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How about the Washington Warriors?

“ClipIt! follows in the footsteps of programs like Deskswap, an application that allows you to share screenshots of desktops with other people, but is more interested in sharing the low-bandwidth information of everyday interaction. When multiple users are connected, their clipboards are uploaded and shared with each other, thus providing an ambient link and direct window into someone else’s activities. The project allows people to be aware of each other’s computer usage and to ‘get a feel’ for what they are working on or thinking about in real-time.” I am obsessed with the clipboard. I’m running ClipIt!, but I may be the only one – the only stuff I’ve seen so far is my own. Quick, paste the contents of your clibpoard into a comment!

"For the individual or individuals who may have been responsible for this: You have got our attention. We are not certain we understand your messages. We would like to hear from you - you do not need to send any more of these devices." — FBI agent Wayne Dun

A new translation offers a radically different view of the famous sex manual, and argues that the most widely read English version is riddled with errors and plays down the role of women.

"This translation will change peoples' understanding of this book and of ancient India," said David Shulman, professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "Previous translations are hopelessly outdated, inadequate and misguided."

There is a lady in my life that I love. She was with me before, during and after my trial and conviction. A great deal of the album is an ode to her very existence. I've made plenty of mistakes in the past. Writing songs to her and about her was progress in healing those wounds. You ask me later on in the interview if I have any regrets, one — I wish I would have kissed her more.

“Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind’s most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.”

The Onion a.v. club interviews Danny Hoch:

This kid came to my show, like, “Yo, homeboy,” with his hat to the side and his pants hanging off his ass. He came to my show four times and paid to get in, and he brought his friends, and I was blown away. He’s like, “Hey, man, yeah, you know, I never seen anything like this. What is this?” And I said, “What do you mean, what is it?” And he said, “What do you call this that you’re doing?” And I said, “Theater.” And he said, “Nah. No, bullshit, it’s not theater. What is it called?” And I said, “No, really, it’s theater.” And he said, “No, dude, if it was theater, it wouldn’t be about me."

Thanks to Ishkur’s Guide, I finally understand electronic music – every artist is a genre!

Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin: Poets of Everyday Life (Bright Lights Film Journal).

It’s not hard to see why Little Fugitive, Engel and Orkin’s most famous and successful film, was so inspiring not only to the French but also to American auteurs like Cassavettes and Scorsese. Like the two features that would follow it, Little Fugitive is a paean to the sights, smells, and sounds of New York, from the cramped but somehow comforting streets of Brooklyn to the dazzling chaos of Coney Island as seen through a child’s eyes. Engel and Orkin extrapolate the universal from the personal in this Homeric story of a little boy’s heroic trek alone through the vastness of an urban amusement park.

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Abercrombie should be held responsible for the false and misleading message it has sent the public: that it's harmless fun to portray Asian Americans as coolies, laundrymen and rickshaw drivers, because everyone knows better and there no longer exist any problems of racial discrimination, harassment and violence based on the misconception that Asian Americans are exotic foreigners.

Federal Trade Commission rules require a business who engages in misleading advertising to spend 25 percent of its advertising budget on corrective advertising. By analogy, activists should demand that Abercrombie dedicate one-fourth of the costs it incurred in designing, manufacturing, distributing, and marketing the T-shirts to educate its own employees and the general public regarding historical and continuing racial discrimination against Asian Americans.

I wouldn't necessarily want to trip in the aftermath of Sept. 11, but I can now use my psychedelic training for coping with the epistemological cyclone of a cataclysm such as this. I grew up in the cushiest reality in the history of the planet. Now I see demons pouring over the lip of my existence, but I've learned through psychedelics how to breathe through it and not believe its story.

Ladies and gentlemen, Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of 'Where did I come from?' 'Why am I here?' 'Where am I going?' 'Does life have any meaningful purpose?' Only Christianity offers a way to understand that physical and moral border. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world -- only Christianity.

The NY Times auto-blog updates with each addition to the New York Times website. “If the NY Times had a weblog, this is what it might look like,” says creator Dave Winer.

The Illustrated Complete Summary of Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” is, I gather, suitably inscrutable.

Dan Bricklin logged about 2 hours on a Segway earlier this month, riding indoors, outdoors, over bumps, hills, and people’s feet. Read his impressions in two parts: “what happened” and “what I learned”.

In Central Asia there is a simple one-stringed instrument, the tar -- 'tar' means string -- and it's played by wandering bards and mystics, fakirs. The idea of the tar seems to travel to ancient Persia, where one string became two, and it was called the dutar. And then in India it became the more familiar sitar. The string seemed to travel China and also westward, and in Arabian countries it's known as quintara, with five strings, and in Greece it's known as the chitara, which was much like a zither. And in the form of a stringed lute, it travels to Spain, and it is known as the guitarra, and then to America, where it is known as the guitar . . . and so if you're following the terminology of stringed instruments, you're following the influence of the Silk Road.

Vatican Meeting on Abuse Issue Is Set to Confront Thorny Topics (NY Times).

A top Vatican official said today that next week’s meetings with American cardinals about the sexual abuse scandals in the church would cover controversial issues like celibacy, the screening of gay candidates for the priesthood and the role of women in the church.

By one estimate, what we now know as mods appeared in 1983, with a fan-made reinvention of the original "Castle Wolfenstein," a classic arcade-style action game for the Apple II. (You played an Allied spy fighting it out with Nazi combatants, who'd shout at you in German as they opened fire.) But the inspiration for this mod was not so much WWII as Saturday-morning cartoon.

The Village Voice reviews Cornershop’s new Handcream for a Generation.

Of the roughly 6400 astronomers in America, two dozen are black. Facing that and similar voids in its astronaut pool and engineering base, NASA is sponsoring the fledgling City University of New York space science program to draw bright college students into its ranks, but more surprisingly, it's reaching down into junior high and grade school to spark black kids into thinking about getting fitted for a space suit. NASA began after-school programs last week in Brooklyn for junior high school kids to study the science they'll need to be part of the space program decades down the line.

Debunking six common Israeli myths:

• Myth 1: There is no moral equivalence between suicide bombings on the one hand, and Israel's killing of Palestinians on the other
• Myth 2: Israel's invasion of Palestinian cities and refugee camps is self-defence against suicide bombings
• Myth 3: Arafat Refuses to Condemn Suicide Bombings in Arabic
• Myth 4: Arafat has not done enough to stop terrorism
• Myth 5: Arafat Spurned Barak's generous offer at Camp David and broke off negotiations with Israel
• Myth 6: Arafat started the Intifada

The Palestinians are a brutally oppressed people--and Israel is a nation under siege. The deaths of 400 Israeli civilians since the start of this latest intifada are senseless and tragic and maddening--as are the deaths of 1500 Palestinians during that same time. And if you read that last bit and vehemently disagreed with half of it, and are already composing a response in your head to explain why the side with which you are aligned is morally superior to the side with which you disagree--well, that's kind of the problem at this point, isn't it?

How to use a monopod – I think I can use these great tips (which distinguish a monopod from a tripod), since my Nikon 990 has a lens that swivels independent of the mount point.

Woodmore is a racially mixed subdivision, with African American professionals making up more than half the population. And it's by far the classiest address in Prince George's County. But the county, The most affluent majority-African American county in the nation, has not seen the price appreciations of other markets in the Washington area. It's also not suffering from the same desperate lack of houses that parts of Northern Virginia, Montgomery County and the District are facing, shortages that fuel prices in those areas. In other words, right now it's the best buy in terms of value for money in the Washington area.