my parents are goin to bonnaroo. what is the world coming too. ?

about Ideas are not for owning

http://www.hero.ac.uk/inside_he/archive/ideas_are_not_for_owning1348.cfm?&archive=yes

Below is an edited version of Graham Lawton’s article, The Great Giveaway, published in The New Scientist, 2 February 2002.

IF YOU’VE BEEN to a computer show in recent months you might have seen it: a shiny silver drinks can with a ring-pull logo and the words “opencola” on the side. Inside is a fizzy drink that tastes very much like Coca-Cola. Or is it Pepsi?

There’s something else written on the can, though, which sets the drink apart. It says “check out the source at opencola.com”. Go to that web address and you’ll see something that’s not available on Coca-Cola’s website, or Pepsi’s – the recipe for cola. For the first time ever, you can make the real thing in your own home.

OpenCola is the world’s first “open source” consumer product. By calling it open source, its manufacturer is saying that instructions for making it are freely available. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, release their recipe into the public domain. As a way of doing business it’s rather unusual – the Coca-Cola Company doesn’t make a habit of giving away precious commercial secrets. But that’s the point.

OpenCola is the most prominent sign yet that a long-running battle between rival philosophies in software development has spilt over into the rest of the world. What started as a technical debate over the best way to debug computer programs is developing into a political battle over the ownership of knowledge and how it is used, between those who put their faith in the free circulation of ideas and those who prefer to designate them “intellectual property”. No one knows what the outcome will be. But in a world of growing opposition to corporate power, restrictive intellectual property rights and globalisation, open source is emerging as a possible alternative, a potentially potent means of fighting back. And you’re helping to test its value right now.

The open source movement originated in 1984 when computer scientist Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT and set up the Free Software Foundation (FSF). His aim was to create high-quality software that was freely available to everybody. Stallman’s beef was with commercial companies that smother their software with patents and copyrights and keep the source code – the original program, written in a computer language such as C++ – a closely guarded secret. Stallman saw this as damaging. It generated poor-quality, bug-ridden software. And worse, it choked off the free flow of ideas. Stallman fretted that if computer scientists could no longer learn from one another’s code, the art of programming would stagnate (New Scientist, 12 December 1998, p 42).

Stallman’s move resonated round the computer science community and now there are thousands of similar projects. The star of the movement is Linux, an operating system created by Finnish student Linus Torvalds in the early 1990s and installed on around 18 million computers worldwide.

What sets open source software apart from commercial software is the fact that it’s free, in both the political and the economic sense. If you want to use a commercial product such as Windows XP or Mac OS X you have to pay a fee and agree to abide by a licence that stops you from modifying or sharing the software. But if you want to run Linux or another open source package, you can do so without paying a penny – although several companies will sell you the software bundled with support services. You can also modify the software in any way you choose, copy it and share it without restrictions.

This freedom acts as an open invitation – some say challenge – to its users to make improvements. As a result, thousands of volunteers are constantly working on Linux, adding new features and winkling out bugs. Their contributions are reviewed by a panel and the best ones are added to Linux. For programmers, the kudos of a successful contribution is its own reward. The result is a stable, powerful system that adapts rapidly to technological change. Linux is so successful that even IBM installs it on the computers it sells.

To maintain this benign state of affairs, open source software is covered by a special legal instrument called the General Public Licence. Instead of restricting how the software can be used, as a standard software licence does, the GPL – often known as a “copyleft” – grants as much freedom as possible. Software released under the GPL (or a similar copyleft licence) can be copied, modified and distributed by anyone, as long as they, too, release it under a copyleft. That restriction is crucial, because it prevents the material from being co-opted into later proprietary products. It also makes open source software different from programs that are merely distributed free of charge. As FSF puts it, the GPL “makes it free and guarantees it remains free”.

Open source has proved a very successful way of writing software. But it has also come to embody a political stand – one that values freedom of expression, mistrusts corporate power, and is uncomfortable with private ownership of knowledge. It’s “a broadly libertarian view of the proper relationship between individuals and institutions”, according to open source guru Eric Raymond.

