Topic: BOARD NEWS - on June 15, 2007 at 7:59:00 PM CEST
Beerdigter Plymouth wird nach 50 Jahren gehoben
Wiederauferstehung nach 50 Jahren: Die Bürger von Tulsa haben vor einem halben Jahrhundert einen brandneuen Plymouth Belvedere als Zeitkapsel in der Erde versenkt. Heute wird das Gefährt ans Licht geholt. Die Oldtimergemeinde ist gespannt: Ist nur noch Rost übrig?
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 15, 2007 at 6:21:00 PM CEST
Is Banning Bootlegs Constitutional? No... But, Yes
Apparently, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has taken on the issue of whether or not a law banning concert bootleg recordings is unconstitutional. The court found that it actually is unconstitutional. It violates the copyright clause of the Constitution ("promote the progress... for a limited time...") because it does not set a limited term on the rights of the content producer.
againstmonopoly.org the second circuit two-step (application/pdf, 107 KB)
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Topic: PHOTO - on June 15, 2007 at 6:15:00 PM CEST
Kodak Unveils Brighter CMOS Color Filters
Eastman Kodak Co. has unveiled what it says are 'next-generation color filter patterns' designed to more than double the light sensitivity of CMOS or CCD image sensors used in camera phones or digital still cameras. The new color filter system is a departure from the widely used standard Bayer pattern — an arrangement of red, green and blue pixels — also created by Kodak.
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Topic: Space - on June 15, 2007 at 6:05:00 PM CEST
Russian sources tell ABC News U.S. equipment may have contributed to glitch.
Russian space agency officials tell ABC News, that the damaged computers aboard the International Space Station could have a "fatal flaw." The President and Vice President of the state-owned Energia Space Rocket Corp., which operates the flight, told ABC News while they are still trying to fix the failure from the ground, they now believe they will have to send up a completely new power supply for the computer system.
This would have to wait till August when they'd send a Russian rocket up.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 15, 2007 at 5:55:00 PM CEST
Designers to Paris: The Real Crime Is Your Look!!
No makeup. No designer hair products. No high-end wardrobe. While Paris Hilton continues to endure the Century Regional Detention Facilty, TMZ has learned that the deprived diva is already getting offers from some of the world's top designers -- who want to replace her jail-issue jumper with top-of-the-line gear -- the moment she gets out!
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 15, 2007 at 5:52:00 PM CEST
Anna Nicole Pot Judge Burns Out
Judge Lawrence Korda has decided to weed himself out of the Broward County courts, announcing his early retirement from the bench. Righteous, Your Honor.
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Topic: Terror - on June 15, 2007 at 4:06:00 PM CEST
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
The recently publicized terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, like so many of the terrorist plots over the past few years, is a study in alarmism and incompetence: on the part of the terrorists, our government and the press.
Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots -- and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse -- is wrong.
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Topic: W A R - on June 15, 2007 at 3:51:00 PM CEST
US-Militär experimentierte mit „Schwulenbombe“
Im Pentagon hat es Pläne gegeben, die sexuelle Orientierung feindlicher Soldaten mithilfe von Chemikalien zu verändern. Eine „Hormonbombe“ sollte gegnerische Truppen zu Homosexuellen umwandeln, mehr Sex unter den Soldaten die Kampfmoral schwächen.
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Topic: ART - on June 15, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
Stolen Jewels
One of my highlights at ICFF this year was the Mike and Maaike booth, in particular their new Stolen Jewels collection. The printed and scored leather “jewels” tell an interesting story, they’re based on actual stolen jewels, in fact pixilated images of the stolen gems from the web, and printed on scored leather so that each facet/pixel can be bent out. Mike just sent us some studio shots of the collection that do better justice to the collection than my show floor shots.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 15, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3
An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 15, 2007 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Sgt Pepper must die!
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? It's meant to be a classic album, but all you can hear is a load of boring tripe ... we've all felt that way. And so have the musicians we asked to nominate the supposedly great records they'd gladly never hear again.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 15, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
DJ SPOOKY: Venice Biennale 2007 [mp3]
Brian Eno once famously remarked that the problem with computers is that there isn't enough Africa in them. I kind of think that its the opposite: they're bringing the ideals of Africa: after all, computers are about connectivity, shareware, a sense of global discussion about topics and issues, the relentless density of info overload, and above all the willingness to engage and discuss it all - that's something you could find on any street corner in Africa.
I just wanted to highlight the point: Digital Africa is here, and has been here for a while. This isn't "retro" - it's about the future.
For the Venice Biennial 2007 I decided to go through a lot of my files of music from around the African Continent to accompany my installation for the Africa Pavilion. I looked through my record collection for non cliche kinds of stuff like the Baka People who make drums out the way they play in water or the "Car Horn Orchestra" of Ghana which has a gathering of many taxi drivers who converge in downtown Accra to make a large symphony of honks from their taxis at the end of the work day or for funerals of drivers.
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