CULTURAS IN VITRO
Le Japon, tête de pont digitale à Linz
File-Sharing Networks Relying on VCR Ruling
Want Video on Demand? Press Pause
The company received a patent in 1992 for technology that delivers video on demand. USA Video didn't do anything with the patent immediately, waiting for technology to take off. Now that it has, the company wants video-on-demand providers - starting with Movielink, a joint venture between five major studios - to pony up the licensing fees.
Was Hitler human? John Cusack talks about his new movie, "Max," which is sparking a firestorm even before its opening.
ECO-TERRORES
9/11: One Year Later [Scientific American]
Making a date: There will be similar but decreasingly grandiose ceremonies on every successive 11 September - with minor blips at anniversary years divisible by 10 or 25. Unless 11 September is removed from the calendar altogether.
The Complete 9/11 Timeline
Seismic Evidence Points to Underground Explosions Causing WTC Collapse
Enquêtes sur le 11 septembre 2001
Geopolitics have changed for the worse: The temptation of hegemony
As President George W. Bush himself recently said at West Point, America is the "single surviving model of human progress."
Their complacence is that they think American power can bring this new international order into being. They believe in using American power without compunction. They are hostile to international constraints and regard international law as in important respects outmoded.
Europe and Japan, they say, are irrelevant because, as Robert Kagan has written, on "the all-important question of power - the efficacy of power, the morality of power, the desirability of power - American and European perspectives are diverging." Europe "is turning away from power." Only the United States can reorder the world.
It's a connected world, so watch your language: "Jihad" and "fundamentalism"
A Recruiting Tape of Osama bin Laden: Excerpts and Analyses
The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored: [T]he message was disregarded because of what sources describe as "warning fatigue".
Surveillance Society: Don't look now, but you may find you're being watched
Muslims in UK jails tell of plight: Two of the nine men detained without charge for nine months under British anti-terror legislation introduced in the wake of the September 11 attacks have spoken for the first time about their imprisonment and their fears that they will be held for many years.
U.S. Will Fingerprint Some Foreign Visitors: Immigration agents at the nation's border crossings, airports and seaports this week will begin to fingerprint foreigners who they suspect may pose security risks and will require those visitors to regularly report where they are staying and what they are doing in the United States.
Legal Issues Concerning Military Use Of Non-Lethal Weapons
China's New Rulers
VITAMEDIAS
One year on: September 11 remembered
Stephen Evans, the BBC's business and economics correspondent in North America, was sitting in the foyer of the World Trade Centre when the two planes flew into the twin towers. One year on, he assesses the effect 9/11 has had on the media.
The Information Squeeze: Openness in government is under assault throughout the United States - at every level. Can the news media, reluctant combatants thus far, mount a successful counterattack?
Douglas C. Clifton, editor of Cleveland's Plain Dealer, says many newsrooms place so little emphasis on freedom of information "that reporters accept as a given that they are going to be shut out of open records."
"Reporters are more than willing to go to court," Harry Hammitt, the editor of Access Reports, a Virginia-based government watchdog publication, has observed, "but editors and publishers have decided they don't really want to spend the money."
Peeling the Onion: With its often hilarious, pitch-perfect parody of news-writing conventions, the Onion has attracted a dedicated audience for its print and online incarnations.
After the tiers, comes analysis
The research involved a hefty 4000 respondents throughout the US, and spun off from a similar survey in 1997. The aim was to see how media usage had changed in three years.
In a nutshell, newspaper usage as a source of news was down, from 76 per cent to 68 per cent, but so, too, were alternative sources, such as local TV news (88 to 80 per cent), world/national news (73 to 64 per cent) and radio (68 to 62 per cent).
The use of the internet as a source of news rose from 15 per cent to 34 per cent. The strongest internet rises were among younger people who felt more comfortable with the technology.
Audience priorities were pretty stable over the three years. Top of the list was weather information, with 75 per cent saying they were extremely or very interested in it, followed by local news on 71 per cent, world/national news on 69 per cent, news and information that helps communities deal with problems, 67 per cent, and state news on 61 per cent.
On the middle tier of priorities was local government and political news (54 per cent), science and technology (52), environment (51), health (48), news and information about local entertainment in your area (48), local business news (47), personal finance information (45), national business news (43), faith and religion (44), and professional sports (41).
On the bottom tier were TV listings and news (37), opinion and analysis (37), theatre/movie listings (36), sports scores and statistics (35), college sports (31), high school sports (27), fashion (27), and women's sports (23).
I'll bet there will be plenty of raised eyebrows among editors chewing over that list, and it will be good for more than a few pub debates.
But my advice is to ignore it.
The Glossies: The Un-magazines
Look closely: The most successful magazines of the moment may not actually be magazines
Authors attack "propaganda" of government-sponsored novels: "Sponsored" novels are about to come into their own with the launch of a new company that aims to provide respected authors to write specially commissioned novels for government departments and big business.
One $30 Million Happy Meal, to Go: ABC, McDonald's in Prime-Time Pact
The Happy Hour deal represents an increased level of involvement between broadcast networks and advertisers as networks seek to increase ad revenue and advertisers look for new ways to reach viewers beyond 30-second commercials. McDonald's sponsored a tie-in game for ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" show, but this deal is believed to be the first in which a company has promoted an entire time slot.
Sexism in blogging
TECNO-HOUSE
Serviço de Acesso à Internet - 2º Trimestre de 2002
Número Total de Clientes: 4.413.578
Clientes de Acesso Gratuito (dial up): 3.934.470 [que podem ter várias contas...]
Clientes Individuais de acesso pago: 178.157
Clientes de Acesso de Banda Larga (ADSL e Cabo): 268.841 (o ADSL apresenta um crescimento de cerca de 40% face ao trimestre anterior, contando no final do período em análise com 5.161 acessos.)
The Risk Taker Returns: Xbox cocreator Seamus Blackley floats a radical business model
Video and computer gaming has since grown into a $10 billion industry. Today’s titles are made by teams of as many as 100 people, cost on average $12 million to $15 million, and are some of the most intricate creative and technical works the entertainment world has ever seen. So how come every new release is just the same old crap? What happened to the days of seemingly endless innovation?
The answer, of course, is economics.
Sony to Unveil Head-Mount Display for PS2: Gadget will allow PlayStation users to feel as if they're part of the game, but it may only be available in Japan.
Court allows Greek gamers to play on
Intel to make hacker-resistant chips: Intel Corp. next year plans to build special security features into its microprocessor chips for the first time, a move designed to address problems such as computer viruses and tampering by malicious hackers.
Predicting the Future of Instant Messaging: IM will move beyond person-to-person text messages, and become a tool that connects us to machines--and machines to each other.
Companies Snooze on Cyber-Security: To a shocking degree, top execs remain largely uninvolved with this critical issue, and their businesses remain vulnerable
Hacking Las Vegas: The Inside Story of the MIT Blackjack Team's Conquest of the Casinos
Replacement of Google with Alternative Search Systems in China: Documentation and Screen Shots
Gates Stocks Up On Health Care: Bill Gates has sold 9 million shares of Microsoft and bought millions of shares in health-care firms.
CONTAMINANTES
Words to the wise on the Web
Is the language changing at all with the new technology?
It depends what you mean when you say "the language." We've added a few new words, but we always do that with new technology. Sailing gave us a whole bunch of new words, railroads, aviation--computers are giving us a bit more of that than they did. People, of course, are fascinated by that. But it's not a big deal in any sense - so we'll have a bunch of new words from technology.
I think there are two more-interesting consequences for language, at least. One is the fact that huge numbers of people are communicating online either via e-mail or discussion lists or forums or Web pages. The number of writers, the proportion of writers to readers in society - which has been growing slowly - has changed enormously in a short period of time. And that's a very interesting difference, it's one of the things that explains the impression that grammar is going downhill. Because you go online, and you see it seems that nobody knows when to (use) an apostrophe...But those are people who never knew when to put an apostrophe on "it's."
The second consequence of that - particularly forums and e-mail and so on - is that the language of public discussion - and blogs are a good example of this - has gone from the kind of high, neutral, public style that's exemplified by the op-ed pages of The New York Times, to something more informal, more colloquial, more conversational, which rests more, in fact, on the norms of middle-class speaking. It's something poised, as it were, between the formal style of official journalism and the informal conversations that we have with one another. And that's a very interesting development, it's a profound development - in one sense, it opens the discussion to a larger number of people. In another sense, it closes the discussion to people who aren't familiar with the implicit norms of that kind of interaction.
Should Court Records Be Available on the Internet? Striking the proper balance between public disclosure and protecting privacy rights will be a challenge going forward.
Moon opens for business: The first private Moon landing has finally been given the green light by the US Government
Missed ZZZ's, More Disease? Skimping on sleep may be bad for your health
The Great Thirst: Drought and disease threaten to set off a water war in volatile Central Asia. US scientists are fighting back with a data-crunching system that could pump fresh hope into the region. Call it the New Hydronomy.
Parents pay to choose baby's sex: A controversial technique that promises to help couples choose the sex of their child is being offered to British families at a Belgian clinic.
.DE!
Genetic modification alters hair colour
Blood banks threw away more than 200,000 units in weeks after Sept. 11... as donations from a shaken public far outstripped the needs of victims.
Pirate talk could shiver your timbers: [A] concept that is going to make you kick yourself for not thinking of it first: Talk Like a Pirate Day. As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea or what? There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all.
Hawk gets stuck on Wing: "Call 911! I have a hawk stuck to my arm." It didn't take long for gas station customers to see Jamie Wing wasn't kidding.
Record Number of Japanese Live to 100 or More: The number of centenarians rose by 2,459 to reach 17,934 this year, compared with just 153 in 1963 [...]. More than 80 percent of the centenarians are women.
Owner denies spatula attack: The owner of the Springfield Mobil station on River Street has pleaded innocent to charges that he threw raw hamburger at a customer and beat the man with a spatula.
