Mafia's Bible puzzle has police guessing: Detectives have asked the Vatican to help to decipher cryptic biblical messages published by the new Mafia Godfather in Latin. [...]
Mafia bosses, many of whom profess to be good Catholics, have often used the Bible to construct coded notes, known as pizzini, that are used to communicate with underlings.
04 janeiro 2007
03 janeiro 2007
ECOPOL
Estava-se mesmo a ver: Saddam is not dead (The truth on the Saddam Hussein execution video and his death)
VITAMEDIAS
Caro João, a vantagem n'"essa antiga e sólida democracia" é que os jornalistas questionam todos os assuntos. Sem relação com um escrutínio semelhante em Portugal, portanto.
Dois exemplos.
Pela positiva:
Can we see all the documents, memos and e-mails supporting the Attorney General's advice on the legality of the war in Iraq?
The Government finally published the written advice earlier this year after it was leaked to the media. But some of the other documents have been withheld on the grounds of professional legal privilege which protects disclosure of advice between the Attorney General and his client, in this case the Government.
Pelo contrário:
Would you tell us a little more about the sweater given to George Bush by Tony Blair?
This information is not in the public interest.
Dois exemplos.
Pela positiva:
Can we see all the documents, memos and e-mails supporting the Attorney General's advice on the legality of the war in Iraq?
The Government finally published the written advice earlier this year after it was leaked to the media. But some of the other documents have been withheld on the grounds of professional legal privilege which protects disclosure of advice between the Attorney General and his client, in this case the Government.
Pelo contrário:
Would you tell us a little more about the sweater given to George Bush by Tony Blair?
This information is not in the public interest.
VITAMEDIAS
A sério, leiam isto, e depois falemos de direitos de autor no século XXI:
How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer: We're continually being told the Internet empowers the individual. But speaking as an individual creative worker myself, I'd argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far in my sector is to disempower individuals, strengthen the hand of multinational businesses, and decrease the pool of information available to audiences. All things that the technology utopians say they wanted to avoid. [...]
I'm a freelance professional photographer, and in recent years, the internet 'economy' has devastated my sector. It's now difficult to make a viable living due to widespread copyright theft from newspapers, media groups, individuals and a glut of images freely or cheaply available on the Web. [...]
User Contributed Content should be more accurately termed 'Audience Stolen Content', because media groups rarely pay for Citizen Journalism images and more often than not, either claim the copyright or an all-encompassing license from contributors, when they send their pictures in. That's a copyright grab in all but name. [...]
So as a consequence, the only entities that are now able to make decent profits from photography are large corporations - because only those corporations have the infrastructure to aggregate images into massive hubs. [...]
So the upshot is, a copyright-free environment has simply enriched large businesses at the direct expense of individual authors. But shouldn't the little guy enjoy the same protection of copyright law that the big corporations do?
We can't afford to. Suing for multiple copyright theft is simply not feasible for individuals. [...]
In reality, what is happening on the web is the transfer of the authors' labour to large corporations for nothing. Anti-copyright lobbyists have become either unwitting allies, or shills, for big business.
How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer: We're continually being told the Internet empowers the individual. But speaking as an individual creative worker myself, I'd argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far in my sector is to disempower individuals, strengthen the hand of multinational businesses, and decrease the pool of information available to audiences. All things that the technology utopians say they wanted to avoid. [...]
I'm a freelance professional photographer, and in recent years, the internet 'economy' has devastated my sector. It's now difficult to make a viable living due to widespread copyright theft from newspapers, media groups, individuals and a glut of images freely or cheaply available on the Web. [...]
User Contributed Content should be more accurately termed 'Audience Stolen Content', because media groups rarely pay for Citizen Journalism images and more often than not, either claim the copyright or an all-encompassing license from contributors, when they send their pictures in. That's a copyright grab in all but name. [...]
So as a consequence, the only entities that are now able to make decent profits from photography are large corporations - because only those corporations have the infrastructure to aggregate images into massive hubs. [...]
So the upshot is, a copyright-free environment has simply enriched large businesses at the direct expense of individual authors. But shouldn't the little guy enjoy the same protection of copyright law that the big corporations do?
We can't afford to. Suing for multiple copyright theft is simply not feasible for individuals. [...]
In reality, what is happening on the web is the transfer of the authors' labour to large corporations for nothing. Anti-copyright lobbyists have become either unwitting allies, or shills, for big business.
TECNOSFERA
The Wrong Question: Is It A "Real Blog"? about 40 per cent of the 2,200 people who have responded think that the ability to comment isn't a requirement, but enhances a blog's content "dramatically," and about 34 per cent say that commenting isn't a requirement. The remainder think that a blog without comments isn't a real blog [...]
The bottom line for me is simply that the comments on a post are often at least as interesting as the post itself, and in some cases much more so. In that sense, the post is like a magnet that attracts different viewpoints - some of which are bound to be moronic "you're an idiot" kind of comments, but some of which are occasionally going to add huge value. [...]
So is a blog really a blog without comments? Sure it is, if only because the term "blog" is so viscous and malleable that it can mean just about anything. But I don't think of BoingBoing or Google's blog or other prominent examples as being "blogs" in my definition. Are they valuable? Sure. Interesting? Often. But - at least as far as I'm concerned - still missing something.
The bottom line for me is simply that the comments on a post are often at least as interesting as the post itself, and in some cases much more so. In that sense, the post is like a magnet that attracts different viewpoints - some of which are bound to be moronic "you're an idiot" kind of comments, but some of which are occasionally going to add huge value. [...]
So is a blog really a blog without comments? Sure it is, if only because the term "blog" is so viscous and malleable that it can mean just about anything. But I don't think of BoingBoing or Google's blog or other prominent examples as being "blogs" in my definition. Are they valuable? Sure. Interesting? Often. But - at least as far as I'm concerned - still missing something.
31 dezembro 2006
CONTAMINANTES
Recycling Calendars: Before you go out and buy a 2007 calendar, check and see if you have an old calendar from any of these years: 1906, 1917, 1923, 1934, 1945, 1951, 1962, 1973, 1979, 1990, or 2001. For any of those years, the days are the same as in 2007.
29 dezembro 2006
CONTAMINANTES
100 things we didn't know last year
10. Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.
(para discordar, ver Panspermia, de Karl Sims, autor da imagem)
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
TECNOFERA
Top Ten Orwellian Moments of 2006
1) Fox News airs an infomercial for torture.
2) Federal semantics eliminates the hunger problem.
3) Defending the First Amendment by proposing that we scrap it.
4) Halliburton contracts to build large detention camps in the US.
5) The Inexorable Worldwide Rollout of RFID Chips.
6) Stay What?
7) Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Carrying Cash is a Crime.
8) The Automated Targeting System.
9) NSA Warrantless Surveillance and Crypto-City.
10) You tell me.
Bush Admin: What You Don't Know Can't Hurt Us: Just how many different ways has the Bush Administration tried to hide once-public information sources from the public record?
Por cá? Só um exemplo recente:
Deputados de quem?
Daqui a uns anos, inclusive, o mundo estará cheio de nostálgicos da liberdade. [...] Sim, estamos em guerra pela nossa liberdade.
A coisa está preta.
vs.
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