Transit are four Belgian post-rocking ornithologists, Jeroen (guitar), Toon (bass), Koen (drums) and Nick (guitar), with a passion for nature, emotions and all kinds of music. This is more or less the essence of Transit; more words about us would just be tiresome; so we just hope you enjoy our music as much as we enjoy playing it! This is the first EP release and should you wish to purchase a physical copy of the EP please contact the band at contact@transit-band.be for further instructions. Currently playing lives shows around Belgium, you can get a preview of the show with a video here. Take care,Transit

img width=115 height=64 style=float: left; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; src=http://www.classicrallies.com/blog/uploads/Classic-Adelaide.serendipityThumb.jpg alt= /NEW South Wales wheat farmer Bill Pye marked his return to the a href=http://www.classicrallies.com/blog/exit.php?url_id=42032amp;entry_id=1581 title=http://www.classicrallies.com/view_event/1289 onmouseover=window.status='http://www.classicrallies.com/view_event/1289';return true; onmouseout=window.status='';return true; Classic Adelaide tarmac rally/a by snatching fastest time in the Prologue staged in the Adelaide Hills.br / br / Pye, from Coonamble, punched his 1974 Porsche 911 RS up the 2.9 kilometre climb to the Eagle on the Hill in one minute 43.8 seconds, a mere 0.2 sec. ahead of 2007 rally winner Kevin Weeks, who drove a 1975 version of the same model Porsche.br / br / The Prologue results determine starting order for cars in the Late Classic, Classic and Historic classes of the Competition category of the rally, which starts the first of four daily legs at 9 am tomorrow from Victoria Square in the centre of the South Australian capital.br / br / Last year’s Classic class winner Cameron Wearing topped his timesheets with 1 min. 46 sec. in a V8-engined Ford Capri Perana, a handy 1.7 sec. ahead of regular rival Rick Bates, driving a Porsche.br / br / John Lawson, piloting a rare 1938 Alfa Romeo 6C Roadster, was fastest of three cars contesting the Historic class of the Competition category.br / br / Pye was delighted to set fastest time, having crashed out of the 2006 event and missed 2007, but said it would have no influence over his prospects for the next four days.br / br / “We weren’t expecting to do that (win the Prologue), because it was a bit slippery out there and we weren’t really trying,” Pye said.br / br / “However, the nature of the stages here means where we start in the field will have no advantage for us.”br / br / Weeks’s second-fastest time was a good result from what he said was a bad-handling car.br / br / “The car was dreadful and was sliding around at the back. We took it back to the workshop later and made some changes and it will be a good thing tomorrow. It was good we went out and found the problem today instead of tomorrow,” he said.br / br / Eight-time Targa Tasmania champion and Classic Adelaide Ambassador Jim Richards got his less-powerful Porsche 944 Turbo Cup up the hill in 13th place.br / br / However, the man who beat Richards to the Targa trophy this year and a fancied Classic Adelaide debutante, Steve Glenney, could manage only equal-20th in his new Lancia Delta Integrale 16V.br / br / Rated as one of the world’s best road rallies for classic cars and a major tourism event for South Australia, Classic Adelaide will cover 34 “special stages” over closed public roads before the finish on Sunday afternoon. br /a href=http://www.classicrallies.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1581-Porsche-success-in-Classic-Adelaide-prologue.html#extendedContinue reading Porsche success in Classic Adelaide prologue/a

Of all the young artists we've met in the past few years, few have impressed us as much as Gaia. At only 20 years of age, the depth and level of commitment that Gaia brings to his work is remarkable. We're pleased to share with you his A's to our Q's:

Age: 20
Hometown: New York City
Where do you now live?: Baltimore, Maryland
Where would you most like to live?: I'll always love New York but Baltimore has such a kind and open atmosphere that I haven't found anywhere else. But New York most definitely has the best spots.
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: Ride bike and peruse the local farmer's markets.
What is your favorite color?: Red
Who (or what) do you love?: I love the excitement of a new project and of being apart of a community of artists who are united and bound by their passion for their work. I love the independence that my bike affords me. I love to constantly reconsider my beliefs.

Wooster: Who and/or what are some of your influences?

My peers and the people that I live with offer the most valuable critique that I could ever hope for. I am forever indebted to the dialogue we have established and the possibilities that they introduce to my work. My primary influences currently exist amongst the formative teachers, students and topics experienced in art school.