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Cauchemar: l'an 1
Images of September 11 on the Web
ZITE
Hold the Button: How Long Can You Hold the Button?
Coffee Break Arcade: Free Internet Games Directory
Large Hot Pipe Organ: the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ
10 setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Ratings Board, Studios Need Separate Beds: [T]he MPAA operates a shadow rating system that can only be decoded by knowing Hollywood insiders. If your movie is full of gross-out jokes about flatulence and penis size - and is made by a major studio with scores of promotional partners - it can get a PG-13 rating. If your movie deals with sex from the point of view of smirky teenagers or sultry movie stars - and is made by a powerful studio with big marketing dollars - it can get an R rating. But if your movie deals with sex in a frank or unsettling manner, as if it were actually close to reality - and it's being released by a tiny independent distributor - it is almost guaranteed to get an NC-17 rating, a rating that virtually kills any hope of your film being accepted by major theater chains and advertising buyers.
Film fests: Beware the buzz
When you get more than 300 movies, major-league distributors and an excitable press in one place, not everything is as it seems
As a breed, film festivals don't have a great track record of predicting movies that will catch on with the public. Time and again, movies that ignite festival crowds and set off bloody feeding frenzies among the sharks who bid for distribution rights are released to a limp commercial reception.
Why we like to watch: Figuring out festivals
[T]here is a global shift in how people apprehend movies, which in turn has given rise to a world in which there are more than 1,000 film festivals a year.
Paradoxically, the economic importance of festivals is subverted by the fact that audiences behave in unpredictable ways. "In the regular course of human events, people do not see these films in the numbers that their popularity at festivals would lead you to think they would".
Hollywood Has A Record Summer: By Labor Day, domestic ticket sales will have totaled about $3.15 billion since Memorial Day weekend, surpassing the record of $3.06 billion set last summer. Factoring in higher ticket prices, movie admissions this summer likely will come in slightly lower than last year's 542 million and well below the modern record of 589 million set in 1999.
Big Hollywood Hits Don't Ensure Big Profits
Linking to Dance's Future in a 21st-Century Workshop: With the formal opening on Oct. 2 of the new Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, New York dance officially enters the cyber universe. The new D.T.W. is the most technologically sophisticated dance theater space in the nation and perhaps the world, judging by anecdotal evidence from touring dance companies.
Bringing music to life: [T]he real problem isn't that kids don't like Beethoven or Wagner any more - it's that dreary and snobbish phrase "classical music".
Shakespeare and da Vinci named as composers in child survey: When a recent sample of British six- to 14-year-olds was asked to name a classical composer they chewed their pencils and suggested: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.
A survey published by Classic FM magazine as part of its Instruments for Schools campaign shows 65% of children under 14 cannot name one classical composer. Only 14% of 600 children nationwide knew Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven wrote music.
"Sickening" paedophilia books rock French literary world: The first scandal of France's week-old literary season has erupted over two violent and sexually explicit novels whose heroes are an obsessive paedophile and a perverted serial killer with a preference for very young girls, including his two-year-old daughter.
Sense and sensitivity: Museums are restricting access to certain artefacts so as not to give offence
West finally gets to listen to Soviet musical archives: [A]fter years of legal and technical wrangling, the performances recorded over nearly seven decades by the Soviet Ministry of Radio and Television are being released. They number more than 400,000 - enough to fill 12,000 compact discs.
"Thou shalt worship the arts for what they are": All arts funding is now judged by the Treasury according to whether it delivers the predicted outcomes. From patient survival rates in hospital operations, to literacy rates in schools, to punctuality rates in railways, to attendance at museums, to seats sold in theatres, future public funding turns on the achievement of agreed performance indicators.
A farcical extension of this principle came in summer 2001, when the head of UK Sport - the organisation responsible for delivering international sporting success - conceded that Britain's comparative failure to get gold medals in the European athletic championships, after targets for medal numbers had been agreed with the Treasury, could lead to less funding for training athletes in the future.
Kahlo and Picasso works stolen: Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo have been stolen from a doctor's home in Texas, USA. The haul, worth more than $700,000 (£450,000), was taken from the San Antonio house of Dr Richard Garcia while he was asleep upstairs. [...] Dr Garcia, who has not publicly identified the paintings on the advice of his lawyer, said he had not insured the works because the premiums would be too high.
Size matters for artist: A life-sized picture of a tree - claimed to be one of the world's largest paintings - was unveiled yesterday. The picture of an oak tree is 975cm high and 670cm wide. It is going on display in the middle of Golden Square in Soho, central London.
How to Build a Creative City: The forces that forged classic arts scenes are pushing the edge farther and farther away
The World’s New Culture Meccas: A look at some creative locales on the rise in the new millennium. From Marseilles and Cape Town to Tijuana and Kabul
Al Feldstein [ex-MAD editor] on the FBI Experience
ECO-TERRORES
Remembering the Lost: Telling the stories of each victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States
9/11 News and Resources
Things Go Better
Justice Department Accomplishments in the War on Terrorism: The Shift From Investigation to Prevention
What Price Safety? Security and freedom in an age of fear.
Tech firms urged to aid security efforts: [L]egal restrictions against spying on U.S. citizens are not controversial, but those same limitations pose a problem when immigrants and tourists can benefit from the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable" searches.
Inquiétant rapport sur le poids des armes: Irak possède toujours des armes de destructions massives, mais son potentiel est aujourd'hui plus faible qu'il ne l'était à la veille de la guerre du Golfe (1991).
A report on Iraqi arms spells out risks: Iraq probably does not have enough chemical or biological weapons or long-range missiles to offer serious military resistance to U.S. armed forces protecting nearby countries or even invading Iraq itself, according to an independent assessment by a leading Western think tank. But the Iraqi threat could achieve a quantum leap overnight thanks to a "nuclear wild card" in Baghdad's armaments drive
Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment: The retention of [Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)] capacities by Iraq is self-evidently the core objective of the regime, for it has sacrificed all other domestic and foreign policy goals to this singular aim. [...] This Strategic Dossier does not attempt to make a case, either way, as to whether Saddam Hussein’s WMD arsenal is a casus belli per se. Wait and the threat will grow; strike and the threat may be used.
Iraq and IAEA Inspections: Vienna, 06 September, 2002 - With reference to an article published today in the New York Times, the International Atomic Energy Agency would like to state that it has no new information on Iraq's nuclear programme since December 1998 when its inspectors left Iraq.
Ten Reasons Why Many Gulf War Veterans Oppose Re-Invading Iraq
Bush mistakes Saddam for Osama bin Laden: The Bush administration's monomaniacal focus on Saddam Hussein as the fount of all terrorism was starting to sound like a clinical case of transference until, in recent days, the White House seemed to take a deep breath. Wouldn't any clinician worth her salt observe that Saddam, without having done much of anything since last September, has become immensely bigger and more menacing precisely as Osama bin Laden - remember him? - has become less available?
What Makes Dad Clench His Jaw: It's his son's war, so why do pundits keep calling it unfinished family business?
What is the International Community?
The Hunting of Steven J. Hatfill: Why are so many people eager to believe that this man is the anthrax killer?
VITAMEDIAS
Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
Beyond breaking news: Online news delivery must change with the consumer
The real lesson to be learned from Sept. 11 or from any major breaking news today is not how the news media have changed - we're slow to change - but how the public more routinely goes to the Internet to seek news and information. And there is still a gap between the power of this new technology now in the hands of news consumers and the reporting made available to them from established newsrooms.
Seattle publisher sounding alarm: "Can American democracy survive the loss of the independent press and diversity of voices? The answer is no"
There are lies, damned lies and newspaper circulation figures
'Philly Daily News' Ponders Photo Controversy: It's a tabloid tradition: using your cover as a most-wanted poster in the hope of helping police catch criminal suspects while giving readers a chance to help. What could be a better public service than that? And if some of the alleged bad guys are caught because readers happened to recognize them, well, so much the better, right? Not necessarily.
Clássicos da Rádio: Os Anos Dourados da Telefonia em Portugal
Who listens to the radio? It's the multimillion-dollar question and two companies have developed high-tech devices to find out.
More Views on Reviews: Corigliano vs. Davidson, Round II: The composer and critic exchange closing salvos on how to cover new music.
Am I saying that critics need to be trained musicians, thorough scholars, and snappy writers - all on a freelancer's meager salary? Yes. "What professional standards should critics be held to?" You need to be able to read like a conductor, research like an historian, judge like a parent and write like a playwright. "How should critics reconcile the demands of accuracy with the realities of the deadline and the music business?" Take this question to your editors, Justin. Critics must improve the business of criticism: composers cannot. It's tough out there, from what I hear. But it's tough for composers, too. Sorry. You tell me "the field is strewn with recovering pianists, musicologists, and tuba players." From what are they recovering? Hard work? I hope they didn't expect to escape it in music criticism.
Must a Critic's Heritage Dictate His Opinions? Irish writers aren't expected to promote U2. Canadian critics aren't bound to back Neil Young. So why must a Mexican reporter be partial to singer Paulina Rubio just because she's Mexican too?
AOL Online Unit Sees Ad Shortfall: Internet and media conglomerate AOL Time Warner Inc.said results at its America Online Internet unit will be below expectations for the year, citing the prolonged advertising slump.
Internet Ads Hit Rock Bottom; Some on AOL Are Free as Air: America Online is running Nutri/System's ads free for two months, and Nutri/System only has to pay $50 when one of its ads sparks a customer to buy a weight-loss package. [...] These days, Internet publishers are so downtrodden they are doing whatever it takes to win advertisers to their Web sites.
