of invention, the world’s first industrial research director
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/technology/circuits/04EDIS.html?todaysheadlines
Boom in hothouse farming yields more desert in Spain
Desertification has emerged as a significant danger not only for Spain, but also for Portugal, Italy and Greece.
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=53459
Arctic Ice and Way of Life Melting Away for Eskimos
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000023180mar31.story
Mysterious Black Water in Florida Bay
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020402.html
In times of terror, teens talk the talk
Their bedrooms are “ground zero.” Translation? A total mess. A mean teacher? He’s “such a terrorist.” A student is disciplined? “It was total jihad.” Petty concerns? “That’s so Sept. 10.” And out-of-style clothes? “Is that a burqa?”
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/726104.asp
Some in S. Korea Opt for a Trim When English Trips the Tongue
Parents are turning to specialty preschool and even surgery to give their children a linguistic advantage.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000023182mar31.story
Manners: Any Which Way but Proper
It’s amazing what it’s OK to do in public these days.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000023006mar31.story
Rude Americans Seen Proliferating
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020403/od_nm/attitude_dc_1
Razor burn
The Mach3 may be the single most frequently stolen retail item in the United States and Europe. Scientists are developing a microchip that embedded in the packaging of the Mach3 allow the product to be tracked from factory to warehouse to retailer and everywhere in between.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/089/business/Razor_burnP.shtml
Power Steer - the biography of my cow, from 80 to 1,200 pounds in 14 months
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/magazine/31BEEF.html?pagewanted=all&position=top
. DE !
Procrastinating thieves arrive too late to rob bank [1 de Abril?]
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/01/bank_robbers.htm
65-year-old arthritic grandmother led pickpocket ring
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/02/pickpocket.htm
Stripper-turned-mayor faces recall
The polls were busy and turnout among Georgetown’s 854 registered voters
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/02/mayor.flap.ap/
Corrections and clarifications (Apr 2 2002)
The Sun reported the death of Ralph D. Chester. Mr. Chester is not dead.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/corrections/
Mathematicians Solve Egg-Spin Mystery
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26176-2002Mar27.html
“Silence machine” zaps unwanted noise
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992094
The NHP 200NC, a lightweight caseless PC the world has never seen before [and] it works!!!!
http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/
Electrolux introduces the world first talking washing machine Washy Talky
http://www.ybreo.com/main/getProductInfo_ie.cfm?Latest=yes&AdvSearch=no&Keyword=&Brand=&Ind_id=all&CompanyName=&ReleaseID=SWE.13.01151.02042002.11774&catType=B2C
Toto the Automatic Toilet, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.theimageworks.com/toilet/toiltftur.htm
Toto vs. Kohler
http://www.theplumber.com/toto.html
Find Your Seat
http://www.totousa.com/toto/findyourseat.asp
History of Public Toilets
http://www.plumbingworld.com/toilethistoryindia.html
StarWars – Episode IV – A New Hope [É enorme!!]
telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/
Gallery of Regrettable Food
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
How To Destroy Your Computer
http://www.dansdata.com/sbs3.htm
[Contexto?] Man takes sledgehammer to troublesome computer in shop
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_560240.html
