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Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , add a commentWhat’s going on Friday?
Little Boots @ Knitting Factory during CMJ (more by Chris La Putt)
today in NYC * DANCE * Tunde @ the Stone * Little Boots @ Studo B * Kria Brekken @ the Stone * Beirut & Kaki King @ BAM * Valient Thorr @ The Shank * Cat Power @ Apollo Theater * The English Beat @ Irving Plaza * The Giraffes @ Mercury Lounge * Murder By Death @ Bowery Ballroom * Final Fantasy & Matt Smith @ the Kitchen * Andrew W.K. & Cheeseburger @ Santos Party House * Project Jenny / Project Jan @ South Street Seaport * Woods, Blank Dogs, WAVVES, Nodzzz & Gary War @ Market Hotel * The Black Keys, Lucero & The Heartless Bastards @ Terminal 5 * These Are Powers, Bird Names & Hearts of Darknesses @ 92YTribeca * These United States, Rural Alberta Advantage & Wynn Walent @ Union Hall
There is also a Dark Was the Night listening party tonight.
This weekend is NY Comic Con.
Beirut will also be on David Letterman tonight.
Franz Ferdinand will be on the late show with Craig Ferguson tonight.
TVOTR are playing SNL Saturday.
What else?
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Lakers celtics February 6, 2009
Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , add a commentNot Enough action movies
There’s no shame in the way this team played, but it still hurts. Celtics fall in overtime.
All in all this was a classic Celtics/Lakers game. It was hard fought, chippy (without being over the top), back and forth, and dramatic. It just didn’t end the way we wanted it to drama movies.
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See you in the Finals. We’ll be ready.
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Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , 1 comment so farObama to create faith council, following through on a campaign promise
After President Obama speaks Thursday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, he’s scheduled to return to the White House to sign an executive order forming the President’s Advisory Council on Faith. An administration official released some details tonight on condition of anonymity because the formal roll-out had not yet occured. The initiatives will include creating a 25-member council of secular and religious leaders to advise on policy issues; and a continuation of the basic structure of President Bush’s office of faith-based initiatives, with a White House Office, and Centers for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the executive agencies. These could run programs including job training, assimilation for ex-offenders and international programs for HIV/AIDS.
Obama last July, while campaigning, promised to roll out such a program and said it would “help set our national agenda.” He had criticized Bush’s program as politicized and underfunded. Obama also said then that he would insist that federal funds to religious groups go only to secular programs that don’t proselytize. Some advocates of faith-based groups predicted that if Obama insisted on secular hiring mandates as a result, it would frustrate religious groups of all kinds including black churches. But groups advocating church-state separation praised Obama’s pledge.
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Google Earth dives under the sea February 4, 2009
Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , add a commentGoogle has lifted the lid on its first major upgrade to its global mapping software, Google Earth.
Google Ocean expands this map to include large swathes of the ocean floor and abyssal plain.
Users can dive beneath a dynamic water surface to explore the 3D sea floor terrain.
The map also includes 20 content layers, containing information from the world’s leading scientists, researchers, and ocean explorers.
Al Gore was at the launch event in San Francisco which, Google hopes, will take its mapping software a step closer to total coverage of the entire globe.
In a statement, Mr Gore said that the update would make Google Earth a “magical experience”.
“You can not only zoom into whatever part of our planet’s surface you wish to examine in closer detail, you can now dive into the world’s ocean that covers almost three-quarters of the planet and discover new wonders that had not been accessible in previous versions.”
Approximately 70% of the world’s surface is covered by water, which contains nearly 80% of all life - yet less than 5% of it has actually been explored.
Google Ocean aims to let users visit some of the more interesting locations, including underwater volcanoes, as well as running videos on marine life, shipwrecks and clips of favourite surf and dive spots.
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Conservation organisations hope the tool will improve awareness of issues facing undersea life.