But it’s not just software companies that lock knowledge away and release it only to those prepared to pay. Every time you buy a CD, a book, a copy of New Scientist, even a can of Coca-Cola, you’re forking out for access to someone else’s intellectual property. Your money buys you the right to listen to, read or consume the contents, but not to rework them, or make copies and redistribute them. No surprise, then, that people within the open source movement have asked whether their methods would work on other products. As yet no one’s sure – but plenty of people are trying it. …

Encyclopedias, for example, look like fertile ground. Like software, they’re collaborative and modular, need regular upgrading, and improve with peer review. But the first attempt, a free online reference called Nupedia, hasn’t exactly taken off. Two years on, only 25 of its target 60,000 articles have been completed. “At the current rate it will never be a large encyclopaedia,” says editor-in-chief Larry Sanger. The main problem is that the experts Sanger wants to recruit to write articles have little incentive to participate. They don’t score academic brownie points in the same way software engineers do for upgrading Linux, and Nupedia can’t pay them.

It’s a problem that’s inherent to most open source products: how do you get people to chip in? Sanger says he’s exploring ways to make money out of Nupedia while preserving the freedom of its content. Banner adverts are a possibility. But his best hope is that academics start citing Nupedia articles so authors can earn academic credit.

There’s another possibility: trust the collective goodwill of the open source community. A year ago, frustrated by the treacle-like progress of Nupedia, Sanger started another encyclopedia named Wikipedia (the name is taken from open source web software called WikiWiki that allows pages to be edited by anyone on the Web). It’s a lot less formal than Nupedia: anyone can write or edit an article on any topic, which probably explains the entries on beer and Star Trek. But it also explains its success. Wikipedia already contains 19,000 articles and is acquiring several thousand more each month. … Over time, [Sanger] reckons, thousands of dabblers should gradually fix any errors and fill in any gaps in the articles until Wikipedia evolves into an authoritative encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of entries. …

And so the experiment goes on. … To my knowledge this is the first magazine article published under a copyleft. Who knows what the outcome will be? Perhaps the article will disappear without a trace. Perhaps it will be photocopied, redistributed, re-edited, rewritten, cut and pasted onto websites, handbills and articles all over the world. I don’t know – but that’s the point. It’s not up to me any more. The decision belongs to all of us.

Relevant Information
The source code of this article plus details of the conditions can be found at
www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft


For a selection of copylefts, see
www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/open_alternatives.html

about smackfest 2004

smackfest is the funniest shit i have seen in a while...

about James Heimer

last night was drunken crazyness at VIDA

about Usher has 3 singles on the Top 10 this week

The 11-9 move of 'Confessions Part II' (LaFace) gives Usher(R) three songs in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. 'Burn' is hot enough to remain No. 1 for a third week, and 'Yeah!' continues to descend slowly, this week slipping 3-4. Usher is seen with Justin Timberlake (L) during Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference finals in Los Angeles, May 27, 2004.

about tonights drunkenness

SOOO DRUNK !

nick was dancing !.. it was sooo funy .. brandon was spinning.. alexis and erik were at the door.. thats atown for ya.!

http://www.drdremo.com/

last night was fun , beer pong and darts at dremos..

natasha, jamie, nick and pat, moose, tenny, gangsta carly and sokia and I .. were straight chillin

An Iraqi man sits against a mural based on the scandal of prisoner abuse in the prison of Abu Ghraib in a Shi'ite suburb of Baghdad, May 27, 2004. U.S. Soldiers are working with the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, Iraqi police, local leaders and citizens to clean up graffiti and paint over anti-Coalition messages.

U.S. President George W. Bush laughs while participating in a conversation on healthcare and community health centers while visiting Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio May 25, 2004.

about sign my guestmap !

sign my guestmap !



its pretty cool, you zoom in, and find your location.. and it lets you post a comment your name and your countrys flag.

about GL2

my boy mike is letting me borrow his GL2 to make some movies, that i can edit in my final cut pro class.. yay !

about D12 U.S. Tour

Just in case anyone doesn't already know the name of their band, D12 have expanded their U.S. tour to spread the word.

