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Description: "THE FOCUS OF DIGITAL MEDIA" - Gary Santoro and Mediaburn.net
Last Update: 05:49:12 03/03/2006
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Last Updated: 05:49:12 03/03/2006
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ABC News article on the new book Imperial Hubris.
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Start-up promises bendy solar cells. Konarka Technologies pulls in more VC funding and sets a delivery date for its dye-based solar cells. [CNET News.com]
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Superconductor maglev. Super conductor demonstrating the Meissner magnetic levitation effect: A samarium-cobalt magnet floats above a handmade disk of YBa2Cu3O7.X, a high temperature ceramic superconductor. These are easy to make providing you have access to the chemicals, a muffle furnace and a press of some sort: Obtain some yttrium oxide, barium carbonate and copper oxide. The pellets weigh about two grams each. Mix them in the proportion of one mole of yttrium to two moles of barium to three moles of copper. Grind the solids togeter in a mortar and pestle until you have a fine powder. Put the powder into a crucible and cook it for four hours between 900°C and 1000°C. Take the mixture out of the furnace and grind it back into a fine powder. Put the powder into a press or pile it into the center of a brass washer about a millimeter thick. If you use a washer, set it on a piece of copper sheet, and put another piece of copper on top of it. Whack it hard and square with a hammer ...
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Nation: Techno-revolution in the making - Part 1 of South Korea's Digital Dynasty. South Korea has launched the equivalent of a space program in technology, with an aggressive strategy in consumer electronics. [CNET News.com]
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Dear Gary, A year ago today, over five thousand Americans stood in Burlington, Vermont and together declared that the time had come for real change in America. Together we changed the politics in this country and moved the Democratic Party in a new direction. I will always be grateful for your participation in that process. What is next? I still believe that every American, regardless of party, must come together in common purpose and for the common good to save and restore all that it means to be an American. And today I ask you to renew your commitment to our mission to unite and empower people everywhere: http://www.democracyforamerica.com/contribute Every day I will continue to take on George W. Bush's Washington: narrow-minded ideologues, divisive policies, and the Republican principle that "if you're rich you deserve it, and if you're poor you deserve it." I will continue to fight for health care for every American, investment in our children, equal rights under the law, ...
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Watson Lake, Prescott, AZ [101-365]
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Melodies evolve into chaos on Wilco's daring 'ghost'. Like so many of the songs on Wilco's new album, "a ghost is born," the opening track begins gently, tunefully, with a strummed guitar and warm piano and the band leader Jeff Tweedy singing hesitantly, almost sheepishly. "When I sat down on the bed next to you/ You started to cry/ I said maybe if I leave you'll want me ... [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News]
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* But Washington was really after a prize 400 miles to the south, where the French ships blockaded Chesapeake Bay and the Continental Army trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. Only a British historian could refer to this battle as merely "the turning point of the war" -- it's a bit like describing Waterloo as a setback for Napoleon. Cornwallis's surrender ended the war with complete victory -- and independence -- for the Americans. * 'Rebels and Redcoats' has a revolutionary take on American independence. The American Revolution is how our country came into being, but it has also become our great national heroic saga. As children, we learn it as a mythic tale of ragged but virtuous citizen-soldiers triumphing over Great Britain, then the mightiest military power on earth. It is America's David-and-Goliath story. [Boston Globe -- Living / Arts News]
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Sending a Father's Day greeting to the proud pops!