Pop-ups strike out with Internet advertisers: The Internet had 11.3 billion impressions — or distinct appearances — of pop-ups ads between January and July
Marketers Explore Product Placements in Music: Music Studio Offers Ads in Artists' Song Lyrics
Jornalistas Impedidos de Fazer Reportagem em Consulado: No dia 6 do corrente, os jornalistas Ivo Caldeira e Rui Marote entraram no serviço de atendimento [do consulado português em Londres], quando este abriu ao público, para observarem a forma como são atendidos os nossos compatriotas a residir em Inglaterra. Eis senão quando são abordados por duas funcionárias que, de forma desabrida, lhes dizem que não podem trabalhar ali e exigem a entrega do rolo fotográfico. Perante a recusa dos jornalistas a sair e a fornecer o referido rolo as funcionárias chamaram a polícia. [antes da "forma desabrida", eles não se deviam ter identificado como jornalistas?...]
TECNO-HOUSE
AltaVista Joins Google in 'China Block' Club: According to analysts, the blockage is probably occurring because search engines like Google and AltaVista can serve as work-arounds for users trying to access sites blocked by the Chinese government.
China, Google, and press spin: Chinese officials may be worried that Google logs all search terms together with the IP number, a time stamp, a unique cookie ID, and browser information. If this information is available to the National Security Agency from Google - and current U.S. laws almost require Google to provide this information to the feds, especially when the Internet user is a non-U.S. citizen in a country that's of national security interest to the U.S. - then China may be well-advised to block the use of U.S. engines to protect their own national security.
Year After 9/11, Cyberspace Door Is Still Ajar: So what has changed in the year since the attacks? Not so much, actually.
Balancing Linux and Microsoft
CONTAMINANTES
WTC Cough: [P]ublished early to coincide with the release of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on illnesses among rescue workers after the World Trade Center disaster.
Tuned In: Science may not have yet figured out exactly how, or why, human beings respond to music. But research across many disciplines shows that music is a powerful stimulator, shaper and maybe even sharpener of memory.
The green Gestapo: The only way to save the planet is to get rid of poverty, but at Johannesburg the eco-fascists missed the point
Obesity is changing human shape: The abundance of food in affluent societies is presenting the human species with one of its greatest evolutionary challenges.
Big Brother watches you drive: Imagine being watched from the moment you get behind the wheel. Every glance is tracked and every blink monitored, with your car warning you before you are going to have an accident. This is now possible thanks to a system that studies the human face to detect fatigue or distraction and then alerts the driver.
Hey, Loser, Got a Message for You: Don't want to date that jerk? Give out this phone number and let the recording do the dirty work.
.DE!
Crystal b*lls: the sorry secrets of the psychics who have been doing brisk business since 11 September
Russian officials claim credit for rain: Light showers relieve smoke-choked Moscow, but how?
D'oh! There's One Tiny Flaw in This Plan...
ColonialMint $2001 Bush Memorial Dollar Bill
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Spider Vendor
ZITE
Le Cri du Peuple (Tardi)
Ratings Board, Studios Need Separate Beds: [T]he MPAA operates a shadow rating system that can only be decoded by knowing Hollywood insiders. If your movie is full of gross-out jokes about flatulence and penis size - and is made by a major studio with scores of promotional partners - it can get a PG-13 rating. If your movie deals with sex from the point of view of smirky teenagers or sultry movie stars - and is made by a powerful studio with big marketing dollars - it can get an R rating. But if your movie deals with sex in a frank or unsettling manner, as if it were actually close to reality - and it's being released by a tiny independent distributor - it is almost guaranteed to get an NC-17 rating, a rating that virtually kills any hope of your film being accepted by major theater chains and advertising buyers.
Film fests: Beware the buzz
When you get more than 300 movies, major-league distributors and an excitable press in one place, not everything is as it seems
As a breed, film festivals don't have a great track record of predicting movies that will catch on with the public. Time and again, movies that ignite festival crowds and set off bloody feeding frenzies among the sharks who bid for distribution rights are released to a limp commercial reception.
Why we like to watch: Figuring out festivals
[T]here is a global shift in how people apprehend movies, which in turn has given rise to a world in which there are more than 1,000 film festivals a year.
Paradoxically, the economic importance of festivals is subverted by the fact that audiences behave in unpredictable ways. "In the regular course of human events, people do not see these films in the numbers that their popularity at festivals would lead you to think they would".
Hollywood Has A Record Summer: By Labor Day, domestic ticket sales will have totaled about $3.15 billion since Memorial Day weekend, surpassing the record of $3.06 billion set last summer. Factoring in higher ticket prices, movie admissions this summer likely will come in slightly lower than last year's 542 million and well below the modern record of 589 million set in 1999.
Big Hollywood Hits Don't Ensure Big Profits
Linking to Dance's Future in a 21st-Century Workshop: With the formal opening on Oct. 2 of the new Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, New York dance officially enters the cyber universe. The new D.T.W. is the most technologically sophisticated dance theater space in the nation and perhaps the world, judging by anecdotal evidence from touring dance companies.
Bringing music to life: [T]he real problem isn't that kids don't like Beethoven or Wagner any more - it's that dreary and snobbish phrase "classical music".
Shakespeare and da Vinci named as composers in child survey: When a recent sample of British six- to 14-year-olds was asked to name a classical composer they chewed their pencils and suggested: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.
A survey published by Classic FM magazine as part of its Instruments for Schools campaign shows 65% of children under 14 cannot name one classical composer. Only 14% of 600 children nationwide knew Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven wrote music.
"Sickening" paedophilia books rock French literary world: The first scandal of France's week-old literary season has erupted over two violent and sexually explicit novels whose heroes are an obsessive paedophile and a perverted serial killer with a preference for very young girls, including his two-year-old daughter.
Sense and sensitivity: Museums are restricting access to certain artefacts so as not to give offence
West finally gets to listen to Soviet musical archives: [A]fter years of legal and technical wrangling, the performances recorded over nearly seven decades by the Soviet Ministry of Radio and Television are being released. They number more than 400,000 - enough to fill 12,000 compact discs.
"Thou shalt worship the arts for what they are": All arts funding is now judged by the Treasury according to whether it delivers the predicted outcomes. From patient survival rates in hospital operations, to literacy rates in schools, to punctuality rates in railways, to attendance at museums, to seats sold in theatres, future public funding turns on the achievement of agreed performance indicators.
A farcical extension of this principle came in summer 2001, when the head of UK Sport - the organisation responsible for delivering international sporting success - conceded that Britain's comparative failure to get gold medals in the European athletic championships, after targets for medal numbers had been agreed with the Treasury, could lead to less funding for training athletes in the future.
Kahlo and Picasso works stolen: Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo have been stolen from a doctor's home in Texas, USA. The haul, worth more than $700,000 (£450,000), was taken from the San Antonio house of Dr Richard Garcia while he was asleep upstairs. [...] Dr Garcia, who has not publicly identified the paintings on the advice of his lawyer, said he had not insured the works because the premiums would be too high.
Size matters for artist: A life-sized picture of a tree - claimed to be one of the world's largest paintings - was unveiled yesterday. The picture of an oak tree is 975cm high and 670cm wide. It is going on display in the middle of Golden Square in Soho, central London.
How to Build a Creative City: The forces that forged classic arts scenes are pushing the edge farther and farther away
The World’s New Culture Meccas: A look at some creative locales on the rise in the new millennium. From Marseilles and Cape Town to Tijuana and Kabul
Al Feldstein [ex-MAD editor] on the FBI Experience
ECO-TERRORES
Remembering the Lost: Telling the stories of each victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States
9/11 News and Resources
Things Go Better
Justice Department Accomplishments in the War on Terrorism: The Shift From Investigation to Prevention
What Price Safety? Security and freedom in an age of fear.
Tech firms urged to aid security efforts: [L]egal restrictions against spying on U.S. citizens are not controversial, but those same limitations pose a problem when immigrants and tourists can benefit from the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable" searches.
Inquiétant rapport sur le poids des armes: Irak possède toujours des armes de destructions massives, mais son potentiel est aujourd'hui plus faible qu'il ne l'était à la veille de la guerre du Golfe (1991).
A report on Iraqi arms spells out risks: Iraq probably does not have enough chemical or biological weapons or long-range missiles to offer serious military resistance to U.S. armed forces protecting nearby countries or even invading Iraq itself, according to an independent assessment by a leading Western think tank. But the Iraqi threat could achieve a quantum leap overnight thanks to a "nuclear wild card" in Baghdad's armaments drive
Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment: The retention of [Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)] capacities by Iraq is self-evidently the core objective of the regime, for it has sacrificed all other domestic and foreign policy goals to this singular aim. [...] This Strategic Dossier does not attempt to make a case, either way, as to whether Saddam Hussein’s WMD arsenal is a casus belli per se. Wait and the threat will grow; strike and the threat may be used.
Iraq and IAEA Inspections: Vienna, 06 September, 2002 - With reference to an article published today in the New York Times, the International Atomic Energy Agency would like to state that it has no new information on Iraq's nuclear programme since December 1998 when its inspectors left Iraq.
Ten Reasons Why Many Gulf War Veterans Oppose Re-Invading Iraq
Bush mistakes Saddam for Osama bin Laden: The Bush administration's monomaniacal focus on Saddam Hussein as the fount of all terrorism was starting to sound like a clinical case of transference until, in recent days, the White House seemed to take a deep breath. Wouldn't any clinician worth her salt observe that Saddam, without having done much of anything since last September, has become immensely bigger and more menacing precisely as Osama bin Laden - remember him? - has become less available?
What Makes Dad Clench His Jaw: It's his son's war, so why do pundits keep calling it unfinished family business?
What is the International Community?
The Hunting of Steven J. Hatfill: Why are so many people eager to believe that this man is the anthrax killer?
VITAMEDIAS
Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
Beyond breaking news: Online news delivery must change with the consumer
The real lesson to be learned from Sept. 11 or from any major breaking news today is not how the news media have changed - we're slow to change - but how the public more routinely goes to the Internet to seek news and information. And there is still a gap between the power of this new technology now in the hands of news consumers and the reporting made available to them from established newsrooms.
