BoingBoing week in review: Feb 26- Mar 4, 2007
Xeni Jardin:. IMAGE: "Father and Son," shot in Amdo province, Tibet, by Raul Gutierrez. From this Feb. 26 BoingBoing post. Darwin's "Origin of Species": free audiobook (Xeni); NPR "Xeni Tech" - RIAA vs. college students, Gizmodo boycott
Knitting in Paris by the Jardin de Luxembourg
We stayed at a hotel in Paris where breakfast didn't really tempt after the first day. That is why Tuesday morning before the seminar I treated myself to a lovely, lovely breakfast including croissants with jam, orange pressée,
WaPo editorial on jailed Egyptian blogger, and US responsibility
Xeni Jardin:. A popular blogger in Egypt named Kareem was sentenced to four years in jail last week for expressing his opinions online. He was one of several bloggers arrested in that country last year. The others were released after
Are you a college student who's received an RIAA letter?
Xeni Jardin:. If you're a student and you've been accused of illicit downloading by the RIAA, I'm working on a report and I'd like to talk with you -- please email xeni at xeni dot net. Eliot van Buskirk at Wired: Listening Post blog
To do in LA: Sean Higgins at sixspace
Xeni Jardin:. Opening tonight, and continuing through March 31: Island of Relative Stability, the debut Los Angeles solo show by artist Sean Higgins:. By depicting purposely-vague environments where location and situation is left to
Darwin's "Origin of Species": free audiobook
Xeni Jardin:. Kara Shallenberg says,. LibriVox volunteers have just completed a public domain audio recording of Charles Darwin's pivotal work, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" -- free to download, copy,
World Press Photo award recipients announced
Xeni Jardin:. Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair shot the photograph above for NPR "Day to Day" (I'm a weekly contributor to this radio program), and the image won third place in World Press Photo, the most prestigious photojournalism
RIAA "turn yourself in and pay" site: a prediction
Xeni Jardin:. BoingBoing reader Vidiot asks:. How long until a phisher knocks up a copy of the P2Plawsuit.com online settlement page and starts intimidating people into paying up? Previously on BoingBoing:; Here's a copy of the RIAA
Second Life: John Edwards assaulted by poo-slinging communists
Xeni Jardin:. John Brownlee of the Wired blog Table of Malcontents says,. John Edwards' Blog has a wonderful account up about how their Second Life headquarters was defaced with "Marxist/Leninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing
Here's a copy of the RIAA letter sent to college students
Xeni Jardin:. Consumerist points to a PDF of the "pre-litigation settlement letter" RIAA lawyers sent to college students accused of copyright infringement. The accused are invited to fess up and pay up in 20 days (at this website,
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