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Breathewords presents The Twisted Show - a portfolio site of Adriana de Barros
http://www.breathewords.com
Breathewords presents The Twisted Show - a portfolio site of Adriana de Barros
Breathewords presents The Twisted Show - a portfolio site of Adriana de Barros
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++-- RES --++
Res
How I Do
THE ROLLING STONE REVIEW
Res is a soul-power chick from Philly whose debut album, How I Do, sounds more like peak Seventies Pretenders than anyone in black music history. Like Chrissie Hynde, Res' voice is more unique and emotionally direct than big and operatic, a perfect fit for the rock-soul sounds behind her. The lyrics, written largely by singer-songwriter Santi White, are diarylike poetry about being yourself, being strong and being in love - "What's your soul taste like, baby?" she coos on the dreamy, reggae-ish "700 Mile Situation."
There's not a single ballad on How I Do - Res is simply too strong for that; she prefers grooving to fawning. On the plaintive but upbeat "If There Ain't Nothing," she knows her guy has lost interest and says, "If there ain't nothin' that we can do, it's cool/I'd rather be alone and onto something new." On the smooth "Golden Boys" she sees through the famous guys she's dated: "Would they love you if they knew all the things that we know?/Golden Boy, life ain't a video." How I Do does that rare thing: It provides an original direction. It's an album born from multicultural influences for those who don't let the trends dictate what they wear and don't let MTV decide what they listen to.
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--+ Movable Type +--
Movable Type is a customizable publishing system which installs on web servers to enable individuals or organizations to manage and update weblogs, journals, and frequently-updated website content.
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--- FLINK ---
http://www.flink.be/
flink is a online magazine.. that you read like a magazine..
yea i know it sounds weird.. but check it out.. its purty cool
flink is a online magazine.. that you read like a magazine..
yea i know it sounds weird.. but check it out.. its purty cool
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---++--- P-Money video ---++---
http://www.kog.co.nz/video/quick/dmc.mov
this is the dude whos music video i was in in New Zealand..
the link is to p money's dmc routine. where he scratches dr dre - next episode
this is the dude whos music video i was in in New Zealand..
the link is to p money's dmc routine. where he scratches dr dre - next episode
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+- pics from the scribe/Pmoney music video -+
these are pics my boy Toby sent me from the music video i was in..
thats him on the left..
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:: FITC 2003 ::
http://www.flashinthecan.com/pc/
FITC 2003 :: People's Choice Awards Voting
nominees for the canadian flash user groups awards..
FITC 2003 :: People's Choice Awards Voting
nominees for the canadian flash user groups awards..
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:::: AMFA: Open-Source Flash Magazine ::::
http://www.amedicineforapathy.com
AMFA: Open-Source Flash Magazine
i heart this site.
10+++++++/10
mandatory viewing !
this site gets the JESS3 gold star
AMFA: Open-Source Flash Magazine
i heart this site.
10+++++++/10
mandatory viewing !
this site gets the JESS3 gold star
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+ holllla +
http://macromedia.com/software/mx2004/
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with new versions of Dreamweaver and Flash
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::: 570bars :::
this shit gives me lots of ideas....
http://570bars.com
Within these pages you will find the chronicles of two average guys who live in Seattle and plan to drink in every Spirits Serving Establishment within the city. This website is filled with the stories of each of those nights, reviews of the bars, comments from other people
pretty funny/sad/alcoholicy
The Quest
To drink in every bar in Seattle.
The Rules
1). Only Spirits Serving Establishments must be visited
2). If the establishment is only a restaurant, it may be skipped
3). At least one of us (Jason or Brandon) must drink spirits in a place, but the other is free to drink beer or wine if they choose
4). If a restaurant’s bar has its own name (like the Mandarin Room) then it must be visited
5). Only one drink must be consumed by each person for the place to be considered “done.”
6). If you can "belly up to the bar" then we must drink
Within these pages you will find the chronicles of two average guys who live in Seattle and plan to drink in every Spirits Serving Establishment within the city. This website is filled with the stories of each of those nights, reviews of the bars, comments from other people
pretty funny/sad/alcoholicy
The Quest
To drink in every bar in Seattle.
The Rules
1). Only Spirits Serving Establishments must be visited
2). If the establishment is only a restaurant, it may be skipped
3). At least one of us (Jason or Brandon) must drink spirits in a place, but the other is free to drink beer or wine if they choose
4). If a restaurant’s bar has its own name (like the Mandarin Room) then it must be visited
5). Only one drink must be consumed by each person for the place to be considered “done.”
6). If you can "belly up to the bar" then we must drink
about
:: How RIAA tracks downloaders ::
Revealed: How RIAA tracks downloaders
Music industry discloses some methods used
WASHINGTON (AP) --The recording industry is providing its most detailed glimpse into some of the detective-style techniques it has employed as part of its secretive campaign against online music swappers.
The disclosures were included in court papers filed against a Brooklyn woman fighting efforts to identify her for allegedly sharing nearly 1,000 songs over the Internet. The recording industry disputed her defense that songs on her family's computer were from compact discs she had legally purchased.
According to the documents, the Recording Industry Association of America examined song files on the woman's computer and traced their digital fingerprints back to the former Napster file-sharing service, which shut down in 2001 after a court ruled it violated copyright laws.
Compared to shoplifting
The RIAA, the trade group for the largest record labels, said it also found other evidence inside the woman's music files suggesting the songs were recorded by other people and distributed across the Internet.
Comparing the Brooklyn woman to a shoplifter, the RIAA told U.S. Magistrate John M. Facciola that she was "not an innocent or accidental infringer" and described her lawyer's claims otherwise as "shockingly misleading."
The RIAA papers were filed Tuesday night in Washington and made available by the court Wednesday.
The woman's lawyer, Daniel N. Ballard, of Sacramento, California, said the music industry's latest argument was "merely a smokescreen to divert attention" from the related issue of whether her Internet provider, Verizon Internet Services Inc., must turn over her identity under a copyright subpoena.
"You cannot bypass people's constitutional rights to privacy, due process and anonymous association to identify an alleged infringer," Ballard said.
Using forensics
Ballard has asked the court to delay any ruling for two weeks while he prepares his arguments, and he noted that his client identified only as "nycfashiongirl" -- has already removed the file-sharing software from her family's computer.
The RIAA accused "nycfashiongirl" of offering more than 900 songs by the Rolling Stones, U2, Michael Jackson and others for illegal download, along with 200 other computer files that included at least one full-length movie, "Pretty Woman."
The RIAA's latest court papers describe in unprecedented detail some sophisticated forensic techniques used by its investigators.
For example, the industry disclosed its use of a library of digital fingerprints, called "hashes," that it said can uniquely identify MP3 music files that had been traded on the Napster service as far back as May 2000. Examining hashes is commonly used by the FBI and other computer investigators in hacker cases.
By comparing the fingerprints of music files on a person's computer against its library, the RIAA believes it can determine in some cases whether someone recorded a song from a legally purchased CD or downloaded it from someone else over the Internet.
Copyright lawyers said it remains unresolved whether consumers can legally download copies of songs on a CD they purchased rather than making digital copies themselves. But finding MP3 music files that precisely match copies that have been traded online could be evidence a person participated in file-sharing services.
"The source for nycfashiongirl's sound recordings was not her own personal CDs," the RIAA's lawyers wrote.
The recording industry also disclosed that it is examining so-called "metadata" tags, hidden snippets of information embedded within many MP3 music files. In this case, lawyers wrote, they found evidence that others had recorded the music files and that some songs had been downloaded from known pirate Web sites.
Congressional hearings promised
The industry has won approval for more than 1,300 subpoenas compelling Internet providers to identify computer users suspected of illegally sharing music files on the Internet.
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs' Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has promised hearings on the industry's use of copyright subpoenas to track downloaders.
The RIAA has said it expects to file at least several hundred lawsuits seeking financial damages as early as next month. U.S. copyright laws allow for damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered illegally on a person's computer, but the RIAA has said it would be open to settlement proposals from defendants.
The campaign comes just weeks after U.S. appeals court rulings requiring Internet providers to readily identify subscribers suspected of illegally sharing music and movie files.
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+- nice pic -+
Reflection : A pedestrian walks past a reflection in a puddle of the golden-domed Alexander Nevski cathedral after a rainstorm in central Sofia.
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::: Tomatina :::
Thousands Take Part in Spain Tomato Fight
MADRID, Spain - Tens of thousands of people got pasted in eastern Spain on Wednesday in one of the country's most popular summer traditions — the annual tomato-throwing festival.
Participants pelted each other with overripe tomatoes, turning the streets of the eastern Spanish town of Bunol into red, juicy pools in an annual festival known as "La Tomatina."
It is said to be the world's largest tomato battle. Last year, the crowd numbered around 38,000 — more than four times the population of the Bunol.
Within minutes, the streets, the revelers and nearby buildings were splashed with red.
National radio reported that nearby residents protected their facades with plastic sheets. Others from balconies overlooking the fight dumped buckets of water onto the participants, RNE said.
The tomato fight often draws people from as far away as Japan and Australia.
The festival, held on the last Wednesday of every August, started in the 1940s when children began throwing their lunch at each other one day in a downtown square at a time when the region's tomato exports were starting to pick up.
They met again the following year, this time pelting passers-by as well and giving birth to the food fight.
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+- flash user group presentation cdroms -+
http://www.flashinthecan.com/cds.html
some of the presentations from the 2003 FlashintheCan Festival are now available for purchase
about
+---- McFaddens ----+
Your Friends & Family at McFadden's Restaurant & Saloon
Cordially Invite You to Set Sail Aboard The
1st Annual Potomac River Booze Cruise Aboard The Spirit of Washington II
Two Hour Top Shelf Premium Open Bar
Unlimited Passed Hors d' voueres
Roundtrip Door to Dock Shuttle Service
McFadden's Fore and Aft Parties
Two Levels Two Dance Floors Two DJs
All Inclusive Boarding Pass $50.00 Per Person
Includes Cruising T-Shirt
Thursday, October 9th 8pm-10pm Rain or Shine
McFadden's Before Party Begins at 6pm
Shuttles Depart at 7pm-Boarding at 7:30pm Sharp
Tickets Are Limited!
For More Information and Group Reservations Contact Tamson Sloan at 202.223.2338
Fall Back From The Dunes to McFadden's Saloon
An Evening You Will Never Remember & Never Forget!