Seattle publisher sounding alarm: "Can American democracy survive the loss of the independent press and diversity of voices? The answer is no"
There are lies, damned lies and newspaper circulation figures
'Philly Daily News' Ponders Photo Controversy: It's a tabloid tradition: using your cover as a most-wanted poster in the hope of helping police catch criminal suspects while giving readers a chance to help. What could be a better public service than that? And if some of the alleged bad guys are caught because readers happened to recognize them, well, so much the better, right? Not necessarily.
Clássicos da Rádio: Os Anos Dourados da Telefonia em Portugal
Who listens to the radio? It's the multimillion-dollar question and two companies have developed high-tech devices to find out.
More Views on Reviews: Corigliano vs. Davidson, Round II: The composer and critic exchange closing salvos on how to cover new music.
Am I saying that critics need to be trained musicians, thorough scholars, and snappy writers - all on a freelancer's meager salary? Yes. "What professional standards should critics be held to?" You need to be able to read like a conductor, research like an historian, judge like a parent and write like a playwright. "How should critics reconcile the demands of accuracy with the realities of the deadline and the music business?" Take this question to your editors, Justin. Critics must improve the business of criticism: composers cannot. It's tough out there, from what I hear. But it's tough for composers, too. Sorry. You tell me "the field is strewn with recovering pianists, musicologists, and tuba players." From what are they recovering? Hard work? I hope they didn't expect to escape it in music criticism.
Must a Critic's Heritage Dictate His Opinions? Irish writers aren't expected to promote U2. Canadian critics aren't bound to back Neil Young. So why must a Mexican reporter be partial to singer Paulina Rubio just because she's Mexican too?
AOL Online Unit Sees Ad Shortfall: Internet and media conglomerate AOL Time Warner Inc.said results at its America Online Internet unit will be below expectations for the year, citing the prolonged advertising slump.
Internet Ads Hit Rock Bottom; Some on AOL Are Free as Air: America Online is running Nutri/System's ads free for two months, and Nutri/System only has to pay $50 when one of its ads sparks a customer to buy a weight-loss package. [...] These days, Internet publishers are so downtrodden they are doing whatever it takes to win advertisers to their Web sites.
Pop-ups strike out with Internet advertisers: The Internet had 11.3 billion impressions — or distinct appearances — of pop-ups ads between January and July
Marketers Explore Product Placements in Music: Music Studio Offers Ads in Artists' Song Lyrics
Jornalistas Impedidos de Fazer Reportagem em Consulado: No dia 6 do corrente, os jornalistas Ivo Caldeira e Rui Marote entraram no serviço de atendimento [do consulado português em Londres], quando este abriu ao público, para observarem a forma como são atendidos os nossos compatriotas a residir em Inglaterra. Eis senão quando são abordados por duas funcionárias que, de forma desabrida, lhes dizem que não podem trabalhar ali e exigem a entrega do rolo fotográfico. Perante a recusa dos jornalistas a sair e a fornecer o referido rolo as funcionárias chamaram a polícia. [antes da "forma desabrida", eles não se deviam ter identificado como jornalistas?...]
TECNO-HOUSE
AltaVista Joins Google in 'China Block' Club: According to analysts, the blockage is probably occurring because search engines like Google and AltaVista can serve as work-arounds for users trying to access sites blocked by the Chinese government.
China, Google, and press spin: Chinese officials may be worried that Google logs all search terms together with the IP number, a time stamp, a unique cookie ID, and browser information. If this information is available to the National Security Agency from Google - and current U.S. laws almost require Google to provide this information to the feds, especially when the Internet user is a non-U.S. citizen in a country that's of national security interest to the U.S. - then China may be well-advised to block the use of U.S. engines to protect their own national security.
Year After 9/11, Cyberspace Door Is Still Ajar: So what has changed in the year since the attacks? Not so much, actually.
Balancing Linux and Microsoft
CONTAMINANTES
WTC Cough: [P]ublished early to coincide with the release of a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on illnesses among rescue workers after the World Trade Center disaster.
Tuned In: Science may not have yet figured out exactly how, or why, human beings respond to music. But research across many disciplines shows that music is a powerful stimulator, shaper and maybe even sharpener of memory.
The green Gestapo: The only way to save the planet is to get rid of poverty, but at Johannesburg the eco-fascists missed the point
Obesity is changing human shape: The abundance of food in affluent societies is presenting the human species with one of its greatest evolutionary challenges.
Big Brother watches you drive: Imagine being watched from the moment you get behind the wheel. Every glance is tracked and every blink monitored, with your car warning you before you are going to have an accident. This is now possible thanks to a system that studies the human face to detect fatigue or distraction and then alerts the driver.
Hey, Loser, Got a Message for You: Don't want to date that jerk? Give out this phone number and let the recording do the dirty work.
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Crystal b*lls: the sorry secrets of the psychics who have been doing brisk business since 11 September
Russian officials claim credit for rain: Light showers relieve smoke-choked Moscow, but how?
D'oh! There's One Tiny Flaw in This Plan...
ColonialMint $2001 Bush Memorial Dollar Bill
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Spider Vendor
ZITE
Le Cri du Peuple (Tardi)
09 setembro 2002
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Digital Divide [Hollywood & Silicon Valley em contexto histórico]
Labels loosening up on CD copy locks: Fearful of consumer backlash, major record labels in the United States have slowed controversial plans for making CDs more difficult to copy, even as tension over online music piracy mounts.
Planet's PDA enables CD shoppers to browse music… or listen to the contents of music CDs simply by having the PDA sensor recognize the bar code attached to CD's plastic cover.
Peter Gabriel video makes Internet debut: Singer released a video online Friday to promote his first studio album in 10 years.
Scammed by Small-Time Crook, Simon & Schuster Sues: Simon & Schuster recently learned that it had been scammed out of a hefty advance by a small-time crook who claimed to be the illegitimate grandson of wiseguy Carlo Gambino
D.FILM Movie Maker 2.0
ECO-TERRORES
9.11: What Has Changed: The Economy. Homeland Security. The View from Abroad.
One Year After
The Height of Ambition + Thinking Big
From Photos to Relics, Remembering the Unforgettable
Documenting the Tragedy
Forbidden thoughts about 9/11: A spectrum of improper responses to the terror attacks.
Sept. 11: US Nice Guy says 'enough': There is a theory in the Arab world, frequently aired on the TV discussion shows of Qatar's Al-Jazeera news channel, that the real impact of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 was less the 3,000 dead than the devastation wreaked on the American and broader Western economy.
In this grisly arithmetic of terror, the $7 trillion knocked off the value of American stocks, the body blows to the airline industry, the rise in the oil price and the global slowdown, targeted with gruesome precision the true vulnerability of American power. Osama bin Laden was not just the mastermind of the most devastating single terrorist strike in history; he was also the ultimate financial criminal, the Wall Street ghoul of all time.
This theory has its flaws.
The Informant Who Lived With the Hijackers: One of the FBI’s informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers
Netizens: Sept. 11 justifies Web blitz: Americans don't necessarily care if the government removes public information from the Net in the name of national security.
Businesses Draw Line On Security: While the Bush administration has waged its campaign to strengthen homeland security since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many of the nation's largest and most influential businesses have quietly but persistently resisted new rules that would require them to make long-term security improvements.
Hate Literature Blitz Planned By Neo-Nazi Groups To Coincide With Jewish Holidays And 9/11
Criminal Enforcement Against Terrorists
A Real War on Terrorism: Wars on terrorism have very little in common with regular wars. The initial, sheerly military phase - which the Bush administration had handled capably - was just the beginning. Now, a year after 9/11, pretty much everyone realizes that we'd better have a very good, very long-run strategy.
I don't think we do. I think the Bush administration's long-run plan, to the extent that one can be discerned, is at best inadequate and at worst disastrous. So, what's my long-run plan?
Special Report on Iraq: No one, in either London or Washington, is understood to have incontrovertible proof that Saddam is developing nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. The evidence simply proves that he has the means and the inclination.
In war, some facts less factual: Some US assertions from the last war on Iraq still appear dubious.
Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11… barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon
Satellite photos show Iraq has rebuilt on bombed weapons sites: What new facilities are used for is “the great unknown”
Ex-arms inspector defends Iraq: A former senior UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter, has told the Baghdad parliament that Iraq is not a threat to the outside world and that military action against the country would not be justifiable ["told the Baghdad parliament"!?!?!?]
Scientists join war on terror: Now the great minds are being called, once again, to battle. Deeply aware that new scientific ideas - from radar to the atomic bomb - gave America a crucial edge in World War II, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and across the country are working on weapons for the war against terrorism. And for those who have thought deepest about the march of technology, the mission is as urgent as the Manhattan Project.
Steven Hatfill's Rights Infringed by “New Gestapo”; Media Unmoved: Hatfill is getting the Richard Jewell treatment, only worse. Jewell was the security guard at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics who spotted the knapsack bomb and moved people away before it exploded. Lacking a suspect, the FBI theorized that Jewell planted the bomb himself in order to become a hero.
The FBI had no evidence whatsoever against Jewell, but neither ethics, professional integrity nor the lack of evidence prevented a steady stream of leaks to an obedient media insinuating that Jewell was the bomber.
[…] As in the Jewell case, the FBI has substituted a theory for evidence. The theory is that Hatfill, a patriotic American serving his country, sent the anthrax letters to demonstrate America's lack of preparedness against terrorists.
MoD rejects fears over defence sell-off… to a US-based company that has several former international leaders on its payroll. George Bush senior, his former secretary of state James Baker, the former prime minister John Major and many other figures from international big business and politics are employed by Carlyle Group, a US-based private equity and defence group. The government has dismissed union fears that the British national interest may be compromised by the influence of diverse overseas lobbyists linked to the company.
