Sweet.
Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc.
A TB-size disc would certainly compress movie collections. The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD.
A terrabyte. That’s one thousand gigs.

Because they were showing Blow again tonight at the VoKi, and out of awe for the man Johnny Depp quoted in that film, Woody Guthrie, I thought I would submit a few stanzas from The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd. This is my favorite part:

It was in the town of Shawnee,
A Saturday afternoon,
His wife beside him in his wagon
As into town they rode.

There a deputy sheriff approached him
In a manner rather rude,
Vulgar words of anger (language),
An’ his wife she overheard.

Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain,
And the deputy grabbed his gun;
In the fight that followed
He laid that deputy down.

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Hey all you Media-Informatik Students!

One of my flash cartoons is to be shown at a little animation film festival in Laipsch in a few weeks and I need help converting it to a video format.
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The above is a facsimile of a bit of art made by Cory Arcangel.
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According to the USA today, 1 in three US students is retahded.

Z1 times and themes
Okay monkeys, here’s the dope thereupon:
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At the Voki we watched the movie Blow from 2001. Recollect that this film was about the bigtime drug smuggler who pretty much created the coke market in the 70s.

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This is interesting:

MARK RICE-OXLEY, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - Annoyed at how their
upscale neighborhood has been ruined by incessant traffic, local
authorities [in London's Museumland neighborhood] are planning to unveil
a radical solution Monday: remove the conventional insignia of the road
- traffic lights, white lines, guardrails, sidewalks - and create a
single "shared space" for everyone, motorized or not.
At first glance, the idea seems a little reckless. After all, it is only
the presence of the crossing signals on Exhibition Road that seems to
keep the bewildered, stray tourists from a nasty accident. And
governments the world over have long since concluded that the safest way
to avoid catastrophe on the roads is to segregate vehicles from
pedestrians.

AMERICAN PROGRESS - A top Chinese economist, Fan Gang, says his country,
which finances a large portion of America's debt, has "lost faith in the
stability of the U.S. dollar" and will begin investing in a "more
flexible basket" of currencies. The announcement comes as a result of. .
. fiscal policies which are leading the dollar towards a dangerous "free
fall" that could imperil the U.S. economy. "The U.S. dollar is no longer
- in our opinion is no longer - (seen) as a stable currency, and is
devaluating all the time, and that's putting troubles all the time," Fan
said. The dollar "hit a new low in December against the euro and has
been falling against other major currencies on concerns about the
ever-growing U.S. trade and budget deficits."