This month
IBM - Five issues to avoid for accessible presentations - United States
by Monique
Learn how to duck them with these techniques
January 2012
November 2011
Portraits and Dreams: A Revisitation by Wendy Ewald and Elizabeth Barret - United States Artists - Great art forms here
by sbrothier
In partnership with the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, Wendy Ewald and Elizabeth Barret were awarded $40,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts for Portraits and Dreams: A Revisitation. We need to raise $20,000 to match the NEA award. Your generous donations will support the creation of new work as well as collaboration between two artists and community members in rural Appalachia.
October 2011
Occupy Wall Street: where are the migrants? | openDemocracy
As a first-generation migrant in the United States, the demographics of the Occupy Wall Street Protest intrigues me just enough to notice that there are no conspicuous migrant populations protesting. Where in the so-called masses representing the 99% of America are the East-Asians and South-Asians from Asia? The West-African women from Africa or the Eastern-European men from Europe? This to me is a primary indicator of how heterogeneous the Occupy Wall Street campaign is in a locale as glaringly diverse as New York City in a nation built at the hands of migrant labour.
August 2011
eBook Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Complaint Filed Against Apple, Hachette Book, Harpercollins, Macmillan, Penguin & Simon & Schuster Over Alleged Price Fixing | Class Action Lawsuits In The News
<blockquote><p>A class action lawsuit has reportedly been filed against Apple Inc. (“Apple”), Hachette Book Group, Inc. (“Hachette Book”), Harpercollins Publishers, Inc. (“Harpercollins”), Macmillan Publishers, Inc. (“Macmillan”), Penguin Group (USA) Inc. (“Penguin”) and Simon & Schuster, Inc. (“Simon & Schuster”) (collectively “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District Court of California (styled Anthony Petu and Marcus Mathis v. Apple Inc., Hachette Book Group, Inc., Harpercollins Publishers, Inc., Macmillan Publishers, Inc., Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Simon & Schuster, Inc.) alleging, among other things, that Defendants unlawfully contracted, combined and conspired to unreasonably restrain trade in violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act by agreeing to switch to the Agency model of eBook pricing by coordinating their pricing to directly set retail prices higher than had existed in the previously competitive market and by agreeing to restrict the price range of eBooks, according to the Apple, Hachette Book, Harpercollins, Macmillan, Penguin & Simon & Schuster eBook antitrust class action lawsuit complaint.</p></blockquote>
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Help wanted: U.S. workers to fix Japan reactor - Business - Personal finance - Careers - msnbc.com
"Jumpers" is the industry term for people who enter highly radioactive environments to quickly perform a task. The practice was common in the United States in the 1970s and early 80s.
June 2011
US also alarmed by China’s intrusions: AFP chief
by alamat & 1 other (via)
MANILA, Philippines – The United States is also alarmed by China’s intrusions into Philippine territory, Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Eduardo Oban said on Thursday.
Mac technician accused of installing spyware to photograph women
by alamat & 1 other (via)
A 20-year-old computer technician working as a Mac repairman was arrested by police in southern California on Wednesday for allegedly installing spyware on laptops that he fixed, thereby enabling him to gain control of the computer’s webcam and remotely take photos of women in various states of undress.
May 2011
23,000 BitTorrent users to be sued for downloading ‘The Expendables’
by alamat & 1 other (via)
People who happened to download The Expendables? via BitTorrent may want to check their mail: they could be one of the 23,000 people, and counting, the US Copyright Group (USCG) plans on suing as what is now being called the largest downloading case in United States history.
Bureaucratics by Jan Banning
by Spone
Bureaucratics is a project consisting of a book (ISBN 978-1-59005-232-7) and exhibition containing 50 photographs, the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. It is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of polical, historical and cultural considerations: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen. In each country, I visited up to hundreds of offices of members of the executive in different services and at different levels. The visits were unannounced and the accompanying writer, Will Tinnemans, by interviewing kept the employees from tidying up or clearing the office. That way, the photos show what a local citizen would be confronted with when entering.
April 2011
ComScore: number of US mobile web users doubled in January | TopNews United States
by daidix
Chiffre utilisation web mobile us
March 2011
Japan’s real disaster | Gregg Easterbrook | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
by bouilloire
Yet in the United States and European Union, what’s happening at the power plant is receiving more attention, and generating more anxiety, than thousands of innocents crushed or drowned.
January 2011
World map tool
simple tool for “remixing” a public domain world map available via Wikimedia (a Robinson projection in vector graphic format that shows all U.N. member states). After this map was chosen for use in a university web project, we had a need to refactor it in various ways. This script automates most of the operations that we require.
December 2010
Australian Foreign Minister Rudd blames the United States for cable leaks
Various reports have suggested that as many as two million people have had access to the classified US documents.
November 2010
HTTP framework for time-based access to resource states -- Memento
Back to the futurebridges the present and past Web by interlinking current resources with resources that encapsulate their past.
Kubideh Kitchen
Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with.
October 2010
Toying with Transmedia: The Future of Entertainment is Child’s Play | MIT World
by sbrothier
“Popular culture demands more of us and our children than most of the classics ever did. In Pokémon, each character has antagonisms, friendships, powers, weaknesses, multiple states of being. It’s more complex than the periodic table. And schools say our kids can’t learn 12 Greek gods. This is what they’re learning on the playground. ”
Henry Jenkins
While We Sleep — Night Shift Workers
by gregg
The jobs of some take care of us in ways we don't often stop to think about. Life doesn't pause when we turn out our lights and go to sleep. There are about 3 percent of Americans who work night-shift jobs between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m., according to a 2007 report by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Graveyard-shift employees drive police cars, stock grocery shelves, care for the sick and injured, repair roads, brew coffee - they labor at night so the rest of us can make it through our days.
Tax Refunds
by thetaxgear
Offers income tax preperation and tax filling for rapid tax refunds. Online income tax return preparation for federal and states taxes and electronic filing to IRS. Free e-file your taxes and get fast tax refund. Easy online tax filing with rapid tax refunds.
Generate ItalianPost25, RM4SCC & IATA 2 of 5 Barcode Symbologies
by aspose_seo
The new version of Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports 1.3.0 has been released. Three new barcode symbology types (RM4SCC, ItalianPost25 and IATA2of5) are added in this release. This release includes Italian Post 25 barcode generation with checksum support and automatic grouping of codetext and Support RM4SCC (Royal Mail Four States Customer) barcode generation with checksum support and automatic calculation of height of four state bars. Also IATA 2 of 5 (International Air Transport Association 2 of 5) barcode generations with checksum support.
September 2010
Memo to FIFA -- soccer is big in U.S.
by Hemanshu
NEW YORK -- In the gold-plated St. Regis Hotel just off 5th Avenue, a group of healthy-looking men in fancy suits started to make their case for holding a World Cup in the United States once more.
WordPress › Edit Flow « WordPress Plugins
by simon_bricolo
The overall goal of this plugin is to improve the WordPress Admin interface for a multi-user newsroom’s editorial workflow. One of the important improvements over basic WordPress is the new states a post can be assigned.
