I was stationed in a windowless room in the basement with three turntables, three cassette decks and a monitoring system that consisted of a mixer, amp and speakers. My task was to just keep dubbing away, three LPs at a time. This I dutifuly did, but along the way I discovered that I could monitor the output of any of the recordings I was making and even mix them together without disturbing the recordings.

So I began to experiment, making musical collages as I did my work, and started to develop my habits of combining disparate musical materials to serve as fodder for my own creative work. I did not think of it as composing at the time, and I didn't even consider it particularly relevant to the music I was making in the studios at CalArts (which was almost exclusively 'pure' electronic music, not using any samples or recordings). Only years later did I see the impact that work in the library had on my own music.

The social impact of new communications technologies is a greater number of social ties, more diverse social ties, more support," he said.

"It doesn't cut into your phone communication. It doesn't interfere with your face-to-face contact. It just increases communication...."

But still: why advertising? Many commentators have noted that advertising is such a pervasive feature of American life that the 20th century can not be fully understood without studying it. Despite its perceived importance-love it or hate it-advertising has not been as thoroughly documented as other aspects of business. Not all companies that advertise hold on to their past work. Few ad agencies retain comprehensive files of their output. And relatively few libraries, museums, or archives make an effort specifically to document the industry.

The ground beneath the north of Yellowstone was bulging up, tilting the rest of the Park downwards. This was tipping out the sound end of the lake inundating the shoreside trees with water. The vulcanologist realised only one thing could make the Earth heave in this way: a vast living magma chamber. The Yellowstone supervolcano was alive and if the calculations of the cycle were correct, the next eruption was already overdue.

The question about the "liveness" of the show conceals another, more difficult one: Who exactly is responsible for the music? Both at the club and beforehand, Uenishi made any number of decisions about audio files and sequences. But the PowerBook and its software brought it all together and unleashed the flow in real time. Who's in control? The machine or the musician?

We should be used to this sort of ambiguity by now. Remix records regularly outsell the originals, rap music rules the charts with repurposed samples, and Black Sabbath uses TelePrompTers onstage. These days, Milli Vanilli seem like prophets, not cheats. As the musicians adapt the computer, the distinction between the instrument and the music the instrument makes begins to break down. Uenishi wasn't joking when she suggested to me that, in the future, the pop chart would become a software chart.

Meyssan makes that astonishing proposition in the book l'Effroyable Imposture (The Horrifying Fraud), a controversial tome that topped France's best-seller list in six of the seven weeks since its release. Meyssan defiantly dismisses the universally accepted version of the 9/11 tragedy as "a loony fable" patched together by the White House and the Defense Department "as one lie called forth another." He maintains that neither American Airlines Flight 77 nor any other aircraft crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 — the explosion supposedly detonated on the ground. He similarly rejects notions that the planes that struck the World Trade Center towers were flown by al-Qaeda terrorists and argues they were in fact directed from the ground by remote control.

While scientists debate the causes of climate change and politicians debate whether to ratify the Kyoto accord to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that many scientists believe cause global warming, the Inuit who live in Canada's Far North say they are watching their world melt before their eyes.

For years, the wisdom of Inuit hunters and elders about climate in the Arctic, known as "traditional knowledge," was largely disregarded. Sometimes it was called merely anecdotal and unreliable by scientists who traveled here with their recording devices, measuring sticks and theories about the North. Some of them viewed the Inuit as ignorant about a land in which they and their ancestors have lived for thousands of years.

But in the last few years, scientists have begun paying more attention to what the Inuit are documenting, and even incorporating it into their research about changes in the climate, the prevailing weather conditions of a given area. In 1997, the Canadian government mandated that government agencies incorporate traditional knowledge into land-use decisions and consult aboriginal people about the environment.

To conduct and publish scientific research in the areas of information technology, communications and electronic media; and, to assist (where possible) non-governmental organizations, social justice groups and human rights entities in the use of advanced information technologies for the furtherance of their works. We also intend to have fun doing this. Turn it up. Way up.

The Department of Art and Technology touches the daily lives of Americans in many ways -- it makes possible the utopian principles that transform our existence; it facilitates technology that artists use in the studio every day; it supports the development, gathering and transmitting of information essential to the virtualization of Government systems; it makes possible the diversity of artists and artworks found in America's (and the world's) galleries and museums; and it supports revolutionary doctrines for the communities in which Americans live. –>

I knew where to put the blame after perusing a few of the myriad "Crisis in the Middle East" chat sites. The picture was clear. People around the world think Israelis should be held to a higher moral standard than Palestinians. That's OK. Israel, as a democracy, wouldn't want to be judged by the same criteria as people who support terrorism.

But it means that all our past sins keep popping up to bite us in the butt. And you would be surprised at how many of the sinners came from Brooklyn.

One of the most dramatic events in p-California history was in the invasion of San Francisco by Los Angeles for the water rights. The pressures leading to this war are fairly well documented, particularly in Cyrus Hawkes' memoir Feudal California Boyhood. In 1996, the film Wartime California was released, dramatizing this portion of his story (many are looking forward to the sequel which will capture the rest of his life story). After it premiered it was ruthlessly supressed according to many witnesses. In fact, many deny the film was ever made.

But one of the great promises ahead will be creative uses of wireless Internet, says Kahn. He loves the idea of a service called "bathroom finder" that leads people to the nearest restroom. He thinks technologies that locate where you are and then show you where the nearest hospital is, or police station, or whatever you are looking for, will be useful.

...Embedding copyright-protection mechanisms into new PCs and other digital devices would mean inserting pieces of software code that are hidden, or locked down, and couldn't be altered. That would amount to nothing less than an assault on the open-source religion, which advocates sharing, collaboration, and free access to code.

