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Friday, May 28, 2004

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Amnesty International report 2004

In a dangerous and divided world, it is more important than ever that the global human rights movement remains strong, relevant and vibrant.

The Amnesty International Report 2004, launched this week, reflects these challenges. It documents the human rights situation in 155 countries and territories in 2003, and summarizes regional trends.

View the 2004 report online

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Thursday, May 27, 2004

Saatchi fire, at Momart warehouse treasures lost by many, also the Tate and the National Gallery

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London Warehouse Fire Destroys Artworks By SARAH LYALL

LONDON — A fire that began on Monday and ripped through a warehouse in east London has destroyed millions of dollars worth of work by leading contemporary British artists, dozens of them from the vast collection of Charles Saatchi, the warehouse's owner and Mr. Saatchi said on Wednesday.

Among the works that have been lost are pieces by Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread and Jake and Dinos Chapman, all part of the influential and showy Young British Artist movement championed and sustained by Mr. Saatchi for the last 15 or so years. via...">NYT

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Legal online music downloads - check out the Pro Music Directory

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The music industry's campaign to promote legitimate online music services has stepped up a gear with the publication of a new directory of digital music services on the one-year old www.pro-music.org website.

The directory offers a comprehensive selection of legitimate online services across the world where consumers can access and download music. It lists over 100 sites covering virtually every region of the world, the numbers of available tracks, type of repertoire and links to the services. It will be regularly updated as new services come online, and as more repertoire is added.

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Friday, May 21, 2004

Gaza Rafa Zoo

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The Israelis destroyed the Rafa Zoo. Demolished cages. Dead animals. Dead birds, a headless ostrich, other birds flying free.

It is remeniscent of Kabul, when the Zoo was hit...the lion was wounded.

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Saint Francis of Assisi was right.....

"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

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Have a super day helping the animals

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ANIMAL AID SPONSORED WALK Sponsored by Vegetarian Shoes

Animal Aid is staging a 10 km sponsored walk on beautiful Hampstead Heath on Sunday 13th June 2004. This is an excellent way to raise money, keep fit and spend a beautiful summer's day in the park.

If you would like to join in, please fill in the registration form. We will then send you a sponsored walk information pack.

If you can't make the walk but would still like to take part, you could sponsor Ermintrude to complete it.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Give me the Manet!

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Are you a Picasso or a Matisse?

The works of the two masters appear side by side at Tate Modern. But are you a bullish Picasso type, or a serene Matisse person? Stuart Jeffries helps you decide.

My result...Mostly Bs: You're a serene person, not lacking in sensuality, but fundamentally untroubled. Matisse is for you, but you'd probably like Monet too. Not Manet, though.....pity Manet is one of my favorite painters!

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Webby Awards - well done and thank you for all the great sites you give us!

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San Francisco, CA (May 12, 2004) - Capping a year that saw the web play an increasingly vital role in everything from politics to pop culture, The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences® today unveiled the winners of The 8th Annual Webby Awards

With record numbers of people going online to follow, debate, and influence world events, the Academy unveiled the winners for the year's best web sites in 30 categories, including Activism, Community, Film, Music, News, Personal Web Sites, Politics, and Spirituality. A complete list of winners is available at http://www.webbyawards.com.

The Academy is an intellectually diverse organization that includes over 480 members such as film director Francis Ford Coppola, musicians David Bowie and Beck, Chairman of Miramax Talk Media Tina Brown, cyberguru Esther Dyson, CEO of Real Networks Rob Glaser, Chef Julia Child, and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison. Members also include writers and editors from publications such as The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, Details, Fast Company, Elle, The Los Angeles Times, Vibe, and WallPaper.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Got GMail - Want GMail - people on Orkut are asking for it, have a community for it.

I had 2 messages on Orkut from people asking for a GMail account. Now you can get it on gmail swap. But why not just sign up for a Blogger account?

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gmail swap - This a list of all of gmail swap's supplicants, the lonely souls who haven't, but crave, Gmail. Their posts state clearly what they'll swap for an invitation - love, worship, or even free stuff.

gmail swap uses an extremely simple system for coordinating Swaps. That is, we leave it completely up to you.

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Saturday, May 15, 2004

BRITBLOG: The British Bloggers Directory

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BRITBLOG is a new (launched for beta testing on 13 May 2004) directory of the weblogs of British people from all over the world. You don't need to live within the British Isles to get listed: you just need to be British!

As well as being categorised by geographical location, blogs are also grouped by category. This means it should be easy to locate blogs that are of interest to you and that have a British source.

