Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. For Mac, Windoze and Linux (any GTK2 distro). - joh
DeltaWalker for Mac OS X : Compare, Edit, and Merge Files; Synchronize Folders. This looks promising. There are Windows and Linux versions too. $30 US - joh
"...I cannot fucking believe that I go into an art gallery and people want to piss their lives away not talking about what’s going on in the world. Have they not switched on their TV and seen what's going on out there? They have nothing to say about that? They'd rather look at pictures of their girlfriend's bottom, or at their top ten favorite arseholes? Switch on the telly and see what's going on in our world ... If you've got nothing to say about that, then I wonder what the fucking hell you're doing...." - joh
In Chelsea, the drill hall of Pevsner's 'sturdy Tuscan portico' that fronts the 1801 Royal Military Asylum for the Children of Soldiers' Widows (more recently known as the Duke of York's) will open as the new permanent home of the Saatchi collection next month. - joh
Siegfried Halbreich was among the first Jews to be sent to the camps in 1939. Five-and-a-half years later, he was one of the few to emerge alive. He devoted the second half of his long life to public education about the horrors that Jews experienced during World War II. Halbreich died of heart failure Wednesday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 98. - joh
With words taken directly from interviews with survivors of the Holocaust, Kaddish is an innovative, engaging, and inspiring new work for chorus, soloists and chamber orchestra by Lawrence Siegel. - joh
Article in Slate by Blake Eskin, author of A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski about Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years by Misha Defonseca - joh
On this day in 1935, the German government adopted the Nuremberg Laws, which gave legal definition to racism in the Nazi state. The United States could hardly claim to be a model of racial tolerance in the 1930s. As late as 1945, thirty states retained constitutional or legal bans on interracial marriage and many of those had recently extended or tightened their rules. - joh
The purpose of our centre is to provide a national focus for research and development into curation issues and to promote expertise and good practice, both national and international, for the management of all research outputs in digital format. - joh
these are the super scratch resistant hi-tech lenses i want in the spectacles i am going to buy to replace the ones that were lost in the wilderness. but where oh where in this godforsaken country can they be found? - joh
Design education is at a crossroads, with many schools understanding the potentials, opportunities, and obligations of design, while others continue to teach students how to churn out pretty pieces of garbage. - joh
The Second Generation are the children & grand-children of Holocaust survivors. Through this site, we hope to encourage the Second Generation to maintain contact with one another, to actively participate in remembering the past.... - joh
