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Fans of Hardee's Little Thickburgers Volunteer New Creative for Popular Advertising Campaign
Feb 25, 2009
With No Big Cash Prizes, Online "Ad Generator" Draws Many User-Created Submissions Chain Will Air
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – February 25, 2009 – Close to 30,000 fans thought they could write clever new commercials for the Hardee's® highly popular Little Thickburger advertising campaign…and they were right. The restaurant chain unveils 16 new user-created television spots in markets throughout the Midwest and Southeast today.
Little Thickburgers were introduced in September 2008 after Hardee's developed reduced-sized versions of its original 1/3-lb Thickburgers in a smaller ¼-lb package. The Little Thickburgers needed an ad campaign that would illustrate the point that they are still thick and still big on taste, albeit in a smaller size.
The task fell to Mendelsohn|Zien, masterminds behind many iconic Hardee's ads including the memorable Paris Hilton commercial, "That's Hot," from 2005 and the "Fake Restaurant" campaign from spring 2008. The resulting commercials illustrated the size difference between the classic 1/3 Thickburgers and the new 1-4-lb Little Thickburgers in various humorous ways. In one ad, The Original Thickburger is described as "Badonkadonk" while the Little Thickburger earns the "Badinkadink" title.
The commercials proved to be such a hit with viewers that the chain created a Little Thickburger online "Ad Generator" at www.hardees.com so they could create versions of their own. The application allows users to put their copywriting skills to the test by creating the descriptive words that appear above each respective burger in the ads. In addition to allowing users to share their creation with friends, the budding creative directors could submit their ads to Hardee's to be considered for upcoming ads.
With no big cash prize or other inducement to participate, close to 30,000 entries have been submitted to date. The quality of the ads far exceeded expectations. So much so that 16 original user-designed commercials made the cut instead 1 or 2 as was the original plan. The chain even plans to run the credited ads in the markets from which they were submitted, so the creators can earn maximum street cred for their ideas.
"We have a reputation for edgy and humorous advertising and the Little Thickburger campaign was a great example of that approach," said Brad Haley, EVP of Marketing for Hardee's. "When the campaign started to produce a lot of fan mail from viewers, we wanted to let people have more fun with it so we created the online 'Ad Generator' app, so people could create ads of their own."
The television commercials will begin airing in Hardee's markets today. To view the complete user-created Little Thickburger ad campaign, visit the Hardee's YouTube channel. Hardee's will also be posting versions of the ads online that were too hot for primetime in the near future
About Hardee's
Celebrating more than 48 years in the quick-service industry, Hardee's Food Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the third fiscal quarter ended November 3, 2008, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,110 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,185 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,912 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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I cannot believe it is the end of October already! This month flew by for me! I have catching up to do, and I will DEFINITELY do an October wrap-up post to cover what I missed; so sorry for not posting almost anything all month long.
So, this month, for the foodie pen pals, Monica, who lives in Florida, sent me a package full of local favorites. This includes the Plantain chips and garlic dipping sauce, yellow rice, popcorn, a chia drink, and Maria's cookies and locally made honey. She also sent a pumpkin bread and some candy and lollipops over for the fall holiday season.
If you would like to join or know more about Foodie Pen Pals, visit Lindsay's website; to find out what I sent, go to My Outside Voice.
Hope you all have a safe and fun Halloween!

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Generally I get all of the week's projects done over the weekend, but John was the guest speaker at a camp all weekend (which was awesome- our first camping experience. Incredibly entertaining!) and I went with him. And then yesterday I worked a 16 hour day away from home... sooo... it just wasn't happening.
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I was working on a project for tomorrow, though, and made this by accident! Ha! SO I thought I'd share it really quickly since it's so easy.
You may or may not know that I use empty jam and salsa jars for about everything. They're really handy! One of the most common uses Chez Auna is for mixing paint colors in. I had just mixed up this aqua blue-ish shade in the salsa jar and finished painting tomorrow's project when I was thinking of how pretty the color looked in the glass. I remembered THIS TUTORIAL going around Pinterest from Stylist.com about painting vases and decided to just leave the paint in there!
It was so easy. After I painted it, I added a little French byline at the bottom using a craft paint pen. I use those things for all sorts of projects in our home! I recommend keeping a few at your house for painting on glass, china, porcelain, wood... just about anything.
And then I tied a little white ribbon at the top just to kind of hide the threading and make it a little more finished. I'd like to go to the store and get a longer ribbon so that the ends cascade down the bottom. Lastly I popped in some white silk flowers I used in making a costume last year. I envision this being full of pink hydrangeas, so I can't wait to go the store and get some! Do me a favor and try to get the mental image, ok?
So there you have it! Next time you're painting a little something for home decor, just spread the paint around on the inside and allow it to try, and now you have a matching little vase! I hope your weekend and Monday were fantastic and that the rest of your week shapes up just as nicely. All the best and as always, thanks for reading!** I just remembered that back in February one of my friends/readers asked for advice about painting a glass vase, so I think original inspiration should go to her! She chose to paint the outside instead of inside, but here is her final product. Way to go, Sam!


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July began with a good jobs report, followed by more worries over Federal Reserve "tapering" and a jump in oil prices. Still, the equity closed-end fund macro-group tracked by Lipper posted plus-side returns on both a net-asset-value (NAV) and a market basis during the month, with returns of 2.91% and 2.04%, respectively. Fixed-income closed-end funds, though, were hurt by fears over rising interest rates andDetroit's bankruptcy filing; they posted their third-consecutive month of negative returns, down 0.74% in July on a NAV basis and 3.99% on a market basis, according to the Denver-based research group.
In July, 15% of all closed-end funds traded at a premium, while 17% of equity funds and 13% of fixed-income funds did so relative to their NAVs. In addition, none of Lipper's CEF macro-groups experienced a narrowing of their discounts.
All of Lipper's equity and taxable fixed-income CEF groups had positive returns in July, though the municipal bond fund groups did not. National municipal bond funds declined 2.48%, and single-state municipal debt funds fell 2.52%.
For July, 61% of all closed-end funds posted positive NAV-basis returns; a strong majority, 89%, of equity CEFs did so, but only a minority, 43%, of fixed-income CEFs were able to stay out of the red.
In terms of global investing, world-equity closed-end funds improved 2.48% for the first month in three, reflecting good news about purchasing in Europeand other factors. This put the group in the middle of the top-performing equity macro-group—between domestic equity CEFs, which rose 3.36% and the mixed-asset CEFs macro-group, which moved up 2.09% for the month.
With a strong mix of concerns affecting fixed-income investments, the municipal bond funds macro-group saw its performance drop 2.50%; it underperformed taxable domestic bond CEFs, which rose 1.46% on a NAV basis, and world bond CEFs, which were up 0.74%, according to Lipper.
"Only 25 equity CEFs posted returns in the red for July, with 16 of the 25 being housed in Lipper's world-equity funds macro-group," said Tom Roseen, head of research services for the Denver-based research group.
Categories with good performance included convertible securities funds, 4.14%; core funds, 4.14; and value funds, 3.91%. Some sectors with weaker performance in July were emerging-markets funds, 0.71%; real-estate funds, 0.93%; and income and preferred stock funds, 1.26%.
