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Wednesday, December 31

Masquerade

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Turner

Red faces at lost Turner death mask

The Royal Academy of Arts has admitted that a cast of artist J. M. W. Turner's death mask, one of its most historic treasures, may have been stolen.

Staff at the academy have not seen the 152-year-old mask, once kept in a secure store room, for 19 years. Until now, they have insisted the mask had been mislaid.

But on Monday the academy said it had notified the Art Loss Register, a database of stolen artworks, that the mask is missing. via...SMH

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Art - best shows

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Exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are to receive awards of excellence from the International Association of Art Critics/USA in a ceremony on Jan. 12 at the Japan Society. via...NYT

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Tuesday, December 30

Feed of the day

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After just three days live, Scott Allen's Online Business Networking Blog was named Feedster�s Feed of the Day! via...OBN

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Retro

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At the Guggenheim by Hal Foster
"The first painting you see at the James Rosenquist retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York until 25 January is President Elect: a broad headshot of a beaming JFK, manicured fingers with a piece of cake, and the sleek side of a pale green sedan."...via LRB

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Sunday, December 28

Cachou

Dear friend of my dear friend Alex

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Cats and Dogs

The rain was really hard, cats and dogs. The pond is overflowing into the stream, filling the lower deer pond. The water level is higher than the ratty hole on the far bank. We saw him skimming along, nessie like.

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Saturday, December 27

Haggis Hunt...

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Haggis Hunt 2003/04 - The Great Scottish Haggis Hunt - webcams in Scotland When I lived in Scotland, my dogs were intrepid Haggis hunters. They could smell a Haggis a mile away. Visitors from France would enquire about the legendary Haggis! Here is your chance via...The Scotsman

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Friday, December 26

Phonecam Art Expo

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America's first Phonecam Art Show Sixspace,
Los Angeles, CA
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February 6th, 2004 (time
TBD) Exhibition will run through Sunday, February 29.
"SENT will be the first major exhibit of phonecam art in the United States. We'll explore the camera phone's potential as a creative tool in two ways: through an online public dialogue in which amateur photographers and phonecam users around the world share mobile snapshots of their lives; and through an invitational exhibit in which professional photographers, artists, and public figures test the limits of creative possibilities offered by these hybrid devices." via...Boing Boing

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Cat nightmare

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Penguin Warehouse, Inc. - Buy a Pet Penguin Today

10 Reasons to adopt a Penguin
1. The perfect conversation piece for parties!

2. Make great foot-warmers.

3. Lovely lawn ornament.

4. Man's true best friend.

5. Good dancing partner.

6. Bring South Pole home!

7. Come fully dressed in their own tuxedo.

8. Rid house of pesky krill.

9. Good Christmas Decorations!

10. Have you seen a penguin?! via...Newstoday

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Thursday, December 25

Gillmor's gadgets

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My Two Favorite Gadgets of 2003 by Dan Gillmor

"Not much is certain when it comes to technological progress, but at least one kind of change has been reliable in recent years: Devices are getting smaller, cheaper and more capable. Two stand out for me this year, both combining size and function in pathbreaking, powerful ways.

The first is the Treo 600 from Handspring, the Palm spinoff that's now been brought back into the fold under the palmOne brand. There have been other blends of mobile phone, personal organizer and online access, but none has achieved such an ideal blend.

The other device, which I bought in Hong Kong, is scheduled to be available in the U.S. next month. It's a digital camera -- Sony's CyberShot DSC-T1 -- that combines more of the form and function necessities than any previous camera I'd seen.

It's one of the new generation of so-called "credit-card" sized models. Actually it's more like a small, thin deck of cards." more...via Dan Gilmour

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Vaches folles

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U.S. Vegetarian Purveyors Expect Mad Cow Boon By Elinor Mills Abreu

"Health-food purveyors resisted the temptation to gloat on Wednesday as they predicted a boom in business in the wake of the discovery of a suspected case of deadly mad cow disease in the United States." More...via Reuters

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Tuesday, December 23

Texting across the pond

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Text messaging goes trans-Atlantic By Paul Taylor in New York

"Mobile phone users on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean will soon be able to send text messages to each other following an agreement announced on Monday between Britain's Vodafone Group and Verizon Wireless, the biggest US wireless network operator." via FT

Kritik [ ] 23.12.03

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Blackberries

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RIM reaps popularity of BlackBerry By Paul Taylor in New York

"Investors pushed Research In Motion stock sharply higher on Tuesday after the Canadian manufacturer of the popular BlackBerry hand-held communicator reported stronger than expected third-quarter results and issued new earnings guidance triggering a wave of analyst upgrades.

