Looking for the The Google Font? It is Catull, but found out more about the Google logo by reading the Google Font Page
Fancy reading my Spam collection ? It's even getting multilingual
Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux... want to try it ??? Knoppix is really nice. And easy. Download, burn, reboot. Et voila, Linux is running...
Some T&A to start with Playboy playmates, then and now.1973 seems to be the first appearance of full frontal nude model.
Village Voice: In the shadow of iTunes
Despite the advantages the Web provides, a constant complaint among both music collectors and average fans is that digital music is so intangible. The West 17th Street–based online store Insound has been around since 1998, and has been giving away MP3s for five years now as a promotional tool for selling the actual shrink-wrapped vinyl or CD package. But could they survive selling just digital tunes?
The Bungles: Video killed the radio star
And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.
Oh-a oh
You were the first one.
Oh-a oh
You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Who Needs Ink? A panel discussion on the Future of Newspapers (via Romenesko)
Dan Gillmor: Citizen Journalism doesn't mean that everyone's a journalist; it means that some people "from time to time, commit an act of journalism." [Note: if it’s not in quotes, it’s paraphrased.]
Outside Voices: Samuel Freedman On The Difference Between The Amateur And The Pro (via Romenesko)
It is journalism according to the ethos of indie rock ‘n’ roll: Do It Yourself. For precisely such reasons, I despair over the movement’s current cachet. However wrapped in idealism, citizen journalism forms part of a larger attempt to degrade, even to disenfranchise journalism as practiced by trained professionals."
Of course, when you read what some trained professionals write, you might think that DIY can't be that worse.
Kurt Eichenwald 'Takes Five' (via Romenesko)
The biggest problem in American journalism is not bias. It's not a matter of conservative or liberal. It's laziness. Some go and collect a lot of quotes and put them together and never attempt to determine whose opinion is driven by fact and knowledge.
The Individual Is The New Group
When individuals blog in the open web, trackbacks and comments allow discussions to take place that are -- in many cases -- logically equivalent to forums, but since each individual blogger decides where to turn their focus, and what other blogs to comment on, bloggers are members of many groups at the same time. More importantly, the structure of blogging supports that model directly. In a group forum, you are a member of that one group, and not a member of any others: the fact that you may be a member of other groups is not explicitly supported.
and via his own blog /Message, a nice quote from Bubblegeneration - Strategies for a discontinuous future. .
One thing I really dislike about 2.0 in Europe is that...it's just like 2.0 in the States, minus 18 months or so.
WIPO: Patent Scope the portal on patents and the international patent system, with a search engine for International Patent Applications. via (UN News)
The patent applications filed under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty system and accessible through the PatentScope service, are typically those that inventors consider to be the most valuable and therefore worth patenting internationally.
You can search for blog to get an idea of the wonderful patents there.
Trademark sounds downloadable as mp3 (via Make blog)
On the OLPC mailing list, a bit of computer history and the strange feelings that things are just be reinvented...
On the same list the OPLC manifesto
the goal of the project is kid's learning; not open source per se'. Fundamentally, this a project to help the education of as many children as possible.
and you can follow what's happening on the project through the various OLPC mailing lists
No one is being conservative in calling ‘Boston Legal’ the most ‘aggressively partisan’ show in TV history... available outside of the USA on your favorite P2P network
Does "Boston Legal" invigorate the nation's political discourse, or does it preach to the choir (assuming secular humanists have choirs)? Its impact is hard to gauge. One could certainly argue that it is more likely to be stumbled upon by an unsuspecting conservative or undecided than, say, an issue of a partisan political magazine such as The Nation or The Weekly Standard. If sheer numbers mean anything, "Boston Legal's" typical audience of 10 million to 12 million viewers (which usually lands it in Nielsen's weekly top 30) is about more than 100 times that of either of those publications. It's also significantly bigger than the daily audience for "The O'Reilly Factor" (2.5 million) or "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" (1.5 million).
LeMonde Pour une science consciente de ses limites
L'Université interdisciplinaire de Paris (UIP), financée par la Fondation Templeton "pour le progrès de la religion", et dont la plupart des signataires du texte "Pour une science sans a priori" sont membres, transgresse régulièrement depuis dix ans ces limites, puisque c'est au nom de la science que ses membres discutent des implications métaphysiques de leurs découvertes, et non en tant qu'individus. L'UIP transgresse d'ailleurs les principes qu'elle affiche, en promouvant régulièrement des chercheurs qui incluent ouvertement leur quête métaphysique dans leur recherche scientifique. L'UIP a eu, pendant longtemps, des relations étroites avec les promoteurs du récent phénomène nord-américain "Intelligent Design" (ID) ou dessein intelligent (références sur le site AssoMat ).
et aussi Un XXIe siècle religieux ?
A la vérité, il n'est pas de grande religion - bouddhisme excepté - qui n'ait eu ses heures de fanatisme.
jm - @writeme@