In terms of top-performing individual funds, H&Q Healthcare Investors (HQH), gained 12.52% on a NAV basis in July and traded at a 0.44% discount at month-end. This was followed by H&Q Life Sciences Investors (HQL), which had a 12.05% return and traded at a 1.62% discount on July 31.
Also notable was ASA Gold & Precious Metals Limited (ASA), a laggard in June that moved up 10.18% on a NAV basis in July and traded at a 5.21% discount at month-end. Central Gold Trust (GTU) produced a 10.07% return and traded at a 3.01% discount at the end of July, while BlackRock Health Sciences Trust (BME) rose 8.26% and traded at a 1.42% discount on July 31.
"The 20 top-performing equity funds posted returns in excess of 6.03%, while the 20 lagging funds were at or below minus 0.27%," Roseen explained.
On the down side, for the third consecutive month, Lipper's municipal debt CEF classifications posted negative NAV-based returns across the board. Michigan municipal debt funds dropped 3.42% and leveraged general & insured municipal debt funds declined 2.84%.On the other hand, unleveraged general & insured municipal debt funds weakened just 1.41%, and intermediate municipal debt funds moved down 0.90%, making them the top-performing sector in the group.
As world markets made some improvement in July, the two sectors in Lipper's world-income funds macro-group (which moved up 0.73%) produced positive returns: emerging-markets debt funds, 0.71%, and global-income funds, 0.74%.
Investors, of course, continue to search out higher yields, and improved returns were experienced in July by leveraged high-yield funds, 2.44%; high-yield funds, 2.04%; and loan-participation funds, 1.60%. U.S. mortgage funds (0.09%) and general bond funds lagged the group's average performance.
Domestic taxable fixed-income CEFs rose 1.46% on average in July, when leveraged corporate BBB-rated debt funds ticked up 0.75%, and flexible fixed-income funds improved 1.36%.
"At the head of the fixed-income CEFs class were three funds housed in Lipper's high-yield (leveraged) funds classification," according to Roseen. These were Avenue Income Credit Strategies Fund (ACP), up 3.47% and trading at a 2.82% discount on July 31; Franklin Universal Trust (FT), jumping 3.37% and trading at a 10.47% discount at month end; and Neuberger Berman High Yield Strategies Fund (NHS), which posted a 3.30% return and traded at an 8.16% discount on July 31.
"The 20 top-performing fixed-income CEFs posted returns at or above 2.55%, while the 20 lagging funds were at or below negative 3.38%," the research expert said.
"For the month 16% of all funds' discounts or premiums improved, while 83% worsened. In particular, 30% of equity funds and only 7% of fixed income funds saw their individual discounts narrow, premiums widen or premiums replace discounts," noted Roseen. Plus, the number of funds that traded at premiums on July 31, 94, was 40 more than on June 28.
Other CEF News
The initial public offering for Principal Real Estate Income Fund (PGZ) raised about $126 million, according to Lipper, while a tender offer for up to 7.5% of the outstanding common shares of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA) at 96% of NAV was expected to start at the end of August; if more than 7.5% of its outstanding shares are tendered, the fund will purchase shares on a pro-rata basis, reports Jeff Tjornejoj, head of U.S.-Canadian research for Lipper.
The recent three-for-one transferable rights offering for the Gabelli Healthcare & Wellness Trust (GRX) was oversubscribed, according to the research expert. The fund issued 3.7 million common shares and raised more than $33 million. The semiannual repurchase offer for up to 5% of the common shares of the Asia Tigers Fund (GRR) also was oversubscribed.
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1963: The Kennedy Assassination (Security)
The Nov. 22, 1963 assassination of President Robert F. Kennedy sparked conspiracy theories that last to this day.
Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? In 1964, a third of Americans rejected the Warren Report's conclusion that Oswald acted alone. Local Dallas businessman Clay Shaw was tried for the murder but was acquitted in March 1969.
And what about the murder of Oswald, who was killed in police custody two days later by Jack Ruby before Oswald could go to trial?
Let's not forget about the "magic bullet theory," either. Was more than one bullet used to kill the president? The FBI at first said yes, then no — paving the way for theories that Oswald did not act alone.
Photo: Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News/Wikipedia
1969: The Concorde (Vehicles)
People don't fly on airplanes to travel slowly. And once supersonic flight became a reality in the late 1940s, the aerospace industry and the flying public dreamed of a supersonic transport that would give airlines the ability to fly passengers faster than ever. As engineers refined supersonic designs, developing an airplane to carry passengers faster than the speed of sound was no longer a problem. Designing one that could be operated for a profit still stumps the industry today.
By the late 1950s, several SST designs were on the drawing boards in the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. But only a partnership between the British and French would produce the Concorde. And after the first flight in 1969, it would go on to be the only supersonic airliner to be put into regular service. Passengers paid many, many times the going transatlantic rate to make the trip between Europe and North America in around 3 hours, 30 minutes. The airplane would stretch 6 to 10 inches during cruise, and though it was fast, passengers were packed into the sleek fuselage like sardines. But the small cabin and high price was no problem for those who enjoyed cruising at twice the speed of sound.
This is a Jan. 21, 1976 photo of a British Airways Concorde as it makes its inaugural flight from Heathrow Airport in London. British Airways suspended Concorde operations Tuesday after being told that British and French officials intended to revoke the supersonic plane's airworthiness certification, the airline said.
Photo: Dave Caulkin/AP
1962: MIT Students Blast Videogames Into Hyperspace (Games)
MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club was the birthplace of hacker culture in the early '60s, and one of its members' passions was the PDP-1 computer that had recently been installed at the school. The PDP-1 was about the size of three refrigerators and cost, in 2012 money, about $1 million. In other words, it was very small and ridiculously cheap. Programmer Steve Russell and his fellow proto-nerds took inspiration from the sci-fi novels they loved and came up with Spacewar!, a game about an interstellar dogfight. Two players took control of spaceships that were being pulled into the gravity field of a sun at the center of the screen. First one to shoot the other wins. In a pinch, they could flip the "hyperspace" switch and teleport to a random, possibly even more dangerous location. Distributed on rolls of punched paper tape, Spacewar! became an incredibly popular game among students at universities with access to a PDP-1. One of them was Nolan Bushnell, who would go on to found Atari – its first arcade game, Computer Space, was a Spacewar! clone.
1960s: Psychedelic Research (Science)
No area of science more completely embodied the 1960s' kaleidoscopic cultural turbulence than research on psychedelic drugs. Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, which came to academic attention in the previous decade, was studied in labs across the land, as was psilocybin, the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms. They were hailed as psychotherapeutic aids and tools for investigating consciousness; the research was officially sanctioned, and some studies, such as Project MKUltra, in which eventual Merry Prankster and hippie icon Ken Kesey participated, were even government-sponsored.
Inevitably the research overlapped with a counterculture hungry for mind-altering experimentation and power structures threatened by their defiance. Tim Leary's trip from Harvard psychologist to outlaw guru is a convenient symbol of psychedelia's fall from institutional grace. By the time Hunter S. Thompson's wave broke, the drugs were verboten in academic circles and officially illegal. It would take another four decades for clinical research on the drugs to recover.