Shares gained more than 51 per cent closing at $69.61 a share on the Nasdaq exchange where they were the most actively traded stock on Tuesday.

The number of BlackBerry subscribers increased by about 154,000 in the third quarter to reach 865,000 subscribers, with over 100,000 outside of North America, with growth particularly strong in Europe through operators such as Vodafone, T-Mobile and MMO2." via FT

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Bird Flu

South Korea's Bird Flu Spreading Across Country By Cho Mee-young

"SEOUL - Nearly a million chickens and ducks will be slaughtered across South Korea (news - web sites) to combat a highly contagious strain of bird flu that has spread across the country and could also infect humans, the government said on Monday.

Avian influenza, which in rare cases can be deadly to humans, has caused poultry sales to tumble as authorities confirm outbreaks at farm after farm across the country." via Reuters

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Smokey Pond haiku by K

Smokey Pond
Pond's smokey surface at dawn,
Black turns gold with rising sun!

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Dear, deer, deer, deer,

We are bustling around getting ready for Christmas, chopping wood and bringing it in to dry between the sunny spells, rain and brief snows. It is so beautiful here, we went out into the woods today in search of firewood, and saw four deer running right by! Little antelopes!

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Currin favours

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Art World Startled as Painter Switches Dealers By ROBERTA SMITH
"He rising young painter John Currin, the subject of a widely acclaimed midcareer survey now at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has startled the art world by leaving the gallery that nurtured him for one of the most powerful and ambitious on the international art scene, a director at his new gallery said."
via NYT

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Monday, December 22

ARKive

ARKiveis a wondeful website. It has masses of information about all the endangered species, with photos and articles. ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of The Wildscreen Trust (www.wildscreen.org.uk).

"Over the past few decades a vast treasury of wildlife images has been steadily accumulating, yet no one has known its full extent - or its gaps - and no one has had a comprehensive way of getting access to it. ARKive will put that right. It will become an invaluable tool for all concerned with the well-being of the natural world."
Sir David Attenborough CH FRS

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Sunday, December 21

Apsley House

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This article brings up all kinds of memories. I grew up not far from Apsley House, off Knightsbridge. I saw it very often then and visited when I was older. Nearly every day Nan would take me for a walk in the park. To feed the ducks in the dell, or see the Horse Guards.

English Heritage To Assume Management Of Apsley House - No.1 London

"The management of Apsley House - the London home of the Duke of Wellington and one of the capital's most important historic buildings is to pass to English Heritage, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell announced today.

Apsley House was designed by Robert Adam between 1771 and 1778. The Duke of Wellington bought the house in 1817 and used it as his London home until his death in 1852. Wellington enlarged the house adding on the 90 foot Waterloo Gallery and enriched it with his magnificent art collection. It has been the London home of the Dukes of Wellington ever since. Further details are given on the website at www.apsleyhouse.org.uk.

It acquired its famous address - No.1 London - soon after it was built due to its prominent location as the first house encountered after the toll-gate into London from the villages of Knightsbridge and Kensington to the west." via DCMS

Kritik [ ] 21.12.03

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Second sight

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"You might not have noticed but the Copyright and Related Rights Regulation 2003 came into force at the end of October. It is a new piece of legislation - modelled on the European Union Copyright Directive - designed to help the movie and music industries battle what they see as the cancer of piracy." via The Guardian

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British blog awards 2003

Bloggzen - The best of British blogging

"The Guardian's second British blog awards found the country's webloggers in fine form, with last year's high standards maintained. Simon Waldman, chair of the judges, hands out the accolades.