Wooster: What other artists do you most admire?

Of course, Swoon will always be an artist whom I deeply admire. The scope of her installations, street work, and social projects seems boundless. Kiki Smith's exploration of the body, of humanity's relationship with nature, the diverse media she employs is also a strong inspiration within my life. These two artists in particular were the impetus for my getting up in the streets.

Wooster: How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?

My emotional relationship with the important people within my life is what inspires the content of my work. My art is deeply personal and cathartic. I try to maintain an honest articulation of both my frustrations and felicity in each piece. Whether it is the celebration of a burgeoning young boy who I once babysat or the valediction of a person who lives in my past, I want to express a feeling that can be fundamentally understood by the viewer. I am very interested in communicating these passions on the street and in an attempt to relate to others through the imagery.

I put my work up in order to reactivate a space and reconsider our modern notion of property and domain. By applying my work to a surface or installing an environment in an urban setting, I am establishing a new significance and understanding of a particular space.

Wooster: What other talent would most like to have?

I want to know how to weld, work with radio, wire electronics. I am actually teaching myself how to mold and cast a pig head as I am writing this interview for my collaboration with the brilliant fibers and installation artist Rachel Lowing.

Wooster: What do you fear the most?

When I began my first block nearly two years ago, it seemed an impossibly difficult endeavor to establish myself in the New York street art scene. It just didn't seem feasible and I felt as if I was being left behind. There was a sense of urgency that I would simply remain in obscurity if I didn't get up hard and consistently. But flickr gave me a palpable sense of who was paying attention to my pieces on the street and that there was a momentum that was building.

That original sentiment relates persists in what I fear most now, and that is to be forgotten. I so want to be apart of this unbelievable movement in contemporary art that exists on the street. I am afraid of fulfilling the belief that I am just "a flash in the pan" or the possibility that I be reduced to a trendy hype. I strive ever day to maintain a trajectory in my work that has longevity so that I do not turn out to be another burn out or maybe more applicably a one hit wonder.

My calling is with the interaction of people and right now I find that on the streets. I am forever beholden and thankful to the artists who have come before me and truly blazed a clear and focused trail for me to follow.

Wooster: What is your greatest ambition?

I feel like my work is fundamentally traditional in medium and subject matter. My pieces' true function is when they are situated on the street otherwise they are relatively static. While there is an extensive and rich history of street art and graffiti, for it is arguably the largest and most accessible artistic movement in our history, I still believe that the streets are a pertinent genre and are extremely contemporary.

My greatest ambition would be to find a balance between my very formal practices of approaching fine art with pieces that function and are relevant in the real world. Each ambition fulfilled serves a platform for subsequent growth and opportunity.

You can see more of Gaia's artwork on his Flickr page here.

Transit are four Belgian post-rocking ornithologists, Jeroen (guitar), Toon (bass), Koen (drums) and Nick (guitar), with a passion for nature, emotions and all kinds of music. This is more or less the essence of Transit; more words about us would just be tiresome; so we just hope you enjoy our music as much as we enjoy playing it! 'Harmattan' is no more than a demo we recorded in our rehearsal room using only 6 mics (lo-fi, old school; and actually broke at that moment :), but more will come in November when we release our first EP. Take care,Transit

Bonne nouvelle pour l’internet français que cette décision de justice : Fuzz a gagné son procès en appel contre Olivier Martinez. Les juges ont donc retenu la nature même de Fuzz qui est de relayer des informations produites par d’autres. Cela semblait tellement logique au monde internet que la première décision donnant raison à l’acteur n’était pas acceptable, même si sûrement logique sur le plan du droit, et on pouvait craindre ses conséquences. Telle est la nature de la justice qui s’adapte petit à petit à l’évolution de la société et des pratiques et à qui il faut expliquer ce qu’elle ne connaît pas encore.

Pour moi c’était un peu comme si Olivier Martinez avait attaqué un marchand de journaux pour avoir mis dans son linéaire un Voici avec une photo volée. Viendrait-il à l’idée d’un acteur et de ses avocats que le responsable de la diffusion de l’info n’est pas le journal mais le réseau de distribution ?

