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Art Crimes is 9 years old this month!

Thanks to Diganta's World for the birthday cake.
See also Hansol's ASCII Art Collection

Maxim RIP
B-boy extraordinaire, murdered 2 months ago in Berlin.

Blaster: the vermin
If you, like many windoze users, got the Blaster Worm this week, you may not be able to get back on the net without help. If you're able to figure out how to kill a running process (program) you can turn off blaster.exe, I'm told, then run somethng like Norton or Mcafee to remove the worm files from your computer. THEN you can go to microsoft to get the new security patch at the link above.

emac: The cure
For $800 you can have an emac, though (with the built-in monitor, if you're comparing prices). If you are a student or a teacher, they are even cheaper through the Apple educational discount plan. Plus they have finance plans. Sometimes you can just go to your local college bookstore and order one through them, whether you go to school there or not.

Cool art software

Cool enough for writers, tough enough for animators.

SketchUp 3D - Sketch-Based 3D Design Software

Canvas 9 Professional Edition

Painter (awful website but great tool)

Corel's other graphic tools

Graffiti

Plus One RIP
Plus One was TITS/TNK crew and he died in a car accident recently.

Boxer RIP
Boxer (CTK crew) died in 2002. He was one of the most famous French writers during the 1980s. He painted with Mode2, Bando and many others.

Recon Store has a great game interface - thanks to Futura and Stash

unconsume.tripod.com

Graffoto [level 01]

Hungarian rail carrier signs deal with graffiti artists: just paint the freights, please.

Interstellar Transmissions is an installation of paintings/digital prints/photographs transmitted from deep space by Abdul Qadim Haqq, who has created record cover artwork for Detroit Techno and Electro labels Underground Resistance and Red Planet; and by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca, who has created record cover artwork for Metroplex, Los Hermanos and Axis Records.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 20, 2003: 4 PM to 8 PM
Show runs through October 26, 2003
Artist talk/slide presentation: Saturday, October 18, 2003: 6 PM

Crewest Store and Art Gallery
2703 W. Valley Blvd.
Alhambra, CA 91803
626.458.2465
http://www.crewest.com

Other Media and News

NCM - Ethnic Media Nationwide

American Spirit cigs found most addictive

Farmed Salmon contains dangerous levels of PCBs

Wikipedia is becoming the worlds largest, free, open content encyclopedia

The linear zoetrope: frame-based animation on tunnels for train riders. See Spodek's work in person at SomaNYC during August and September 2003. Check site for details.

Space.com Image Galleries

Hubble's greatest hits - amazing space photos

War

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public," said President Theodore Roosevelt.

Cost of War

Weapons of Mass Stupidity

Operation: Hidden Agenda playing cards

No War Blog

Hundreds Continue Nuns' War Protest. Some nuns got jail time in the US for painting crosses on nuclear missle silos with their own blood.

Surveillance

AlterNet: TECHSPLOITATION: Surveillance 101

NYC Surveillance Camera Project

Spot the Cam Amsterdam

Cringely on electronic surveillance - who will watch the watchers?

Animal New York, the free radical art magazine from you know where, prints a surveillance camera map in every issue.

Personal Tech

No such thing as a "secret" web pageSeen on Slashdot: "It is almost impossible to keep a web server secret by not publishing any links to it. As soon as someone follows a link from your "secret" server to another web server, it is likely that your "secret" URL is in the referer tag, and it can be stored and possibly published by the other web server in its referer log. So ... it is likely that Googlebot and other "web crawlers" will find it [by crawling the referrer logs of other sites. No links in and no links out is safer, but not foolproof.]

Cybercafes considered unsafe for private computing

CNN.com - Kinko's spy case: Risks of renting PCs - Jul. 23, 2003

Easy Everything, now with a site in NY as well, essentially netboots all the PCs after each user so even if the previous performed some evil, the next user gets a new system free of any malware.

That type of policy still won't protect you against a cybercafe's own surveillance though, and there are things your parents, work, and school might be doing also, like
Keylogger Software

Use a Better Browser

Microsoft security flaw considered national security threat
"Last year, Microsoft issued about 70 such patches; so far this year, it has issued nearly 30."

"The government is particularly worried about the [latest] flaw because it could potentially affect so many users. As many as 75 percent of all computers connected to the Internet rely on the flawed versions of Microsoft's software, Homeland Security spokesman David Wray said."

Use Windows Update on your machine to get and install patches from Microsoft. Turn off virus protection before installing anything.

Audiopad - a new way to make music

SecondSpin.com - The Internet's Largest Buyer And Seller of Used CDs, Videos and DVDs

Board Game Central

Interesting new Flash game thingy

Etch-A-Sketch

Find just in time school help at sites like:

sparknotes.com
pinkmonkey.com
mathnerds.com
tutoraid.org
algebratutor.org