A crucial feature of the Linux operating system -- the basic software that controls a computer -- is that any part of it can be modified by its users, as long as they agree to make the modification available, for free, to the world at large. Locking down Linux could destroy this dynamic, on which plenty of corporate software developers now depend, and also bar open-source programmers from the $80 billion consumer-electronics market.

Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, said yesterday that an attack against the United States was almost certain. “It’s not a matter of if but when,” he said. “We don’t know if it’s going to be tomorrow or next week or next year, partly because we’re having some success in disrupting the organisation and making it more difficult for them to carry out their operations.”

They say that in October, 1993, a strangelet entered the planet near Antarctica in a violent explosion and exited south of India 27 seconds later. A month later, another hit the Pacific Ocean and left via Antarctica 19 seconds later. Shock waves were recorded in Australia and Bolivia.

EC: Let's just say I succeeded in stiring the shit beyond my wildest expectations. You know, most conspiratologists would die of shock if they suddenly received proof that their thoeries were real. You'll notice that not one UFO "expert" has ever been abducted. And not one Kennedy-Conspiracy nut has ever been assassinated. These things happen to other people, not to Conspiracy Theorists, right? Well, let's just say...that's what I mean when I say...this isn't a "theory" anymore.

"There's been a long-standing awareness in the intelligence community, shared with the president, about the potential for bin Laden to have hijackings in a traditional sense," Fleischer said.

"The information the president got dealt with hijackings in the traditional sense -- not suicide bombers, not using planes as missiles," he added.

Fleischer said this information was presented to Bush last summer, just months before the Sept. 11 attacks.

When you hear terms like blogspace tossed around, you might wonder whether blogs are the pet rocks of the information age (as we hear in occasional conversations online and off). My own take is that the blog is a killer app, like email. Or like a more traditional killer app – the newspaper. [Link]

...once you’ve created your blog and filled it with links to news accounts of the Pim Fortuyn assassination, snarky criticisms of Bill O’Reilly and witty rants about airport security, how do you get visitors? Judging from the top blogs, the answer seems to be working hard, filling a niche, winning a reputation for accuracy, developing sources and writing felicitously. This sounds a lot like the formula to succeed as a journalist inside the Big Media leviathan. With the difference that traditional journalists uh, get paid.

Why get out? Sometimes even the best job starts to feel stale. I like newscasting on All Things Considered, but it's a long way from my roots as a radio reporter in rural Alaska. I got into radio first, and journalism second. I got into radio because I love stories, and news is just a subcategory of stories. I was influenced by six years of listening to Studs Terkel on WFMT in Chicago, but I didn't find out about NPR until I'd actually started volunteering at KYUK in Bethel, Alaska. NPR was still a new-kid phenom in 1977, but lots of us quickly tried to apply its style at our local stations. I did commercial salmon-fishing stories in the business style of Robert Krulwich, stories on the aurora borealis in the scientific manner of Ira Flatow, and city-council politics a la Linda Wertheimer. I even did radio drama in multi-leveled imitation of Tom Lopez. I tried to cram sound into everything I did, sometimes drowning what I had to say in an ocean of ambience. It was fun. After working in Washington for 12 years, I missed it.

The point of the project, said Ankrom, was to show that art has a place in modern society--even on a busy, impersonal freeway. He also wanted to prove that one highly disciplined individual can make a difference.

Embarrassed Caltrans officials, who learned of the bogus sign from a local newspaper column, concede that the sign could be a help. They will leave it in place, for now. The transportation agency doesn't plan to press charges, for trespassing or tampering with state property.

The "art students" followed a predictable modus operandi. They generally worked in teams, typically consisting of a driver, who was the team leader, and three or four subordinates. The driver would drop the "salespeople" off at a given location and return to pick them up some hours later. The "salespeople" entered offices or approached agents in their offices or homes. Sometimes they pitched their artwork -- landscapes, abstract works, homemade pins and other items they carried about in portfolios. At other times, they simply attempted to engage agents in conversation. If asked about their studies, they generally said they were from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem or the University of Jerusalem (which does not exist). They were described as "aggressive" in their sales pitch and "evasive" when questioned by wary agents. The females among them were invariably described as "very attractive" -- "blondes in tight shorts or jeans, real lookers," as one DEA agent put it to Salon. "They were flirty, flipping the hair, looking at you, smiling. 'Hey, how are you? Let me show you this.' Everything a woman would do if she wanted to get something out of you." Some agents noted that the "students" made repeated attempts to avoid facility security personnel by trying to enter federal buildings through back doors and side entrances. On several occasions, suspicious agents who had been visited at home observed the Israelis after the "students" departed and noted that they did not approach any of the neighbors.

Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism.

Matisse Picasso will radically realign the balance between the two. It will re-examine dark areas, especially the great, sombre, semi-abstract canvases Matisse produced before and during the First World War. Above all, it will make nonsense of the notion that, of the two, Picasso alone reflected a century of upheaval while Matisse remained immune, painting as rapturously - and mindlessly - as a bird sings.

That's of course a fair point; but in the age of Google and news blogs, an age in which people increasingly come upon their news by skipping from one deep link to another instead of going to newspapers' home pages, might it not be counterproductive to stop people from deep linking?

Baradell explained that "how we proceed is very much case by case," and he declined to discuss how Belo decides which deep links to go after and which to let alone. It's unclear whether the company would send letters to, say, Google or The Drudge Report, sites that can steer a lot of traffic to a specific deep link.

Jupiter found that respondents who reported increases in spending often exhibited online behaviors that reflected their interest in music — visiting artist or label sites; buying CDs, tickets and merchandise online; listening to free or paid streaming content; reading music news online; sharing reviews and opinions with other users; ripping and burning their own CDs; using instant messenger programs; using in-store kiosks; downloading music player software; and downloading free tracks.