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Monday, November 29, 2004

blockediris


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I find this photograph magical

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Sunday, November 28, 2004

Pirelli Calendar 2005

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This year the photographs were taken in Rio de Janeiro by French photographer Patrick Demarchelier.

The Pirelli Calendar site
The Pirelli site, where you can vote for your favorite
A blog with the Photographs

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Saturday, November 27, 2004

Independence Square Kiev


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Friday, November 26, 2004

Is Babble the new Hype/Skype

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The Broadband VoIP Telephone Service from BON.net
With Babble it is free -
to call other Babble users
to use voicemail
to use Instant Messaging
to call fixed line numbers in the UK, USA Mainland, Australia, New Zealand and Europe


"The voice quality was excellent, sounding no different than if you were making a call between fixed lines".Robin Good Read his in-depth review of Babble.

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Technorati This

This is another swift idea from Technorati. via...Joi

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New Technorati This favelet for IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, etc.

We've just made it easier to find out what people are saying about anything on the web, anytime.via...Sifry

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The Literacy Site

This is a new addition to the Animal rescue site's good causes, please help and spread the word.

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About The Literacy Site

Remember the magic of your first book? Perhaps you were nestled in the arms of a parent, or sharing a giggle with a friend. Whatever your first memory of a book, books are a powerful tool; they stir the senses, inspire the imagination and spark a love of reading that can last a lifetime. But what of children who have no books? The Literacy Site gives you a way to share the magic of books and promote the love of reading among children who might otherwise never discover the joy of their first book.

Your click on the red "Give Free Books" button at The Literacy Site generates books for children in need, funded by site sponsors and provided through our award winning charity partner, First Book. In the last three years, First Book has distributed over 20 million books to children in hundreds of communities.

The number of books we put in children's hands depends on the number of visitors who click the "Give Free Books" button on The Literacy Site. Please click every day, and encourage friends and family members to do the same.

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Thursday, November 25, 2004

Battersea Dogs Home Christmas Reception

This is an extremely important event for all the beautiful creatures who are depending upon your help!

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14th December 2004 Battersea Dogs Home is delighted to hold our exclusive second Christmas Reception for our supporters, which this year will be held at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Tuesday 14th December.

The evening will be very special with the chance to meet the Homes' Trustees, staff and of course some of our dogs. Wine and canapes will be served in the Dome and guests will be able to view many exhibits in the Medieval Treasury throughout the night.

We shall be drawing the top three prizes from this years' Christmas Raffle and each guest will be entered into a free prize draw for a brand new Samsung Digital Camera.

Tickets cost £35 and all proceeds go towards the care of the dogs and cats at the Home.

If you would like more information about the event or would like to book your tickets, please call 020 7627 7886 or email the Fundraising Team. We look forward to seeing you there.

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The Original Art of John Lennon

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12/1/04 - 12/5/04 The Original Art of John Lennon (reception 12/1 6pm- 9pm) this major art exhibition features more than 120 serigraphs, song lyrics, and original drawings by the legendary Beatle, and the 15 "Bag One" lithographs, each hand signed by John.

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A portion of the proceeds of art sales will be donated to Inside Community Arts.

Show held at Santa Monica Place Mall - corner of 3rd and Broadway, 288 Santa Monica Mall Place (2nd level, near Macy's), Santa Monica, CA 90401
Opening reception December 1, 6pm-9pm

FREE ADMISSION - CALL US AT (310) 397-8820 FOR A FLYER THAT WILL ENABLE 20% OF YOUR ART PURCHASE TO BE DONATED TO INSIDE OUT!

Show hours 12/1: 6pm-9pm, 12/2-12/4: 10am-9pm, 12/5: 11am-6pm

Produced by Pacific Edge Gallery, with full cooperation from Yoko Ono and the John Lennon estate

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Dfiicult to find his art, here is the cover of the John Lennon & His Life Philosophy 2004 Calendar

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Wednesday, November 24, 2004

World AIDS DAY 1 December 2004

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This year in the UK, World AIDS Day is
about reminding us all that HIV is an issue for everyone.

