The new Nokia 7600 phone is unveiled in Helsinki September 25, 2003. The radically shaped 3G phone is expected to be available in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific towards the end of the year.
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The new Nokia 7600 phone is unveiled in Helsinki September 25, 2003. The radically shaped 3G phone is expected to be available in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific towards the end of the year.
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"hiiiiio misssa thomas"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/china_japan
China fury over mass orgy, demands Japan teach tourists to behave
BEIJING (AFP) - The Chinese government has ordered Japan to teach its citizens how to behave following an "extremely odious" mass orgy between hundreds of Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes.
Responding to mounting fury over the three-day orgy in a hotel in the southern city of Zhuhai on the anniversary of Japan's occupation of China, the Chinese foreign ministry (news - web sites) said it had launched a formal investigation
The Chinese media and Internet chatrooms have been crackling with anger over reports of the September 16-18 sex marathon which reportedly involved 380 male Japanese tourists and 500 prostitutes at a five-star hotel.
"This case is of an extremely odious nature," foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan said in a statement late Sunday.
"Foreign citizens in China must abide by Chinese laws," Kong said. "We hope the Japanese government will improve their citizens' education about this."
The incident has ignited a wave of nationalistic and anti-Japanese sentiment, with many people convinced the orgy was timed to humiliate China on September 18, the anniversary of the start of Japan's occupation of northeast China in 1931.
Newspapers quoted Chinese witnesses as saying the Japanese tourists admitted coming to Zhuhai purely for sex. They said the five-star Zhuhai International Convention Center Hotel was overrun with tourists openly groping and hugging prostitutes in elevators and other public places.
Reports said doors between hotel rooms were left open and that up to three or four girls could be seen or heard servicing clients in each room.
The public security bureau in the southern province of Guangdong has also launched an inquiry into the incident, while the hotel has been temporarily shut down.
The incident underlines sensitive the relationship between the Chinese people its Asian neighbors, despite booming trade and the fact that Japan is China's largest trade partner.
Anti-Japanese sentiment forever simmers under the surface of increasing trade, tourism and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Memories of Japan's wartime atrocities, including rapes and use of Chinese women as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers, remain strong among the older generation, and the history of the Japanese occupation until 1945 is regularly taught to the younger generation.
Despite the official outrage over the incident, China's booming southern cities are a well-known magnet for sex tourists from within China as well as from places such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
Media reports said the hotel's marketing and sales department, using its contacts in Japan, had organized the group of all-male Japanese tourists to come to Zhuhai. The "madame" of the hotel's nightclub allegedly prepared the large group of prostitutes.
More than 15,000 messages by angry Chinese have been posted on one Chinese website alone, denouncing the incident as "national shame" while some called for a boycott of Japanese products.
the video from jack blacks movie school of rock.. funnnny
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* ingrid shwaiko *
elingro: dude. did i tell you i went to nyc this weekend?
makaveliblaze: you did .. with school right
elingro: i'm moving to the village
makaveliblaze: shut up
makaveliblaze: im comin to visit
elingro: hahaha.
elingro: oh, it's gonna happen
makaveliblaze: can i hang out with your hot model friends
elingro: plus size model friends. i'm not surrounding myself with women who look better than me
ingrid is soo funny
makaveliblaze: you did .. with school right
elingro: i'm moving to the village
makaveliblaze: shut up
makaveliblaze: im comin to visit
elingro: hahaha.
elingro: oh, it's gonna happen
makaveliblaze: can i hang out with your hot model friends
elingro: plus size model friends. i'm not surrounding myself with women who look better than me
ingrid is soo funny
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back by popular demand
DFink2117: hey man that link on your website where you can search court records is really fun
http://208.210.219.132/vadistrict/select.jsp
go to arlington county and search kerby, godbolt, dickie, preston, tillage, or anyone sketchy in atown (nothing personal)
go to arlington county and search kerby, godbolt, dickie, preston, tillage, or anyone sketchy in atown (nothing personal)
A homeless man sleeps in a couch on the sidewalk. Some 1.7 million people in the United States joined the ranks of the poor in 2002 and the poverty rate increase to 12.1 percent from 11.7 percent a year earlier(AFP/File/Hector Mata)
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WET white entertainment television
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=9&u=/nm/odd_cookies_dc
Texas Conservative Group Sets Cookie Price on Race
DALLAS (Reuters) - Southern Methodist University said on Thursday it shut down a bake sale on campus by a conservative political group that sold cookies at different prices, based on a customer's race and gender.
