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span.fullpost {display:none;}.more {display: none;}span.fullpost+span.more {display: block; margin-bottom: 10px;} The film Infiltrados-Departed was very interesting to watch not only for the unusual plot, but also in terms of the plenty of information about the new technologies it offers. I think the name is really significative for the story as the main characters Billy Costigan and Collin Sulivan through use of mobile phones were "infiltrated" into the enemy's group. They were living in two spaces-real space and the technological space of mobiles, cameras, internet, which had a great influence over the whole film. By the help of mobile phones they were able to localise themselves and pass information from the police to mafia and vice versa whereby in the beginning neither one group knew about the other one. The film is characteristic for the director Martin Scorsese-for instance antiheroes, lifestyle of gangsters. I think he tried to point out the sociological aspect of using the new technologies and their impact on the society. The film offers spectators plenty of scenes that make him to thing about the new concepts of "nowadays modern life".

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Autodesk has launched a green building website with some interesting information. www. -centers.com/green/ They've also sponsored an in-depth PBS documentary about the subject featuring Brad Pitt as narrator. This is also available to be downloaded as audio or video/audio. www.design-e2.com/ cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Google (GOOG) is taking on an interesting role this morning. Today it is launching "Google News Archive Search," which will allow researchers and anyone doing searches on old news to go back some 200 years if the articles are available. Google is also doing with several partners you might not guess would want to cooperate, and with their blessing. http://news.google.com/archivesearch/ Time Warner (TWX) has its Time Magazine in the search, as does the New York Times (NYT) and the Washington Post (WPO). Factiva, a venture of Reuters (RTRSY) & Dow Jones (DJ) are in the offering as well. You can even search and purchase old articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Gaurdian. LexisNexis, a news search unit of Reed Elsevier NV ADS (ENL) in Holland, is also said to be part of the search. The interesting model here is that the "free"portion of this will essentially be an introduction or the first part of the article and you will have the option to buy the rest of each article. So instead of devaluing online content, this could in theory at least increase the value as back-dated articles could continue to generate revenues. The publishers (for now) are getting to keep the fees charged per article, and Google will supposedly not get advertising or traffic from the deal. Google won't even have the typical sponsored links that it normally has, although that is on a "for now" status. The service is grouping related articles together from a given time period and the search results are supposedly based entirely on relevance, with no precedence given to fee-based content over free content. The mix of fee versus free links will also vary depending on your query. This will also generate a quasi-timeline that allows search results in a chronology of news articles. This also takes each search click directly to the content owner's site. This is seemingly like a quasi-free LexisNexis. It could even be decribed as a Topix.net similar product, but this is for some 200 years. I did go in and pull up a few quick searches to get an interface and to get a quick opinion of the functionality. I typed in "Jack the Ripper" and was not really pleased with the chronology, but you do get an instant alternative to a normal Google search. A search for "1929 Crash" was a bit all over the place. Even typing in "Google IPO" shows a jumbled article result page. Nonetheless, this service will help for research and Google will undoubtedly make this better as time goes on. Unfortunately, Google is seemingly not getting much more than goodwill from paid content creators at this point. Ultimately the company will have to participate in revenues or at least in advertising, so it may end up being a net-good for the company. Until then this is just another net-neutral equivalent for the stock. Jon C. Ogg September 6, 2006 cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Cryptologic (CRYP) shows it is doing well even when its customer base and potential customer base faces potential arrest in the US. The US is still cracking down on online gambling site operators it feels are taking US citizen funds. The chairman of UK-based gambling firm Sportingbet is due to appear in court on Thursday after he was detained by US authorities. US authorities consider most forms of Internet gaming and gambling as illegal, assuming they haven't been approved and sanctioned by local, state, and federal governments. This arrest of 64-year old Peter Dicks follows the July detention of the then-head of BetOnSports David Carruthers on racketeering charges. For these guys to be hit with racketeering when they are acting legally inside their own borders and illegally in another country sets up an interesting legal precedent. It also makes you think what on God's earth would make ANY employee of an online gambling company ever set foot on US soil. The announcement of the suspension and halt of Sportingbet shares caused investors to sell with a "shoot first and ask questions later" mentality in other gambling stocks. In London trading today, shares in Partypoker fell by 11 per cent before recovering and shares in 888 Holdings slid over 15% per cent on this