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Robot Astronaut Kirobo and Commander Koichi Wakata Conduct a Conversation Experiment in the International Space Station Business Wire TOKYO -- December 19, 2013 Dentsu Inc. (TOKYO:4324) (ISIN:JP3551520004) (President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) announced today that on December 6, 2013, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata and robot astronaut Kirobo held a conversation experiment on board the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Wakata and Kirobo (Photo: Business Wire) Commander Wakata and Kirobo (Photo: Business Wire) The conversation, the first of its kind between a human and a robot in outer space, represents the latest development in the KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, a joint research project being carried out by Dentsu, the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, ROBO GARAGE Co., Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation. JAXA is also providing extensive assistance. Experiment content: 1. Autonomous conversation using voice recognition technology 2. Communication with people on Earth Extract from the conversation experiment (translation) Wakata: How did you get out here into space, Kirobo? Kirobo: On a Kounotori* from Tanegashima. Wakata: Oh, so you flew all the way into space on a bird? Kirobo: It wasn't a bird, it was the Kounotori rocket. Wakata: It's incredible that you came here all by yourself. Kirobo: Well, I'm a robot! *Kounotori is the Japanese word for "white stork" and is also the name of the H-II Transfer Vehicle used with the H-IIB Launch Vehicle. Further conversations will be held, and conversation logs and other data will be gathered and utilized by the project participants. The key aims of the project are to facilitate the coexistence of people and robots, and to explore possible future deployment of communication robots in outer space. Kirobo's basic specifications -- Dimensions: Height: 34 cm, Width: 18 cm, Depth: 15 cm (approx.) -- Weight: 1000 g (approx.) -- Language: Japanese Voice recognition, natural language processing, voice -- Main features: (speech) synthesis, telecommunications functions, gestures, facial recognition camera, recording camera Key project developments to date Nov 29, 2012 The project is announced; the public begins proposing robot names. Jun 26, 2013 Kirobo and backup (ground) crew member Mirata are completed and introduced at a press conference. Aug 4, 2013 Kirobo leaves Japan for the ISS aboard the Kounotori 4 transfer vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Center. Aug 10, 2013 Kirobo arrives at the ISS. Aug 21, 2013 Kirobo speaks his first words in outer space: "On August 21, 2013, a robot took one small step toward a brighter future for all." For reference Nov 7, 2013 JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata boarded the Russian spacecraft Soyuz and arrived at the ISS the following day. Future project plans Dec 2014 Kirobo scheduled to return to Earth. Kibo Robot Project website: http://kibo-robo.jp/en/ Twitter: @kibo_robo (Japanese language only) ##### About the Dentsu Group Led by Dentsu Inc. (TOKYO:4324) (ISIN:JP3551520004), the world's largest advertising agency brand with a history of 112 years, the Dentsu Group offers a comprehensive range of client-centric communications and media services in 110 countries across five continents. Its Japan-wide network and London-based global operating unit Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd., which oversees the operations of Aegis Media, a leading global media and digital communications specialist, as well as those of the Dentsu Network, which manages all of Dentsu's other global business operations outside Japan, together employ more than 37,000 dedicated professionals. The Group is also active in the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a global scale. Dentsu Inc.: www.dentsu.com Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd: www.dentsuaegisnetwork.com Dentsu Network: www.dentsunetwork.com Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/multimedia/home/20131219005437/en/ Multimedia Available:http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=50772059&lang=en Contact: Dentsu Inc. Shusaku Kannan, (813) 6216-8042 Senior Manager Corporate Communications Division email@example.com
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Application of chicken microarrays for gene expression analysis in other avian species
1 Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
2 Australian Poultry CRC, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
BMC Genomics 2009, 10(Suppl 2):S3 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-S2-S3Published: 14 July 2009
With the threat of emerging infectious diseases such as avian influenza, whose natural hosts are thought to be a variety of wild water birds including duck, we are armed with very few genomic resources to investigate large scale immunological gene expression studies in avian species. Multiple options exist for conducting large gene expression studies in chickens and in this study we explore the feasibility of using one of these tools to investigate gene expression in other avian species.