“With this, everybody can see the unbelievable beauty of our marine life and how incredibly threatened it is,” said Carl Gustaf Lundin, head of the global marine programme at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
“We hope this major technological innovation will get the public more involved in marine conservation and encourage governments and businesses to stop driving ocean species to extinction.”
Coloured worlds
The new features were developed in close collaboration with oceanographer Sylvia Earle and an advisory council of more than 25 ocean advocates and scientists.
Sylvia Earle, the National Geographic Society’s explorer in residence, said the new features would bring the blue planet to life.
“I cannot imagine a more effective way to inspire awareness and caring for the blue heart of the planet than the new ocean in Google Earth.
“For the first time, everyone from curious kids to serious researchers can see the world, the whole world, with new eyes,” she added.
There are also updates on the terrestrial side, including GPS tracking, virtual time travel (where users can observe changes in satellite images, such as the 2006 World Cup stadium or the desertification of Africa’s Lake Chad) and narrated tours of imagery and content in Google Earth.
There are also updates to the Mars 3D section, so if users have had enough of the blue planet, they can always look at the red one.
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Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , 1 comment so farThe L.A. Times, Obama & renditions
(updated below - Update II)
Other commitments prevented me from writing today (in particular, I finalized the proposal and outline for my next book, an event that prompts great joyousness). But numerous people have emailed all day, and otherwise expressed concern, about this Los Angeles Times article from yesterday that claims — citing anonymous “current and former U.S. intelligence officials” — that the Obama administration has preserved and continued the Bush administration’s “rendition” program that created so much (justifiable) outrage around the world.
The L.A. Times article is wildly exaggerated and plainly inaccurate. Harper’s Scott Horton and The Washington Monthly’s Hilzoy have typically thorough explanations as to why that is the case. Anyone with any doubts should read both of their commentaries. Suffice to say, the objections to the Bush “extraordinary rendition” program were that “rendered” individuals were abducted and then either (a) sent to countries where they would likely be tortured and/or (b) disappeared into secret U.S. camps (”black sites”) or sent to Guantanamo and accorded no legal process of any kind. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that Obama will continue any of that and, as Hilzoy documents, there is ample basis to believe he will not. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time today to dissect the Times‘ claims in detail, but Horton and Hilzoy both say virtually everything that should be said on the topic.
I do, though, want to add two brief points:
First, it is very important to keep in mind that there are numerous factions with a very compelling interest in claiming that the Obama administration is preserving and continuing the most extreme Bush ”counter-terrorism” policies, regardless of whether or not it’s true:
(1) Bush followers eager to claim that their leader has been vindicated because Obama is replicating his policies;
(2) People who have long argued that there is no difference between the parties, that “the system” is irrevocably corrupted, and that Obama will change nothing, who are eager to claim that their “no-difference” worldview has already been vindicated by the 11-day old administration (”See! After 11 days, it’s proven that Obama is no different than Bush, just as we’ve been saying”);
(3) Members of the intelligence community who do not want any new limits imposed on their activities and thus, hiding behind anonymity, use these leaks to pressure Obama not to impose them (”intelligence officials say that Obama is just pretending to change these policies in order to fool/placate the Left, but he knows and believes we urgently need these powers to keep the U.S. safe and he will therefore keep them in place”); and,
(4) Establishment media figures, eager to depict Obama as supportive of, rather than hostile to, prevailing policies, because they spent the last eight years supporting and enabling those policies as integral servants of the political establishment and do not want Obama’s election to be perceived as a repudiation of that establishment and its various behaviors.
I want to be clear: none of this is to say that Obama won’t continue many of the worst Bush policies. He very well might (even in the case of rendition) and, in other cases, he probably will. Vigilance in this regard is absolutely required. The point here is that there are all sorts of groups eager to claim that Obama has already decided to embrace Bush policies before there is any actual evidence that he has done so, or — as here — even when there is evidence that he hasn’t. For that reason, these reports about what Obama “intends” to do ought to be taken with a huge dose of skepticism, especially where, as here, it is fed to uninformed, gullible reporters by anonymous intelligence operatives.