The Young Conservatives of Texas, a nonpartisan group that mostly campaigns for Republican-backed policies and candidates, said the bake sale was aimed at bringing attention to what it sees as flaws in affirmative action policies. The university said the group's actions were offensive.
Cookies were priced at $1 for white males, 75 cents for white females, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks.
"Young Conservatives of Texas strongly opposes different standards for different races," said David Rushing, the chairman of the group at SMU in Dallas said. He said it was wrong for the university to shut down their sale.
"We find it appalling that a university that is supposed to be dedicated to the enlightenment of its own students and the free flow of ideas would stifle the opinions of a group of students based on objections from a handful of other students," Rushing said.
SMU is one of the largest private universities in Dallas. Other groups have launched similar sales at various U.S. universities since about February of this year.
While the bake sale raised eyebrows about its political message, it was a commercial failure. The group only sold about $1.50 worth of cookies.
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Eminem Produces Track Featuring Both Tupac And Biggie
Eminem Produces Track Featuring Both Tupac And Biggie
Earlier this year we heard Eminem rhyme over one of Tupac's beats. Now the deceased hip-hop rebel is rapping over one of Slim Shady's tracks.
Eminem recently completed production of "Running (Dying to Live)," the first single from the upcoming "Tupac: Resurrection" soundtrack. In addition to the verse from Pac, the record includes a Notorious B.I.G. rhyme for the first verse.
"Check it, I grew up a f---in' screw-up," Biggie says on the song. Later he raps about wanting to be the "the black Frank White," a nickname he adopted, and continues his assault.
"Run from the police/ Picture that n---a/ I'm too fat," he barks. "I f--- around and catch a asthma attack."
Em constructed the beat with hammering piano chords, violins and bass. The King of Detroit also sampled blues-rocker Edgar Winters' "Dying to Live" for the chorus: "Why am I fighting to live, if I 'm just living to fight?/ Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing in sight?/ Why am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try?/ Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?"
Tupac rounds the record off with his militant street-soldier poetry. "A couple of movies now the whole world trying to screw me," he says. "Even the cops tried to sue me/ So what can I do, but stay true sippin' 22s of brew…/ Misery is all I see, that's my mind state ..."
"Running (Dying to Live)" isn't the only record Eminem produced for the "Tupac: Resurrection" soundtrack, according to an Interscope Records spokesperson, who would only add that the soundtrack will also include songs from Pac that tell a chronological story of his life and career.
The "Tupac: Resurrection" soundtrack comes out on November 4 and features four new Tupac songs in all as well as a slew of his greatest hits. The film that inspired the soundtrack hits theaters on November 14 .
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:: Mogadishu ::
A Somali truck loaded with corn is parked on the side of a road in Mogadishu, September 24, 2003. The delapidated city is the capital of the failed Horn of Africa state, where motorists have the choice of driving on the right or the left hand side of the road, such is Mogadishu's anarchy. Car wrecks, goats, cattle and the tent-like homes of refugees line the pot-holed, sandy streets. The country collapsed into chaos in 1991 after the ousting of former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna
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*Medal of Fuckin Honor
http://www.eagames.com/official/moh_alliedassault/home.jsp
yeah i love this game..
multiplayer demo is free ! holller
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+ Mr Jeffries the Bassett Hound +
The dog with the largest ears in the world as recognised by the new 2004 Guiness Book of World Records, Mr Jeffries the Bassett Hound, is seen in this handout photo made available Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003. Jeffries, whose ears measure 29.2 cm (11.5 in) lives with his owner, Phil Jeffries, in West Sussex, England. Mr Jeffries' full name is Knightsfollie Ladiesman and he is the grandson of Biggles, the face of Hush Puppies shoes. His ears are insured for 30,000 pounds ($47,800). (AP Photo/Guinness World Records)
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+| the pietasters at the 930 club |+
http://www.930.com
The Pietasters
w/ Lost City Angels • River City Rebels • Punchline
FRI. SEP. 26
$12.00
the pietasters are sooo good live.. and they are from dc, bonus
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<< pixelsurgeon interview : Jakob Nielsen >>
http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=45
Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Until 1998, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and led that company's Web usability efforts starting with the original design of SunWeb in early 1994.
Nielsen's Alertbox column about Web usability has been published on the Internet since 1995 and currently has about 200,000 readers.