See You There
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:: big mike mixtape ::
http://mixtapesusa.com/muchisbabigm.html
Sheek Louch (D-Block) - Turn It Up
50 Cent - Don't Go To Sleep (Dissin' Smurf)
Bang 'Em Smurf, Domination - What's Beef? (Dissin' 50 Cent)
50 Cent - I Know What You Like
50 Cent - We Got Gunz For Sale
Cam'ron - He's A Homo (Phone Interlude)
Nas - Takes More Than What You Got To Kill Me
Eminem - Shit's About To Change
Mobb Deep feat. Littles - Toss The Pound
Raekwon - Icewater Incorporated
J-Millz feat. Juelz Santana - Doin' My Thang
CNN. - Stand The Fuck Up
Foxy Brown - I Don't Need Nobody
Busta Rhymes feat. Lloyd Banks & Fabolous - Fall Back
Lil' Jon feat. Busta Rhymes & Elephant Man - Get Low (Remix)
Full Blass feat. J-Hood - The Getaway
Alicia Keys feat. Nas & Rakim - N.Y. State Of Mind
Mary J. Blige feat. Jay-Z & P. Diddy - Love & Life
50 Cent feat. Lloyd Banks & Young Buck - Get Outta Line
Juelz Santana feat. Gravy & J.R. Writer - Niggaz Get Clapped Quick
J-Millz feat. Gravy - New York City
Drag-On - Ok Ok
Analyst - Get Up
Buck 50 - Gangsta Music
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:: God Only Knows ::
the show reel is so fuckin tight, i watch this thing daily...
God Only Knows
Beach Boys / Brian Wilson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it
God only knows what I'd be without you
If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would livin' do me
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would livin' do me
God only knows what I'd be without you
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Microsoft's Big Role on Campus (TechNews.com)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40000-2003Aug24.html
Microsoft's Big Role on Campus
Donations Fund Research, Build Long-Term Connections
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 25, 2003; Page A01
REDMOND, Wash. -- Bearing gifts of cash, software and computers worth $25 million, Microsoft Corp. came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, saying it wanted to jointly develop educational technologies. Some scholars expressed more suspicion than gratitude.
At a celebration to kick off the collaboration, students and faculty members heckled the speakers, insisting the computer company's software wasn't worthy of use or study at MIT. Some took boxes of Microsoft's Office 2000 software and stomped on them. An editorial in the school newspaper wondered: Had the school sold itself out to become the "Microsoft Institute of Technology?"
Today, four years into the five-year partnership, the protests are over and Microsoft technology is firmly entrenched at MIT.
Aeronautical design classes now use Microsoft's Flight Simulator computer program. Electrical engineering and computer science professors are putting their courses online using Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software. The university's educational computer network is being overhauled to use Microsoft's .Net architecture. Video games, hardly an MIT priority but a strong commercial interest of Microsoft's, have suddenly become a subject of scholarly inquiry.
Similar transformations are taking place at university campuses across the nation, escalating the debate over corporate influence on academia. Such concerns about donations have been raised in fields of study as diverse as auto engineering and medicine, but Microsoft's donations are a special case. Because students are likely to keep using the technology after graduation, they help to maintain Microsoft's software industry dominance.
"Universities have become much more open to corporate donations even when they have strings attached, and they are less likely today to assess the long-term impact of these donations on academic freedom," said Lawrence C. Soley, a professor at Marquette University and author of "Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia."
Donations to 1,000 Schools
Microsoft has lavished $500 million over the past five years on research and teaching projects at 1,000 schools, funding efforts by 6,000 academics in computer science, electrical engineering, linguistics, biology, mathematics, graphic arts, music and other fields. Microsoft partners are among computer science's biggest luminaries: A. Richard Newton, dean of the engineering school at the University of California at Berkeley; Eugene H. Spafford, who runs Purdue University's influential cybersecurity institute; and Gail E. Kaiser, a Columbia University researcher who is one of the nation's most prominent software engineering experts and one of the few tenured female professors in the field.
The software giant's donations have allowed universities to follow through on projects they could not have otherwise dreamed of, given their limited research budgets. The collaborations have not only led to new products on store shelves but work dominating academic journals focused on high-tech innovation.
The corporation, however, has also directly or indirectly influenced curriculums and research priorities, drawing an outcry from critics who say the donations are turning computer science departments into vocational schools where mastery of proprietary computer programs are valued over the study of theory.
Hal Abelson, a computer science professor who co-directs the MIT-Microsoft partnership, said the donations have allowed MIT to make class readings and other material freely available on the Web, benefiting not only the school community but the world at large.
"That is not distorting the research agenda, but doing things we otherwise might not have," he said.
Microsoft, for its part, acknowledges that its donations are about business development as well as philanthropy, but that it is a win-win situation for everyone.
"The success of the field comes from innovations through university environment," said Rick Rashid, Microsoft's senior vice president for research. "Microsoft prospers when universities prosper."
Still, others lament that even if everyone has the best of intentions, the end result portends a future when innovation in the field of computers will be greatly influenced, if not controlled, by a single company.
"[I worry] that in the face of budget shortfalls, universities will sacrifice their research autonomy, offering up curriculum and academic integrity to the highest bidder," said Mark Schaan, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University who was part of a group of students at the University of Waterloo, the Canadian equivalent of MIT, who last year urged administrators to turn down Microsoft's donations.
Project 42 Sets the Tone
Microsoft first began to reach out to universities in a serious way in the mid-1990s with Project 42.
At the time, Microsoft software was dismissed as too clunky, too slow, too unreliable and too uncool among many researchers on the cutting edge of technology. Microsoft was seen as an imitator and not an innovator -- it created the Windows operating system based on Apple Computer Inc.'s graphical interface, the Internet Explorer browser for the Web based on Netscape Communications Corp.'s Navigator. The dot-com upstarts fueling the boom, more than a few predicted, would soon be in a position to out-innovate the aging software maker.
Microsoft's salvation: Project 42, named after the mysterious response the supercomputer in Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" gives when asked for the meaning of life. Later unveiled as .Net, Project 42 was a set of software tools that would allow disparate systems to communicate more effectively across the Internet -- and to keep Microsoft relevant in a world where PCs were no longer the center of the computing universe.
The company concluded that to make .Net a success, it had to get academics involved. Not only would their imprimatur lend credibility to the technology, Microsoft would benefit from their technical expertise. In 1998, the company began to quietly fly academics to its headquarters for previews of the technology. Damien Watkins, then a lecturer at Monash University in Australia, recalled that some of his peers wore Linux T-shirts to show their skepticism. In the end, though, they were won over in part by the promise of the technology -- and by a $150,000 donation the company made to the university, he said.
"I think Microsoft has changed a lot over the last five to 10 years. Setting up Microsoft Research and working with university faculty is a sign that they are looking a lot further into the future than they had done previously," said Watkins, who was so impressed with .Net technology that he began teaching it to his students, then founded a private firm that uses .Net technologies. He is now applying for a job at Microsoft.
Today, more than 2,000 professors from top-tier schools are considered close collaborators with Microsoft, accepting cash, software, hardware or other in-kind donations from the company for specific research projects or classes. An additional 4,000 have less formal relationships with the company but still receive free equipment and support.
Microsoft's total research and development budget -- $4.7 billion in 2003, $4.3 billion in 2002 and $4.4 billion in 2001 -- is estimated to be more than all the rest of the software industry spends together. Each year, Microsoft gives away about $100 million of that to universities.
In comparison, according to the National Science Foundation, computer science department expenditures at all universities and colleges from all sources for 2001 was less than $1 billion.
The collaborations have resulted in refinements in handwriting recognition, better ways to compress music and video files for electronic transmission, and new theories about how to better search the Web. Microsoft researchers and their partners now produce about 120 papers in 20 journals per year, a relatively large number. In 2001, for instance, 30 percent of the papers presented at the influential Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation meeting were by Microsoft researchers. At this year's SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference, some 14 percent were Microsoft works.
Among those who say they have benefited from Microsoft's donations is Howard University associate professor Todd E. Shurn. Two years ago, he was struggling with how to best teach a multimedia class that would combine computer science, art and communications skills.
Two of Shurn's former students, who had gone on to work at Microsoft and had come back to Washington on a recruiting visit, had an idea: Why not build the class around Windows Media Player? The class could create a new interface, or "skin," for the program. The professor was intrigued. He fiddled around with the technology for a few days and concluded it was worth testing. Microsoft provided $5,000, software and books and sent one of its technicians to help set up the computers the students would be using. The experiment was a success, Shurn said, so much so that he expanded the project the next year to include a contest open to the entire school. Microsoft, of course, provided the money for the awards.
Shurn estimates that when he first started at Howard a decade ago, nearly all computer-oriented projects involved machines running Unix-based operating systems. Now, he said, about 80 percent of assignments rely on Microsoft Windows.
"Our migration toward Microsoft began because of pricing and then, as a result of Microsoft becoming very active on campus, it accelerated," Shurn said.
Thanks, But No Thanks
Microsoft's efforts to reach out to some other universities, however, have not gone as smoothly.
California State University students and faculty urged administrators in 1997 to turn down a $300 million gift from Microsoft and three other companies because it required an exclusive contract for upgrading the computer and phone system at the 22 campuses. At the University of Michigan in 1999, after administrators signed a deal with Microsoft, a major donor, to sell technology at the Michigan Student Union, students protested by handing out diskettes with the free Windows alternative Linux.
And at the University of Waterloo last year, administrators announced a $1.6 million donation from Microsoft. At the same time they announced they would change the curriculum to introduce Microsoft's C# programming language into the first-year programming course instead of the more popular and long-established C++ they were currently using. Students and faculty rebelled.
The university ultimately backed down this spring, saying for now the classes will be "multilingual." A faculty senate is evaluating the proposed curriculum changes.
Doug Leland, head of university relations for Microsoft, said there is often some hostility when company representatives first step on college campuses. There is "a deep level of the unknown," he said. But, he said, the "attitude of campuses towards Microsoft has changed dramatically in the past few years."
"We've really broken through a lot of those trust and credibility issues," he said.
One way Microsoft has done that is by offering some gifts with no strings attached or by allowing academics to have a great deal of freedom with the money they are given.
The MIT partnership, which runs from 1999 to 2004 and is designed to develop educational technologies in an initiative called "iCampus," is the company's showcase example. Even though the projects must be approved by a six-member committee, half of whom are MIT employees and half of whom are Microsoft employees, the academics own the intellectual property developed and have the freedom to publish what they wish without a review from Microsoft. Professors also have the option not to participate in the Microsoft collaboration.
