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Thursday, December 30, 2004
Bloggers Without Borders
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The site has been launched earlier because of the great tsunami of aid that is needed now! Thank you for putting this together Jonas what a super idea and Joi for the alert.
Mission Statement
Submitted by Jonas M Luster on Thu, 2004-12-30 06:16.
While we work on some more pressing manners, such as the Tsunami Outreach program, let me quickly introduce Bloggers Without Borders to you, if I may.
BwoB was born in October 2004 as an idea by Sean Bonner. Sean quickly brought Jonas Luster, Xeni Jardin, and Wil Wheaton on board, and for the following weeks, Jonas worked on the technical side of things. When Sri Lanka and the South East Asian region fell victim to a 9.0 earthquake and the resulting Tsunami, we knew we had to bring online what we had.
This is, where BwoB is today. We continue to add features, and will introduce a few great ones in short order, but for the time being, it’s a weblog, a forum, and a means to communicate and coordinate.
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Monday, December 20, 2004
Wizzo! (iii)
New Year's Eve at Somerset House
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For the first time ever, Somerset House will open on New Year's Eve. Skate into the new year in the perfect setting for a glamorous, romantic and fun celebration. Tickets are £20 and entitle one skater to bring a non-skating friend, and also include a complimentary mulled wine/hot chocolate and a glass of champagne at midnight. Snacks and a licensed bar will also be available.
Skate sessions are at 10 - 11pm and 11.15 - 12.45pm. There will be live performers and a display of the very best ice dancing from current British Ice Dance champions at 12.05. The event finishes at 1am.
Suitable for all ages. Somerset House will be open to ticket-holders only.
Tickets for New Year's Eve are available exclusively by phone. Call 0870 060 1753 to book.
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londonist.com
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London has a new Blog - News site called The Londonist. It is interesting and amusing, more so if you are a Londoner, "Ken" of course is a favorite topic. They have very kindly linked to londonzen.
It also features The London Tomes, a new London-based, animated series.
"We're not going to say too much about it, we'll let you make your own minds up. Suffice to say that there are talking animals, the District Line and the criminally insane".
- Published by
- The Gothamist "a website about New York City and everything that happens in it". Gothamist was voted Best NY Blog by NY Press readers in 2004. The Londonist is the new addition to the stable, there are already The LAist The Chicagoist The SFist The DCist The Torontoist
- Edited by
- Rob Hinchcliffe - Rob was raised 'up north', in the independent state of South Yorkshire. In the late Nineties he defected and has been living in London ever since.
- Euan Mitchell - Euan is a New Zealander living in London and has been about 9 months away from moving back home for the last 10 years.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Chirac opens high way
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The highest viaduct in the world - 343m (1,125ft)
On 14 December, the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, officially opened the Millau Viaduct in France's southern Aveyron region. The Viaduct completes the A75 motorway across the Massif Central, creating a direct link between Paris towards Barcelona, and spans the Tarn Gorge to alleviate the notorious traffic congestion throughout the area.
Designed by Foster and Partners in association with an engineering group led by the French engineer Michel Virlogeux, the Viaduct illustrates how a collaboration between architects and engineers can result in a structure of breathtaking beauty.
- BBC "French construction group Eiffage - that built the Eiffel Tower - financed the project in return for the right to collect receipts from a bridge toll for 75 years".
- Le Figaro
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NYT 10 Best Books 2004
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FICTION
Gilead By MARILYNNE ROBINSON
The Master By COLM TOIBIN
The Plot Against America By PHILIP ROTH
Runaway By ALICE MUNRO
Snow By ORHAN PAMUK
War Trash By HA JIN
NONFICTION
Alexander Hamilton By RON CHERNOW
Chronicles: Volume One By BOB DYLAN
Washington's Crossing By DAVID HACKETT FISCHER
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare By STEPHEN GREENBLATT
- Take part in a NYT discussion about the 10 Best Books of the Year
- NYT 100 Notable Books of the Year
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Google World Library
This is very exciting
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Radcliffe Camera photo by planethalder on flickr
Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database By John Markoff and Edward Wyatt NYT
"Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web".