Nearly 20 shows have been added to the group's upcoming summer tour, which kicks off June 19 in Milwaukee and is slated to end in New Haven, Connecticut. All dates and venues are tentative and still being confirmed.

Detroit hip-hop group Slum Village and Southern rapper Bone Crusher will open the shows for D12, who will be touring without Eminem at the helm.

Tentative D12 tour dates, according to a spokesperson for the group:

6/19 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave/Eagles Club
6/20 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
6/21 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
6/22 - Minneapolis, MN @ Quest Club
6/25 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox
6/27 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
6/30 - San Diego, CA @ 4th & B
7/1 - West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues
7/3 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
7/4 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater
7/5 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
7/6 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
7/8 - Austin, TX @ Stubbs
7/9 - Dallas, TX @ Gypsy Tea Room
7/10 - Houston, TX @ H'town's Arena Theatre
7/11 - New Orleans @ House of Blues
7/13 - Boynton Beach, FL @ Club Ovation
7/14 - Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues
7/15 - Atlanta, GA @ Earthlink Live
7/17 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
7/18 - Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
7/19 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club
7/21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
7/23 - New York, NY @ B.B. Kings
7/24 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's at the Strand
7/25 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place

about DCFUG by jess3

http://www.jess3.com/dcfug

check out my design for the dc flash user group ! and come on tuesday..

The Streets
w/ Dizzee Rascal
@ 9:30 Club • Washington, DC
THU. JUL. 1
$20.00



OH MY GOD !

about David Lachapelle Photography

http://www.davidlachapelle.com

Erikn0: i think the blog+photos
Erikn0: is the right thing

ideas.. are brewing.

about a message from Trey about Phish breaking up

05.26.04

Last Friday night, I got together with Mike, Page and Fish to talk openly
about the strong feelings I've been having that Phish has run its course and
that we should end it now while it's still on a high note. Once we started
talking, it quickly became apparent that the other guys' feelings, while not
all the same as mine, were similar in many ways -- most importantly, that we
all love and respect Phish and the Phish audience far too much to stand by
and allow it to drag on beyond the point of vibrancy and health. We don't
want to become caricatures of ourselves, or worse yet, a nostalgia act. By
the end of the meeting, we realized that after almost twenty-one years
together we were faced with the opportunity to graciously step away in
unison, as a group, united in our friendship and our feelings of gratitude.

So Coventry will be the final Phish show. We are proud and thrilled that it
will be in our home state of Vermont. We're also excited for the June and
August shows, our last tour together. For the sake of clarity, I should say
that this is not like the hiatus, which was our last attempt to revitalize
ourselves. We're done. It's been an amazing and incredible journey. We thank
you all for the love and support that you've shown us.


-- Trey Anastasio

http://www.regalcm.com

Phish's June 17th Coney Island show will be simulcast at 47 Regal Theatres
nationwide. For more information, watch www.regalcm.com

about this video kicks ass

ft_franz_ferdinand.mov

Music video for Franz Ferdinand. Music promo for UK group "Franz Ferdinand". The video was coproduced with Nexus in London for Domino records through commissioner John Moule. The track, entitled "Take Me Out", is the second single from the Glasgow group. AlDirected by Jonas Odell, who has also directed videos for Erasure and Goldfrapp, the video is an animation/live action extravaganza inspired by DADAist photocollage and the art of other movements of the same era. " The band referenced a lot of artists and groups of the DADA movement," says Odell "and all this is stuff that I always loved, but never found a chance to incorporate in a project, so naturally this was a dream project to work on. I dived headlong into the sea of art history and emerged at the other side soaked in references, trying to figure out ways of turning this into a contemporary piece, but the wonderful thing about this period in art is that it does feel completely modern. It is all about the moment, and it still feels very "now".

about Wired article on RSS

Why RSS Is Everywhere

All the info goodness of the blogosphere in a convenient snack size.

