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disinfo
Disinfo.com

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 01:09 pm

The World's Strangest Gym

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Worlds-Strangest-Gym

Nineteen-century Swedish physician Gustav Zander built what could be described as the first "gym" in the sense that the word is used today. Rejecting arguments that blood-letting, purging, or other ‘cures' contributed to good health, Zander promoted exercise and created a series of bizarre, history-defining workout machines.

disinfo
Disinfo.com

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 01:01 pm

BY THE NUMBERS: FACEBOOK'S WEIRD STALKER FEATURE

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=BY-NUMBERS-FACEBOOKS-WEIRD-STALKER-FEATURE-1

If you're anything like us, yesterday's news that Facebook had introduced a supposed "Stalker Feature" sent waves of panic down your stalker-y spine. After all, the hallmark of Facebook has always been its anonymity-news that exes were now aware that their profiles were obsessively checked (by you!) each morning before work had users everywhere saying in earnest: "We are never searching for anyone on this thing again."

disinfo
Disinfo.com

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 12:11 pm

Why You Might Soon Think You're Hearing Things

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-You-Might-Soon-Think-Youre-Hearing-Things-1

First Big Brother was watching.Now Little Brother (open market) might just whisper in your ear.How will decent hard-working adbusters fight against this?Reported in the Ottawa Citizen:"A technology that beams sound directly into people's ears has advertisers salivating, but as Vito Pilieci writes, critics fear yet another invasion of privacy. After more than a decade of development, technology that directs a beam of sound straight into a person's eardrums is ready for primetime."The new technology has attracted some critics who worry that it gives advertisers far too much power to invade a consumer's privacy when promoting their products where shoppers congregate. Hypersonic sound technology aims to eventually make blaring loudspeakers and broadcast marketing messages obsolete in stores and malls."In December, the A&E Television Network used the technology on a busy downtown Manhattan street to promote its show, Paranormal State. The new program is about ghost hunters who investigate haunted locations, and people walking by an advertisement heard voices whispering, Who's there? What's that? It's not your imagination."

disinfo
Disinfo.com

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 12:09 pm

The Hunt for 'The Splasher'

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Hunt--Splasher

Shepard Fairey, Soho, splashed in January. Photomontage by Matthew Huber.REVOLUTIONARY CREATIVITY DOES NOT SHOCK OR ENTERTAIN THE BOURGEOISIE, IT DESTROYS THEM. OUR STRUGGLE CANNOT BE HUNG ON WALLS. DESTROY THE MUSEUMS, IN THE STREETS AND EVERYWHERE.The manifesto ended with a warning: THE REMOVAL OF THIS DOCUMENT COULD RESULT IN INJURY, AS WE HAVE MIXED THE WHEATPASTE WITH TINY SHARDS OF GLASS.So began my tortuous descent into the curious case of the Splasher -a scandal that had gripped the city's underground art scene for months.

gpod
'GPOD'

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 07:12 pm

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82

http://greylodge.org/gpc/?p=1423

Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died on Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82.

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damnportlanders

Portlandiaphile

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 10:52 am

lost black kitten

i live on 36th between belmont and stark. i adopted a kitten yesterday. she's black, very slinky, 6.5 pounds, 11 years old and front-declawed, so she's supposed to stay inside (and i was keeping her in the bedroom for the first couple days). my boyfriend accidentally left the bedroom door cracked when he left for work, and she's gone. the basement, which she had access to, has several gaps in the foundation to the outside. i've looked all over the house for her and my friend and i went through the basement with a flashlight. if you have any information, or see her, please hold on to her and call me at 503.995.9187. i'm panicked and heartbroken. had her from the ohs just since last evening. she's not wearing a collar.

skyehopper:
damnportlanders

Portlandiaphile

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 10:54 am

interesting stuffs.

Check this out, its like Google Earth, but for the Universe...and very pretty I might add.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

ravenswing90:
damnportlanders

Portlandiaphile

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 10:44 am

Troops = golf

The president was asked in an interview yesterday how he personally acknowledges the lives lost and the many sacrifices that our soldiers and their families have given in the Iraq War.

See what his answer, here. Seth says it better than I could.