These have not been easy awards to judge. Deciding whether one blog is "better" than another is never straightforward, but as both the quality and diversity in the blogging universe increases, that decision is only getting harder. In almost every category, the judges were divided."
via The Guardian

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Saturday, December 20

Book reveiw by KJR

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Couples by Jophn Updike

Another look at the American Dream and the pursuit of wealth and hedonism gone sour. Though I am only a quarter of the way through this book, you just know that there isn't going to be a happy ending, since in all the ways we judge people to be deserving of happiness, such as having wisdom, good intentions, generosity of spirit, and charity of heart, these characters are lacking, however prosperous, well-bred and educated. More>>

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Helping our fellows

Every year we say this year will be different -- that we will buy more meaningful gifts for our loved ones, that we don't want to buy more things. This year, give a gift that is both meaningful and personal. Protect a child, provide sanctuary for an abused or discarded animal, plant a tree.
SPONSOR A CHILD
ADOPT A MARINE MAMMAL
PLANT A TREE
ADOPT A FARM ANIMAL
ADOPT A WOLF
ADOPT A GORILLA
ADOPT A SNOWY OWL
ADOPT A WHALE
ADOPT A CHIMPANZEE

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Friday, December 19

Crow! haiku by K

Rising, flapping from green meadows,
Perching on a fence post.
Crow!

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Thursday, December 18

In Vino...Vita

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Nature.com In a further boost to its image as a healthy elixir, red wine has been identified as a potential source of new anti-cancer agents.

A group of French chemists has found that red wine contains a chemical compound called acutissimin A. The molecule has previously shown promise as an anti-cancer drug.

"It would be quite inappropriate to infer that red wine possesses anti-tumour properties," warn St�phane Quideau, of the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology in Pessac, and his colleagues. But, they point out, it could be worth mining red wine for compounds related to acutissimin A.

Acutissimin A was discovered 16 years ago in the bark of the sawtooth oak. It blocks the action of an important enzyme, and in so doing might prevent the growth of cancerous cells. In preliminary tests, it has proved 250 times more potent than the clinical anti-cancer drug VP-16. More>>

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Sunday, December 14

Play time

Wonderfull flash by Manny Tan [ uncontrol ]

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7 things you can do to save the rainforest

This is a very important list, especially with all the paper being squandered at Christmas. Think before you get the store to wrap your gifts for you. Better still go and see the manager, suggest that they use recycled paper. It will help bring awareness to their customers and spread the word to save the rainforests.
7 things you can do to save the rainforest

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Guest Artist

I am very pleased to be featuring on Artzen the distinguished Dutch painter Wouter Verrips.

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Saturday, December 13

Turner Prize

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This year the winner of the Turner Prize is a potter.

Grayson Perry (winner) was born in Chelmsford in 1960. He studied at Braintree College of Further Education and at Portsmouth Polytechnic. In the early 1980s Perry was a member of the Neo-Naturist group, and took part in performance and film works. He has continued to make work in a variety of media which now includes embroidery and photography. Yet Perry is best known for his ceramic works: classically shaped vases covered with figures, patterns and text.

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Thursday, December 11

Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky

Bookzen Review by KJR

The major preoccupation of Crime and Punishment is fairly nightmarish, being a ruminaton about committing a grisly crime in order to steal money; and then an even more intense, fearful obsession that the crime has been discovered. As a crime novel, this book may be among the very first detective fictions, other than the even earlier Edgar Allen Poe works, that delve into both the psychology of the criminal and of the detective. As a crime story, or "Policier" as they say in French, it is fairly engaging. The character of Porfiry Petrovitch prefigures that of the TV detective Lieutenant Columbo, and there is even a discussion on the circumlocutions of investigation and interrogation.

This work, like all of Dostoevsky, .....read more>>

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Tuesday, December 9

Olympic dog plight

A Swiss animal rights campaigner clad in a dog costume tied himself to a 4-meter crucifix at the Greek Embassy in Berlin yesterday to protest the alleged killing of stray dogs in Athens before the Olympics. Draped in a banner bearing the slogan �No blood for the Olympics,� 23-year-old Max Sartore said he would stay on the crucifix for three days, taking five hours a day off for sleep. (Reuters)

It is outrageous that they should be even thinking about geting rid of the "street" dogs. Just because they did this barbaric thing in the far east recently!

I have lived in Athens for years. The street dogs are loved and cared for by everyone. They may be living "on the street" but they have their places to sleep, food and personal carers. They are mostly vaccinated, etc. They have their freinds and don't bother anyone. I did a series of paintings of the Athenian street dogs, as they are very dear to me. Here are some photos I took of them in Glyfada. If I could I would adopt all of them!

