G o r e + C h i c = V e r y C h i c

SkinBag is presented like a mutation proposal.
It is a type of discarded skin which retains an identity.

Every bag is an extension of our body.

SB-outer clothing is the skin chosen to be displayed.
It offers a new paradoxical form of nudity to our social body.

The bags dedicated to electronic machines are waterproof and proctective jackets and become autonomous organisms.
They anticipate the fusion between the digital and the organic.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll fall into a combine.

"The village was swamped with green-brown liquid," said Rainer Prediger, a police spokesman in the nearby town of Coburg.

So I called, I delegated. That's one of the things you do in decision-making. (Laughter)

I said, "Laura, how about helping design the rug?" (Laughter)

Part of being a decision-maker, though, is you've got to help -- you've got to think strategically. And so I said to her — she said, "What color do you want?" I said, "Make it say this: 'Optimistic person comes here to work every single day.'"

President Bush said this afternoon that he would veto any legislation seeking to block the administration's decision to allow a state-owned company from Dubai to assume control of port terminals in New York and other cities.

Mr. Bush's rare veto threat came as Republican leaders and many of their Democratic counterparts called up today for the port takeover to be put on hold. They demanded that the Bush administration conduct a further investigation of the Dubai company's acquisition of the British operator of the six American ports.

"After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward," Mr. Bush told reporters who were traveling with him on Air Force One to Washington, according to news agencies. "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I am trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, 'We'll treat you fairly." '

I can eradicate more misery per dollar by far over there than over here. It's clear that if the goal is to buy the most good with the few dollars I have to spend, I'll need to shop where things are cheapest. A useful start might be the Copenhagen Consensus, in which a panel of eight distinguished economists (including three Nobel Prize winners) prioritized the world's needs in terms of bang for the buck. In other words, given that the developed world might spend some billions in aid in the years to come, how could it best spend that money to do the most good? The best bets, the economists said, were battling AIDS, providing micronutrients, liberalizing trade, and combating malaria. Fighting malnutrition, funding various water projects, and lowering the cost of starting a business came next.

The images on SBS TV are thought to be from the same source as those that caused an outcry around the world and led to several US troops being jailed.

The new images show "homicide, torture and sexual humiliation", SBS said.

They are part of a court case in the US. A judge has ruled they can be published but the case is continuing.

New Tampa, Florida - 12-year-old Jasmine Roberts is a seventh-grade student at Benito Middle School in New Tampa.

When it came time for her to choose a science project, she wondered about the ice in fast food restaurants.

Jasmine Roberts, 7th-grade student:
"My hypothesis was that the fast food restaurants’ ice would contain more bacteria that the fast food restaurants’ toilet water."

"I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."

Then the Saturday Times — bless its inky heart — runs a frontpage story headlined, “In Small Town, ‘Grease’ Ignites a Culture War.” In which we learn about at Missouri town in which the school musical — cute, classic, all-American Grease — has been deemed inappropriately salacious.

The resulting material exhibits a material property called "strain rate sensitivity". Under normal conditions the molecules within the material are weakly bound and can move past each with ease, making the material flexible. But the shock of sudden deformation causes the chemical bonds to strengthen and the moving molecules to lock, turning the material into a more solid, protective shield.

In laboratory testing, d3o-guards provided as much protection as most conventional protective materials, its makers claim. But Phil Green, research director at d3o Labs, says it is difficult to precisely measure the material's properties because the hardening effect only last as long as the impact itself.

The 53 charges against the coin dealer, Tom Noe, conclude a 10-month investigation by state and federal prosecutors into the $50 million rare-coin investment Mr. Noe managed for the state insurance fund for injured workers.

The investigation led to sweeping changes at the state workers' compensation bureau, an agreement by Gov. Bob Taft and two former aides to plead no contest to ethics charges, and pending charges against two other former Taft aides.

Top 20 Chuck Norris Facts – Chosen By The Man Himself

• When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.


• Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.


• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.


• Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.


• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.


• Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.


• Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.


• Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.


• There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.


• When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.


• Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.


• Chuck Norris’s hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.


• There is no such thing as global warming. Chuck Norris was cold, so he turned the sun up.


• Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.


• Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.


• Chuck Norris gave Mona Lisa that smile.


• Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.


• Chuck Norris does not get frostbite. Chuck Norris bites frost.


• Remember the Soviet Union? They decided to quit after watching a DeltaForce marathon on Satellite TV.


• Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.

The Caffeine Nap is simple. You drink a cup of coffee and immediately take a 15 minute nap. Researchers found coffee helps clear your system of adenosine, a chemical which makes you sleepy. So in testing, the combination of a cup of coffee with an immediate nap chaser provided the most alertness for the longest period of time. The recommendation was to nap only 15 minutes, no more or less and you must sleep immediately after the coffee.

West, who made it no secret that he felt he deserved the bulk of awards, said he wasn't disappointed with his haul of three Grammys. He lost the one he coveted most — album of the year — to U2.

“It's all good,” he said. “U2, those are my boys. I didn't think it was going to happen because of vote splitting.

“I didn't win it by a technicality, not because I didn't deserve it. Even Bono was like ‘Come on.' Everybody knows it.”

The band pitched the idea and, to their surprise, all players agreed.

“We could not believe it when he said he would actually do it,” said Bourdon.

Details about Office Pirates are scarce, says Brian Steinberg, "because in the online world, building buzz through traditional marketing is not only ineffective, but it could also scuttle the word-of-mouth appeal." What's known is the site will be a daily blend of funny videos, strange news and downloads.

While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.