By Xeni Jardin

So many blogs, so little time. If you want to stay at the top of the information food chain, you gotta read 'em - lots of 'em. And you have to do it every day. But as that list of must-read blogs grows, hunting and gathering the latest posts becomes a daily drain. You could hire an assistant to read them for you. Or tap into RSS.


Shorthand for "rich site summary" or "really simple syndication," depending on whom you ask, RSS lets publishers use XML code to define the content of their Web sites, much the way HTML lets them determine the format in which content is displayed. With RSS, visitors can access multiple sites without having to go to each one. You subscribe to the RSS feeds of sites you like, and voilà: The content comes to you by way of an aggregator, which sends headlines and links to a browser or a downloadable news reader on your mobile device or desktop.

Once the exclusive domain of geeks, RSS is getting more popular as blogging booms. And as more people climb on, they're finding that RSS feeds can be broadly useful, harvesting news headlines, classified ads, press releases, and even internal corporate project collaboration notes.

The number of feeds grows daily: news from the BBC, seasonal conditions from

The Old Farmer's Almanac, product lists from Amazon, even hottie du jour photos from Pornanza.net. Job seekers anxious about seeing the freshest Craigslist posts can subscribe to a feed instead of hitting Reload for hours in a paranoid funk. Yahoo! recently integrated RSS into My Yahoo!, Microsoft is rumored to be putting it into Longhorn (the next iteration of Windows), and Blogger just introduced blog support for an RSS spinoff called Atom that expands the format's metadata capabilities. "What's next? I have no idea," says RSS godfather and UserLand Software founder Dave Winer. "My involvement started out as a casual weekend project - then people actually started using it."

As the global spam epidemic worsens, RSS is becoming increasingly attractive to both publishers and readers. Ezines allow you to automatically receive information - but it lands in clogged inboxes already overflowing with viruses, Nigerian investment schemes, and fantasy meds. "RSS helps people cope with data clutter," says Chris Pirillo, publisher of Lockergnome.com and an RSS evangelist. "At a glance, you see what's happening all over the Web on topics that matter to you, without having to give up personal information or remember a billion URLs."

To tap in, first check whether the sites you want offer feeds. Look for an RSS or XML link on the homepage. Next, you'll need a news reader (see box at right). There are options for almost every OS, and plug-ins for Web browsers or email apps.

RSS makes other services possible, too. Technorati can tell publishers when you've linked to their blog or Web site. Feedster trawls RSS feeds, allowing you to convert results into custom-crafted news. You can track instances of your name on other blogs for automated ego-surfing (not that I've tried this). You can even share your favorite feeds, sort of like swapping music playlists.

In the end, RSS may not save you time, but it'll help pack more info into the time you have, says Jonno d'Addario, editor of the sex blog Fleshbot, which (big surprise) offers an RSS feed. "Since I've started using a news aggregator, I don't spend eight hours a day compulsively noodling through a dozen favorite blogs anymore," he says. "Instead I spend eight hours a day compulsively noodling through hundreds of RSS feeds." Ah, progress.

5 Ways to Get Hooked Up
• Bloglines www.bloglines.com
Runs on most browsers and PDAs. Free.
• FeedDemon www.feeddemon.com
Runs on most Windows operating systems. $29.95.
• NewsGator www.newsgator.com
Runs on top of Microsoft Outlook. $29.
• PocketRSS www.atomicdb.com
Runs on Pocket PC devices. $5.
• My Yahoo! add.my.yahoo.com/rss
Runs on most browsers. Free.

about i want someone like this

Two women roll premium cigars for export at cigar-maker Tabacalera del Oriente in Tarapoto, northern Peru, on April 16, 2004. Tabacalera has got off to a good start marketing its product. Since it began producing small quantities of cigars in 2001, smokers of its tobacco have included U.S. President George W. Bush and King Juan Carlos of Spain, not to mention many of Peru's diplomatic service

about im not scared

http://www.iononhopaura.it

i saw this movie yesterday.. it was really good..

about HFStival 2004

check out all the pics.

