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

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4945882/



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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Police on motorscooters attempt to pull over an ostrich who escaped from a children's petting zoo, Sunday, May 9, 2004, in Taipei, Taiwan. The ostrich eluded capture.

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thinkmule.

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about ' No to freedom with torture!'

Iraqi men read newspapers, which published the pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners of Abu Ghraib prison, in a tea-shop, in the northern city of Mosul, May 9, 2004.





Iraqi gunmen, loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, brandish weapons in front of Mohammed Al-Sadr mosque in Kerbala, May 9, 2004. Shi'ite Mehdi Army militiamen clashed with U.S. troops in the capital and in Najaf and also engaged in sporadic fighting with the British in Basra, where three soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish





A Turkish demonstrator chants Islamic slogans as he holds a picture of an Iraqi detainee during a protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May 9, 2004. Thousands of Turkish Islamists gathered in an Istanbul square to protest U.S. policy in the region and the alleged abused of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. and British soldiers in Iraq . The slogan on the banner reads: ' No to freedom with torture!'





An Iraqi prisoner's dinner sits on the cell door until the prisoner returns from an interrogation session at the Abu Ghraib Prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq






Two American soldiers pose next to a pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners, at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, in this undated photo. The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday it had repeatedly urged the United States to take 'corrective action' at the Abu Ghraib jail.





U.S. Army Spec. Charles A. Graner, Jr., and Pfc. Lynndie R. England are shown in this undated photograph at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. They are among other soldiers who face charges that include conspiracy, dereliction of duty, cruelty toward prisoners, maltreatment, assault and indecent acts





An Iraqi prisoner and American military dog handlers are shown in this photograph from a set of photographs that the New Yorker Magazine acquired, taken December 12, 2003, two months after the military-police unit was assigned to Abu Ghraib. Torture, abuse and humiliation of prisoners is widespread in U.S.-run detention centers in Iraq, and not limited to a few cases, non-governmental organizations in Iraq and an American Christian group said on May 9, 2004.

about Chechen President Dies in Stadium Blast

The Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya and more than 20 other people were killed Sunday when a bomb ripped through the VIP section at a stadium where Chechens were marking the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, officials said.








A video grab from NTV Russian television shows security personnel helping a man (C), believed to be Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, seconds after an explosion at a stadium in Grozny, May 9, 2004, during annual celebrations of 'Victory Day'. The head of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration on Sunday denied reports that regional president Akhmad Kadyrov and other top officials had been killed in the blast.

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we stopped in philly on the way home.. grubbin..

we had so much fun this weekend.. i was playing black jack at the tropicana.. i was up 4times what i put in.. .. then i gave it back and broke even, which after food drinks and cab fares, is pretty fuckin good. great trip.. atlantic city was awesome


shout out to Brian.. my boy hooked me up with his comp cards.. we never got a chance to use em.. but thanks bro.!

about Me and my iPod" contest winner

Judging Criteria: iPodlounge's editors picked three "best" photos from all the entries, based on our evaluations of the overall composition, creativeness, and appeal of the pictures. We did not expect that the winning shots would be perfect in each of these categories, but hoped that they would each make a strong visual statement.





Grand Prize: Custom Fit Ultimate Ears UE-10 Pro Earphones (Valued at $900.00)

Our reactions to this visually arresting photo were strong - we all were drawn to its creativity, composition, and smart use of theme. Repeated viewings only deepened our appreciation of the submission. Obsessed is the type of photo that hints at the fine line between genius and insanity, underscoring something we all know but can't entirely explain: the fervor and passion for both functionality and aesthetic that differentiates iPod users from, say, Walkman owners.