An MIT contingent of professors, led by Abelson, were among 350 faculty members who attended a recent gathering of Microsoft academic partners at the company's headquarters here in Washington. At the three-day, expenses-paid event, the professors stayed at the Hyatt Regency, dined with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on tables decorated with fresh peach lilies, and took boat cruise on Lake Washington.
It was part academic conference, part networking event. It was also a unique promotional opportunity for Microsoft.
At a question-and-answer session between the academics and Gates, one professor asked the Microsoft founder about his views about the study of information technology, a part of computer science that emphasizes on how documents, spreadsheets and other data should be handled. What kinds of technologies should students majoring in this subject be taught?
Gates replied quickly and with a smile: "Microsoft Office."
Researcher Richard S. Drezen contributed to this report.
Microsoft's Big Role on Campus
Donations Fund Research, Build Long-Term Connections
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 25, 2003; Page A01
REDMOND, Wash. -- Bearing gifts of cash, software and computers worth $25 million, Microsoft Corp. came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, saying it wanted to jointly develop educational technologies. Some scholars expressed more suspicion than gratitude.
At a celebration to kick off the collaboration, students and faculty members heckled the speakers, insisting the computer company's software wasn't worthy of use or study at MIT. Some took boxes of Microsoft's Office 2000 software and stomped on them. An editorial in the school newspaper wondered: Had the school sold itself out to become the "Microsoft Institute of Technology?"
Today, four years into the five-year partnership, the protests are over and Microsoft technology is firmly entrenched at MIT.
Aeronautical design classes now use Microsoft's Flight Simulator computer program. Electrical engineering and computer science professors are putting their courses online using Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software. The university's educational computer network is being overhauled to use Microsoft's .Net architecture. Video games, hardly an MIT priority but a strong commercial interest of Microsoft's, have suddenly become a subject of scholarly inquiry.
Similar transformations are taking place at university campuses across the nation, escalating the debate over corporate influence on academia. Such concerns about donations have been raised in fields of study as diverse as auto engineering and medicine, but Microsoft's donations are a special case. Because students are likely to keep using the technology after graduation, they help to maintain Microsoft's software industry dominance.
"Universities have become much more open to corporate donations even when they have strings attached, and they are less likely today to assess the long-term impact of these donations on academic freedom," said Lawrence C. Soley, a professor at Marquette University and author of "Leasing the Ivory Tower: The Corporate Takeover of Academia."
Donations to 1,000 Schools
Microsoft has lavished $500 million over the past five years on research and teaching projects at 1,000 schools, funding efforts by 6,000 academics in computer science, electrical engineering, linguistics, biology, mathematics, graphic arts, music and other fields. Microsoft partners are among computer science's biggest luminaries: A. Richard Newton, dean of the engineering school at the University of California at Berkeley; Eugene H. Spafford, who runs Purdue University's influential cybersecurity institute; and Gail E. Kaiser, a Columbia University researcher who is one of the nation's most prominent software engineering experts and one of the few tenured female professors in the field.
The software giant's donations have allowed universities to follow through on projects they could not have otherwise dreamed of, given their limited research budgets. The collaborations have not only led to new products on store shelves but work dominating academic journals focused on high-tech innovation.
The corporation, however, has also directly or indirectly influenced curriculums and research priorities, drawing an outcry from critics who say the donations are turning computer science departments into vocational schools where mastery of proprietary computer programs are valued over the study of theory.
Hal Abelson, a computer science professor who co-directs the MIT-Microsoft partnership, said the donations have allowed MIT to make class readings and other material freely available on the Web, benefiting not only the school community but the world at large.
"That is not distorting the research agenda, but doing things we otherwise might not have," he said.
Microsoft, for its part, acknowledges that its donations are about business development as well as philanthropy, but that it is a win-win situation for everyone.
"The success of the field comes from innovations through university environment," said Rick Rashid, Microsoft's senior vice president for research. "Microsoft prospers when universities prosper."
Still, others lament that even if everyone has the best of intentions, the end result portends a future when innovation in the field of computers will be greatly influenced, if not controlled, by a single company.
"[I worry] that in the face of budget shortfalls, universities will sacrifice their research autonomy, offering up curriculum and academic integrity to the highest bidder," said Mark Schaan, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University who was part of a group of students at the University of Waterloo, the Canadian equivalent of MIT, who last year urged administrators to turn down Microsoft's donations.
Project 42 Sets the Tone
Microsoft first began to reach out to universities in a serious way in the mid-1990s with Project 42.
At the time, Microsoft software was dismissed as too clunky, too slow, too unreliable and too uncool among many researchers on the cutting edge of technology. Microsoft was seen as an imitator and not an innovator -- it created the Windows operating system based on Apple Computer Inc.'s graphical interface, the Internet Explorer browser for the Web based on Netscape Communications Corp.'s Navigator. The dot-com upstarts fueling the boom, more than a few predicted, would soon be in a position to out-innovate the aging software maker.
Microsoft's salvation: Project 42, named after the mysterious response the supercomputer in Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" gives when asked for the meaning of life. Later unveiled as .Net, Project 42 was a set of software tools that would allow disparate systems to communicate more effectively across the Internet -- and to keep Microsoft relevant in a world where PCs were no longer the center of the computing universe.
The company concluded that to make .Net a success, it had to get academics involved. Not only would their imprimatur lend credibility to the technology, Microsoft would benefit from their technical expertise. In 1998, the company began to quietly fly academics to its headquarters for previews of the technology. Damien Watkins, then a lecturer at Monash University in Australia, recalled that some of his peers wore Linux T-shirts to show their skepticism. In the end, though, they were won over in part by the promise of the technology -- and by a $150,000 donation the company made to the university, he said.
"I think Microsoft has changed a lot over the last five to 10 years. Setting up Microsoft Research and working with university faculty is a sign that they are looking a lot further into the future than they had done previously," said Watkins, who was so impressed with .Net technology that he began teaching it to his students, then founded a private firm that uses .Net technologies. He is now applying for a job at Microsoft.
Today, more than 2,000 professors from top-tier schools are considered close collaborators with Microsoft, accepting cash, software, hardware or other in-kind donations from the company for specific research projects or classes. An additional 4,000 have less formal relationships with the company but still receive free equipment and support.
Microsoft's total research and development budget -- $4.7 billion in 2003, $4.3 billion in 2002 and $4.4 billion in 2001 -- is estimated to be more than all the rest of the software industry spends together. Each year, Microsoft gives away about $100 million of that to universities.
In comparison, according to the National Science Foundation, computer science department expenditures at all universities and colleges from all sources for 2001 was less than $1 billion.
The collaborations have resulted in refinements in handwriting recognition, better ways to compress music and video files for electronic transmission, and new theories about how to better search the Web. Microsoft researchers and their partners now produce about 120 papers in 20 journals per year, a relatively large number. In 2001, for instance, 30 percent of the papers presented at the influential Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation meeting were by Microsoft researchers. At this year's SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference, some 14 percent were Microsoft works.
Among those who say they have benefited from Microsoft's donations is Howard University associate professor Todd E. Shurn. Two years ago, he was struggling with how to best teach a multimedia class that would combine computer science, art and communications skills.
Two of Shurn's former students, who had gone on to work at Microsoft and had come back to Washington on a recruiting visit, had an idea: Why not build the class around Windows Media Player? The class could create a new interface, or "skin," for the program. The professor was intrigued. He fiddled around with the technology for a few days and concluded it was worth testing. Microsoft provided $5,000, software and books and sent one of its technicians to help set up the computers the students would be using. The experiment was a success, Shurn said, so much so that he expanded the project the next year to include a contest open to the entire school. Microsoft, of course, provided the money for the awards.
Shurn estimates that when he first started at Howard a decade ago, nearly all computer-oriented projects involved machines running Unix-based operating systems. Now, he said, about 80 percent of assignments rely on Microsoft Windows.
"Our migration toward Microsoft began because of pricing and then, as a result of Microsoft becoming very active on campus, it accelerated," Shurn said.
Thanks, But No Thanks
Microsoft's efforts to reach out to some other universities, however, have not gone as smoothly.
California State University students and faculty urged administrators in 1997 to turn down a $300 million gift from Microsoft and three other companies because it required an exclusive contract for upgrading the computer and phone system at the 22 campuses. At the University of Michigan in 1999, after administrators signed a deal with Microsoft, a major donor, to sell technology at the Michigan Student Union, students protested by handing out diskettes with the free Windows alternative Linux.
And at the University of Waterloo last year, administrators announced a $1.6 million donation from Microsoft. At the same time they announced they would change the curriculum to introduce Microsoft's C# programming language into the first-year programming course instead of the more popular and long-established C++ they were currently using. Students and faculty rebelled.
The university ultimately backed down this spring, saying for now the classes will be "multilingual." A faculty senate is evaluating the proposed curriculum changes.
Doug Leland, head of university relations for Microsoft, said there is often some hostility when company representatives first step on college campuses. There is "a deep level of the unknown," he said. But, he said, the "attitude of campuses towards Microsoft has changed dramatically in the past few years."
"We've really broken through a lot of those trust and credibility issues," he said.
One way Microsoft has done that is by offering some gifts with no strings attached or by allowing academics to have a great deal of freedom with the money they are given.
The MIT partnership, which runs from 1999 to 2004 and is designed to develop educational technologies in an initiative called "iCampus," is the company's showcase example. Even though the projects must be approved by a six-member committee, half of whom are MIT employees and half of whom are Microsoft employees, the academics own the intellectual property developed and have the freedom to publish what they wish without a review from Microsoft. Professors also have the option not to participate in the Microsoft collaboration.
An MIT contingent of professors, led by Abelson, were among 350 faculty members who attended a recent gathering of Microsoft academic partners at the company's headquarters here in Washington. At the three-day, expenses-paid event, the professors stayed at the Hyatt Regency, dined with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on tables decorated with fresh peach lilies, and took boat cruise on Lake Washington.
It was part academic conference, part networking event. It was also a unique promotional opportunity for Microsoft.
At a question-and-answer session between the academics and Gates, one professor asked the Microsoft founder about his views about the study of information technology, a part of computer science that emphasizes on how documents, spreadsheets and other data should be handled. What kinds of technologies should students majoring in this subject be taught?
Gates replied quickly and with a smile: "Microsoft Office."
Researcher Richard S. Drezen contributed to this report.