Current Mood: disgusted

metafilter
MetaFilter

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 10:29 am

Cassette from My Ex

http://www.metafilter.com/71650/Cassette-from-My-Ex

Cassette from My Ex is a project to "share the stories and the soundtrack to your earliest loves." Also features a great entry from Claudia Gonson of Magnetic Fields.

metafilter
MetaFilter

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 09:57 am

1024 Cheerleaders

http://www.metafilter.com/71649/1024-Cheerleaders

1024 Cheerleaders! See what your favorite 32*32 icon would look like at a football game.

meisterdorf:
damnportlanders

Portlandiaphile

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 10:20 am

Whos Cathy

http://www.cathysbook.com/?gclid=CNuz0IC_ppMCFSoZagod4CUtnw

disinfo
Disinfo.com

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 12:11 pm

Why you might soon think you're hearing things

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Why-you-might-soon-think-youre-hearing-things

First Big Brother was watching.
Now Little Brother (open market) might just whisper in your ear.
How will decent hard-working adbusters fight against this?

disinfo
Disinfo.com

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 12:09 pm

The Splasher

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Splasher

REVOLUTIONARY CREATIVITY DOES NOT SHOCK OR ENTERTAIN THE BOURGEOISIE, IT DESTROYS THEM. OUR STRUGGLE CANNOT BE HUNG ON WALLS. DESTROY THE MUSEUMS, IN THE STREETS AND EVERYWHERE.

The manifesto ended with a warning: THE REMOVAL OF THIS DOCUMENT COULD RESULT IN INJURY, AS WE HAVE MIXED THE WHEATPASTE WITH TINY SHARDS OF GLASS.

So began my tortuous descent into the curious case of the Splasher-a scandal that had gripped the city's underground art scene for months.

disinfo
Disinfo.com

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 11:59 am

Melting Corpses

http://www.disinfo.com/content/story.php?title=Melting-Corpses

With both burials and crememation harming the environment, meet the future of disposing of dead bodies: dissolving them with lye. Called alkaline hydrolysis, the process is already used to get rid of animal carcasses. Someday soon we'll all be melted down to a brown goo and flushed down the drain after we die, but for now it's still illegal to perform lye-dissolving on human bodies because of politicians and religious leaders who say its "undignified."

jefhinman:
damnportlanders
Portlandiaphile

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 09:57 am

Please Help! Legal Questions

Hi, guys. I'm new here and I need some information. I've been accused of a greatly serious crime. Though I spoke with a lawyer yesterday, I used my $35 initial consultation fee and neglected to ask a couple of questions. There's no way I have the kind of money needed to retain a lawyer. Maybe you guys can be kind enough to help with a couple questions.

The lawyer I spoke with asked for a retainer of $10,000. What is a retainer, exactly? He said his fee on such matters is $200 an hour. Is that over and above the $10,000 retainership?

Also, what I've been accused of, I was accused of back in the early 70s, as a minor. It never went to trial and the police officers found no basis for the accusation. I had my records expunged when I was 18 or 21. How far back does the police files go, and are potentially felony criminal offences expunged?

I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.

Current Mood:

scared

prwatch
Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 12:35 pm

Philip Morris in the Driver's Seat on FDA Tobacco Bill

http://www.prwatch.org/node/7328

title= The proposed Food and Drug Administration tobacco bill currently under consideration would ban artificial flavors like cinnamon and cherry from cigarettes, but strangely gives special protection to menthol. Public health advocates wonder why menthol has been exempted from the bill, especially when it masks the harsh taste of cigarettes for beginners. A 2006 study also showed that menthol makes it harder for addicted smokers to quit. Menthol brands are also disproportionately popular among African Americans; seventy percent of blacks smoke menthols, compared to only 30 percent of whites. While African Americans smoke less than whites overall, they suffer higher rates of cancer and other tobacco-induced diseases. Despite all this, legislators believe that menthol cannot be eliminated as a cigarette flavoring under the bill because menthol is crucial to the $70 billion cigarette market. It is of particular importance to Philip Morris, which has been planning for, and driving FDA regulation of cigarettes since 1999. The watered-down terms resulted from legislators' belief that the bill won't pass without PM's buy-in.

prwatch
Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch

	Wed, May. 14th, 2008 12:15 pm

Big Push for Big Oil

http://www.prwatch.org/node/7323

Faced with a national outcry over the high price of gasoline and soaring profits for energy companies, the American Petroleum Institute has launched a multimillion-dollar PR and advertising campaign to cinvince the public that "rising energy prices are not the producers' fault and that government efforts to punish the industry, especially with higher taxes, would only make pricing problems worse," reports Jeffrey H. Birnbaum. Consumer groups such as the Consumer Federation of America are complaining