The Top Five Sci-Fi Books: All Headed to the Screen Indicating that Sci-Fi is currently a hot trend in literary acquisitions by film producers, the Top Five books on The Book Standard/Nielsen BookScan Sci-Fi Bestsellers Chart are all currently in various stages of adaptation.
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age She quit London for New York after being hounded by the press. Five years later, Björk has a new relationship and a new baby. But, she confesses, she's still homesick for the British sense of humour.
Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide
[...] the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth—that plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly
This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more pressing concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read.
Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the internet, but of mobile phones. [...] Read the whole story
Tampons haben ein Gedächtnis. Sie schlafen, bevor sie in Aktion treten – und wer nicht aufpasst, bringt sie um. Niemand weiß das besser als Hans Werner Schoelling: Er stellt sie seit 30 Jahren her. [...]
"»Ein Tampon hat auch Leben. Er atmet. Er hat ein Gedächtnis. Und wenn ich ihn überpresse, ist er tot.« Doch, das meint er ernst. So ernst, wie es ein knapp 60-jähriger Maschinenbauingenieur meinen kann, der seit über 30 Jahren nichts als Tampons sowie deren Herstellung im Kopf hat. Das hinterlässt unweigerlich Spuren." Zum ganzen Artikelbei Zeit-Wissen
This article about industrial music apeared in the brilliant magazine EST by Brian Duguid.:
how far is too far? Industrial musicians have been noted for their use of pseudo-fascist imagery since Throbbing Gristle, but is there a thin line between artistic exploration and actual support?
No, not an article on Test Dept., for those of you who expected such a thing! Instead, inspired by Thee Grey Wolves, I'd like to take a look at fascist imagery in "industrial" and experimental music.
As most of you will be aware, this kind of music is riddled with such imagery, both overt and covert. Experimental musicians, most notably Throbbing Gristle, have used the symbology of fascism, claiming that they desired to challenge preconceptions and to create a more open-minded audience. The punks made extensive use of the swastika. As part of their nihilistic rejection of society's established values, they felt the need to espouse the unacceptable, in order to adequately express their disgust with the world in which they lived. Victims of what they saw as authoritarian aggression, they responded instinctively by reflecting back that social violence in the form of an anti-social shock. Read the whole article
gefunden bei musik und so:
Diese Woche in der ZEIT: Rettet das Radio!– eine Kampfansage an den Dudelfunk, angereichert mit viel Information, insbesondere über aktuelle Versuche, anspruchsvolle Angebote in Äther
und Internet zu etablieren.
The BitTorrent Effect
Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video -on-demand, just click here.
The Shadow Internet
They start with a single stolen file and pump out bootleg games and movies by the millions. Inside the pirate networks that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
The Zen of Jeff Bezos
The cool head of Amazon.com talks about the rise of the obscure, taking on Netflix, and why he quit spending on TV advertising.
They're Not Worthy
Why extend the copyright on works that no longer have commercial value? By Lawrence Lessig
The TRASHLOG-project was started on 5 May 2002. The end of the project is not yet definitely established.
The project consists of a half an hour daily walk looking for a piece of trash lying in the street. I don't need to dig in waste baskets, there is enough trash to find in the street.
The trash may be of paper, plastic or metal, but it may never be bigger than 10 x 15 cm and it must be as flat as possible.
From the founded items I choose one item to be scanned and this item will be on view on internet. Fromtrashlog.org
I added a few new links to my bloggroll
Sablog german
focusing on us-american tv shows. animeblog german
the name speaks for itself Last life in the universe german
movies,babes, games etc.
If you allready know about podcastig, then this article won't offer anything new, if you never heared of podcasting before, this article won't give you an big insight.
But, what makes this article interesting (at leat to me) is the fact, that some like a former adviser of Bill Clinton is talking about something like podcasting!
Radioalltag
In der Wochenendausgabe der Berliner Zeitung (Samstag, 27. November 2004) äußerte sich Radio Eins Musikchef Peter Radszuhn über den Alltag eines Musikredakteurs. Mehr
Die Arabesken transzendieren - Chronomad
Mit seinem Album Sokut ist Saam Schlamminger a.k.a. Chronomad etwas gelungen, dass unserem Nachdenken über die Wahrnehmung von Klängen aus unterschiedlichen Kulturen auf die Sprünge hilft. Mehr, hier kann man reinhören
This list only includes 6 sites which can actually be considered alternatives to SuprNova. This means that all sites carry all content and require no registration. You will find no TV episode specialists and no sites which carry content from only one release group. More info
BitTorrent - ein urheberrechtlicher Problemfall Die US-Filmindustrie scheint allmählich auf das Problem des Bit Torrent-Tauschs aufmerksam zu werden. Die ersten Versuche, das Problem anzugehen, wirken aber noch sehr hilflos. Auch wenn die Anwälte ihr Bestes tun, den Eindruck zu vermitteln, US-Recht sei weltweit anwendbar. Mehr
Musikindustrie droht Bit Torrent-Szene Über die Peer-to-Peer Software Bit Torrent ist in Zusammenhang mit "Piraterie" und den Gegenmaßnahmen der Musik- und Filmindustrie nur selten etwas zu hören. Doch das sollte keinen Bit Torrent-Nutzer in Sicherheit wiegen. Mehr
- http://dubroom.org/mp3/
Welcome to the Dubroom MP3 Portal! This is a site with links to 100's of (Dub) Reggae tracks, available from diffttttttrent sites on the Internet. When it's free, and legal, and of a certain quality, we will find it and place links to it on this website.
- http://www.versionist.com/
Welcome to Versionist, a website dedicated to the development of progressive Reggae music. But more importantly, this is a project that aims to encourage everyone to make Reggae music.
- http://www.reggaemix.net/
This is Reggaemix.net. The place where you can download free reggae riddims mix mp3 made by Elmonga (Don Monga). Our mix are rated among the best reggae mix around by our members, Djs and some top people in the business. We pride ourselves to the quality of our music and services. Only our members get to download fresh or new released riddims which we mix, and also we have a special link in the member's area for instant free downloads of single reggae tracks and some of our old mix.
