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June 2006 - Renaissance Faires, Northern & Central California Note: The Heart of the Forest Renaissance Faires in S. Lake Tahoe and Marin County will not be presented in 2006. +With the assistance of members of the Nor Cal Ren Faire, a small "Ren Fair" was held in Santa Cruz (Aptos) on June 17th. See http://www.dragonslayersfestival.com/
June 18, 2006- One of the key issue for the nascent nation of the U.S.A. was the institutionalized separation of 'Church' and 'State'. It seems to me that this was an important issue because the founders had seen first-hand the tyranny born of governments based on the authority given to them by the church. Hopefully after the coming 2nd revolution, a key issue will be the separation of 'Corporation' and 'State', now that we have seen the tyranny born of a government whose power comes from corporations instead of people. (Did you know that business entities now have, in many cases, the same legal status as people?) Hostile Takeover : How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government--and How We Take It Back by David Sirota
June 14, 2006- Japanese "bad" and "okay" symbols: * ( charset=iso-8859-1 :
Grappa Vinaccia (appears in The 5th Element); "Pietro Mare -- Treviso"
June 2, 2006- I love IFC. Now playing : Va Savor (2001). French AND Italian! Yum! "Palme d'Or nominee, Cannes Film Festival. Beautifully constructed by French film legend Jacques Rivette, this romantic roundelay centers on three men and three women whose relationships keep shifting in comic and catastrophic ways." Other misc stuff: * Kanji Characters, Grade 6 (6th grade kanji)
* GlobalGate: http://www.nifty.com/globalgate/ * Grade School in Japan: more school life (check out the SORA dance!)
May 17, 2006 Permissum Vestri Complector Rector Vos = "Let Your Compass Guide You" (sponsored by Jeep) permissum : to allow, permit, let. ----- The future is now: A company called iD2 Technology has developed a "touchscreen" computer-display that floats in the air like a hologram. The device, called the M2i, projects a 30" diagonal display similar to those seen in the Stephen Speilberg film "Minority Report".
Above: A floating fish (under office lighting) in which the Heliodisplay is concealed into a coffee table.
May 10, 2006 - Revolutionary Sony PS3 Controller secrets! What didn't anyone think of this before? E306: new motion sensing PS3 controller in context. To truly understand just how revolutionary & "cutting edge" the technology of the new PlayStation 3 controller (previewed at E3 2006) is, you should watch this controller review from Gamespot TV, circa 1999 (and yes, that is Adam Sessler).
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May 1, 2006 - V is for Vendetta, A is for Anarchy For anyone who doesn't know, the movie "V for Vendetta" is reportedly very different from the book, watered down so much that Alan Moore has asked for his name to be removed from it. You can read his opinions on the script (and DC comics) in various interviews like this one. The most notable change is political -- the plot has been changed from a self-proclaimed anarchist fighting against a fascist empire to a liberal fighting a neo-conservative state. There's some interesting reading at A for Anarchy.org ... (http://www.aforanarchy.org ) vendetta - "The vendetta [feud] may prevail ... where the government is feared or distrusted to such an extent that private justice is considered more equitable. The obligation to carry on the vendetta usually rests primarily on the male who is next of kin to the wronged person. Among some peoples, vengeance may be taken on any member of the group of the person who has done the wrong. " --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondants' Dinner: ( Colbert Roasts Bush 1-3 ; part1 | part2 | part3 ) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- May 1st marks, perhaps, the anniversary of the first Unsolicited Mass Commercial Email (May 1 1978)... According to Wikipedia (which can not, as we know, be considered reliable):
Elsewhere online, I found what could be considered the closest thing to a first hand account (and the blog upon which the "first spam" claim is based): [However] the mail program would only accept 320 addresses. The rest overflowed into the body of the message. When they found some recipients had not gotten it, they re-sent the message to the rest of the recipients. ... Thuerk thought, and maintains to this day that he didn't think he was doing anything wrong -- even though he gets a moderate amount of spam on his current E-mail account. He felt the [new computer] was really relevant news to the Arpanet community, [as it was] the first major system with ARPAnet software built into it. Indeed, some of those who commented on the message felt it was definitely more of interest than other small mass mailings they had seen, with baby announcements and personal trivia. Nonetheless, he knew there would be some negative reaction. He primed his boss to be ready for complaint, though he didn't anticipate how strong it would be. The Defense Communications Agency (DCA), which ran the Arpanet, called Thuerk's boss, a former Air Force officer, to register a strong complaint... "" > Read more at Brad Templeton's Blog (http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html ) But "the first spam" is a somewhat dubious claim; many people consider the first spam, as we think of it today, as being a message posted to a bunch of Usenet newsgroups by a law firm called Canter and Siegel on 5 March 1994. According to an article on CNET * a better date to observe a "happy spamaversity" would be April 12, because "On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet. " *http://news.com.com/Happy+spamiversary/2100-1024_3-5189340.html ARPRANET timeline: 1972 - Ray Tomlinson (BBN) modifies an e-mail program for ARPANET, where it 1978 - According to http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/#Growth , 1983 - With more than 300 computers connected, its protocols were changed See here and "Happy Spamaversity".