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The British Environment and Media Awards 2004

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BEMAs 2004 Presented by WWF

Winners from television - news and documentaries, print - newspapers and magazines, radio, websites and campaigns were honoured on 23 Novemmber for the vital role they play in communicating the importance of protecting the environment and alerting people to the dangers inherent in not doing so.

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Dusty Gedge received the Andrew Lees Award for his success in persuading developers to install "green roofs" – hundreds of thousands of square metres of greenery – on rooftops at London’s Canary Wharf, the City and other developments.via..The Scotsman

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Sunday, November 21, 2004

BloggerCorps is born!

Rebecca MacKinnon had a tremendous idea at Bloggercon III, Bloggercorps, now it is live, do see what you can do to help.

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Bloggercorps is simple. It's a blog.

No office. No admin. No fund-raising. No funds. No staff. No meetings.

It will evolve organically based on the needs of the people who wind up using it.

For starters, here's the plan:

- The authors (a wide-ranging group comprised mainly of bloggers, activists, and tech organizations who work with non-profits) will post announcements on behalf of organizations who need help starting blogs or building blogging communities.

- The posts will be categorized according to the organization's geographical location, and in some cases its main focus issue.

- Bloggers interested in helping that particular organization can express their interest in the comments section attached to that post.

- The organization will then decide which of the volunteers it wants to follow up with.

- All arrangements will be made directly between organizations and bloggers. Bloggercorps will not mediate.

- We are not raising money to put people on planes so in most cases the idea is to match organizations located in a particular place with bloggers living in the same place.

- If situations arise in which organizations cannot find volunteers living in their area, we may be able to point them to foundations or philanthropic organizations who might be in a position to help fund travel for blogger-volunteers. But we won't do your fundraising work for you.

- Bloggercorps is non-partisan.

Check it out.

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Orkut Media

Orkut has launched Orkut Media.

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"....That's why today we're pleased to introduce orkut media, a brand new feature that will present a fresh set of columns and photographs every week. They will cover the topics that rule our daily thoughts - sex, food, politics, art, race, you name it. What you see in orkut media can make you laugh or think. In the end, we hope it's something real to connect with in this virtual world"...more.

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Blogethics

This sounds like a very good idea.

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Blogethics.org Jason Calacanis has been on a one-man campaign to introduce ethical guidelines to blog publishing...Nick Denton.

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London internet woes


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From Andy Ihnatko's Blog
The plummeting value of the dollar has been a Waterloo on many fronts. Do I use the hotel's in-room broadband connection? At...um...eighteen pounds per day? Which works out to about thirty-six bucks? Gosh. Well, how about I just make a dialup connection, just to grab my mail? Let's check the little card tethered to the phone: local calls are billed at holy mother of God 59 pence. Per minute. Or, about a buck twenty per....read more it is very revealing.

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Saturday, November 20, 2004

Gencache

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Welcome Aboard!

Gencache is an online healthcare networking community that connects people during their healthcare adventures

Make Contacts who really Care.

What does Gencache mean?

Gencache (pronounced Gen-cash) means generating your own personal cache of healthcare adventures

Gencache is a unique way to store and share your healthcare adventures
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from the Gencache Blog

Gencache - here we are
Hello!

I'm part of the founding team for Gencache http://www.gencache.com/ , a company focused on creating social networking solutions for healthcare collaboration.

Started Gencache earlier this year after noticing that most of the health portals out there do not have too much of an interaction or collaboration between members going, other than replies to message boards.

Was spending lots and lots of time wading through healthcare messaging boards, ocean of messages and replies to a message, regarding any healthcare condition or symptoms.

One might ask: Why spend so much time on the internet? Why not go to a physician and get an official opinion?

The answer to that has always been a fascinating mystery to me.

I have always had this "delay" in getting myself to go for a doctor visit or an annual medical checkup.