L’économie d’internet réside dans les liens et la capacité de reprendre en de multiples points des informations. Les agrégateurs et digg like, tout comme Google, constituent un réseau de diffusion des informations qui renvoie systématiquement vers la source. L’avocat de Fuzz a donc réussi à démontrer ce point. Et la décision semble tout d’un coup logique.

La décision reconnaît ainsi la qualité d’hébergeur pour la société pour les contenus postés sur le site par les internautes. Voilà une décision qui lève un peu l’épée de damoclès au dessus de la tête des sites collaboratifs et des agrégateurs de contenus et fils RSS. Une décision similaire dans le cas de Wikio serait la bienvenue pour confirmer tout cela.

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Bien dans la vague eco-friendly actuelle, la sacoche Ecologic Lady Bag affiche une couleur nature : elle est réalisée à partir d'un coton 100% bio, les fermetures sont garanties sans...

Deux films de vampires. Tirés de romans, en salle la même semaine, produits aux antipodes. En Suède pour Let the Right One In. Aux États-Unis pour Twilight. Le premier tient du pari artistique, le second, du calcul commercial. Les deux réinventent à leur façon le mythe de la créature de la nuit popularisée par Bram Stoker. Sans crucifix, tresse d'ail, cercueil matelassé et longues canines. Plus important encore, les deux longs métrages ont en commun d'unir un mortel et un vampire, dans l'acceptation mutuelle de cette association insolite et contre nature. Ces vampires sont nos amis. Santé! a href=http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/11/22/217835.htmlSuite/a

Think about it, if there's an end, then what's after that? What is the purpose for all of this? Going from tiny insects to gas giants in space.... what is it all for, how did the universe itself come to be, I mean this is insane when you think about, how is it here, this univrse... it is baffling. What it is the reason for it? Why is there nature ? what is it all for ? How did it take this shape and from what, jesus how is it all made and why?

Are we already dead and in Hell ?

IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rl_FPd7f2hMWaBcycuQLnVwSwAw/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rl_FPd7f2hMWaBcycuQLnVwSwAw/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/technology/popular/~4/0IeAA8U1yYc height=1 width=1 /br[a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7740484.stm title=linklink/a] [a href=http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/container/technology/popular/~3/0IeAA8U1yYc/IBM_to_build_brain_like_computers title=moremore/a]

Publication Date: 2008 Dec PMID: 19020512br/Authors: Haggard, P.br/Journal: Nat Rev Neuroscibr/br/The capacity for voluntary action is seen as essential to human nature. Yet neuroscience and behaviourist psychology have traditionally dismissed the topic as unscientific, perhaps because the mechanisms that cause actions have long been unclear. However, new research has identified networks of brain areas, including the pre-supplementary motor area, the anterior prefrontal cortex and the parietal cortex, that underlie voluntary action. These areas generate information for forthcoming actions, and also cause the distinctive conscious experience of intending to act and then controlling one's own actions. Volition consists of a series of decisions regarding whether to act, what action to perform and when to perform it. Neuroscientific accounts of voluntary action may inform debates about the nature of individual responsibility.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19020512title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged on by commenters on Justin.tv and fellow forum users on bodybuilding.com. Biggs overdosed on pills while on camera and appeared to be breathing for hours until watchers realized he might be serious, at which point they alerted the police. The video kept running until police and EMTs broke Biggs’ door down and blocked the camera’s view.
We confirmed Biggs’ death with the Broward County medical examiner. The Justin.tv video and many of the forum posts have been taken down.
When asked about the broadcast via email, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: As for the broadcaster incident last night, we don’t comment on individual videos, however, our policy prohibits inappropriate content on Justin.tv. We rely on the community to flag videos that they feel are objectionable. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed and quickly removed from the system if it violates our Terms of Use. We won’t post the disturbing content here, but much of it is still online. Images of the broadcast have been posted here and here, and there’s also a suicide note from Biggs, who went by the screenname CandyJunkie. An account of forum users watching the broadcast and calling the police is here. There are also rest-in-peace comments on what appears to be Biggs’ MySpace page. The Justin.tv broadcast used to be here.
The contention that filming and uploading (and even hosting video of) a crime is a crime as well might not be valid, but given the very nature of live broadcasts, the issue becomes more complicated.
And it’s not as if technology enabled the taking of a life, or as if this hasn’t happened before. A British man hung himself last year after allegedly being goaded on by fellow users on Paltalk, another live video site. There was even a widely distributed movie on the topic of live-streamed killings released earlier this year called Untraceable. But last night’s incident raises a thought-provoking question regarding free hosting of live broadcasts — what could sites like Justin.tv possibly do to prevent live-streamed snuff films?
Justin.tv has already come under fire for another problem with live broadcasts — copyright infringement. The Premier League is reportedly threatening legal action against the site over unauthorized broadcasts of soccer games. Justin.tv, which is a free service, has maintained it complies with takedown requests according to the law — but with live broadcasts, the key event often ends before lawyers can get involved. Or in Biggs’ case, before people who care about him could get through.