Prime Minister Koizumi poster, Ginza, Tokyo

about Maya 6 Seminar

> ************
> Maya 6 Event
> ************
>
>
> Join us on Wednesday, May 26th for a Maya® 6
> presentation and watch the new Shrek 2 movie!
> Sit back and relax as you see highlights of the
> latest release of the award-winning 3D graphics,
> animation and special effects software on the
> Â"BigÂ" screen. See why film and video artists, game
>
> developers, visualization professionals, Web and
> print designers turn to Maya to take their work
> to the next level.
>
> This is your chance to see the latest in technology
> presentations, watch a great movie, and then
> mingle and talk with the local Maya users from the
> greater Washington, DC area. Immediately
> following the movie, stop by for a snack at the demo
> exhibit area and chat with representatives
> from companies such as Alias, NVIDIA, Simulistic,
> and Wacom. Space is limited so register today!
>
>
> This event is hosted by Simulistic, the premier
> resource in the Washington area for Maya and other
> software products, training and consulting for the
> 3D design and animation field.
>
>
> Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
>
>
> Time: 10:00am - Arrive early, theatre doors will be
> closed after the event begins
>
>
> Location: Reston Multiplex Cinema, 11940 Market
> Street, Reston, VA, 20190 (map)

about HFStival

pregamin

hfstival was soo fun.. i saw so many ppl i know.. including my oldest friend Dan

about pics from eriks road trip

my boy erik is road trippin right now.. to cali for a job at google. bling

http://www.snoopbowl.com

SNOOP DOGG and his 2003-2004 UNDEFEATED COACHING STAFF of the SNOOP JUNIOR ALL STARS!

In this undated photo, obtained by ABC News and allegedly taken by Sgt Charles Frederick in Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq, Army Spc. Sabrina Harmon of the 372nd Military Police Company poses with the body of a dead Iraqi man packed in ice. According to testimony obtained by ABC from Spc. Jason Kennel, who is not accused of wrongdoing, the man died while in the custody of the U.S. authorities at the prison.

about The Roots LIVE . and FREE

http://www.therootslive.com


This site is dedicated to sharing live shows from Hip-Hop's Greatest THE ROOTS

WHERE YOU CAN FIND SHOWS SUCH AS... The MTV2 UNEDITED 2$Bill Concert, The BBC SESSIONS, The Roots at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Live at Bonnarro

this is my new fav site !

about Adam Berninger mini interview

HOW DO YOU GET TO THAT LEVEL
I just try to do something different with everything I do. different than my other projects, different than other people's projects.
and make sure it both looooks good and makes sense conceptually.

IT CAN BE SCARY TO BE DIFFERENT
there's a fine line between imitation and appropriation. I appropriate visual language constantly, an nobody can deny its affect. Just make sure to use it in your own way

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN IT IS DONE
things are rarely done. you just have to stop

THATS HARD TO GRASP FOR LOTS OF PPL
at times, for everybody


http://www.ajberni.com

about Talib Kweli at the 930 club

Talib Kweli
w/ MF Doom
@ 9:30 Club • Washington, DC
SUN. JUN. 13
$20.00

about New York man loses shirt in topless bar

A New York insurance executive is suing a Manhattan strip club after a champagne-fuelled night of lap-dancing left him nursing a 28,000-dollar bill.

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Mitchell Blaser, 53, said the management at the Scores club had added bogus charges to his American Express bill, which he claimed should have been in the region of 2,000 dollars.


Blaser's lawyer, Leonard Zack, said the club had mistakenly banked on the idea that his client -- the chief financial officer of Swiss Re's American unit -- would be too embarrassed to pursue the matter in court.


"It's a swindle, and they probably do it to a lot of people who don't want to do anything," Zack told the Daily News.


Scores spokesman Lonnie Hanover insisted Blaser had "partied like a rock star" with two of his friends.