Image: Cover of "The Psychedelic Experience," narrated by Timothy Leary and released in 1966. Credit: Smithsonian Institution
1960: The Nuclear Powered Carrier (War)
The Royal Navy first came up with the idea of launching aircraft from a makeshift runway on HMS Argus in 1918. Aircraft carrier engineers have since been plagued with a question; how do you pack as many jets onboard as possible while making sure the size of the ship doesn't limit its speed?
In 1960 a team of 915 U.S. Navy designers answered that question with the USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The eight on-ship nuclear reactors afford two key advantages. Firstly, some much-needed space is freed up by not carrying liquid fuel for the ship's engines. Secondly, the vessel is given a kick of more than 200,000 horsepower.
That extra speed allows a much bigger ship to be built. No longer did aircraft carrier builders have to focus on keeping designs as slim and petite as possible. Enterprise proved that if there's a sizable brute force behind an object, then it'll move fast enough – no matter the size. The ship is longer than the Chrysler building is high and boasts a flight deck of 4.5 acres. This has allowed the Enterprise to host as many as 100 aircraft at once. The nuclear reactors have a lifetime of around 20 years, so barring the need for aircraft fuel, the ship has an almost unlimited operational range.
When the USSR sent a giant flotilla toward Cuba with the intent of supplying the communist island with nuclear missiles in 1962, the U.S. responded by ordering the Navy to form a blockade. Admiral Anderson, the chief of naval operations, knew that success hinged on ensuring an enormous U.S. Navy presence in the Caribbean so he turned to Enterprise.
Enterprise underwent an inactivation service on December 1, 2012 but the 2,400 miles of blueprints made during the design stages have an even longer lasting legacy. The Navy is already constructing a new carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy. The new carrier will build on the innovations made by Enterprise with electromagnetic aircraft launching systems, advanced arresting gear, and a dual-band radar.
Photo: The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) is alongside the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) in 2011. Credit: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman/Released
Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest.
Sometimes, though, something truly revolutionary cuts through the clutter and fundamentally changes the game. And with that in mind, Wired is looking back over 12 decades to highlight the 12 most innovative people, places and things of their day. From the first transatlantic radio transmissions to cellphones, from vacuum tubes to microprocessors, we'll run down the most important advancements in technology, science, sports and more.
This week's installment takes us back to 1961-1970, when the seeds for the compact disc were planted, the world met the computer mouse for the first time and a beloved U.S. president was assassinated.
We don't expect you to agree with all of our picks, or even some of them. That's fine. Tell us what you think we've missed and we'll publish your list later.
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Entertainment)
While the '60s were known for the rise of psychedelics, no drugs were needed for moviegoers to get their minds fully blown by 2001: A Space Odyssey. Stanley Kubrick's epic film, co-written by the director and science-fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke, seamlessly transported viewers from "The Dawn of Man" to humanity's spacefaring future, with a malevolent computer and an embryonic Star-Child to keep things totally spellbinding.
While 2001 set the bar high for cerebral sci-fi films in 1968, a television series that would fuel a fan empire premiered two years earlier: Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek showed just how compelling big ideas could be on the small screen (cheesy monsters not withstanding).
1961: Rock and Davis (Business)
You can argue that venture-capital-like deals were already happening before Arthur Rock and Tommy Davis set up shop in San Francisco with $5 million to invest in 1961, but none were as successful. A massive win for Rock and Davis was early computer company Scientific Data Systems, which was founded in 1962 with $280,000 and sold to Xerox in 1968 for $990 million. Rock backed Intel in 1968, and would go on to pick winners like Teledyne, Apple and others while running his own venture capital firm.
It was the huge returns that Rock and Davis (and other early West Coast VC firms) were experiencing that legitimized the asset class (Rock is often credited with coming up with the term venture capital), and prompted more money and more players to form their own venture partnerships in the late '60s through the '70s.
But more than creating another investment category, Rock and Davis really helped define a new way of backing entrepreneurs and building companies that persists to this day. It was this unique combination of vision, moxie and money that helped create the tech industry, and why Silicon Valley remains the global center of technology innovation.
Photo: Courtesy Arthur Rock
1965: The Compact Disc (Gadgets)
Way back in 1965, when people were spinning Rubber Soul and A Love Supreme on phonograph players, James T. Russell ushered music and video into the digital era.
Russell, a senior scientist at Pacific Northwest Laboratory at the Battelle Memorial Institute, was not at all happy with the vinyl records of the day. They were fragile, and constantly worn by the record player. Plus, they simply didn't sound good enough to satisfy his audiophile tastes.
He knew there was a better way, and began investigating his theory that data could be written and read by light. Lasers, actually. The idea was to create a medium that could be read without anything physically touching it. By removing the drag of a stylus and using the binary aspect of light (light and dark) to mimic data punch cards, Russell argued that an optical medium could hold more data than punch cards or magnetic tape.
Russell patented his Analog to Digital to Optical Photographic Recording and Playback System in 1966 and was awarded the patent in 1970. His photosensitive platter contained bits of light or dark that measured one micron in diameter.
Still, the technology wasn't ready for prime time until 1980, when Phillips and Sony collaborated on the Red Book compact disc standard. Three years later, the first compact discs and CD players hit the U.S. market. The CD-ROM and, later, DVD-ROM, would rule the digital landscape for more than 20 years before being usurped by digital downloads and, in a bit of irony, the resurgence of vinyl.
Photo: Ben Mortimer Photography/Flickr
1968: The Mother of All Demos (Computers)
Forget The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. In the 1960s, Leonard Kleinrock, Donald Davies, and Larry Roberts invented network packet-switching, giving rise to the forerunner of the modern internet. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson built the first version of the seminal UNiX computer operating system. And, yes, Douglas Engelbart gave The Mother of All Demos.
Of all the great computing moments of the 1960s, Engelbart's Demo tops our list. Engelbart ran a computer science lab at Stanford Research Institute, and on Dec. 9, 1968, at a convention hall in San Francisco, he and fellow researchers demonstrated what they called their oN-Line System, or NLS. The system foretold much of what we now take for granted with our personal computers, including the mouse and the graphical user interface and even desktop sharing and video conferencing.
Naturally, few who saw the demo understood its importance. As another NLS researcher said during an event that celebrated the demo's 40th anniversary, 90 percent of the computer science community thought Engelbart was "a crackpot." But NLS would soon give rise to the GUI machines developed at XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center, and the Alto would inspire the Apple Macintosh. The Mother of All Demos indeed.
1960s: Muhammad Ali (Sports)
The 1960s was modern America's most tumultuous decade, and it produced its most tumultuous athlete: boxer Muhammad Ali. As the country found its footing through the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, Ali assumed an important role in both. Rarely has a person, athlete or not, been so equally idolized and vilified.
Ali was known as Cassius Clay when he won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, a medal he may or may not have thrown into the Ohio River after being denied service at a "whites only" restaurant in Louisville. Early versions of the story were detailed, but later biographers concluded that the anecdote was a myth and Ali simply lost the medal.
Three years later Ali became the heavyweight champion of the world, taunting Sonny Liston before the fight with his famous declaration that he would "float like butterfly and sting like a bee," then roaring after Liston didn't answer the bell in the seventh round, "I must be the greatest!"