http://newteevee.com/2008/11/20/19-y...e-on-justintv/

wow, wtf?!

Cliffnotes:
thee best cliff around(decent read but most detailed around)
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- CandyJunkie creates thread telling Misc. he'll overdose himself again on drugs live on Justin.tv
- CandyJunkie posts the amount of drugs he's going to take
- Mods don't take it seriously because of his past trolling
- People egg him on
- CandyJunkie posts a copied suicide note
- People keep egging him on
- He pops the pills and goes to sleep
- He breathes for a few hours, people think he's going to be alright and keep joking and trash talking on his JTV log.
- Some time later many people realize he was not moving.
- I find his personal details through E-detectivery, I figure out his name and number and location.
- Personal details posted on Misc. I request people to call the cops because I live in India and had no way to make International calls all by myself.
- People tell me he's a troll and nobody calls. Staberella especially is quite a huge cynic and says that he wasn't going to die on that kind of drugs, she insists nothing is going to happen and that people should just gtfo of the thread.
- I send an email to Miami Police on their official email on their website, Email not functioning!
- I call Miami Police from my dad's phone and speak to at least three cops and one person from the 911 line (whatever it is) for over 8 minutes about the situation, the people there do not take the case seriously and tell me to call the sheriff of his county, and give me the sheriff's number even after I told them I was speaking from a different country and that this was an emergency.
- I post the sheriff's number on the Misc. thread
- People tell me to quit worrying and that they're 100% sure its a loop and he's just fraudin'
-calls the Broward County Sheriff's office and speaks to them about the situation along with a couple of other people. By the time I called, it turns out 3 people had already called them about it.
- People wait for the cops to bust in on the JTV cam.
- Some people start thinking nobody called the cops, at least 5 more people call the cops, they were told the cops were on it
- 25 minutes after the first call to the cops, the cops bust in. They cover the webcam
- People speculating whether he's dead or not
- Friends post messages on his myspace worried about him, no response from him.
- His best friend posts a thread on the Misc. and informs the people that he's dead.
- Some people still think its a bluff

RIP Abraham Biggs.
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?p=247864351

Wow, wtf man...

During the presidential campaign, we noted that singer Jackson Browne had a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080817/2224151999.shtml"sued the McCain campaign/a for the use of one of his songs in a commercial. The McCain campaign has a href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/11/john-mccain-fir.html" target="_new"filed a response to the lawsuit/a, first noting that it wasn't the McCain campaign that used the song in an ad, but the Republican Party of Ohio. Second, the campaign points out that the use of the song probably qualifies as fair use: blockquotei "Given the political, non-commercial, public interest and transformative nature of the use of a long-ago published song, the miniscule amount used and the lack of any effect on the market for the song (other than perhaps to increase sales of the song), these claims are barred by the fair use doctrine." /i/blockquote Of course, between this and the McCain campaign's a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081014/0058102535.shtml"attempt/a to get YouTube to apply different fair use rules to presidential campaign videos, it makes you wonder if Senator McCain will actually try to a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081020/0206132584.shtml"ido something/i/a in the Senate to improve copyright law to make fair use more explicit and make it clear that it covers these sorts of actions. Somehow I doubt it.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/0203022910.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/0203022910.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081121/0203022910op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=fa46f5b9433b81e26161c78d00a54c81p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=fa46f5b9433b81e26161c78d00a54c81p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=fa46f5b9433b81e26161c78d00a54c81" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=OSzWn"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=OSzWn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/461377699" height="1" width="1"/