Amongst other things, Jakob Nielsen has been called "the king of usability" (Internet Magazine), "the guru of Web page usability" (The New York Times), and an "eminent Web usability guru" (CNN).
Love him or loathe him, his contributions to the internet debate, particularly on the subject of Flash, have made him infamous and raised the important issue of usability amongst web designers.
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* Mary Carey for Governor *
http://www.marycareyforgovernor.com
so her name is mary carey.. and she looks like mariah carey. mmhhmm
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++ va court records ++
search the va court records..
try JT dickie in arlington county... lol
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+ canadian innovates +
quoting the canadainnovates.com article..
Teknision Inc. implements electronic media strategies through a solid background in traditional web technologies with a focus on dynamic Flash applications. Teknision pushes the envelope with internationally recognized design and development.
The Teknision.com website is designed to engage the visitor in communicating with the Teknision staff. That simple idea is revolutionary. Nowhere else can you immediately be included in a forum where you can converse with everyone on the site as well as the people behind the company. Text, audio and video are all there. Visitors can have information pushed to them or have their experience guided by Teknision staff. What is created is an instant feeling of community. This community has seen great rewards for Teknision and is what pushes innovation in digital design. The site has been reviewed by many design portals and magazines around the globe.
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en
World's Beer Drinkers March to Munich Oktoberfest
Thousands of beer drinkers from around the world, many in traditional Bavarian lederhosen, flocked to Munich on a sunny Saturday for the largest and most famous beer festival on earth, the Oktoberfest.
Munich mayor Christian Ude opened the two-week festival at midday, cracking open the first 200-liter keg with the customary shout of "O'zapft is" -- the keg is tapped.
That was the signal for an army of brawny waitresses in traditional dirndl dresses to start heaving liter glasses of specially brewed lager to the thirsty crowds as oompah bands churned out endless jolly drinking songs.
Outside in the brilliant sunshine, crowds eating sausages, ice cream or gingerbread strolled past fun rides and food stalls, while inside the tents, beer drinkers locked arms and roared along with the bands.
"The mood is great, the weather, the atmosphere, everything's just right," said Alfred Niederreiter, on a visit to his home town with his wife after a decade of living in eastern Germany.
By the time the 170th Oktoberfest ends on October 5, some six million visitors are expected to have passed through 14 enormous tents, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people at a time, and to have drunk over 5.5 million liters (1.453 million U.S. gallons) of beer.
The consumption of food is equally impressive. Last year the visitors consumed 219,405 pairs of pork sausage, which lined end to end would stretch for more than 50 km (30 miles).
They ate 87 oxen, 58,746 legs of pork and almost half a million roast chickens, and organizers are expecting a similarly gargantuan total this year.
CELEBRATION
The Oktoberfest began life in 1810 as a five-day celebration of the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildenburghausen and has developed into an annual extravaganza of food, drink and folklore, spawning tributes and imitations from Chicago to Hong Kong.
The festival is one of Germany's biggest tourist events, attracting visitors from all over the world, employing some 12,000 people and generating almost one billion euros ($1.13 billion) for the local economy.
"The color, the warmth of the German people, the beer, seeing everyone having a good time, it's fabulous," said Marco Ferrari, who drove up from Milan with a group of friends.
This year's festival opens a day before state elections which are expected to deliver another landslide win to premier Edmund Stoiber and the conservative Christian Social Union which has governed Bavaria for the past four decades.
Stoiber himself drew huge cheers from the crowd as he entered the festival's main tent although a chorus of boos and whistles also broke out when he mentioned the upcoming election.
Security has been stepped up at the 31-hectare main site after the arrest earlier this month of a group of suspected right wing extremists who police believe were plotting a bomb attack on a Jewish center in Munich.
But authorities have found no signs of any plan for a repeat of a bomb attack on the 1980 Oktoberfest, when 13 people died. ($1=.8852 Euro)
http://www.britishairways.com/
british airways is having a 100$ flight deal to london.. ! from oct to dec. ! the offer expires on sept 25 so act now.
i looked at a flight from wash dulles to london for 100$ each way.. thats hot.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030920/168/5bz7l.html&e=3
Paris Hilton, left, and Nicole Richie pose with Tinkerbelle in this undated publicity photo. The friends star in Fox's new reality series 'The Simple Life,'' a new reality series that ``chronicles two affluent socialites as they make the transition from filthy rich to just plain filthy,'' that will premiere in December, the Fox network announced, Friday, 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Fox, Sam Jones)
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2003/08/13/1060588454223.htm
from the age.com.au
Graffiti goes upmarket
Technically, stencil art is illegal graffiti. But it is gaining legitimacy as a cultural phenomenon, writes James Norman.