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Wonderful window

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Skyscrapers in Cyberspace: Maps and History Online By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL

In the latest example of how museums are finding innovative ways to make their collections accessible on the Internet, the Skyscraper Museum has put online more than 2,000 documents about historic New York buildings by connecting the digitized images to an interactive map of Manhattan.via...">NYT

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Thursday, May 13, 2004

Very cool, we are waiting to catch the dodgeball in Europe

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"Hook up with friends. Discover what's around you."

Now available in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia.

Tell us where you are, and we'll broadcast your location to all your friends and let you know if any friends-of-friends are within 10 blocks.

A Mobile Link for 90 Mutual Friends By ERIN KANDEL

GONE are the nights when Brian Battjer left barhopping in New York to chance.

He took control of his social fate when he signed up for Dodgeball.com, a free social-networking service that is becoming popular with young singles. The site uses cellphone text-messaging to wirelessly connect thousands of friends, and friends of friends.via...">NYT

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

See our Picasso

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Picasso Still Going Strong as First Auction Week Ends By CAROL VOGEL

Picasso certainly is the flavor of the week," said Nancy Whyte, a private dealer, as the gavel fell on the final lot of Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and modern art on Thursday night.

Still reeling from the sale of a 1905 Picasso for a record-breaking $104.1 million on Wednesday night, Sotheby's was testing slightly more modest market levels with an auction of Impressionist and modern art from various owners. The sale totaled $96 million, just shy of its high estimate, $99 million. Of the 52 works, only 10 went unsold. Picassos from various periods were stars, and many brought particularly strong prices.

"It's a brand name," Ms. Whyte said. Tobias Meyer, director of Sotheby's contemporary-art department and the evening's auctioneer, said, "Consciously or subconsciously, something is going on with the Picasso market." He added that Wednesday's record price "definitely had an effect" on Thursday's sale. via...NYT

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Google Blog - the last kids on the block to get a blog....here are thier first posts

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Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google.
Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search.

Monday, May 10, 2004

Going out of our way to find the right people.
When we announced the opening of our engineering office in Zurich, a lot of Europeans seemed pleased about the possibility of working for Google without a commute to California. Zurich draws Italians, French, Swiss, Germans, and other Europeans, and is easier to reach from most parts of the continent than the Amphitheatre Parkway exit off highway 101.

We recognize that talented engineers live in every time zone, not just Silicon Valley. That's fine with us, because when it comes to solving technical problems Google benefits from global perspectives, as well as a diversity of languages and working hours. And we want to accommodate people who want to work with us, but who may not feel like uprooting their their lives, even for Charlie's cooking.

So, if you're looking for a place to plug into Google, we're trying to make it easy for you. We're looking for talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists to tackle everything from distributed systems and information retrieval to algorithms, UI, and scalability challenges. And of course to unplug the lava lamps occasionally so they don't overheat.

Whether you're in the market for a challenging engineering position in Mountain View, in Bangalore, or in our new Tokyo office, or somewhere really out of this world, we hope you'll look us up.

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Is this thing on?
Ever since I came to Google, they've been talking about putting up an official Google blog. And now, less than 15 months later, voilà.

Oh well, it's not like we own a recently relaunched service where you can create a blog in two minutes or something. Okay, we do. (Sorry for the plug.) But I guess other Googlers have been a little busy what with all the searching. And the advertising. And filling out purchase orders for all those hard drives.

Anyway, I'm excited the blog's up. We're going to post stuff here - regular bloggy things: What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric.

And perhaps, news about Google, and our thoughts on whatever random events cross our horizon.

Oh, and we have email feedback too. So we hope to hear from you, as well.

- Evan Williams
(Blogger Program Manager, Google) Posted @ 11:40 AM / Permanent Link

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Catch Robert MacLean's Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival

It's
only 7 minutes long but you'll laugh your socks down.

THE
MOMENT OF ACCEPTING LIFE: it's about sex and death-I mean what else?-and
it's at Short Film Corner in the Market throughout the festival for viewing
any time.

This Thursday the 13th at 15:50 it's on the big screen.

It won at Bombay ("Best First Film of a Director") and Dallas (Festival Co-Directors'
Choice Best Film"), has been screened at 20 festivals, was bought by HBO and is
on British, French, Italian & Japanese TV. Have a good Cannes!

Bob MacLean's KISS OF DEATH is being coproduced by Victor Solnicki and Ipso
Facto Films with the participation of the BBC.

