"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
The other shoe -- or is it the other egg? -- has dropped on VideoEgg Inc., a company whose mission is to make it easier for advertising to be distributed by giving individuals the incentive to do it instead. Apparently they made it too easy.
Responding to an unfavorable analyst outlook for post-merger Sirius and XM, satellite radio network Sirius this week published its guidance for 2009, predicting a full year of profitability if the merger is completed.
Sprint's indoor coverage-extending femtocell device, Airave, will be rolled out nationwide on July 15 according to early reports.
UPDATED For years, customers have asked for an affordable subscription-based service for what has typically been perceived as Microsoft's steeply-priced software. If seventy bucks a year seems affordable enough, it's finally coming.
According to announcements this morning, enterprise Linux distributor Xandros will purchase consumer Linux maker Linspire, in a move that had been rumored for several weeks with little details coming from either company.
Nokia has gotten the final okay from the European Commission on its plans to buy digital map maker Navteq, following a detail investigation around the impact of the $8.1 billion deal, particularly on competing mobile phone makers.
Blockbuster has withdrawn its proposal to buy out Circuit City, quickly vaporizing the $18 billion combined retail enterprise the video rental company had envisioned.
Microsoft confirmed today that it was dropping the price of its entry-level Xbox 360 by $50...in Australia.
The next version of Microsoft Office, still called "Office 14," will support by user-chosen defaults at least two published international standard document formats. But at least for now, neither of them was Microsoft's to begin with.
Millions of textbooks get the shape of our solar system wrong, suggests new research.
After a four-year tour of Saturn, the Cassini probe is ready for round two.
I want to thank everyone who entered the contest to win ROTHBURY Music Festival tickets. There were so many smart, thoughtful, and creative answers that choosing a winner was no easy task. I wish I could give everyone a pair of tickets, but alas I cannot not. There were several answers vying for the top spot, therefore, spelling, syntax, and grammar all ended up playing a tie-breaking role.
The winning submission was sent to us by Mary Lemmer, a student at the University of Michigan, who, like many of the entrants emphasized the gains made by the environmental movement while also pointing to the insufficiency of those gains in terms of actual substantive achievement. Mary wrote:
“Youth across the nation are energized about issues concerning global warming, alternative fuels, and other environmental topics. Young adults are driving the sustainability movement, studying related topics, encouraging people to recycle, and proclaiming the green word!
However, the environmental movement today involves too much talk and not enough action, and action is often hypocritical. Traveling across the country to brainstorm ways to combat climate change emits more emissions than resulting reductions! People talk about great ideas, but talk is cheap, and the best solutions will be those actually implemented! Less talk, more action, better results! Let's create change!”
Other notable quotes include:
“What is going right with the environmentalist movement is precisely what is going wrong: environmental gains are pitted against economic realities, but only become truly effective when coupled with an economic benefit” -Zachary Kasprzak
“Today, more people are realizing that it is possible for humans to have a profound effect on our environment, although many still refuse to acknowledge this” -Tommy Felts
“In order to make significant steps forward we need to get rid of are [sic]bloody “make everything faster easier and disposable” LAZY! habits” -Andrew P. Rottier
“So even if some people are just going Green for the look of it, then please be my guest, as long as it’s a step forward” -Torie Zalokar
“It would be nice if humans were more altruistic, but the “sustainable” solution is providing them with products and services they want to embrace” -Tom Lyon
“This is detrimental to the movement because more environmental groups are losing their strength on environmental issues in the publics’ eye and are now being treated as mere “special interest groups” -Brooke Robinson
Please stay tuned to the Green Options Media network over the next several days, as I will be posting live updates, interviews, pictures, and much more, from ROTHBURY.
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As I waited in line on opening night on Friday to see Wall-E, I thought it would be something of a robotic version of Nemo. Having loved Nemo, I was excited to detach from my work-week stress load and calmly watch the movie.
Little did I know I was in for one of the most moving, gorgeous, and dare I say “important” movie experiences I have had for a long, long while. This movie is a blatant and powerful indictment of our environmental destruction, and it is also a completely entertaining and warm love story. I humbly encourage everyone to see it.
**While this will be a glowing review, please scroll down to read my two complaints about the film as well.
Wall-E is the last remaining trash-collecting robot left on an abandoned planet Earth. He roams the smoggy, trash-covered landscape of our destroyed planet, crushing refuse and hanging out with his only friend, a plucky cockroach. But Wall-E has a video of Hello Dolly that he watches on endless loop, and he longs for something more: singing, dancing, and inter-personal (or inter-machine) contact. In short, he is love-sick.
Where have all the humans gone? We learn that they were forced to flee their dying planet over 700 years ago in a huge space-craft called The Axiom. On the ship they have become obese, immobile blob-beings who can only sit in their spaceship deck chairs and consume what is shown to them on their personal video monitors. The scenes on the Axiom are scarily reminiscent of present-day Las Vegas: the over-fed humans are detached from their daily cares and are free to sit on their backsides, consume, and be constantly entertained.