April 2006 -Featured Download: Music Video for "The Test" by The Chemical Brothers. In HDTV MP4* (mpg4) format, 82 MB. *Playable using Nero Showtime 2 (aka Nero Digital), and, perhaps, Quicktime. -- > Download Collection of all AOTS Episodes for January 2006 < April 23, 2006 -
April 2006 - Study: Long-term cell use raises brain tumor risk (article: Rueters, March 31, 2006) see also: Council on Wireless Technology Impacts PUBLIC EXPOSURE: DNA, Democracy & the Wireless "Revolution" (from the Ecological Options Network / eon3.org ) electrosmog - keep in mind that the radiation is not just coming from the cell phones themselves. There is no evidence Industry backed scientistific studies claim "there is no proof that there are risks" from cell phone use or broadcasting towers, "Is it really good, then, to whole-body irradiate 24 hours a day?"
April 11, 2006 - Yepes teaches Robert Rodriguez to paint Salma Hayek.
The Yepes' fashionable art "fad" reminds me very much of the fad popularity of Nagel in the 80's (remember Patrick Nagel?). This is so Pop Culture: cheesy director painting a movie star and calling it an art show... draws: Movie Star. Director. Cool "hispanic" angle. Tie in with Frida. [bloggercred: cinema strikes back.com] | george yepes.com | patrick nagel.com
April 2006- I love the Independant Film Channel (IFC). This week they played Smoke Signals and another great film I'd never heard of: a Room for Romeo Brass... "Part Mike Leigh, part Ken Loach, this working-class drama about two teenagers who find their friendship tested by a local eccentric is Shane Meadows' follow-up film to 'TwentyFourSeven.' (1999) Dir: Shane Meadows." links: - the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven - reviews and excerpt (New York Times: One Indian Doesn't Tell the Other); about the movie Smoke Signals
Mon, March 27 2006: Watched a lecture on Audio archiving using non-destructive methods, presented by The Berkeley Lab Summer Lecture Series.
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"Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using Physics to Restore Early Sound Recordings"
Feature: Just Me (aka WTF?) LYRICAL: Lyrics for The Chemical Brothers - "Galvanize" (used in ad for Miller beer) All The Love In The World lyrics Lyrics for Galaxies - Laura Veirs
Enlighted Nervbak:
> Watch/Download Quicktime Movie
March 13 - You've seen Google maps, right? Now try Google Mars (for the next time you need driving directions to the nearest restaurant while on Mars).
March 9- The BitTorrent Song: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vN1D5jJAHTs
P2P Indexing/Search engine sites to form coalition to fight MPAA "A point to consider is TorrentSpy and ISOHunt are search engines - not trackers. Their role in the BitTorrent community is considerably different from previous lawsuit recipients such as the trackers EliteTorrents and LokiTorrent. Trackers are responsible for directing BitTorrent community traffic by hosting the actual torrent file. Conversely, indexing sites operate in a fashion similar to Google or Yahoo! and only search a tracker's database. They host no actual torrent files." (Sharing video does NOT cut into media producer's profits any more than VCR's did!)
