10 March 2010, 10:31 am
Wanted to add a few links to articles that discuss the move by Amazon.com to cut ties Monday with Colorado online businesses that help it sell products. Amazon made this move because of a new state law aimed at getting out-of-state, online retailers to collect sales tax. What I didn’t realize is that Amazon previously cut off affiliates in two other states that passed online sales tax laws, Rhode Island and North Carolina. These articles do not mention the California and New York cases that deal with online sales tax as well.
An article from the Denver Post is here.
An NPR article and audio story is here.
10 March 2010, 12:08 am
There was an article in today’s New York Times, the Science section, that immediately caught my eye. It looks at Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962
by Megan Prelinger, a book that shows the hopes, dreams and fears related to the space age/race in the form of magazine ads.
The article is here. The New York Times also offers a slide show of some of of selected aviation industry advertisements that revisit this time when outer space reigned here. Definitely check it out!
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9 March 2010, 8:01 pm
Diatrope Books has added recommended books on synesthesia to our new books pages, here.
8 March 2010, 10:44 pm
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5 March 2010, 1:54 pm
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Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution by George Gessert
http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/gessert.html
Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are bred for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward Steichen’s hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists work with a variety of living things, including plants, animals, bacteria, slime molds, and fungi. Many commentators have addressed the social and political concerns raised by making art out of living material. In Green Light, however, George Gessert examines the role that aesthetic perception has played in bio art and other interventions in evolution. |
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