We visited for a 5 day excursion to the Pacific Northwest - I have been home about a week now. I really love it out in Portland.

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"Embattled Professor Ward Churchill speaks on the controversy over his essay, his treatment by the media and the people calling for his firing, and even execution, for 'treason'. In this hour-long program, Prof. Churchill invites FSTV into his home to tell the side of the story told nowhere else on American television: his side."

101 minutes of his side of the story; video here.

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Top 10 List:
1) New York's 14th Congressional District - 119,320 arts employees
2) New York's 8th District (includes the area that encompasses Times Square) - 81,969 arts employees
3) California's 30th District - 64,512 arts jobs
4) Illinois's 7th district (Chicago Area) - 44,709 art jobs
5) California's 29th District - 37,831 arts jobs
6) California's 28th District - 33,816 arts jobs
7) Pennsylvania's 2nd district - 31,304 arts jobs
8) California's 8th District - 28,047 arts jobs
9) California's 33rd District - 22,499 arts jobs
10) Georgia's 5th district (Atlanta Area) - 21,798 arts jobs

Relevant to me:
49) Ohio's 11th District (Cleveland Area) - 10,174 Art jobs
50) Ohio's 15th District (Columbus Area) - 9,906 Art jobs

Full Congressional Report here.

Banksy installed his own work at The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art & The Museum of Natural History.

I am in awe. That's brilliant.

Here are the images I reposted from Wooster Collective

Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, whose bold, modern designs shaped the country's fast-changing skyline after World War II, died at his home, his family said. He was 91. His architecture, found in more than 20 other countries and including the Kuwait International Airport, earned him in 1987 the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, the world's premier architecture prize.

Well it look like, at least for now, Ward Churchill still has a job

it appears increasingly likely that the incendiary professor will be on campus for the foreseeable future link to Denver Post

We shall see if academic free speech is being erroded or not. For the time being CU is seeming fair, as well a university should be!

"If it goes all the way to a tenure-review committee, the regents - the politicians - will be taken out of the loop," Lane said. "It will be reviewed by professors, who are more inclined not to be swayed by politics, who believe in academic freedom, tenure and the First Amendment."

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With Cherry OS Apparently you can run your 1.6ghz PC as a 333mhz apple, here.

Yee haw! It includes such robust features as "Growable Hard Drive" (huh?), "Network Access" (wow I can finally use a network) and "CD/DVD Drive Access."

Now onto the requirements: it requires WinXP home or pro. Optional requirement: Healthy sense of irony.

Geez thats silly. Just buy an old mac (for the cost of your 1.6mhz PC + winXP + Cherry OS you could have a mini mac or used g4 with OSX installed. lol).

*UPDATE: A friend of mine actually just installed this gem of a program and it corrupted his system, he has to reinstall winXP. Specifically it asked to insert the CD for Cherry OS - It touts "CD/DVD Drive Access" yet it doesn't actually have CD support until version 1.02, which is NOT out yet.

"Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint," -Francis Bacon

This is great. It's a study in graffiti letter forms over at ni9e

Sad news. Jef Raskin, inventor of the first macintosh computer, died February 26th, 2005 of cancer. Condolences.

“Kiccoro ( Forest Child )”The Forest Child has only just been born. Jumping around everywhere, he's (she's) full of energy!...

“Morizo ( Forest Grand Father )”The Forest Grandfather has been living in the forest since long ago. He's an easy-going and kind old man, he has seen many things and knows everything, but he hasn't lost his curiosity...

link here