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+-- macromedia user group info --+
Join WAMMO & Macromedia for the first public demonstrations of
Dreamweaver MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Flash
Professional MX 2004 and Studio MX 2004. Over 130 User Groups are
participating in our first ever worldwide User Group event, broadcast
around the world using Breeze Live.
http://www.macromedia.com/special/usergroups/
Wednesday, September 3, 2003
RFF Conference Center
1400 16th Street, NW
7th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
Washington, DC 20036
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
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Directions at http://www.wammo.org
RSVP via email to wammo@figleaf.com (please put RSVP 9/3 in subject line)
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Dreamweaver MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Flash
Professional MX 2004 and Studio MX 2004. Over 130 User Groups are
participating in our first ever worldwide User Group event, broadcast
around the world using Breeze Live.
http://www.macromedia.com/special/usergroups/
Wednesday, September 3, 2003
RFF Conference Center
1400 16th Street, NW
7th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
Washington, DC 20036
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
------------------
Directions at http://www.wammo.org
RSVP via email to wammo@figleaf.com (please put RSVP 9/3 in subject line)
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 Features Overview
http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/features/brz_tour
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Features Overview
whoa
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Features Overview
whoa
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+-- hfstival 02 --+ ol school
on saturday mornin jamie and i got tix to the fall edtion hfstival .., that should be fun..
This years 2003 Fall HFStival Line Up:
Staind
Rancid
O.A.R.
Deftones
Black Eyed Peas
these pics are from the hfstival 02.. the day EMINEM played... ohmigod his performance was so fuckin amazing... i have some cool vids of it.. that came out suprisingly well...
http://www.6forty.com/jesse/hfss
This years 2003 Fall HFStival Line Up:
Staind
Rancid
O.A.R.
Deftones
Black Eyed Peas
these pics are from the hfstival 02.. the day EMINEM played... ohmigod his performance was so fuckin amazing... i have some cool vids of it.. that came out suprisingly well...
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+-- redskins game on saturday --+
alexis hooked it up with the tix..gracias mu chacho.
it was fuckin awesome !
http://www.6forty.com/jesse/skins/
my fav shot..
it was fuckin awesome !
my fav shot..
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+---- HowBlue.com ----+
Howblue Cabana, the Broen Westberg Portfolio
awesome portfolio..
cool water effect
8/10
i emailed dude about how much i liked his water effect..
how nice. i got a reply..
Hey Jesse,
Thanks for your compliments! Your email made my day :).
Broen
awwwwww
awesome portfolio..
cool water effect
8/10
i emailed dude about how much i liked his water effect..
how nice. i got a reply..
Thanks for your compliments! Your email made my day :).
Broen
awwwwww
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Washington Redskins
http://redskins.com/
goin to the redskins vs ravens game tonight with alexis..
then to nicks AU party at his new house.. holla hovito
goin to the redskins vs ravens game tonight with alexis..
then to nicks AU party at his new house.. holla hovito
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Flash In Toronto User Group
http://www.flashinto.com
this is what the washington user group need to do. !
grr
damn canadians out doin us americans. !
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Yahoo! News - Eminem's 'Girls Gone Wild' Video Shelved
Yahoo! News - Eminem's 'Girls Gone Wild' Video Shelved
Eminem's 'Girls Gone Wild' Video Shelved
Fans may not get to see women go wild for Eminem. According to MTV.com, the rapper's Girls Gone Wild Shadystyle video, which was shot last year during his Anger Management tour, may never be released. The video's production company released a statement saying that it "wasn't happy with Eminem's participation and is not happy with the finished product." Eminem's reps confirmed that the video, which documents Eminem's female fans taking their tops off backstage, will not be released.
Snoop Dogg's Girls Gone Wild Doggystyle was one of the best-selling videos in the series. However, two women recently filed a lawsuit against Snoop Dogg and Girls Gone Wild founder Joseph Francis for improperly using their images on the cover of the DVD and VHS, as well as in advertisements.
i want a copy.
Eminem's 'Girls Gone Wild' Video Shelved
Fans may not get to see women go wild for Eminem. According to MTV.com, the rapper's Girls Gone Wild Shadystyle video, which was shot last year during his Anger Management tour, may never be released. The video's production company released a statement saying that it "wasn't happy with Eminem's participation and is not happy with the finished product." Eminem's reps confirmed that the video, which documents Eminem's female fans taking their tops off backstage, will not be released.
Snoop Dogg's Girls Gone Wild Doggystyle was one of the best-selling videos in the series. However, two women recently filed a lawsuit against Snoop Dogg and Girls Gone Wild founder Joseph Francis for improperly using their images on the cover of the DVD and VHS, as well as in advertisements.
i want a copy.
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+-- the future arrives.. --+
Robot Shows Prime Minister How to Loosen Up
A robot with impeccable manners charmed guests at a state dinner with his wisecracks and dancing, outshining Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla and showing up his often-mocked social stiffness
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) applauds while his Czech counterpart Vladimir Spidla (R) shakes hands with the robot Asimo Honda, before a dinner at the Hrzan's Palace in Prague, August 21, 2003. Photo by Petr Josek/Reuters
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi unveiled an improved version of the 4-foot-tall Asimo humanoid on an official visit to the Czech Republic, where the word robot first appeared in author Karel Capek's 1920 play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots).
Asimo began working the crowd as soon as he arrived at the dinner late on Thursday, telling jokes, greeting Spidla warmly, and even making a champagne toast before wisecracking that he couldn't drink himself because he is underage.
"Let's drink to Japan and the Czech Republic, and to the friendly relationship between humans and robots," Asimo, made by Honda, said in perfect Czech.
"If Capek could see me, he would definitely be surprised."
Spidla smiled at the robot but seemed at a loss for witty conversation.
He turned down Asimo's request for a dance saying only:
"I like science and various technically advanced things."
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..:: mm hmmmm ::..
Mars, bottom left, is seen with the Moon from Haebaru in Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003. Mars is closer to Earth this month than at any time in many years; it won't be as close again until Aug. 28, 2287.
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+- lol -+
Caprice the Greyhound is seen in a convertible car wearing sunglasses as her owner Oliver Luik drives in Munich August 22, 2003. The special sunglasses which protect dog's eyes from the wind and the sun and are available in three different sizes
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MTV.com - News -Kelly Osbourne Eats Fish With Elton John, Vomits
MTV.com - News -Kelly Osbourne Eats Fish With Elton John, Vomits: "Eating in France with Elton John made Kelly Osbourne violently sick to her stomach — but it wasn't Elton's fault.
Kelly suffered food poisoning from a dinner she had with the pop legend on August 11 and was forced to cancel a handful of scheduled concerts in England and return home, she wrote in her column for England's Heat magazine. She is still recovering from the illness.
Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne had been invited by Elton to stay at his place in the South of France.
'We had dinner and we had shellfish,' Kelly wrote. 'I spent the next two days with the sh--s and throwing up everywhere. I'm never eating another piece of f---ing fish again.'
In the column, Kelly added that she has recorded a duet with her dad, Ozzy, and she will not give up singing even though she was dropped by her label. "
Kelly suffered food poisoning from a dinner she had with the pop legend on August 11 and was forced to cancel a handful of scheduled concerts in England and return home, she wrote in her column for England's Heat magazine. She is still recovering from the illness.
Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne had been invited by Elton to stay at his place in the South of France.
'We had dinner and we had shellfish,' Kelly wrote. 'I spent the next two days with the sh--s and throwing up everywhere. I'm never eating another piece of f---ing fish again.'
In the column, Kelly added that she has recorded a duet with her dad, Ozzy, and she will not give up singing even though she was dropped by her label. "
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+--- A i R ---+
Air :washingtonpost.com: "On Friday and Saturday nights, the staid, spacious courtyard at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is transformed into Air, an outdoor dance club and lounge that jumps until almost 3 a.m.
Many bars and clubs have patios or decks to let patrons enjoy the summer weather. But at Air, everything -- including a large dance floor, multiple bars and lounge furniture -- is exposed to the elements. Colored lights swirl across the building's marble facade. Breezes blow through the trees. Clouds sail overhead. It's strangely calming.
Inspired by open-air parties at Miami's Nikki Beach, hundreds of young people dressed in white linen suits, sparkly party frocks or jeans come out to mingle and enjoy the atmosphere. DJs fill the dance floor with hip-hop, funky soul and R&B on Fridays, while the grooves on Saturday are a mixture of house, hip-hop, disco and retro classics. Both nights feature an open bar from 9 to 10 and chefs grilling delicious fish tacos on soft tortillas, Cuban sandwiches and kebabs.
There are a few concessions to the conditions -- Air's stylish lounge furniture is made of an all-weather plastic, although it's far more comfortable than the chairs on your back porch. There are plenty of metal tables and chairs under the trees scattered around the rear of the courtyard, but the couches near the dance floor are prized seating. The softest seating option is a bed in one of the colorful VIP tents. (For a minimum of $500, up to 15 guests get admission and priority seating.) 'Every week it's something different,' says Howard Kitrosser, who's serving as an adviser to Trade Center Management Associates, the group responsible for Air. 'We'll have dancers, fire-eaters, stilt-walkers, street performers. It's eye candy for the people who come often."
Admission to Air is $10 for patrons who sign up on a guest list through www.flowinsider.com, www.monthlybuzz.comor www.airclubdc.com. On Saturday nights, reduced admission is offered to anyone with a Live on Penn stamp or wristband.
As with most outdoor venues, Air is subject to the weather. If there's rain in the forecast, call 202-312-1215 to make sure the party's going ahead.
Many bars and clubs have patios or decks to let patrons enjoy the summer weather. But at Air, everything -- including a large dance floor, multiple bars and lounge furniture -- is exposed to the elements. Colored lights swirl across the building's marble facade. Breezes blow through the trees. Clouds sail overhead. It's strangely calming.
Inspired by open-air parties at Miami's Nikki Beach, hundreds of young people dressed in white linen suits, sparkly party frocks or jeans come out to mingle and enjoy the atmosphere. DJs fill the dance floor with hip-hop, funky soul and R&B on Fridays, while the grooves on Saturday are a mixture of house, hip-hop, disco and retro classics. Both nights feature an open bar from 9 to 10 and chefs grilling delicious fish tacos on soft tortillas, Cuban sandwiches and kebabs.
There are a few concessions to the conditions -- Air's stylish lounge furniture is made of an all-weather plastic, although it's far more comfortable than the chairs on your back porch. There are plenty of metal tables and chairs under the trees scattered around the rear of the courtyard, but the couches near the dance floor are prized seating. The softest seating option is a bed in one of the colorful VIP tents. (For a minimum of $500, up to 15 guests get admission and priority seating.) 'Every week it's something different,' says Howard Kitrosser, who's serving as an adviser to Trade Center Management Associates, the group responsible for Air. 'We'll have dancers, fire-eaters, stilt-walkers, street performers. It's eye candy for the people who come often."
