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With the Latin movie-going and and DVD purchasing audience being the fastest growing of any demographic in the United States, it should be no surprise that culturally, they are making great strides as well. Note the following: Latin-Themed Films Take Top Awards At Sundance A pair of involving films with roots south of the border took the two top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival's awards ceremony Saturday night in Park City, Utah. "Padre Nuestro," written and directed by Christopher Zalla, won the dramatic grand jury prize. A Spanish-language film set in New York, it's a disturbing, smartly made debut about the dark side of the American dream that pivots around an involuntary exchange of identities between two young illegal immigrants from Mexico. The documentary grand jury prize went to Jason Kohn's "Manda Bala" (Send a Bullet). Edgy and provocative in tone, it focuses on how the rich get richer in Brazil and the poor try to get even by kidnapping and other crimes. (The film also won the documentary cinematography award for Heloisa Passos, with the dramatic version of that prize going to "Joshua's" Benoit Debie.) Read more at The LA Times

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Things change in two years. I still go to all the website I initially listed. I also go to the following daily. What have you added? Reddit Digg Lifehacker Engadget Billboard Defamer AskMetafilter CoolHunter P2PConsortium El.bows/Hype Machine HuffingtonPost, DailyKos YouTube/Google Video/Antville ArsTechnica Wikipedia PopUrls and about 50 music blogs, including Stereogum, LargeHeartedBoy, Passion of Weiss, Aquarium Drunkard, I Guess I'm Floating, Badminton Stamps and Berkeley Place

Apple's next generation operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), is due for release this Spring. Some of the new features were showcased by Steve Jobs at the World Wide Developers Conference in August. Although many of the features were impressive, Jobs mentioned that he was saving some 'Top Secret' features for later. Well, we have a sneak peek. We have been digging to find out what these new features might be, and have discovered some interesting information. First, we were told that Leopard's 'Top Secret' features will wow the audiences. Integration with the new Apple TV is a certainty. New data suggests that Leopard will be able to use Apple TV to transmit the MacOS X desktop to high definition televisions. This means that instead of connecting computers to displays with cables, Leopard will wirelessly transmit the image via a Wi-Fi connection. This would aid in presentations as well. No more connecting computers to digital projectors. Now, the image is streamed wirelessly. Read more

Microsoft's own language is purportedly dependent on Windows and discriminatory against Linux and not in spirit with the agreement they signed with the European commission; on the other hand, it raises my eyebrows to see this kind of corporate outcry; beyond Redhat, how many of these companies can be called benevolent? Any thoughts on the Red Herring article below?: Microsoft Vista Called Illegal A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft Corp's new Vista operating system will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago. The European Commission found in 2004 that Microsoft used its dominance to muscle out RealNetworks and other makers of audio and video streaming software and that it made its desktop Windows deliberately incompatible with rivals' server software. ...The group of complainants includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Corel, Oracle, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Linspire and Opera. Read More

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MIT scientists have harnessed the construction talents of tiny viruses to build ultra-small "nanowire" structures for use in very thin lithium-ion batteries. By manipulating a few genes inside these viruses, the team was able to coax the organisms to grow and self-assemble into a functional electronic device. The goal of the work, led by MIT Professors Angela Belcher, Paula Hammond and Yet-Ming Chiang, is to create batteries that cram as much electrical energy into as small or lightweight a package as possible. The batteries they hope to build could range from the size of a grain of rice up to the size of existing hearing aid batteries. Read More

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Jan 25, 2007 (AP)— Six girls at a rural high school were charged with homicide conspiracy after their principal found a list of 300 names and officials discovered online postings suggesting they kill people, authorities said Thursday. School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer bunny. Read More Believe it or not, this is not a joke. You would think the Energizer Bunny would have been a clue, but noooo, they actually believed the girls were serious. BTW, how do you kill the Energizer Bunny?

Prince - Kiss Lyrics Uh! U don't have 2 be beautiful 2 turn me on I just need your body, baby, from dusk till dawn U don't need experience 2 turn me up there U just leave it all up 2 me, I'm gonna show U what it's allabout CHORUS: U don't have 2 be rich 2 be my girl U don't have 2 be cool 2 rule my world Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with I just want your extra time and your . . . . . kiss U got 2 not talk dirty, baby, if U wanna impress me U can't be 2 flirty, mama, I know how 2 undress me (Yeah) I want 2 be your fantasy, maybe U could be mine U just leave it all up 2 me, we could have a good time CHORUS Yes, oh I think I wanna dance, uh Gotta, gotta, oh Little Girl Wendy's Parade Gotta, gotta, gotta Women, not girls, rule my world, I said they rule my world Act your age, mama, not your shoe size, maybe we could do thetwirl U don't have 2 watch Dynasty 2 have an attitude, uh U just leave it all up 2 me, my love will be your food (Yeah) U don't have 2 be rich 2 be my girl U don't have 2 be cool 2 rule my world Ain't no particular sign I'm compatible with! I just want your extra time and your kiss Lyric's Source