Personally find it better to quickly do some research on the internet. Then I feel as though I am prepared to ask the right (or one may say perceived) questions when I go for a visit to the doctors office.

I totally agree though that the internet in no way replaces an official opinion from a healthcare professional or a physician.

In my healthcare related searches on the web, found it pretty frustrating that I could not get a time point comparison between some individuals having the same demographics as myself.

So thought and thought and.....

Thought of providing a web service that combined aspects of the social networking model (linking people) and adding to that a unique way to share and collaborate about their healthcare experiences.

So took a shot at coming up with the actual web offering and not just remain stuck with an idea.

Phew the product development was a pretty decent effort, especially since we literally bootstrapped all the way, getting consultants/friends in on a need basis.

Launched a preview version of Alpha on September 4, 2004. It was by invitation only for demos at that point.

We have now opened up Gencache for everyone as of last week.

We would love your feedback and hope you can try out the service. Please remember that we are still in Alpha, and every feedback that you provide us with makes our product better from a healthcare collaboration perspective.

Do check us out

http://www.gencache.com/

Cheers,
Jay

Ok!
Questions about
Whether we plan to be a company like WebMD ?
Whether we plan to be a company like Friendster or LinkedIn ?

I'll answer those soon in my next post.

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Friday, November 19, 2004

Christmas Preview Evening

Not to be missed!

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Hatchards 187 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LE 020 7439 9921

invite you to a special CHRISTMAS PREVIEW EVENING
on Thursday 2nd December 2004 6.00-8.00pm

Browse through our extensive range of Christmas books and enjoy our festive
entertainment.

There will be high-profile authors in all departments including:

Annabel Goldsmith, Gyles Brandreth,
Flora Fraser, Robert McCrum,
Michelle Paver, P.B. Kerr,
Michael Dobbs, Ken Follett, William Boyd, P.D. James,
Monica Ali, Tracey Chevalier,
Robert Lacey, Adam Zamoyski, Peter de la Billiere,
James Muirden

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Sting will be signing copies of his candid autobiography Broken Music at Waterstone's, 24-26 Birmingham High Street, B4 7SL on Tuesday the 23rd of November at 1pm.

Please note that due to time constraints Sting will only be signing copies of the promoted title and no other merchandise. We are unable to take reservations for this event. Free, no ticket required. Please ring 0121 633 4353 for more details.

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Outfoxed!

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What about Fishing and Shooting?

"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible". Oscar Wilde
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Hopefully for Monsieur Renard and friends this will end, not only in England but everywhere. (No nipping across to France!)
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Hunt ban forced through Commons - Hunting with dogs is to be banned from February after the House of Commons forced through legislation.via...BBC
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I sincerely hope that all the hounds will be well looked after when they cease to be useful for "Sport". Many hounds, Beagles live and die in misery.......
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Whilst looking on Goooogle for Beagle tests I found the image above and it's site!

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Places of Peace and Power by Martin Gray Reviewed by KJR for Bookzen

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Places of Peace and Power is a book about the ancient sacred sites around the world and why they are so interesting. Enjoyable and stimulating on many levels, this is a travel journal describing the process of researching, traveling to, and searching out a variety of the world's oldest, sacred religious sites; yet it is also an exploration of various forms of Eastern religion and meditation practice; as well as a guide to a variety of obscure historical notes and esoteric philosophies.

Martin Gray's overall thesis about why ancient sites are important today is based on a series of visions he had while on his journey to the sites known to the ancients for millennia. Gray believes that by using a kind of telepathic mental, spiritual, and cognitive power, humanity will figuratively join hearts and minds to create a force field that will empower us to make it through the social, political, and environmental crises that loom just over time's horizon. And humanity wll not be entirely alone in this effort. Aiding us to overcome our current low coping threshold will be the earth itself. Planetary energy fields, according to Gray's visions, emanating from the sacred places of power, will act as acupuncture points, to transform a critical mass of "seekers," igniting a chain reaction of enlightenment that will echo round the globe.