In this study we utilised a whole genome long oligonucleotide chicken microarray to assess the utility of cross species hybridisation (CSH). We successfully hybridised a number of different avian species to this array, obtaining reliable signals. We were able to distinguish ducks that were infected with avian influenza from uninfected ducks using this microarray platform. In addition, we were able to detect known chicken immunological genes in all of the hybridised avian species.
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It seems like only yesterday that a baby-faced lad named Justin Bieber was being touted as Usher's protege.
Now Bieber -- who's made more news for his, um, extra-curricular activites lately -- is playing mentor himself. His latest discovery, a 14-year-old girl called Madison Beer, has nabbed his own deal with Island Records; and on Thursday, Beer released her first official single, Melodies. (See cover art below,)
The song is available on iTunes, with an accompanying video, featuring the Biebs, on VEVO.
Like her champion, Beer got her start on YouTube, where Bieber found her, and where she has already totaled more than 4 million views with covers of Adele, Bruno Mars, Christina Perri and Etta James.
A Long island native, Beer also made a splash in the recent Ralph Lauren Fall 2013 Girls' Runway Show, and will make her feature-film debut later this year, with David Duchovny and Hope Davis, in After The Fall (not based on the Arthur Miller play, presumably).
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But not everybody does it for the first time in front of a studio audience and millions of people. "We've never performed any song live — ever," Akiva Schaffer said about the [artist id="3135075″]Lonely Island[/artist] crew making their live-performance debut Tuesday night on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."
"Andy [Samberg] did 'D— in a Box' with Justin at Madison Square Garden, but we've never done a club show, not even a friend's wedding." The longtime friends and writing partners — fresh off yet another viral-video triumph with the Timberlake-assisted "Motherlover" clip from the most recent "Saturday Night Live" — will appear on the show in support of their recent debut album, Incredibad.
The trio, which also includes Jorma Taccone, rehearsed the song they will perform with Fallon's house band, the Roots, on Monday and while Schaffer said it was nerve-racking, having the sickly talented hip-hop crew backing them up made it a bit easier. "Having your first ever live performance on national TV seems a bit misguided, but it went fine," Schaffer said.
"So many professional musicians sound so weird on talk shows, but we should be A-OK. Playing with the Roots, that's my dream. If the me of 10 years ago would know that I could perform a song with the Roots, I would lose my mind." While Schaffer preferred to keep the song choice a secret, he promised that in the hands of the Roots the raunchy tune sounds way different and, of course, way cooler.
The group will be joined by Roots rapper Black Thought on the song, after which only Samberg will take to the couch to talk up his upcoming hosting gig at the MTV Movie Awards and Sunday night's prime time "SNL" clip program, which will feature some of the show's most popular short films, from "D— in a Box" to "Deep Thoughts" and the classic "Mr. Bill" bits.
It's actually the second time the Lonely Island have visited old "SNL" pal Fallon. The trio stopped by on February 11 to plug Incredibad and things went horribly wrong. Sitting in Fallon's office, the awkward interview began with Schaffer walking out almost immediately, while Taccone and Samberg did nothing but play the NBC "bing bing bong" theme song over and over on a knick-knack Fallon got from NBC as a Christmas gift, refusing to answer his questions.
As for a potential Lonely Island tour this summer, Schaffer said the group would love to hit the road, if they can get their schedules figured out. "Everyone's got random movie commitments, so if anything comes up one of us might not be able to do it," he said. "But we'd love to figure something out."


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As: George Heldens, a nice guy and recent divorcé who will become Norma's new love interest.
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WARNING: Company stock may be hazardous to your retirement.
Corporate stock certificates will never carry cigarette-type warnings like the one above, but retirement experts have become so alarmed in the wake of scandais-such as those at WorldCom and Enron-that most agree that measures must now be taken to protect employees from excessive investment in the their companies.
"A consensus has emerged that, at a minimum, employees should be able to diversify more easily. That is, they should be able to sell the company stock they receive in the form of employer matches [to their 401(k) contributions] as soon as they are vested," stated Alicia H. Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Munnell, who was a member of former President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, added that economists concur widely "that employees-should be well informed that they are taking excessive risk in concentrating their 401(k) assets in company stock."