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Take a Stand Against the Madness; Stop the RIAA! The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on a rampage, launching legal attacks against average Americans from coast to coast. After over 18,000 lawsuits and counting against P2P users, file sharing has continued to increase rapidly. Meanwhile, music fans, like 12 year-old Brianna LaHara, college student Cassi Hunt, and parent of five Cecilia Gonzalez, are being forced to pay thousands of dollars they do not have to settle RIAA-member lawsuits, and many other innocent individuals are being caught in the crossfire. This irrational crusade is not generating a single penny for the artists that the RIAA claims to protect. The RIAA should be working to create a rational, legal means by which its customers can take advantage of file sharing technology and pay a fair price for the music they love. With artists increasingly turning against the lawsuits, momentum may be shifting in favor of a better way forward. Copyright law shouldn't make criminals out of more than 60 million Americans — tell Congress that it's time to stop the madness! We have over 80,000 signatures so far - this is amazing! If we can get 100,000 signatures, we will deliver the petition to the Senate and House Commerce and Judiciary Commitees. Sign the position at The Electronic Frontier Foundation

Holland joins the ITunes DRM rebellion: The Dutch consumer protection agency became the latest in Europe on Thursday to pressure Apple Inc into changing restrictions that tie songs bought on iTunes to its market-leading iPod players. Consumentenbond spokesman Ewald van Kouwen said his group had filed a formal complaint with the Dutch antitrust watchdog NMa asking for an investigation into what he called "illegal practices" by Apple's iTunes online store. Read More

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The following is music to my ears Chad wasn’t forthcoming on when this new system will be rolled out, but most of the weblog community seems to have taken the remark as a formal announcement. However, I think if done right it’s going to have a similar effect to Adsense, but for video. By that, I mean that the story will be much more compelling if YouTube also share revenue for referral. If someone embeds a video on their site and it gets viewed, will they share the revenue with the publisher. I’d be interesting to see an economy build around that, and what effect it could have on the videos themselves. Would some of them become more viral because more people stand a chance of making a buck? Imagine Scouta, Digg, Boing Boing and other sites generating income from links to video. What about if we then shared that with the community somehow. Consumers making money from the video, movies, or television shows they love. Source

According to news reports, Bill Gates says the internet is superior delivery system than tv, and that he expects tv to implode. Curious to your thoughts about this new article: DAVOS, Switzerland (Jan. 27) - The Internet is set to revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday. Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, addresses a panel on Web 2.0 during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday. "I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had," he told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum. Read More

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Bonus - here is a video, Wait For the Wheels, from their last album, Ozona. Quite nice, I think you will agree.

Goldrush are a rock band from that hail from Oxfordshire, England. The band is comprised around brothers Robin Bennett (vocals, guitar) and his brother Joe (keyboards, guitar, vocals), and Garo (lead guitar), Growler (bass) and G on drums. The Bennett brothers also run the annual Truck Festival with family and friends at Hill Farm, Steventon, Oxfordshire; last year's festival included the likes of The Futureheads Russia!, MC Lars, The Electric Soft Parade and Regina Spektor. With musical influences like Wilco, Nick Drake, the Byrds and the The Flaming Lips, Goldrush deliver a mixture of quite listenable folk-rock and psychedelia. Check out the new album, With The Heart Is The Place, which is streaming at the band's website and at MySpace. - the track list is below. Enjoy. Buy It here

In his article at Zeropaid, SoulXTC takes a look at GrooveShark, a new P2P music site, which promises to compensate both copyright owners and users. Sounds almost too good to be true. "Grooveshark will be a P2P music file-sharing community that will broker music transactions between members. It will charging for the songs exchanged between members on the site, Grooveshark will compensate copyright holders and users while providing the convenience and selection of P2P file-sharing in an online music community. All Grooveshark files will be DRM-free, allowing users to play the songs they purchase on any PC or portable digital music player. Grooveshark will supposedly combine the best of P2P file-sharing and online music download sites into one convenient service. Users will be able to browse songs uploaded by other members and then pay to download these DRM-free MP3 files. Songs will vary in price, but none will cost more than 99 cents. Grooveshark will then pay the appropriate royalties to music copyright holders by taking commissions from users' transactions and then also compensate users with free music for community participation such as uploading songs, fixing song tags, flagging unwanted files or reviewing music. Members will be rewarded based on their level of contribution to the Grooveshark community." Read more at ZeroPaid. Get on GrooveShark's Mailing List

In his review, "One Nation Under Hip-Hop," Adam Bradley explores two books: "OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America" by Mike Thompson & "To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic" by William Jelani Cobb: Hip-hop is dead. That's what rap legend Nas claims in the title of his latest album. He just might be right. According to Nielsen Soundscan, album sales in all genres declined by nearly 5 percent in 2006, largely attributable to the increasing popularity of digital downloads. Rap sales, however, plummeted by more than 20 percent, the most of any genre. Ironically, this downturn comes at a time when hip-hop seems to be catering to commercial tastes as never before, often at the expense of artistic innovation. But don't write rap's obituary yet. Hip-hop still remains a dominant voice in youth culture, though it undoubtedly faces an identity crisis. Now 30 years old, hip-hop must reconcile the twin tensions of art and commerce -- just as jazz did in the 1940s, when bebop supplanted swing and young lions such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie emerged as cultural icons capable of crossing the color line. And because the majority of rap artists are black and much of the audience is white, the genre bears both the promise and the peril of interracial encounter. Like jazz, hip-hop has the paradoxical potential to promote understanding and to reinforce stereotypes. Read more at The Washington Post