The winner, Slavik Boyechko of New York reacts... "Holy s***. I just checked the winners, I can't believe I won! I just thought the 'collecting names' was for some listing of all contestants, but holy yokes! The idea came to me as I sat staring at my iPod for hours, while the rest of the time spent on iPodlounge, and I realized that since I bought this little gadget I have ceased to do everything else I love, including painting and drawing. My friends poke fun at my obsession, but it is something that I can't help and I don't think any other iPod owner can either. Maybe now I can finally diminish this obsession and focus on something entirely more productive... the Ultimate Ears. Thanks so much Dennis and the rest of the iPodlounge crew, I've already told you before that I love everything about the site, so much that i check It more than my email account, but now this is another reason to love it even more. Thanks again!"




Second prize: Etymotic ER-4P Earphones (Valued at $330.00)

The iPod's mirror-finished rear surface inspired a number of our entries, three of which showed the iPod as a reflection of a woman applying makeup. Though we really liked each of these three shots (and also one of two young men reflected in the water of a beach), we ultimately preferred this one because of its composition.






Third prize: Etymotic ER-6 Isolator Earphones (Valued at $139.00)

Several of our favorite pictures emphasized the iPod's primary purpose - storing and playing music - but this one did it best. Using a fisheye lens to capture a wide angle shot, the photographer created the impression of a spherical pile of diverse music and media compressed into the tiny shell of the iPod, then casually enjoyed.

about Art Direction and the Web

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/artdirweb/



by Stephen Hay

In mathematics, the whole is always equal to the sum of its parts; two and two invariably add up to exactly four. In the arts, however, the whole is either much more than the sum of the parts or much less... Many dramas have been ruined by actors who tried to enliven serious scenes by being funny. The spectators laughed at the comedy, but they were bored by the play.

? Henning Nelms, Magic and Showmanship

This comment from Henning Nelms?s classic text on showmanship for the conjurer can adequately be applied to web design. Designers, programmers, and other specialists create essential elements of the whole. But the art director is in a position to tie these parts together for maximum effect, and maximum business results.

The purpose of this article is to introduce our readers to the principles and techniques of the art director ? which relate closely to web design ? and show how these can influence the overall effect of a website.

What is art direction?
That?s a hard question to answer. In the movies, art directors are usually responsible for creating the ?look and feel? of the film. In advertising and print work, art directors (often teamed up with a copywriter) come up with ?concepts,? the creative ideas which communicate with us on a gut level through such devices as theme, metaphor, and symbolism. Some art directors do little more than dream up these ideas and present them to clients, while some oversee almost all aspects of the design and production process. Surprisingly, art direction is seldom taught in schools and there is very little formal information on the subject; it is often learned in practice.

Still sounds vague, doesn?t it? One might argue that art direction can?t be explained. But you can get the feel of it by studying it. Zeldman has posted a wonderful example, and he accurately describes the difference between art direction and design. Try checking out the covers of news magazines (in my opinion, covers of The Economist are a showcase of consisently effective art direction), the features section of many newspapers, and all types of print advertising. Watch television commercials, and ask yourself what devices or elements make some commercials work, while others don?t.

How does this apply to the web?
Suppose a toothpaste company asks you to come up with a site that will be aimed at all age groups. Someone purely concerned with design might create a proposal which uses very nice type, blue as a background color because it?s ?fresh,? and some stock photos of generic mouth and teeth or laughing model families. They?ll spend time tinkering with lines and shadows, wondering if they?ll use a two-column or three-column layout. They might even have a tube of toothpaste being squeezed on to the screen and use the straight line of squeezed toothpaste as a navigation bar. It might look nice, but that?ll be the end of it.

An art director would perhaps come up with a concept which communicates the importance of the smile. What does a smile communicate? Power? Confidence? Happiness? Amusement? All of the above? The art director might choose to delve into the smile as a symbol of healthy teeth and gums. She might even choose to categorize types of smiles and relate these to types of toothpaste, exaggerating the images used to portray the toothpaste types:

Cool Minty Fresh: the smile of a climber on Mount Everest.
Extra Sensitive: the smile of Dr. Phil.
Extra Strength: the smile of Dracula.
Smiles of ?power people? paired with success stories. Smiles of comedians ? laughter is the best medicine. The smile as an international language of friendship. Why not develop our own ?smilies? or emoticons? You get the idea. Don?t ?just? design. It?s often just plain boring when compared to a well-developed concept.

