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Thursday, February 26

Don't Trash Wildlife

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The Humane Society of the United States says >

If you're hiking, camping, or picnicking this summer or simply taking a walk in the park take care to dispose of containers and plastic wrap responsibly. Wild animals are attracted to items you throw away.

Glass jars still smelling of peanut butter, plastic containers with a bit of yogurt at the bottom, plastic food wrap that looks and smells good enough to eat, and plastic six-pack rings all can be deadly to curious and hungry squirrels, birds, raccoons, skunks, foxes, and other animals.

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....archipelago

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Protesting fishers continue occupation on Galapagos Islands

QUITO, Ecuador. Fishermen demanding an end to regulations aimed at protecting the Galapagos Islands occupied national park buildings on two of the islands for a fifth day Wednesday, blocking tourist access to the archipelago's unique giant tortoises, officials said. via...AP

Turtles in danger

Galapagos Fishermen's Siege Raises Environmental Questions

WWF experts offer insight on stakes and options for resolution

The ongoing occupation of national park offices and a research station in the Galapagos Islands is prompting serious questions about the impact of demands for their release on natural and economic health of the Islands. The small group of fishermen holding the facilities on Isabela and Santa Cruz Islands are demanding an end to fishing regulations designed to protect the world renowned archipelago.via...World Wildlife Fund US

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Poesie d'amour

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100 Greatest Love Poems ever Written on Poetry.com

In Love
Wanting Love
Lost Love
Love of Life
Love of Friends
Power of Love

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the library of the earl of macclesfield removed from shirburn castle

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Lot# 1: ALDROVANDI, ULISSE (1522-1605).

The publication of Aldrovandi's works is complicated, involved a number of editors, and patrons, and carried on for many years after his death in 1605.

In fact only four volumes were published in his lifetime, when the author was in his eighties. At his death he bequeathed his library, unpublished manuscripts and museum (the greatest of its day) to the city of Bologna.

Among other things, his work is notable for describing or figuring several birds for the first time, including the toucan and the bird of paradise.

A fine set of perhaps the most beautiful zoological encyclopaedia of the renaissance comprising:...details Sotheby's

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London Bus Chic

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Fashion queen Zandra Rhodes has unveiled a London bus she designed in her own flamboyant style.

The orange and pink double-decker is in public service in the capital as part of the city's One Amazing Week series of events.Ms Rhodes quipped that she has no idea how much a standard bus fare costs - as she always used her pensioner's' pass. via...ITV

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Wednesday, February 25

Michelin Man Jolts French Food World

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By ELAINE SCIOLINO PARIS
THE French culinary world's code of silence cracked like the crust of a creme brulee once Pascal Remy started dishing.

For the 16 years that Mr. Remy was a restaurant inspector for the Michelin guide, the fat red food-lover's bible that bestows stars on France's best tables, he kept diaries, even as he kept quiet. via...NYT

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Saturday, February 21

Saint Francis was right

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WA S.B. 6114 False Animal Terrorism Bill Bill Number: S.B. 6114
Bill Sponsor(s): Sen. Val Stevens (R, 39)
HSUS Position: Oppose
Last Action: 12/10/03: Prefiled.

Creates the crime of animal rights/ecological terrorism, defining it as an association of two or more people with the primary or incidental purpose of supporting politically motivated activities through means intended to deter participation in activities involving animals.

Makes it a crime to enter an animal or research facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other means with the intent to defame the facility or its owner.

Applies to any animal organization or any person acting for its benefit, or any individual whose intent to commit the activity was politically motivated.

Includes a web registry with pictures of offenders, to be created by the attorney general.

The only exemptions to this bill are for animal control authorities or recognized animal shelters or humane societies acting in the course and scope of their employment.

Text and Status of S.B. 6114

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Saint Francis of Assisi

"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough.

We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

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Am I a Picasso?

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"Famille Arlequin"
Photo courtesy of Sotheby's whilst the work was in thier Paris office.

I am very excited to be part of this extraordinary discovery.Two Picasso images probably dating from 1905, have been recently discovered in France. Please go to the site http://www.amiapicasso.4t.com to see both images and read about their enthralling history. Please contact me if you have any ideas, or are an expert in this feild. Thank you.

Both pictures are mirror-images on opposite sides of the same sheet of paper. This newly discovered single sheet of paper thus contains two previously unknown Picasso renderings, of a very famous Picasso image.

The two pictures are, in fact, identical in subject matter and treatment to the famous "Famille Arlequin" and were very probably completed on the same day in March 1905. More to the point, the basic ink composition for Famille Arlequin was, most likely, completed at the very same instant, as part of the same printing process....read more>

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Flickr, Flickr, Flickr,

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Last week I visited Glish, he mentioned that he was working on Flickr. It was launched at ETech.

