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February 9, 2010

Breaking iTampon News - NYT, polar bears and penguins

Message to Arthur Shlujjburger (Arthur Sulzberger of The New York Times) (Polar Bears and Penguins)

http://thisweekinstartups.com/2010/02/message-to-arthur-shlujjburger-sulzberger-of-nyt-com/ (these guys are hilarious)

and check out Posterous founder Garry Tan on episode 14

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Filed under // Apple books New York Times newspapers publishing

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February 9, 2010

What remains of Tibet?

Perhaps we should ask China?

Dear Leighton,

Tibetans will mark Losar - the Tibetan New Year - on February
14th, 2010. In the Tibetan lunar calendar, this day marks the
beginning of the Iron Tiger Year 2137, a time for change, hope
and renewal. On this day, we celebrate our history, our culture,
our religion, and our future - because our history is great, our
culture beautiful, our religion profound, and - in spite of our
present suffering - our future is bright.

Since 2008, following the Tibetan uprising in all three
historical provinces of Tibet, we witnessed an escalation in the
imprisonment, torture and death of our fellow countrymen and
women under Chinese rule. Because of this, last year, Tibetans
united around the world and did not celebrate Losar.

This year, many Tibetans are planning to observe Losar for one
reason only: because we are Tibetan. We will speak Tibetan
language, wear Tibetan dress, and observe Tibetan customs, thus
strengthening our identity and our spirit. Through this
observance we will find new courage and opportunities to advance
our struggle. In observing Losar with family and friends,
Tibetans will reach for happiness, which, as much as suffering,
is an integral part of a freedom movement. Through all these
years of occupation one thing is clear: the oppressor envies the
spirit of the Tibetan people, which cannot be crushed by
violence. This year Tibetans worldwide will nourish this spirit
with the observance of Losar.

While observing this important cultural tradition, we ask
Tibetans and supporters to light butter lamps and candles on
their altars and in their windows on February 14th to honor the
courage of the Tibetan people in Tibet who continue to resist
the Chinese government's illegal occupation of their homeland.

Tibet will be free.

With hope,

Tenzin Dorjee,
Executive Director, Students for a Free Tibet

&

Lhadon Tethong
Director, Tibet Action Institute

http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/

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February 8, 2010

Germany's new Nena? Luxuslärm - 1000 km bis zum Meer

Nice to start the week with some new music, and with a cold wind blowing outside, in Amsterdam the sea may not be a thousand kilometers away , but the sunny weather sure is. Next winter, Algarve here I come! Had a nice weekend in spite of the weather though. An old friend came to visit, we cooked plenty of pasta, drank plenty of coffee and strong Belgian beer (Westmalle Tripel), and it being Amsterdam, we legalized it to our heart's content. I have posted another Luxuslärm track to Musicous, our new music Posterous. Check out the band's website: http://www.luxuslaerm.de/de/.

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February 8, 2010

Saints win Superbowl - New Orleans back on top

Louis Armstrong would be proud:

The Saints won 31-17.

The after party:

Thses ads got banned:

(Legalize it!)

(Go Daddy)

(Dorritos)

To celebrate Food For Laughter from the Deep South baked some vanilla cream pie.

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February 3, 2010

Fixing a wet smartphone with Coolsmartphone

This happened to me once. At the time I did not know about the rice trick, so thanks, guys at:
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/

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February 3, 2010

Ancient Egyptian music - Hymn to the Seven Hathor

In collaboration with Syra Bonet, musicologist Rafael Perez Arroyo has just released the first fruit of many years of research into the music of Ancient Egypt.
The result is this spectacular entitled Music in the Age of Pyramids, performed by Arroyo's Hathor Ensemble. Realization of the music by Arroyo was based on study of the metric structure of hymns which survive in writing, discussion of music theory from heiroglyphics, sonic descriptions by ancient authors, and iconography. Arroyo has also made an effort at decoding a partial chironomy (hand gestures, the same source claimed for Biblical music), and discovered three basic modes for Ancient Egyptian music.

Ancient Egypt - Music In The Age Of The Pyramids

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In The Lost Symbologist, Trylyan returns from ancient Egypt, only to find out that things are not quite what they seem:

http://lostsymbologist.posterous.com/back-to-the-starbucks-washington-monument-tim

Hathor, goddess of love, motherhood and music:

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February 3, 2010

iTampon Wars hot up as Google reveals GPad concept

The Chromium Projects have posted a concept for a Chrome OS tablet.

Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
Zooming UI for multiple tabs
Tabs presented along the side of the screen
Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher

http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-factors/tablet

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February 2, 2010

Breaking news - Charlie Brooker breaks the news for dummies

Now I feel I must add the obligitory copyright notices in the hope that the BBC don't make me take it down (pleeeease BBC, let it stay, Mr Brooker would want it to!)

Copyright BBC MMX

And if you like this, buy some of Charlie Brooker's DVDs and books!

Charlie Brooker - The Hell of It All

Or you could buy a nice BBC cookbook and impress your friends with your cooking skills!

With thanx to: http://www.youtube.com/user/PrivateCustard

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Filed under // breaking news humor junk news news

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February 1, 2010

How to build a starship over the weekend

Well it seemed like a good idea at the time to get our time travel archetypes a brand new starship called the Stella Maris, sponsored by a well known Belgian brewery (if only!)

The only problem was where do you get a starship? We could have called NASA, but I'm not sure they have got one. So I googled "second hand starship market" and Google came up with the usual suspects, http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Construct_a_Federation_Starship. Now I love the Uncyclopedia, but will it fly the crew to Sirius and back?

So I did some reading on the weekend:

and watched the end of a sad movie:

which BTW is not a plot spoiler!

The Uncyclopedia also had this to say, (updated by me)

"It is highly recommended you DO NOT use a Macintosh operating system. There are 47,049,342 known problems in OS X, all known by many alien species. Also, you are likely to be made fun of for the 'i' the OS will put in front of your ships name, in all captain logs, official documents, etc. This is even more true if you install the iTampon, which may not use OSX, but cannot beam you up either. Plus, no one wants a giant Apple logo on the back of your starship - a waste of power and the Klingons believe this enough reason to tractor your ship in and give you the finger (10 or more Klingons doing so is enough to kill you while feeling like you're getting an anal probe via harpoon). We recommend you use the new Windows Vista: Starship Edition computer system, or, if you still don't have a job, Windows Vista: Poorman's Edition will suffice; Linux will not, no matter what the Penguin says. We REALLY REALLY want your spaceship to crash... oh, shouldn't I have said that? Make sure to include a watchdog program too, your crew is most likely going to search for porn most of the time during their free time, especially in the holodeck. If you're guilty of this, ignore everything I just said and quench your lewd urges."

So bearing all that in mind, I thought it would simply be easier if Trylyan just borrowed a flying saucer from some nice aliens she met in ancient Egypt.

http://musicous.tumblr.com/post/365292773/marvin-we-love-you

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January 31, 2010

Musicus or Musicous?

Looking for a name for our new music page, I thought keep it simple, and took the word musicus from the Concentus Musicus Wien. Not ToysRUS, but Musicus. All was well until I checked out Tumblr, only to find that the name had already been taken. Dammit, I thought. Typical. Rushing in without doing your homework. So now I have to decide whether to reboot Musicus on Posterous as, well, Musicous? To complicate matters further both names are already taken on Twitter. (Bites off leg!) I could go with Musicouscous. Hmmm...

...in the meantime please feel free to check out Musicous on CousCousdotCom (only kiddin, guys!)

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