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Thursday, 3 June 2010
Keith Richards teams up with Nick Kent for forthcoming autobiography
Former NME journalist Nick Kent has been helping Keith Richards pen his autobiography.
Kent, speaking at the recent Hay Festival, revealed that he helped The Rolling Stones guitarist "fill in" the gaps in his memory of the '70s.
Richards revealed last month that he is currently waiting to read the proofs of the book, which he hopes to release in October.
"I've helped Keith Richards write his upcoming book on the years of the early '70s. I helped fill in the early '70s, when things got really, really bad. I can understand why he forgot all about it. It just wasn't pleasant," Kent explained.
He added: "His memories are incredibly gloomy. A lot of resentment, bitterness, Keith broke down in tears several times when he talked about it and turned into a blubbering wreck. It was a bad time for him. When you look back on your life you tend to suppress bad memories and that's what he's done, apart from the fact that he was taking more drugs than all Motley Crue put together."
Kent, speaking at the recent Hay Festival, revealed that he helped The Rolling Stones guitarist "fill in" the gaps in his memory of the '70s.
Richards revealed last month that he is currently waiting to read the proofs of the book, which he hopes to release in October.
"I've helped Keith Richards write his upcoming book on the years of the early '70s. I helped fill in the early '70s, when things got really, really bad. I can understand why he forgot all about it. It just wasn't pleasant," Kent explained.
He added: "His memories are incredibly gloomy. A lot of resentment, bitterness, Keith broke down in tears several times when he talked about it and turned into a blubbering wreck. It was a bad time for him. When you look back on your life you tend to suppress bad memories and that's what he's done, apart from the fact that he was taking more drugs than all Motley Crue put together."
Elsewhere in his talk, Kent laid into the recent British music scene, signalling out Oasis in particular.
"There's a lack of talent at the moment," he said. "There aren't that many great performers at the moment. Noel Gallagher and Oasis would have only had a couple of hit records if they'd have been around in the '60s and '70s."
"There's a lack of talent at the moment," he said. "There aren't that many great performers at the moment. Noel Gallagher and Oasis would have only had a couple of hit records if they'd have been around in the '60s and '70s."
Going back to articles that Kent wrote about the Stones in the 70's perhaps the most unpleasant I remember was when there was a sex show put on by two women for Jagger and Richards and their entourage (including Kent) and the rug they were cavorting around on got set on fire and of course nobody helped the girls as the two Stones didn't (couldn't?) move....
Lawrence Lessig - Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy (PDF)
Remix
Making art and commerce thrive
in the hybrid economy
Making art and commerce thrive
in the hybrid economy
Lawrence Lessig
Publication: October 2008
Paperback: 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1408113479
Dimensions:
23.4 x 15.3 x 2.6 cm
Price: £12.99
Publication: October 2008
Paperback: 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1408113479
Dimensions:
23.4 x 15.3 x 2.6 cm
Price: £12.99
'Lessig's proposals for revising copyright are compelling, because they rethink intellectual property rights without abandoning them.'
Briefly Noted The New Yorker
Briefly Noted The New Yorker
'Lessig... has written a splendid combative manifesto – pungent, witty and persuasive.'
Financial Times
Financial Times
'... Lessig is surely right that digital culture requires governance that is more subtle and ecological, judging a balance of forces between commerce and community, than precise and draconian.'
Books of the Week, The Independent
Books of the Week, The Independent
'Prof Lessig is formidably qualified...his latest book, REMIX will enhance his cult status on the web.' The Guardian
To hear Lawrence Lessig talk about his book Remix you can listen now to the NPR interview (37 min 51 sec)
e-book version available – please click here to purchase £9.99
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e-book version available – please click here to purchase £9.99
You can buy the book from A&C Black a Bloomsbury company
Gunman kills at least five in Cumbria rampage UPDATE: 12 DEAD
At least five people have been killed and 25 injured after a gunman opened fire in west Cumbria.
