"STUTTGART - A German art museum is demanding that Sotheby's hand over a unique album of 16th century drawings and engravings, with a spokeswoman saying it appeared to have been stolen by a US soldier at the end of the Second World War."

German museum demands Sotheby's return lost art

] A few weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI
] agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked
] to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark
] Lombardi, an artist who had committed suicide the year
] before. Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper,
] Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of curves and
] arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and
] international terrorism.

Something to listen to while you look through the year in graphs.

NPR : The 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi

That is hilarious! I went to a talk by the photoeditor of yahoo news - and he went on and on about the qualities of a good thumbnail. I gathered from his talk that he spends great time agonizing on NOT what the best picture is, but what picture has the best PORTION that would make a good thumbnail.

Doubt its related in THIS case, but it was interesting to me as well, so I thought I'd throw that tidbit out here too.

Neat collection. :) Wonder if it has to do with a photoeditor's perhaps natural bias - the photographer presenting a small view of what he sees to the larger world, pictures as a means of relating the world to others - a lot of these pictures look like 'shots' of presentations or of people observing things...the photographer observing the observer in some cases. Interesting.

Is it the BIG BROTHER effect the photographers are going after?

From JWZ's site:

I often scan through the wire service photos on Yahoo News, and over the years I started noticing a really strange trend. Many of the photos follow the same form: a picture of a person in the foreground, and on the background, a GIANT HEAD. Now, that's a clever picture once or twice, but it was happening so often that it really caught my attention. Was it always the same photographer? No, it turns out, it's not. So my best guess at this point is that one of the photo editors just has a GIANT HEAD fetish of some kind.

For no particularly good reason, I spent a year collecting them. Here, then, are the big heads of 2004.

Big Heads

I found it most interesting that turnitin.com was spydering you. They it my website too. That's a good thing with people sometimes composing original articles. :)

2004 Statistics for www.memestreams.net

I think something is going on at paypal - my sources tell me that credit card transactions are looping. One person reports charges of over 30 charges on the same item - gave them pp's phone number - and paypal said it being reported on a widespead basis and they are not sure what is causing it as of yet.

The illustration alone is worth posting this article. I won't comment as I might be a bit too lengthy. Draw your own conclusions. Cheers, -Pk

Capitalism and its Role in American Society’s Plunge into the Abyss.

Many agree- school sucks.

Nobel Prize winners hate school

Thanks, I can use this. :)

] I always hated the fact that there was no good "push"
] mechanism for getting UPS shipment updates. I don't want
] to go to their website every hour to see where my package
] is. I want to be notified when it moves. Of course I
] immediately thought of RSS, but I couldn't find anyone
] who had turned the UPS data into a feed. I then decided
] to make it myself in ASP.NET!

[ Nice. -k]

UPS Package Tracking With RSS

Step by Step instructions!

2 Cuddley Kitties show you how to put up a Christmas Tree

Crap. There goes freedom of the press.

Hmmm, let's see...If it HAS to be a freedom, we can make it so treacherous and/or inconvenient no one will do it. Works pretty good to help limit abortion.

Reported faces jail time for protecting his confidential source