Great ideas don?t just happen
The most important aspect of art direction is the ?concept.? Sure, talent might be an issue when it comes to thinking up great concepts, and your idea ? or your art director?s ? might not win you any awards, but you can develop good ideas. Creativity is a process, and you?ve got to find your own. Here are some ideas to get you started:

Goals, goals, goals. You?ve heard it all before, but there?s a reason you?ve heard it all before. Good concepts accomplish something. And that something should be the objective to which you and your client have agreed. Always ask yourself, ?will this idea help us reach our goal??
Use idea-stimulating techniques. Fantastic ideas might just come to some in the shower, but the rest of us can be helped along by using techniques like brainstorming. There are plenty of books on idea generation, and the rules of brainstorming are fairly well-known. Initially you should generate a large quantity of ideas. Your chances of coming up with a winning idea are usually directly proportionate to the number of ideas you generate. You can use the method of your choice. One effective technique, especially if you work alone, is to take a sheet of paper and write your problem or objective at the top. Then force yourself to quickly write or sketch twenty different ideas, and do not stop until you?ve got twenty. It will be difficult, but hey, if it were easy, it wouldn?t be called work. Here are some pointers:
Don?t censor yourself. You?ll do that later. All ideas are welcome at this point, even (and sometimes especially) the crazy ones.
Sketch quickly, write quickly. You?ll flesh out the best ideas later.
Use symbols, metaphor, or theme. Some of the best concepts utilize recognizable symbols, as in Zeldman?s example. Use your life knowledge and experience. To get a feel for this, take the creativity test at Ron Reason?s site and study the test examples.
Don?t design. You?ll do that later.
Once you?ve got your ideas on paper, put on the critic?s hat. Choose the best two or three ideas and flesh them out a bit. Now you can permit yourself to think more about the actual design, type, color, and layout. Test the ideas against your objective. The best idea should win, but stay flexible. Good ideas can always be made better.
Keep the bird?s eye view Don?t get too wrapped up in the details. Work like a sculptor. Start with a large mass of ideas and refine from there ? but keep looking at the whole through every phase of the project. Let the specialists work out the small details, and guide them subtly when necessary to keep everything on track.
Direct the art
So you?ve presented your idea and the client loves it (and you). Now the site needs to be produced. Your job as an art director has just begun ? now you?ve got to deal with the client, the programmers,the designers, the project manager, and anyone else involved in the project. All of these people contribute their insight and talent, and it?s your job to make sure that the end result remains as closely related to your concept as possible. Here are some tips for the production phase:

Know your stuff. As an art director, you need to know what the technologies are and how they?re used. You need to know what everyone on your team does, and why. Leave the details up to them, but be sure you know what?s involved. It will gain you the respect of your team when they realize that you?re not working in a vacuum, and it will help you think up realistic ideas.
Keep the specialists in check. Being a team player is a good thing, but just because John the primadonna designer has a thing for bevelled buttons and 20-pixel drop shadows doesn?t mean you have to grant his wishes.
Be open to those ?in the know.? John the primadonna designer might just have a point (in this case, probably not). Test your team members? suggestions against your objective and your concept. If it fits and it?s okay for the budget, let them do it. They know their stuff, too.
Is that all there is to it?
Hardly. The hardest part about art direction is arguably the development of a sound and creative concept. This literally takes years of practice in most cases. Finding an idea-generation technique that fits your own personality can take just as long. But the results can be very rewarding indeed. Good design is pretty, but good design based on a solid concept will help make your sites much more effective and memorable, especially when compared to the competition. You?ll make your clients very happy. Guaranteed.