CHOCOLATE AND CHAMPAGNE is being produced by Frank Capra at Screen Gems, North
Carolina. Play was in NY.

His one-acts are everywhere, and he has recently completed musical comedy POLITICALLY
CORRECT SEX.

...Bob is an old friend...I put him online...for the price of a large fish...

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Sunday, May 09, 2004

Warchildmusic - this is a super idea, please support them and perhaps donate your music!

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Welcome to warchildmusic.com the world’s first charity music download website.

Our aim?
Simply to be the most exciting music site on the web by offering exclusive tunes from all your favourite bands.

Here’s the skinny
* all exclusive tracks, all the time.
* music updated each and every month.
* cheap as chips subscriptions... or buy tracks individually.
* give to charity, get a world-beating music service.
* proceeds help fund war child's global relief work.
* no tubthumping required.

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The Wallace Collection Gastronomy day - art digestion

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Jan van Huysum, Fruit and Flowers, Before 1726

GASTRONOMY! Delight in the relationship between art and food with lectures, creative activities and wine tasting at the Wallace Collection on Saturday, 22nd of May, between 11am and 5pm.

The day begins with an hour-long gallery lecture, Dining with Madam de Pompadour at 11.30am, followed by a lecture by food historian Ivan Day on Edible Art at 2pm.

Between 2.30 and 4pm, a drawing workshop in the Great Gallery will allow the public to create their own still-life.
All the above events are free, enquiries: 020 7563 9551.

To finish you can enjoy a tour of the collection, entitled The Art of Wine, looking at Renaissance drinking vessels, followed by a sampling of delicious wines with a professional sommelier.
The cost for the talk and tasting is £20. Booking required via the Café on 020 7563 9505.

On a day devoted to the appreciation of food and wine, it is appropriate that our restaurant, Café Bagatelle will be providing a special menu. We hope that visitors will take the opportunity to experience the unique beauty of eating in the Sculpture Garden of the Wallace Collection.
To book a table please call 020 7563 9505.

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Saturday, May 08, 2004

A picture is worth a thousand words...

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Future Food

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Super Organics By Richard Manning - Wired

Forget Frankenfruit - the new-and-improved flavor of gene science is Earth-friendly and all-natural. Welcome to the golden age of smart breeding.

Once upon a technologically optimistic time, the founders of a swaggering biotech startup called Calgene bet the farm on a tomato. It wasn't just any old tomato. It was the Flavr Savr, a genetically engineered fruit designed to solve a problem of modernity. More> via WIRED

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Noble Rot: A Bordeaux Wine Revolution
By William Echikson

Tipple trouble - The Economist

"At times the book's characters are a little too obviously typecast as "goodies" or "baddies". The goodies are working-class Frenchmen who live on the right bank and whose cause is promoted by democratic Americans, who can see through the mystique of old Europe. (The book has a distinctly post-September 11th feel.) The baddies are the snobs of the left bank, in alliance with lazy and corrupt British wine critics." Read more

Publishers Weekly
In vino veritas. Yet as Echikson (Burgundy Stars) shows in this entertaining journey through Bordeaux's wine-making landscape, the truth of wine is also highly subjective and subject to change. Bordeaux has long epitomized fine wine. In 1662, Echikson relates, the English diarist Samuel Pepys... Read more

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Stop Discrimination: World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, 8 May 2004

Intolerance and the lack of respect for diversity represent major obstacles to achieving the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's core aim of protecting human dignity, and have an adverse impact on key aspects of its work.

On 8 May, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and National Societies worldwide commemorate the birth in 1828 of one of the Movement's founders, Henry Dunant, who inspired the creation of the ICRC in 1863.

Based on the belief that all those injured on the battlefield had a right to receive care no matter which side they were fighting for, the principle of non-discrimination was at the very heart of the founders' earliest convictions and remains so for the Movement today.

Make a donation
You too can make a difference for war victims.
Supporting the ICRC: not just another donation - an act of humanity.

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Friday, May 07, 2004

Giorgios Derpapas Greek master

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Giorgios Derpapas - Lot# 85: GREGORIOS DERPAPAS, GREEK B.1937, SURREALIST LANDSCAPE - Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Whilst I lived in Greece I met Giorgos Derpapas and visited his studio. He is an exraordinary master painter. Each of his pictures pulls you into his world. He complemented my work once and I treasure his kind words. The picture above is the only one by him in the sale.

There are many other painters though, including Dimitris Yeros, who is an old friend.