A Melbourne stencil artist who calls himself dlux, wearing a hooded windcheater, tracksuit pants and formidable no-brand runners, leads the way to a warehouse in North Melbourne.
A few empty cans of scotch and Coke lie among the clutter of cardboard and plastic cutout stencils. There are bubble-wrapped canvasses against a wall and a shabby ping-pong table in the foyer. A pile of spent aerosol cans lie discarded around the studio's periphery.
Eight artists share this space, most of them using it as a base for stencil art - a hybrid of graffiti and graphic design that is sweeping Melbourne's public places.
The 25-year-old artist often composes his images on computer, scanning newspapers and magazines or scouring the internet for inspiration. The images are then transferred onto cardboard or plastic templates, over which can be sprayed aerosol paints. Spraying the images onto a wall or canvas can take seconds and is infinitely repeatable.
"Stenciling is graffiti in the legal sense of the word, but it's not graffiti in the cultural sense of the word," says dlux, perched on a stool beside his work table, with a well-organised folio of plastic stencils in a folder in front of him.
It does appear to be gaining legitimacy in the art world. Andrew Mac, curator of the CityLights public art projects, has recently been contacted by the National Gallery of Australia to research the Melbourne stencil art scene. The National Gallery will be staging the Australian Print Symposium in Canberra next year and Mac has been asked to address the conference on Melbourne stencil art.
"Stenciling is quite closely connected to print making," Mac says. "The National Gallery is aware that there is an incredible amount of activity going on, and I guess their job is to be representative of what's happening in Australian art.
"The gallery recognises that people are selling this work now, despite the fact that most of the work is on city walls."
Anne McDonald, the curator for Australian prints and drawings at the National Gallery, says she sees stencil art as a legitimate print medium. "It's the equivalent of the political posters of the 1970s and 1980s that dealt with a whole range of topical issues at the time. We've had exhibitions of poster art in the past. The National Gallery has the premier collection of Australian prints and it's very important for us to keep up with what is happening in the current scene - it seems to be a very vibrant movement."
McDonald says the gallery is becoming increasingly aware of the collectable nature of stencil art.
"There are exhibitions popping up all over the country. Many artists are now appropriating stencil imagery into more traditional art. While the gallery would never condone graffiti, we are interested to reflect what is happening in the contemporary public art scene."
Internationally, stencil art also seems to be the flavour of the month, with San Francisco's Crucible Steel gallery holding an upcoming exhibition it describes as "the first art show to document the vitality, creativity and diversity of the emerging worldwide stencil community and the dialogue that its art creates".
London art publishers Thames & Hudson recently released the book Stencil Graffiti, by Tristan Manco. "I think graffiti has always interested the visual arts movement and publishing communities," says Peter Shaw, general manager of Thames & Hudson Australia. "Stencil graffiti is just an extension of that. It's the extension of graffiti, which has particular interest to both the arts and corporate world."
Quite what the corporate world would make of the images on display in dlux's workspace is hard to imagine. There's his framed cutout stencil of a bicycle with a blue background and the words "Dub, Swallow, Regurgitate". A collection of material by other stencilers presents an image of Osama bin Laden extending his right middle finger. The Queen has a disturbingly evil sneer in the next piece. A forlorn William S. Burroughs straddles the words "Virtue is a relative". A bikini-clad woman with a machine gun sprawls above the words "Clone Me". Beside her a black robot punches the air beside the words "Why do you feel so sad?"
"It's a backlash against boring surroundings," says dlux, "wanting to go against advertising, to provide an aesthetic alternative that is not just about selling things. To present something that is abstract, the phenomenology of things appearing in places for no apparent reason. To create images which will last and be looked at over and over."
He started out, he says, at high school, "reading whatever magazines I could get my hands on that talked about street art".
"But I didn't grow up in an urban environment, so it was always an abstract thing. When I moved to Adelaide I started seeing work around by this guy called SYNC, mainly stickers placed in startling locations. I saw his stuff everywhere and was really excited by it - I wanted to compete with him and be a part of it."
After high school, dlux says he went to art school, and now "this is the art that I choose to make. It's how I feel happy contributing to my environment".