Qinetiq's new battle: Qinetiq - currently owned by the Ministry of Defence - is on course for privatisation, wooing venture capitalists with a view to a stock market listing. But can secretive government scientists hope to thrive in the private sector? [30 April, 2002]
America’s 40 Richest Under 40: Easy Come, Easy Go: [T]heir combined wealth has been chopped by more than half since 2000, when it peaked at a mighty $73.7 billion.
What If We'd Already Privatized Social Security?
Project on Social Security Privatization
Social Security trust fund is misleading
WTO Stands For "Worship The Oligarchy"What is the World Trade Organization? Quite clearly it's a cover for transnational companies to open up new markets in underdeveloped countries hiding under the guise of once-fashionable late-20th century economics dogma. Multinationals are a lot like vampires: they know that they can destroy any developing nation's industry and take it over for their own profit, if only they can get invited in the house. The question is how to convince the local population that it's in their interests. Bribing the dictators or the parliaments to pass laws allowing them to take over isn't enough -you need a dogma to make people BELIEVE that when they lose their jobs, it's for their own good, or at least, it's no one's fault but the natural laws of history. That, it seems, is what the WTO's job is.
RDV place Bill-Gates, Paris VIIIe: Un “commando” a rebaptisé douze lieux pour protester contre le grand capital.
VITAMEDIAS
Birth of a media: TV too often condemned rather than celebrated
The 75th anniversary of Farnsworth's invention is worth celebrating because the medium of television has such remarkable communicative powers and such distinctive artistic qualities that a world without it is almost unimaginable today.
Placement, People! Television's 30-second spot is lurching toward extinction. For the show to go on, the ads will go in.
As 2003 Nears, Where Is Online Newspaper Biz? It's less than four months from 2003: Do you know where your online newspaper industry is?
Forbes.com Guarantees Effectiveness of Ads... after 60 days of advertising or their money back
The Post-9/11 Rise of Do-It-Yourself Journalism: [A new study found that] growing numbers of Americans seem to want to use the Internet to supplement the information they get from traditional media. The study cautions, though, that because these "do-it-yourself" accounts were written by amateurs, most of them did not follow the hallmarks of good journalism such as fact-checking and impartiality, and as a result "read more like rumors."
The Information Squeeze: Openness in government is under assault throughout the United States - at every level. Can the news media, reluctant combatants thus far, mount a successful counterattack?
Views of Sept. 11, Through The Web's Sharpest Eyes
Reliving the terror: Last September's devastation may be consecrated as an annual TV event. "Like the Super Bowl, [...] it's going to become a media-declared holiday. It's setting itself up as a memorial day we're going to experience on television. Remember when we were kids, and had to watch the State of the Union address or turn off the television? Occasionally, TV forced a common message on all its citizenry then, because there weren't any other choices".
Is NewsMax Corrupt? Using the standards NewsMax itself applies to the New York Times, absolutely.
Just Do It. Again. Dan Wieden created Nike's famous slogan, and he's been pushing the limits ever since. Now he's blending advertising and entertainment into a new art form - "branded content."
Naming rights deal valued at $30-million: The St. Petersburg Times will pay $2.1-million annually, plus other concessions, for the right to put its name on the old Ice Palace arena.
TECNO-HOUSE
POSI aposta em Portugal
[Como? Entre outras para] Fazer da criação de plataformas de excelência e competitividade no interior e nas áreas mais desfavorecidas uma verdadeira oposta de correcção das assimetrias de desenvolvimento (neste aspecto, a dinamização da cooperação regional transfronteiriça com a Galiza, Castela e Leão e outras regiões espanholas é um verdadeiro desígnio que se terá que assumir de forma estratégica)
Sociedade da Informação: Governo tem de fazer esforço transversal: A tutela da Sociedade da Informação pela Presidência do Conselho de Ministros, anteriormente na dependência do ex-Ministério da Ciência e da Tecnologia, visa garantir um esforço transversal do governo nesta matéria, afirmou hoje Morais Sarmento
Subidas Telefonicas: La Sociedad de la Informacio se va a Pique: El ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología Josep Piqué, anunció ante los empresarios del sector una próxima revisión del sistema de precios máximos de Telefónica e incentivos fiscales para reactivar el sector de las telecomunicaciones.
The United States Government Manual
IDC Cuts 2002 PC Sales Outlook, Sees Slow Holidays: [T]he key year-end holiday sales period would prove disappointing.
Sony, Philips Working on New Ways to Network… that will allow wireless transfer of data between all your devices.
Wearable computers to go mainstream… over the next couple of years
Nokia 3650 (Availability: Early 2003)
Cell Phone Records Playing Key Role in Criminal Cases: Now detectives are relying on a new tool: cell phones. Because more than 40% of Americans own mobile phones, law enforcement personnel see them as a powerful resource in investigations and trials. Detectives say phone records, from both suspects and victims, can provide key evidence in murder, robbery, drug and rape cases.
Computer forensics specialists in demand as hacking grows
Radio ID locks lost laptops: The researchers' Zero-Interaction Authentication system combines two well-known security techniques: a hardware token that authorizes the person holding it to use a particular computer, and encryption software that locks and unlocks files on a computer. The user wears the token in the form of a watch or piece of jewelry.
An Alternative to Microsoft Gains Support in High Places: More than two dozen countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America, including China and Germany, are now encouraging their government agencies to use "open source" software.
Apple: Windows Media Player shows anti-standards behavior
Microsoft courts Hollywood with Windows Media 9
Switch to Mac OS X From Microsoft Windows (A guide to key user experience [interface] differences)
Slide show TV: [Planetweb] hit the pavement with software that could turn a DVD player into a viewer for still digital-camera images. The combination sounds crazy, but in June, Samsung began marketing a DVD player that uses Planetweb's software to display the images. The device enables users of Sony digital cameras to remove the camera's memory stick, a chewing gum-size memory chip module, and put it into the DVD player to display the images instantly on a TV. Consumers can view slide shows and edit or print the pictures. Now that basic, no-frills DVD players sell for as low as $60, manufacturers are pleased to be able to add new functions and, thus, charge higher prices for their products.
The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools
How Some Universities Encourage the Creation of Prime Research Web Sites
10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
Spoof site no joke for eBay: A parody Web site called "eGray," which takes aim at California gubernatorial incumbent Gray Davis, has drawn the attention of auction giant eBay - and its lawyers.
CONTAMINANTES
Panel Urges Hour of Exercise a Day: Americans need to exercise more - at least an hour a day, twice as much as previously recommended. [T]o meet daily needs for energy and nutrients while minimizing the risk of developing chronic ills like heart disease and diabetes, adults should get 45 percent to 65 percent of their daily calories from carbohydrates. It recommended a maximum of 25 percent of calories from added sugars, 20 percent to 35 percent of calories from fats, and 10 percent to 35 percent of calories from protein. In addition, the panel recommended that adult men 50 and under consume 38 grams of fiber a day and adult women 21 grams a day.
Study Finds Over 40 Drug Errors Daily at Hospitals
Doctor in the mouse: "The Internet is the greatest collection of misinformation about health the world has ever known."
Genomes & Machines: Reviews, databases and general resources on genomics and bioinformatics systems.
First commercial Moon landing gets go-ahead: Small step for commercialization of Moon surface.
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A president's insecurity detail: Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney, speaking before business leaders, recalling the Olympic opening ceremony last winter: ''[T]he president of the United States, as he goes out to an audience like that, with three and a half billion people looking at him, he turned to me and he said, 'Do I look fat?'"
Leonard Nimoy sings about Bilbo Baggins
Almost Organic: MIT Develops Life-Like Robotic Creature of the Deep
Pick a Murderer, Any Murderer: In theory, Florida prosecutors believe convicted child molester Ricky Chavis and two baby-faced brothers are both innocent and guilty of the same murder.
A Smart Weapon for the Links: The G.P.S.-Enabled Golf Cart: The crucial component in ProLink's golf course management system is a computer and a 10-inch color display mounted on the roof of a golf cart. The display offers a detailed graphic overview of every hole. When a golfer drives up to the ball, the computer can provide the exact yardage remaining to the hole and dispense strategic advice from the club pro on how to play the shot. The player can call up different hole views, including an aerial shot, and keep an eye on his or her score and pace of play, using ProLink as a kind of personalized closed-circuit broadcast.
Worth giving tourism the big banana
Here are all the BIG things!!!
Big Banana
Big Pineapple
Big Prawn
Big Bull
Learn Logic with Beavis and Butthead!
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Treasures in Turning the Pages
Secret Satellite Photos To Be Unveiled: The intention to release the intelligence imagery has taken several outsiders by surprise.
ZITES
All About Glaciers
Groovin’ Granny
Internet Killed the Video Star
Ape Logic
Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal
06 setembro 2002
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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
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[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...]
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...]
04 setembro 2002
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25, 02.08.02
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Copyright as Cudgel: Copyright […] is supposed to be an economic incentive for the next producer, not a guarantee for the established one. But after more than 200 years of legal evolution and technological revolution, copyright no longer offers strong democratic safeguards. It is out of balance.
Hollywood Vigilantes vs. Copyright Pirates: The entertainment industry doesn't need a law letting it hack and disable file-sharers. Why is Congress even considering it?
Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute
Webcastrated: Will Independent Webcasters Survive The New Copyright Royalties Recently Adopted By The Library Of Congress?
Artists slam music industry over royalties: Singers and entertainment attorneys criticized California's $41 billion recording industry, testifying that it routinely underreports royalties and cheats artists of millions of dollars.
Dan Gillmor: Hacking, hijacking our rights: Every challenge to the DMCA so far has been a failure.
Sour notes: The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading - it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
When the Music Stopped
RIAA Web site disabled by attack
New Pressplay offers unlimited downloads
The New Napsters: There's more free downloading of music than ever. The big labels hate it - but shutting down the outlaw networks won't be so easy this time.