Clay joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. The Nation of Islam was at the time viewed with suspicion in mainstream America, and aligning himself with its beliefs made Ali a controversial figure. Inside the ring, however, Ali continued his dominant performance, knocking out Liston in the first round of a 1964 rematch and going unbeaten through 1967.
Then, a month after knocking out Zora Folley to go 29-0, Ali was drafted into the U.S. Army. He had already described himself as a conscientious objector, notably declaring in 1966, when he said, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong." His outspoken opposition to the war is said to have encouraged Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to similarly speak out. After refusing to step forward at his Army induction, Ali was arrested, his boxing license suspended, and his heavyweight title stripped. The resulting trial and appeals ran through 1971 and reached the Supreme Court, which ruled in Ali's favor.
Ali had by then fallen out of favor with the Nation of Islam because he wanted to resume his boxing career. (He later embraced Sunni Islam and, later, Sufism.) Ali returned to the ring after a 3.5-year layoff and promptly regained the heavyweight championship, which he defended against some of the best boxers of that era: Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, and George Foreman.
Ali would have been the most Wired sportsman of the 1960s based on athletic achievements alone, but his pioneering social efforts made him stand out even more. His widely publicized fights in cities like Kinshasa and Manila focused global attention on developing nations, and he has remained a tireless advocate for world peace, civil rights, humanitarianism and other causes.
"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me," Ali once said. "It would be a better world."
In 1993, Ali tied with Babe Ruth in a 1993 poll of the most recognized athlete in America, and Sports Illustrated named him sportsman of the century in 1999. Today, as Ali battles Parkinson's disease, his fast hands and liquid smoothness in the ring is a thing of the past, but he remains as iconic as ever.
Photo: In this Feb. 25, 1964, file photo, Sonny Liston, right, lowers his head and works in close during the sixth round of heavyweight championship fight against Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) in Miami Beach, Florida. Credit: AP
1963: Sketchpad (Design)
Before 1963, human-computer communication relied on manually typed code.
That year, however, Doug Engelbart changed the way we interact with machines with the invention of the computer mouse. His wasn't the only computer interface created in 1963, though — Sketchpad, created by Ph.D. student Ivan Sutherland, also launched that year, featuring a stylus as the first example of a screen-based graphical user interface. Its development spurred decades of computer-aided design.
Sketchpad's light pen drew directly on a monitor, and the program locked in right angles, arcs and other shapes to help create detailed, accurate and replicable illustrations. It was the first abstract computer input, a way to both represent code visually, and to translate a visual drawing into code. Decades later, after CAD became prevalent, Sutherland's program won him the 1988 Turing Award. And now, almost 50 years after Sutherland's invention, touch-screen computer control is finally eroding the mouse's place in computing.
1968: Saigon Execution Photo (Photography)
The '60s was a huge decade for photography. Kodak's Instamatic helped create the market for point-and-shoot cameras as we know it. Photos became symbiotic with rock-and-roll, with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the New York fashion scene generating some of the most iconic images in music and popular culture history.
But the most transformative photo event of the decade has to be the Saigon execution photo, taken Feb. 1, 1968, in which Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shoots a captured Viet Cong member in the head in front of photographer Eddie Adams. The photo had an enormous impact on anti-war sentiment in the U.S. and was many Americans' first exposure to the brutality of the Vietnam conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969.
Not only did it demonstrate the power of a single image to shift public perception, it signified a dramatic increase in intimacy of photography's relationship with war. Additional iconic images would come from Vietnam, like that of 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc fleeing naked on the street after being burned by U.S. napalm, but Adams' photo stands as an icon for the Vietnam War specifically, and the primal nature of human conflict in general.
It's a class of photo that can only happen once, with many equally dramatic and heartbreaking images being taken in almost every war since that never come close to achieving the same level of fame or impact.
Photo: Eddie Adams
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iPhone App Store Sales for #1 Spot Revealed — Apple's broadening of App Store acceptances has opened the door to a number of new novelty applications including InfoMedia's iFart Mobile [App Store]. The $0.99 humor application has rapidly seen success and has rocketed up to the #1 App Sales slot.
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iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day
iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day
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Notebook PC Shipments Exceed Desktops for First Time in Q3
Notebook PC Shipments Exceed Desktops for First Time in Q3
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Notebook PC Sales Outpace Desktops: Good News For Apple (AAPL)
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'New' iMacs to begin shipping in January — We were pretty sure we'd see upgraded iMacs introduced at Macworld, but according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) via Digitimes: — .. sources inside the component supply chain as saying that Apple plans to launch a new iMac …
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Quanta to supply monthly shipments of 800,000 all-in-one PCs …
Quanta to supply monthly shipments of 800,000 all-in-one PCs …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider: Next-gen iMacs due in January, says paper
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: Rumor: New iMacs to Ship January 2009
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: Chinese paper points to January '09 iMac update
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: New iMac due in January?
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David / weblog.rubyonrails.org:
Merb gets merged into Rails 3! — It's christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you. We're ending the bickering between Merb and Rails with a this bombshell: Merb is being merged into Rails 3! — We all realized that working together for a common good would be much more productive …
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Wycats / Katz Got Your Tongue?: Rails And Merb Merge
Deepak Singh / bytes|genes: From merging rivals to code repositories
Josh Catone / SitePoint: Top Ruby Frameworks Rails and Merb Join Forces
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Dell's MacBook Air Rival Confirmed by . . . Dell — CLARIFICATION 5:55 p.m. - The story below references a Dell ad placed in UptownLife magazine. The online version of that ad, which has since been removed, appeared to include both an image from Dell and text.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Dell Confirms Adamo is MacBook Air Competitor
Paul Miller / Engadget: Dell confirms shocking truth: Adamo to rival MacBook Air
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Will Microsoft throw in the towels? — Google, Microsoft and other big tech companies spent the past few years ramping up employee perks as they battled each other for top talent. Now, as the tech industry tries to weather the economic storm, the fate of those extras will be an interesting barometer …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Analyst says Steve Jobs' spirit has been institutionalized — Investment bank Kaufman Bros. on Tuesday downplayed renewed concerns over the health of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, arguing that although the co-founder has been critical to the company's resurgence, his spirit and drive …
Discussion: Apple 2.0, Infinite Loop, Macsimum News and Social Media News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Analyst: Steve Jobs' "spirit" has been institutionalized
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop: Analyst says Jobs' views are now endemic to Apple
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Analyst: Apple's spirit of innovation goes beyond one man (Steve Jobs)
Nick Gonzalez / Social Media News: Is Apple Losing It's Social Media Mojo?
Fennec Alpha 2 — We're happy to announce that our second alpha release of Fennec has come together. While we focused much of the previous alpha on getting the user experience how we wanted, we've spent much of the time since focused on improving performance.
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Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links: Second alpha of Mobile Firefox (Fennec) released
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Try Mozilla's Fennic Mobile Browser on Windows, Mac or Linux
Michael Calore / Epicenter: New Firefox 'Fennec' Alpha Arrives as Mobile Browser Wars Heat Up
Sascha Segan / AppScout: Mozilla Releases Firefox Fennec Alpha 2; Windows Mobile Version Progressing
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter relaunches name search, still no tweet search on site — The micro-messaging service Twitter has taken the slow time during the holiday to bring back a feature that, like so many others, went away when the site was having performance issues during the earlier part of this year: people search.