Munnell spoke at the recent Fourth Annual Joint Conference for the Retirement Research Consortium in Washington, D.C. Noting that about 20 million employees in the United States hold more than 10% of their 401(k) assets in company stock, she emphasized that it would not be a public-policy issue if those overinvesting in their companies were wealthy and held substantial other assets. "This is not a rich man's game," she stated. Munnell pointed to a study presented at the conference showing that "higher-paid executives are less likely to invest their money in company stock than lower-paid employees."
The study she referred to, "Inefficient Choices in 401 (k) Plans: Evidence From Individual Level Data," examined 401 (k) fund activity by 28,809 pension participants at a large consumer-products manufacturer. Researcher Julie Agnew, an economist at the College of William and Mary School of Business Administration, found that three-quarters of the employees hold more than 10% of the 401(k) assets in company stock. Overall, the workers were allocating 49% of their retirement assets to their firm's stock, slightly above the 43% U.S. average for large companies. Furthermore, 27% directed 100% of their investment into company equities.
These allocations are "too much by almost any standard," Munnell stated. Observing that Agnew's findings are in line with other corporate-pension analyses, Munnell explained that in 1974, through the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Congress restricted investment in company stock to no more than io% of allocations-but only in traditional defined-benefit pension plans. "ERISA requires that fiduciaries diversify plan investments," she said. Congress did not extend the 10% cap to definedcontribution plans because, Munnell said, "companies sponsoring profit-sharing plans that were heavily invested in company stock successfully lobbied against it." The newer defined-contribution retirement plans do not guarantee future pension benefits-they guarantee only that the company will pay in a limited amount while the employee is with the firm.
When ERISA was passed, Munnell said, defined-contribution plans were mostly profit-sharing arrangements offered to employees as a supplementary benefit. Profit sharing enabled workers to share the corporation's wealth by acquiring its stock while retaining the security of a customary defined-benefit pension. "The problem now is that the landscape has changed," she said. As 401(k) plans became the primary type of defined-contribution programs, they have replaced traditional pensions in most quarters. In fact, many companies have actively prompted employees to invest in company stocks. Munnell noted that at some major corporations, such as Proctor & Gamble and Sherwin-Williams, "company stock accounts for more than 90% of 401(k) assets."
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The security of third party vendor relationships is coming under increased scrutiny as the source of the Target breach has been identified as a HVAC service provider who had remote access into the Target network. While details are still scarce, it's clear that a connection used to allow access for billing can be all that's needed for an attacker to turn that innocuous entry into a data breach that is costing Target untold millions.
As businesses grow, they are forced to rely on third parties to provide services that require a trust in the provider to protect their networks and data at the same or greater level. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. Security firm Trustwave analyzed 450 data breaches in 2013 that showed nearly two-thirds were related to third party IT providers.
With the increasing reliance on business-to-business connections, companies must protect themselves from the threats posed by allowing "trusted" third parties access to areas of their network. While trust can be made in a vendor to provide the services they're committing to, it's a blind leap of faith to assume they will take the same precautions in protecting the information and the access to your network they're trusted with.
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Businesses need to protect themselves and treat the vendors accessing their network as untrusted entities and put in the controls to protect themselves and monitor all activity sourced from the vendors.
The following are tips that have come from my experience as a security consultant and countless conversations with companies who must allow access to third party vendors and the vendors themselves.
That target scare made my dad change his credit card!
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I was surprised when I called my credit card company the day after the Target attack hit the news, they already had identified and closed accounts that had been exposed - thought this was a very proactive stance.
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Quote/Despite Target, Retailers Still Weak On Third-Party Security
By/ Sara Peters posted on 6/24/2014
A new survey from TripWire shows mixed results about retailers' security practices.
The big Target breach last year was actually the second stage of an attack that began by breaching the retail giant's third-party HVAC subcontractor (although the general public seems to forget that fact). This should have taught companies a lesson about the risks of letting business partners run pell-mell around one's network without paying any mind to their own security posture. However, according to new research from TripWire, at least one-quarter of retailers have not yet learned that lesson.
On one end of the spectrum, 12% of retailers who responded say they require third-party partners to pony up regular reports on vulnerability scans on their network and Web applications. On the other end of the spectrum, 26% said, "We don't evaluate the security of our business partners."
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We took our first trip to Hawaii for our honeymoon in 1982, and we fell in love with Maui. After several annual visits we decided to purchase a Maui condo so that we had a place to call home for our return visits. In 1986 we purchased unit #307 at The Valley Isle Resort, totally redecorated it, and placed it in a vacation rental program. After many years of personal enjoyment and very good rental experience, we also purchased unit #1009 in 1997.
