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"The verdict, (available in Icelandic here) seems to hinge on the fact that under Icelandic laws, searching for files, or providing accessibility to them, is legal, as long as the files provided by the service are not themselves copyrighted. Torrent files, are not themselves copyrighted, but are instead metadata – data about data- describing copyrighted material, as indeed are reviews"
"I think we're in a time of technology change, and a change in the business model. We have to go back to first steps. Someone has to write, record, and perform a song. On the other end we have to have someone who wants to listen to it, and wants to pay for it in some way or another. Everyone else in that process is in some way dispensable. The model of the industry was built to help take the music and get it to the public has become very cluttered with people who take a lot of that money. Price has something to do with demand. People pay according to what seems is fair. If you go into a baker and you know it's a human being running the bakery, you're very unlikely to steal. If you go into a McDonalds or 7-11, you have much less regret against stealing. If you go to Wal-Mart, you know that the people who made the clothing are making very little money. Now people know the musicians are not getting very much of the money. I think we should be working out how we could deal with that problem."din Wikipedia



“Nota este pentru reflectarea cunostintelor, nu pentru a-l sanctiona ca nu a fost cuminte în timpul orei sau a mestecat guma sau a spart geamul (…) Nota la purtare, în opinia mea de liberala, este o modalitate de constrângere care nu este logica. Pentru ce trebuie sa-i dau eu nota pentru comportament. Eu trebuie sa am grija ca, daca îi dau lui nota pe comportament, îmi dau si mie nota, ca si profesor, pe comportament. Daca eu am în clasa elev cu nota scazuta la purtare, înseamna ca eu ca si diriginte am dat chix (..) Atunci nota lui la purtare este de fapt nota mea ca si diriginte”si continua
“Nu este normal sa existe sedinte cu parintii. Pentru ca parintele nu se duce de multe ori la sedintele cu parintii de frica sa nu fie apostrofat de doamna diriginta si sa-i fie jena pentru ce a facut copilul. În mod normal, dirigintele trebuie sa aiba alocate în fiecare saptamâna câte 10 minute pentru fiecare parinte cu care sa stea la discutii în particular despre situatia copilului si comportamentul scolar”sursa: Gardianu
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Chitaristul formatiei Rolling Stones, Keith Richard va poza pentru noua campanie Louis Vuitton. Brrr! Oare ce motiv intunecat i-a convins pe idolii romancelor cu genti de vinilin, sa il puna pe Keith alaturi de Andre Agassi, Mihai Gorbaciov, Stefi Graff sau Deneuve? Fotografiile vor fi realizate de Annie Leibovitz, iar prin aceasta campanie, realizata de catre Ogilvy & Mathers, cei de la Louis Vuitton spera sa reinventeze roata, mai precis:via AdAge"... restates travel as the fundamental and defining value of Louis Vuitton, interpreting it as a personal journey.
sursa foto: Wikipedia/Andy Armstrong
... si acolo, in spate?!Everybody's Free
(to wear sunscreen)
Mary Schmich
Chicago Tribune
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97... wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.
The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are NOT as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
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Jeff Buckley - Coldplay wish they could make sensitive music
Radiohead - Coldplay wish they could be innovative
Muse - Coldplay wish they could be a post-Britpop band with ENERGY!
Tori Amos - Coldplay wish they could play the piano nearly as well

