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CULTURAS IN VITRO
Hollywood lives and dies by Internet Movie Database

Remote mp3 jamming

Frustration: A New Demonstration Sport
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New Report Explains the Physics of Crumpled Paper

"Jerry Springer: the Opera" has acquired cult status

American Porn: [sumário: negócio de 4 a 10 mil milhões de dólares/ano; 30% em média de margem de lucro; sites Web geram entre 25 a 30% dos lucros de algumas empresas; em 2000 editaram-se mais de 11 mil filmes porno nos EUA] (Warning: sections of this site contains explicit descriptions of sexual acts)

Gaming poll uncovers nostalgia for lemming destruction

Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition ["friendly arguments" e sucesso...]
“Introduced at the 1982 Toy Fair, the game was created by Scott Abbott, sports editor with The Canadian Press, and Chris Haney, photo editor for the Montreal Gazette. They created the game after a friendly argument over who was the better game player. 20 years later and more than 70 million copies, the game is still enjoyed in 17 countries and 26 languages.

ECO-TERRORES
EU-Presidency: Anti-globalisation Activists are Terrorists
Ecoterrorists Under Fire “Animal-rights and environmental radicals are continuing with property-destroying direct actions. Now, Congress is coming after them.”
Peaceful protest defined as terrorism in a Utah bill
5 Arrested at March for Our Lives in Salt Lake City (Utah)

Technology for Presidents: Richard Muller teaches a course called "Physics for Future Presidents—what every world leader needs to know." Here he adapts his latest musings on why a U.S. attack on Iraq is inevitable.
U.S. lines up support for confrontation with Iraq
Powell Says U.S. Is Weighing Ways to Topple Hussein
EUA Próximos de Iniciativa Militar Contra o Iraque

What happened to all the $75 million of stuff people donated on September 11th [answer: nobody knows]

What Are They Hiding?
Kissinger phone calls to be released

Walker Lindh pleads not guilty
U.S. students drawn to ‘pure’ Islam
Officials say not all detainees at Camp X-ray are Muslim

CIA, FBI Developing Intelligence Supercomputer designed to improve their ability to both cull and share information
Cyberattack could result in military response

MIT professor alleges fraud within research in Missile Defense Research

How to Fake a Passport [com elogio às autoridades algarvias]

FBI Issues New Terror Warning [episódio VII]
"Não é o primeiro alerta deste tipo a ser lançado desde os ataques terroristas de 11 de Setembro, mas é sem dúvida o mais detalhado."

Will anonymous E-mail become a casualty of war?
From the internet with love
E-Mail Encryption for the Masses
Hivelogic Email Address Encoder & JavaScript Wrapper (v.1.4)

Enronomics 101
Multinational Monitor Enron Web Page
Bogus Bonuses? Right before the company filed for bankruptcy, Enron handed out about $55 million in executive bonuses... to keep people around with retention bonuses.
Enron - the DRAM angle
Where Did All the Reporters Go?

Is Global Crossing becoming Enron II?
Factors Behind Global Crossing's Failure
Big Payday for CEO as Firm Sinks - Global Crossing's John Legere gets millions, including a promotion severance.

VITAMEDIAS
Why Ownership Rules Matter

Beat the Press - Does the White House have a blacklist?

Digital Media: Can Distribution be Controlled?

Web Media's Positively Surprising News

Newspapers: Don't Blow It Again.
Futurist Paul Saffo message: “The newspaper industry failed miserably in its first go-round with the Internet.”
Most Web Users Find Online News Credible
Less Interest In Paid Web Sites

Chomsky wins case for Turkish publisher

É só facilidades!
Paris, 14 February 2002 - For immediate release: Colombian President to open Media in Danger conference
President of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana Arango, will participate in an international Media in Danger conference to be held next month in Colombia, the most dangerous country in the world for journalists.

Michael Kinsley, Slate editor, steps down

Já podiam ter dito qualquer coisinha mas mais vale tarde que nunca: No final da primeira semana de mandato, o Presidente da Câmara do Porto decretou um boicote informativo ao Público [discriminação do jornal em matéria noticiosa proveniente do Executivo municipal e recusa em prestar declarações aos jornalistas].

Perception of today's youngsters as media-savvy cynics could hardly be further than the truth

Instrument of US propaganda or champion of the free world: 80 years of the Reader's Digest

Acções da Impresa e Cofina disparam com possível fusão
Impresa desinveste em áreas não estratégicas
SIC Quase Duplica Capital Social
SIC aumenta capital para cumprir lei

150 contos por "press release": "Esta é a quantia que a Câmara de Santarém tem pago, desde Fevereiro de 2001, a uma empresa de comunicação social, A Terra Branca, cujos donos são os mesmos do semanário O Mirante, pela publicação, neste jornal, de uma página noticiosa sobre as actividades culturais da autarquia."