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|Mark Your Calendars: Celtics Games to Watch
|08.04.09 at 11:34 pm ET
The Boston Celtics released their schedule for the 2009-2010 season and there are 82 nights to circle on your calendar. Take a look at these must-watch games:
Tuesday, October 27: Celtics @ Cavaliers
Celtics open their season on the road against LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal. It will be the first time the Cs play in Cleveland since last season's heated Easter Sunday game which resulted in a Ray Allen suspension.
Wednesday, October 28: Celtics vs. Bobcats
Fans will get their first look at Rasheed Wallace in the Celtics home opener against the Bobcats, the Cs D-League affiliate for the Portland Red Claws. Will the Celtics need last-second heroics to take care of the 'Cats again?
Friday, October 30: Celtics vs. Bulls
The Bulls became very familiar with the Garden after making four trips there during last season's first-round series. After an entire summer to improve, watch out for an even better battle between Rajon Rondo and Derrick Rose.
Friday, November 20: Celtics vs. Magic
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Thursday, December 3: Celtics @ Spurs
It was a dreaded destination for years. The Celtics have turned their luck around but the Spurs have revamped their roster to challenge them yet again in San Antonio.
Sunday, December 20: Celtics vs. Timberwolves
The returns of Al Jefferson and Ryan Gomes always garner standing ovations from the crowd. Will touted Spanish guard Ricky Rubio be in their backcourt?
Friday, December 25: Celtics @ Magic
Celtics will spend Christmas in the sun against the Magic in Florida.
Sunday, December 27: Celtics @ Clippers
Get a first look at the top overall pick in this year's draft, Blake Griffin. After an impressive Summer League performance, this rookie looks poised to make an impact in the league.
Wednesday, January 20: Celtics @ Pistons
Sheed returns to Detroit to sit on the visitors side for the first time in over five years. A must-watch for Huskies fans as Ray Allen takes on fellow UConn alumni Rip Hamilton, Ben Gordon, and Charlie Villanueva.
Sunday, January 31: Celtics vs. Lakers
As if Kobe Bryant weren't enough, this time he's got Ron Artest with him. Let the battle begin.
February 18: Celtics @ Lakers
The championship contenders take the match up to LA in the middle of the Celtics five-game West Coast road trip.
Wednesday, March 17: Celtics vs. Knicks
The Celtics will play in Boston on St. Patrick's Day for the first time in years. The Knicks already have their own holiday uniforms, so expect a sea of green.
Sunday, April 4: Celtics vs. Cavaliers
The Cavaliers second trip to Boston will mean that much more late in the season when one game can determine postseason standings.
Wednesday, April 14: Celtics vs. Bucks
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On Tuesday the NBA announced its official schedule for the 2009-2010 season. The Boston Celtics will open their season on the road against the Cleveland Cavaliers on October 27. They will return to Boston for their home opener against the Charlotte Bobcats on October 28. Click here for the complete schedule.
|Report: Celtics to sign Williams
|08.03.09 at 2:45 pm ET
According to multiple reports, the Boston Celtics have reached an agreement with free agent forward Shelden Williams. The Boston Herald reported it is a guaranteed one-year deal with worth $1.3 million. Williams was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the fifth pick in the 2006 NBA Draft. He has averaged 4.7 points and 4.2 rebounds per game during his career.
|Celtics waive Pruitt
|07.31.09 at 10:50 pm ET
On Friday the Boston Celtics announced they had requested waivers on guard Gabe Pruitt. He appeared in 62 games and averaged 2.0 points per game over the last two seasons. He also spent time with the Celtics former NBA Development League affiliate, the Utah Flash. This month Pruitt posted nearly 11 points and five assists at the Orlando Summer League. He was drafted by the Celtics out of USC with the 32nd pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.
As he explains in this NBA TV interview from Summer League, Pruitt had hoped to make his mark on the Celtics next season:
|Starbury TV: Ballet, Bottled Water and Vaseline
|07.28.09 at 11:20 pm ET
On Tuesday night Stephon Marbury gave another glimpse into his life on Starbury TV. Highlights included:
– After proclaiming, "I'm just talking and I'm going on and on," Marbury declared, "I don't play basketball no more. I'm an entertainer."