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Brad Linder / Download Squad: Twitter relaunches people search
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Twitter Finally Adds People Search - Other Search Options Still Needed
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog: Twitter Launches People Search
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Twitter Relaunches Blazing Fast People Search
Lawrence Lessig / Newsweek:
Reboot the FCC — We'll stifle the Skypes and YouTubes of the future if we don't demolish the regulators that oversee our digital pipelines. — Economic growth requires innovation. Trouble is, Washington is practically designed to resist it. Built into the DNA of the most important agencies created …
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Venture Capitalist: Big 3 Should Turn To Silicon Valley — Ray Lane's got a bone to pick with Detroit and Washington: quit your whining, partner up with innovators here in Silicon Valley, and consumers, investors, auto industry workers, politicians, executives and America will be better off for it.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Memo to Silicon Valley VCs: Get Off Your High Horse
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Bails on Project Playlist, Too — Four days after MySpace cut the legs out from under Project Playlist by disabling the music streaming service's app, Facebook is following suit. Here's the official statement from Facebook PR: … The only surprise here is that it took Facebook …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Facebook Folds In Face Of Massive Litigation, Bans Project Playlist
Paul Miller / Engadget:
HP Firebird 803 tower with VoodooDNA leaked! — We always loved us that Voodoo-designed HP Blackbird 002, but it was certainly a behemoth. Now it looks like the duo are going for a more realistic size — and hopefully pricepoint — with the all-new HP Firebird PC 803 that just fell in our lap …
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Shane McGlaun / DailyTech: Details of HP Firebird Voodoo DNA Tower Leaked
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Shaila Luther / CrunchGear: HP Firebird 803 with VoodooDNA leaked
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Voodoo-Designed HP Firebird 803 Is Tiny, Still Has Space for Too Many Lights
Rahul Sood / Rahul Sood's Weblog: The Gaming PC As We Know It Is Doomed
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Looking for a Few Good Answers Online — Why is the sky blue? How do you bleach a stained shirt? Why does cheese smell? — The answers to these questions used to be sought in encyclopedias and other reference books. Now, we increasingly seek the answers to such questions online …
Matt / Burning Questions:
Our 210th variation on the theme, "Thank you for using FeedBurner." — Interesting Fact: this is the 210th time we've posted to this blog. Bittersweet Reality: it will be the last. — Our team has used Burning Questions to provide FeedBurner product announcements and stories …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: FeedBurner Quits Blogging, Gets Eaten by AdSense
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
iPhone claims high-ranking spot on Flickr … The iPhone is the mobile device of choice these days for doing most things that need a network. So it shouldn't be a surprise that the phone has carved out a prominent place on Yahoo's photo-sharing site, Flickr.
Discussion: IntoMobile, Electronista and 9 to 5 Mac
Will Park / IntoMobile: iPhone hangin' with the big boys on Flickr
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: iPhone becoming the most popular camera on Flickr
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
If Washington Wants To Create Jobs, It Should Get Out Of The Way In Silicon Valley — from the lead,-follow-or-get-out-of-the- way dept — It's already quite clear that Sarbanes-Oxley has done very little to actually prevent fraud of any kind, but it has been a tremendous burden …
Michael Malone / Voices: Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adult FriendFinder Files To Go Public — Florida-based FriendFinder Networks (formerly Penthouse Media Group), a group of sites that includes Penthouse and Adult FriendFinder, has filed a registration statement with the SEC to go public. — Little known Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital is representing them in the deal.
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
Google still wants something for nothing — Tech Daily: The Internet giant responds to criticism that it has reversed course on a key issue facing the Web: Should some users be required to pay more for faster service? — SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — The Wall Street Journal unleashed a firestorm …
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Sam Baltrusis / Contentinople:
Quantcast Bulks Up, ComScore Speaks Up — The race for video audience metrics appears to be heating up, as upstart Quantcast has added ABC Inc. , Hulu LLC , and BBE (formerly Broadband Enterprises) to its growing list of media groups using the company's video-based measurement services.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Psystar: No conspiracy against Apple — Mac clone maker denies 'concerted effort' after Apple claims others are in cahoots — Computerworld) Mac clone maker Psystar Corp. denied it is at the center of a cabal whose purpose is to steal Apple Inc.'s intellectual property, documents recently filed with a federal court show.
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It's been soggy outside, but that's OK with these types of plant life.
While there doesn't appear to be an ark being built, it sure feels like we need one. Yet some plants are thriving. Let's look at what can tolerate wet conditions.
As we've mentioned before, it's not so much the plants that tolerate the water, but the quality of soil that allows roots to breathe. The issue becomes which plants can withstand their roots in an oxygen-free environment for any extended period of time.
Some plants thrive in flooded or low-lying areas. While these mosquito breeding grounds may not offer the diversity that upland areas do, they are filled with water-loving or flood-tolerant plants.
Several trees do well, though as a group they aren't the strongest wooded specimens. Alders (Alnus), birches (Betula), cottonwoods and poplars (Populus), tuliptrees (Liriodendron, sometimes called yellow poplar) and willows (Salix) can tolerate wet soil. Silver maples (Acer saccharinum) are one of the few maples that thrive. Most other hardwood maples tend to up and die.
Surprisingly, pin oaks (Quercus palustris) are a bottomland tree and can withstand flooded conditions. While few people will plant them, pecans also can tolerate wet conditions.
The one caveat is that, while these trees can tolerate wet soils, they don't develop a deep root system. Most are shallow-rooted, trying to get as much oxygen to the roots as possible, especially as the waters recede. Without an extensive root system, trees don't last as long.
Softwood trees also have an annoying habit of breaking off in ice, snow and wind storms.
Water-loving perennials are harder to put in definitive categories. By and large, native plants have a stronger tendency to adapt to wet-dry conditions.
Two of the natives that don't seem to mind are purple coneflowers and black-eyed Susans.
Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) produce daisy-like yellow flowers with a dark center, starting in the next couple of weeks and going through September. Their sandpaper-like leaves make them unappealing to many four-legged creatures.
Unfortunately, the plants aren't that large, and while their roots can tolerate wet conditions, the plant ends up rotting if it is covered with water.
Purple coneflowers (Echinacea) are a little better because they often can reach 3 to 4 feet high. They also have the advantage of producing stronger stems and more flowers, starting in mid-June and going through September, if the dead flowers are removed regularly. While most native forms are purple to purplish-pink, some recent introductions tend toward white, yellow and orange.
Another native plant that tolerates the end of the gutter is Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium), which is plagued with "weed" in its name. It's not invasive, isn't poisonous if eaten and doesn't cause most people any skin problems. True, the native form can reach 6 to 8 feet tall, but some cultivars are only half that size. It flowers in August and September, and will attract butterflies.
The natives also have the advantage of tolerating dry conditions … if and when dry conditions show up.
The large-leafed Colocasia and Alocasia, sometimes called Elephant Ears, can be planted in soil that ends up being waterlogged. The same applies to Cannas. In fact, if you have them in a pot, you can sometimes just keep the pot submerged in another pot filled with water.