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This is very exciting
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Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database By John Markoff and Edward Wyatt NYT
"Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web".
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sfgate's Best Books 2004
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sfgate.com has just published thier list of the best books of 2004
It is a very long list, with short a synopsis of each book, here are a few that caught my eye -
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology by Adam Gopnik
A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854- 1967 by Rachel Cohen
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Monday, December 13, 2004
Christmas Lights @ Harrods 30-11-04
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Sunday, December 12, 2004
Pale Male and Lola
I cried............. I have two beautiful geese, it is as though they had been dumped on a highway, far from their house and pond, they mate for life too!
Please blog this! thank you!
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Reuters - New York City Hawk Fans Intensify Protests Over Eviction
Google news, many pages about this outrage!
Audubon Press Releases > THE REMOVAL OF "PALE MALE'S" NEST SHOCKS NEW YORK City, State, and National Organizations Call for Action to Correct the Loss
Audubon New York is currently circulating a petition at nycaudubon.org to get the nest returned to its location, or barring that, the spikes upon which the birds have built their nest.
nyc.indymedia.org The hawks are flying around, confused and unable to find their nest. These rich idiots have no respect for anything, do they. CNN's Paula Zahn lives in the building, as does Kenneth Cole.Article here: Lot's more info on here about the people involved in this
The building owners - brownharrisstevens.com
Wing and a prayer
BY AUSTIN FENNER and TRACY CONNOR New York Daily News
Read the latest news on Marie Winn's site, she has been thier champion for years and wrote a book about pale male and Lola>>>
mariewinn.com - LOLA LEAVING THE FIFTH AVENUE NEST [a few months before its destruction]
Photo by Lincoln Karim
Red-Tails in Love A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn [1998 Pantheon, 1999 Vintage]
This is the whole article from the macontelegraph.com
"A bunch of insensitive louts
Since 1993, an unlikely resident named Pale Male and his female companions have lived 12 stories up on a cornice of a ritzy New York apartment building. He has sired, depending upon who's telling the story, up to 23 offspring in his formerly breezy home, which had a neat view of the city's skyline and nearby Central Park.
Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk and a member of an endangered species, is inarguably the world's best-known bird. His fans have crossed oceans to watch the hawk, who for years has dutifully helped raise his families in the heart of a city rather than in the wild, as most hawks prefer.
So named because his colors are not as vibrant as most male red-tailed hawks, Pale Male was the star in a book by author Marie Winn and the subject of a PBS documentary film as well. Newspapers and television stories annually feature the hawk's adventures, and birdwatchers have been known to camp out on the street, waiting to see the hawk's offspring take flight from their 12th-floor nest.
But no more. The rich and powerful people who own the building at 927 Fifth Avenue and 74th Street apparently decided that having the hawk nest on their building was too much of an inconvenience. Bird droppings and such affronted their sense of decorum, so they had the nest destroyed and removed vital rods the hawk had used to anchor the nest to withstand strong winds.
Not all the tenants agreed with the action. Actress Mary Tyler Moore, a resident of the building for 15 years, announced she was amazed and outraged by the "insensitivity" of the action. She and her husband opposed the nest's removal, but to no avail. Numerous Pale Male fans are attempting to convince the tenants to permit the bird to rebuild its nest.
The tenants own the building, and they apparently didn't break any laws in removing the nest. They had the legal authority to do so. But Moore and others critical of them are absolutely right. The building's owners demonstrated that they are insensitive louts who have no desire to see the bigger picture that others found so appealing.
Merry Christmas, Pale Male, from the bunch of Scrooges you unfortunately chose to live among". MaconTelegraph.com
"Since 1993, Pale Male sired 23 youngsters from nest, inspiring a book and a documentary film".BBC
BBC links>>>
New York Times
City of New York Parks
Audubon Society
US Fish and Wildlife Service
 PBS film
PBS Pale Male film
NYT article
palemalethemovie.com
Frederic Lilien - Director, Producer, Editor
Joanne Woodward - Narrator
The Gothamist - Hawks' Nest Is Removed; Co-op Happy, Others Outraged "The Pale Male website is telling people to email the Fish and Wildlife Services to say that the nest was active up until its removal". - read the comments!