The final credit card bill included 16,000 dollars for five bottles of Clos de Mesnil champagne, 7,000 dollars for table dances and stripper tips, 1,000 dollars for food and other drinks, and a 4,000-dollar staff tip.


"If you want to live like Colin Farrell, you have to pay for it," Hanover told the New York Post. "The 28,000-dollar bill is totally legitimate."


In his lawsuit, Blaser claimed Scores security personnel had intimidated him into signing a bill for 8,615 dollars. Days later, he said, he discovered that his credit card had been charged three more times.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&u=/afp/afplifestyle_us_lapdance&printer=1

about Pensioner turns young wife's lover into 'gimp'

MATSUDO, Chiba -- An old man who used a chain leash on his young wife's lover, then bound him and locked him inside a wooden box has been arrested, police said.

Hiroshi Ohashi, the 64-year-old pensioner who also nailed himself inside the wooden box in which he is alleged to have used to keep his wife's 39-year-old lover imprisoned at knifepoint for 13 hours, was arrested for kidnapping.

Ohashi, who in the past has been convicted for arson, stated only that "that court case was bulls**t! Give me a retrial."

Investigators will continue questioning the old man to determine his exact motive for the alleged kidnapping.

Police said that Ohashi demanded the younger man appear at his Matsudo home on Monday night to confront him about a steamy affair with the pensioner's 43-year-old wife.

After some discussion, Ohashi ended up binding the younger man's legs with adhesive tape, attaching the chain to his neck and then locking him in the wooden box he referred to as a "box bed." Ohashi joined the young man inside the box, nailing it shut from the inside to make it more difficult to open.

The plywood box was 1.1 meters high, 1.2 meters long and 80 centimeters deep.

Police said Ohashi armed himself with a fruit knife, an iron bar and documents from the court case where he received his arson conviction when he entered the box with the younger man.

Following a 1993 fire at a recycled goods store he operated Ohashi was arrested for willful destruction of property through arson. He was eventually convicted and, in 1996, sentenced to serve seven years in jail. (Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, May 19, 2004)

about Chris Williams

about HFStival 2004

this saturday is gonna be soo hot. !

Ai Kijima
Untitled
Commercial and recycled fabric (including curtain, pillow case, kimono, dress, apron, handkerchief, tablecloth), fused and machine quilted, 2002

Quilting is a traditional craft that depends on the appropriation of previously-owned and recycled materials. The abundance of commercially-printed fabrics featuring corporate characters add a both a new dimension and an unfamiliar set of concerns to the crafter's process.
Kijima writes: "My work aims to cherish various values, blending them into a harmonious whole." www.aikijima.com

about flyer Design for my dad

a flyer i am working on for my dads office.

i am taking summer classes

motion graphics : after effects. and digital video editing : final cut pro

about sokia

about All You Need Is Love

All You Need Is Love
The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

i was watching that documentary "Imagine" about john lennons life.. last night..

he was such a great person.

about emiliano rodriguez

this is my new fav site.

about Ghostface Killah + June 10 = Recher Theatre

Ghostface
The Recher Theatre, Towson, MD
Thu, Jun 10, 2004 07:00 PM

Price

GENERAL ADMISSION
US $20.00

Italian police show off their new Lamborghini patrol car during celebrations in Rome, May 14, 2004 to mark the force's 152nd anniversary. If you are thinking about speeding on Italian highways this year, think twice. You might find yourself being chased down by a Lamborghini sports car. Italian police took possession on Friday of a sleek, 500 horsepower, two-seater Lamborghini Gallardo, which can hit a top speed of 300 kmh (185 mph).

about Hirshorn

http://www.hmsg.si.edu

Ron Mueck
Australian, born Melbourne, 1958

Untitled (Big Man)
2000
Pigmented polyester resin on fiberglass
81 x 46 1/4 x 82 1/4 inches

Nam June Paik
American, born Seoul, Korea, 1932

Video Flag, 1985-1996
70 video monitors, 4 laser disc players, computer, timers, electrical devices, wood and metal housing on rubber wheels.
94 3/8 x 139 3/4 x 47 3/4 in. (239.6 x 354.8 x 119.9 cm.)

http://www.spillway.com

about some crazy mad scientist shit

some crazy mad scientist shit

about Video shows beheading of American captive in Iraq

An al Qaeda-linked Web site posted video Tuesday of an American man in Iraq speaking briefly before being beheaded by his masked captors.