Finally, you almost can't go wrong with day lilies (Hemerocallis).
The plants are non-native, though you'd be hard pressed to guess that because they can be found along the back of any county road. They were one of the first plants settlers stuck in the ground as they crossed the prairies centuries ago.
Day lilies do well in just about any soil type, and under any water condition. They prefer full sun but can tolerate shade. Plants have been known to be submerged up to their tips for several weeks and still survive.
Day lilies bloom May through September, depending on the type. While most bloom during the day, some night-flowering day lilies perfume the air with a sweet fragrance, hoping to attract some insect to pollinate their flowers.
The wild forms tend to spread, taking over a yard as quickly as crabgrass. However, most of the newer forms are clump-forming, seldom spreading much.
A few vegetables and fewer fruits tolerate excess rain. Corn will thrive but must have some oxygen around its roots. Excess moisture prevents corn from forming the bracer roots it needs later in the season.
Fruit plants like the moisture but hate water-logged soil. Even cranberries prefer drier conditions until they are ready to be harvested.
David Robson is a horticulture educator for the University of Illinois Extension.


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- Subject: [mg56424] Mathematica 5.0 notebooks icon gone.
- From: "E. Martin-Serrano" <EmilioMartin-Serrano at wanadoo.es>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:30:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, I have been trying Mathematica 5.1.1 trial version, and got rid of it when the trial period expired. But now all my Mathematica 5.0 notebooks look "icon-less" (No Mathematica icon at all). Obviously, after uninstalling Mathematica 5.1, I reassigned the file type extension "nb" to Mathematica 5.0 through the Windows XP thread "Control Panel>Folder Options>File Type>NB = Mathemaica 5.0". Mathematica 5.1.1 does not show up in the Add/Remove Programs (installed programs) panel but Mathematica 5.0 does. Any help? E. Martin-Serrano. P.S. BTW, just for Mathgroup followers' info: Due to Wolfram's peculiar license policy, I am unable to upgrade to Mathematica 5.1.1 from the place where I currently live, and through the very same channels I have been using to upgrade up to now. Wolfram license policy considers customers in different regions as different sort of customers (or if you prefer, to Wolfram, it is the region, the terrain, the source of the customer's rights; so, if you move between pieces of land for any reason (say between US and Europe), even temporarily, then your customer status is changed automatically). In my opinion, this is a Kafkian nonsense, and pretty contradictory with the nature of the Wolfram products themselves.


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Pumpkin Praline Creme Brulee
The crunchy pecans are a nice contrast to the creamy custard in this recipe. This dessert adds elegance to any meal.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 25 min. + chilling
Makes4 servings
- 6 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted
- In a small bowl, whisk egg yolks and syrup. In a small saucepan, heat cream over medium heat until bubbles form around sides of pan. Remove from the heat; stir a small amount of hot cream into egg yolk mixture. Return all to the pan, stirring constantly. Stir in the pumpkin, cinnamon, vanilla and ginger.
- Transfer to four 6-oz. ramekins or custard cups. Place ramekins in a baking pan; add 1 in. of boiling water to pan. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 25-30 minutes or until centers are just set (mixture will jiggle). Remove ramekins from water bath; cool for 10 minutes. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Combine sugars. If using a creme brulee torch, sprinkle custards with sugar mixture. Heat sugar with the torch until caramelized. Sprinkle with Pecans. Serve immediately.
- If broiling the custards, place ramekins on a baking sheet; let stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar mixture. Broil 8 in. from the heat for 4-7 minutes or until sugar is caramelized. Sprinkle with pecans. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours or until firm.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 418 calories, 34g fat (17g saturated fat), 389mg cholesterol, 39mg sodium, 24g carbohydrate (18g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein.
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The brulee part was tasty, but what is not to like about browned sugar? The inside is nowhere near sweet or pumpkiny enough. I did not care for this.


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Just a week before the FCC holds a vote on whether to apply fairness rules to some of the nation's internet service providers, two companies that sell their services to the country's largest cellular companies showed off a different vision of the future: one where you'll have to pay extra to watch YouTube or use Facebook.
The companies, Allot Communications and Openet – suppliers to large wireless companies including AT&T and Verizon – showed off a new product in a web seminar Tuesday, which included a PowerPoint presentation (1.5-MB .pdf) that was sent to Wired by a trusted source.
The idea? Make it possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online and charge you extra for using Facebook, Skype or Netflix. For instance, in the seventh slide of the above PowerPoint, a Vodafone user would be charged two cents per MB for using Facebook, three euros a month to use Skype and $0.50 monthly for a speed-limited version of YouTube. But traffic to Vodafone's services would be free, allowing the mobile carrier to create video services that could undercut NetFlix on price.
In short, you'd have a hard time creating a better graphic of the future that net neutrality advocates warn will be imminent if the federal government does not apply fairness rules to the mobile internet. A court struck down an earlier set of fairness rules in the spring, but it was never clear if those rules applied to wireless carriers.
"It certainly is exactly the thing we have been warning the companies will do if they have the opportunity and explains why AT&T and Verizon are so insistent that the wireless rules be solely about blocking and not anything else," said Public Knowledge legal director Harold Feld. "If you want the slide deck to show why we need the same rules for wireless and wireline, this is it."
The FCC is set to adopt some net neutrality provisions Tuesday, but they will not apply to mobile devices.
Feld says the slide shows that the wireless companies' seemingly successful fight to not have net neutrality rules apply to them is not about a desire to make sure that critical services get priority.
"It's not about wirelessly monitoring people's pacemaker data," Feld said. "Its about charging you extra to access Facebook."
In fact, it looks suspiciously similar to a graphic created by a net neutrality advocate to satirize the dreams of ISPs.
The ideas don't look too different from the way cable companies price their video offerings, with different packages of programming at different levels.
But the model is a radical departure from the current internet model in the United States where the company you pay to connect your computer or mobile device to the internet acts like a utility. You pay for a certain guaranteed throughput and sometimes a maximum amount of monthly data, and the company's job is just to deliver that content to you, regardless of whether you are using Netflix, Hulu, Yahoo, Google or some small startup few people have ever heard of.
That's the concept behind net neutrality.
When shown the presentation, Stanford University professor Barbara van Schewick seemed not surprised at all.
"I have been saying that this is where they want to go for a while," van Schewick wrote to Wired. "The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a technology that is being deployed in many wireline and wireless networks throughout the country, explicitly envisages this sort of pricing as one of the pricing schemes supported by IMS."
Van Schewick, who heads the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, argues in her recent book, Internet Architecture and Innovation, that such network models undermine the net's openness, which has allowed anyone with a computer, a vision and the right skills to create a business, without having to pay anyone extra for the privilege.
And as van Schewick points out, this model is already showing up in European mobile networks, where some networks charge users an extra fee to use internet telephony or to use an e-mail client on their phone.
These models are bad from a public policy perspective. By imposing a higher price on the bandwidth needed for certain applications, the network providers effectively tax these applications, which may lead people to use them less than they normally would. This is bad for users because they cannot use the Internet in the way that is most valuable for them. This is bad for affected application providers because their market shrinks: They lose all those customers who would have used the application at the normal price of Internet transport, but who are not willing to pay the additional tax. But from the network provider's perspective this pricing scheme increases their profits.