Does he see a connection between corporate logos and stencil art? "Corporate logos are the way we understand the world now. They are images that are filled with information. That also goes for stencils - it's how stencils work on the same levels as advertising in order to actively subvert it - squeezing lots of information into one recognisable, repeatable image."
Perhaps that's why some multinational corporations, such as Nike, have been chasing famous stencil artists such as British artist Banksy to design their latest advertising logos. Banksy is perhaps the world's best-known stenciler, having recently designed an album cover for British pop band Blur.
At a recent London solo exhibition called Turf War, Banksy stenciled two cows from top to bottom with pictures of arrows and Anglo-Saxon faces, with the note: "the average African receives less in subsidies per head than an EU cow".
Banksy was in Melbourne recently and left behind mementoes of his work - his trademark stenciled rat - around the CBD and Fitzroy in particular.
dlux claims there is an ethic within stencilers' circles about which sites constitute "fair game" - he says they avoid heritage buildings and, for the most part, residential properties. He also says that racist or sexist stencils generally will not last long on the wall. "People react much more negatively to sexist or racist graffiti. They get covered over much more quickly. People will add their own messages to offensive stencils. I'm not sure that the police would be so discerning."
But not getting caught is not a concern when stencil art makes its ways into the "high" art world of commercial galleries - which is where it seems to be heading at present. Among stenciling circles internationally, Melbourne is often pointed to as a global hotspot.
"It is generational as far as Melbourne goes now - it suits the kind of people that are here now," says dlux, who adds that he has no problem with the move into high art, where the designs are generally sold on scraps of recycled timber for prices ranging from $50 to $500.
"I enjoy high-end art for what it stands for and what it is, but I generally don't like hanging out with those people," he says. "I prefer to be with people who are actually making art. But I am constantly pushing to see the work recognised in that art world too. The art is pushing boundaries, and as a movement it is making a niche in art history."
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power is love
having no power sucks, it came back on just a hour ago.. i was goin crazy!
check out.
http://www.group94.com
ther shit is fuckin gangster. !
check out.
ther shit is fuckin gangster. !
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icon + factory
icons for mac and windows, and the icon builder is a photoshop plugin for makin icons..
cool sthuf
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Taillights from vehicles are shown in a time exposure as motorists depart Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, which is located on a barrier island, September 16, 2003. The traffic was crossing the Atlantic Beach-Morehead City Bridge as the deadline for a mandatory evacuation for the island nears in the forecast path of Hurricane Isabel. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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This would be so chilll
http://www.risd.edu/child_book.cfm
RISD : Rhode Island School of Design : CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION
from the site:
Here is an opportunity for aspiring illustrators to build expertise and technique as they learn to create excellent children’s book illustrations. This certificate program provides students with the skills and critical information they need to begin a career in illustration, not only for books, but for a wide range of children’s media. The curriculum surveys the field while advancing students’ skills in drawing, painting, research and concept development. Ultimately, participants become familiar with the unique formats and protocols of this highly specialized field while building an eye-catching portfolio–their most critical asset in breaking into the predominantly freelance industry.
To earn a certificate in Children’s Book Illustration, candidates must complete the following coursework. The sequence shown here is very important, as prerequisites must be observed to ensure success in each course. To maintain active status, students must take a minimum of two certificate courses per academic year. All courses, prerequisites and schedules are subject to change without notice.
RISD : Rhode Island School of Design : CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION
from the site:
Here is an opportunity for aspiring illustrators to build expertise and technique as they learn to create excellent children’s book illustrations. This certificate program provides students with the skills and critical information they need to begin a career in illustration, not only for books, but for a wide range of children’s media. The curriculum surveys the field while advancing students’ skills in drawing, painting, research and concept development. Ultimately, participants become familiar with the unique formats and protocols of this highly specialized field while building an eye-catching portfolio–their most critical asset in breaking into the predominantly freelance industry.
To earn a certificate in Children’s Book Illustration, candidates must complete the following coursework. The sequence shown here is very important, as prerequisites must be observed to ensure success in each course. To maintain active status, students must take a minimum of two certificate courses per academic year. All courses, prerequisites and schedules are subject to change without notice.
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http://www.blankcomm.com
__blank Communications
i was talkin to this kid at the user group.. nice work, check http://www.blankcomm.com/HudsonW
__blank Communications
i was talkin to this kid at the user group.. nice work, check http://www.blankcomm.com/HudsonW