Eighties-Rocker Renaissance
The Remixmasters
A Novel Way to Write Hit Songs: As he was working on his latest novel, Anything Goes, he came up with the idea of writing actual songs, with the help of a songwriter friend, to include in the book.
Screenwriting: If you really want to be creative, write for television and not for the movies
Gallery gets controversial work 18 years late
Gale's Biggest Digitization Project Ever Covers Eighteenth Century: Believed to be the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800 will be available over the Web beginning June 2003.
Robin Hood Project: information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales
Movies! (The Gauntlet + Rise of the Empire)
Bugs Bunny tops greatest cartoon characters list
Games Kids Play
ECO-TERRORES
Portuguese protest over eurozone austerity: "After more than 16 years in the Community, we are exactly where we started, at the tail end of Europe," says Manuel Villaverde Cabral, a leftwing sociologist and columnist.
http://shorl.com/godregredretuse
Um Boeing à deriva? Portugal está, dezasseis anos e meio depois de ter aderido à CEE, exactamente no mesmo lugar em que estava então, isto é, na "cauda da Europa"
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=2494&codEdicao=345
Statement by Commissioner Solbes on the Portuguese deficit data
http://shorl.com/bemubrahegrybe
Italy warns EU agriculture chief: “hands off our pasta”
http://shorl.com/gadipobebyti
Italian police planted petrol bombs on G8 summit protesters: Italian police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school where anti-globalisation pro-testers were sleeping to justify a brutal crackdown during last year's G8 summit in Genoa.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=319760
Terrorized by Numbers: Between the start of the second Intifada almost two years ago and the end of June, the war had killed 561 Israelis and 1,499 Palestinians. But a new study claims that these numbers obscure the reality of the conflict
http://shorl.com/jesabristomofy
The Corporate Scandal Sheet: With the avalanche of corporate accounting scandals that have rocked the markets recently, it's getting hard to keep track of all the transgressions. Our Corporate Scandal Sheet does the job
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/07/25/accountingtracker.html
Internal Memos: Internet’s largest collection of corporate memos and internal communication
http://www.internalmemos.com
The Corporate Abuse-reform Cycle
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-06/29herman.cfm
The world's biggest companies
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1263776
Stop the War Before it Starts
http://www.progressive.org/August%202002/oren0802.html
Its Own Worst Enemy: Washington spends more on its armed forces than any nation in history […] The member states of the EU between them have more soldiers than the US, and collectively their defense spending totaled nearly 70 percent that of Washington's pre-2002 outlays; but the results in technology and hardware are simply not comparable. The US can intervene or make war almost anywhere in the world. No one else even comes close.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15632
Profound Effect on U.S. Economy Seen in a War on Iraq
…because the U.S. would have to pay most of the cost and bear the brunt of any oil price shock or other market disruptions
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/international/30COST.html
How bin Laden's huge convoy gave American forces the slip
“We don’t understand how they weren’t all killed the night before because they came in a convoy of at least 1,000 cars and trucks”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-362078,00.html
US accused of airstrike cover-up: American forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-368297,00.html
9/11 probe panel on deck? A surprise House vote reopened the issue of how to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and raised the possibility that President Bush might be forced to accept an independent commission he has long opposed.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-07-26-house-panel_x.htm
Council Task Force urges the Bush Administration to upgrade public diplomacy
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pub!4681
Bush to Create Formal Office To Shape U.S. Image Abroad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18822-2002Jul29.html
Learning to love Big Brother: George W. Bush channels George Orwell
Here's a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?
http://shorl.com/folonuvubradi
Buying Trouble: Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.php
Higher Education Contribution to National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/word/NET0027.doc
Blair told not to rush voting online
…despite the success of both methods in experiments in May's local elections.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,768009,00.html
From Jail Cell, Unabomber Finds a Forum
Essay in Newsletter Pits Prison Rules vs. First Amendment Claims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7705-2002Jul26.html
Crimes of War Project
http://www.crimesofwar.org
Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html
VITAMEDIAS
“Anjo Selvagem” atinge o maior número de inserções comerciais
O episódio de 25 de Julho [...] obteve o maior número de inserções com 65 spots [...] distribuído por 1414 segundos. [com indicação de “publicidade”?]
http://www.meiosepublicidade.pt/?id=2388
Impresa aposta na integração dos portais do Expresso e SIC [e muito mais...]
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/36.htm
A Shift Registers in Willingness to Pay for Internet Content
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/01ONLI.html?todaysheadlines
Factiva CEO: News will cost in two years
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-947155.html
Survey: Web Doesn't Affect Print Readership: Sites Draw New Audiences For Publishers
http://shorl.com/dyfrelehetosty
Print media loses out to internet: The internet is now the third source for news, views and entertainment - after TV and radio, beating newspapers and magazines
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,764264,00.html
Internet Profit: Finally, about a third of newspapers' Internet operations are in the black. New-media executives share strategies.
http://www.naa.org/Presstime/PTArtPage.cfm?AID=4409
Unethical Media Practices
Survey reveals widespread incidences of “cash for editorial”
http://ipranet.org/press16.htm
IPRA Charter On Media Transparency
http://ipranet.org/media.htm
Who Needs Dr. J? If a virus were to strike our universities tonight, wiping out - by tomorrow - all schools of medicine, would the sudden disappearance of med-school graduates throw America's hospitals into crisis? Of course, and you'd better believe it. But if, instead, the virus were to kill off all our schools of journalism, would America's newspapers seize up? Of course not
http://opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110002042
Media giants: What’s new is old: Thomas Middelhoff's departure as CEO of Germany's Bertelsmann this week has all but cemented the victory of the old guard in big media following years of costly ventures by bold Internet experimenters.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947260.html?tag=fd_top
Death of the American dreams: Middelhoff and Messier tried to give Europe's two big media groups a US-style makeover. They both must rue it now
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765494,00.html
The traditionalists’ revenge: Thomas Middelhoff, the chief executive of Bertelsmann, a privately-held German media conglomerate, has been forced out after a boardroom battle. The board disagreed with his plan to take the company public by 2005. Following the departure of Jean-Marie Messier from Vivendi and Bob Pittman from AOL Time Warner, Mr Middelhoff’s ouster is further proof that the much-vaunted convergence between old media and the Internet has yet to pay off
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1258076
Bertelsmann: départ d'un patron novateur: Middelhoff avait la même ambition que Jean-Marie Messier, PDG de VU, et Ron Sommer, celui de Deutsche Telekom: changer en profondeur l'entreprise dont il avait pris les commandes.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44473
Liberté de la presse: Paris peut mieux faire
En moins de quatre ans, la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme de Strasbourg a condamné cinq fois la France pour “violation de la liberté d'expression”.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44469
And finally: After 20 years as a top television news executive, Richard Tait retired […] as editor of ITN. Media freedom, he warns, is under more pressure than is good for the state of our democracy
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764712,00.html
Reality bytes: "Our aim was to reinvent television for the web"
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764719,00.html
OneWorldTV: Filmmakers, civil society organisations and activists around the world have contributed footage to create this unique collaboration for social change.
http://tv.oneworld.net
One in three viewers are digital refusniks: The government's plan to turn the UK into a nation of digital TV viewers was dealt a blow after new research showed one in three people will not even pay £25 to upgrade their TV sets.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765254,00.html
Boas perspectivas da DVB-T apesar dos casos britânico e espanhol
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/28.htm
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The first newspapers in this initiative are New York Times (1851-1999), Wall Street Journal (1889-1985), Washington Post (1877-1987), Christian Science Monitor (1908-1990)
http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/histdemo/
Read All About It
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54030,00.html
Magazines Jump on Maxim's Bandwagon: Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, according to editors of today's leading men's magazines.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59051,00.html
How Weblogs Keep the Media Honest
http://shorl.com/dafobrysigraly
Flogged by bloggers: Keep an eye on bloggers. The main arena for media criticism is not going to be books, columns, or panel discussions, and it certainly won't be journalism schools. It will be the Internet.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/opinion/5john.htm
Weblog competition a “bloody stupid idea”?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,7496,765161,00.html
Does Your Weblog Own You?
http://wannabegirl.org/quiz/owned/
Top Twenty Blogger Insults
http://www.davezilla.com/index.php?p=1277
TECNO-HOUSE
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros que nomeia um novo gestor da Intervenção Operacional da Sociedade da Informação [Francisco Jaime Baptista do Paço Quesado] e exonera, a seu pedido, o actual gestor.
http://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/Conselho+de+Ministros/Comunicados/20020801.htm
Piracy and free software not always counted: The annual software piracy statistics […] are compiled from several sources but none take into account the growing use of open-source desktop applications.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/20/1026898931824.html
How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail
A short history of the Postal Service's long relationship with electronic mail.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/7045.asp?p=0
Online users starting to embrace pay sites
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=66526
Instant Messages, Slower Profit
“The computer industry has never seen a phenomenon like instant messaging”.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2002/07/25/0725simons.html?partner=newscom
When the toys talk back via IM
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947010.html?tag=fd_top
Children's text messages are “the key to their future”: The way children write text messages on a mobile phone could hold the key to their future career
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology
Phone gamesmanship: Operators want to ring up some revenue
http://shorl.com/fapabibokisti
PAMPAS: Focusing on the area of privacy and security for beyond-3G mobile systems and applications
http://www.pampas.eu.org
Man indicted in alleged hacking of county's system: A Houston man who once showed a Harris County official how easy it was for an outsider to access a county computer system was accused by a federal grand jury […] of doing just that.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/news/1507766
Free Firewalls for Windows
http://www.iopus.com/guides/free-firewall.htm
New Trends in Virus Technology
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18796.html
Los discos flexibles, al borde de la desaparición
http://www.idg.es/pcworld/noticia.asp?idn=25047
“El disquete sobrevivirá varios años”
http://shorl.com/bufryvymipupo
The 19th-Century Internet
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Catalyst2.asp
A (very) brief overview of cookies
http://www.rbj.net/sitetemplate2.cfm?incpage=cookiespage.htm
Spam filter: A boon or a bomb?