Pro-net neutrality groups have argued that the carriers will try to make more money by breaking that model, creating fast lanes and slow lanes, and discriminating against content they compete with.
For instance, Comcast runs an online video service called FanCast that competes with NetFlix and YouTube, and is trying to buy NBC, which owns more than 30 percent of Hulu.com. And every cable and satellite company offers pay-movie services for an extra monthly fee and a la carte video on demand that compete with third-party streaming video services, like Blockbuster and Amazon.
Allot and Openet also have an idea for how the carriers can make more money off of movies, what they called "split billing" – a way of allowing internet service providers to get a slice of the money that online movies companies are being paid by customers.
In this case, a customer can watch a 15-minute preview of a movie for free. If she doesn't order the film, the company that served up the film would pay the carrier for the bandwidth used. But if the customer pays to watch the movie, then the ISP gets a cut of the money paid to the online movie service.
Compare that to the current de facto state of affairs for broadband connections, where a customer pays the cable company or wireless provider to connect them to the internet, the online movie service pays to connect to the internet, and the network's only role is to connect the two.
The FCC's proposed rules for net neutrality, which come up for a vote by the five-member commission on Tuesday December 21, haven't been publicly released. But according to the summary provided by the FCC, cable and DSL companies would be prohibited from unfair discrimination, but could create fast and slow lanes.
Wireless carriers would be exempt from the discrimination and blocking rules, but would have to make public how they handle congestion on their networks.
The carriers say that they need the freedom to discriminate because wireless networks can get clogged, but net neutrality advocates say the proper response is simply to dole out equal bandwidth to each user, and not try to pick which applications to put in the fast lane.
The FCC decided against the politically charged route of regulating ISPs as if they were a utility by re-classifying them as "telecom services." That category applies to the phone company, and if the FCC had taken that step, the same rule that requires phone companies to connect all calls, no matter who you call or who calls you, would have applied to the internet, as well.
Instead, the FCC has seemingly formed a coalition with the nation's ISPs, getting them to agree not to sue to overturn the rickety legal framework, in exchange for giving the companies wide latitude on how to price the communications infrastructure of the future.
And from the looks of it, the carriers and their vendors have a very good idea of what the future will cost you.
Additional reporting by Sam Gustin.
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The English version of the book: A book, explaining how to work with Rhino 4.0. Drawing in 2D, building in 3D, editing in 2D and 3D, Rendering, Light, Materials, Organising your model, export possibilities, History and UDT and some special features. The book explains in a very easy way how to work with Rhino. Apart from the explanation of the program there are 5 chapters in the book, letting you build an object without any previous knowledge. 276 pages, more than 450 illustrations. There are two books now: an English and a Dutch version
Michiel van der Kley, Rhinoacademie
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Bassbone necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 312 diseños de 84 diseñadores freelance.
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Western Building Products is a 100% employee-owned company operating in Milwaukee, WI. For over 60 years we have been a wholesale distributor of millwork products. We feel that our success is due to our owners…each and every one of our employees.
Our product lines include interior doors, exterior doors, windows, mouldings, stairparts, columns, porch posts and more. We distribute to more than 400 dealers in the upper Midwest including Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. Our goal is to deliver the best quality product at the best price.
We are the dominant leader in our geographic market, and as our competition has fallen by the wayside during this economic recession, we have increased our market share. We strive to be good stewards of our environment, whether its in our products or how we use our lighting in our warehouse.
Our last makeover was in 1991 and our color scheme and logo reflect that. (our current colors are PMS 208 and PMS 429 (burgundy and gray) It is time to bring the look of our vibrant and dynamic company into the 21st century, and bring some excitement to our market. Here is our website: http://www.western1.com
(yes, we know the website has to be updated too...but that's another contest isn't it!)
Our audience is the more than 400 dealers and their customers (builders, homeowners). This logo will be used on letterhead and envelopes, on our website, in our literature and advertising, on logowear, and on the sides of our semi trucks and trailers. It will be on all of our display materials at our dealers.
Must be in a vector format
Must be easily reproduced on different mediums (paper, embroidery, plastic, truck doors, etc.)
We want to reflect our strength in the market place
Limit colors to 2 or 3 colors preferably easily reproduced in CYMK
Will need black & white version
Fonts will need to be outlined
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Reviews are opinion pieces and therefore vary from person to person, but we give games a score from one to five, depending on how likely we are to recommend it to our friends. In this case, you are our friends and should look at the scores as such. We don't go down to a zero, so the lowest score we can give is a one, but here's the generalized breakdown as to about where our scores fall.
(1 out of 5) Terrible. You should avoid it at all costs.
(1.5 out of 5) Bad.
(2 out of 5) Poor. You should probably still stay away from it unless you get a deal or are really interested.
(2.5 out of 5) Meh.
(3 out of 5) Decent. May have some problems, may not, but in general it's OK.
(3.5 out of 5) Good.
(4 out of 5) Great. The positives certainly outweigh the negatives.
(4.5 out of 5) Excellent.
(5 out of 5) Fantastic. They don't have to be perfect, they just have to be totally awesome.
In addition to these scores, we also allow for half points in case a certain title or product toes the line. What we can promise is that we'll explain why we give the score we do to the best of our ability.
The majority of reviews here are written by a combination of Martin 'lost' Perry, James 'modeps' Hunter, Adam 'pwnophobia' Cogswell, Ben 'kragg' Daniels and Matt 'gzsfrk' Williams. Sometimes we'll personally enlist members of the community to assist in contributing, and other times users submit their own reviews (if you'd like to do that, check out the submission rules).


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My view of the world as I quilt. A little of this and that. But mostly my first love, Quilting
Saturday, November 5, 2011
The Wedding Quilt
4 comments:
- Mrs Quilty said...
I love all of Jennifer's books! I always want to find "out what happens next." She is fabulous! Sorry about your tooth pain...that's no fun at all. I have been quilting since 2003 and of course, am an addict. Right now I'm working on a Moda Basket Bounty that has nine blocks of both piecing and wool flowers qppliqued on. It is beautiful and I'm really enjoying it! Take care and feel better.
- November 5, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- luv2quilt2 said...
I love the Elm Creek books, and I'm working on Sylvia's Bridal Sampler (off and on). I live in WV and was travelling I68 on Saturday during that storm. Glad to hear things are slowly getting back to normal.
- November 6, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Beth said...
I'm so sorry about your tooth! My husband had an unexpected root canal a couple weeks ago. Looks like the two of you could commiserate. He said he has never been in so much pain as before they did the root canal. Hope all goes well.I love Jennifer's books too. I'm like an addict when I sit to read. Nice to know there is a new one out. I may get that for my Kindle. We are traveling this week and I will need something GOOD to read!
- November 6, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- Jan said...
