Nice coupla guys.
Harsh sentencing of Kilbride is credited to his attempts to prevent a witness from testifying at the trial. Kilbride received six years in prison and Schaffer received a 5-1/4 year sentence. Each was fined $100,000 and had to forfeit $1.1 million of their porn spam profits. They also had to pay $77,500 in restitution to AOL, which claimed 1.5 million of its customers complained about their spam.
[via the brilliant collection of advertisements at I believe in advertising]
Sectwanto’s HUGE tag on a brick building down by Potrero Point, was painted out last week. The brick building was originally tagged (according to this site) in 2005. Seemed a year or two earlier than that at least, but I have photos from July 2004 that show the brick building untagged. Memory’s a funny thing.
SECTWANTO always reminded me of RIGO’s TRUTH over by City Hall, “but different,” as they say.
Still, two years from tag date, SECTWANTO and the fribbly tagged crap beneath it were painted over.
Why now?
Well, perhaps because plans are afoot to revitalize Pier 70 and surrounds.
Jimbo Wales at the Commonwealth Club
Founder, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation and Wikia
[...]
“Come hear Wales talk about what’s next on his agenda, his opinions on the politics of the Internet and his thoughts on the accuracy of Wikipedia posts.”
6:00 p.m., Check-in | 6:30 p.m., Program
7:30 p.m., Wine and Hors d’oeuvres Reception
Club office, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco
$12 for Members
$20 for Non-Members
$7 for Students (with valid ID)
The amazing world of the Web.
Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D by Amy Hackney Blackwell
[Action takes place in Venice at the Public Library of St. Mark.]
After a thousand years stuck on a dusty library shelf, the oldest copy of Homer’s Iliad is about to go into digital circulation.
[...]
To store the data, the team used a 1-terabyte redundant-disk storage system on a high-speed network. The classicists on duty backed up the data every evening on two 750-GB drives and on digital tape. Blackwell carried the hard drives home with him every night, rather than leave the data in the library.
The next step is making the images readable. The Venetus A is handwritten and contains ligatures and abbreviations that boggle most text-recognition software. So, this summer a group of graduate and undergraduate students of Greek will gather at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., to produce XML transcriptions of the text. Eventually, their work will be posted online for anyone to search, as part of the Homer Multitext Project.
Brilliant use of technology.
[Caution reading Goodman's column and blog. There may be spoilers lurking therein.]
Tim Goodman (SFC) says ARRIVEDERCI to the Sopranos.
(Speculation/discussion/news of the Sopranos finale was above the fold on page one of today’s paper!)
I’ve never seen an entire Sopranos show, just a few bits, and I mean a few. One bit, maybe. We’re too parsimonious, you see, to subscribe to HBO. We have plain vanilla cable (about $3/mo when added on to our broadband costs) and that only because I figured we might want to watch some breaking news some time. Oh, and watch the Today Show broadcast from Bhutan. (Thank you, Auntie K, for that heads-up!)
My lack of viewing experience and serious lack in the fandom department does not, however, stop me from joining in the frantic speculation about the most hyped show finale since Dallas went off the air.
I have my own theory how it will all end next Sunday.
As a nod to our European contingent, who are a ways behind in the episodes, I’ve put my theory here.
Read Tim’s blog entry / synopsis of Ep. 20: “A glorified crew.” Search for “towse” to retrieve my comment from the 298 (so far) comments re the end of the Sopranos … if you care and don’t mind my uninformed speculations.
The last time I heard multiple ‘copters circling overhead was when morning broke on 27 February, the day a piece of Telegraph Hill slid down onto buildings on Broadway. All the news crews were out with first light to get pictures of the pile o’ rock.
… but what’s up this afternoon?
Checked sfgate.com. Nada.
Checked kpix.com which morphed into cbs5.com.
Ah, yes. Silly, forgetful moi.
It’s the last Friday of the month.
Critical Mass starts at 6p.
The bicyclists are starting to gather at Justin Herman Plaza, just >>> over there.
Last month’s Critical Mass turned real ugly and most of blogville seemed to take sides in the aftermath.
Here’s hoping tonight’s peaceful and hoping his nibs remembered and will be home before the mass moves.
The Wooster Collective is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.
You know: not just graffiti, street art, projected art, found art the world over.
Stuff like
Yow.
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