Admission to Air is $10 for patrons who sign up on a guest list through www.flowinsider.com, www.monthlybuzz.comor www.airclubdc.com. On Saturday nights, reduced admission is offered to anyone with a Live on Penn stamp or wristband.
As with most outdoor venues, Air is subject to the weather. If there's rain in the forecast, call 202-312-1215 to make sure the party's going ahead.
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'American Splendor' Is True Splendor Indeed (washingtonpost.com)
'American Splendor' Is True Splendor Indeed (washingtonpost.com)
American Splendor Review..
By Desson Howe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 22, 2003; Page WE33
IN "AMERICAN SPLENDOR," the first date between Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner has all the romantic glow and sizzle of cold scrapple.
He's a despondent, pudgy file clerk from Cleveland who creates comic books about his sad-sack existence. She's a neurotic oddball from Wilmington, Del., with self-diagnosed clinical depression. Upon first meeting at a depressing bus station, Harvey (Paul Giamatti) says he might as well inform her upfront he's had a vasectomy. Joyce (Hope Davis) counters that she comes from a family that suffers from one kind of regenerative disease or another.
Turns out they're perfect for each other. After a gastronomically disagreeable dinner that sends her scrambling into Harvey's bathroom, Joyce emerges to suggest they skip this dating preamble and just get married.
This isn't exactly glamorous sparring à la Rick and Ilsa in "Casablanca," but that's the salient point in this superbly conceived anti-biopic about the real-life Pekar, whose autobiographical comic books "American Splendor" and "Our Cancer Year" became underground classics. Harvey and Joyce -- in this movie and reality -- are two fussy, tormented and yet hopelessly normal souls in love.
Filmmaking partners Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (they made the cultish documentary "Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's") have assembled a marvelous, intelligent hybrid of documentary, comic book graphics and straight-ahead drama to evoke the unique texture of this relationship. Giamatti's Harvey is frequently seen as an animated figure, walking from one comic book strip panel to another. Occasionally his thoughts are represented by cartoon balloons. And while Giamatti and Davis play fictional versions of the couple in the main story, the real Pekar, Brabner and other associates make regular appearances throughout the movie, either to talk about themselves or cheekily undercut the movie.
Giamatti "doesn't look like me," scoffs Pekar at one point.
The filmmakers also use excerpts from then-NBC talk show host David Letterman's contentious television interviews with Pekar, in which the comic book author took umbrage at Letterman's lightly derisive tone.
This cocktail of fact and fiction is a sort of tribute to the real Pekar's often dyspeptic view of mass media as an industry of phoniness and hyperbole, and it's a nod to the kind of no-nonsense comic book fans who share this outlook. It's also about two documentarians' respect for the truth -- or as close as they can get in a Hollywood movie.
Last but not least, the movie, winner of the 2003 Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is highly entertaining. This is Giamatti's breakout role. As Pekar, he is a mixture of charm and gritty realism with his pale, slouching, hairy body, eye-rolling expressions and amusing rejoinders. Davis makes Brabner into an unforgettable being, a quiet but powerful force under that Elvira-style mane of black hair. James Urbaniak is a donkey-braying giggle as Robert Crumb, the famed comic book author who helps Harvey become successful by illustrating his Dostoevski-style narratives. And as Toby Radloff, Harvey's very strange friend who's obsessed with the movie "Revenge of the Nerds," Judah Friedlander steals every scene he's in. (The real Radloff also appears in cameo, showing us that, if anything, Friedlander is underplaying his over-the-top goofiness.) The great thing about "American Splendor" is how it never lets you lose sight of reality, which is precisely what Pekar's comic books set out to do. In the words of Giamatti's -- and the real -- Pekar, "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."
AMERICAN SPLENDOR (R, 101 minutes) -- Contains intense thematic material, obscenity, sexual situations and language. At Landmark's Bethesda Row, Loews Georgetown and Cineplex Odeon Outer Circle.
American Splendor Review..
By Desson Howe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 22, 2003; Page WE33
IN "AMERICAN SPLENDOR," the first date between Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner has all the romantic glow and sizzle of cold scrapple.
He's a despondent, pudgy file clerk from Cleveland who creates comic books about his sad-sack existence. She's a neurotic oddball from Wilmington, Del., with self-diagnosed clinical depression. Upon first meeting at a depressing bus station, Harvey (Paul Giamatti) says he might as well inform her upfront he's had a vasectomy. Joyce (Hope Davis) counters that she comes from a family that suffers from one kind of regenerative disease or another.
Turns out they're perfect for each other. After a gastronomically disagreeable dinner that sends her scrambling into Harvey's bathroom, Joyce emerges to suggest they skip this dating preamble and just get married.
This isn't exactly glamorous sparring à la Rick and Ilsa in "Casablanca," but that's the salient point in this superbly conceived anti-biopic about the real-life Pekar, whose autobiographical comic books "American Splendor" and "Our Cancer Year" became underground classics. Harvey and Joyce -- in this movie and reality -- are two fussy, tormented and yet hopelessly normal souls in love.
Filmmaking partners Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (they made the cultish documentary "Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's") have assembled a marvelous, intelligent hybrid of documentary, comic book graphics and straight-ahead drama to evoke the unique texture of this relationship. Giamatti's Harvey is frequently seen as an animated figure, walking from one comic book strip panel to another. Occasionally his thoughts are represented by cartoon balloons. And while Giamatti and Davis play fictional versions of the couple in the main story, the real Pekar, Brabner and other associates make regular appearances throughout the movie, either to talk about themselves or cheekily undercut the movie.
Giamatti "doesn't look like me," scoffs Pekar at one point.
The filmmakers also use excerpts from then-NBC talk show host David Letterman's contentious television interviews with Pekar, in which the comic book author took umbrage at Letterman's lightly derisive tone.
This cocktail of fact and fiction is a sort of tribute to the real Pekar's often dyspeptic view of mass media as an industry of phoniness and hyperbole, and it's a nod to the kind of no-nonsense comic book fans who share this outlook. It's also about two documentarians' respect for the truth -- or as close as they can get in a Hollywood movie.
Last but not least, the movie, winner of the 2003 Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is highly entertaining. This is Giamatti's breakout role. As Pekar, he is a mixture of charm and gritty realism with his pale, slouching, hairy body, eye-rolling expressions and amusing rejoinders. Davis makes Brabner into an unforgettable being, a quiet but powerful force under that Elvira-style mane of black hair. James Urbaniak is a donkey-braying giggle as Robert Crumb, the famed comic book author who helps Harvey become successful by illustrating his Dostoevski-style narratives. And as Toby Radloff, Harvey's very strange friend who's obsessed with the movie "Revenge of the Nerds," Judah Friedlander steals every scene he's in. (The real Radloff also appears in cameo, showing us that, if anything, Friedlander is underplaying his over-the-top goofiness.) The great thing about "American Splendor" is how it never lets you lose sight of reality, which is precisely what Pekar's comic books set out to do. In the words of Giamatti's -- and the real -- Pekar, "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."
AMERICAN SPLENDOR (R, 101 minutes) -- Contains intense thematic material, obscenity, sexual situations and language. At Landmark's Bethesda Row, Loews Georgetown and Cineplex Odeon Outer Circle.
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Census 03: New Art From D.C. :washingtonpost.com
Census 03: New Art From D.C. :washingtonpost.com: "Editorial Profile
Just when Washington seemed to slip into an August lull, the Corcoran launches a lively survey of the local art scene, dispelling any notion of D.C. as a sleepy summer town.
Of the 10 featured artists, several are familiar to gallery-goers from recent high-profile shows: painter Maggie Michael and installation artists Team Response (Jason Balicki, Justin Barrows and Matthew Sutton) at G Fine Art; glass artist Graham Caldwell at Addison Ripley; and Dan Steinhilber at Signal 66.
Other artists on view include Iona Rozeal Brown, Tim Doud and Randall Packer.
If the artists are not familiar names now, the Corcoran holds high hopes for this assemblage of D.C. talent, varying in experience and expression (video, sculpture, installation and painting).
-- Maura McCarthy "
Just when Washington seemed to slip into an August lull, the Corcoran launches a lively survey of the local art scene, dispelling any notion of D.C. as a sleepy summer town.
Of the 10 featured artists, several are familiar to gallery-goers from recent high-profile shows: painter Maggie Michael and installation artists Team Response (Jason Balicki, Justin Barrows and Matthew Sutton) at G Fine Art; glass artist Graham Caldwell at Addison Ripley; and Dan Steinhilber at Signal 66.
Other artists on view include Iona Rozeal Brown, Tim Doud and Randall Packer.
If the artists are not familiar names now, the Corcoran holds high hopes for this assemblage of D.C. talent, varying in experience and expression (video, sculpture, installation and painting).
-- Maura McCarthy "
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+- lizz has me done -+
makaveliblaze: country music has me so done
TLBsACowboy4Me: thats cuz country is way too cool for you, you're beyond cut from the country team
corcoran represent !
TLBsACowboy4Me: thats cuz country is way too cool for you, you're beyond cut from the country team
corcoran represent !
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+- American Splendor -+
http://www.americansplendormovie.com/
i saw this movie last night.... really good.. the same concept as "the dangerous lives of alter boys" where the characters dream and hallucinate in comic book sequences... trippy stuff
and this is who the movie is based on .,..
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+-- mm hmm --+
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/bride_rage&ncid=
Bride in Conn. Rages at Reception, Jailed
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. - A North Haven bride spent part of her wedding night in a jail cell, after police said she hurled things at reception hall workers who closed the bar.
Adrienne T. Samen, 18, was arrested on criminal mischief and breach of peace charges Saturday after police responded to The Mill on the River restaurant.
When workers there closed the bar, Samen allegedly began throwing things, including wedding cake and vases. Samen left the restaurant, and police found her walking down the road in her gown.
While being taken into custody, police said she kicked the door and window of the police cruiser and tried to bite an officer.
She posted a $1,000 bond and was released Saturday night, police said. She was on her honeymoon Monday.
She is due in Manchester Superior Court on Aug. 28.
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Teen Dies After Prized Fish Stuck in Throat
A Cambodian teenager died of suffocation after a fish he caught jumped out of his hands and lodged in his throat, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Lim Vanthan, 17, and his family were planting rice at the weekend near their home on the outskirts of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation's capital, when they decided to go for a swim.
During his dip, Lim Vanthan caught a prized eight-inch fish, called kantrob in Cambodian, with his hands.
