From 79fafe2f44f5e31522dd93013950474342bfdfb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luxagraf Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:48:55 -0500 Subject: archived all the stuff from freelancing for wired --- .../Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/elsewhere.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/elsewhere.txt (limited to 'old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/elsewhere.txt') diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/elsewhere.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/elsewhere.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65952aa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/elsewhere.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Elsewhere on Wired: + +* Cult of Mac picks up on something we skipped and concludes it's unlikely: [iTunes for Linux][1]. The strange thing is, Amarok is, IMHO, so much better than iTunes, why would you want iTunes on Linux? + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/02/itunes_for_linu.html "ITunes for Linux - Don't Count On It" + +* Autopia brings word of a UK-based ad campaign [designed to educate school children][2] about global warming. "BBC News notes that the FOE site also 'includes a game involving a polar bear which destroys a 4x4 vehicle by hurling ice cubes at it.'" Sweet. Does that work? + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/02/if_smart_ads_we.html "Global Warming: Silence = Death" + +* Listening Post [has the scoop][3] on the first band to "tour" Second Life. A London-based band Redzone will play a four-show tour inside the virtual world starting this Friday. Saves a bundle on airfare, that's for sure. + +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/band_to_tour_se.html "Band to Tour Second Life" + +* Table of Malcontents continues to [dig up some of the awesome artwork][4] lurking around the webernets. This time it's Ukranian artist Oleg Denisenko who specializes in weird chimera, specifically, "Quixotic-looking sphinxes dress their chicken-legged, dragon-winged bodies in suits of armor constructed with anachronistic mechanical sophistication." (see small pic above) + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/02/the_strange_sph.html "The Strange Sphinxes of Oleg Denisenko" + +* And our best headline of the day goes to 27B Stroke 6's Luke O'Brien for this gem: "[Conservative Think Tank Not Thinking][5]" + +[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/02/conservative_th.html "Conservative Think Tank Not Thinking" \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2