And hopefully, you?ll enjoy the process.

about 3 Mile Wireless Game Boy Instant Messaging

Pre-E3 2004: GBA Messenger - Details on Majesco's technology that enables chat on GBA from three miles away.

May 06, 2004 - Today, Majesco revealed a new device the company will be producing for the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance SP: the GBA Messenger. According to the company, GBA Messenger lets users chat or send text messages to each other when they are within up to a 3-mile radius in rural settings and several city blocks in city settings using their Game Boy Advance. GBA Messenger broadcasts via radio signals, which means that there is no service to sign up for or additional fees to send and receive messages.

Text messages are constructed and sent with a virtual keypad that is displayed on the GBA screen. If the recipient is online, chat will occur in real-time; if the user is offline, a message will be sent and stored. Messages can be sent to individuals or to groups of individuals at the same time. Users can also set up buddy lists and are able to see what other GBA Messenger units are online.
The hardware device will have its own built-in rechargeable battery that can receive a charge through a GBA SP while it's plugged in with its AC adapter. The device will work for a week on a single charge, and will receive messages even if the GBA isn't turned on.

Users can see other GBA Messenger owners that are online within the signal radius, and can group chat or select individuals to send messages to. Since the device runs on high frequency radio, users can change channels and frequencies to get the best signal.

Majesco will have the technology on demo at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. We'll have a full report from the show floor starting next week.

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about Atlantic City

i am in atlantic city with sokia.. gambling !!!!

Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image from Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles. Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down. (AP Photo/photo released by Providence Holy Cross Medical Center)

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about Doug TenNapel

Doug TenNapel


The Parallax View of Doug TenNapel–

The world of comics has changed drastically since Superman overdosed on kryptonite and Batman dumped Catwoman for Robin. While the classics endure, a new wave of hand-drawn characters has invaded earth like cosmic rays from Planet Next. Those entrenched in paper and ink reality may recognize the name, Doug TenNapel. If not, they will probably be familiar with one of his most successful sons, Earthworm Jim.

TenNapel’s 200-plus page illustrated novel, Creature Tech is among his latest offspring, filled with mind-bending words and hundreds of pieces of strange brain candy. While Creature Tech’s main character resembles TenNaple both physically and philosophically, this is not so much an autobiography as it is pure entertainment, built upon a surprisingly conservative Christian foundation.

Recently, TenNapel’s skilled hands have been employed by everyone from Steven Spielberg, to Ben Affleck, and while the illustrator lives in a wiggly world where giant moray eels attack earth and self-educated rednecks go on fishing trips with seven-foot tall praying mantises, his physical locale appears far more mundane. Gently set
beneath the foothills of Glendale, California, on a pleasant tree-lined street, you can easily visualize Beaver Cleaver rolling up the block, red wagon in tow. Instead, we found Doug TenNapel at the door, packing all of the wide-eyed curiosity of a child and the fully developed talent of a grown-up into his six foot-plus, angular frame. He lives with one wife, one child, and two cats. While occupying a grown-up land and paying grown-up bills, TenNapel continues hard at play in Tomorrow-land.

Interviewed at the TenNapel home in Glendale, California —2003

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about Oregon prisoners get flat-screen TVs

SALEM, Oregon (AP) -- Convicted felon Nicholas Krahmer kicks back on a bunk and enjoys one of the latest perks of prison life: A spanking new flat-screen TV that's still the envy of many viewers on the outside.

The tiny 7-inch set resembles flat-screen models installed in cars or on airplane seats. But it beats the alternative, he says -- a night in the recreation room with about 150 other inmates who are prone to brawls over what to watch and where to sit.

Oregon's in-cell television policy springs from years of frustration in finding incentives for good behavior among prisoners serving mandatory sentences.

Krahmer bought the $300 television with money he earned working in prison, where he is paid a few dollars a day for computer drafting. Inmates also must have clean discipline records to qualify for the flat-screens.

