Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 21st, 2007
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
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vocalo
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Audi applied for a permit from the Film and TV Office of Toronto to shoot a commercial that would allow it to place “T” statues that measure six feet high and fifteen feet long all over the city for three days. A press release issued by Audi, however, con
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holy shit lady sov, what’s up? Last night, I went to the late night Lady Sovereign show at Studio B in Brooklyn. Lady Sovereign took the stage about 3:30am. After playing “Love Me or Hate Me” and “Cha-Ching,” she declared that she really didn’t want to do
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
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I AM TOTALLY RIPPING YOU OFF
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podcast of performance
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closer? - Amazon.com (Quote) turned up the buzz meter in the digital music world today with news it plans to launch an MP3 digital music store without digital rights management (define) restrictions on the songs. It said it plans to offer DRM-free MP3 for
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plan here, book somewhere else
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Charmed & Dangerous has a piece of jewelry to express your mood whatever it is - a little naughty, a little nice, a little sweet, a little sassy.. you get the picture. Each of our hand-made ( in the USA) pieces of jewelry comes packaged in this cute, hand
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fetish family portraits
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In writing memoir, the trick, it seems to me, is to establish a double perspective, that will allow the reader to participate vicariously in the experience as it was lived (the confusions and misapprehensions of the child one was, say), while conveying th
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The Southern District of New York has just issued a bombshell decision in this area. In Shaw Family Archives v. Marilyn Monroe LLC, it held that Marilyn Monroe’s heirs cannot claim post-mortem publicity rights because she died before the enactment of the
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
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Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Read on, preferably shutting out the cacophony of digital devices for a while.
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1424 West Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
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The Underwater Sculpture Gallery in Grenada, West Indies is a project started in May 2006 by sculptor Jason Taylor, with the support of the Grenadian Ministry of Tourism and Culture. This is a unique artistic enterprise, celebrating Caribbean culture and
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Vargas v. Transeau, 2007 WL 1346618 (S.D.N.Y. May 9, 2007).
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orange
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inherent vice
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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We conclude that Perfect 10 is unlikely to succeed in overcoming Google’s fair use defense, and therefore we reverse the district court’s determination that Google’s thumbnail versions of Perfect 10’s images likely constituted a direct infringement. The d
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The Kitchen presents an evening of live-cinema featuring unique collaborations between sound and image makers. Utilizing unusual instruments and sound sources including the theremin, brainwave monitors, oscilloscopes, contact microphones, anamorphic lense
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the Border Film Project distributed some 400+ disposable cameras to undocumented migrants and the border minutemen attempting to end their passage from Mexico into America. The cameras have now been collected, the photographs processed and published in a
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We’re excited to announce a new website all about the effort to get freelancers exempted from NYC’s Unincorporated Business Tax. UBTWatch.org goes live today, with videos, press, and a white paper about the senseless imposition of this tax on independ
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Weighing only 580g, with a 5.6″ widescreen LCD in a small, light body, new ultra-mobile PCs offer advanced mobility and style for business users
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In an intricate web of farm-to-table, food justice, youth-support strands, a small cafe in San Francisco called Mission Pie supports a farm on the San Mateo coast, which in turn supplies ingredients for the pies. The cafe’s counter staff comprises learn
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
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I would make it 401 and add Charlie’s Manhattan User’s Guide. An update to our thoroughly subjective selection of 400 links — from institutional websites to single-person blogs — that we think make a distinctive contribution to life in New York.
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I wonder if anyone has fallen down those stairs at Seven Grand yet? It just opened last month with its official debut last Thursday, but mixing whiskey, scotch or bourbon with four flights of dimly lit stairs can’t be good. AND there’s no elevator. I
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Régine Debatty is awesome. I am in awe of her.
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UCLA just launched a profoundly awesome historical archive of news photographs from the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News. Of the 5,124 images in this database, the oldest is from 1914. One fun way to search is typing in a year, say “1921″
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i love this
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Bill Introduced: Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007 - S 1353: “To nullify the determinations of the Copyright Royalty Judges with respect to webcasting, to modify the basis for making such a determination, and for other purposes” introduced 5/10/07.