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img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/1_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtpWhat are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible?/pp Scientists have revealed microscopic life, nanoscale molecules and galaxies billions of light-years away. These images have revolutionized the disciplines in which they were made, but they also transformed the public's imagination, giving common people new things to think and dream about. /pp The intertwined social, scientific and artistic impacts of 19th century photography is the subject of a new exhibit, Brought to Light Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. /pp This gallery looks at some of the more astounding images and stories from the exhibit. /p pstrongLeft: br / Hermann Schnauss, Electrograph of a brass wire gauge, 1900/strong As the men of industry attempted to harness electricity for profit, the public — which knew electricity primarily as lightning — had to be persuaded that this powerful, invisible force was something to invite into their homes. Electrographs like this one, produced by exposing a photographic negative with electricity, helped the public visualize and understand the mysterious electromagnetic waves that scientists were discovered populating the air. /pp "This is a moment where [scientists] are trying to harness electricity for practical purposes, but the general public was kind of skeptical," said Corey Keller, curator of the Brought to Light exhibit. "Their experiences with electricity were generally through lighting, which they knew could burn things down and kill you, if you weren't careful. So a great deal of time and money was spent trying to make electricity understandable and approachable." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/3_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApIn the early history of photography, capturing motion was out of the question. The photographic negatives of the time were not sensitive enough to light to be exposed over the short time periods required to capture fast action. /pp "If you look at 19th century cityscapes, you would think that Armageddon had taken place. You don't see any people," Keller said. "It's not that they aren't there, it's just that they don't show up because they walked through too quickly." /pp But by the end of the 1870s, more sensitive negatives brought motion within reach. Edward Muybridge was one of the first photographers to take advantage of the new abilities. /pp In this photo, we see one of Muybridge's motion studies: two men boxing in jock straps. Historians note that despite the scientific trappings, Muybridge's work was just art; it did not produce good scientific evidence about bodies' movements. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/4_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThe ability to capture motion in photography opened up a previously invisible source of scientific data. Etienne-Jules Marey was a scientist trying to understand biomechanics, or the motion of the body, and he used photography to acquire information he couldn't get any other way, as in this photograph of a man on a stationary bicycle. /pp "What happens in this picture is that each split second exposure is layered on top of each other, so you get the sense of the full arc of the motion," Keller said. "And he's put a piece of tape down the arm and torso and the leg where the joints articulated, so as the leg went around and around the whole pedal stroke is outlined." /pp This wasn't just to create beautiful pictures; Marey was on a committee in France to improve the ergonomics of the newly popular bicycle. /pp "So by studying the motion of the leg, he would have been able to improve the engineering of the bicycle," Keller concluded. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/5_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApWhile forward-looking scientists like Marey were using photography to understand, for example, how animals moved, as in this photo, others were less enthused about this new technology. /pp In particular, photographers' ability to capture images beyond what the human eye could perceive called into question an important tenet of 19th century science. /pp "What's amazing is that this is a moment where empirical observation in science is the most important thing, that idea of objective observation. And this kind of photography proved how completely useless a human observer was," said Keller. "So you end up with this photographic data that cant' be corroborated in any other way. It exists independently of any kind of perceptual experience." /pp Technology's ability to capture detail and motion more accurately than our eyes has only accelerated, of course, as anyone who has seen a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/water-falling-a.html"incredible ultra-slow-motion YouTube videos can attest/a. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/6_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApWhen William Roentgen announced his discovery of X-rays, a photo of his wife's hand accompanied his paper as it made its way into the scientific community. /pp Over the next few years, images like this one of a skeletal hand with the ring came to symbolize X-rays. Practically, the hand is relatively flat and therefore easy to X-ray, but it was the aesthetics and grim-reaper symbolism that Keller said hit a nerve with the upper classes. /pp "It became fashionable to have an X-ray portrait taken of your hand," she said, calling attention to x-ray hand portraits of the last tsar of Russia and his wife. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/7_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThe discovery of X-rays also touched off a lower-brow commercial craze. Within three months, DIY X-ray kits were available on the market. Photographers, who had access to most of the tools needed to make the images, began to train this new form of light on just about anything that might be beautiful. /pp "They were X-raying everything just to see what it looked like," Keller said. /pp One stunning example is this X-ray of a foot in a shoe from 1897. In fact, the connection between X-rays and extremities has remained strong. Even into the 1960s, shoe stores kept X-ray machines in their lobbies, both as marketing tools and to help their salesmen fit their patrons' feet correctly. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/8_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApThroughout the second-half of the 19th century, photographers strived to unite the camera with the telescope. The moon, in particular, held a lasting fascination for astronomers and artists alike. /pp Imaging the moon, after all, was an immensely difficult task. The Earth rotates and the moon is actually a relatively faint object. It wasn't until John Adams Whipple and George Phillips Bond figured out how to rotate their camera ever so slightly to cancel out Earth's movement that simple images of our only satellite became possible. /pp What's interesting is that despite the fascination with creating pictures of the moon, like this striking image created in Spain, the images didn't add much for science beyond what detailed drawings could already do. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/9_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApIf you wanted close-up photos of the moon any time before the Apollo missions, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And that's exactly what an engineer and astronomer did in 1874 to tremendous acclaim. /pp James Nasmyth, the inventor of the steam hammer, and James Carpenter, then at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, released a hugely successful book, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, illustrated by their incredible moon mock-ups. The august journal Nature gave the book a rapturous review. /pp "No more truthful or striking representations of natural objects than those here presented have ever been laid before his readers by any student of Science," the reviewer wrote. /pp But what's really appealing about the images isn't their "truthfulness" but their "truthiness." /pp "Astronomers were perfectly aware of what they were looking at," Keller said. "But they felt that because they were photographed, it added a layer of authenticity to the undertaking that simple drawings didn't have." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/10_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApAt the other end of the scale of size from the moon, other photographers were pushing their discipline into the microscopic realm. They had to devise new emulsion chemistries and types of equipment to capture clear images of tiny things. /pp Leading the charge was Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch, who worked to overcome any challenge that scientists threw at him. Unfortunately, he died during social unrest in France in 1871, and his images lay in a photographic archive until Keller brought them to the US for the exhibition. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/11_t.jpg'/img: Photo courtesy SFMOMApEven as they solved technical challenges, the photomicrographers faced social resistance. The idea of representing a specific living thing instead of a generalized abstraction of an organism forced scientists to let go of long-held notions about their discipline. /pp "Prior to the 19th century, the scientific illustrations tend to represent a type, an ideal. So if you were going to do a picture of a flower, for example, the illustrator would look at 20 flowers and then take the common features and make an ideal flower," said Keller. 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Par Renaud Dély. Martine Aubry, c'est un peu la restauration. Celle des années Jospin. Par les meilleures qu'ait connes le PS, en somme. Ils y sont arrivés. Ce fut long, lent et difficile, mais le TSS (« Tout sauf Ségolène ») a fini par fonctionner. De justesse. Il aura fallu que Martine Aubry s’acoquine avec Laurent Fabius, s’entende avec Lionel Jospin, s’accorde avec Benoît Hamon, et même se réconcilie avec Bertrand Delanoë, mais au bout du compte, l’essentiel est réussi : Royal, l’hérétique ne mettra pas les mains sur le temple de Solférino. Depuis le lendemain de l’élection présidentielle, c’était le dessein prioritaire que s’étaient assigné les éléphants. Dépossédés de l’investiture élyséenne par l’usurpatrice, celle qui n’était pas prévue dans le casting, ils se sont ligués pour l’empêcher de pousser son avantage. Et prendre leur revanche. Raison pour laquelle François Hollande s’est, par exemple, appliqué à prolonger au maximum le calendrier préparatoire au Congrès, afin de mieux affaiblir l’étoile de son ex-compagne.
Mission accomplie, donc. Reste maintenant à savoir quelle sera la marge de manoeuvre de la nouvelle Première secrétaire pour tenter de réanimer un parti exsangue et profondément divisé.