news. Sportingbet has recently announced it was in merger talks with a smaller rival called World gaming for some 56+ million Pounds. This is also what has hit Cryptologic (CRYP) today, with shares having been down as much as 4+% before recovering to -1.1% at $25.20. Oddly enough, CRYP has actually gone almost straight up since the first arrest of a foreign national running gaming sites. The shares were $20.00 and under around that time and now trade at $25.20. Cryptologic is located in Totonto, Canada and engages in developing and supplying online gaming software on the Internet casino and poker markets of the global online gaming industry. It also provides licensing, e-cash management, and customer support services for its Internet gaming software to third-party gaming operators. It even has Playboy as the new partner for that poker site. In early August Cryptologic offerred the following guidance: For Q3 2006, CryptoLogic forecasts revenue of $26.5-$27.0 million and earnings of $6.6-$7.0 million, or $0.48-$0.51 per diluted share. These estimates reflect the fact that Q3 is typically the softest quarter for Internet gaming, as players spend less time online during summer months. Also, licensees' poker room activity may decline between July 28 and August 10 when serious players are focused on the main event of the game's premier land-based tournament, the World Series of Poker. Jon C. Ogg September 7, 2006 cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Class is always interesting and I realize that I spend the whole day working on things for my class. My friends find it hard to believe that I am taking only one class this term because it seems I am always busy until it is time for work! So today we talked about Adobe photoshop, I am so interested in it because there are lots of photos that I would love to edit, especially my wedding photos!! I have never worn a Haloween costume because in Nigeria we do not have Haloween celebration, and last year I was just not in the mood for it. But if I should wear a haloween costume I would love to dress up as an Egyptian, The Queen of the Nile,(cleopatra) to be precise. It would be interesting to wear all that makeup, I really like the eye liner and beaded headpiece stuff, of course the whole dress up for cleopatra would be so so cool. Imagine me in a white satin gown with attached waist sash, gold apron drop, sequin collar and a long cape!! I can see all eyes on me in that outfit. cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Everyone loves gemstones right? Well, I had an opportunity last two weeks to visit a Pegmatite mine and I went home with lots of samples; an emerald, quartz crystals, tourmaline crystals, and lepidolite samples! I have them all displayed at home, but the best of them is a large quartz crytal which has a little tourmaline crystal attached to it and an edge of cleavlandite. It looks really beautiful, I got it for cheap too. I love jewelries so gemstones are interesting geologic samples for me! cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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Class today was really interesting, I learned alot about using Adobe illustrator; being in control of the pen tool and all the other pallet! I think the gradient, blend and arrange tools are really great! Hopefully with practise I can do lots of stuff with them. Well I am not a joke freak, I like to listen to jokes but I can't tell a good joke myself, I can tease but not tell a good joke so I think I would borrow one. A man was driving down the interstate at 22 miles per hour. He never went above or below. An officer noticed and followed him a while and then pulled him over. Before the officer could even get to the window the man was saying "I was not speeding, the speed limit is 22 miles per hour and that is exactly what I was doing, I was not speeding". The police officer said, "I didn't pull you over for speeding, I pulled you over for going to slow". The man said "But the sign says 22". The officer told him that he was on Interstate 22. As the man shook his head, the officer noticed that there were three women sitting inside the car. All of them were sitting with their mouths hanging open. Their faces were very white and their hair was completely messy. The police officer leaned toward the man and said "What's wrong with them?" The man said "Well, we just came off of Interstate 134". That is not my joke, I got it from http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blhumor.htm cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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This is quite a general question that can be applied to a number of contexts. It's just the nature of the beast because advertising is always looking for that new alternative media outlet to put its ad so you can see it, like it or not. So when does it get obnoxious? When do you say, "man sometimes advertising goes too far?" From having bald people put advertising to their heads, to pregnant women painting their bellies for a buck, it seems no part of the human anatomy, legally exhibited, is out of bounds. how many buildings have huge banners over its walls? how many ads do we see a day? How come every new medium is seen with eyes of wow that's interesting instead of sometimes questioning just to what extent advertising is going go to get your attention and earn a creative dollar? It's a hard question, because alternative media should logically be outbilling traditional media in the long run, but it makes you think, when is too much really too much . Some new mediums are good, but just like home land security and its bullshit policies, I sometimes don't want to be monitored, and I sometimes don't want to see an ad.... is that so wrong?