Ingrid Spangler is in New York and is blogging this live, here,
with photos here.
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Princeton is home!
Princeton is home!
Originally uploaded by zenera.
He was away, lost, missing, for 5 months...he has been resting, eating. Each day he seems to become more frail, eat less, as though he had put all his effort into finding his way home and now he is giving in to his exhaustion. It will take time for his skinny body to recuperate. I love you Princetoni
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Friday, December 10, 2004
Top Scientists Launch RealClimate.org
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Team of Renowned Climate Experts from Europe and the US Create First-of-a-Kind Climate Weblog
Today, top climate scientists will launch a unique website to provide commentary on the emerging new results from climate science. The site is designed as a tool for journalists and members of the public, and will provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion is restricted solely to scientific topics and will not address political issues.
"We are trying to ensure that science doesn't get trampled by politics," said Gavin Schmidt.
"We hope this site will serve as a resource that can challenge mis-representations or mis-understandings of the science as they occur in real time," said Michael Mann.
Schmidt, Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Rasmus Benestad, Caspar Ammann, Ray Bradley, William Connolley, Eric Steig, and Amy Clement are all contributors to the site. This group includes two "Scientific American 50 Research Leader" award winners and recipients of prestigious fellowship awards from the McDonnell and Comer foundations.
Information on the site includes commentary on breaking news such as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment as well as the latest scientific findings on greenhouse gases, the paleoclimatic record, climate modeling, and connections between the sun's variability and climate.
The scientific contributors work in their personal capacity, and receive no financial compensation for this work.
Journalists may also read their biographies, request more information, or reach the scientists through the site www.realclimate.org or contact the scientists directly:
Gavin Schmidt 212-678-5627 gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov
Michael Mann 434-924-7770 mann@virginia.edu
Eric Steig 206-543-6327 steig@ess.washington.edu
Stefan Rahmstorf +49 331 288 2688 rahmstorf@pik-potsdam.de(Germany)
Rasmus Benestad +47 2296 3377 rasmus.benestad-at-met.no
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Thursday, December 09, 2004
BookCrossing programmer Dan Clune still missing after one month, reward rises to $10,000
Bookcrossing has asked all thier members to spread the word but when I looked on Technorati this I only found 8 mentions in blogs, so please re-blog about this and pass the info on, thank you!
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Dan Clune disappeared from the Long Bridge Bar and Grill (Sandpoint, Idaho) on November 6, 2004 just before 2AM, he was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and blue knit ski cap.
Danny's story will be on COURT TV Catherine Crier Live Friday December 10th at 5:00pm ET/PT
Please help find him http://www.finddanny.com/
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Jeremy Deller wins Turner Prize
I am very pleased that Jeremy won!
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Bush video wins Turner Prize via...BBC
Jeremy Deller was born in London in 1966 and studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Collaboration and participation are central to Deller's work.
The Bats Still from Memory Bucket 2003 Courtesy of the artist © the artist
The film ends with millions of bats flying off into the unknown..........
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14th International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition
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January 20-23 2005 santa monica civic auditorium
Photo l.a. 2005 features the finest photographic art, from the earliest 19th Century photographic experiments to the most contemporary photography and photo-based art. More than 80 premier galleries and private dealers present International and U.S. artists.
Highlights of the exhibition will include works by world renowned contemporary artists Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Larry Fink, Robert Frank, Joel Peter-Witkin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and vintage pieces by Man Ray, Josef Sudek, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange.
The opening night reception will take place on Thursday January 20th 2005 from 6 to 9 pm. The proceeds will benefit the Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Tickets to the gala celebration are fifty dollars each.
For tickets e-mail: eschillo@lacma.org
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Monday, December 06, 2004
Flickrzen is live
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I had the idea to make Flickrzen about a week ago and now it is a reality.I hope that you enjoy the show!