New software promises more order for your in-box, separating the critical messages from the “reply all” excesses. But it could pose a political problem for managers
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120002,00.html
Why Use A Search Toolbar?
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/826
New Search Engine Tool Searches Javascript Files
http://www.urlwire.com/news/073002.html
The Seven Myths of Knowledge Management
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Insight1SevenMyths.asp
Investing in Innovation: A strategy for science, engineering and technology [UK]
http://www.ost.gov.uk/science_strategy.pdf
Sony loses Aussie Playstation suit: The Australian subsidiary of Sony was suing Sydney man Eddy Johnson for selling and installing modifications to its PlayStation machines, claiming his actions breached copyright laws.
http://shorl.com/hykegrugiprupru
Gamers get into “The Zone”: What have a Buddhist Monk, a sports person exhibiting peak performance, and a computer gamer got in common? […] The answer is actually alpha brainwave activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2154092.stm
Practical Technology… for pratical people.
http://www.practical-tech.com
CONTAMINANTES
Portugal y España
http://shorl.com/fadolakarobra
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side: You may think you are more productive under deadline pressure - but you probably are not.
http://shorl.com/bugrastipramabu
More may lose jobs due to vulgar e-mail
More state employees are expected to be fired for using state computers to distribute e-mail messages involving vulgar jokes and cartoons
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/18833074.html
Online resumes make it difficult for companies to follow federal regulations
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/3767127.htm
Too posh to push?
Cesarean sections have spiked dramatically. Progress or [medical] convenience?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/biztech/5demons.htm
Older Americans “Shacking Up” More: There aren't many trends where grandparents are imitating their grandchildren, but cohabitation is one of them
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/national/main516814.shtml
Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992589
The origins of violence: Nurturing nature
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1259045
Don’t Be Rude: Part 1, Kindness
http://shorl.com/bamoresybida
A Black Box for Your Car: Event data recorders could make cars safer - and tell accident investigators what really happened.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_baldwin073002.asp?p=0
Criminal care at a high price
More prisoners are sicker than ever. And you're paying for their medical bills
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/health/5prison.htm
Cruel and usual: How some of America's best zoos get rid of their old, infirm, and unwanted animals
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/usnews/5zoos.htm
Moon Metro [example of what a 21st-century travel guidebook series can be]
http://www.moon.com/metro/index.html
.DE!
O premiê Tony Blair vai passar o Dia Mundial do Orgasmo no Brasil...
http://www.jt.estadao.com.br/editorias/2001/07/31/ger025.html
...tal como todos os Presidentes e Chefes de Estado da CPLP
http://ultimahora.publico.pt/shownews.asp?id=166768&idCanal=12
“But Officer, I Didn't Do Anything!”
They call it a “Voluntary Roadside Interview.” But for hundreds of motorists flagged down by state troopers on Interstate 4, there was nothing voluntary about it.
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA5WPU8Z3D.html
Woman sues Delta over sex toy incident… saying she was publicly humiliated.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/07/26/airline.sex.toy.ap/
Saudi prince found dead in desert: The prince apparently died of thirst. Prince Fahd was the third member of the extensive Saudi royal family to die in a week.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_28319,0005.htm
What Are the Odds of Dying? [United States, 1998]
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
Extreme Survival Quiz
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/extremesurvival/extremesurvival.html
Dining in The Dark: Germany's Unsicht-Bar restaurant offers its customers a whole new way of looking at food: Waiters are either completely blind or visually handicapped
http://shorl.com/dedrubroguvore
Beetle Bailey [Recruta Zero]? At The World Trade Center?
http://www.royaljournal.com/projects/200203/beetle_bailey_at_the_wor.shtml
Origami Gifts
http://origamiboulder.com
The Making of a BattleMech
http://shorl.com/gysebojesopre
Tantive IV - World’s Largest “Star Wars” Toy
http://www.pegwarmer.com/tantive/
R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
http://www.creaturelabs.com/toys_r2-d2.html
Mouse Pad Couch
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Visible Earth (Portugal)
Postcards and Postcard Collecting
If Hackers Ruled
The Ultimate Computer Chair
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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Copyright as Cudgel: Copyright […] is supposed to be an economic incentive for the next producer, not a guarantee for the established one. But after more than 200 years of legal evolution and technological revolution, copyright no longer offers strong democratic safeguards. It is out of balance.
Hollywood Vigilantes vs. Copyright Pirates: The entertainment industry doesn't need a law letting it hack and disable file-sharers. Why is Congress even considering it?
Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute
Webcastrated: Will Independent Webcasters Survive The New Copyright Royalties Recently Adopted By The Library Of Congress?
Artists slam music industry over royalties: Singers and entertainment attorneys criticized California's $41 billion recording industry, testifying that it routinely underreports royalties and cheats artists of millions of dollars.
Dan Gillmor: Hacking, hijacking our rights: Every challenge to the DMCA so far has been a failure.
Sour notes: The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading - it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want.
When the Music Stopped
RIAA Web site disabled by attack
New Pressplay offers unlimited downloads
The New Napsters: There's more free downloading of music than ever. The big labels hate it - but shutting down the outlaw networks won't be so easy this time.
Eighties-Rocker Renaissance
The Remixmasters
A Novel Way to Write Hit Songs: As he was working on his latest novel, Anything Goes, he came up with the idea of writing actual songs, with the help of a songwriter friend, to include in the book.
Screenwriting: If you really want to be creative, write for television and not for the movies
Gallery gets controversial work 18 years late
Gale's Biggest Digitization Project Ever Covers Eighteenth Century: Believed to be the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800 will be available over the Web beginning June 2003.
Robin Hood Project: information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales
Movies! (The Gauntlet + Rise of the Empire)
Bugs Bunny tops greatest cartoon characters list
Games Kids Play
ECO-TERRORES
Portuguese protest over eurozone austerity: "After more than 16 years in the Community, we are exactly where we started, at the tail end of Europe," says Manuel Villaverde Cabral, a leftwing sociologist and columnist.
http://shorl.com/godregredretuse
Um Boeing à deriva? Portugal está, dezasseis anos e meio depois de ter aderido à CEE, exactamente no mesmo lugar em que estava então, isto é, na "cauda da Europa"
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=2494&codEdicao=345
Statement by Commissioner Solbes on the Portuguese deficit data
http://shorl.com/bemubrahegrybe
Italy warns EU agriculture chief: “hands off our pasta”
http://shorl.com/gadipobebyti
Italian police planted petrol bombs on G8 summit protesters: Italian police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school where anti-globalisation pro-testers were sleeping to justify a brutal crackdown during last year's G8 summit in Genoa.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=319760
Terrorized by Numbers: Between the start of the second Intifada almost two years ago and the end of June, the war had killed 561 Israelis and 1,499 Palestinians. But a new study claims that these numbers obscure the reality of the conflict
http://shorl.com/jesabristomofy
The Corporate Scandal Sheet: With the avalanche of corporate accounting scandals that have rocked the markets recently, it's getting hard to keep track of all the transgressions. Our Corporate Scandal Sheet does the job
http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/07/25/accountingtracker.html
Internal Memos: Internet’s largest collection of corporate memos and internal communication
http://www.internalmemos.com
The Corporate Abuse-reform Cycle
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-06/29herman.cfm
The world's biggest companies
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1263776
Stop the War Before it Starts
http://www.progressive.org/August%202002/oren0802.html
Its Own Worst Enemy: Washington spends more on its armed forces than any nation in history […] The member states of the EU between them have more soldiers than the US, and collectively their defense spending totaled nearly 70 percent that of Washington's pre-2002 outlays; but the results in technology and hardware are simply not comparable. The US can intervene or make war almost anywhere in the world. No one else even comes close.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15632
Profound Effect on U.S. Economy Seen in a War on Iraq
…because the U.S. would have to pay most of the cost and bear the brunt of any oil price shock or other market disruptions
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/international/30COST.html
How bin Laden's huge convoy gave American forces the slip
“We don’t understand how they weren’t all killed the night before because they came in a convoy of at least 1,000 cars and trucks”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-362078,00.html
US accused of airstrike cover-up: American forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-368297,00.html
9/11 probe panel on deck? A surprise House vote reopened the issue of how to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and raised the possibility that President Bush might be forced to accept an independent commission he has long opposed.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-07-26-house-panel_x.htm
Council Task Force urges the Bush Administration to upgrade public diplomacy
http://www.cfr.org/public/resource.cgi?pub!4681
Bush to Create Formal Office To Shape U.S. Image Abroad
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18822-2002Jul29.html
Learning to love Big Brother: George W. Bush channels George Orwell
Here's a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?
http://shorl.com/folonuvubradi
Buying Trouble: Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.php
Higher Education Contribution to National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/word/NET0027.doc
Blair told not to rush voting online
…despite the success of both methods in experiments in May's local elections.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,768009,00.html
From Jail Cell, Unabomber Finds a Forum
Essay in Newsletter Pits Prison Rules vs. First Amendment Claims
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7705-2002Jul26.html
Crimes of War Project
http://www.crimesofwar.org
Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
http://www.insc.anl.gov/pwrmaps/map/world_map.html
VITAMEDIAS
“Anjo Selvagem” atinge o maior número de inserções comerciais
O episódio de 25 de Julho [...] obteve o maior número de inserções com 65 spots [...] distribuído por 1414 segundos. [com indicação de “publicidade”?]
http://www.meiosepublicidade.pt/?id=2388
Impresa aposta na integração dos portais do Expresso e SIC [e muito mais...]
