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right now i'm...
by blackgoldfish
Hearing: Norah Jones, The Nearness of You, and the tappity tap of small-scale furniture being re-positioned in it's wooden doll house
Smelling: rosemary bread in the oven
Touching: chopping freshly rinsed basil for pesto penne alfredo
Seeing: a yellow no. two pencil with a fat nub eraser scratching out spelling words on double-ruled paper
Tasting: iced ceylon tea
YALSA | Top Albums of 2008 | January 6th, 2009
by garret
"Pop ruled 2008. From indie to hip-hop to dance to punk, no genre was immune to pop’s grasp. Even pop got poppier! In no particular order, here are my picks for the must-have albums for teen music collections in 2008."
2008
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from Wired.com
by karlcow
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth (en français)
by jeanruaud
& 3 others
traduction française d'une nouvelle de Cory Doctorow
BBC NEWS | Africa | S Africa Chinese 'become black'
by karlcow
The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people. It made the order so that ethnic Chinese can benefit from government policies aimed at ending white domination in the private sector.
American Civil Liberties Union : Lesbian and Gay Couples Win Freedom to Marry in California
by soul1383
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled today that the state can no longer exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage.
Inflation changes Chidambaram's tone on rate cuts
by Hemanshu
(via)
With inflation again creeping up to worrisome levels, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday virtually ruled out any government intervention to ease interest rates.
Chidambaram, who hoped for cheaper credit at least on housing one week ago, changed his tone on Saturday saying the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would determine rate policies.
International Ski School loses trademark case
by pmdm
The Grenoble civil appeals court has ruled against the SIMS (Syndicat international des moniteurs de ski) and its president Philippe Camus in a trademark dispute. The trademarks “Écoles de ski internationale” and “ESI snowboard award école de ski internationale” were registered in 1994 by Michel Vachez an independent ski instructor based at l’Alpe-d’Huez. M. Vachez formed the first ski school independent of the Ecole de Ski Francais (ESF) in 1974.
The judgment has forbidden the SIMS from using this trademarks with a 500 € fine for each contravention.
BBC | US judge reinstates sonar curbs
by ravi
A judge has ruled that the US Navy must adhere to a curb on the use of strong sonar in waters off California, amid concerns about its effect on whales.
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2007
Thanatorama | International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2007
by srcmax
On this morbid premise, you are invited to enter an interactive French webdocumentary. Playing the role of "dead protagonist", you explore the rituals of the modern funeral world, ruled by both religious and marketing laws.
HDtv film Thailand » Archive » Surfer rock legend is now Thai expat with new memoir
by springnet
once upon a time, in the California Inland Empire outside of Los Angeles, garage rock ruled. A young surfer dude dreamed of escape from the provincial ticky tacky of Riverside. Little did Rick Brown know his fate was to be the lead singer of one of the gr
Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest
by lukeslytalker
If The Dead Ruled A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course
When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth
by zagtag
& 3 others
(via)
la nouvelle CC de Cory Doctorow en français
San Jose Mercury News - Lesbian cycling wins fight to keep "Dyke" trademark
by pmdm
The name "Dykes on Bikes" is inoffensive and a legitimate trademark, a federal appeals court ruled this week.
Utah Supreme Court Reinforces Arbitrator’s Power
by arbforum
Ted Duke, Maria Cardenas, Randal Graham, and David Graham were members of a limited liability company (LLC) called Way Cool Dirt Cheap (WCDC). A conflict developed pitting Duke and Cardenas against the Grahams. They arbitrated their dispute, as specified by the company's operating agreement. The arbitrator ruled to remove Duke and Cardenas as members of WCDC. The trial court confirmed the award.
Epiar.net: Home
by jdrsantos
Epiar is a space adventure/combat game written in C with SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer). It is absolutely free (released under the General Public License v2). In Epiar, you begin as a shuttle pilot in a galaxy generally ruled by anarchy, with few stable g
2006
The Glorius Mustache Challenge
by moustache
n an age ruled by beards, goatees, and clean-shaven faces, one man fights to save the mustache from permanent extinction. Jay Della Valle challenges a new generation of men to embrace the stache and face the consequences. As resistance mounts from girlfriends, friends, and family, this hilarious film dares to explore what it will take to bring the mustache back.
Court rules against ACLU, atheist on San Diego cross
by jasontromm
n a major victory for backers of San Diego's Mt. Soledad cross, an appeals court ruled today in favor of a voter measure that authorized transfer of the land beneath the memorial to the federal government.
A panel of justices from the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled 3-0 that Proposition A was constitutional, overturning a decision by Superior Court Judge Patricia Yim Cowett that invalidated the measure. The court also reversed a $275,000 attorney fee award received by an ACLU-backed lawyer for plaintiff Phillip Paulsen, an atheist who died last month.
Jersey same-sex ruling may energize conservatives
by jasontromm
Republican prospects in November's elections are decidedly brighter today as result of the ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court on same-sex marriage.
The court ruled that same sex partners must be granted the same rights and benefits afforded opposite-sex couples under New Jersey's civil marriage statues, but deferred to the state legislature the decision on whether the same sex arrangement should be called marriage. So the court essentially said that same sex partnership walks like a duck, looks like a duck and should be granted all the rights and benefits of a duck, but concluded it didn't have the authority to call it a duck.
New Jersey Court Backs Rights for Same-Sex Unions - NYT
by ravi
New Jersey’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that gay couples are entitled to the same legal rights and financial benefits as heterosexual couples, but split over whether their unions must be called marriage or could be known by another name, handing that question to the Legislature.
OpenDoc: the component guild RELease 1.0 - Find Articles
by karlcow
Documents are the primary metaphor in OpenDoc.[8] Applications all but disappear: They look like task-oriented stationery on the desktop, such as icons representing ruled paper, a spreadsheet, drawing paper or a database form. (The applications themselves may end up in a new part-handler directory.) To start a new document, you choose the type of stationery you want; that sets which application is your "root part."