– He later poured a bottle of water on himself while rapping Rocko's "Umma do me" and laughed that people would question him for doing so. Water dries, he pointed out and then wrapped himself in a towel.
– Showing off his hidden talents, Marbury attempted to perform ballet in his kitchen. "That's how you stay nasty on the court," he said.
– Marbury may not know where he is playing next season, but he has a gameplan mapped out should he leave the NBA. "If I go overseas, it's going to be like playing in high school again," he said. "I'm going to go over there with the mind frame that I'm going to average 50. That's my word. I'm going over there with a different mind frame."
– As for eating Vaseline, Marbury's done with that — "Oh I'm sorry. The Vaseline, it's over with. "
|Report: Delay in Daniels Deal
|07.27.09 at 3:54 pm ET
Even though Marquis Daniels committed to the Celtics over a week ago, the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers have yet to agree on how the free agent would end up in green, whether it is by a sign-and-trade or a biannual exception.
On Monday the Boston Herald reported the talks between the two teams have hit a snag and they are seeking out a third team to help facilitate the deal. According to the Herald, the Pacers are not satisfied with the players the Celtics are offering for a sign-and-trade, reportedly Tony Allen and possibly Gabe Pruitt.
The Herald quoted a source as saying, "They need a third team, and that's complicated. No other teams have jumped at it so far."
|July 27: Remembering Reggie Lewis
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July 27 marks the 16th anniversary of the passing of Reggie Lewis. Today the Celtics blog LOY'S PLACE takes an in-depth look back at his life and career in Boston:
He was the quiet Celtic with a smile that was infectious. He was reserved and somewhat shy but his actions, both on and off the basketball court, spoke much louder than any words could ever do. He was the captain of the Boston Celtics and their leading scorer. He was a devoted husband, father and a friend to all who knew him well. He was the hope of a new Celtics generation. Reggie Lewis was only 27 years old when he died of a heart attack on Tuesday, July 27, 1993. We still tearfully remember him today, 16 years later. (via RedsArmy.com)
Lewis was drafted by the Celtics with the 22nd pick in the 1987 NBA Draft. Highlights of his six-year career included selection to the 1992 NBA All-Star team, leading the Celtics in minutes and points for three consecutive seasons (1991-93), and becoming the only player in team history to record 100 rebounds, 100 assists, 100 steals, and 100 blocked shots in a season (1992). Lewis' number, 35, was retired on March 22, 1995.
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It's a year in the life of an ad exec in mid-1980s New York. Twenty-nine is a tricky year – you're too young to be old, but you're too old to not have accomplished SOMETHING. You have your family, sure, and your relationships with them are good, mostly. You've had a boyfriend, but now you're single. You have a job, but it's not satisfying you (and you supervisor is certifiably insane). You've got friends, and thank God for that. They get you through the days, through the nights, through the ever-present awareness of the virus that has been sweeping through everywhere.
Michael Gregoretti (MG for short) can't believe he is turning twenty-nine. His job as a secretary turned junior copywriter isn't getting him anywhere. The play he is writing, about life in an ad agency, isn't going anywhere. His love life since his ex Tim moved to California to pursue his acting career is definitely not going anywhere. His most immediate problem, though, as he starts his thirtieth year, is summed up in two words: Gwen Hammond, his supervisor at Malcolm & Partners Worldwide. Gwen's controlling and creatively-dead work is suffocating MG.
Take a writer's assistant/writer from LA, introduce him to a salmon fisherman/archaeologist from Alaska, then introduce them both to an actor/sex god fresh from prison and you have the makings of one helluva love triangle.
Nelson isn't particularly happy with his job as a writer's assistant, nor is he happy with his lack of a boyfriend. Luckily, shortly after meeting the next future man of his dreams in Roy from Alaska, he gets fired for smoking pot with the surprisingly intelligent movie star Dylan. The three of them end up spending the summer in Alaska, and the result is this comic, sweet, and sexy story of friendship and romance, doubts, jealousies, and one helluva threeway.
Gabe Travers is dying. He knows it. He is surrounded by the people he loves, his mother and her new wife Pastor Sally, his best friend Clare, his lover Jon. These are the people who have clung to him through the years, who have stood by him through bad decisions and bitchy remarks. Dying, he takes Jon to Paris; what better gift to give the man you love than the world?
