"Pope Benedict has invited international artists, sculptors, architects, musicians, film directors and even a solitary Italian prima ballerina to meet him under the soaring vaulted ceiling of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on Saturday to begin a new dialogue between the Catholic Church and the arts."
- M F
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"The new Digital Economy Bill aims to ensure the UK is at the ''leading edge'' of global online industries, the Government says. Under the proposed legislation, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would be required to notify users accused of online piracy. They would also have to record how many times each subscriber receives one of these notifications."
- M F
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If this comes into force - lets be honest: the Tories aren't going to oppose it so we'll have to rely on the House of Lords to turn this down - then we have to use it against MPs (Mandelson pushes through bill just after a European holiday paid for by David Geffen (surprise!)) and entertainment execs. Keep accusing them of copyright infringement - thanks to the bill we won't need to provide any evidence - and get the lot of them plus their families kicked off the net.
- Mark H
"YouTube has launched a new section of its site dedicated to playing full length episodes from popular series such as Channel 4’s Peep Show and Hollyoaks."
- M F
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They should add a couple of painted replicas to the exhibition to show what they used to look like. We always see the ancient world without color.
- Eivind
True Eivind, then again as a child I used to think that people before the 1950s inhabitated a black and white world
- M F
Saw this when it came to town - as looked at them you expected them to start moving, like in some bad science fiction movie. They looked alive!
- triple t
That looks like a much nicer presentation than if you went to see them in Xi'an! (Minor & pointless quibble - the description is misleading, the TC soldiers were not in Qin's tomb, which has yet to be opened.)
- Lo
"Health officials in Cardiff are investigating the possible person-to-person spread of a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu. The strain has infected a small number of patients at the University Hospital Wales, all of whom have serious underlying health conditions. If confirmed it would be the first case of its kind in Europe. It appears one person developed resistance, and the strain was then passed on to others at the hospital. There have been several dozen reports around the world of people developing resistance to tamiflu whilst taking the drug. But what happened at the University Hospital Wales - person to person transmission - may be quite different."
- M F
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Pietro Longhi Giovanni Antonio Guardi Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin Jacques-André-Joseph Aved Robert FekeFrom Wikipedia:January–June April 10 – The Austrian army attacks troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz. April – The New York Slave Insurrection of 1741, a plot to torch New York City, is disc ... Posted via email from M F's posterous
- M F
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"Starting in 1803, Grimod, whose family fortune had largely been lost during the Revolution, financed his voracious appetite by writing a series of best-selling guidebooks to the culinary wonders of Paris — its famous delicatessens, pâtissiers and chocolatiers — including the first reviews of an alluring new institution called le restaurant. His Almanachs des Gourmands were something new, the Michelins and Zagats of his era, and their offbeat style reflects the author’s larger-than-life character."
- M F
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