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E-Prime was put forth as a modified version of the English language that basically eliminated the verb ‘to be’. You couldn’t say “I’m tired” in E-Prime, for example. You’d have to say something like “I feel tired” or “I’m constantly
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flickrcash
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
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Sunday, May 13th, 2007
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Sapient v. Geller: EFF filed suit against Uri Geller — the “paranormalist” famous for seemingly bending spoons with his mind — on behalf of a YouTube critic who was silenced by Geller’s baseless copyright claims. Legal Documents - * Complaint [PDF, 121K
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Hex: #61705A, the color of us currency green
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If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would no doubt have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him
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mark twain bibliography broken down by series, novels, nonfiction.
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an exercise in the teaching of spatial intelligence - students from a South Shore High School art class were granted a simple assignment. Written on the chalkboard were the words, “Which Chicago Do You Live In?” and there were stacks of paper and writing
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A Clements school, Fort Bend, teenager was removed from campus for making a map (think level) of the school ground so that his friends could play on it. Parents complained to administrators, investigators were brought in, and the boy was suspended from sc
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Lodged in a spacious apartment in an unassuming 19th-century building on Rome’s busy Piazza Vittoria, the new Sound Art Museum is both a public venue and the realized dream of Dora Stiefelmeier and Mario Pieroni, the founders of Zerynthia, a not-for-pro
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religieuse au caramel
Claire Damon’s pastry shop, Des Gâteaux et du Pain (63 bd Pasteur in the 15th; 01 45 38 94 16)
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nama rococo
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Imagine a site you could visit that would enable you to search by legislation name, or the name of a particular contractor, or by government agency. Instead of doing searches like “furniture, vintage, 1950s”, you could do searches like this: “Hallib
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
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bike-driven generator: Microwave (1000 Watts) - An hour on the bike gets you 9 minutes of cook time; Laptop (45 Watts) - 3.3 hours; One 18 watt cfl bulb - 8.3 hours. Not bad! 18 watts of cfl is equivalent to 100 watts of incandescent. Fridge: (500 watts)
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Matter is just one of dozens of contemporary design shops that have opened around the country in the last few years, and most of those in New York will be vying for attention next week, hoping to use parties, exhibitions and other promotional events to at
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Two Minutes in the Large Dog Run at Tompkins Square Park
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Bridging the divide between digital and physical, DiscRevolt provides a tangible solution for selling digital media. Artists upload songs to DiscRevolt’s website and design their own artwork for a plastic download card. The cards are then printed by DiscR
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DiscRevolt is a way to sell digital downloads at the merch table via band-specific download cards. You upload songs to our site and design artwork for a plastic card. We print the cards with a special access code on the back, and you sell them to fans at
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The Urban Visual Recording Machine (UVRM) was a set of equipment housed in a truck reminiscent of a “pope mobile” with its large Plexiglas windows. The machines were programmed to record the colors, volume of sound and voices, and weather (wind speed
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During its 33-year history, Creative Time has produced 313 public art projects involving 1,361 artists in New York City. This book, which is dense with text and photographs, both celebrates that achievement and assesses the current state of public art. Cr
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Make the Pie Higher: This poem is composed entirely of actual quotes from George W. Bush.
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Mike & Chris >> Grayson Fleece Hoodie
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After an extensive period of discovery, and expert testimony, the Court found that plaintiff had no credible evidence that BT copied the 9 second drum beat.
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
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BookSense.com is a family of independent-bookseller websites. (And it’s the e-commerce arm of the American Booksellers Association’s Book Sense program.) When you visit a BookSense.com virtual bookstore, you will experience the knowledge and passion of in
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lock that intellectual property up real good.
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terroir
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Gen Art Styles 2007 International Design Competition and Runway Show on Tuesday, May 22nd at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Gen Art Co-Producer and higher level members receive 2 complimentary tickets, RSVP Here.
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As part of the Bike 2015 plan, the City of Chicago will be adding several green colored bike lanes at several new locations this summer, including at Dearborn and Chicago, Elston and Division, Halsted and Roosevelt, Lincoln and Webster and more. Get more
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HauteGREEN is back for 2007 with an exhibition of the best in sustainable design for the contemporary home, showcasing furniture, lighting, and accessories that are both aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly. Held in Manhattan during the International C
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i’ve always wanted to hit the maldives: The world’s first undersea restaurant sits sixteen feet below sea level, holds fourteen people, and is surrounded by 68 million square kilometers of water. Located at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa in the Indian
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