A body, thought to be that of the suspect - taxi driver Derrick Bird - has been found in the Boot area of the Lake District.
The first fatality was in Whitehaven before the gunman drove south, apparently shooting people at random.
Prime Minister David Cameron told the House of Commons at least five people had been killed.
He said the country's thoughts were with those families who had lost loved ones.
Witnesses said the suspect drove through the town with a gun hanging out of his car window, before heading south through Gosforth and Seascale before turning inland.
A GP in the town of Seascale said he and a colleague had later certified two other people dead.
Dr Barrie Walker said: "The surgery was called and I went out. I've certified one of them dead. My colleague saw another," he said.
"At present there are two people dead and one seriously injured in Seascale. I know one of the victims. She was in the street.
Deputy Chief Constable Stuart Hyde said he believed Derrick Bird's body had been found
"The second person was on a bicycle and was shot on the bike."
BBC Look North Chief Reporter Chris Stewart said a farmer is also believed to have been killed in the Gosforth area.
After the shootings, detectives said 52-year-old Mr Bird drove to the central Lakes in a Citroen Picasso, then abandoned it in the Boot area.
Before the body was discovered people living nearby were urged to stay indoors for their own protection.
Helicopters and armed officers from other police forces were brought in to help apprehend the gunman.
Soon afterwards, Deputy Chief Constable Stuart Hyde said: "I can confirm that we've found a body in a wooded area near Boot which we believe to be Mr Bird, together with a firearm.
"A formal identification will be made later."
Nuclear plant shut Mr Hyde added: "Our focus now is to try and work out what has caused this and where Mr Bird has been over the last 24 hours and in particular the last few hours.
"I would plead to anyone who has seen him or has seen any of the incidents, please come forward, speak to us and help us piece together exactly was has happened in this very, very tragic set of circumstances.
"We have a number of crime scenes across the county, which are being staffed by police officers, and I would ask people to show a little bit of restraint and respect in regard to those scenes as we try and piece together exactly what has gone on."
.A major incident has been declared at West Cumberland Hospital, in Whitehaven, where the NHS said all routine operations had been cancelled.
The Accident and Emergency department at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle is also on full incident stand-by, the hospital trust said.
The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in west Cumbria closed its gates as a safety precaution and afternoon shift workers were being told to stay away, though the site has since reopened.
The Whitehaven victim, believed to be a colleague of 52-year-old Mr Bird, was killed at 1035 BST.
A local taxi firm boss, Glenda Pears, said: "We just don't know what's happened.
"The lad that's been killed was friends with him. They used to stand together having a craic on the rank.
"He was friends with everybody and used to stand and joke on Duke Street."
Sue Matthews, a telephonist at A2B Taxis in Whitehaven, said the Mr Bird was self-employed and lived alone. She described him as a "quiet fellow".
At the start of Prime Minister's Questions David Cameron expressed his shock at the events which had unfolded.
He said: "The government will do everything it possibly can to help the local community and those affected.
"When lives and communities are suddenly shattered in this way, our thoughts should be with all those caught up with these tragic events."
An emergency helpline has been opened for people concerned about the incident. Cumbria Police Casualty Bureau Line on 0800 096 009
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from Thingiverse: via Bruce Sterling (@bruces)
This is the next step in my attempt to make a Sarrus linkage based 3D printer. The idea is to have a cartesian mechanism without those long rods and bearings.
I built three of the Mark III and mounted them in a x-y arrangement as shown. They can move over a square about 105 mm wide, and someday may carry an extruder. They are driven by DC motors taken from inkjet printers. These motors are driven in a servo arrangement using quadrature optical encoders and optical strips removed from the same printers.
Sarah Palin Has Some Tough Words For Amphetamines
Yes, governor, we do get it now! When you were leading thousands of morons in shouting “drill, baby, drill” (or, sorry, “drill,baby,drill”) and “drill here, drill now”, what you were trying to get at was that we should in no way be doing exploratory offshore drilling, baby, exploratory offshore drilling, because that’s dangerous. How could we have been so blind?
