"I'm not working anybody," he said. "All I want to do is make some people laugh and sell the freaking dress," he said. "I posted it last Friday and it went crazy."But not really. He's just sisterless.
And there's the real question: If the government is going to regulate speech, where's the line and who's going to draw it? Is it at the least-common-denominator that makes all media safe for 5-year-olds? Is it at the church door that makes all media safe for church ladies? Is it at my car door so I can still listen to Stern? Is the line going to be drawn just on broadcast or will it extend to cable and satellite--and the Internet? Will the censored be just shock jocks--or newsmakers or bloggers?He said church lady. Ha Ha.
A small group of experts who drop out of the mainstream of a company’s operations in order to develop some experimental technology or new application in secrecy or at speed, unhampered by bureaucracy or the strict application of regulationsInteresting history behind the phrase "Skunk Works."
Our business environment changes rapidly and needs long term investment. We will not hesitate to place major bets on promising new opportunities.There's a lot of good stuff to read in here.
We will not shy away from high-risk, high-reward projects because of short term earnings pressure. Some of our past bets have gone extraordinarily well, and others have not. Because we recognize the pursuit of such projects as the key to our long term success, we will continue to seek them out. For example, we would fund projects that have a 10% chance of earning a billion dollars over the long term. Do not be surprised if we place smaller bets in areas that seem very speculative or even strange. As the ratio of reward to risk increases, we will accept projects further outside our normal areas, especially when the initial investment is small.
We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google. This empowers them to be more creative and innovative. Many of our significant advances have happened in this manner. For example, AdSense for content and Google News were both prototyped in “20% time.” Most risky projects fizzle, often teaching us something. Others succeed and become attractive businesses.
I want an easy way to distribute video.
I'm told that I should be looking into BitTorrent, but am concerned about opening up my system to the world.
The problem is, what if a video I put up there becomes so popular, that it exceeds my monthly bandwith allotment.
Also, the people at Macromedia are camplaining about my use of QuickTime for the video and want me to use FLASH with a front end that requires me to learn a bunch of new stuff and set it up on a server.
I could spend that time learning all that, but it'd be much easier of my weblog tool of choice, TypePad, had a button that allowed me to upload QT, FLASH, and MPEG4 files, that they would then host in nice looking wrappers.
There.
Maybe someone will listen to that.
This site was created to give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best open source and free php/mysql based software systems in the world. You can log in as the administrator to any site here, thus allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.via [ Shimon ]
Beginning Thursday, Channel 11's late newscast will provide Web surfers a behind-the-scenes offering for the tech- and news-curious -- an audio feed of what transpires in the KHOU control room.WHDH in Bosotn should do the same.
We were overwhelmed with entries to the "Design Eye for the StartUp Guy" book cover design contest. We ended up with more than 250 entries. Due to overwhelming demand we're giving everyone an advance peek at the entries before Guy picks the short list.Cool.
Once you arrive at the iTunes Music Store, enter the Download Code shown below, and follow the onscreen directions to receive your music download!Well guess what?
Your code is valid until June 25, 2004.
You've got to click on the REDEEM SONG icon that shows the Pepsi logo wearing headphones.
He was different.
I picked up a chicken hitchhiking the other day.Ha!
He got in the car and I asked where to?
He said, "Make a U-Turn, stop and let me out."
This layout is 600 pixels wide. A banner image automatically has a 15 pixel border in a basic template, this is the green area that you see around the banner. The color of the border is set on the Design > Style page for the template, in the Page Banner element with the "Background" color.Here's a message from tech support about it:
To create a banner that fits perfect, you would subtract the 15 pixels for each side border (30 pixels total) from the width of the layout, creating a banner that is 570 pixels wide. The height will adjust automatically.
Currently the basic template has an automatic 15 pixels of padding around it, to create a frame. There's an example in the above link.More info here.
We're planning on adding the option to adjust this in the basic sets, but to remove it at this time would take an advanced template.
So I finally left the TV department ansd went over to the Mac area. I was doing a weight test on the Macs to see which one my mom could lift.