His captors said the United States refused to exchange him for prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison. A senior U.S. official told CNN he does not believe that to be true.

The captors also issued a direct statement to President Bush: "The worst is coming and, God willing, the tough days are still to come. You and your soldiers will regret the day that you touched the ground of Iraq."

In the video, a man identifies himself as Nicholas Berg, 26, of Pennsylvania and is shown sitting in an orange jumpsuit in front of five armed, hooded men.

The one standing directly behind Berg reads a statement identifying himself, and then Berg is pushed to the floor.

Berg is heard screaming as his throat is cut. One of the captors then holds up his severed head.

"For the mothers and wives of American soldiers, we tell you that we offered the U.S. administration to exchange this hostage for some of the detainees in Abu Ghraib and they refused," the hooded man standing behind the American said just before the killing.

"Coffins will be arriving to you one after the other, slaughtered just like this."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters, "this shows the true nature of the enemies of freedom. They have no regard for the lives of innocent men, women and children." (Full story)

At the Pentagon, officials confirmed that a body found Monday in Iraq by an Army patrol is the person shown in the beheading video. Earlier, the State Department had identified the body as that of Berg.

The Web site said the killing had been carried out by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of an Islamist terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on coalition forces in Iraq.

The voice on the tape could not be verified as that of al-Zarqawi. CNN staffers familiar with al-Zarqawi's voice said the voice on the tape did not sound like him.

The Web site also published the text of the statement attributed to al-Zarqawi.

In the statement, the captors refer to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. military personnel, saying the "picture of dishonor and the news of Satanic assault on the people of Islamic men and women" will not be tolerated.

"Where is the compassion, where is the anger for God's religion, and where is the protection for Muslims' pride in the crusaders' jails?" the man says.

"We tell you the pride of all Muslim men and women in Abu Ghraib and other jails is worth blood and souls."

Berg was not a soldier or a civilian employee of the Pentagon, the State Department said.

In suburban Philadelphia, Bruce Hauser, spoke for the Berg family.

Hauser said Berg owned a company that cleaned and repaired communications towers in Iraq.

He said Berg's family learned about his death Monday and is devastated by the news. The family has asked the State Department to release the body as soon as possible, he said.

Berg's family told The Associated Press that they knew he had been decapitated but weren't aware of the details.

"I knew he was decapitated before," Michael Berg told the AP. "That manner is preferable to a long and torturous death. But I didn't want it to become public."

Suzanne Berg said her son was in Iraq as an independent businessman.

"He had this idea that he could help rebuild the infrastructure," she told the AP.

The Berg family was told by the State Department that Nicholas' body is in Kuwait and may arrive in the United States as early as Wednesday.

One government official said Berg had earlier been arrested by Iraqi police in a sweep and detained by coalition authorities. Those authorities contacted the FBI, which interviewed Berg, the source said.

Berg was released when authorities realized he was in Iraq legally, the source said. He was in the process of leaving Iraq when he was taken captive by insurgents.

The FBI confirmed that agents also interviewed Berg's parents about why he was in Iraq.

Nicholas Berg was due to leave Iraq on March 30, his family said.

"The agency had been asked to interview the parents regarding Mr. Berg's purpose in Iraq," FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams said without elaborating.

In early April, Berg's parents filed suit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying their son was being held by the U.S. military without merit. However, just days after it was filed, the suit was declared moot.

Rep. Jim Gerlach, who represents Berg's hometown, said he had spoken with the family and they are "very, very much emotionally traumatized by this death. Yet at the same time, they are very strong and they are very composed."