Flickr

The Flickr Creation Myth
The idea for Flickr occurred in November 2003 when one of Ludicorp's team members was on a business trip to New York and contracted a miserable case of food poisoning. Up all night, feverish and unable to sleep, he had a brainstorm: what if we put live chat together with social networks and enabled people to share media with one another in real time? He brought the idea back to the Ludicorp team in Vancouver, British Columbia where they mulled it over...more>

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Deal Struck to Slow Global Species Loss

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) By Patrick Chalmers - Rich and poor countries struck a draft deal on Friday to slow the loss of plant and animal species, agreeing to speed work on creating protected areas and rewarding developing states for their natural assets. via...Reuters

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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Scientists Say Administration Distorts Facts By JAMES GLANZ

More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad.

The sweeping accusations were later discussed in a conference call organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an independent organization that focuses on technical issues and has often taken stands at odds with administration policy. On Wednesday, the organization also issued a 38-page report detailing its accusations.via..."> NYT

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Friday, February 20

Social Networking Gossip....

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This shows how much these sites are mentioned, not how much they are frequented...

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tukro_orkut

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Tukro is an onliney type of people association weblog complaint brainstorming thing.

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Georkut

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Find out who is where on Orkut. via...Bill Vick

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Saturday, February 14

The Madonna of the Pinks

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National Gallery Wins Fight for 'Madonna' Painting By Sherna Noah, PA News

The National Gallery has won its fight to keep the Renaissance masterpiece, the Madonna of the Pinks in Britain, it announced today.

The museum has been campaigning for 18 months to retain the tiny Raphael painting, since its owner, the Duke of Northumberland, agreed to sell the work to the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

In January last year the National Gallery was given breathing space when the Department of Culture, Media & Sport slapped an export ban on the artwork going abroad.

Today, the museum, where the painting has been on long-term loan since 1991, announced that it had bought the canvas for �22 million. via...The Scotsman

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This takes the bait!

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orca

Et in Orcadia ego...

Very funny spoof on orkut by Davezilla

Also, on Corante - Why Orkut doesn't work.

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Thursday, February 12

Haikus by K

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Crane Flight
three giant cranes, screeching, flying high, into the wind

Spring Frost
touched by frost, leaves and branches, all in white, like after snow

Spring's sprays
mists of violet, yellow, red and green, sprays of spring's buds.

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Monday, February 9

BuddySpace - SpaceBuddy?

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BuddySpace is an instant messenger with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations in addition to standard 'buddy lists'; (2) it is built on open source Jabber, which makes it interoperable with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and others; (3) it is implemented in Java, so it is cross-platform; (4) it is built by a UK research lab, so it is 100% free with full sources readiily available. via...blogging.la thank you Sean

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Sunday, February 8

Back to Russia with love!

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The 9 Imperial Eggs

Sotheby's announces private sale of the forbes collection of faberge to Russian industrialist. MR. VICTOR VEKSELBERG plans to return the eggs to Russia

February 4, 2004 -- "Sotheby's announced today that the Forbes Collection of Faberge, which had been scheduled to be sold at auction in New York on April 20th and 21st, has been sold privately to a prominent Russian industrialist, Mr. Victor Vekselberg, for an undisclosed amount. Prior to returning to Russia, highlights from the Collection, including the fabled nine Imperial Easter Eggs, will be on public exhibition at Sotheby's in New York, at a date to be announced shortly. Sotheby's negotiated this private transaction on behalf of the Forbes family."

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Truffes

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UZES JOURNAL
Voila, the Chinese Truffle (the French Accent Is Fake) By Craig S. Smith

Uzes, France; A lively black and white mongrel named Dolly raced around beneath a grove of gnarled oak trees here with its nose to the ground before suddenly scratching frantically in the dark earth.

"Wait for me," shouted Dolly's owner, Michel Tournayre, a lean man of 40 wearing a brown leather vest and carrying a small pickax. Kneeling beside the dog, he pushed her snout aside, and dug out a hard plum-sized ball of black fungus. "That's 30 euros," or nearly $40, he said, holding the truffle and giving it an enthusiastic sniff. via...NYT

I lived near Uzes on and off for years. I was lucky to be given a truffle hunting puppy in a garage near Mont Ventoux. Quenin was the best in every way, a bracque de provence, alas she died of nose cancer a few years ago. A French book about Les Truffes came out then, it was very good, a sculduggerous tale, following in the wake of "A year in Provence" and all that truffe.

Once having bought some antiques from a chap near Avignon, we were presented with a bottle of local hooch and a plastic bag full of truffes. That evening we tested the hooch in the fire, apparently it makes you go blind. The home made Pastis has other attributes, it makes you go mad! I know several victims. The real Pastis is not much better, be carefull, I hate the taste it is like Ouzo, which can only be drunk in a deserted cove during urchin gouging.

The kilo of truffes were exceptional. Worth probably more than the things he delivered. Most of them added to an omelette and the rest kept by the eggs to flavour them for the future.