Here you can read a very interesting article about the stray dogs of Athens, thank you Matt.

Athens, host of the 2004 Olympics, launched a plan last week to sterilize more than 10,000 stray dogs ahead of the Games in measures condemned by animal rights groups as ill thought-out and insufficient.

Give the strays of Greece a sporting chance to survive the Olympic Games 2004!

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Kritik [ ] 9.12.03

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GAUGUIN-TAHITI

L'atelier des tropiques
Grand Palais, Paris, until January 4
Gauguin's dream of freedom A reveiw by Nicholas Wadley in the TLS 04 December 2003

"This dense, complicated, but memorable exhibition covers the years following Gauguin's two departures for Tahiti, first (for two years) in 1891, and then definitively in 1895. It concludes with work from his final eighteen months in the Marquesas, 1901-3. What it makes clearer than any other major Gauguin show is that he was more a maker of things than a born painter, a condition which was both cause and effect of the great gulf between his art and that of his contemporaries. "Gauguin wasn't a painter", Cezanne fumed to Emile Bernard. "He was only a maker of Chinese pictures." We leave the Grand Palais in no doubt of why he was such an alienating presence."

In Bretagne one sees much about Gauguin's work that he did in Pont Aven. I find them very depressing and gloomy. In contrast to his Tahitian period, which is full of the heat an serenity of the island.

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Monday, December 8

Phone results

The phones selected by them were all "Coming soon!" nokia

There was nothing actually buyable that was suitable for me!

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Sunday, December 7

Nokia phone profile

This started out as a serious quest for the ideal communication device. On the Nokia site I clicked find phone and this page appeared with a kind of profiling quiz.
Try it, it may be useful for deciding what present to buy someone!

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Saturday, December 6

House party

Guardian Unlimited Travel | Saturday section | House party
"And then there's the staff. Having butlers and maids on tap certainly avoids those old flatshare arguments about the washing up, but it does rather impinge on your privacy and make you over-conscious of being in someone else's house."

There can be difficult moments...and one can feel as though one is not in one's own house sometimes! This is about renting super villas to get away from the cold. Not what you thought...

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Call of the wild

Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Call of the wild
Derided and marginalised, nature writing in Britain has been in decline for 70 years. But the winner of this year's Guardian First Book Award, Robert Macfarlane, detects signs of a renaissance

Saturday December 6, 2003
The Guardian

In or around November 1932, nature writing in Britain was dealt a death-blow by Stella Gibbons. Cold Comfort Farm, one of the finest parodies written in English, took as its target the rural novels of Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, the Brontë sisters and DH Lawrence. Mercilessly, Gibbons sought out and sent up the hallmarks of the rural genre: all those characters called Amos or Jeb, all those idiots savants, all that loam and, especially, all those gushingly naïve descriptions of "nature" and "landscape". Gibbons's book was such a wickedly brilliant skit it became that rare literary object; a parody that remained standing once the genre it mocked had collapsed."

I often heard someone at home referring to Cold comfort farm....

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Museum Prize

Museum of Health Care in Turkey wins Council of Europe Museum Prize. "The Council of Europe's Museum Prize for 2004 has been awarded to the Museum of Health Care in Edirne, Turkey, for its successful and exemplary approach to the theme of mental disorder. The Prize is awarded annually to a museum judged to have made a significant contribution to the understanding of European cultural heritage. At a ceremony on 27 April 2004 in Strasbourg, during the Parliamentary Assembly’s session, the museum will be presented with a bronze statuette by Joan Miró, as well as a diploma and a cheque for 5 000 euros."

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Friday, December 5

Fish tails

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Europe sticks with quota cuts to preserve fish stocks: "Proposals unveiled today follow the most devastating scientific advice so far on the state of fishing, particularly in the North sea, Irish sea and off the west coast of Scotland, where cod is facing extinction. " This is good but not enough. The fishermen don't understand, there will be no fish soon.

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Tuesday, December 2

Mobile threat to sparrows

I found this on textually.org
The Hindu Business Line : More mobiles, and sparrows take flight
"Dr Vijayan also pointed out that sparrows are found to be disappearing from areas where mobile towers are installed. He said increased exposure to electromagnetic waves also affects small animals. For example, in rats, it is found that the sperm count has decreased while in the case of chicken embryonic, mortality has become very high. There could be more examples, he added."

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