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New Millennium Business Plan
This cartoon is probably a lot more realistic than we realize. There are a lot of companies and sites being built for the purpose of cashing in on the big sale. And when companies like YouTube come along and are only out there for 18 months before being bought up …
Sen. Bennett's New Deputy Press Secretary
Andrea Candrian has joined Senator Robert Bennett’s (R-UT) office to serve as his Deputy Press Secretary. Candrian is from Sandy, Utah and a graduate of Brigham Young University. She came to the Bennett office after reporting in Tallahassee, Florida and Pasco, Washington for the CBS affiliate stations. Candrian was chosen to replace outgoing Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Stevenson who left Bennett’s office to take a press officer position at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. (PF Tipster)
2009 - 53% of law firm heads uncertain about future [AmLaw Survey]
In their official response to the annual THE AMERICAN LAWYER survey, 53% of law-firm heads indicated they were "uncertain" about 2009. Informally, reports Francesca Heinz in THE AMERICAN LAWYER, they are using phrases like "We're not sure" and "The future is up for grabs." This is the first time since the survey was started in 2003 that law-firm leaders have indicated that they simply don't know what's going to happen in the near future. Those unknowns, all interrelated of course, include t
Across a Burning Bridge
Editor’s Note: The following article by Eric Francis was originally published at the end of 2004, during the presidential election between John Kerry and George Bush. It’s now part of the Planet Waves archives, available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News. I was struck by the parallels in this article between today and four years ago: Eric mentions a moment between two paradigms; then he was talking about Capricorn and Aquarius, but it could easily be the Saturn-Uranus conjuncti
Web Hosting On-Demand SaaS Services, OpSource, Deployed by Entry.com (- InftekHosting.Com)
Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - December 3, 2008 - The Entry Software firm, an integrated work management solutions provider, has selected OpSource, to support its On Demand service, and deliver enterprise-class power and the highest levels of security and standards compliance available. Entry Software CEO Barry Cousins noted, ”We previously managed our own hosting operation and realized that with our growth rate and the increasing customer demand for SaaS operational rigor an
iCoffee Table Stands Tall (- InftekHosting.Com)
iCoffee Table Stands Tall Back in May, CoM published a phone cam shot of a table that looked like an iPod found in a Milan hotel. We tracked down the guy who made it, Mirko Ginepro, an industrial designer, graphic artist and photographer. His iTable is made from Corian (frequently the stuff of kitchen and bathroom counter tops), [...] Back in May, CoM published a phone cam shot of a table that looked like an iPod found in a Milan hotel. We tracked down the guy who made it, Mirko Gin
Human Rights and International Law (4): The International Criminal Court, An Historical Perspective
December 3, 2008 in human rights and international law, justice, law | Tags: impunity, International Criminal Court, justice, law, politics, reconciliation, sovereignty, war crimes | by Filip Spagnoli This post is by guest-writer Line Løvåsen. (source) We’ve mentioned before on this blog that national systems of criminal justice are often insufficient and ineffective, and that an international criminal justice system is an important tool for the protection of human rights. It can help to c
Lahore’s oldest guide
Raza Rumi The interior of Data Darbar The grave of the saint Outside the shrine, The shrine at night Perhaps the greatest of the experiences at Data Darbar is to find oneself connected to a stream of humanity, shoulder to shoulder, with a shared sense of spirituality that cuts across ethnicity, sect, ritual and even religion at times. Despite the mayhem, the serenity of the place is soothing “To traverse distance
Cybersurfing: Strazynski on revisiting “Forbidden Planet”
Poster from the original FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) The MTV Movie Blog has an interview with J. Michael Straczynski (BABYLON 5), who drops hints -without revealing specifics - about his approach to the upcoming FORBIDDEN PLANET remake: “I told [producer] Joel [Silver] this is how you do ‘Forbidden Planet’ without pissing on the original [...],” said Straczynski. “When I told [the idea] to him, his eyes lit up. It’s not a remake. It’s not a re-imagining. It’s not exactly a prequel. You’ll have to
A Career in Photography - Preserving Precious Moments
The camera is capable of recording everything that the human eye can see and preserve it for future viewing. A photograph is a visual record of man’s achievement, from overwhelming victory to crushing defeat. It also covers the whole spectrum of man’s emotion from unabashed happiness to heart-rending grief. No other art form has ever captured the best and worst in life’s experience than the art of photography. Throughout recorded history, man’s desire to immortalize himself has been made evid
The Language of Texas Cattle Ranching