British comedian 'Ali G,' played by actor Sacha Baron Cohen (L), interviews a pro-life demonstrator during a march for women's rights in Washington, April 25, 2004.That's great news!
dadaIMC also sports a new "license" section, allowing the author to specify a distribution license, selecting from public domain, standard copyright, or one of the Creative Commons licenses.The Wes Clark Community Network used Scoop. Here's an interesting one, publicaccesstv.net.
The goal of this project is to create a content sharing platform consisting of contributors and corerspondents recruited from young audiences and students distributed throughout the global mediascape who are engaged in direct reporting via collective production of Internet and broadcast news clips.via [ unmediated ]
AS THE SITUATION in Iraq grows ever more tenuous, the Bush administration continues to spin the ominous news with matter-of-fact optimism. According to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Iraqi uprisings in half a dozen cities, accompanied by the deaths of more than 100 soldiers in the month of April alone, is something to be viewed in the context of "good days and bad days," merely "a moment in Iraq’s path towards a free and democratic system." More recently, the president himself asserted, "Our coalition is standing with responsible Iraqi leaders as they establish growing authority in their country."This is bad news.
But according to a closely held Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) memo written in early March, the reality isn’t so rosy. Iraq’s chances of seeing democracy succeed, according to the memo’s author — a US government official detailed to the CPA, who wrote this summation of observations he’d made in the field for a senior CPA director — have been severely imperiled by a year’s worth of serious errors on the part of the Pentagon and the CPA, the US-led multinational agency administering Iraq. Far from facilitating democracy and security, the memo’s author fears, US efforts have created an environment rife with corruption and sectarianism likely to result in civil war.
Ed Fitzgerald was a well-known photographer who in his later years became a wire service and newspaper photo editor. He was considered an expert on which lens to use when. But there was another major factor that enhanced his prize-winning photos: lighting.That's just one of 11 tutorials.
Most photographers realize that shooting an image from the correct angle is crucial to the creation of distinctive photographs. Fitzgerald took it one step further, making sure that the light on his subject was just right.
One day he was assigned to cover baseball slugger Ted Williams who was working out at the ballpark after recovering from an injury. Williams tended to be antagonistic toward journalists, but Fitzgerald engaged him in conversation about camera shutter speeds while maneuvering Williams to a spot on the first-base line where, in mid-conversation, Williams took picturesque practice swings with his back to the field. More importantly the lighting was perfect at that spot.
On the way back to the office, Fitzgerald stopped his car in the middle of the street in front of city hall, having spotted an old man with a white beard sitting on a low wall reading the paper. The noon sun was glancing off the newspaper, illuminating the facial image. Fitzgerald crouched, snapped the photo and jumped back into the car. That profile photo appeared in newspapers around the US and won another major contest.
Fitzgerald was an artist who saw images in the right light.
Veteran journalist Jack Driscoll's research group has teamed up with senior centers and schools around the world to teach would-be journalists how to write and publish community news. The program gives participants simple online publishing tools -- and a few key lessons in how to be reporters and editors.I followed a link to the Silver Stringers site that had a neat page on how to be a journalist.
On the 9th of February 2004 The Vengaboys gave their last Vengaboys performance ever.Six Flags Web Site.
"We're not interested in downloading to the computer," Mr Hastings said, but rather expanding wireless connections in the home from a broadband Internet connection to the TV.Hmm.
Another option would be to send digital movie files to existing set-top boxes like TiVo. TiVo chief executive officer Mike Ramsey serves on the Netflix board.
Bonjour Joss.That's Gold! Blog Gold!
It's hard to be in touch with you so I try with this web page. Perhaps I'll be lucky !
I'm a french filmmaker (I produce, direct and sometimes act). You can watch the video To Joss Whedon, a special message for you, and À travers elle, my last short movie with a scene tribute to Buffy.
In France there aren't show like those you produce. I admire your work very much and I'd like to join your team for any job.
Please if you have time, watch my videos and send me a message at chloe@tojosswhedon.com.
Chloé Micout
The "Rock Against Bush Vol. 1" features 26 of the most influential rock bands in America right now uniting mainstream and underground rock to speak out against the Bush Administration. It includes bands like Offspring, Ministry, NOFX, Social Distortion, Pennywise, Descendents, The Ataris, and many more.Rock on.
