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May 17, 2006
Please, allow me to introduce you to
Detroit Techno. Artist Derrick May once described it as "George Clinton and Kraftwerk stuck in an elevator." Despite being virtually unknown in the United States, this genre has achieved global popularity. Noteworthy artists include
Carl Craig, Sean Deason, Stacey Pullen,
Jeff Mills,
Underground Resistance, DJ Assault, Moodymann, and
Kevin Saunderson (among others). From May 27th-29th the city of Detroit will launch a huge
electronic music festival . It isn't something you see everyday in the U.S., so check it out. Here are some
o t h e r links.
posted by j-urb at 11:52 PM PST - 45 comments
The Australian cigarette health warnings have pretty much filtered down to every retail packet that's bought now.
They're pretty gruesome and some smoking acquaintances cover them up with stickers. I thought I'd have a look around and see what other countries warnings were like. None of them were pulling any punches except for Uruguay.
posted by tellurian at 7:21 PM PST - 118 comments
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1861-1960.
Foreign Relations volumes contain documents from Presidential libraries, Departments of State and Defense, National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency, Agency for International Development, and other foreign affairs agencies as well as the private papers of individuals involved in formulating U.S. foreign policy. In general, the editors choose documentation that illuminates policy formulation and major aspects and repercussions of its execution. This enormous collection of documents is now available online at the
University of Wisconsin. Example: Kennan's
Long Telegram, February 22, 1946. Some additional volumes are also available online from the
State Department.
Via Curt Cardwell, on H-DIPLO.
posted by russilwvong at 6:34 PM PST - 8 comments
"many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will."
Then there's John Gibson's call for more white babies
posted by delmoi at 5:50 PM PST - 115 comments
Bonofilter: Yesterday, May 16, U2 front-man Bono was a guest "editor" for the UK newspaper
The Independent. Called the
"RED Edition," half of this issue's proceeds went "to help fight HIV and AIDS among women and children in Africa." Highlights included US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice offering her take on
"The Ten Best Musical Works" and an
interview with Eddie Izzard on immigration in Europe. Is there a downside to celebrity editing, or is it a win-win-win for Bono, The Independent, and some people in need?
posted by bardic at 3:06 PM PST - 33 comments
Loving v. Missouri: In February, Olivia Shelltrack and Fondrey Loving were denied an occupancy permit because they have three children and are not married.
"This ordinance is outdated. We are a family," says Shelltrack, 31. "There's a mom, there's a dad, there's three children. We are a family." Whether Shelltrack, a stay-at-home mom, and Loving, 33, who works for a payroll-administration company, are married "should not be anybody's business, if I pay my taxes, if I'm able to buy the house,"
she says.
posted by dash_slot- at 2:36 PM PST - 50 comments
The days of
needing to remember several telephone numbers, numerous VOIP or
instant message identities and other points of
contact for our social and professional networks are over.
posted by airguitar at 2:26 PM PST - 20 comments
Find your celebrity dopelganger. MyHeritage is
another site that uses face recognition on photos you upload, but the slick interface in this demo matches you up with one of 3,200 celebrities from the past two centuries which you (supposedly) resemble. You can upload photos with multiple people in them as well, and it will identify all the faces in the shot. I can't vouch for accuracy, but it is entertaining.
[Registration required. Try username: metafilter@metafilter.com; pass: metafilter. The site does not appear to save photos that you have uploaded as part of the demo.]
posted by blahblahblah at 11:02 AM PST - 109 comments
He's so penetrating that even I sometimes can't look, because it's so painful. He brings tremendous pain into his vision, and he makes you very aware of what you're looking at.
Don Mc
Cullin thinks that
Eugene Richards is "possibly the best walking, living
photographer in the world". Richards, who has recently been working on the
War Is Personal project for
The Nation Institute, has
just joined
Alexandra
Boulat, Ron
Haviv, Gary
Knight, Antonin
Kratochvil,
Christopher Morris, James
Nachtwey, John
Stanmeyer, Lauren
Greenfield and Joachim
Ladefoged (their portraits are
here) in the
VII collective. More inside.
posted by matteo at 8:33 AM PST - 18 comments
FRANK R. PAUL: At a time when most Americans didn't even have a telephone, he was painting space stations, robots and aliens from other planets... he was the guest of honor at the first world science fiction convention, and he was the first person to ever make a living drawing spaceships.
What could be cooler than that?
via the one and only BLDBLOG, with an interesting take on the subject.
posted by signal at 5:12 AM PST - 19 comments
Injunctions in patent cases not automatic. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a
unanimous decision (16 page pdf) on Monday in the dispute between eBay and MercExchange. The Court ruled in favor of eBay finding that the lower Appeals Court erred as a matter of law in creating a general rule that “courts will issue permanent injunctions against patent infringement absent exceptional circumstances.” In the concurring opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Scalia and Ginsberg, Roberts citing Court precedent noted that: “[d]iscretion is not whim, and limiting discretion according to legal standards helps promote the basic principle of justice that like cases should be decided alike.”
posted by three blind mice at 12:01 AM PST - 25 comments