But the high school student's excitement was short-lived when his catch squirmed out of his hands and jumped into his mouth, where it became stuck because of barbs running down its back.
He died of suffocation before he could receive treatment at a local clinic, the newspapers said.
"This is an accident, but it shows we must all be careful," concluded the Khmer-language Rasmei Kampuchea (Light of Cambodia) newspaper. "Accidents can happen at any time."
Lim Vanthan, 17, and his family were planting rice at the weekend near their home on the outskirts of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation's capital, when they decided to go for a swim.
During his dip, Lim Vanthan caught a prized eight-inch fish, called kantrob in Cambodian, with his hands.
But the high school student's excitement was short-lived when his catch squirmed out of his hands and jumped into his mouth, where it became stuck because of barbs running down its back.
He died of suffocation before he could receive treatment at a local clinic, the newspapers said.
"This is an accident, but it shows we must all be careful," concluded the Khmer-language Rasmei Kampuchea (Light of Cambodia) newspaper. "Accidents can happen at any time."
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+-- the aussies at it again.. cheating.. --+
Australia Wallabies' Mat Rogers grab the face of All Black's Doug Howlett during their test in Auckland, New Zealand, August 16, 2003. New Zealand won the match 21-17 to win the Bledisloe Cup. REUTERS/Nigel Marple
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+-- saddam presley --+
An altered picture of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hangs on the wall of the US Army's 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment headquarters in a U.S. Army base in Tikrit, about 110 miles (180 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Aug. 17, 2003. The picture was later removed.
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+-- All Blacks Rugby --+
New Zealand hold off brave Australia to regain Bledisloe Cup
AUCKLAND (AFP) - New Zealand withstood a ferocious late rally to defeat Australia 21-17 and regain the Bledisloe Cup in a pulsating Tri-Nations championship match at a rainswept Eden Park here.
The All Blacks, who had already secured the Tri-Nations crown, made sure of finishing their season on a triumphant note thanks to two first-half tries from wing Doug Howlett and three penalties from Carlos Spencer.
But the New Zealanders -- who had thrashed the Wallabies by a record 50-21 margin in Sydney last month -- were clinging on in the closing stages as Australia threw everything into a spirited late assault.
Relieved New Zealand coach John Mitchell admitted there had been little too choose between the sides for long periods.
"But I believe we were controlling the game in the right areas," Mitchell said. "You have got to win the grinds and the big ones and this will hold us in good stead. We can go into the World Cup with some self-belief," he said.
Mitchell was also impressed with the stamina of his side. He made only one substitution to his starting XV and that was due to a hamstring injury suffered by livewire fullback Mils Muliaina.
"The guys weren't fatiguing and our defensive system was going pretty well," he said.
Mitchell's Australian counterpart Eddie Jones admitted his team had not been good enough to take the chances that came their way.
"We've got no complaints," Jones said. "We had a couple of good opportunities which if we were good enough we would have won.
"We're happy with the way we are going and we have identified some areas we want to improve on. I thought the improvement was good but we've still got a lot of improvement to go."
A well-worked 75th-minute try from flanker George Smith, dotting down after a lovely half-break from Australia skipper George Gregan, had put the Wallabies to within four points of their bitter Trans-Tasman rivals.
New Zealand's defence held firm when it mattered most though, with hooker Keven Mealamu, captain Reuben Thorne and lock Chris Jack all producing some bone-crunching tackles to keep Australia at bay.
The win saw New Zealand regain the Bledisloe Cup for the first time since 1998, and leaves the Kiwis on a roll as they now turn their attention to October's World Cup where they will start as favourites with England.
"We were desperate to get the Bledisloe back again," All Blacks skipper Thorne admitted afterwards. "Credit to the Wallabies, they've been an outstanding team."
Thorne's back-row colleague, the tireless openside Richie McCaw, said New Zealand's defence in the opening period of the second half - when Australia had two appeals for tries turned down - had been the difference.
"The way we defended then was probably the difference," said McCaw, who was everywhere for the New Zealanders. "When you see a mate knock them back you want to get in and be a part of the action.
"It's amazing to get the Bledisloe Cup back. It was disappointing to lose it in the last few minutes last year but to finally secure it is awesome."
Earlier, a penalty from centre Elton Flatley gave Australia the lead after New Zealand had killed the ball in a ruck.
New Zealand sliced open the Australian defence moments later to score their first try. Mealamu showed a smart turn of pace to break out wide before feeding to Howlett who scooted over for the score.
Spencer converted easily but another Flatley penalty soon afterwards kept Australia in touch.
Australia's forwards proved more than a match for New Zealand's eight in the early exchanges, with lock David Giffin stealing All Black lineout ball on no fewer than three occasions in the first half.
Sustained Australian pressure forced New Zealand into conceding another penalty which Flatley duly popped over to give his side a 9-7 lead.
Despite their combative play in the tight, Australia looked vulnerable whenever New Zealand moved the ball wide swiftly. The All Blacks regained the lead with their second try midway through the half.
No.8 Jerry Collins won a turnover with a thumping tackle near the 22 and the ball was recycled to Spencer.
The New Zealand flyhalf placed an exquisite kick into the corner for Howlett to chase, and the All Black wing embarrassed Flatley for pace to score in the corner.
Spencer, who had an off-night with the boot, missed the conversion but extended New Zealand's lead to 15-9 with a penalty shortly before half-time.
New Zealand almost stretched out of sight near the break but Jack lost control as he attempted to ground after battering over from close-range.
Australia were far from finished however and started the second half superbly. A penalty from Spencer had put New Zealand 18-9 up but the Wallabies swept down field and began battering away at the All Blacks line.
The Australians went close to crossing twice, with replacement forward Nathan Sharpe and flyhalf Stephen Larkham both seeing tries disallowed after South African referee Jonathan Kaplan checked with the video official.
Australia had to settle for another Flatley penalty, but Spencer restored New Zealand's nine-point cushion with his third kick of the night.
Australia refused to lie down though and Smith's last-gasp try ensured a tense finale.
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+-- mbr --+
click to see !!!
mbr, is so tight !..
this is what i made today.. i turned a graphic file in to this html file.
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'Cry Me A River'
Justin Timberlake may have skirted the truth when he said the "Cry Me a River" video was not about Britney Spears, but he was entirely honest when he said the concept came from the director.
"We had a conversation on the phone and all he said was he wanted to have some dancing in it, but to do my thing," the clip's director, Francis Lawrence, said recently, talking publicly about the scandalous video for the first time. "He told me what the song was about, but in a [general way] as well. He just said it was a kiss-off song, and so I came up with this idea and he went for it."
Lawrence paused, and then added with a laugh, "Of course, I put these details in that he enjoyed."
And it was those details — the fairy as a doorstop, a reference to Spears' tattoo, for example — that made it possible to make a video about Justin and Britney without it really being about Justin and Britney.
"Honestly, he and I never spoke of any specific names in this process," Lawrence said, later noting, "I'm being real honest, we literally never talked about his real breakup, we just talked about the general beats of the piece."
Lawrence downplayed the look of the ex-girlfriend, who, with her newsboy cap and tinted pink sunglasses, was instantly deemed a Britney look-alike. Spears herself, however, told MTV's "TRL," "The last time I looked in the mirror, I didn't think I really looked like her."
"I just wrote that she was a blonde girl," Lawrence said of his treatment.
The house, located in Malibu, California, was another story. "I was looking for a place that looked like a specific girl might live in it," Lawrence said, laughing.
Of course, his details (perhaps "clues" is the better word) were noticed by Timberlake (and Spears') record-label executives, who were already apprehensive about the video.
"The most work [Justin] did was standing behind it and saying he didn't want anything to change," Lawrence said. "The record label didn't want us to use a silver Porsche and he stood by that."
With a plot that found Timberlake breaking into his ex-girlfriend's house, filming himself making out with another woman on her bed and watching his ex as she came home and showered, there were plenty of other concerns, as well.
"They were nervous about the themes of Justin being a voyeur and the tone, especially with the girl coming in and getting it on and it not being sweet," Lawrence said. "That's the thing I liked most about this project, was that he was coming into it with a super clean-cut image with 'NSYNC, and he's such a nice guy and so handsome, and what I was into doing was making him be a bit scary. Lurking around the house in the rain, throwing a rock through her window, being a peeping Tom, getting revenge and doing stuff that's not really what a nice guy does."
Lawrence was particularly excited about the bed scene, which was uncharacteristic of pop-music-video romance.
"What I was looking for was not a girl who was necessarily into Justin, but he brought along a friend or knew someone who would do it, so I wanted someone who was sexy but put across the idea that it was all business," Lawrence said of the actress he cast. "The video was more about revenge, not about him starting a new relationship. She had the aloof coldness that I liked."
In the end, Lawrence, who is best known for his Aerosmith epics and for staging a car crash in P.O.D.'s "Alive", did remove two shots.
In the original version, as Justin walks through the broken window and sings, "Cry me a river," he slowly lifts up his hand and flips off the camera. "It was so unbelievably killer, but it was never going to make it in and we didn't want to blur it," Lawrence said.
The other edit came after the video had already aired a few times. The standards department at MTV decided throwing a rock through a window violated a rule indicating there should be no acts of vandalism in music videos. Feasibly, since the house is his ex-girlfriend's, Timberlake probably could have entered with a key, but Lawrence decided to keep the "more damaging and evasive" approach and have the window break on its own.
While Lawrence considers dealing with the naysayers the biggest challenge with "Cry Me a River," which is nominated for Video of the Year, the three-day shoot was not without its own troubles.
The biggest headache was the constantly flowing rain machine, which not only made Timberlake cold and miserable during the exterior scenes, but caused the house to leak. Since the house was full of windows, outside rain was required even for interior shooting, but Lawrence never considered taking it out.
"It's sort of noir," he said. "The boyfriend standing out there, getting pissed on, it's pitiful."
The other major challenge came during the shower scene on the final day. Lawrence needed the glass to steam over and cover his naked actress, but the hot lights in the room made it nearly impossible. "Steam comes when the room is cold but the water is hot, so we had issues with that," he explained.
Ultimately, with credit to Timberlake's acting skills, the shower scene was Lawrence's favorite part of the video.
"The first take he came out looking sort of like Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining' and we both looked at the playback and said, 'That's too much, this is looking like a horror movie,' " Lawrence recalled. "So what we did was, there's a falsetto voice at that section in the track that has a really interesting emotion to it, so I said, come out with that emotion, because it's actually kind of sad. And he did and it just paved the whole thing off, because you realize how upset he is, but you also realize he's kind of sad. It added a whole different layer to the story, which made it much more complex, not just cold revenge."
