I guess he’s not so evil after all :(
From The Seattle Times:
It’s the sort of gift that Bill Gates Sr. wanted from his son.
Nothing gaudy or flashy, nothing stylish or sleek. In fact, nothing for himself at all. Instead, something to inspire public service in others, something to give back. Something he has insisted on long before his son became the world’s richest man.
There’s a fascinating article in the SF Weekly covering a 15-month long project at UCSF which has produced what might be the finest portrait of corporate propaganda in America today. Over 7 million documents containing insider information on the tobacco industry’s various tips and techniques on manipulating public opinions and beliefs are now available online through the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Spanning decades, including such wonderful techniques as astroturfing, reverse psychology, and just plain downright dirty tricks, the archive contains a wealth of information for anyone researching marketing, public relations, and propaganda.
Read more on Nothing Can Stop Big Tobacco: The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library…
Holy crap… ok, when Google Video started, Google simply took the Closed-Captioning feed from programs and saved the data, pre-time-synched to the content. Then, when you searched, it would return results from the transcripts. No biggie, right?
The end of October brought us The Japanese Ska Festival “2 TONE TIME” ‘05, featuring bands from ACROSS THE WORLD, traveling to Chiba, Tokyo, and other cities around Japan. Really!!
It’s hard to say, but ska might be alive and well in Japan, and as we’ve learned from the past, everything Japan does we do, eventually! Need proof? Budwiser True Music and the “SF Weekly” Warfield are footing the bill for the husk of ska, hanging on through life-support, to once again rise and get buck-wild. 3rd Wave warriors Goldfinger and Reel Big fish will be banding together January 15th, 2006 to skank the crowds and either provide the last gasp—or life-giving breath—into that lovable genre, ska. Tickets available through Ticketbastard for approximately an arm and a leg.