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Please por favor s'il vous plait, be tener avoir, 13, years old años ans;
be not no ser être pas, religioso or intolerante of non-religiosos.
If you are a data-miner or scraper, GO AWAY. Apologies to Limelight, who are just indexing.
Conspiracy Theorists Not Welcome. Conspirators Only.
David Fisher's company 'Dynamic Architecture' have developed a moving skyscraper! The building will be made up of 80 floors, with an apartment on each floor.
The rotating building is made possible by 79 giant power-generating wind turbines.
As well as the rotation, the wind turbines will also provide enough energy to power the entire building and feed extra energy back into the grid.
There are two buildings planned at the moment. One in Dubai and one in Moscow. The Dubai building is planned to be up and running by 2010.
Update: Olivia has left Mobuzz. Gabe Mac will present in her stead.
Mobuzz.tv Site
Mobuzz.tv YouTube Channel
I've only recently found it myself so I'll just say today's program is a good bit of fun, all about Twitter. Yo mismo lo encontré hace poco, así que solo digo que la programa de hoy es una diversión sobre Twitter.
Mobuzz TV: Daily Buzz is an irreverent and quirky daily show about the the latest and greatest in Cyber-Culture and Technology
Science Friday Archives: The Happening
This is one of only two NPR programs I listen to regularly, and while I occasionally find it a little "soft on science" it is generally well produced and presented.
That's why the recent segment allowing Mr. Shyamalan to flog his new movie "The Happening" was surprisingly bad. Evidently Mr. Shyamalan believes we must stop expecting Science to save the day, embrace our ignorance, and find God in all his many and multifarious disasters.
From bees to storms, Mr. Shyamalan blithely rattled off some failings of modern Science (as he sees them) and then reminded Mr. Flatow that Einstein started out life as a non-believer, but was a wholly religious man toward the end of his life.
Unfortunately, Mr. Flatow only corrected his most baldly false assertion, but was unable or unwilling to engage him on his larger agenda. The anti-science pro-Jeebus lobbies are indeed poisoning the well, infiltrating public schools, and, of course, getting prime airtime to flog unreleased films on NPR's Science Friday.
I pray for America's brain.
This definitely counts as "Unseen TV" for those of us without Cable.
Apologies to my international readers; Hulu is restricted to the U.S. currently.
Hulu is also showing full episodes of the Colbert Report posted shortly after airing on cable.
marriage don't always mix, as explored in his recent
"New York Magazine" article, "The Affairs of Men."
This definitely counts as "Unseen TV" for those of us without Cable.
Apologies to my international readers; Hulu is restricted to the U.S. currently.
Hulu has arrived - now showing are full episodes of the Daily Show posted shortly after airing on cable.
standing around the world, as detailed in his recent book,
"A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America."
Shows are Live and On-demand at the Site
Laura Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide.
She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable and Inspirational Political Change in America (Penguin, 2008) and BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."
She wrote on Hillary Clinton in The Contenders (Seven Stories Press, 2007) and edited The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, in 2004 for the Feminist Press.
Before joining Air America when it launched in March 2004, Laura hosted the award-winning " Your Call," Monday-Friday, on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco.
Flanders' TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and " Larry King Live " on CNN as well as "The O'Reilly Factor," and "Hannity and Colmes," (FOX News) "Washington Journal," "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and the CBC news discussion program, "CounterSpin."
Her writing appears in The Nation, Alternet, Ms. Magazine, and elsewhere and her op-ed pieces have appeared in papers including The San Francisco Chronicle.
Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR's nationally-syndicated radio program.
Shie is also the author of Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997) about which Susan Faludi wrote, "If only there were a hundred of her." Katha Pollitt called it "Funny, angry, factfilled and brilliant."
Related Post:
Unheard Radio: Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Digg.com
Revision3.com
Diggnation show
Disclaimers:
- digg.com scales well. That is no small achievement.
- Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht do seem like Nice Boys.
- Alex makes appearances on his friend Liam Lynch's show Lynchland.
- I was a digg user at one time, but not a submitter or "power user."
- I have no "business" credentials.
Digg.com has developed an algorithm (secret sauce) that controls the front page. The front page is the Holy Grail for heavy digg users.
Inception
I understand the genesis was some sort of observation like:
Profitslashdot.org is cool but wouldn't it be great if we could vote on the submissions?
Stating the obvious, Digg.com is a privately held for-profit business that encourages you to spend a lot of time with their community. Less clear is whether any Digg users are paid or bribed for front page access. Diggnation the show is produced and hosted by another for-profit privately held business Revision3.com, run by Jim Louderback.
Power Users
@MrBabyMan is one of if not the top Digg contributor. Angry (jealous?) Digg users accused him of nefarious digging and he was subjected to personal attacks. MrBabyMan does his digging in addition to a full-time career.
Algorithm Fiddling
The Invention is continually fiddled with to prevent "gaming" and to provide at least the appearance of "fairness."
Motive
This is where I part company with many digg users. The only question I think interesting is "do I want a job at digg.com?" My answer to "Why should I use or contribute to Digg?" is "You shouldn't."
The Success
That one's the easiest of all. New York Times LA Times Washington Post Wall Street Journal... hello!
The Fail
The answer to the obvious question "Why should I spend time making certain individuals wealthy (wealthier)?" has not been addressed, and so again my answer must be "You shouldn't."
Related Posts
Unseen TV: Lynchland (Liam Lynch, vidcast)
Slow News Poll: How is Kevin Rose (diggnation) like (or unlike) Vince from HBO's Entourage?
I respect and admire both the individuals named here; I'm not a lawyer or biologist.
I did however leave a comment disagreeing with PZ on Lessig's defense of the Fair Use (of Lennon's "Imagine") claim made by the makers of "Expelled."
I had mixed feelings about Yoko Ono's lawsuit against Expelled — fair use is a desirable goal, but I don't think Premise Media was exercising fair use, since their movie wasn't about Lennon's music or ideas — so I can't say that I'm at all surprised or upset that the lawsuit is likely to go down in flames. I'm also not appreciative of the fact that Lessig thinks this is a "great success"; it is at best a mixed result, because while it may support Lessig's principled defense of fair use, it is also a case where he's supporting people who are promoting lies and ignorance.
It really doesn't matter much now, though. The propaganda movie is a dead issue, a complete flop, and it is not going to come back from the dead after a court decision that had no effect on its declining popularity is reversed.
Thank you #1 and #5, I agree, and mildly disagree with PZ.
Questions asking "is this a Fair Use" are complicated enough WITHOUT attempting to make a value judgment on the work in question.
I too would like to see Fair Use expanded, but my reason for that position is that Copyright law has in my opinion been completely corrupted and made into a vehicle for monopolies, corporations and excessive profiteering.
Were the copyright term restored to the original 15 years then we would have a lot more time to argue whether this or that is really "Fair Use." But of course, you would rarely have a survivor inheriting "rights of authorship" and attempting to "protect" something they did not create (Yoko)
Another example is the owners of the rights to "Gone With the Wind" attempting to suppress publication of "The Wind Done Gone" a re-telling of the story from the slaves' perspective. (They failed to suppress, thankfully)
So, broadly, Intellectual Property Law is so completely broken, you almost have to become a lawyer to completely grok how perverted it really is in relation to its intent.
The Mouse is In Control. Disney is Dead. Hannah Montana is Fake.
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Lessig Response:
nicely put. thanks.
You're welcome!
