5ives: Merlin’s Lists of Five Things

5ives: Merlin’s Lists of Five Things Wonderful blog! Five places that make me nervous 1. Hooters 2. “Just stopping by this one guy’s house for a minute” 3. Bars where women sell shots in test tubes 4. Rooms containing teenagers 5. Anyplace people are praying

Yahoo! News – Infinity Plans to Broadcast to Mobile Phones

Yahoo! News – Infinity Plans to Broadcast to Mobile Phones: » «It adds another dimension to FM radio,» said David Goodman, Infinity president, marketing. «I love the idea of everyone walking around with a portable radio that happens to make phone calls and show great pictures.» Consumers receive the standard FM radio broadcast on their… Fortsett å lese Yahoo! News – Infinity Plans to Broadcast to Mobile Phones

Hilton ‘House’ waxing high-tech

Hilton ‘House’ waxing high-tech: «Paris Hilton has had some ill-fated encounters with technology as evidenced by her T-Mobile Sidekick and digital video incidents, but she’s still keen to try the latest thing. The multimedia starlet has agreed to podcast about her social and press events in the buildup to the May 6 release of her… Fortsett å lese Hilton ‘House’ waxing high-tech

Adobe to acquire Macromedia

GODAMMIT! Macromedia – Press Room : ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA ADOBE TO ACQUIRE MACROMEDIA Combined Company to Deliver Industry-Defining Technology Platform for Rich, Interactive Content SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 18, 2005 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately… Fortsett å lese Adobe to acquire Macromedia

New Scientist Breaking News – Sports events leave a giant ‘ecological footprint’

New Scientist Breaking News – Sports events leave a giant ‘ecological footprint’: «LARGE sporting events have an ‘ecological footprint’ thousands of times the size of the pitches they are played on. That’s according to researchers who have calculated a sporting event’s environmental impact for the first time. Andrea Collins of Cardiff University in the UK… Fortsett å lese New Scientist Breaking News – Sports events leave a giant ‘ecological footprint’

Participatory Culture Foundation

Participatory Culture Foundation: «Internet TV is Open and Independent APRIL 13, 2005: Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library. The project… Fortsett å lese Participatory Culture Foundation

Handpainted barber shop signs from west Africa

Indigo Arts presents a collection of painted signboards from barber shops and hair-dressers in Ghana, Mali, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo . Brightly painted in commercial housepaints on plywood or masonite, these signs are a colorful, humorous, and sometimes outrageous contemporary African folk art. Indigo Arts Gallery | African Barber Signs