It was a gift he'd been given 9 years earlier, by a man he loved, and as the book goes back in time, we the readers are taken on that journey with him. And then that journey continues back 10 years, to first kisses, to coming out, to a time when Gabe begins to make those relationships that will set the course of his life. To when he first hears Bette Midler.
This isn't a novel. This is a collection of letters, written by some of the greatest queer authors of the day, to their younger selves. As such, I don't recommend sitting down and reading it from cover to cover. Keep it tucked away in your backpack or purse or briefcase, and pull it out when you need a warm fuzzy or a pep talk or simply a few moments of enjoyment.
Each letter is unique. Some even take the form of comics. They tackle all the issues you'd expect: bullying, coming out, sex, and all the emotions that go with them: shame, fear, anger, and eventually pride and contentment.
If you're a romantic, if you believe in love at first sight, if you believe, like Snow White, that one day your prince will come, then this book is a must-read.
Peter Cashorali takes stories we grew up on and twists them for gay men. Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, the Ugly Duckling and more, all become queerified, and young gay kids and mature gay men will enjoy seeing the fairy tales they knew, now resonating more with tales of Princes' happily ever afters.
All the magic is still there, all the talking animals, unexpected transformations, ogres, ghouls, and Death. Now, they're parables on aging, mortality, AIDS, coming out, the shallow and fickle nature of attraction, and, as always, the quest for true love.
Ok, first off, you should know I'm a little bit in love with the city of New York, always have been, always will be. So, small wonder that when I received my copy of Gulliver Takes Manhattan in the mail, saw the skyline glowing on the cover, small wonder I was already a little in love with it.
By page 50, I was hooked like a gay guy on Starbucks.
It's the story of Gulliver Leverenz (don't make any jokes about the name, because you only get one), who moves from the LaLa Land of the West Coast to Empire City after discovering that his boyfriend Graham has been cheating on him, dirty lying bastards that some men just tend to be. Gulliver is saved from the pain and drama of his Graham-centric LA life when his former college roomie and best friend Todd extends an invitation to move to New York City and start over.
I've been going through the gay fiction section of my local bookstore pretty fast lately, and some reads have been better than others, and then along came one that punched me in the stomach even as it proceeded to rip my heart out of my chest.
Don't Let Me Go by JH Trumble is the love story of Adam and Nate, who meet in high school and who are inseparable from that point forward. When Adam gets a chance to go to New York to pursue a career on Broadway, it's Nate that pushes him to go. That's where the book begins.
But it's not just the story of a long-distance relationship, because you see, the book jumps around a bit in time, flashing back to first touches, first times, coming out, and the horrific assault Adam and Nate suffer at the hands of their bigoted classmates. So all through this love story, you've got a darker thread of intolerance, homophobia, and hatred, and it's different than when you see it on the news. More real, because you really start to care about these guys. Well, I did anyway. All of Nate's feelings, I've felt, jealousy and paranoia and the need for some sort of revenge, at the same time as you're feeling angry at the world for its bigotry and want to make some grand political statement and be a martyr for the gay cause.
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran is the story of gay life in New York in the late 70s, from the tenements of the Lower East Side to the beaches of Fire Island, from the bars and the baths to the avenues and the parks, all the places where gay men cruised for cock and love. It is a story about too often having to sacrifice substance for style, and how, once in a while, you do the opposite. It is a story of decadence and despair, of lust, love, and the lies we all tell, of coming out and the end of innocence. It is the story of Malone, beautiful, romantic, idealistic, and Sutherland, queeny, campy, and jaded. It is the story of how they met, became friends, and how their friendship intersected and impacted the lives of the people around them.


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"…we thought it'd be useful to document what we achieved: automatically running Chromium, full-screen, with a single kiosk-mode web-page." Yep, that will be useful, I'm sure.
"…we thought it'd be useful to document what we achieved: automatically running Chromium, full-screen, with a single kiosk-mode web-page." Yep, that will be useful, I'm sure.
Test in multiple browsers, potentially automated, over the net. Latency might be an issue, but worth knowing about, given how much I hate setting up browser test rigs.