A website published dozens of photographs... The photographs were released last week to First Amendment activist Russ Kick... After Kick posted more than 350 photographs on his website...The online site of the Globe, boston.com, doesn't have the print version of the story yet. They have a photo with a caption.
...The photo was released to a website by the Air Force on April 14 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.Hey, how about a link back?
Dear Steve Garfield --Thanks!
... I will plead guilty to (and apologize for) bad manners on the Globe's behalf. More important, I will ask the news desk to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Thanks for writing.
Chris Chinlund
Globe Ombud
No doubt you've all heard by now that you have a new tool you can use to pirate music, this time by stripping away the copy protection used by the iTunes Music Store. It's called QTFairUse, and it was created by the same misguided punk, Jon Johansen, that created DeCSS to crack DVDs. The title would seem to indicate that there is something in the fair use section of the Copyright Act that is relevant to the creation and use of QTFairUse.He wants people to respect intellectual property rights.
Um, no.
You, Jon Johansen and others may have deluded yourselves into thinking that this tool is about fair use, but you're engaged in fantasy and mass rationalization. It would be helpful to the debate if you would stop such behavior and fortune-telling, and consider the actual facts.
PF Bentley created a great Timelapse Movie of the California Angles Baseball Park - including a full Baseball Game. The total time was 16 hours with a frame capture rate of 3 seconds compressed in 55 seconds.You gotta love the seventh inning stretch.
A shareholder to criticize Jobs' comparison of Apple and BMW: When marketshare numbers are released, the perception is that Apple has a small percentage of the market, even though they may have a large percentage of particular markets, like education.Ha.
People don't avoid buying a BMW because they are worried about BMW's marketshare, suggested Jobs. "Ultimately what we have to do is be successful," said Jobs.
Jobs asked the shareholder, "What kind of car do you drive?"
"A BMW," she said to loud applause and laughter.
The Memory Hole filed a Freedom of Information Act request for photographs of American servicemen and women who died in Iraq. After an initial refusal, the request was granted.via [ Metafilter ]
In past wars, this photograph by Tami Silicio that ran in the Seattle Times would be just one in a series. Previous administrations had to contend with the reality that such pictures would be published. Inevitably, the public would stop thinking about dead soldiers as statistics in some remote video game, and wake up to the fact that the soldiers were, in fact, real people who died following orders based on decisions made by our leaders. If the cause was deemed just, the public accepted the human and economic toll. If it wasn't, there would be hell to pay.via [ 1115.org ] by way of [ Romenesko ]
Since the 1991 Gulf War, the Department of Defense (populated by many of the same decision-makers as the current regime) implemented guidelines that prohibit photographers from shooting flag-draped coffins. I have yet to hear a reasonable explanation for this rule as there are no identifying markings that would invade the privacy of a fallen soldier. It's just a way to wage war on the cheap. No flag-draped coffins equals less public outrage.
Take a good hard look at the image. Shouldn't we, as a free society, have access to what is happening in our name?
Nearly 40 years after Andy Warhol transformed Campbell¹s soup cans into art form, Campbell celebrates the pop artist with limited edition soup cans bearing his colorful renditions of the classic tomato soup label.Why can't Progresso celebrate Andy Warhol?
Craig invented the Lensbabies Flexible Lens Mounting System (Patent Pending) in an effort to replace his Holga™ film camera with its digital equivalent. After getting enthusiastic feedback from fellow photographers longing to create unique imagery for their clients, Craig decided to make Lensbabies available to everyone.It'd be cool to get one of these for a video camera.
If you've ever wanted to buy a digital camera, this guide demystifies the world of digital photography and imaging - a must-read whether you're a photography enthusiast, a gadget lover, a novice photographer, or anybody who regularly works with images.This article explains everything you ever wanted to know about digital cameras.
FX will rebroadcast "24" at 11 p.m. ET Monday and 6 p.m. ET Tuesday, three hours before the show returns to its regular spot on FOX.Stupid Bush.