"I've worked for it. I've stayed clear of any sort of nonsense in the institution," said Krahmer, 27, who is serving 70 months at Oregon State Correctional Institution, outside Salem, for assault with a knife.

"I've never seen an episode of 'Survivor.' I'm eager to watch that. I want to see what my family watches."

Randy Geer, administrator of the prisons' non-cash incentive programs, said that as far as he knows, Oregon is the only state where felons have flat-screen TVs in their cells. The 25 inmates who have bought the high-tech TVs get the same basic cable that's piped into the prison's common TV room.

Before the flat-screen program began in Krahmer's prison last month, Oregon was already one of 16 states in the country to allow in-cell televisions.

But most inmates in the state's 12 medium and maximum security prisons did not benefit: Only one of those prisons allowed personal TVs, and they were of the traditional tube variety, not flat-screens.

Practical gadget
While allowing inmates to enjoy the latest high-tech gadgetry may seem odd, prison officials stress the flat-screens -- which the state plans to introduce soon in all 12 of its higher security prisons -- were selected for practical reasons.

Bulky tube televisions pose dangers, such as parts that could be used as a weapon, and hollow spaces that could serve as a hiding place for contraband, Geer said.

Flat-screen TVs used at the Oregon prison are made of clear plastic -- so inmates cannot hide contraband inside.

Managers also considered cramped prison cells and decided the sleek, flat-screen models made sense.

"It was really the best solution," Geer said. "It is not a luxury item."

Before implementing the policy, Oregon officials questioned prison directors about television policy in all 50 states. Some states have decided to prohibit TVs in cells because the traditional tube models are too bulky. If a prisoner is sent to disciplinary confinement, the prison must store his or her belongings.

"Try finding space for 1,000 13-inch televisions," Geer said.

Opposing view
Steve Doell, president of the Oregon chapter of Crime Victims United, opposes television in prison for anything other than educational programming and to ease the work of correctional staff in disciplining inmates.

"If I were in charge, I would make sure they watch the Learning Channel, Discovery and C-Span," he said. "There's lots of movies and entertainment that show violence and sexual behavior."

Rank and file officers, however, are nearly as happy as the inmates.

"It's cut down on the number of inmates that come out in the evening to watch TV," said Julian Ruiz, a corrections officer who operates electronic door locks and monitors a cell block. "The more people you get down here in the evening, the more problems."

In the common TV room, each cell with two inmates is given a night to choose what to watch, and the honor rotates in strict order, Ruiz said. Prison staff intercede only to ensure major television events are shown, such as the Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball championships and the World Series. There is little interest in presidential addresses or other news, Ruiz said.

"If you ask, 'who wants to watch Bill Moyers?' one hand goes up, maybe. You ask about football, 100 hands go up," he said.

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a project for graphic design class.. a ad campaign on myself.

you notice that i wrote jes3 on each ad ?
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i made some updates and refinements tonight.. what do you think?

about The Double Duce.

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about CBS airs photographs of Iraqi prisoners abused by U.S. military

One photograph shows Iraqi prisoners, naked except for hoods covering their heads, stacked in a human pyramid, one with a slur written in English on his skin.

That and other scenes of humiliation at the hands of U.S. military police that appear in photographs obtained by CBS News have led to criminal charges against six American soldiers.

The images were shown Wednesday night on "60 Minutes II."

CBS says they were taken late last year at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, where American soldiers were holding hundreds of prisoners captured during the invasion and occupation of Iraq. At least one of the six is also a prison guard in civilian life.

In March, the U.S. Army announced that six members of the 800th Military Police Brigade faced court martial for allegedly abusing about 20 prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The charges included dereliction of duty, cruelty and maltreatment, assault and indecent acts with another person.

In addition to those criminal charges, the military has recommended disciplinary action against seven U.S. officers who helped run the prison, including Brig. Gen. Janice Karpinski, the commander of the 800th Brigade, a senior military official said Wednesday in Baghdad.