That's a long time to be without electricity. Glad you have a generator. Love the quilt---it is beautiful. I like all of Jennifer's books, too. I have slowly been buying them and reading them a second time. My library doesn't have them. Sorry about your tooth--hope all goes well.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Bring it on! <i>Homo sapiens</i> can go the distance
Q. In the physical performance realm (biomechanics, etc), what do we humans do better than any other of the million+ known species?– F. Conte
A. In sheer aerobic endurance, a trained human is hard to beat, says Indiana University kinesiologist John S. Raglin. Animals may easily outpace us, but if the "race" is stretched out for hours or days, most researchers agree that humans would win the gold.
Upright humans are also extremely good at dissipating heat while other animals trap it with all their hair, explains biologist and anthropologist James Carrier, who says, "We're the best sweaters on the planet." Hence we become endurance walkers, bikers, marathoners.
Our easy bipedal locomotion serves another end, freeing our hands to do daily tasks even as we're on the go. Our fine motor control and coordination permit us to thread a needle and perform a whole array of extraordinary artistic and building tasks, adds Purdue kinesiologist Michael G. Flynn. We humans are without equals in tracking and catching objects, says Georgia State University sports scientist L. Jerome Brandon.
"How many animals could hit a baseball coming at 100 mph and send it 300 feet in the air? How many could strike a golf ball 270 yards down a fairway?" he asks. Behind this jack-of-all-tasks paramountcy sits our singular mind, driving us toward envisioned goals as we anticipate sweet success.
Q. What are the absolute best and absolute worst "buys" out there in the global marketplace these days? –W. Buffett
A. By far the best buys– in terms of bang per buck– are personal contributions to organizations that aid the poor in the poorest countries, such as Project Hope, Save the Children, CARE, etc, says Stanford University economist Roger Noll. These have been best buys for a long while because doing a great deal of good for the poorest of the poor is very, very inexpensive.
Sadly, the worst buys probably are in the area of cancer research; society spends so much on cancer research that diminishing returns have set in. Thirty-five years into the War on Cancer, the age-adjusted cancer death rate is down only slightly. Funding isn't the issue now; it's figuring out how to spend the money.
In the area of consumer goods, best is just about anything involving microprocessors and digital memory devices; prices are going down or staying stable as performance rises dramatically. As for investments, concludes Noll, whereas some opportunities will turn out a few years from now to rival an investment in IBM in 1950 or Xerox in 1970 or Microsoft in 1990, no one knows which these are. Bang per buck, yes, but only with a whole lot of luck.
Q. News is that scientists have learned how to switch earthquakes "off" and "on." So why not switch off the fault that might bring the Big One to San Francisco? –D. Gentry
A. The largest recorded quake was in Chile in 1960, where a slab of rock 800 x 200 kms slipped 21 meters past the adjacent rock, magnitude 9.5, says Nigel Calder in Magic Universe. Micro-earthquakes, with rock slippage or "creep" measured in mms, rank at magnitude 2– undetectable by people or distant seismometers.
But the little ones can grow into big ones, reasoned Hiroo Kanamori, at Tokyo University and Caltech. Since there are 100,000 times more quakes of magnitude 2 than 7, predicting the big ones is bound to be uncertain, as when forecasters failed to warn of the deadly Kobe earthquake in Japan in 1995.
Scientists can now switch earthquakes on by using water under pressure pumped in through boreholes close to fault lines, raising the possibility of "stage-managing" a lot of small quakes to relieve the San Andreas fault strain buildup, thus saving San Francisco. Some 500 boreholes 4000 meters deep might be needed to do this. An intriguing idea, yes, but politically explosive, says Calder. "Since every earthquake in California would be blamed on this, whether it was really responsible or not, litigation against the government would continue for centuries."
And who knows? The little ones just might backfire and trigger the dreaded Big One. Kanamori's caution: "Better not pull the tiger's tail."
Q. "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world," the old song says. Might your doctor agree? –T. DeMao
A. If she's up on the research, she would. While close relationships can be stressors in life, causing some of our greatest heartaches, more often they provide us with our greatest joys, contributing to our health and overall happiness, says David G. Myers in Social Psychology. People are good for us!
In 80+ studies, social support has been linked with healthier hearts and immune systems. People in close relationships eat better, exercise more, smoke and drink less. Moreover, in one five-year study of 423 elderly married couples, those who gave the most social support (running errands for friends, emotionally supporting their spouse, etc.) enjoyed the greatest longevity. On the other hand, lonely people have been shown to sleep less well, experience more stress, and fall into depressions.
"With few social ties with friends, kin or other members of close-knit religious or community groups, all of us," Myers writes, "are more likely to die prematurely."
Sorry, gotta go now. A friend's at the door...
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Video Games vs Computer Games
Call me purist. Call me curmudgeon.
For most, the terms "video game" and "computer game" are interchangeable. I disagree, and my complaint is more than just semantics.
You see, the difference is a simple one: video games are dumb.
That in itself isn't a bad thing. The problem is, they're making computer games dumber as well.
Let me explain. Video games, tracing their linage back to Atari and Pong, are designed with the living room and TV in mind. Their "10-foot-interface" is large enough to be seen from the couch, and control requires only as many buttons as available on the standard controller (under a dozen, unless you were one of the three owners of an Atari Jaguar).
Then there's the audience. This has changed over the years, so it's not fair to say "computer" gamers are older than "video" gamers (though they typically are, by a couple of years). Modern video games, like those found on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, are aimed at reaching the widest possible audience. As such, they lack the complexity and difficulty of many computer games. They have to. And in theory, this isn't a bad thing.
In addition to the limitations of the interface, one has to realize what vast sums of money go into publishing a game for the PS3 or 360. We're talking millions of dollars just to step up to the plate. Even though the games eventually retail for $50-$60, the royalties paid to Sony and Microsoft take a significant cut from every title sold. So making the development money back isn't a sure thing. That risk is reflected in the core of the games themselves: widest possible audience, highest likelihood of continued play.
The video game industry got hit by the global financial meltdown just like everyone else, so now the vast majority of games are released by only a handful of publishers. These big companies, like all big companies, are frantically afraid of risk. So the edict is mainstream or no stream. Rarely do you see "low budget" video games. Rarely do you see a game that tries something new. There can't be. The cost of entry, and the ease of failure, is too high.
This is also why nearly every game on the market now or coming out in the near future is a sequel or based on a known property. It's safe (if you see a parallel to the sorry state of the movie industry, it's for the same reasons).
The Wii takes this to another extreme, but as it was designed from the beginning for "casual" gamers, it belongs in its own category.
The biggest casualty of the dumbafication of games is the first person shooter (FPS), one of the most popular genres on any platform. Gaming controllers are imprecise tools, so concessions have to be made in terms of difficulty and level design. Games must be made easier to allow FPSes to work on the 360/PS3. Features like auto-aim may not seem like a big detractor, but removing the aiming challenge gives the gaming experience an "on rails" feel. Gamers move the thumbpad a little, shoot, move a little, shoot, with no real skill or activity. Worse, the games are designed with this style of play in mind, so disabling auto-aim makes them needlessly difficult.
Worse, knowing it's hard to move well with a controller, game designers implemented the dumbest invention in gaming ever: unlimited shields. Halo did this to the worst degree. Your character was essentially immortal. Getting shot too much? Duck behind cover and you'll be 100% in seconds! Gone is the strategy and tense gameplay. In its place, cut scenes broken up by glorified shuffleboard.