I won’t spoil the plot for you, but let’s just say that a beguiling robot named Eve comes from the Axiom down to Earth in search of life forms. She and Wall-E meet and indeed find a little sprout of a plant growing in an old boot. Life blooms on Earth, love blooms for Wall-E and Eve, and great changes befall the humans quietly sipping their smoothies on the Axiom.
But I do have two beefs with Wall-E:
Please share your comments on what you thought of the movie!
BOGOTA (Reuters) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three Americans and 11 other hostages were rescued from leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops on Wednesday, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Former "Eastenders" actress Brooke Kinsella made a tearful appeal on Wednesday for witnesses to her brother's stabbing to come forward, saying their help would be vital in catching his killers.
Australia's government is backing an ambitious plan to build a new fiber-to-the-node network that will reach 98 percent of Australians and offer a minimum 12Mbps to all. But just how open will it be? Google has some thoughts.
Three of the biggest names in search are Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. With Yahoo trying to cut deals with the other two companies and the Department of Justice watching carefully, it's not even clear if those engaged in the negotiations even know what's going on.
Security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks has filed a countersuit against Trend Micro in an effort to protect the open source ClamAV project from Trend's allegations of patent infringement.
Microsoft has announced Equipt, a software bundle consisting of Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Office Live Workspace, and Windows Live tools. The subscription-based Microsoft Equipt will set you back $70, per year, but comes with three licenses.
The US Department of Justice is preparing to dig a little deeper into the advertising deal between Google and Yahoo, citing concerns over competition in the online ad market.
Last week marked the largest partisan gap in campaign interest since the start of the presidential race in early 2007. Democrats were almost twice as likely as Republicans to say they followed the campaign very closely (52% vs. 28%).
The world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Legendary dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison, the artistic director of the theater, is leading the celebration. Jamison talks about her love for dance, retirement and keeping the vision of her late mentor alive.
Recent studies show disturbing trends in HIV infection rates among New Yorkers, particularly in the Bronx. New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden is pushing to get every adult in the borough tested for the virus. The commissioner speaks about this effort, and why some question his tactics.
Seven prison guards who had access to an inmate found strangled in a Prince George's County, Md., jail Sunday are now under investigation. County State's Attorney Glenn Ivey said his office would convene a grand jury to review evidence in the case.
A Palestinian driver rammed a bulldozer into pedestrians and vehicles on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens, authorities said. He was then shot and killed by security officers.
Nikon announces a cheaper, smaller Full-Frame DSLR to fill in the gap between the $1799 D300 and the $5000 D3. Where does the new Nikon fit in the overall DSLR market?...
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Nowadays it's hard to find a film that offers anything one might consider refreshing when it comes to the Iraq War. So much has been done already - and done badly - that mere mention of the subject matter is apt to draw exhausted sighs. Naturally, I approached John Cusack's War, Inc. with the some [...]
The comic book publisher battle is heating up again. We all know Marvel is kicking ass with Iron Man and Incredible Hulk this summer, but DC Comics is about to drop The Dark Knight in just a few weeks. And in December when we all frown upon Marvel's Punisher: War Zone yet again, we'll already [...]
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During a career more than five decades long, "Spoon" brought a strong dose of blues to many of the jazz world's finest bands. With his full, powerful baritone delivery, he was one of the best of the "blues shouters."
Blue-eyed soul virtuoso Eli "Paperboy" Reed may have grown up in Massachusetts, but he conveys the heart-wrenching emotion of Southern predecessors such as Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. Hear an interview and performance from WXPN.
This week, from the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph, Vermont, a teen violinist from Woodstock plays Kreisler, a French horn player performs Strauss, and a 16-year-old pianist from Pittsburgh honors his grandfather's musical legacy. This program originally aired on November 28, 2007
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Django, meet Webmonkey. Webmonkey, meet Django. Django brings a web framework that allows you to easily and quickly build a professional-looking website. Webmonkey brings the tutorials to show you how to build your first one. Now that everyone is acquainted, let's build a blog and blog this party.
In this video, David Byrne describes his latest project, "Playing The Building." By attaching a system of switches and machines to structures within the Battery Maritime Building in lower Manhattan, Byrne turns the building into a giant musical instrument.
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Each of the four artists featured today use paper in the most colorful ways. The meticulous nature and repetition necessary to work with paper, and create such detailed pieces, is a tribute to all the all the artists character and focus. From dissecting books and completely transforming them into something unexpected and new, to exploding (figuratively) the individual colors of a stack of construction paper, each artist gives us a new perspective on paper and color. Ferry Staverman Ferry Starvermen has created a colorful garden of sculptures crafted from recycled cardboard and string. Each sculpture is made with variations of the same color giving the piece a magnificent presence and depth, even more so with multiple sculptures displayed together.
