links for 2007-11-08
Thursday, November 8th, 2007-
a dish of sausage and grapes makes me giggle
Archive for November, 2007
links for 2007-11-07
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007-
The Law of the Sea Treaty has become a hot-button item in the Republican presidential race. Say what? “One of the defining issues of our time,” declared Mike Huckabee, who is leading an anti-treaty charge. People, what do you think of when you hear
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the holy trinity of Daniel Burnham, Louis H. Sullivan and Mies van der Rohe
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress should not impose any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge relating to the public performance of sound recordings on a local radio station for broadcasting soun
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G. Detou; 58 rue Tiquetonne (2nd); Tél: 01 42 36 54 67
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A person’s gender, race and ethnicity, and parental educational background are all associated with use… People with more experience and autonomy of use are more likely to be users of such sites. Unequal participation based on user background suggests th
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hoody up, head down
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“”I’m not liking it,” I said. He said something that was simple, profound and revealing: “It’s like Windows.” It is. It’s that unpleasant to use.” ***how ironic, since windows was based on apple’s OS. remember that pesky 1988 lawsuit?***
links for 2007-11-06
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007-
Hatebook: A standalone site. Identical to Facebook except you befriend other haters. And you can build an “Evil Map” that tells you the location of your hater pals.
links for 2007-11-05
Monday, November 5th, 2007-
GPS-based Frisson Inducer: reverse psychogeography, i.e. rather than recording an emotional response to a place, the device is controlling the response.
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Peach is three year Coordination Action on Presence (May 2006 to May 2009) financially supported by the European Commission under the Future Emerging Technologies (FET) - Information Society Technology (IST) program nursery of novel and emerging scientifi
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Galeries nationales - du Grand Palais 75008 Paris Clemenceau entrance
links for 2007-11-04
Sunday, November 4th, 2007-
Unlucky gamblers at the Edogawa Kyotei boat race course in Tokyo have a new way to ease their frustrations after botching a bet — they can feed their losing tickets to a robotic goat. Edogawa Kyotei enlisted the help of the ticket-munching robo-goat at
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produced by HTTP Gallery as part of the London Games Fringe Festival to focus on the intersection of media art and games cultures.
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HTTP Gallery; 2nd -18th November 2007 12-5pm; Unit A2, Arena Business Centre, ; 71 Ashfield Rd,; London N4 1NY; +44 (0) 7737002879
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Welcome to Artabase - The Online Arts Database - Artabase lets you know what’s on in Galleries around the world, then stores this information in a growing archive of art history.
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random artists from all over
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‘living graffiti’ — an idea which takes the idea of clean graffiti to the next level by creating street art out of living, breathing plants.
Eco-minded street artist Edina Tokodi is putting a new spin on green guerilla tactics in the trendy art e
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“the manga industrial complex” in Japan, and the complex structure of tacitly-permitted copyright violation that powers the participatory fan culture around commercially-produced manga. Though the countless fan publications that take existing, copyrighted
!links for 2007-11-03
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007-
Within the tent neither mobile phones nor WLAN services are available. By this quality, the tent becomes a “non-space”, a white mark in the telecommunication topography. A detection of individuals who are within the tent is no longer possible. Further
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common sense is snot so common
links for 2007-11-02
Friday, November 2nd, 2007-
oh man
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75 hours of free mp3 format “vintage hits from around the world”
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huitlacoche!
links for 2007-11-01
Thursday, November 1st, 2007-
31 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 4th arrondissement
Metro: Saint Paul
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The government’s reserves there are chump change compared with the gold bars stored at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Lower Manhattan; that fortresslike castle calls itself the world’s largest public or private bullion warehouse and serves as
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**lotsa gray*** Surely, some geegaws, vistas, and food-stuffs to rival the NYC Googleplex, yes? Er, no.
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It’s mostly about the publication bias: what is published in research paper is only results that are positive or which have dramatic outcomes. The other goes to the lab drawer but now some initiatives aim at setting them free.