Gray's thoughts about his "unified being awareness and the age of global awakening" are not entirely new. Some of this is similar to the so-called 100th monkey theory of distance learning, which holds that as a critical mass of members of a species learn a new coping strategy, others in the species simultaneously learn it, too, possibly through a kind of shared telepathy. Gray's idea about humanity sharing a vision, his "unified being awareness," is also much like the planetary awakening foretold by Arthur C. Clarke in his novel "Childhood's End." It is even shares concepts with the events foretold in newspaperman and Internet guru Dan Gillmor's book, "We the Media," also reviewed on this site. According to Gillmor, as a critical mass of bloggers, chatters, and mobile photo phone users establish and maintain alternative communications channels that criss-cross the globe, we are shifting our perceptions of social and political events, as well as our perceptions about ourselves.

Humanity's coping with the ecological and political disasters confronting us is also the basis for much of classic science fiction, from William Gibson to Frank Herbert to H.G. Wells. Gray is almost like a latter-day Buckminster Fuller, whose message is that humanity must and will cope successfully, with mother earth's help. In a refreshing way, though Gray's thesis is spiritual, he is not offering an apocalyptic vision or simply saying "god will provide," nor is he turning his back on society's problems as has been the tendency of late. His message is similar to that of the Gaia movement. As Gray himself notes, even Carlos Casteneda, writing about mystical power in the don Juan books, discusses similar concepts about the energy our earth has to offer us. Perhaps the universality of Gray's concepts only goes to prove his point that the "unified being awareness" is already occurring.

Despite its currency in the culture, Gray's thesis will still be implausible, possibly laughable to many, as he himself admits. Nevertheless, the book is greatly enhanced by Gray's down-to-earth good sense and straight-forward narrative. Gray is credible and sounds authentic, like someone who is truly well-educated, with the common sense of a man who has been successful in business. He is an anthropologist, a professional-level photographer, and has travelled around the world several times (largely on a bicycle, no less!), meditating and listening to the messages the places of power have to offer.

According to Gray, you will know well enough by now, reading this review, whether this book is for you. If you have had a hankering about visiting a particular cathedral or mountain hot spring or runic dolman, you might want to read this book. If you have stood at the rim of the Haleakela volcano in Maui and felt the earth's energy surge through you, if you have looked out at the jungles from atop a pyramid in Mexico and felt the awesome vision of the architects who built them, or if you have heard unseen heavenly choirs while standing in the small stone stall where Saint Francis of Assisi sold cloth as a young man, things I myself have experienced, or even if you just have wondered how the people of the earth are going to surmount the gordian knot of troubles that face us, you will find in Martin Gray a kindred spirit.

Mr. Gray also gives slide shows about the places of power and the visions he received there. His book and more information, including photographs, are available online at sacredsites.com and nomadics.net

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Thursday, November 18, 2004

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The National Book Foundation
Non Fiction
WINNER:
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
(Henry Holt & Company, LLC)

Young People's Literature
WINNER:
Pete Hautman, Godless
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Poetry
WINNER:
Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
(Wesleyan University Press)

Fiction
WINNER:
Lily Tuck, The News from Paraguay
(HarperCollinsPublishers)


Read the New York Times' Review
South America Epic Wins the National Book Award By EDWARD WYATT

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Fortune 2004 Toy Wonders

Perfect stocking filler!

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2004 Toy Wonders: The Music Aficionado Peter Lewis has rounded up the season's newest and best digital delights. From the November 29 2004 issue of FORTUNE.

At last, a portable satellite radio that goes almost anywhere you do. The Delphi XM MyFi

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BioAgenda 2004 Summit December 5-7

This is a very important event, thank you for making it.

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BioAgenda 2004 Summit December 5-7
Registration Now Open!
Come hear 50 speakers - top scientists, thinkers, entrepreneurs, activists, financiers, artists, and more - present opinions, demonstrations, a play, exhibits and more about the most crucial issues and the most innovative discoveries in cutting-edge life sciences.