The highlights for me were learning about Steve Garfield's videoblog and John Perry Barlow's surprise session on "the emotional life of the blogosphere".Thanks Andrew!
I wanted to see him all week. His e-mail declined a movie date we had agreed on earlier.Elin has some remarkable writing on her site.
My week is a bit crazy but I hope to see you soon.
Later in the week there was another e-mail.
Are you doing anything fun this weekend?
I replied, but he never followed up.
Steve's enthusiasm about the subject comes off pretty handily during the clips I've garnered from the interview, including a really incredible one about the realization of being online in a multi-user environment. In a nice story about bumping onto someone online, he really captures the feeling many people might have with adjusting to meeting a real person across the computer.He's got a new trailer for BBS: The Documentary up on his website.
Sorry about that Steve,Shouldn't my Creative Commons License carry through on the RSS feed?
It wasn't deliberate, and I will remove the information as soon as possible...
But you do realize that when you post material via RSS you are actually SYNDICATING it, and it will wind up
in people's RSS aggregators, readers, etc. I Actually got your content through an RSS SEARCH ENGINE,
Feedster(http://www.feedster.com), or Daypop(http://www.daypop.com), rather than your site
directly, (I haven never even visited your site) so I believe you are the one sending your information out
for the world to see and use.
RSS by it's nature is "freely syndicatable", and for education purposes was started by netscape and inteded
for webpages originally. "Readers" and "Aggregators" came afterward.
Copyright law has a "fair use" clause, and IMO, when someone has a button that says "Syndicate this" i.e.
an RSS or XML button (I'm not saying you do, but your site does show up in an RSS search engine) then using
that material is "fair use".
Once again Steve, I didn't deliberately take your material, it's already out there for the world to see
and/or use. If you want to restrict your information, take it out of the search engines, or password protect
it or something.
Sorry about all of this.
"President Bush, after a National Security Council meeting, takes Don Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically and takes him into a little cubbyhole room and closes the door and says, 'What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq?' What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret," says Woodward.Tune in when Bob Woodward discusses his new book, which reveals secret details of the White House’s plans to attack Iraq, for the first time on television in an interview with correspondent Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, Sunday, April 18, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"...The end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn't know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved. ...Some people are gonna look at a document called the Constitution which says that no money will be drawn from the treasury unless appropriated by Congress. Congress was totally in the dark on this.
Bill hopped into his new Chrysler Crossfire and drove off into the night, triumphantly accelerating into Midtown Manhattan gridlock, hardly noticing the car's top was down in the middle of a chilly April downpour.Bill also forgot to put on his seatbelt AND didn't look to see if any cars were coming before pulling out into the street.
Now I'm forced to fill that awful gaping, sucking chest wound of a void in my Thursday night TV schedule.Dave Pell enjoyed Trump's every word:
OK, now that the details are out of the way, we can go back to talking about what really makes the show The Apprentice a hit. ... It's The Donald. At no time was that more clear than last night when the boardroom walls were swept away to reveal an enthusiastic studio audience to which Trump responded by repeating what I think should be the new trademarked tagline of the show: "Settle Down!"Beth makes a comment over at buzzmachine:
I found it fascinating and telling that the one person on the show who had worked in Washington was the worst at business and best at lying, dogding responsibility, and self promotion - Omorosa.The Apprentice: Guest Starring George W. Bush.
One of his first acts would be to try to abolish the income tax in favor of a sales tax, which Ventura says is a better indicator of wealth.Run, Jesse, Run!
The sale was to buy 3 and at the end you would get 5.00 off. I am sorry that you thought that if you purchased 1 you would still get the sale price. I am sorry for any confusion you experienced. Please accept our sincere apologize for any inconvenience you had.
If you find anything good over there, post a comment.
Hear original compositions--acoustic folk tunes, electric guitar riffs, power pop--by members of the BC Music Guild, a student-run network of more than 250 musicians on campus.
During an Ear Candling session you lie on your side with your body in a straight alignment. A special conical candle is inserted into a protective plate . . . The candle is lit and slowly begins to burn. The small tapered end of the candle is gently placed into your ear canal. The ear candle -- by its shape, design and length -- draws ear wax and fungus deposits from deep inside your ear canal.Get eight people together on Hanukah and have and Ear Candling Hanukah party!