"I could argue back and forth forever, but what I really want to do as a developer, is to work on games in tiny, tiny teams. It means less compromise when it comes to design. It means more freedom when it comes to implementation."
"Shim is a node.js-based browser-compatibility tool that lets you synchronize several devices/browsers and surf the same pages simultaneously on all of them." Wow.
An Impressive list of notable examples of programmatic journalism from Dan Sinker; something I must return to.
"It's a bit like augmented reality, a layer inserted between what leaves the server and what hits your brain." Yes. Also: see Ben's comment about the browser as weapon.
Alan is writing the Guardian's crosswords blog, looking at crosswords from all publications. Brilliant.
I am not an expert in these matters, but that is rather lovely.
That performance of Billie Jean. But with a Giant White Glove. Brilliant.
"On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt (listed below) is the culmination of data collected. It is released here for all to download and use as an input into any digital system. Just as the data was gathered collectively it is our hope that it will be visualized collectively." This is amazing. And what it leads to is even better.
Thoughtbot discover their RFID door-lock system has an API. A short bash at some code later, and they now have theme songs when they enter the office.
"From 30th June to 25th August, I'll be following a route across Scotland from the south western tip of Mull to the outskirts of Edinburgh, as charted in Chapters 14–27 of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Kidnapped'." I remember talking to Tim about this at BookCamp; it's great to see it in-the-world.
"Peter Newman's Skystation is a circular sculpture inspired by the form of Le Corbusier's LC4 chaise longue which encourages the user to lie down and contemplate the vast expanse of space above and beyond." I rather like that. Doesn't look comfortable, but I agree with the sentiment.
"After years of observation and reverse engineering I am proud to say I have been able to reproduce the IE6 algorithm to break even the most standards-compliant websites." Hur hur hur.
Jolly good – easy to configure and get going, nice templating, and fast, because it's based on a databased index. Also, it looks like it's very actively maintained. Now added to this blog!
"Are all these industries in such terminal decline that they're grasping around for any revenue stream or way out? Or is this the converged future, where business and culture are one and the same? Not only can't I tell whether things are real or marketing vehicles any more, I can't even determine what's being marketed." Chris has a point.
Bulletproof Mobile Device Detection and Style Sheets without User Agent Detection or Server-Side Scripting – Bushido Designs Web Development BlogWhich is the sensible way to do things, and this feels about right.
The title says it all. Proper good, especially the sheer volume of A Lot Of Guys With Drums, and the way the brass replace some of the keyboard and bass parts.
"One Amish-man told me that the problem with phones, pagers, and PDAs (yes he knew about them) was that "you got messages rather than conversations." That's about as an accurate summation of our times as any." A wonderful quotation in the midst of this dense, fascinating article.
"Red dot fever enforces a precision into your design that the rest must meet to feel coherent. There's no room for the hereish, nowish, thenish and soonish. The 'good enough'." Dingdingding. +5 points to Taylor, as usual. Place, not location.
"TinkerKit is an Arduino-compatible physical computing prototyping toolkit aimed at design professionals. The interest in physical computing as an area in development within the creative industries has been increasing rapidly. In response to this Tinker.it! is developing the TinkerKit to introduce fast iterative physical computing methodologies to newcomers, and particularly design professionals." Standardised modules, standardised connectors, Arduino-compatible. I remember Massimo showing me his keyboard-emulating board ages ago. Nice to see Tinker productising the platform, too.
"The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we're using are imageless, and they're created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior." Dark, dark voodoo, but very impressive – and excellently explained by Doug Bowman. It's nice to see Doug blogging again.
"If 2009 is going to see the emergence of high-quality browser-based games, then 2009 is going to be the year of Unity. It has: lots of powerful features; iPhone support; Wii publishing; a developing community; quality developers using it; and an upcoming upcoming PC version. In short, it is about to make a major splash. I feel compelled to jump in with it — the indie license is cheaper than the Flash IDE."
"bash completion support for core Git." Ooh. This looks really, really nice.
"As editorial director of Ladybird Books, Douglas Keen, who has died aged 95, was responsible for the first experience of reading of millions of children." Myself included; I learned to read with Peter, Jane, and my Mum, sitting on my bedroom floor each morning.
Amazingly, a few in here I didn't know – "move selection" and "delete only whitespace" for starters.