Flickrzen spotlights exeptional photographs, be that subject, technique or rarity, found on flickr - "Almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world".
I am very happy because Caterina blogged about Flickrzen on the official Flickr blog>
"Also there is another great blog dedicated to finding the great photos of Flickr. It launched just a few days ago, and can be found at FlickrZen. I've subscribed to the RSS feed of it. You should too!"
Thank you Caterina x
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Friday, December 03, 2004
Simply Duveen Dahlink
Two important art books for christmas about the inimitable Duveen.
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Duveen : A Life in Art by MERYLE SECREST
The Art of the Art Deal: A Portrait of the Old Master New York Times review By ROBERTA SMITH
There are dozens of paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and scores in the National Gallery in Washington that art-world insiders once called Duveens.
Forget that these works were painted by the likes of Gainsborough, Botticelli, Velazquez or Rembrandt. All had been sold, usually to the collectors who donated them to the museums, by the hugely successful, publicity-prone art dealer Joseph Duveen. Passing through Duveen's extensive empire seemed to give the pictures an afterglow that wasn't entirely a result of his penchant for overcleaning. via...NYT
Duveen The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time By S.N. Behrman Introduction by Glenn Lowry
A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles originally published in The New Yorker, playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the
larger - than - life Duveen and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearly - but not quite - priceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis.via...NYT Books
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Napoleon's consecration anniversary
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Two hundredth anniversary of the coronation of Napoleon, 2 December 1804.
Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825
The Consecration of Napoleon (2 December 1804) : detail 1806-1807 Paris, musee du Louvre INV. 3699 © RMN/ Arnaudet - Blot
Two hundred years after the Consecration of Napoleon in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and the Emperor's commission of a major painting commemorating the event, the Louvre organizes an exhibition of about fifty works paying tribute to the celebrated painting by David.
The special exhibition is on show from 21 October 2004- 17 January 2005
Sponsored by Chaumet.The Napoleon Foundation is a partner of the Louvre Museums for this exhibition.
France Marks Napoleon's 200th Anniversary article about the celebration.
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Who's Who in France?
...or shouldn't it be Qui est Qui en France?........the French language police should have scuppered le title! But one supposes that all the Academie Francaise is in the book, so, c'est normale, qua! Of course the book is en francais.
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One can look people up online, but it is 5 euros to read the full entry. The Actualites page is quite fun.
Who's Who in France
Accueil du Who's Who. Rechercher, Rechercher, Qui sommes-nous ? Qui sommes-nous ? Nouveaux entrants, Nouveaux entrants, ...
Mariella BERTHEAS, part of the WWF France is one of the new people.
Dictionnaire de l’Academie francaise
One of the new Mots etrangers included in the 9th edition of the dictionary is cover-girl
note: no accents were hurt for cette article!
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'Blog' word of the year
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The term "blog" has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher.
Merriam-Webster said "blog" headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months. via...BBC
Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
Top Ten List
2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration
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Oh yes, late as usual!
microsoft get's the blogging bug via...BBC
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Salon Nautique de Paris - Prix Litteraire
Not to be missed, all the great French sea dogs will be there. Find a boat for your holidays and the best boating book to read in your cabin...
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4-13 December 2004 the 44th Salon Nautique de Paris is gaining impetus with new attractions, a new area dedicated to Fishing (Village de la Peche) which will delight well-informed fisherman and initiate youngsters, not to mention the show's main attractions.
3rd Prix Litteraire Salon Nautique - le Point
The sea, maritime adventures, tales of great voyages, the islands or maritime regions…there are so many subjects for novels, travel diaries and other books!
The French Nautical Industries Federation (FIN), the Syndicat National de l'Edition (SNE), and the magazine le Point have joined together to pay tribute to works whose subjects centre around the sea. A judging panel, composed of personalities from the world of water sports and publishing, will award a prize to a novel and a finely illustrated book.
List of competitors
The winners will receive their prize at a ceremony held on Wednesday 8 December at 6.00 pm in the Forum des Navigateurs.
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