The investigation recommended administrative action against several of the commanders, which could include punishments up to relieving them of their commands, said the official, speaking on condition on anonymity.

When the abuse charges were first announced, U.S. military officials declined to provide details about the evidence. But on Wednesday, at a news briefing in Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said the investigation began in January when an American soldier reported the abuse and turned over evidence that included photographs.

"That soldier said, 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with,' " said Kimmitt, who also confirmed that CBS had obtained the photographs.

One picture shows an Iraqi prisoner who was told to stand on a box with his head covered and wires attached to his hands. CBS said the prisoner was told that if he fell off the box, he would be electrocuted. Other photos showed naked prisoners being forced to simulate sex acts.

The Army ordered an investigation into the actions of 17 soldiers from the 800th Brigade, which is based in Uniondale, N.Y. Ten were investigated for criminal actions, six of whom were charged in March.

The other seven were officers who faced an administrative investigation. Those officers have received copies of the probe and will now have the chance to rebut the claims, with a final decision expected within a month, the senior military official said.

In an interview with CBS correspondent Dan Rather, Kimmitt said the photographs were dismaying.

"We're appalled," Kimmitt said. "These are our fellow soldiers, these are the people we work with every day, they represent us, they wear the same uniform as us, and they let their fellow soldiers down."

"If we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can't ask that other nations do that to our soldiers," Kimmitt said.

"60 Minutes II" identified one of the implicated soldiers as Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Chip Frederick, who described to Rather what he saw in the Iraqi prison.

"We had no support, no training whatsoever, and I kept asking my chain of command for certain things, rules and regulations, and it just wasn't happening," Frederick said.

Frederick was a corrections officer at the Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Va., until he was called up for active duty, said Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Corrections Department.

He is a member of the 372nd Military Police Company based in Cumberland, Md., said Maj. Greg Yesko, public affairs officer for the 99th Regional Readiness Command. The 800th Brigade includes the 372nd Company, Yesko said.

No phone listing for Frederick could be immediately located.

"60 Minutes II" reported Frederick will plead not guilty to charges including maltreatment and assault, claiming the way the Army operated the prison led to the abuse of prisoners. He also said he did not see a copy of the Geneva Convention rules for handling prisoners of war until after he was charged, the show reported.

The show also quoted from an e-mail which Frederick reportedly sent to his family in which he said of Iraqi prisoners: "We've had a very high rate with our styles of getting them to break; they usually end up breaking within hours."

Former Iraqi prisoners told The Associated Press last November of mistreatment in detention, including beatings and punishments that included hours of lying bound in the sun.

Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, said in March that many former detainees in Iraq claimed to have been tortured and ill-treated by coalition troops during interrogation.

Methods often reported, it said, included prolonged sleep deprivation, beatings, exposure to loud music and prolonged periods of being covered by a hood.

about Found Magazine.

this note was found on the walkways of vancouver.
someone was lucky and got some cash from mom
to get their mop trimmed.





i found this note on the ground near the curb a few brownstones
down on my street. maybe it fell out of someone's car or possibly
it blew out of a trash can. there's no signature, so i'm not sure
it's a legally binding document.

incidentally, just moments before i found this i was thinking,
"why haven't i found anything good to send in to found magazine?"
and presto! a note!





baltimore, maryland

i found this on my car windshield last fall.
my girlfriend and i now close the bedroom blinds.

about seinfeld and wutang clan.

i was watching this chris rock comedy special tonight. and he said something funny about how hard it is to find the perfect mate.. like someone who loves "seinfeld and wutang clan" ... and I was thinking.. i love seinfeld and wutang clan.. does that make me perfect. ?

about a New Zealand Ebay.

http://www.trademe.co.nz

New Zealands No.1 shopping site

http://haxin.net

my boy julius perkins from elementary school.. is a trip