As I find myself repeating quite often, it makes no sense to attack (or praise) Obama for predicted actions. It’s possible that the group I referenced in item (2) above may turn out to be right, or it’s possible that those who see Obama as some transcendent, transformative change agent will be. I doubt either of those two extremes will be vindicated, but what should determine one’s judgment on that question is what Obama actually does, not what anonymous reports claim he “intends” to do. Those who reflexively criticize every Obama action because they predicted long ago that he would be the same as Bush and want that prediction to b
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Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , add a commentFacebook’s face time at Davos
Facebook download action movies seems to have turned some heads at the high-profile World Economic Forum with its real-time feedback and polling set-ups.
CNN reported from the Davos, Switzerland, gathering of government and business leaders that Facebook, along with YouTube and MySpace, brought social networking to new prominence in such elite company, from which it can often seem a generation gap away.
Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg was especially enthusiastic about the response, according to CNN.
“when you look at the audience you can really ride out this eureka mo in their eyes when they see download comedy 2,500 responses hit in three minutes,” she said. “it’s been really riveting to see how facebook users are guiding some of these discussions and the way that wide-ranging leaders are conditions looking at this as a place for insight and to squeeze in a valid opportunity pulse.”
Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director, was equally effusive in an interview with Britain’s Sunday Telegraph. “Davos is really a key place to launch an instant tool like this,” she told the newspaper.
“i had tons of people saying ‘this could be so extraordinary in search our business.’ it takes a very long point to do a distinct gather, and businesses instances don’t have the luxuriousness of time. i think they liked the instant responses,” she said.
With the instant tool she’s referring to, Facebook posed questions to some of its worldwide users and then within minutes presented responses to Davos delegates. For instance, the Telegraph said, Facebook polled users in both Palestine and Israel about global peace, and solicited responses from 120,000 U.S members about whether President Obama’s stimulus package would save the U.S. economy.
The Telegraph story goes further, however, to claim that Facebook is poised to let multinational companies target specially selected subsets of its 150 million active members–based on “intimate details” such as marital status or sexual preference–to carry out product research.
That seems rather a stretch, however well the instant polling tool played in Davos. Facebook has been excoriated in the past by its users and its critics for what they see as invasions of privacy.
The Telegraph story may be reading too much into the Engagement Ads program that Facebook launched in August. As CNET News’ Caroline McCarthy pointed out at the time:
what facebook calls “engagement ads” won’t be the magical mend, because it simply won’t composition for most advertisers. rather, it’s a niche opportunity that will undoubtedly lead to totally successful campaigns for some brands–and high-returns blunders for others.
Facebook was not immediately available for comment.
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Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , add a commentDCist Interview: Lykke Li
photo by kyle gustafson swedish songstress lykke li had quite a year in 2008. her enter album, youth novels, was released all terminated the the public to skilled fanfare. its mixture of hip-voyage, folk and soda pop influences, coupled with li’s sugary sweet vocals, proved irresistible to music fans on both sides of the atlantic looking for sweden’s next matchless music export. li took time out her hectic schedule to chat with dcist on the eve of her latest us tour. she plays a sold out show at the 6th and i consequential synagogue tonight.
Looking back on 2008, how would you rate it? Seems like things went pretty well for you.
Yeah, it has been an excellent year. Just getting my album out in all these different territories and building up a platform and an audience and having all these amazing tours.
I saw the announcement today that you are part of this year’s Coachella festival.
Yeah. That was one of my crazy, out there goals. Coachella! I can’t believe I’m going to play there. It’s going to be amazing. I haven’t done any American festivals other than South By Southwest. I’ve only done European and Australian ones.
Your American tour starts on Friday in Philadelphia. How do you gear up for a tour?
I don’t have a lot of time off, so it usually just goes on and on and on and on, so the only thing to prepare is to stay sane and to not get sick. I don’t plan that much. We just do it, you know? I bring lots of black clothes.
