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Taxes, taxes and more taxes, these guys sound like a broken record. I like how no one suggest cutting spending as a way of eliminating the need for more taxes.
On the issue of taxes applied to Internet retailers, President Bill Clinton appeared to more fully shift away from the laissez-faire stance he struck while in office, arguing that a “consumption tax” should be placed on e-commerce.
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Poster by Pia, Erin and Yvette
It’s hard to describe how excited I was to see some of my blogging colleagues become as passionate about blogging ethics and etiquette as I was. For the last year or so I’ve been quietly talking to blogging friends to see if they were as itchy as I was to create some sort of conversation about what we will and won’t stand for in terms of the way we behave and the way other people behave toward us. It was the reason I created the Blogging Etiquette panel at Alt this year and the reason I decided to write the longest three Biz Ladies posts of my life two months ago.
One of the major issues I covered was crediting (when, how and why you should do it) and I was thrilled to see that Pia and Erin took that idea one step further and created this playful (but helpful and practical) poster with artist Yvette Boven that will help anyone interested in crediting issues get some clarification. I’m a firm believer that rising tides raise all ships, and I’m so happy to see more people taking their blogs seriously. I really believe it will help everyone in our community and aid in the cause of mainstream media taking us a bit more seriously. Congrats to these ladies on their hard work and this great poster. xo, grace
On May 19, the the long-awaited Australian horror film Tunnel will receive its world premiere, hitting the headlines for being one of the first studio movies that will not open in theatres, launching instead on Bittorrent – for free.
The film, which centres around a film crew exploring abandoned tunnels underneath Sydney’s streets in Australia, has generated a considerable amount of Internet buzz after its creators invited film fans to invest in the project by buying a frame from the film.
The 135k Project offered the 135,000 frames from the movie for $1 a piece, allowing investors to buy 25 frames (1 second) for $25 or a minute for $1,500. To date, over 28,000 frames have been purchased.
When the movie premieres, it will also be released on DVD, which will be be distributed by Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures. The DVD will tempt consumers with two hours of exclusive footage, an alternate ending and a behind the scenes documentary.
Tunnel’s producer and editor Enzo Tedeschi, when asked in an interview with TorrentFreak about the partnership with Paramount, said:
“Our experience with Paramount has been positive, and we’re impressed with how forward-thinking they’ve been on considering our specific project.
From day one we’ve maintained that The Tunnel is not supporting or condoning piracy, but instead trying to incorporate a legitimate use of peer-to-peer in our distribution strategy internationally.”
The project is an interesting experiment – it relies heavily on people first seeing the movie and then deciding whether they want to own the DVD. Utilising Bittorrent will ensure the film reaches a worldwide audience but in a culture where consumers are increasingly looking to save money and download media for free, physical sales could be hard to come by.
This one is a bit shocking to us. X-rays were discovered in 1896, and recently, a team of researchers at Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands pulled a machine from 1896 off the shelf for the purpose of comparing its results to modern equipment. The researchers say that this original equipment pumped out around 1,500 times more radiation than new equipment in order to produce its results. Speaking of those results, they are unsurprisingly less sharp and detailed than modern X-rays, but they still look pretty impressive if you ask us. The X-rays were conducted on a cadaver this time around rather than a living person because of the high levels of radiation. Full results will be published in the Journal Radiology this month.
Dutch researchers dust off X-ray machine from 1896 to compare it to modern equipment originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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