BioAgenda is gearing up for it's 2 1/2-day Summit for leaders and thinkers at the fabulous La Quinta Resort & Club in Palm Springs, California. Reserve your spot now and continue to check for updates about speakers, topics and offerings.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle Musee d'Orsay

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October 19, 2004 to January 16, 2005
New York and Modern Art.
Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle (1905-1930) Musee d'Orsay Temporary exhibition galleries

Publications
New York et l'art moderne, Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle, 1905-1930
collective work

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Late nights in London

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Funnily enough, when I came accross these super late night events at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it just happened that tonight there is a lecture by my former sister in law Nina Campbell, whose new book Nina Campbell's Decorating Notebook : Insider Secrets and Decorating Ideas for Your Home just came out.

Her daughter Rita Konig, is a columnist for British Vogue, contributor to Food & Wine and author. Her new book is Rita's Culinary Trickery: How to Put Dinner on the Table Even If You Can't Cook.

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Wednesdays

Every Wednesday the Museum is open from 10.00 to 22.00, providing an opportunity to view a gallery or an exhibition, attend a lecture or a gallery talk, listen to live music or just entertain friends in the candlelit café or, in the summer, in the Museum's garden.

Fridays
Friday Late, Held on the last Friday in every month (except December) the Victoria and Albert Museum is open from 10.00 to 22.00, with Friday Late events starting at 18.30.

These contemporary evenings offer live performances, cutting-edge fashion, music, debates, one-off displays, special guests, bar and food, guest DJs, selected gallery viewing and late-night exhibition opening.

Late View events can be found by visiting What's On.

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Artwalk NY

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Edward Ruscha, Hope, Olive, Spring, 1999, acrylic on canvas, 6 ft. x 5 ft. 4 in. (182.88 x 162.56 cm)

ARTWALK NY NOVEMBER 20 and 22, 2004
In November Coalition for the Homeless will again host ARTWALK NY. Now in its tenth year, our series of exciting events will once again include a Gala Awards Dinner, a morning interview between Event Chair, PETER JENNINGS, and this year's artist honoree, ED RUSCHA.

ARTWALK NY will also include curated walking tours of well-known and emerging artists' studios, as well as a party and silent auction. This year we also honor DONALD B. MARRON, Chairman of Lightyear Capital.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Own Art

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Bretagne beach by Serena Konig - oil 2002

Cash loans offered to art buyers
Interest-free loans are being offered for people who want to own works of contemporary art. Potential buyers will be able to walk into one of 250 galleries in the UK to apply for loans of up to £ 2,000 from The Arts Council's Own Art scheme.via...BBC

Own Art

Participating galleries

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Marc on Marqui

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November 15, 2004 Source: Vancouver Sun
Local firm launches cash-for-comment plan: Marqui has stunned the online
world by paying bloggers to mention its products Full Story

Marc Canter "OK - so the name of the company which will be paying bloggers to blog is Marqui.

They're helping to create a new category of services - which combines email campaigning, CMS, marketing communications and... a little bit of work flow. It's sort of like lite-weight CMS meets tools servers in the valley of the small enterprise.

I'm sure Doc will love it - as it's very DIY IT-like.

They call it "Communication Management Systems" and it actually works. It's actually pretty cool.

Anyway - so I was sitting there one day in August when they asked "how can we get into the blogosphere."

At that point I had heard that request like a 1,000 times. So I looked around the room and said "what the hell, let me give it a shot".

What was the most outrageous idea I could throw at them?
"Pay Bloggers to Blog"

and they went for it!

Program will start next week.

Oh yah - let me say this for the first time = "I'm getting paid to blog about Marqui."

And God Bless Jason Calacanis. May be sell banner ads till the cows come home. It's just that I'm so sick and tired of dam banner ads".

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MoMA Mia

New York is the place to be this week, to see and be seen. The opening of the new MoMA, it is also the anniversary when it was built in 1929.