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/36.htm
A Shift Registers in Willingness to Pay for Internet Content
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/01ONLI.html?todaysheadlines
Factiva CEO: News will cost in two years
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-947155.html
Survey: Web Doesn't Affect Print Readership: Sites Draw New Audiences For Publishers
http://shorl.com/dyfrelehetosty
Print media loses out to internet: The internet is now the third source for news, views and entertainment - after TV and radio, beating newspapers and magazines
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,764264,00.html
Internet Profit: Finally, about a third of newspapers' Internet operations are in the black. New-media executives share strategies.
http://www.naa.org/Presstime/PTArtPage.cfm?AID=4409
Unethical Media Practices
Survey reveals widespread incidences of “cash for editorial”
http://ipranet.org/press16.htm
IPRA Charter On Media Transparency
http://ipranet.org/media.htm
Who Needs Dr. J? If a virus were to strike our universities tonight, wiping out - by tomorrow - all schools of medicine, would the sudden disappearance of med-school graduates throw America's hospitals into crisis? Of course, and you'd better believe it. But if, instead, the virus were to kill off all our schools of journalism, would America's newspapers seize up? Of course not
http://opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110002042
Media giants: What’s new is old: Thomas Middelhoff's departure as CEO of Germany's Bertelsmann this week has all but cemented the victory of the old guard in big media following years of costly ventures by bold Internet experimenters.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947260.html?tag=fd_top
Death of the American dreams: Middelhoff and Messier tried to give Europe's two big media groups a US-style makeover. They both must rue it now
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765494,00.html
The traditionalists’ revenge: Thomas Middelhoff, the chief executive of Bertelsmann, a privately-held German media conglomerate, has been forced out after a boardroom battle. The board disagreed with his plan to take the company public by 2005. Following the departure of Jean-Marie Messier from Vivendi and Bob Pittman from AOL Time Warner, Mr Middelhoff’s ouster is further proof that the much-vaunted convergence between old media and the Internet has yet to pay off
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1258076
Bertelsmann: départ d'un patron novateur: Middelhoff avait la même ambition que Jean-Marie Messier, PDG de VU, et Ron Sommer, celui de Deutsche Telekom: changer en profondeur l'entreprise dont il avait pris les commandes.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44473
Liberté de la presse: Paris peut mieux faire
En moins de quatre ans, la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme de Strasbourg a condamné cinq fois la France pour “violation de la liberté d'expression”.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=44469
And finally: After 20 years as a top television news executive, Richard Tait retired […] as editor of ITN. Media freedom, he warns, is under more pressure than is good for the state of our democracy
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764712,00.html
Reality bytes: "Our aim was to reinvent television for the web"
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764719,00.html
OneWorldTV: Filmmakers, civil society organisations and activists around the world have contributed footage to create this unique collaboration for social change.
http://tv.oneworld.net
One in three viewers are digital refusniks: The government's plan to turn the UK into a nation of digital TV viewers was dealt a blow after new research showed one in three people will not even pay £25 to upgrade their TV sets.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,765254,00.html
Boas perspectivas da DVB-T apesar dos casos britânico e espanhol
http://www.obercom.pt/04news/newsletters/jul2002/28.htm
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The first newspapers in this initiative are New York Times (1851-1999), Wall Street Journal (1889-1985), Washington Post (1877-1987), Christian Science Monitor (1908-1990)
http://www.il.proquest.com/proquest/histdemo/
Read All About It
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54030,00.html
Magazines Jump on Maxim's Bandwagon: Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, according to editors of today's leading men's magazines.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59051,00.html
How Weblogs Keep the Media Honest
http://shorl.com/dafobrysigraly
Flogged by bloggers: Keep an eye on bloggers. The main arena for media criticism is not going to be books, columns, or panel discussions, and it certainly won't be journalism schools. It will be the Internet.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/opinion/5john.htm
Weblog competition a “bloody stupid idea”?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/comment/0,7496,765161,00.html
Does Your Weblog Own You?
http://wannabegirl.org/quiz/owned/
Top Twenty Blogger Insults
http://www.davezilla.com/index.php?p=1277
TECNO-HOUSE
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros que nomeia um novo gestor da Intervenção Operacional da Sociedade da Informação [Francisco Jaime Baptista do Paço Quesado] e exonera, a seu pedido, o actual gestor.
http://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/Conselho+de+Ministros/Comunicados/20020801.htm
Piracy and free software not always counted: The annual software piracy statistics […] are compiled from several sources but none take into account the growing use of open-source desktop applications.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/20/1026898931824.html
How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail
A short history of the Postal Service's long relationship with electronic mail.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/7045.asp?p=0
Online users starting to embrace pay sites
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=66526
Instant Messages, Slower Profit
“The computer industry has never seen a phenomenon like instant messaging”.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2002/07/25/0725simons.html?partner=newscom
When the toys talk back via IM
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947010.html?tag=fd_top
Children's text messages are “the key to their future”: The way children write text messages on a mobile phone could hold the key to their future career
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_637803.html?menu=news.technology
Phone gamesmanship: Operators want to ring up some revenue
http://shorl.com/fapabibokisti
PAMPAS: Focusing on the area of privacy and security for beyond-3G mobile systems and applications
http://www.pampas.eu.org
Man indicted in alleged hacking of county's system: A Houston man who once showed a Harris County official how easy it was for an outsider to access a county computer system was accused by a federal grand jury […] of doing just that.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/news/1507766
Free Firewalls for Windows
http://www.iopus.com/guides/free-firewall.htm
New Trends in Virus Technology
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18796.html
Los discos flexibles, al borde de la desaparición
http://www.idg.es/pcworld/noticia.asp?idn=25047
“El disquete sobrevivirá varios años”
http://shorl.com/bufryvymipupo
The 19th-Century Internet
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Catalyst2.asp
A (very) brief overview of cookies
http://www.rbj.net/sitetemplate2.cfm?incpage=cookiespage.htm
Spam filter: A boon or a bomb?
New software promises more order for your in-box, separating the critical messages from the “reply all” excesses. But it could pose a political problem for managers
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120002,00.html
Why Use A Search Toolbar?
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/826
New Search Engine Tool Searches Javascript Files
http://www.urlwire.com/news/073002.html
The Seven Myths of Knowledge Management
http://www.contextmag.com/archives/200208/Insight1SevenMyths.asp
Investing in Innovation: A strategy for science, engineering and technology [UK]
http://www.ost.gov.uk/science_strategy.pdf
Sony loses Aussie Playstation suit: The Australian subsidiary of Sony was suing Sydney man Eddy Johnson for selling and installing modifications to its PlayStation machines, claiming his actions breached copyright laws.
http://shorl.com/hykegrugiprupru
Gamers get into “The Zone”: What have a Buddhist Monk, a sports person exhibiting peak performance, and a computer gamer got in common? […] The answer is actually alpha brainwave activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2154092.stm
Practical Technology… for pratical people.
http://www.practical-tech.com
CONTAMINANTES
Portugal y España
http://shorl.com/fadolakarobra
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side: You may think you are more productive under deadline pressure - but you probably are not.
http://shorl.com/bugrastipramabu
More may lose jobs due to vulgar e-mail
More state employees are expected to be fired for using state computers to distribute e-mail messages involving vulgar jokes and cartoons
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/18833074.html
Online resumes make it difficult for companies to follow federal regulations
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/3767127.htm
Too posh to push?
Cesarean sections have spiked dramatically. Progress or [medical] convenience?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/biztech/5demons.htm
Older Americans “Shacking Up” More: There aren't many trends where grandparents are imitating their grandchildren, but cohabitation is one of them
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/national/main516814.shtml
Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992589
The origins of violence: Nurturing nature
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1259045
Don’t Be Rude: Part 1, Kindness
http://shorl.com/bamoresybida
A Black Box for Your Car: Event data recorders could make cars safer - and tell accident investigators what really happened.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_baldwin073002.asp?p=0
Criminal care at a high price
More prisoners are sicker than ever. And you're paying for their medical bills
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/health/5prison.htm
Cruel and usual: How some of America's best zoos get rid of their old, infirm, and unwanted animals
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020805/usnews/5zoos.htm
Moon Metro [example of what a 21st-century travel guidebook series can be]
http://www.moon.com/metro/index.html
.DE!
O premiê Tony Blair vai passar o Dia Mundial do Orgasmo no Brasil...
http://www.jt.estadao.com.br/editorias/2001/07/31/ger025.html
...tal como todos os Presidentes e Chefes de Estado da CPLP
http://ultimahora.publico.pt/shownews.asp?id=166768&idCanal=12
“But Officer, I Didn't Do Anything!”
They call it a “Voluntary Roadside Interview.” But for hundreds of motorists flagged down by state troopers on Interstate 4, there was nothing voluntary about it.
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA5WPU8Z3D.html
Woman sues Delta over sex toy incident… saying she was publicly humiliated.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/07/26/airline.sex.toy.ap/
Saudi prince found dead in desert: The prince apparently died of thirst. Prince Fahd was the third member of the extensive Saudi royal family to die in a week.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_28319,0005.htm
What Are the Odds of Dying? [United States, 1998]
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
Extreme Survival Quiz
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/extremesurvival/extremesurvival.html
Dining in The Dark: Germany's Unsicht-Bar restaurant offers its customers a whole new way of looking at food: Waiters are either completely blind or visually handicapped
http://shorl.com/dedrubroguvore
Beetle Bailey [Recruta Zero]? At The World Trade Center?
http://www.royaljournal.com/projects/200203/beetle_bailey_at_the_wor.shtml
Origami Gifts
http://origamiboulder.com
The Making of a BattleMech
http://shorl.com/gysebojesopre
Tantive IV - World’s Largest “Star Wars” Toy
http://www.pegwarmer.com/tantive/
R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
http://www.creaturelabs.com/toys_r2-d2.html
Mouse Pad Couch
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