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<a href="http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/">http://www.anti-chambre.net/feedonfeeds/</a>
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PEI New Energy Strategy. I am very encouraged by the direction that PEI is now taking with a big push behind not only renewables but in making it easy for communities and individuals to get involved. (I have put the release in the extension... [Robert Paterson's Weblog]
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Short Story of the week [3]. [The Cartoonist]
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NYC Plans Giant Safety Net. Computerworld reports that New York City will build a wireless network to supports 10,000s of public-safety users at speeds of up 70 mph: Bids are expected next month. They'll start with a three-month pilot project to test with multiple bidders, and then award a five-year contract with the potential for two five-year renewals. The bid's spec apparently calls for two Mbps access and simultaneous streaming for 1,000s of users. The first phase would support about 5,000 fire, police, and emergency medical personnel. The full cost could be $500 million to $1 billion, but the city won't confirm it. Mesh architecture is practically a necessity, the article quotes experts as saying. Tropos says they could deploy such a network with 600 of their access points in the 2.4 GHz band. More would be needed to use the 4.9 GHz public-safety band. Lucent suggests that EvDo running at 2.4 Mbps in the 1.9 GHz band would be an option as well.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Comeback trail: Summerhaven, before & after. A year has passed since the Aspen Fire ate its way through the mountaintop village of Summerhaven, sounding like a freight train as it entered via Carter Canyon, storming through the dense pine... [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page]
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Arthur Schopenhauer. "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." [Quotes of the Day]
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The Acoustic Storm is music-intensive with pertinent artist information. Each week, a different artist is spotlighted in "The Eye of The Acoustic Storm." Hourly segments of "The Eye" feature the artist's music and often contain bio information and sound bites. Eric Clapton has been a brilliant guitarist throughout his career, from his stints in the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominos, right up through his solo career. His personal life has been anything but glamorous. He lost his only son, Conor, in a tragic accident, and Eric never knew his father. We'll hear Clapton talk about his family relationships on the next Father's Day edition of The Eye of the Acoustic Storm, the weekend of 6/19-6/20. The Acoustic Storm radio affiliates
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Chinaberry tree in Summer: I shot the same Chinaberry tree last Winter. [101-365]
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Yahoo to launch 100MB free e-mail. Thank Google and its upcoming Gmail service--that 100MB promise set a new pace. [CNET News.com]
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The sky with an oleander in the foreground: [101-365]
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"venus and the chromosphere" [Daypop Top 40]
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Save bandwidth on your hosted MP3's. Thanks to the Internet Archive's new FreeCache project, you can conserve your bandwidth when posting links to your MP3 or other media files. Just stick the URL: http://freecache.org/ ...in front of your own URL. Like this: http://freecache.org/http://yourserver.com/yourfile.mp3 (don't click this... [spinme.com]
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PublicAccessTV: Getting Funding. How does one go about raising the money to produce a program? Generally, there are two sources: sponsors and grants. This essay examines various aspects of sponserships. [PublicAccessTV] Editor's note — Public Access Television was created by the United States Congress. Cable television companies are given local (i. e., municipal) monopolies; in return, they are required to provide 'public access' to all comers. [Cinema Minima]
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rain + / - ice . Ice: Rain: [hallucinations & antics . tobias c. van Veen]
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Ticket for Phoenix on the 18th. [Mediaburn]I before E, except after C....all together now! [Ottmar Liebert]
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Blue Mountain BloggerCon 2004. It doesn't get any better than this: An engaging evening of conversational musings and world-changing strategy planning with old familiar and deep thinking new friends, in the open air outdoor restaurant at... [TeledyN]
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The <a href="http://www.cokec2.com/home.html">Coke C2</a> product and marketing definitely has the EFC vibe going on.
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The Blacklist } Under The Radar Operators Inaugural Issue 01 } June 2004 The Blacklist is a new bi-monthly web accessed magazine that provides an outlet and showcase for fresh progressive artists in Music, Design, and Visual Art. Based in Chicago, but global in reach, The Blacklist looks to feature a rotation of socially and politically conscience artists that have been operating under the radar of popular culture. Individuals who work behind the seen and out of the spotlight... You have been Blacklisted. ------- Sacred Spaces } Jerry Walker ------- Blacklist } + Osunlade + Joshua (Iz) + Nyame Brown + Juan Angel Chavez (Mud Studios) + George Estrada (Citron) + Wylie (Five73) + Jefrey Lacson + Mireya Acierto ------- Business Class } + DeeperSoul Recordings + Everso Press ------- Opinion Jockey } Reviews + Chris Quinn + Stephen P + Tone B. Nimble + Bleek's Corner ------- Upcoming Events } ------- Tech Support } How to Convert your Vinyl to MP3 ------- Preaching to the Choir } Neil ...
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Singularity?. 061204 Singularity I went to see science fiction writer Bruce Sterling -- "The Singularity: Your Life as a Black Hole" -- on Friday nite. Now, I've never read a science fiction book in my life, and I have no clue who Bruce Sterling is. But when I read Simon's post directing me to WorldChanging for more Sterling info, well, then I was hooked. Gotta go. Especially since it was just 10 minutes from my apartment in San Francisco. And more importantly, I don't want my life to be a black hole, now do I? So, here's my take. I don't buy this notion of "Singularity" ... where in the very near future technology progresses so rapidly that life becomes incomprehensible to us. In other words, a super paradigm shift, a complete break from the past, so utterly complete, in fact, that it transcends our very understanding and ability to describe it (which begs the question, of course, how we could have so many articles attempting to do just that). WorldChanging has links to some ...
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