• PS3 will have online service that goes beyond xbox live
• PS3 will be a DVR
• It will connect with psp
• The ps3 will have an itunes type service to let you download HI DEF movies, music, etc
• PS3 will serve as a location free player for the psp, means you can watch the dvd's that you have in your psp on your psp (from anywhere in the world), or any other video files you have on your ps3, though this is still only being planned.
• PS3 will be able to send its files straight to the psp from anywhere in the world, and it can also control its DVR functionalities
• Firmware updates will add more functionality, much like with the psp
• The Blu Ray Player functionality doesnt cost as much as a stand alone player because the Cell and RSX can take care of alot of the stuff the ps3 will need to do to be able to read the disks

If you’d like to join the FON Community, register with us at www.fon.com. You can select the user profile that most suits you. FON is now working in a Beta phase and is only available for Linus. A Linus is any user who shares his/her WiFi in exchange for free access throughout the Community wherever there is coverage. In the future, FON will also be available for Bills. Instead of roaming for free, Bills are users who prefer to keep a percentage of the fees that FON charges to Aliens. And Aliens are those guys who pay to connect.

Well, the back door to my building opens on to that alley, so I investigated. A couple of trips through the alley, as well as up and down 19th and 20th, led to zero camel sightings.

I did, however, see many large delivery trucks in the alley, into which one could, conceivably, fit a camel. In fact, were one to deliver a camel, I imagine that's what one would use.

The condoms, provided under the government's acclaimed anti-AIDS program, will be given out at health clinics and in sites like public squares and dances.

"It's that time of year when we boost distribution because of the increase in demand," an official from the Health Ministry's anti-AIDS program said.

We're not calling for a burdensome regulatory regime. What we would like to see, however, is for Congress to make certain that the broadband companies, primarily local cable operators and telephone companies, don't squeeze out the applications and services of others in favor of theirs, or make preferential deals with some service providers to the detriment of others and, ultimately, to the detriment of the consumer.

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This is an opportunity for the highest levels of the tech industry to show what the future of the Internet means to them. To be sure, technologists cared about the development of the Internet, both as an experience for consumers and as a technological phenomenon. Some, like Vint Cerf, one of the "fathers" of the Internet, still do. There are many individuals who care as well.
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But if the past few months of debate over Net neutrality are any indication, it is hard to know where tech companies really stand. Do any of them really care about those of us who use the Internet, or about the remarkable diversity of content and experience that has grown up around it? Or was the Internet from the start, and remains today, simply a market to sell software, routers, chips or books?

In Washington, the answer means a lot, particularly now as new telecommunications legislation could drastically change the character of the Internet as we know it. Now is the time for the tech industry to figure out if the Internet is to remain the open and innovative environment that has benefited everyone, companies included, over the years.

When ex-SBC (now AT&T) Chairman Ed Whitacre starts talking about drastic changes to the Internet, an answer from similar altitude is needed. It takes a Meg Whitman from eBay or Jeff Bezos from Amazon.com to respond. We know the big broadband providers will be in the fight to do what they want with their networks. What we don't yet know is whether the tech industry will stand up for itself and the public.

Dave Chappelle told Oprah Winfrey yesterday that he'll come back to his Comedy Central show if he can redo his $50 million contract so that half of the revenue from DVD sales of his series goes to charities of his choice.

On the other hand, he also told Oprah that he already gets half of the so-called back end on DVD sales, and "I would like to contribute my half of the DVD revenue to some of these causes."

So why doesn't he just cut a check to his fave charities?

Oprah didn't ask. Oprah doesn't do follow-up questions unless you're an author who's embarrassed her by fabricating portions of a supposed memoir she's plugged for her book club.

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This kickoff of his I'm Not Crazy I Just Play That Way Tour (second stop: "Inside the Actors Studio" on Feb. 12) -- in another of those incredible coincidences that make covering this industry so spiritually fulfilling -- just happens to fall a few weeks before the March 3 release of his docu-flick, "Chappelle's Block Party."

“We have to figure out who pays for this bigger and bigger IP network,” said Mr Whitacre, who was in New York ahead of AT&T’s annual presentation to investors and analysts on Tuesday. “We have to show a return on our investments.”

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Ahead of Congressional hearings on the so-called ‘net neutrality’ issue, which are due to begin in the next few weeks, senior industry executives have been floating ideas about how they might be able to charge some content providers, for example digital movie download services, for using their networks.

While they have emphasised that they are not seeking to charge additional fees for content and other services delivered on a ‘best effort’ basis, they argue that content providers seeking guaranteed delivery of high quality content should be willing to pay.

“If someone wants to transmit a high quality service with no interruptions and ‘guaranteed this, guaranteed that’, they should be willing to pay for that,” the AT&T chief said.

“Now they might pass it on to their customers who are looking at a movie, for example. But that ought to be a cost of doing business for them. They shouldn’t get on [the network] and expect a free ride.”

Last November, Vinton G. Cerf wrote a letter of warning to Congress. The legendary computer scientist, now a vice-president at Google (GOOG), argued that major telecom companies could take actions to jeopardize the future of the Internet. The phone companies' networks that carry Net traffic around the U.S. are much like the highway system. Cerf wrote that they may begin setting up the equivalent of tollbooths and express lanes, potentially discriminating against the traffic of other companies. Such moves, Cerf warned, "would do great damage to the Internet as we know it."

Now, Cerf and his Net compatriots have new ammunition to back up their fears. Documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission show that Verizon Communications (VZ) is setting aside a wide lane on its fiber-optic network for delivering its own television service. According to Marvin Sirbu, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University who examined the documents, more than 80% of Verizon's current capacity is earmarked for carrying its service, while all other traffic jostles in the remainder.

America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely.

The Internet companies say that this will help them identify legitimate mail and cut down on junk e-mail, identity-theft scams and other scourges that plague users of their services. Thy also stand to earn millions of dollars a year from the system if it is widely adopted.

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or si