TV Torrents tracks BitTorrent's streams of TV shows and includes an RSS feed for automatically downloading specified shows.Interesting.
Hmm.
I've been holed up for weeks in the editing room finishing my film ("Fahrenheit 911"). That's why you haven't heard from me lately. But after last night's Lyndon Johnson impersonation from the East Room -- essentially promising to send even more troops into the Iraq sinkhole -- I had to write you all a note.
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush? You closed down a friggin' weekly newspaper, you great giver of freedom and democracy! Then all hell broke loose. The paper only had 10,000 readers! Why are you smirking?
"I wanted to pick a time that my husband would be really surprised to hear from his assistant. So I had Dial-A-Cheater call him on Sunday morning right around the time we go to church. When the call came in, we were in the car together. He looked at his phone and when he saw the callerid his whole face changed. He turned all red and quickly hit the end button to send the call to voicemail. I didn’t say anything at the time. But then in the middle of church he ‘excused’ himself to go to the rest room. I knew he was going to call her. So when we got in the car to go home, I asked to see his phone…there was a huge fight…eventually he confessed. We’ll see how much he likes going to church with the tramp, after I take the Lexus from him!"Cool idea.
Reality TV may seem a world away from real life, but what happens when Donald Trump?s The Apprentice moves in upstairs? Worse, what happens when it seems to be a sham? Keith Hollihan reports with a fascinating account of his life?s surreal intrusions.There's a lot of noise.
The effort to stabilize Iraq is out of control. It's time to face the facts squarely, and recognize that America, acting alone, is no longer capable of reaching the hearts and minds of Iraqis.And John Kerry wrote this in today's Washington Post:
We've got to transfer management authority over Iraq to the United Nations, to enable a real transition to peaceful Iraqi self-rule.
The United Nations, not the United States, should be the primary civilian partner in working with Iraqi leaders to hold elections, restore government services, rebuild the economy, and re-create a sense of hope and optimism among the Iraqi people. The primary responsibility for security must remain with the U.S. military, preferably helped by NATO until we have an Iraqi security force fully prepared to take responsibility.Thoughts?
Finally, we must level with our citizens. Increasingly, the American people are confused about our goals in Iraq, particularly why we are going it almost alone. The president must rally the country around a clear and credible goal. The challenges are significant and the costs are high. But the stakes are too great to lose the support of the American people.
Enough is enough. In a normal employment relationship, the worker gets canned for not showing up to his job. Isn't it about time we set the same standards for the highest office in the land?Yes.
Our new website highlights the past and current achievements of our free wireless network, with an emphasis on spreading our vision for the future of WiFi to everyone.How about setting up on Centre Street in JP?
Take the Sumner Tunnel. At end of the tunnel, stay to the LEFT and follow the signs to "Government Center/Route 93 South". At the top of the ramp, turn sharp right onto Hanover Street.They just want to make it hard for you by leaving NORTH END off the sign.
On Sat., April 17, all across the country, thousands of people will organize bake sales to raise money for MoveOn PAC's campaign to Take Back the White House.Mmm...baked goods.
Boston-based music-video producer Steve Garfield, 46, is no ordinary blogger. Instead of simply posting his thoughts online in a chatty weblog like millions of others around the world, he links a Canon GL2 digital video camera to his laptop and uploads short clips of protest rallies, traffic short-cuts and even news events onto his personal Internet site.First the phone book, now this!
Garfield belongs to a small but growing legion of video bloggers, or vloggers, who are turning the Web into a medium in which someday anyone could conceivably mount original programming, bypassing the usual broadcast networks and cable outlets. "My last entry was a news story about a local ice rescue, and this July I'm going to cover the Democratic Convention," says Garfield, who posts one or two new clips every month. "With cheaper digital cameras and cell phones that can also shoot video, more and more regular people like me will start becoming citizen-journalists."
Of all the holidays, Easter is my absolute favorite. It symbolizes death, re-birth, eggs, and dead rabbits.Read on.
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