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And now the greatest show of art - and artists - on earth as MoMA returns to Manhattan David Usborne reports on the year's most eagerly awaited art event.

It's being billed as the greatest gathering of artists ever staged, at what is arguably the greatest museum of modern art in the world - and every painter, sculptor, photographer or designer with work in its enormous collection is on the guest list.

For this week sees a series of spectacular parties heralding the grand reopening on Saturday of New York's Museum of Modern Art. After three years at its temporary space in the borough of Queens, MoMA is coming home to midtown Manhattan after a $700m (£380m) expansion programme that has spawned a huge and remarkable new wing designed by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi.

Those attending the first of the society soirees, on Tuesday, will be rubbing shoulders with probably the largest assortment of famous and almost-famous living artists ever to sip cocktails under one roof.via...The Independent

Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums
November 20, 2004–January 31, 2005

See the Forbes slideshow of Nine Museums

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Wednesday November 17 5:00-6:00 p.m.Yoshio Taniguchi, architect of the new Museum of Modern Art, and Terence Riley, MoMA's Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, will sign copies of the new MoMA publication Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums. This strikingly beautiful book collects the plans and images of nine of Taniguchi's museums in a single volume and features an essay by Mr. Riley. The signing takes place in the new MoMA Design and Book Shop

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The Bobs

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All the candidates for the Deutsche Welle's 2004 International Weblog Awards are ready to advance to the next stage – the final round.

The tension is almost palpable. The decision phase of "The Bobs - The Best Of The Blogs" has begun. We've now selected the 10 nominees in each category from the numerous site suggestions we've received. In the end, we will be bestowing two awards in each category. The Jury Prize will be selected by a team of international blog experts. But the User Prize will be selected by DW-WORLD's users.

You have from now until Dec 5 2004, to vote for your favorite blog site. You can support your favorites and, with a little luck, win one of our fabulous voter prizes.

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Monday, November 15, 2004

Chocolate lust

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Chocolate Pussy
Chocolate Pussy

Libido linked to love of chocolate From correspondents in London

WOMEN have compared chocolate to sex for decades. Now doctors have discovered a scientific link between the two.

Desirable ... female chocolate lovers have a higher sex drive.

According to Italian researchers, women who eat chocolate regularly had the highest levels of desire, arousal and satisfaction from sex. But for men, the findings of a British study were not so good.

Chocolate Girl by Deacon Blue one of my favorite songs.

On your next date why not meet for chocolate! But I urge you to buy chocolate that helps the small farmers just as for coffee be responsable. "Chocolate War in Ivory Coast - UN officials and foreigners being ..."

Chocolate Show NY
Chocolate Companies

Chocolate body paint
Cocolate body paint!

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Goose dream


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Esmerelda had just arrived at the pond, she always "thinks" before going for a swim. Eventually I had to lead her and Goosetave all the way around to the willow tree before they would get in.

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Sunday, November 14, 2004

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Jackie + Marilyn

Quite by chance there are two exhibitions dedicated to these leading ladies.

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I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Collection
November 12 2004–March 20 2005

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Jacqueline Kennedy: White House Years Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
November 13 2004 – May 8 2005

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Reviewed by KJR for Bookzen

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Mrs. Dalloway

"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf is a thoughtfully written, often amusing indictment of Western culture in general and of the inappropriate, suffocating, snobby stuffiness of upper class English culture in the twentieth century, the mid-1920's in particular. "Mrs. Dalloway" is told through a headlong rampage of free associations, non-sequitors and streams of consciousness from its half dozen characters and omniscient narrator, all woven together to tell what went on in the lives of these people on one day. It is the day, and evening, that Clarissa Dalloway plans the final preparations and gives her big party. In telling the story of this one day, of course, the narrator tells us more or less everything of any significance about each of the characters: their fears, failings, disappointments, illusions, and longings.

In the hindsight of fully eighty years since it was written, "Mrs. Dalloway" seems contemporary for its audio-visual cinematic quality. Whole parts of the book are mere sights and sounds, loosely tethered to the story, more as omens, as examples of the randomly ordered forces of nature at work in the world. In this regard, the novel is very modern and naturalistic, self-consciously so.