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De mult mi-am pierdut speranta sa mai aud vreo stire care sa ma lase cu creierii tandari. Dar iata ca de ce ti-e teama, de aia nu scapi! Biserica ortodoxa romana a dat liber la preoti pentru alegerile locale. Mai bine zis, Sfantul Duh se coboara printre noi si îşi incepe campania electorala. Cel mai de bun simt* argument impotriva unei asemenea decizii, ar fi faptul ca Romania este departe de a fi cea mai spirituala dintre tari. Sau ca preocuparile spirituale ne-ar caracteriza prea mult, incat sa dam afara de prea multa traire in sfere celeste. Sa ma explic putin. In cazul in care, viata publica romaneasca ar fi intesata de rugaciuni, binele pentru aproapele tau, smerenie, sfintenie si asa mai departe, nu as vedea nici o problema. Insa, atât timp cat in Romania toate trec, mai devreme sau mai tarziu, prin burta cetateanului, sau prin portofelele politicienilor, nu mi se pare o idee prea stralucita.
Lasand gluma la o parte, am vazut ieri cativa preoti care incercau sa îşi justifice prezenta in consiliile locale. Nu conteneau sa explice de ce ar fi ei buni, cat de multa experienta au de impartasit, ca nu reuseam sa ma dumiresc de ce nu s-a facut pasul asta mai devreme. Cate sacrificii ar fi fost evitate, de cata truda ne-ar fi scutit pe noi mirenii. Nu mai trebuia sa stam sa ne batem capul cu toate probleme comunitatii, daca am fi recunoscut mai devreme ce specialisti avem la capul nostru.
Nu am sa ma apuc sa enumar pacatele Bisericii Ortodoxe Romane, nici macar pe cele de anul trecut. Insa am o intrebare pentru clerul ortodox. Ce anume va indreptateste sa va ganditi numai, la o astfel de posibilitate? Este adevarat ca nici politicienii nostrii de toate zilele nu sunt straluciti, dar in toti anii care au trecut, din 1989 si pana acum, nu ati reusit decât sa demonstrati cat de opaci sunteti, cat de incapatanati, complet surzi la dialog, incapabili de a incerca macar sa intelegeti ce se intampla in lume, revansarzi si plini de trufie. Reprezentati o organizatie cu o ierarhie draconica, din care nimeni nu cuteaza sa devieze de la linia partidului, in care este pedepsita orice tentativa de schimbare sau reformare. Daca stau si ma gandesc doar la cazul dosarelor preotilor de la securitate, nici macar cu trupele DIAS nu reusea cineva sa va faca sa recunoasteti cat de mult v-ati scaldat in mocirla compromisului moral, construit de baietii cu ochi albastrii. Doar din cauza rigiditatii de care dati dovada cu fiecare ocazie care vi se ofera si lipsei voastre de onestitate, este imposibil de evaluat raul pe care l-a facut societatii romanesti, colaborationismul vostru. Cati dintre inaltii preoti au avut demnitatea de a recunoaste ca au gresit? Nu am vazut pe nici unul dintre prelati, nici macar pe cei inalti, darmite pe cei mai marunti sa iasa la televizor sau aiurea, pentru a-si cere scuze. Cum poate cineva sa creada ca veti fi capabili in a sustine un dialog cu cei din jurul vostru, cand intre voi si restul societatii nu este loc de greseala?
Este la fel de adevarat ca nu sunt mandru nici de reprezentantii mei politici, de trepadusii de cabinet, de analfabetii care populeaza consiliile locale, unde daca s-ar putea, ar pune si o firma luminoasa cu S.R.L si s-ar apuca sa vanda si clantele de la usi. Dar pana acum, slava domnului, nici unul dintre ei nu a incercat sa intre cu bocancii in politica, in temeiul prestigiului moral. Nici unul dintre ei nu a incercat sa se ascunda in spatele curateniei spirituale.
Din tentativa asta de apropiere de lumea politicii, nu reusesc decât sa vad o lacomie si o atitudine de cersetor, o incercare de a pune mana pe cat mai mult din banul public. Cand veti fi alesi, puteti sa spuneţi in sedintele consiliilor din tara, ca s-a intalnit HOT cu HOT.
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To build Make3D's algorithm, the Stanford researchers used a laser scanner to estimate the distance of every pixel or point in a two-dimensional image. That 3-D information was coupled with the image and reviewed by the algorithm so that it could learn to correlate visual properties in the image with depth values. For example, it will learn that a large blue pad is probably part of the sky and farther away, says Saxena. There are thousands of such visual properties that humans unconsciously use to determine depth. The Make3D algorithm learns these kinds of rules and processes images accordingly, he says.


O echipã de voluntari va începe colectarea de obiecte şi poveşti încã din luna martie. De la vecini, mãtuşi, bunici, vã aşteptãm cu obiectele comunismului şi poveştile lor!
Pentru a deveni voluntar în cadrul proiectului, scrie-ne la cantarearomaniei@gmail.com sau intrã pe blogul proiectului Cantarea Romaniei
Urmãtoarea întâlnire cu voluntarii va avea loc joi, 13 martie, la Clubul Ţãranului (Muzeul Ţãranului Român, intrarea din Str. Monetãriei), la ora 17.00. Confirmãri de participare la cantarearomaniei@gmail.com
Parca mai devreme decat se anunta, se pare ca de luna viitoare vom avea ocazia sa testam noul Thunderbird, varianta 3.0 beta. Detaliile tehnice de genul suportului pentru JavaScript 2 si platforma Gecko 1.9, precum si suport extins pentru dezvoltatorii de aplicatii ulterioare, sunt mai putin importante pentru un neofit ca mine. Insa anuntul imbunatatirilor majore in ceea ce priveste usurinta in utilizare si suportul extins in organizarea calendaristica ma face mai mult decat curios. Sunt fan al pasaroiului de mai mult de trei ani si nu l-as schimba pentru nimic in lume. Daca nu prea am avut noroc cu Firefox 3 beta, renuntand repede la el, din cauza lipsei de suport pentru addon-urile pe care le folosesc momentan, sper sa am ai mult noroc cu Thunderbird. Cei de la Ars Technica sunt sceptici in ceea ce priveste definitivarea suportului pentru adrese si pentru noul calendar, Lighting. Pana una alta, nici macar site-ul MozillaMessaging, creat pentru a promova noul client de email nu merge.
via Wired


de data asta, il asimilam pe Asterix.
La fel, idiotes reprezenta termenul peiorativ, insemnand cel care nu era polites - un noncetatean si prin urmare, o presoana de rand, ignoranta si nevrednica, ce nu se preocupa decat de binele personal.
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Se pare ca maitre Macabroo, inspirat poate si de emisiunea de pe Travel Channel, la care am cotizat si noi, dupa cum anunta Cotidianu, ma invita sa enumar sapte locuri pe care le-as recomanda unui strain aflat pentru prima data in Bucuresti.
Sa purcedem la treaba, fără prea multa intarziere …


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