"I call this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. Covering both commercial and non-commercial games from the earliest arcade games through contemporaty titles, I look at three areas in which videogame persuasion has already taken form and shows considerable potential: politics, advertising, and education. The book reflects both theoretical and game-design goals." Add to cart.
"I won't rant about how our tax dollars pay for these images and how we deserve better. But what I do find alarming is that these documents are used to brief major decision makers. These decision makers may know a thing or two about policy and politics, but if decoding and understanding the armed forces budget is the goal of these documents, then there is a huge failure here." Datafail and slidecrime, all under one roof.
Charlotte Higgins says one of the most interesting aspects of Barack Obama's speeches is the enormous debt they owe to the oratory of the Romans | World news | The Guardian"The true orator is one whose practice of citizenship embodies a civic ideal – whose rhetoric, far from empty, is the deliberate, rational, careful organiser of ideas and argument that propels the state forward safely and wisely. This is clearly what Obama, too, is aiming to embody: his project is to unite rhetoric, thought and action in a new politics that eschews narrow bipartisanship. Can Obama's words translate into deeds?" Nice article on rhetoric and oratory. Cicero really is quite the writer, you know; ages since I've read him, but this brings it all back.
"When the mechanics are broken there – no matter what great ingredients or designs you had – the dish disappoints. Execution is very much part of the analysis there – as is service, mis-en-scene. Food is never evluated (in the Guide Micheline sense) out of context… but the mechanics are fundamental to everything else." Robin Hunicke on another parallel to games criticism; I think she might be onto something, and it's another good contribution to the mound of Mirrors' Edge coverage.
"Though few gamers might be interested in long haul trucking, there is nothing wrong with concentrating on a small group of gamers and offering them the best experience they can get within their limited requirements. In fact, the more MMO developers who realize this—that a small group of loyal players is better than a huge group of disinterested players—the better, honestly." Very true – a nice conclusion to Matthew Kumar's round-up of a somewhat niche – but interesting sounding – browser MMO.
"The moisturiser, far from the trusted friend and counsellor of the first reading, is The Picture of Dorian Gray." Alex tries to read that Nivea ad that's all over stations right now. It is confusing.
"We think it's one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century." Awesome. This is why kids go into engineering.
"Maps, databases and other resources that help you dig deeper." A shame the raw data isn't available, but great they're collating this stuff and seeing it as another channel of news they provide.
"A favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, Rogue popularized the dungeon crawling computer game dating back from 1980 (and spawned entire class of derivatives known collectively as "roguelikes"). gandreas software now presents the classic for the iPhone/iPod Touch." Oh god, Rogue for the iPhone. Unusual gestural interface, but it's a perfect port, and brings back memories of being 7 all over again. Needless to say, I installed it immediately.
Now the NDA is gone, this looks like a good starting point. Honest.
"Content is an expensive, messy business and fraught with quality risk. Network resources like minutes and texts are an attractive commodity and one where the wholesale price is falling all the time." Interesting analysis of Blyk.
"Ladies and gentleman, Hello World 2.0 uses no fewer than 7 messages queues, three command line applications (which can be executed on physically separate machines), and two Inversion of Control frameworks (but I'm fixing that tomorrow)." Huddle look at moving towards message queues.
Web Inspector gets an overhaul; it's looking pretty nice, now.
"The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use." Hmn.
"Here is a video which gives some insight into how Little Big Planet ( and Media Molecule! ) evolved from next to nothing into what it is today!" MediaMolecule put the LBP repository into codeswarm, and then published the video. Lovely.
"Rososo shows you which bookmarks have updated, and hides the rest. It is a good alternative to newsreaders, which, like your email inbox, tend to accumulate obligation and guilt." Not sure about only showing sites, rather than content, but I like the idea of peaceful software a lot.
"The Geoblogomatic is little machine that turns blogs into maps. It's in beta" "If you have a blog about places, or things in places, the Geoblogomatic can make a map of your blog posts." Awesome. Another fun thing from Tom.
"This is the funny thing: appreciation of Mega Man music is a microcosm for the kind of snobbery you see in indie-music-loving white people. It's also a microcosm for the popularity of the series as a whole." Definitely exhaustive, and quite sweet. (Also: Michael's blog's tagline is pretty much spot on).