He said the family also wants to "find out a lot more information" about what happened between the time Berg was released by authorities and when he was taken hostage.

"They are very interested in finding out more about those circumstances," Gerlach told CNN.

Najaf battles continue
Earlier Tuesday, U.S. military officials said American soldiers have killed 13 Iraqi militia loyal to renegade Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and have detained 14 others in overnight fighting near Najaf.

Late Monday, members of al-Sadr's Mehdi Army attempted to ambush a U.S. convoy with small-arms fire. No American forces were injured in the incident.

The U.S. military began an offensive Sunday to retake control of parts of the city, reclaiming the governor's palace from al-Sadr's control.

Al-Sadr, who is wanted in connection with the killing of a rival cleric last year, launched an uprising against U.S. troops in April. Since then, coalition forces have cracked down on the cleric's strongholds while trying to avoid religious sites.

Al-Sadr is believed to be in Najaf, where his militia remains in control of much of the Shiite holy city. He travels to nearby Kufa to deliver weekly sermons Fridays.

Saddam handover may occur by June 30
Salem Chalabi, the man heading the Iraqi war crimes tribunal, said Tuesday the coalition is "considering" the possibility of handing over Saddam Hussein to Iraqis before the June 30 date for sovereignty.

But, he told CNN, he is not sure if it is ready to do that.

Earlier, Kuwaiti government sources told CNN they heard Chalabi say the United States would hand over Saddam to the Iraqis before they get sovereignty from the coalition. Wire services issued similar reports.

But Chalabi claimed he was misquoted and misunderstood. He said there is still a lot of work that defense attorneys for Saddam will have to do and it is likely he would not be the first of the suspects tried.

He said the tribunal would try to have his trial completed by the end of next year.

An al Qaeda-linked Web site posted video Tuesday of an American man in Iraq speaking briefly before being beheaded by his masked captors.

wisdom of alexis part 1.

LXsiix: that guy is a DUMBASS for being in iraq with no backup

about IBM to launch Microsoft software bypass

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Tech titans square off over operating systemsBy Tom Foremski

Updated: 2:19 p.m. ET May 10, 2004SAN FRANCISCO - International Business Machines has raised the stakes in its battle with Microsoft by developing a software technology that would allow large corporations to bypass Microsoft operating systems and applications on PCs or handheld computers.


This is the latest of increasingly aggressive moves by IBM, the world's largest computer company, to grab market share as global information technology markets strengthen following three years of downturn. It comes as Microsoft is under pressure from corporate customers unhappy with security issues in its software and the cost of licenses. (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)

IBM's software technology, to be announced on Monday in New York, has the backing of leading technology companies, including Motorola, PeopleSoft, Adobe Systems and Siebel Systems. Top executives of these companies will announce plans for products that support the IBM software, providing large corporations with further alternatives to Microsoft business software applications.

IBM calls the software technology "client middleware" — a type of operating system that runs business applications on "clients" such as desktop PCs, handheld devices and advanced types of mobile phone. It is an extension of IBM's successful software strategy that has focused on dominating the markets for middleware — software used by corporations to run large IT systems and e-commerce operations. IBM's software group achieved more than $14 billion in revenue last year.

Steve Mills, head of IBM's software group, said: "Our customers will be able to cut their IT costs because the client middleware will enable them to run their applications on many different types of computers."

Companies adopting the IBM software would be able to manage thousands of PCs and hand-held computer devices from a centralized location, substantially lowering administration costs. Such costs can run as high as $7,000 for each PC user, according to estimates from Gartner, the leading US IT research company.

Amy Wohl, analyst at Amy Wohl Associates, a U.S. technology consulting company, said: "Microsoft will be concerned about the IBM move and will need to respond."

She said that, because the IBM software could work alongside Microsoft operating systems and applications, large corporations would be able gradually to move their users away from Microsoft software.

IBM's client software offers versions of applications found in Microsoft's Office — word processing, e-mail and spreadsheets. Mr. Mills said the first applications of the technology would probably be in specialist sectors such as those in large call centers.

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