And as for Timberlake's request for cool dancing? Piece of cake, if you consider floating around a room cool. And unlike, say, Missy Elliott's "Work It" video, no cables were used in the making of this video.
"We had these guys in blue-screen suits, these dancers who were holding onto him," Lawrence revealed. "We had him wearing this stunt vest with these handles coming out the back, and so all that stuff is just two guys running around, holding him, lifting him and dropping him. They're dancers, so they get the timing of the music. It ended up being really easy to shoot."
Looking back almost a year after he first wrote the much-talked-about treatment, Lawrence summed up the experience: "The video did what I hoped it would do, which is stir things up a bit."
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+-- Jakes --+
http://www.changes.com/resorts/jakes-cottages/
Jake's is a one-of-a-kind collection of 10 one bedroom cottages. Its laid back character and seclusion attracts a diverse mix of guests from celebrities seeking privacy to adventurers looking for a vacation off the beaten path.
Jake's is located in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, a secluded fishing village on the island’s undeveloped south coast. Staying at Jake's puts you in the center of Jamaica’s natural beauty, spirituality, and robust cuisine. It’s an elemental experience.
Jake's is two-and-a-half hours by car from Donald Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. Ground transfers are available.
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Jamaican Jerk Chicken
Jamaican Jerk Rum Rub
Yield: 1/2 to 2/3 cup
Ingredients:
1 red onion, chopped
1-1/2 tsp. of dried thyme
1 tsp. ground allspice
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
4 tsp. white pepper
1/4 cup green onion tops, chopped
2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
5 small jalapeño peppers
2 Tbs. cooking oil (olive or vegetable)
splash of flavorful rum
Directions:
Put all ingredients into food processor. Mix on high for 15 pulses.
Copyright Grasslands Entertainment Inc., 2001
Jamaican Jerk Chicken
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken breast, halved
1 lime, halved
4 to 5 Tbs. Jamaican Jerk Rum Rub (recipe above)
pinch of salt
pimento leaf
Directions:
Rub chicken with lime and salt.
Rub jerk seasoning over chicken halves.
Marinate in the refrigerator overnight.
Spread pimento leaf on grill, set to medium-low heat.
Barbecue for about 45 minutes. Alternatively you may use your home oven, do not use pimento leaves, and set the oven temperature at 300 degrees. Cook for 1 hour.
Let chicken cool for 10 minutes before cutting into quarters.
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zoomify
tonight at the flash user meeting at the henninger building in clarendon ...7pm
im teaching a portion of the class
my topic is zoomify.. this cool flash application for zooming high resolution images..
im by far the youngest kid at these things...
so im kinda nervous..
but it should be tight.
yay for me.
www.zoomify.com
im teaching a portion of the class
my topic is zoomify.. this cool flash application for zooming high resolution images..
im by far the youngest kid at these things...
so im kinda nervous..
but it should be tight.
yay for me.
www.zoomify.com
about
The Front Page
The Front Page was voted "Best Happy Hour" in washingtonpost.com's Best Bets 2003 Readers' Choice contest.
A staple of Dupont Circle's bar circuit for a dozen or so years, the Front Page continues to lure downtown office types to its daily happy hour. The bar's heavy wood and brick decor suggests a comfortable clubhouse atmosphere perfect for spinning great tales with friends while sipping on a brew.
Accessible through the lobby of the Robert S. Strauss Building, as well as via its New Hampshire Avenue restaurant entrance, the Front Page bar serves the same extensive menu available in the restaurant area.
Happy hour specials run from 4 to 7 and include half-price appetizers, $2 domestic drafts and Front Page Amber Ale (brewed by Old Dominion) at the same price. Also available are rail drinks that do not include fruit juice and a house red or white wine for $2. Thursdays feature a free taco bar from 5 to 7 p.m., plus Corona and Miller Light all night for $1.50 each, as well as the regular happy hour specials. Saturday's happy hour starts at 10 p.m. but lasts until closing. Regular fare includes domestic beers at $2.75, imports at $4. Rail drinks start at $3.50 and top-shelf brands start at $4.50.
about
imf protest gallery
http://www.6forty.com/jesse/protest/
check out these pics i took at the imf protest .. earlier this summer...
about
nz gallery
http://www.6forty.com/jesse/nzz/
check out pics from my trip to new zealand this summer
about
+-- push button advertising --+
MAY 2002
n-Gen featured in Wired Magazine, May 2002, Electric Word, p. 30.
It's software with a sense of humor - and a parody of the cookie-cutter look of much graphic design. The n_Gen engine, developed by San Francisco's Move Design, can churn out an infinite number of layouts. Just supply the text and select from one of five current styles (California Noir? Die Modernist?). Using proprietary algorithms, the program mocks up the words with style-specific fonts and images in design after design - as fast as you can hit the n_Generate button. "Graphic designers already do this sort of iterative work," Move's Samuel Lising points out, "but n_Gen does it faster and with greater ease." Lising and partner Peter Spreenberg don't see their application making designers obsolete; they view it as a handy tool that will challenge conventional methods. The studio plans to build a customizable next-generation app this year. Says Spreenberg, "We want to enable designers to turn their styles into algorithms."
- Nadav Savio
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+-- pixel art --+
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=18023&subsectionid=847&subsubsectionid=762
Photoshop skills: pixel art
Pixel art is a distinctive illustration style that's more popular now than ever before. Learn the techniques behind our retro opening illo...
In the tutorial the key elements of creating pixel illustrations. We'll show you how to create objects such as a building and a car that involve lots of straight lines and hard edges, as well as outlining how to create organic objects such as a person, or in this case a monster.
Creating large illustrations for print can be both laborious and time-consuming, because each image is built up pixel by pixel like a large LEGO set, but Photoshop can help reduce the time needed to create your masterpiece by utilising layers, channels, selections and levels. For providing your image with organic elements, there's the option of using an airbrush tablet and stylus, giving you real-time control of your pixels - just remember to turn off anti-aliasing on any tools you use, though.
Pixel art is great for conveying a retro look, calling the mind back to early computer game graphics. It's also ideal for use on the Web, with the small number of colours keeping file sizes low. So open up Photoshop and start building...
Downloads:
pixel_tutorial.pdf
pixelcarzip
about
kerb UK
http://www.kerb.co.uk/Images/logo.gif
flash interactive site.. very cool.. its a game..
8/10
they get extra points for effort
about
Roc the Block - Beyonce * Sean Paul * @ DREAM
Dream, Washington, DC
Fri, Aug 29, 2003 6:00pm
Price
GENERAL ADMISSION
$40.00
Onsale:
Tue, 08/12/03, 11:00am
about
Tonight !
50Cent / Snoop Dogg / Fabolous / Busta Rhymes / Bone Crusher / Chingy
at the Baltimore Arena
630 pm.. 8.14.2003
who. Me, Bridget, Moosou, and Jason..
pimpin.
at the Baltimore Arena
630 pm.. 8.14.2003
who. Me, Bridget, Moosou, and Jason..
pimpin.
about
proce55ing
http://proce55ing.net
in the sept. issue of wired (the one with the HOT blonde covered in synthetic diamonds on the cover) - mentions a new interactive technology. on page 061 the short blurb goes:
web design for dummies
flash, the defining app for interactive graphics, works great until you overload it with data. then it crashes. few designers want to tackle c++ and java, so they've turned to Processing. the open source software replaces all three, making advanced animation a snap: plug in a single line of code to draw a square, add three more lines, and the square follows your cursor. created by benjamin fry of mit's aesthetics and computation group and casey reas of interaction design institute ivrea, the program is so easy that more than 1,000 digital artists, including sodaplay creator ed burton, have already downloaded the alpha version.
the beta debuts september 6th at the international digital show arts electronica in linz, austria. the finished product will be available free for download at proce55ing.net -
Processing is a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media. It is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts and it is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas.
The software is currently in a prerelease stage, but bug fixes are being made as we head toward a more complete "1.0" release. Processing will be free to download and available for Mac, PC, and Linux.
Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It is currently developed in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, and by a group of distributed developers across the Net
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this weekend ! ...
basically this weekend was crazyness..
thursday night...we are playin beer pong at alexis'... pat, erik, calvin and I, propose goin to Boca Raton, FLA. to stay at calvins pimp house that is empty cause his dad is somewhere....
so friday 8pm, we drive down .. (i drove calvins 3series bmw ... very fast...)
we arrive at Boca Raton 12 noon saturday...
...
drinking and crazyness ensued, we went to miami a couple times, and basically had a amazing time, drinking and swimming in the gated communitys pool.. highlights included, illegal fireworks, nicks impression of christopher walken in pulp fiction, eriks drunken nesss, alexis' cowboy hat, the spanish hos from cali...lol, alexis gettin lost from us., pat and i cuttin on nick...(the wanksta nick remix has me done.. lol....) bbq in south carolina, watchin awesome lightning at 5am on the beach/drinkin beers.. ...etc
...
we arrived home to NoVa... monday at midnight...
sooo much funnnnnnnnn
holla to calvin for hookin it up with the crucial accomodations...
http://www.6forty.com/jesse/M
the backyard
thursday night...we are playin beer pong at alexis'... pat, erik, calvin and I, propose goin to Boca Raton, FLA. to stay at calvins pimp house that is empty cause his dad is somewhere....
so friday 8pm, we drive down .. (i drove calvins 3series bmw ... very fast...)
we arrive at Boca Raton 12 noon saturday...
...
drinking and crazyness ensued, we went to miami a couple times, and basically had a amazing time, drinking and swimming in the gated communitys pool.. highlights included, illegal fireworks, nicks impression of christopher walken in pulp fiction, eriks drunken nesss, alexis' cowboy hat, the spanish hos from cali...lol, alexis gettin lost from us., pat and i cuttin on nick...(the wanksta nick remix has me done.. lol....) bbq in south carolina, watchin awesome lightning at 5am on the beach/drinkin beers.. ...etc
...
we arrived home to NoVa... monday at midnight...
sooo much funnnnnnnnn
holla to calvin for hookin it up with the crucial accomodations...
the backyard
about
crazy shit
click to watch
.. so funny
Starring:
Directed by: kurt osburn
Distributed by: IFILM
Genre: Comedies
Run Time: 4 Min 35 Secs
Release Year: 2000
Synopsis:
CrazyWhiteBoys.com presents their take on the infamous mastercard spots Used cars, booze, fire, and other party favors fuel this outrageous spoof. Into degenerate destructive humor? Then this is the clip for you.
