Amy Play's Vivaldi

All four parts. (four meg mp3)

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Richard?

A leading museum has paid 240,000 pounds for a plate which shows a portrait of a man whose head is made up entirely of penises. It is thought to have been made by Italian Renaissance ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the 16th century. The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead). REUTERS/handout

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Self Portrait

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Order of Letters Doesn't Matter

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From Joi Ito Web

Sign the EFF Petition to Congress

To The United States Congress:

We are the customers and former customers of the member labels of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). We love music and will gladly pay a fair price for it, but we are outraged by the RIAA's tactics in suing ordinary Americans for filesharing.

We condemn the RIAA's choice to force the family of a 12 year-old girl to forfeit $2,000 - money that could have gone to feed, clothe and educate this honor student. We stand with the retirees, parents, children and others who have been caught in the RIAA's line of fire.

We respect reasonable copyright law, but we strongly oppose copyright enforcement that comes at the expense of privacy, due process and fair application of the law.

We urge you, as our representatives in Congress, to stop this madness.

We oppose the recording industry's decision to attack the public, bankrupt its customers and offer false amnesty to those who would impugn themselves. We call instead for a real amnesty: the development of a legal alternative that preserves file-sharing technology while ensuring that artists are fairly compensated.

In signing this petition, we formally request that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), as representatives of the public interest, be included in any upcoming hearings regarding the proper scope of copyright enforcement in the digital age.

We sincerely thank you for your time.

To sign click here

Personality Types

Type A — Competitive, driven, stressed, workaholic
Type B — Relaxed, patient, friendly
Type C — Reticent, unassertive, nice to a fault
Type D — Anxious, insecure, gloomy, depressed
Type E — High-achieving, perfectionist, everything to everybody
Type F — Prone to forwarding e-mail messages
Type H — Hostile, hateful
Type I — Egocentric
Type J — Orderly, neat
Type M — Melodramatic
Type O — Prone to making spelling mistakes
Type P — Persistent
Type R — Responsive
Type S — Doesn't get enough sleep
Type T — Thrill-seeking
Type V — Plain, simple (vanilla)
Type W — Wacko
Type X — Domineering, tyrannical
Type Z — Extremely laid back (the "opposite" of a Type A)

From WordSpy

BIG STINK OVER 'FART TAX'

Farmers in New Zealand have led a rag-tag procession of cows, dogs and tractors to protest against plans to tax their cattle's gas emissions. Around 1,000 farmers gathered in front of parliament in the capital Wellington chanting "We won't pay" what has been dubbed the "Flatulence Tax". The crowd cheered and whistled as a cow emblazoned with the words "Not Guilty" was led up the steps followed by a man driving a vintage tractor.

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Manufacturing - How Things are Made

From Stanford University, Neat Flash Presentations on how stuff is manufactured.