If an oil well in ANWR had blown up, the oil would just kind of pool all over the tundra, where it’s really too cold for media people to come up and make a big fuss, and it would be much easier to just nuke it, like the Russians did. Funny how none of that came across in your slogan, which just seemed to imply that we should drill the crap out of everywhere to get oil! It’s almost as if reductionist chants don’t carry nuance, and allow you to claim they mean any convenient bullshit you want when they become inconvenient!
Oh, and, word to the wise: it’s totally OK to use whatever pill-based stimulants you need in order to get in the Twitterin’ mood, but it’s not necessary to actually name-check them at the beginning of your tweet. That just eats into your 140 characters. [The Greatest Twitter In The World]
Steve Jobs: Gizmodo Bought Stolen iPhone Prototype And Then Tried To Extort Us
Gizmodo's explanation that it wasn't sure what it was buying when it bought the stolen iPhone prototype doesn't appear to hold much water with Steve Jobs.
As this video clip from Peter Kafka reveals, Steve used startlingly strong language in his D8 talk to describe Apple's interactions with Gizmodo after Gizmodo bought the phone--namely, that Gizmodo tried to "extort" Apple:
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Gaza Flotilla: A Legal Opinion “The Occupying Power Had to Facilitate the Passage”
Amidst the discussion of whether Israel had a right under international law to intervene against ships sailing in international waters, one of my colleagues, lawyer Dina Biygishieva argues that Israel, as an occupying power in Gaza, had to facilitate the passage of the six ships of the Freedom Flotilla:
On 31 May the Israeli navy attacked humanitarian ships bringing aid to Gaza in international waters in the middle of the night. According to different reports approximately 10-16 humanitarian activists were killed and 50-60 were injured. The ships were seized by the Israeli navy. What could be a verdict on the Israeli actions under international humanitarian law?
Gaza Flotilla LiveBlog: Limiting an Enquiry, Maintaining a Blockade? (2 June)
The whole situation on humanitarian ships in international waters falls into scope of the regulation of different international sources of law. According to article 188 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, high seas shall be reserved for peaceful purposes, and Article 110 provides that a warship that encounters a foreign ship on the high seas can only board the ship if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that it is participating in unlawful activities such as piracy or the slave trade.
The Gaza flotilla was made up of civilian ships carrying humanitarian aid. There were no reasonable grounds for boarding the ships, much less for killing civilians on board. With respect to international maritime customary law. In the case of genuine security concerns, the action of Israeli navy should have been contacted by expressing concern with the flotilla to flag-bearing states and insisting on the boats’ retreat.
Regarding the use of force, the extent of Israel’s actions should have been to divert the flotilla once it had reached [Israel's] territorial waters. Even then, once ensuring that the flotilla contained only humanitarian goods, Israel, as the Occupying Power in Gaza, would have been duty-bound to facilitate its passage.
By intercepting and boarding the ship in the high seas, Israel has acted in egregious violation of customary international law.
What follows next? Israel is bound by so-called Fourth Geneva Convention (Convention IV relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949). Provisions of the Convention clearly impose the obligation of meeting humanitarian needs of the people of occupied territories to the fullest possible extent. The welfare of Gaza ’s inhabitants is a precise duty of Israel duty under the Convention, and it includes their rights to health, education, food and adequate housing. The assault on the flotilla, widely publicized to be carrying essential humanitarian aid to Gaza, contravenes Israel’s duty to facilitate the passage to humanitarian aid to territory it occupies.
Furthermore, the use of live ammunition to kill and injure civilians on board, even in circumstances in which there may have been some resistance to the take-ver of the ship, was a disproportionate response to the situation and a violation of the civilians’ right to life, as set out in Article 6(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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