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Every damn time I receive a campaign request, I get the three headed beast: Print ads, radio and TV. No way to get out of it. No way to escape. It's either that or I die. Why? Why? WHY? Is it a commandment from God? Some kind of weird thing that Media Planners have on their brain? Em... is it some kind of sexual preference? Does that boring media planning make them horny? Oh man. The atrocity. Look, I don't have any problems with your everyday advertising. I just think that it deserves to be thought of in a more interesting way. For example: I had a media planner tell me that I had to write a radio campaign for shoes. Shoes. SHOES. Shoes that you see. That you put on. That you decide if you are going to buy them or not, depending how they look at your feet. What the fuck can I possibly do with this bit of information? Nothing. For me, it's a waste of time. There are hundred of products that don't necesarry apply to a specific media. But, with all the business deals between ad agencies and radio companies, we at the creative department have to write up some stupid thing we know, deep in our gut full of pizza that it's just wrong. Hey, if you have a decent amount of money for your ad, you can either save a bunch by switching to Geico (sorry, I had to do it) or ask for your creative department to present a different approach to your media planning. Why? Here's a hint, you clients out there (at least the ones that we haven't pissed off while ranting about art changes): we know what works for you. We know about sizes, about colors, we know how to get attention in a more different and witty (yuck!) way. Media planners sometimes just think about prices and numbers, clogging up every possible media for you to be seen... But I think that's just wrong. There can be a hundred ways to advertise and be heard, seen or talked about without using combo number 3. And, by the way, think about it. If your product just doesn't click in Tv, or in radio... Do something else, dammit! Don't waste your money just because! Well, if you want to waste it, go right ahead. I'm size 6 shoes. Go Jimmy Choo!!! cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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How many artists out there have a website? How many use a designer or web guru to build it for them? How many design, build and manage it themselves? How many would like to have more control over their site then they currently have? As an artist myself I am curious as to what others do. There are a host of products and online services out there that will help you build a website. There are some that are designed for artists and photographers looking to display a portfolio of their work. Interestingly enough 99.9% of these are template driven. This means that someone out there has designed a template and you plug your work into that design layout. Your "customization" options are limited. Any other artist can buy/use this template. I've never fully understood the appeal of having the site that showcases my creative abilities look exactly like an untold number of other artists sites. I'm a medical illustrator and am an avid Photoshop, and Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Pagemaker, etc user. I like doing my illustration and design work. I have no trouble "designing" a look that I like and "mocking up" a website using software like this. I assume most artists would say this. Now getting it from a mock-up to a fully functional website is another ball game. Outside of being an artist, I also run a company called Indexed Visuals (http://www.indexedvisuals.com/). The company helps market and advertise artists and their stock images on the web. Most of our listed artists need/have a website. Many of them use template services and I always cringe when I click on multiple artists and see the same template being used. 18 months ago I gave our development team what everyone thought was going to be an easy task: Build an online system where artists can design & build a customizable website, full of all the things that artists need, (like an interactive portfolio, stock search engine, request form, etc.) and create the system in a way artists can edit it, customize it, and build it without having to touch any code. Basically, let them work the same way the software they are accustomed to using works. Well, 18 months, 16 days and 2,342 cups of coffee later we have what we believe is the first and only online artist portfolio website creator service of it's kind. (http://www.ivwebsites.com) IVWebsites.com is the home of this new website creator service. Artists can create not only a professional portfolio website but they can create with ease a truely custom website without touching a single line of code. Cick on over and check out the demo if you don't mind. I'd love to get feedback. (Yes and people signing up but feedback would be good too) Make sure you read the directions first. It's easy to use but you need a few pointers to get started. Thanks. W. cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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