Are you changing up the set at all? I know you did a Vampire Weekend cover on your last tour.
I’m not going to do the Vampire Weekend thing but I have some other things in mind that I’m going to do. We’ll see.
I really liked your Tribe cover that you did at the end of your set.
I think that’s going to stay because I love that song.
I saw it on YouTube before I saw your show in person, and I thought it was a bit strange. But after seeing viagra kaufen ohne rezept you live, it really fit in with the rest of your set and the vibe of your show. I wasn’t expecting how hip-hop your show is. It must be a big influence on you.
Yeah, it is. I love hip hop.
You performed with Q-Tip not too long ago. That must have been a real treat.
Yeah, on the MTVu Woodies awards. It was amazing. I was quite nervous. I felt like I took water over my head, because I can’t rap, you know? But I still really wanted to do it because I love him and it would be so crazy to say no.
There’s also a video of you doing a cover of Rick Ross’ “Hustlin’.”
I don’t know why that is out everywhere because that was at a private party in LA that I did. I don’t know why that is floating around. I didn’t know it was going to be everywhere. It was more of a spur of the moment thing, I would not like to be judged by it.
photo by kyle gustafson do you have some merge of dancing history? during your flaunt you are this whirling dervish on stage. you’re quite a performer.
I like performance art. I did some dancing when I was younger levitra ohne rezept but that is not the type of dancing I do now. When I am on stage I just go with the flow. I would probably dance that way even if I never took a dance class in my whole life. My dancing background doesn’t really have anything to do with the way I move on stage.
Your album, Youth Novels, was produced by Bjorn Yittling of Peter Bjorn and John fame. How did that come about?
I was working on some songs and I made this demo that I started sending out to people. And then somebody contacted me and said, “you are good, but I think it would be cool for you to work with a producer,” because I hate to do everything by myself. So I got his phone number, and then we got on really well and started working.
So you just cold called him?
Yeah. I’m like “Do you want to have a coffee? I have some music,” and he was like, “OK.”
Was this before or after “Young Folks”?
Before. If I called him after he would never have the time to meet me.
How long did it take you to actually record the album?
It was different, because I met him when he was on the verge of breaking in America, so we started working on some songs — but then he was away all the time touring. I was li
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Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , add a commentThe Juice Blog: Sticker Deity
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Posted by sophoristicallyspeaking in : Uncategorized , add a commentOrioles: Out of options
the right trade for chicago cubs pitcher rich hill, which was reported by baltimore sun reporters jeff zrebiec and dan connolly yesterday, would add still another participant to the orioles’ roster cialis kaufen who is antiquated of minor combination options. that means the club has to keep him in the major leagues or salt him through waivers to send him to triple-a norfolk. it probably won’t be a particularly tough steadfastness, since hill is a talented guy who has lost his thorough grasp and will either get it deceitfully under familiar coaches rick kranitz and alan dunn or be considered no great loss on waivers. but he will be far from peerless in that roster predicament when he reports to fort lauderdale with the other pitchers and catchers on feb. 14. the orioles have seven players with less than five years of major league service who are out of options, including brian bass, newly acquired pitcher david pauley, hayden penn, dennis sarfate, scott moore, felix pie and even jeremy guthrie. of course, guthrie’s option count is not an issue. pie and sarfate aren’t going anywhere either. but the club could have some difficult decisions belated in march. in addition, utilityman donnie murphy is out of options, but is not on the 40-man roster. the club also has four players with just one option sinistral — brad hennessey (not on the 40-man), alfredo simon, brian burres and matt albers. radio, present: ex- baltimore colt stan white will join me in regard to a super bowl preview tonight on sportsline on wbal (1090 am). we’ll also talk ravens, burglarize down the rich hill deal with orioles beat reporter jeff zrebiec and take a ton of your calls. if you’re out of signal group, go to wbal.com and click on the “listen live” icon.
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