Six ans de purgatoire chez les Ch’tis
La maire de Lille a, certes, réussi un formidable come-back sur la scène nationale. Après avoir passé six ans de purgatoire sous le beffroi nordiste, confinée en son Hôtel de ville depuis sa défaite aux législatives de 2002, la dame des 35 heures est parvenue à rebondir sur la scène nationale et il convient de saluer sa performance. Son principal souci sera désormais de tenter de recoller les morceaux d’une famille déchirée dont l’un des ancêtres, Lionel Jospin, est allé jusqu’à comparer, jeudi soir, le discours rénovateur de Ségolène Royal à celui des « néos-socialistes  », ces dissidents entraînés par Marcel Déat sur le chemin de la collaboration avec l’occupant nazi ! Subtil, l’austère ! La tâche de Martine Aubry s’avère donc particulièrement délicate. D’abord parce que le parti se retrouve divisé en deux camps numériquement à peu près égaux. Ensuite parce qu’elle risque de se heurter au refus de Royal de se plier à l’autorité de celle qui demeure sa meilleure ennemie au sein du PS. Enfin, parce qu’au vu de l’attelage hétéroclite qui la soutient, Martine Aubry va devoir composer avec de nombreuses sensibilités rivales et gérer la rue de Solférino de façon fort collective, ce qui n’est pas forcément son tempérament.