There is a sale of Greek paintings 10 May 04, 02:00 PM. at Sotheby's Sale W04852 | London, Olympia Session 1

Paintings by Giorgos Derpapas
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Thursday, May 06, 2004

GRASP G A L A D I N N E R - 24th May 2004

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The Great Apes Survival Project is an innovative and ambitious project of UNEP and UNESCO with an immediate challenge - to lift the threat of imminent extinction faced by gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.

G R A S P - The Mission
The Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) Partnership has, as an immediate challenge, to lift the threat of imminent extinction facing most populations of great apes, namely gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) and orangutans. Our mission is to work as a coherent partnership to conserve in their natural habitats, wherever they exist, viable, wild populations of every kind of great ape, and to make sure that, where they interact with people, those interactions are mutually positive and sustainable.

"The situation for all species of great apes is truly terrible - I am absolutely delighted that GRASP is developing such a strong programme to raise awareness of their plight both in the range states and overseas."
Jane Goodall, GRASP Patron

"Will you join us and help participate in this effort to ensure that our closest living relatives continue to share this planet with us?"
Dr Russ Mittermeier, GRASP Patron

Gala Dinner
Elliot Morley MP, Minister of State for Environment and Agri-Environment and Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP
Invite you to a special evening for the benefit of the world's great apes
A keynote address will be given by eminent conservationist Dr Richard Leakey
Monday 24th May 2004
Prince Albert Suite, London Zoo, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY. Entry via Prince Albert Gate Reception: 6.30 Dinner: 7.30 Carriages: 11.00 Dress: Black tie - order tickets>>

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Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Technorati Pizzarati

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Technorati Developers Salon Kickoff, May 19th in San Francisco

I would like to invite you to join the Technorati team for an evening of pizza, beer, and conversation. We have been amazed at some of the things you have been doing with our technology and we'd like to take an opportunity to meet you and thank you. And we'd also like to know what you think of it and what we can do to be of service to you in your development.

When: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Technorati, 2800 3rd Street. See Mapquest directions at http://tinyurl.com/2nhtu (Enter the building on the 24rd Street side)

If you're planning on coming, please RSVP to salon-sf@technorati.com and let us know how many people you'll be bringing so we can get enough food and drink. We've set up a page on our Developers Wiki with additional detail and topics for discussion.

I hope you can make it, and don't forget to bring your WiFi-enabled laptop!

((( Bonne apetit! The Eurorati are waiting for you!)))

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Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Goo girl meets Goo boy

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Love on the Grid By Susan Kuchinskas

SocialGrid, a free service that launched Monday, is capitalizing on two of the industry's hottest trends: search engines and online social networking.

The idea is simple. Registered members turn their own personal or business Web pages into free personals ads.

SocialGrid is a free dating service and decentralized social network that helps people meet through Google. SocialGrid can help you find your "perfect match" and extend your social network by making it possible for you to use Google to search throughout the Internet for people with similar interests, goals, desirable traits and characteristics. Discover a whole new way to "Google People".

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Monday, May 03, 2004

Larry Gagosian leading london

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New king of contemporary art opens gallery to rival Saatchi By Anthony Barnes

He is reckoned to be the best-connected art dealer in the world. He represents many of the greatest artists of the past 50 years - including Jeff Koons, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Serra and the estate of Andy Warhol.

And now Larry Gagosian, the influential New York dealer, is to shake up the British art market with the opening later this month of the biggest dealership in the capital. via...The Independent

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Guardian travel want's you to send them a snap

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Frame your world
Ever felt the urge to display your holiday photos to a wider audience? Do friends shun invitations to view slide shows in your lounge? Now you have the opportunity to show off your talent behind the lens.

We're looking for pictures that capture the essence of your holiday or travels. Something raw, something moving, something funny. One of our team of distinguished judges will select a winner each week and give their critical verdict.

How to be a weekly snap winner
Send us a snap:
Email jpeg versions of photos to snaps@guardianunlimited.co.uk.

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A life pictured online

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Now there's something else to do with that funky camera phone. Keep a moblog.

That mobile phones with cameras onboard are popular is no surprise. And on net, weblogs - or blogs - are fast winning fans.

Now the two have come together in moblogs, in which people post pictures, text and even video from their phone. via...Mark Ward BBCi

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Test your pet

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Do you own a top dog, top cat or top bird? Test your pet online and join Britain's biggest animal survey. via...BBCI

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We the Media : Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People By Dan Gillmor
Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover.
In We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news. [Full Description]
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