Feb 12, 2006- http://www.gospelthomas.com/gospelthomas25.html Since the "Gospel of St. Thomas" teaches doctrines not in harmony with the rest of the Bible, for example, that there were two separate creations of mankind "one perfect, the second flawed", and that men living today can acquire the "image of God", it is viewed with great skepticism - except for a certain cult-like following of people who believe that it more accurately reflects the "real" Jesus than Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
February 10, 2006 - > Download Nissan TSBs for free - NISSAN MAXIMA & ALTIMA : 1995 through 1999
February 4, 2006 -
Instead, you keep listening and then in "In My Arms" there's a "Betty Davis Eyes" sample (by Kim Carnes, if you're old enough to remember). "Guilty Of Love" comes over all melodic and pretty then "Paris Four Hundred" gets you moving around in your chair again like you've got ants in your pants. "Musclecars" is the next track to come off the album, both with and without vocals - a sneaky little electro tune with woo-hoo-hoo-hoos and bleeps that sounds a bit like Royksopp . With 14 tracks all hovering around the house/electro area and all mostly winners, it probably won't be long before you start hearing more about Mylo. Not just for the faggy fashion losers, either, even if they do play this stuff quite a lot.
You can hear more tracks, for both low bandwidth and high bandwidth, @ http://mylo.tv (click on the word "MUSIC"): Free Download : "Destroy Rock & Roll" (Tom Neville Mix) Download Tom Neville's Clean Edit mix of Mylo's "Destroy Rock & Roll" that was especially created for the U.S. market:
The song is the title track from Mylo's debut album that will finally hit stores stateside on February 7. Neville has included some extra beats and a high-pitched string section to add some dancefloor drama. The albulm track samples a preacher's moral rant against a list of '80s pop stars. In an interview, Mylo stated that he was not sure if Americans would get the humor of this. He added that many of the artists that the evangelists mentions have been an inspiration to him. "When I did my PhD [in Philosophy] at UCLA I really got into the classic rock stuff from the '80s. Some of those tracks I sampled for the album," Milo said. "I didn't have much work to do at UCLA, but there was a great radio station in LA County. I used to drive around just listening to the radio."
January 30, 2006- Exxon Mobil Posts Record Profit of 3.7 Billion Dollars per Month The oil company Exxon today posted the Highest Quarterly and Annual Profit ever for a U.S. company (corporation) -- $10.71 billion [USD] in profit for the fourth quarter, and $36.13 billion profit for the year. 4th quarter earnings jumped 27% , revenues grew almost 20%. The company's earnings amounted to $1.71 per share for the October-December quarter, up 27 percent from $8.42 billion, or $1.30 per share, in the year ago quarter. The result topped the then-record quarterly profit of $9.92 billion Exxon posted in the third quarter of 2005. Exxon's profit for the year was also the largest annual reported net income in U.S. history, according to Howard Silverblatt, a senior index analyst for Standard & Poor's. He said the previous high was Exxon's $25.3 billion profit in 2004. Quarterly revenue was $99.66 billion ($99,660,000,000), very close to the $100.72 billion Exxon posted in the third quarter, which was the first time a U.S. public company generated more than $100 billion in sales in a single quarter. For the full year, revenue grew to $371 billion (from $298.04 billion the previous year). To put that into perspective, Exxon's revenue for the year exceeded Saudi Arabia's estimated 2005 gross domestic product of $340.5 billion (GDP according to statistics maintained by the Central Intelligence Agency). [source: Associated Press]
January 20, 2006- January somethingorother, 2006- Play .MP4 (sony psp video, iPod video, Nero video) using WinAmp > see Most Requested Features / Plug-ins --
> plastic bugs ( scott moschella )
January 10, 2006- "I printed 15,000 of these bubble stickers and place them on top of ads all over New York City. Passersby fill them in. I go back and photograph the results."
January 9, 2006-
Plays DVD, DVD+/-RW, MPEG4/DivX/XviD, VCD, SVCD, CD+R/-RW, HDCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG, CD
WonderCon 2006 : FEB 10 - 12, 2006 (Friday - Sunday) ; Moscone Center West, 800 Howard Street , San Francisco Comic-Con 2006:
> Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil
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