The Next Web
We brought you news this week of a Twitter account called dinner_guest that, sickening or not, captured the attention of many a Twitter user.Today we discovered the account to be that of a fictional character but nevertheless, I was personally left intrigued as to why someone would want to create such an account, and so we (Read More)
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Composer William Bolcom William Bolcom composed two third of the pieces in the program presented by the New Century Chamber Orchestra, in a run which opens tomorrow in Berkeley (and repeats Friday in Palo Alto, Saturday in San Francisco and Sunday in San Rafael). He is also penning a world premiere for another NCCO conc (Read More)
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In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. These visions of western soldiers at rest in imperial palaces are both intensely jarring and oddly playful, and they underscore the seem (Read More)
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David Byrne Journal
Slightly inland from the seaside town of Cascais, nestled on a low mountain that seems to generate its own cloud cover, is the retreat of former royals and wealthy citizens called Sintra. The mountain and its cloud cover must have made for a pleasant coolness in the hot Portuguese summers. C and I made a couple of day trips (Read More)
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Android and Me
Why ring when you can Fring for free? After months of testing, Fring for Android has finally been released to the public. The application allows you to make free VoIP calls over Skype, MSN and GoogleTalk and via hundreds of SIP providers. Fring on Android works over 3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi internet connection.I installed the appl (Read More)
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Android Phone Fans
To use an Android Phone you need a Google Account. To use GTalk you need a Google Account. Chances are, you do both with the same account. So when you’re using your Android Phone and logged into GTalk… Google knows it. Only now they’re telling everyone about it:Turn on Green Robot, a new experiment in Gmail Labs, and you (Read More)
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Techdirt
We recently wrote about how booksellers were freaking out over the "price war" between Amazon and Wal-Mart, whereby they're starting to offer certain books at a very cheap price to bring in more customers. The whole thing was a bit silly. Reader Robin Trehaeven alerts us to a fantastic opinion piece in the Library Journal (Read More)
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Xenophon discusses his views on Scientology, its tax-exempt status in Australia, and letters to him from former Scientology members. He calls it a “criminal organization.”Among the alleged crimes cited by the Senator: false imprisonment, coerced abortions, embezelment, child abuse, perjury, persecution of ex-members, forced (Read More)
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Remember back in the day, back in the 90’s, when you could attend a University of California law school and pay for the three years’ tuition by working part-time as a law clerk for a couple semesters in the Financial? Well, part of that job entailed moving your yuppie supervisor’s yuppie Saab convertible out of and then rig (Read More)
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