About three years ago some friends took us to party near Cahors. We stopped off to see a truffle hunter. It was cold, his pet pig was not in the mood. That evening there was a Jazz party truffle fest up the hill. 100 people, truffes galore, in scrambled eggs, in mashed potatoes, in sausages. 7 different wines and champagne. My companion asked for mustard...much to the graciosly concealed consternation of our friends.

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Saturday, February 7

Pick up a penguin...a...

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penguin passion

Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name By Dinitia Smith
Roy and Silo, two chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, are completely devoted to each other. For nearly six years now, they have been inseparable. They exhibit what in penguin parlance is called "ecstatic behavior": that is, they entwine their necks, they vocalize to each other, they have sex. Silo and Roy are, to anthropomorphize a bit, gay penguins. When offered female companionship, they have adamantly refused it. And the females aren't interested in them, either. via... NYT

I have lived with dogs and cats, many of them have been gay:)

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HORSEKILLERS.COM
Sign the petition to end horse slaughter in Illinois!

The American tradition of loving and respecting horses existed long before there was a United States. Americans counted on horses to build this nation; to plow the fields and to carrying soldiers to battle. Horses are for many people part of their family, and they are considered to be companion animals, just as dogs and cats are.

Unfortunately, not everyone in the United States is willing to give the horse the respect it deserves. There are those who are willing to see horses killed for profit, and that is who this website seeks to expose. Horse slaughter proponents claim to care about horses, but the facts and the video footage tell a very different story. via... sharkonline

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Friday, February 6

Red squirrel given sanctuary from the grey invader

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England's dwindling population of red squirrels was thrown a lifeline yesterday with the creation of a forest refuge to protect them against the advance of their grey cousins. By Ian Herbert, North of England Correspondent via... The Independent

What I liked most about Palo Alto were the beautiful black squirrels, skunks and Racoons, I saw scampering around the town!

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Wednesday, February 4

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono

Odyssey of a Cockroach
Exhibitions: Thu 05 Feb - Sun 07 Mar 2004.

'Ono has pulled off a difficult and delicate task, creating a highly theatrical mise en scene that makes the viewer feel personally involved rather than overwhelmed' Time Out, NY

The exhibition is an offsite project, which will be held in a 3 storey gallery space at: 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW. Nearest Tubes: Angel/Old Street. 12-7.30pm daily free entry

Odyssey of a Cockroach was first seen at Deitchs Projects, New York, late last year.

Yoko Ono: Give peace a chance (again)
She describes herself as an artist, but to us Yoko Ono will always be John's weird widow. At 70, she's as rebellious as ever, but how can she hope to put the world to rights from a sumptuous Manhattan apartment? David Usborne enters her world. via...The Independent

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Monday, February 2

Orkut or not Orkut

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"Orkut is a community of friends and trusted acquaintances that connects individuals through a social network that grows person by person."

Starting as you mean to go on. The birth of this latest lemming lure has been upsetting to many. Firstly because the door was massively closed to all but a select few. Secondly there has been much unexplained angst meted out to its august members. (or inadvertant "jail birds")

Orkut member communities discussing these problems:-
Flaws in orkut
Jail
Orkut
Orkut Beta
Orkut Design
Orkut Freelance Police
orkut: Tips, feedback, ?'s
Privacy
The Orkut Times
Wacky Orkut Subversives
What should Orkut do?

One somewhat perplexed Orkutter is Christopher Allen "I've been trying to keep up on these developments in my blog." http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/
Followup on Orkut I've read of emails, Orkut messages, and blog postings since my post yesterday, so I thought I would share some with you. There have been a number of good posts, as well as user comments at Danah Boyd's blog Apophenia.

More from Marc de Alcatraz

Hopefully these are all just the joys of alfa testing?...

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Sunday, February 1

Author leaves club

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Robert Harris, author of Enigma, Fatherland and Pompeii, has left the 197 year old Literary Society. Thus adding to the unrest resulting from the recent enstatement of Lord Armstrong as president.

There were difficult moments at the recent club commitee meeting. Due possibly to the fact that he has never written a book!

Read the Telegraph article.

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Grapes and raisins put dogs at risk

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HINTS FROM HELOISE - King Features Syndicate
Dear Heloise: I think it's important to advise your readers that grapes and raisins can be toxic to dogs. An article in a dog magazine reported that a dachshund died after eating only four or five grapes. The article indicated most dogs can handle a few grapes or raisins. But given the risk, why not eliminate grapes and raisins from a dog's diet altogether?

-- Lilli Binder, Mechanicsburg, Pa. via...Houston Chronicle

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C-Summit is the must-attend conference of the year!

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"If you are venturing into the exploding global Cameraphone market, this singular conference will provide a valuable opportunity for senior executives, investors, and entrepreneurs to exchange ideas with your peers.
A stunning program of industry leaders, visionaries and mavericks will discuss practical solutions and innovative strategies that are defining the dynamic new market for mobile imaging and multimedia. This conference is drawing top industry leaders and decision-makers, world class innovators, and elusive media contacts.

Sun, surf, sea, and a million dollar golf tournament!" via...c-summit

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

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