Canalhices? [simples expressão derivada do meu estilo de escrita...]
Rodrigues dos Santos e Rangel Encerram Contencioso
"Andámos 10 anos a viver com um homem que concentrava todo o poder de decisão e começámos a criar em nós próprios a ideia de que mais ninguém conseguia decidir": Paulo Camacho, "pivot" da SIC, sobre Emídio Rangel, na revista "TV 7 Dias"
O buraco negro da RTP (160 milhões de contos)

Bélgica Testa Conceito de Revista Semanal Gratuita (le 12 Février 2002): O número zero da revista "168h" já está disponível na Internet [além dos números semanais editados desde Setembro de 2001...]
Revista Gratuita Belga Atrasa Lançamento (le 14 Février 2002)
Communiqué 168h (Bruxelles, le 4 Février 2002): "... nous avons décidé de ne pas lancer le premier hebdomadaire d’info gratuit dans un marché qui aujourd’hui n’est pas prêt à l’accueillir."

Do great minds think alike or the problems of proving plagiarism in media law?

WeBloggies 2002

Para que servem os mensageiros? Responding to pressure from many European journalism and media associations, the European Commission has amended a directive that could have punished financial journalists for reporting misleading information even inadvertently.

CONTAMINANTES
Digital Dog Tags: Would You Wear One?
Donos de cães e gatos sem chip pagam multa
Comentário: TENHO 2 CÃES E 1 GATO. NUNCA, MAS NUNCA, permitirei meterem qualquer chip nos meus meninos. AINDA NÃO ESTAMOS NO PLANETA DOS MACACOS! Que os metam nos familiares, mas nos meus filhotes...NUNCA! E não pagarei qualquer multa!
A Florida couple and their teenage son are volunteering to become the first family to be implanted with identification microchips.

Is human evolution finally over?
Life in the year 3000

Watchdog might urge DNA theft be made an offence

School uses parents to whack bad students

Nearly Half Don't Store Guns Safely, Poll Finds

"Three Strikes" Ruled Unjust in Shoplifting Convictions

Noam Chomsky on the Drug-Terror Link

Personalized Medicine: A Pill of One's Own: Drug companies are starting to move beyond the one-size-fits-all approach. Soon to come: medications tailor made to suit your genome.

Measure pain as "the fifth vital sign" – monitoring and treating it as they do temperature, blood pressure, breathing, and pulse

Anatomy of a Lightning Ball

Anatomy of a kiss: Kissing hard on the lips

British Scientists Find Jurassic Age Dinosaur Vomit
One scientist: "We believe that this is the first time the existence of fossil vomit on a grand scale has been proven beyond reasonable doubt."

Museum Explains Why Snot Exists

Burlões "vigiam" euros [mas como é que ainda se mostra o código do Multibanco a alguém?!?]

Authors of guidelines have strong links with drugs industry

TECNO-HOUSE
Cybercrime Bill Ups the Ante: Some forms of illegal hacking would be punished by life imprisonment under a proposal that Congress will debate on Tuesday.

Check the fine print

Inmate's hacking through jail computers comes to an end

Broadband now tops EU's Internet agenda: “By promoting broadband, the European Union's executive is choosing to focus on a product already available to businesses and consumers and putting on the back burner its strategy for 3G mobile phones, whose commercial launch may not come until 2005.”
Liikanen: "Ladies and gentlemen, [...] first, we have to promote broadband Internet access." [A que preço?] "We have a responsibility to create the competitive conditions in which they can flourish... Thank you for your attention."

The Future of Cellphones Is Here. Sort Of.

Hacker costs CryptoLogic US$1.3M charge: Gamblers won every time

Net thieves find new way to nab cash
It's All Perfectly Illegal: "In return for the $5, recruits received "reports" providing instructions about how to start their own chain letter schemes and recruit tens of thousands of others via spam."

The New iMac... comes to life in these two short films created by our friends at Pixar Animation Studios.

Internet mosaic continues to grow: And it has become a reflection of the many geographies, cultures, economics and political conditions that exist in the offline world.

Spyware: How your personal data gets stolen online
The New Medicine Show, In a Series of Ones and Zeros
Big Brother is watching you read

Why Your Digital Data Could One Day Disappear

Did Gourmet Coffee Cause the Dot-Com Bust?

Comcast Admits To Spying on Customers: Reportedly has begun tracking the Web browsing habits of its 1 million customers, keeping records of every Web page they visit.
Comcast: No more tracking Web visits

Use your search skills to strange, peculiar or unexpected search results at Fortune 500 Web sites and win a $1,000 US savings bond and other great prizes!

Germany's first insult competition in an attempt to help develop a new product

Mixing the personal and professional in the office can land you in trouble with your employer's internet abuse policy

MSN Hijacking: Demonstration

New York Sues NAI for violating free speech laws with a clause in user agreement that prohibits users from criticizing the company's products

O que seria do mundo sem os analistas? “While most analysts had predicted flat year-on-year sales of computer and video games in 2001, especially after the September terrorist attacks, US sales of computer and video games grew 7.9 percent year-on-year to $6.35 billion”

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