Insanity, respectability, rank and power, boredom, personal worth and the meaning of life are brought up repeatedly. With such a juxtaposition of disparate ideas, we are tempted to smile at the comic poetry of description; yet we are uneasy with the frantic pace of manic depression so clearly evident. There is too much being thrown up at us, and little of it is grounded. As it describes humanity's relentless pace toward obvious and meaningless oblivion, Mrs. Dalloway reminds me of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" or "Fall of Amerika." The momentum and cynicism of the free associative stream of consciousness is clearly very close to Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and to James Joyce's "Ulysses." There is here a craziness, however, zany, perfect, articulate and implacable, that is haunting, and unsustainable, like the madness of Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano."

In saying that the work itself is the deft creation of a human being on the verge of madness, I do not intend any criticism of the book or of Virginia Woolf. There is too great a tendency, given her unhappiness and eventual suicide, to declare that Virginia Woolf was unbalanced and that her imbalance shows through in her works. I would say rather that she clearly describes here a world that is mad. She proposes further, that those who try to square the contradictions and horrors of modern life, of loneliness, injustice, war, human frailty and chance, may seem completely mad, but only to those too stupid, insensible or caught up in the madness to notice what is really going on.

This last point forms the indictment of Western culture at the core of this book. It is an indictment of our failures, not necessarily with a suggestion of solutions. It is an indictment of our inability as educated, civilized human beings to be comfortable with our own needs and feelings. It is an indictment of our preference for denial and ignorance, of our preference for form over substance. She herself wrote in her diary about two years before the book's appearance, when it was still entitled "The Hours":

19 June 1923--I want to give life and death, sanity and insanity;
I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work at its most
intense. . . . Am I writing The Hours from deep emotion? Of course the
mad part tries me so much,

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RCA Secret 2004

This is a brilliant idea, it raises money for the RCA.

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RCA Secret 2004

Could you spot a Julian Opie from a Grayson Perry? Take the RCA Secret challenge and you could go home with a mini masterpiece.

Postcards are flooding in for the RCA Secret postcard exhibition and sale. Artworks have been donated by Turner Prize winner Grayson........and many more.

Last year more than 1,000 artists, designers and celebrities donated nearly 2,000 postcards in a variety of mediums, including paint, print, photography, watercolour, 3-d sculptures, collage, pen and pencil drawings.

Once you have bought your cards you can see who they are by and then take them home to enjoy.

Viewing Days: 19-25 November, 10am-6pm daily (23 November: late night opening until 8pm)
Sale Days: 26 November, 8am-8pm 27 November, 10am-6pm
Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Tube: South Kensington/High Street Kensington Buses: 9, 10, 52

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From inside the barn...

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Paris Photo 2004

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Paris Photo 2004 - November 11-14 2004 Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
The exhibitions shows photography by 19th, 20th and 21st-century photographers.

Founded in 1997, Paris Photo has earned a reputation as a must-see event, the world's premier fair of photography in all its variety.

Prix BMW-Paris Photo

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Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Salgado

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Sahel:The End of the Road


Salgado - reviewed by KJR for bookzen


Finally after twenty years, Sebastiao Salgado's images are being published, as described in an excellent article in the New York Times. Considering himself a photojournalist of the world's less fortunate, the Brazilian photographer uses the camera to bring information to others. He says of photography,that it is only a language: what is more important, is what is being discussed. Though Salgado, like Atget, Cartier Bresson, Ansel Adams, Lee Miller, Robert Frank, and Stieglitz, can say this since the language his Leica produces in his hands is highly articulate.