Les deux principaux mécaniciens à l’origine de cet échafaudage, couronné de succès mais fragile, surnommé rassemblement des « carpes et des lapins », sont le député de Paris, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, chef des carpes strauss-kahniennes qui guettent le retour de leur champion de Washington pour 2012, et son collègue de Seine-Saint-Denis, Claude Bartolone, porte-parole des lapins fabiusiens qui continuent de croire en l’inaltérable bonne fortune de l’ancien Premier ministre pour atteindre l’inaccessible étoile élyséenne : c’est dire l’équilibre instable sur lequel est, pour l’heure, assis le pouvoir naissant de Martine Aubry...

Côté rénovation idéologique et changement des modes de fonctionnement interne du parti, cette situation  devrait contraindre la maire de Lille à avancer lentement. Au risque de verser dans cet immobilisme, quintessence de la gestion de François Hollande onze ans durant, mais qui ne correspond guère à la nature de l’ex-ministre du Travail.

Tout juste l’affirmation du sacro-saint « ancrage à gauche » et la perpétuation de la tradition militante sont-ils garantis, au risque de faire le bonheur de François Bayrou qui devrait retrouver un peu plus d’espace au centre. La reconstruction du PS et, surtout, le retour de l’harmonie dans ses rangs, demeurent une oeuvre de longue haleine.

D’autant que la victoire de Martine Aubry a une première conséquence, source d’un peu plus de désordre encore : après Dominique, Laurent, François, Ségolène, et sans doute quelques autres, les socialistes ne vont pas tarder à voir émerger, avec Martine, une présidentiable de plus !

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Par Renaud Dély. Eh oui, l'élection de Martine Aubry à la tête du PS ne fait que rajouter un nom à la (longue) liste des présidentiables socialistes. Après Dominique, Laurent, François, Ségolène, Bertrand, et j'en passe... Ils y sont arrivés. Ce fut long, lent et difficile, mais le TSS (« Tout sauf Ségolène ») a fini par fonctionner. De justesse. Il aura fallu que Martine Aubry s’acoquine avec Laurent Fabius, s’entende avec Lionel Jospin, s’accorde avec Benoît Hamon, et même se réconcilie avec Bertrand Delanoë, mais au bout du compte, l’essentiel est réussi : Royal, l’hérétique ne mettra pas les mains sur le temple de Solférino. Depuis le lendemain de l’élection présidentielle, c’était le dessein prioritaire que s’étaient assigné les éléphants. Dépossédés de l’investiture élyséenne par l’usurpatrice, celle qui n’était pas prévue dans le casting, ils se sont ligués pour l’empêcher de pousser son avantage. Et prendre leur revanche. Raison pour laquelle François Hollande s’est, par exemple, appliqué à prolonger au maximum le calendrier préparatoire au Congrès, afin de mieux affaiblir l’étoile de son ex-compagne.
Mission accomplie, donc. Reste maintenant à savoir quelle sera la marge de manoeuvre de la nouvelle Première secrétaire pour tenter de réanimer un parti exsangue et profondément divisé.

Six ans de purgatoire chez les Ch’tis
La maire de Lille a, certes, réussi un formidable come-back sur la scène nationale. Après avoir passé six ans de purgatoire sous le beffroi nordiste, confinée en son Hôtel de ville depuis sa défaite aux législatives de 2002, la dame des 35 heures est parvenue à rebondir sur la scène nationale et il convient de saluer sa performance. Son principal souci sera désormais de tenter de recoller les morceaux d’une famille déchir&e