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holla
msmith5678: geez you're really hot
msmith5678: are you like a model or anything
makaveliblaze: lol
makaveliblaze: are you kidding
msmith5678: haha
msmith5678: well you could be
msmith5678: are you like a model or anything
makaveliblaze: lol
makaveliblaze: are you kidding
msmith5678: haha
msmith5678: well you could be
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Gary Coleman for Governor
Gary Coleman poses in New York in this April 30, 2001, file photo. Coleman, star of the 1980s sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes,' plunked down $3,500 in Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2003, and declared himself a candidate for governor in the upcoming recall election. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File)
about
holla
comments welcome...
comments :
CRP640: cool
InfamousOreo: I like the top one
thomiccor: it's cool but i think you will end up changing it
Lnm927: i like the 6forty logo
Lnm927: me likey
makaveliblaze: bling
Lnm927: not such a fan of the word bubble
Lnm927: but i like the rest
Lnm927: or speech bubble
Lnm927: whatever it's called
luvgreen217: nice..i like the yellow one better
InfamousOreo: im getting a digital cam for xmas- im gonna make a website like you ( it will never compare to yours though.. ;-)
about
Swift 3D in Flash MX Rollovers
very basic tutorial for using Swift3d v.2 with Flash
about
+ flash preloader code +
if (_framesloaded>=_totalframes) {
gotoAndPlay("Main",1);
} else {
gotoAndPlay("PreLoad",1);
}
gotoAndPlay("Main",1);
} else {
gotoAndPlay("PreLoad",1);
}
about
T Mobile Sidekick
Overview
The T-Mobile Sidekick is the ultimate communication device. A large color screen that flips open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard makes for quick and easy communication. Stay connected with all your friends with unlimited e-mail, AOL® Instant Messenger™, Internet browsing, text messaging and mobile snapshots. It all runs on T-Mobile's national GPRS network, where you Get More®.
Service pricing:
T-Mobile Sidekick customers can now sign up for any T-Mobile voice plan and add unlimited e-mail, Web browsing, text messaging, and AOL® Instant Messenger™ Service (AIM®) for $20.00 a month. Customers who just want to use the Sidekick's powerful data functionality can get a stand-alone plan that includes unlimited e-mail, Web browsing, text messaging, and AIM® for $29.99 a month, with voice calls billed on a pay-as-you-go basis for just 20¢ per minute, with domestic long distance and roaming included.
Basic info:
Size: 4.6 x 2.6 x 1.1 inches
Weight: 6.02 oz.
Included battery: Lithium ion
Talk time: 3.5 hours
Standby time: 60 hours
Included accessories:
Includes Hands-Free Headset and Case and Wrist Strap
Optional accessories:
HotSpot
PDA / Mobile Data Device Accessories
Included services:
Voicemail with Message Alert
Call Forwarding
E-Mail (6MB mailbox)
International Dialing
Built-in Paging
Caller ID
Conference Calling
Call Waiting and Call Hold
Customer Care
Access to Directory Assistance
Emergency Calls
Detailed Billing
Supported optional services:
AOL Instant Messenger™ Service (AIM®)
AOL® E-Mail
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l e b o n z e . c o m
imswtstuf: ii never hear from you unless you're sending me a link
about
420lauda
http://420lauda.com
420 Lauda
August 9th
EAST COAST BILLIARDS
13989 Jefferson Davis Hwy
Woodbridge, Virginia 22191 (703) 490-5504
Time: Doors Open @ 8
Cover: $10
if you dont know who 420 lauda is.. lemme edjumacate you real quick... imagine the roots before they got famous.. and add a white guy ...and a stand up bass.... holla..
suport local hiphop
about
James blockwoods 21st and Dannys chillin
tonight was sooo fuckin funnnnnnnn
the photo gallery
comments:
Dmpls128: wonderful new entertaiment:-)
CRP640: cool
Tenny727: that pic of you and jaime in mcfaddens has me done
Tenny727: youre making some crazy face
Tenny727: shes just sitting there
comments:
Dmpls128: wonderful new entertaiment:-)
CRP640: cool
Tenny727: that pic of you and jaime in mcfaddens has me done
Tenny727: youre making some crazy face
Tenny727: shes just sitting there
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New Zealand Movie
In a small New Zealand coastal village, Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation for more than 1000 years, a male heir born to the Chief succeeds to the title.
The time is now. The Chief's eldest son, Porourangi, fathers twins - a boy and a girl. But the boy and his mother die in childbirth. The surviving girl is named Pai.
Grief-stricken, her father leaves her to be raised by her grandparents. Koro, her grandfather who is the Chief, refuses to acknowledge Pai as the inheritor of the tradition and claims she is of no use to him. But her grandmother, Flowers, sees more than a broken line, she sees a child in desperate need of love.
And Koro learns to love the child. When Pai's father, Porourangi, now a feted international artist, returns home after twelve years, Koro hopes everything is resolved and Porourangi will to accept destiny and become his successor.
But Porourangi has no intention of becoming Chief. He has moved away from his people both physically and emotionally. After a bitter argument with Koro he leaves, suggesting to Pai that she come with him. She starts the journey but quickly returns, claiming her grandfather needs her.
Koro is blinded by prejudice and even Flowers cannot convince him that Pai is the natural heir. The old Chief is convinced that the tribe's misfortunes began at Pai's birth and calls for his people to bring their 12-year-old boys to him for training.
He is certain that through a gruelling process of teaching the ancient chants, tribal lore and warrior techniques, the future leader of their tribe will be revealed to him.
Meanwhile, deep within the ocean, a massive herd of whales is responding, drawn towards Pai and their twin destinies.
When the whales become stranded on the beach, Koro is sure this signals an apocalyptic end to his tribe. Until one person prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the people. The Whale Rider.
about
james blockwoods 21st fiesta maxima grande
design by Jesse Thomas...
tonight is gonna be so fuckin tight !
james blockwood won a radio contest and for his 21st birthday and he gets free open bar
http://www.mcfaddensdc.com/beverages.php
if you know james holla at him and get on the list !!!!
ol school
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links
about
RIAA Hit List
Are you on the list?
The recording industry has launched a sweeping effort to identify and shut down individual song swappers, making good on recent threats to expand its legal battle against copyright theft.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now issued more than 911 subpoenas to Internet service providers across the United States, trying to get the names of people still offering music on file-sharing networks such as KaZaA and Grokster.
The following user names were culled from subpoenas filed with the US District Court in Washington, DC. All subpoenas, incidentally, are being served by the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. A total of 253 RIAA subpoenas were listed as of July 22 through the federal court system's paid online database, PACER. The actual subpoenas are available to view online in about half the cases.
The court documents don't show individual users' real names. They do show file-sharing network user names, the user's ISP, the user's IP address, and a sampling of copyright songs the user allegedly made available for download. To date, many ISPs have been contacted, including Pac Bell Internet, SBC, Charter Communications, Comcast, Adelphia, RCN, and Time Warner.
Following is a list of user names we found during our review of the subpoenas. Also, see the Electronic Frontier Foundation's searchable database of RIAA subpoenas, and its information on how to avoid a lawsuit.
ISPs on Alert
Here's a list of which ISPs and other service providers have received subpoenas from the RIAA, and how many subpoenas each provider has received. Numbers come from a review of the first 257 RIAA subpoenas put online (of a total of at least 911 filed so far) by the US District Court in Washington, DC.
Comcast Cable Communications (87)
SBC (60)
Time Warner Cable (32)
Charter Cable (22)
Verizon Internet Services (21)
RCN (19)
Adelphia Communications (3)
Bentley College (Boston) (3)
Boston College (3)
EarthLink (2)
DePaul University (Chicago), Loyola University (Chicago), MIT, Northeastern University (Boston), Pacific Bell Internet (1 each)
RIAA's Most Wanted
Aab@Kazaa
Aboggs2@Kazaa
allstatetide@Kazaa
Amissann2@Kazaa
AngelaMikesell@Kazaa
anon39023@Kazaa
anthonybotz@Kazaa
aoster1@Kazaa
Ariel167@fileshare
asheejojo@Kazaa
Ashley@Grokster
azn_bahamut@Kazaa
B.B.C@Kazaa
badandy@Kazaa
Benchy987@Kazaa
Bigeasssy24@Kazaa
Bigpimpinitopey187@Kazaa
bigjohnhc@Kazaa
blazel@Kazaa
bluemonkey13@Kazaa
Boilermaker1214@Kazaa
brentandjonna@Kazaa
brich410@Kazaa
budman5000@Kazaa
Bush323@Kazaa
cado@Kazaa
Carolyn@fileshare
Casal@Kazaa
cbegalle@Kazaa
cherriie@Kazaa
CLOVER77@Kazaa
Corky101@Kazaa
Cortez1023@Kazaa
CowgirlMDR@Kazaa
crazyface@Kazaa
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Comment from Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA):
"We're delighted by this decision which makes clear, as did the Napster decision, that companies cannot profit from copyright infringement. A peer-to-peer service is not off the hook simply because it claims there may be legitimate uses of its network. When these types of services exist primarily as a vehicle for copyright infringement, they have an obligation to try and reduce the illegal activity occurring on their networks.
"The decision also reaffirms -- yet again -- that when individuals 'share' copyrighted music, without permission of the copyright holder, they are liable for direct copyright infringement. This reinforces the message that there can be consequences when computer users illegally distribute music files online."
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Other highlights from the ruling include the following:
Among other issues addressed by the Court of Appeals, the decision makes clear that individuals who "swap" music online are engaged in illegal behavior.
"Teenagers and young adults who have access to the Internet like to swap computer files containing popular music. If the music is copyrighted, such swapping, which involves making an transmitting a digital copy of the music, infringes copyright."
The decision by the Seventh Circuit also supports the current appeal by the music and movie studios of the Grokster decision from earlier this year in which a district court had rejected a motion for summary judgment by the recording industry. The Grokster decision indicated that, notwithstanding the overwhelming infringing nature of the system, the defendants could continue to profit from the infringements. The Aimster decision by the Seventh Circuit would call this into question by requiring the district court to consider the overwhelmingly infringing nature of the system, as well as the ease by which defendants could filter the infringements out of the system.
"Even when there are noninfringing uses of an Internet file-sharing service, moreover, if the infringing uses are substantial then to avoid liability as a contributory infringer, the provider of the service must show that it would have been disproportionately costly for him to eliminate or at least reduce the infringing uses."
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