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The 100 Startup Postcards connecting the world - Postcrossing stereomood – emotional internet radio - music for my mood and activities Twitter Censorship Move Sparks Backlash: Is It Justified? | Threat Level Internet scorn for Twitter’s announcement Thursday that it would censor tweets was swift and unforgiving. But even free-speech and other experts were divided Friday on the service’s move that it might censor tweets if required by law in ”countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression.” Like Yahoo and Google before it — and for the same reason, becoming a global powerhouse — Twitter has confronted an inconvenient truth: Freedom of expression is sacrosanct and protected by the Constitution in the United States, but in other parts of the world, not so much. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which typically has no patience with any sort of censorship, saw Twitter’s announcement as little more than stating the obvious. ”I’m a little puzzled by the kind of freak out that kind of appears to be happening. Companies have to abide by the law where they are,” said Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the digital rights group. And the Twitterverse was beside itself.

Tech Cocktail - Tech Startup Events, News and Resources Fouille archéologique du Déjeuner sous l'herbe La fouille vingt-sept ans plus tard, à l'initiative de Bernard Müller et sous l'égide de Daniel Spoerri, d'un segment du Déjeuner sous l'herbe est d'un grand intérêt archéologique pour différentes raisons. D'un point de vue méthodologique, il est intéressant de voir, un quart de siècle plus tard, quels types de vestiges, dans un contexte où une documentation orale, écrite et photographique existe, peuvent être retrouvés et de mettre en évidence les raisonnements qui seront utilisés par les archéologues d'aujourd'hui. Si la Garbage Archaeology, archéologie des vestiges détritiques contemporains, a été pratiquée aux Etats-Unis par William Rathje avec d'importantes conclusions méthodologiques, il n'y a d'expériences similaires ni en Europe en général, ni en France en particulier. Cette fouille pose aussi, y compris d'un point de vue juridique et administratif, la question de la définition de l'archéologie.

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different. A march in Ådalen, Sweden, in 1931. Both countries had a history of horrendous poverty. Neither country is a utopia, as readers of the crime novels by Stieg Larsson, Kurt Wallender and Jo Nesbro will know. Then I began to learn that the Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their standards of living through nonviolent struggle. In both countries, the troops were called out to defend the 1 percent; people died. In the 1920s strikes increased in intensity. The Depression hit bottom in 1931. This it did.

How To Run Android 4.0 ICS On Windows, Mac & Linux Using VirtualBox Android platform shines in nearly every aspect, from its large number of developers support to gargantuan amount of customization options. Being an open source platform, anyone can compile the code and cook their desired ROM according to their own needs (provided they have supported kernal and other required files). One of the latest iterations of Android OS is Ice Cream Sandwich or commonly called as ICS. ICS has brought to table some of the most wanted features of Android, one of them being Hardware Acceleration and brilliant UI .Last year, we covered BlueStacks, an Android app player for Windows that allows you to run numerous Android apps in full screen mode without experiencing much performance or compatibility issues. The first thing you’d need is download and install VirtualBox (download link given at the bottom of the post). Once loaded, you can start the Android ICS in a virtual machine by double-clicking the Android-v4 VM available in left sidebar. Download Virtual Box

Nature morte 224 la chaise cann233e, Picasso, 1912 Il y a bien des analyses sur la nature morte à la chaise cannée de PIcasso. Cette nouvelle analyse apporte un regard neuf sur cette toile qui a fait couler beaucoup d’encre. C’est en travaillant sur la peinture d’Antonello da Messina, que j’ai eu comme une sorte de fulgurance, que j’ai vu une évidence qui jusque là m’avait échappée. Pourquoi peindre cette chaise cannée ? Le geste révolutionnaire consistant à mettre un morceau de toile ciré est depuis longtemps pointé du doigt. C’est en cherchant l’étymologie et l’histoire des cartouches que j’ai pu faire le lien entre les pratiques égyptiennes et l’oeuvre de Picasso. « Un cartouche, dit shenou en égyptien ancien, transcription française du mot égyptien šnw1) est un symbole hiéroglyphique, de forme allongée et fermé par un nœud, qui contient le nom d’un pharaon. La chaise cannée ne serait-elle pas le siège du pharaon Picasso ? WordPress: J'aime chargement…

Kissing & the science of humanity | Gene Expression I approached Sheril Kirshenbaum’s The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us with some trepidation and excitement. The former is a consequence of my hypochondria and its associated germophobia. I have no aversion to kissing in my own life (apologies for divulging personal information), but I did have some worries about having to read about other humans engaged in such an act of hygienic daring. And yet I was excited because I am interested in multidisciplinary explorations of human behavior. I was not disappointed. After the first chapter one immediately perceives that The Science of Kissing is not a tight and narrowly argued case for a positive hypothesis. Each chapter in The Science of Kissing is rather concise, but they are bracketed into three thematic portions. As a social species there are a clear range of ultimate rationales for why kissing may emerge. Next The Science of Kissing moves to the proximate: how the phenomenon expresses in a concrete sense.

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Site Recite « Gary Hill Appearing as a hazy horizon laden with strange objects, the scene comprises bones, skulls of small mammals, butterflies, nuts, and other botanical “finds” spread out on a round table. These are objects of the kind that one might collect on a nature trail in a forest—but also shells and crumpled notes. They are relics that suggest the cycle of life in a way familiar to us from vanitas still life painting and natural history collections. The camera moves around the table, picking out objects which, because of the shallow depth of focus, stand out one after another from the panorama of the jumbled collection. “A prologue to Which Tree, an unrealized interactive videodisc that later morphed into Withershins. Quasha, George and Charles Stein. This four-minute tape was commissioned and produced by Imatco-Atanor for broadcast on Television Española as part of the 14 episode series El Arte del Video. Voice: Lou Hetler Camera / Lighting: Rex Barker Solo exhibition. Group screening. 3. Hill, Gary.

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