+ Been reading up on contract law as lately some of my work has required more knowledge than usual. DUHAIME’S CANADIAN CONTRACT LAW CENTRE has a very thourough summary of the general principals of the common law and equity principles on contract law. Feel armed, read it.

+ Milov hosts a very helpful full screen colour picker. Colour adjustments are made by moving your mouse pointer around the screen. Right clicking displays the colour code.

Primal Scream Remixed - Screamixadelica

There’s no reason for this. How do you improve upon perfection? You don’t. We don’t pretend to think this comes close to the Scream’s masterpiece, but then nothing else does. So what primalscreamremixed.com offers is a different spin, moving from chill through dub via glitch to drum & bass. Not a million miles away from the eclecticism of the source. And because it made sense there’s a bonus track also.

The album is available to download as a single Bit Torrent file

Wired 13.07: The Coming Boom

“It’s amusing to tell people that I jack off in an fMRI for science,” says Vicky, quickly adding that the process is more like work than sex. A typical day of research begins with Vicky lying on the fMRI machine’s bed; Komisaruk and his team strap down her head. Then she’s fed into the doughnut and the machine begins taking pictures, a process Vicky describes as “loud and clunky.” She stimulates herself by contracting her vaginal muscles rhythmically and controlling her breathing for 26 minutes.

Vicky and the imaging team worked out a hand signal she can flash when she starts to orgasm. “Basically, my head was strapped to a board in an extremely loud machine, and I had to let them know when I was about to come, so they could mark it on the computer,” she laughs. “Whoo - so sexy!”

“We got excellent data from her,” says Komisaruk, who adds that Vicky is one of 12 women in his study who can “think off.” “Because there is no distraction related to movements and sensory input from arms and hands,” he explains, “it illuminates the brain activity involved in producing the orgasm.”

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+ There is a huge growth industry of Chinese artists hand painting copies of Western Art. Not one by one, but multiple copies systemaically churned out and shipped around the world.

+ More on the artist Steven Kurtz

On the afternoon of May 11 last year, Steven Kurtz, a
respected artist and professor at the State University of New York at
Buffalo, called 911 to report that his wife, Hope, 45, was not breathing.

The police arrived to find Hope Kurtz dead, and in a hallway they found
something else - a biological lab, with an incubator, centrifuge and
bacterial cultures growing in petri dishes. Windows nearby were covered with
foil, and on the shelves sat books like “The Biology of Doom” and “Spores,
Plagues and History: The Story of Anthrax.” The F.B.I. was called in. Agents
in white biohazard suits scoured the house. Subpoenas - citing sections of
the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act - were issued to Mr. Kurtz and
other members of an art group he and his wife helped found, the Critical Art
Ensemble. And in the summer of 2004 Mr. Kurtz was indicted by a federal
grand jury on charges of mail and wire fraud, accused of illegally obtaining
two of the bacteria samples in his lab, crimes that could send him to prison
for up to 20 years.

ReadyMade: Feature - Value Pack Lamp
by Steven C. Schmidt

Compact discs are the new junk food. The garden-variety media are cousins to the floppy and zip, but they’re non-rewritable. Translation: If you botch your burn, there’s nothing to do but toss them. Those of us who routinely mix and rip will tear through a 100-pack in less time than it takes to polish off a bag of chips. But don’t start weaning yourself off iTunes just yet. The spindles produce far less waste when compared with the individually wrapped singles, and when the discs are gone, you can turn the plastic casing into mood lighting. It’s a lava lamp for the LimeWire generation.

How to Write More Clearly. Think More Clearly and Learn Complex Material More Easily.