Ticket buyers and event organizers have been held hostage by ticketing companies long enough. Our mission is to keep as much money in everyone’s pockets as possible. That way, producers can put on more shows, performers can earn a better living, and ticket buyers can see more shows! That’s what building a community is about.
Read this to learn about how OH is trending away from Bush, and this to see Zogby’s latest poll showing Kerry +2 in Florida.
Then, let’s use this space as an Ohio and Florida Open Thread. Kospolitans living, working or volunteering in the Buckeye or Sunshine states…what’s going on? Let us know here.
Duo Dickinson designed coastal cottage.
If you want to get close to nature, enjoy the sights, smells and sounds of the woods around you and read the paper – you need a screen porch. Architect Duo Dickinson designed this two story contemporary “Barn”, which overlooks a coastal salt marsh in Connecticut, and incorporated a 2-1/2 story screened porch. Salt marsh’s are typically teaming with life, insect life in particular. The screen’s a good idea…
I made some actions for all you fakelomo fans. There are 3 different ones, each give a little different flavor lomo, hope you like them. They should work on any picture, of any dimensions, though for pictures larger than 600×600 I recommend changing the feather amount accordingly. Here are some examples of the effects, original one first, then the 3 types…
Here’s an important rule of thumb when it comes to blogging: Don’t post anything that even vaguely hints at a threat against the President of the United States, ’cause the feds will come after you.
One LiveJournal blogger found that out first-hand recently when the Secret Service showed up at her door to talk about her post. The poster said she was being “satirical,” the feds took a more serious view.
Check out her post, in which she details her experience and gives bloggers some rules of thumb on posting political criticism.
Look for unplanned potential within the Nintendo DS, an upcoming handheld videogame system. It uses wi-fi, as well as a proprietary Nintendo wireless format, to let a player compete and communicate with another in the same room, or with a potentially infinite number of other players via connections to the Internet through wi-fi hotspots. The New York Times says the unit will go on sale in the U.S. November 21 for $149.
Nintendo’s marketing, the press, and the weblogs all seem fixated on the fact that this unit has two screens, and the fact that it will let people play the same old types of multiplayer games in mobile settings…More
We live in a top-down society, where information is power, and where those at the top have most of the information and hold most of the power. This is true within the institutions of government, political parties, the media, corporations, and the military.
But something dramatic is happening: A giant wave of change is gathering more force each day. Power is shifting to the bottom, spawned by advances in technology and the decentralized bottom-up nature of the Internet.
The signs have been occurring all around us over the past few years. Legal or not, like it or not, Napster, the peer-to-peer file sharing program which millions used to download their favorite tunes, forever changed the recording industry. It was millions of music lovers at the bottom of the power pyramid that was using the power of the Internet. This created the biggest change in how music is distributed since the turntable…More
Democracy Now reports today that Bush administration lawyers are now claiming that only Attorney General John Ashcroft — and not individual voters – have a right to ask federal courts to enforce voting rights.” (audio and video streams). Even the Supreme Court has backed the idea of private suits. More from the LA Times.
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