The man that is Busby “Buzz” Owens is what you think of when you think of the classic Texas cattle rancher. Sadly, the image we automatically conjure up has almost become a thing of the past. Today, the person who owns land and cattle in Texas has to be part cowboy, part businessman and certainly, part gutsy venture capitalist. Owens is all that and more. He’s a serious man. It’s obvious after meeting him that he rarely smiles and it safe to assume, he never laughs either. He is angry, too–that’
Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy: John Gantz, Jack B. Rochester
Editorial Reviews Digital piracy. It’s a global war — and it’s just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. organized crime. John Gantz and Jack Rochester cover every side and all the implications. Economics. Law. Ethics. Culture. The players. And above all, the realities — including the exclusive new findings of a 57-cou
Filmmakers Coop and Flux Factory Benefits this weekend
Filmmakers Mike Kuchar and Marie Losier, via the Harvard Film Archive Flux Factory Auction Benefit 7-10pm Friday 5 December 2008 Hungarian Cultural - 447 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York NY Filmmaker's Coop End of Year Benefit Screening 8-11pm Saturday 6 December 2008 Millennium Film Workshop - 66 E. 4th St, New York NY This weekend two of New York's finer cultural organizations host fund raisers in Manhattan. Flux Factory, who until recently operated an exhibition and work space in Long Isl
Album Review: Matador Singles
There is nothing reatarded, pardon the pun, about Jay Lindsey, a.k.a. Jay Reatard. This Memphis, Tennessee native has been on a rock and roll rampage since the tender age of 15, and for the past ten years he has managed to release an uncanny amount of material, be it with his first couple bands, or one of the several other side projects he is known for. But when it comes to being just Jay, the list is shorter. Thanks to the October release of Matador Singles, the complete collection of the sing
The Karen Daniel Story
A few weeks ago on one of my weekend round ups, I linked to a CNN article about a woman called Karen Daniel and her journey to a better and healthier life. To my surprise, I got an email yesterday from her trainer giving me some more information. With his permission, I am printing that information here: When I first saw Karen Daniel, I knew I was looking at a woman in trouble. At 375 pounds, she took a giant step by entering my fitness center. There I was, face to face with one of the bigges
Copyright Office Should Right DMCA Wrongs in Rulemaking
Copyright Office Should Right DMCA Wrongs in Rulemaking: Via EFF.org Updates San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed three exemption requests with the U.S. Copyright Office today aimed at protecting the important work of video remix artists, iPhone owners, and cell phone recyclers from legal threats under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA prohibits "circumventing" digital rights management (DRM) and "other technical protection measures" used to prot
For quite some time, Mobipocket users have been clamoring for an official Mobipocket application for the iPhone (as well as Mac OS X Desktop, and Linux (desktop and mobile), which have gotten lumped together in the same Mobipocket forum thread). There are applications that read unencrypted Mobipocket files on these platforms, of course—Bookshelf (well) and Stanza (poorly) for the iPhone, FBReader for Mac (beta) and Linux—but without the ability to read encrypted Mobipocket, users of these plat
Historians Peter Brown and Romila Thapar Named 2008 Kluge Prize Recipients
On December 3, 2008, historians Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Romila Thapar were named recipients of the $1 Million 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity. They are the sixth and seventh recipients since the Prize’s 2003 inception. Each awardee will receive half of the $1 million prize. The Kluge Prize is international; the recipient may be of any nationality, writing in any language. The main criterion for a recipient is deep and sustained intellectual accomplishmen
The trend stops with Me
I am posting this mostly to get a smile out of Trini, who spent much of yesterday afternoon downgrading improving one of the local PCs: Some used PCs are being purchased not for the hardware but because people want to get their hands on a copy of Windows XP, according to industry analysts and hardware suppliers. Which isn’t any surprise, since the most expensive component inside the box is likely to be that copy of Windows, something I noticed way back in 2001. Besides: Many consumers an
‘Jetliner Cabins’ Makes Ideal Holiday Gift for Aviation/Travel Buffs
NEW YORK, December 3, 2008 — Holiday shoppers with an aviation or travel enthusiast on their gift list might find that the updated softcover edition of “Jetliner Cabins” fits the bill. The 216-page book contains more than 450 pictures (most in color) and detailed material about all the elements involved in aircraft cabin design. “Jetliner Cabins” is a unique resource covering the past (Concorde, Eastern Airlines, and Braniff International), the present (a comprehensive survey of U.S. and inter
Star Wars: A New Heap
On Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Jane Jacobs, 2001, Star Wars, and minimalism: Star Wars: A New Heap. Kubrick's film presented a future of company men moving with assurance and clear intention toward a godlike minimalist object. Lucas, on the other hand, gave us a slapdash world of knuckleheads pursued by industrial-scale minimalists. Visually, Kubrick's film is as seamless and smooth as the modernist authority it mirrored. Like the mid-century modernists, 2001
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