Reportedly, this book Sahel:The End of the Road, was not published earlier because agents and publishers who saw the images were reduced to tears, and felt that no one would want to buy such a book. Salgado, who has taken photos in Vietnam, India and Africa, responded that it is our moral obligation to understand the fate of the others! So much for spin, design over content, ignoring what is really going on, and Fox News. Perhaps, quite tellingly, the book is not being published in the heartland, but by that bastion of eccentricity (thank god!), The University of California Press, as a joint project between the departments of photography and journalism at Berkeley. Not surprisingly those bystanders to the War on Terror, France and Spain thought the book important enough to be published way back in the mid-eighties. (Is there a connection between that event and recent international headlines?)


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The Instituto Terra, a non-profit organization created by Sebastiao Salgado and Lelia Wanick Salgado, proposes a highly innovative approach to Brazil's deforestation crisis.

How to help
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Power: Auction at Bloomberg, Nov 17th 2004 - An auction of
prints by world-class photographers


Mighty names from the world of art and documentary photography have donated 60 power-inspired prints for a charity auction on Wednesday 17 November at the Bloomberg auditorium in the City.

For the second year running, PhotoVoice has invited world-class photographers to contribute to this prestige event whichwill raise money for its projects around the world.

Among the contributors are Sebastiao Salgado, Juergen Teller, Sarah Moon, and Philip Jones Griffiths. Particularly compelling are images of George W. Bush (Larry Downing/ Reuters), Kevin Spacey outside the Old Vic (Nobby Clark) and Yann Arthus Bertrand’s magnificent ariel shot of the Kenyan Savannah. Thomas Hoepker (Magnum Photos) has donated his iconic image of Muhammed Ali from 1966.


Wednesday 17th November 6.30-9pm £10 donation

Bloomberg L.P
39-45 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1PQ

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Firefox 1.0

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Firefox 1.0

Mozilla Launches Firefox 1.0

The wait is over. Get Firefox 1.0, the faster, better web browser. Now available in 14 languages, for Windows, MacOS X and Linux.

"I suggest dumping Microsoft's Internet Explorer"Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal.

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Arctic Heat

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New Scientific Consensus: Arctic Is Warming Rapidly
Much larger changes are projected, affecting global climate

Reykjavik—The Arctic is warming much more rapidly than previously known, at nearly twice the rate as the rest of the globe, and increasing greenhouse gases from human activities are projected to make it warmer still, according to an unprecedented four-year scientific study of the region conducted by an international team of 300 scientists.

Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

ACIA International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic - Reykjavik Iceland 9-12 November 2004
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Above you can see the projected summer sea ice extent

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Sunday, November 07, 2004

Mario Testino

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Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
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October 16 - November 21

Mario Testino has done many fashion shoots, also advertising for Versace, Burberry and Gucci. He has taken many
celebrity portraits, including Madonna, Kate Moss, Diana Princess of Wales, Cindy Crawford and many others, 109 of which are on show here.


Book - Mario Testino Portraits by Patrick Kinmonth 'The essence of Mario Testino's talent is his ability to make the world's most beautiful people look even more beautiful.' The Independent


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Thursday, November 04, 2004

Guardian First Book Awards 2004

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Readers groups help pick first book award for five novices. The five are a mix of genres, in keeping with the £10,000 award's choice from fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Guardian shortlist
- Ground Water by Matthew Hollis is a collection of poems
- Natasha by David Bezmozgis is a book of short stories
- Susanna Clarke is shortlisted for her novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
- Rory Stewart's non-fiction is represented by The Places in Between, and Mutants
- Armand Marie Leroi On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
via...the Guardian

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Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Bhutan - the book

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Bhutan Book
According to Guinness World Records, at over five by seven feet (and 133 pounds), this staggeringly beautiful photographic book is the largest published book in the world about one of the world's smallest countries. A limited edition of 500 copies will be produced. The $10,000 "price" (less than $100 per page) is a donation to Friendly Planet The worlds largest book can also be ordered on Amazon via...Kottke

The book was on display at poptech see more photos on Flickr

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Flickr Election Photos

Photos still coming in...
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Flickr Election Photos
See photos tagged with election, vote, ballot, and other terms related to the election, live as they are uploaded!

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