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NewsNow Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment fm For the past few months, we've been hinting that we had some big plans for the future. Well, we are very happy to announce that Exfm is joining Rhapsody! For the last 4 years, we've been committed to building an original, fast and fun way to discover new music. Rhapsody has been a leader in the on-demand music space since they pioneered the concept over 10 years ago. By teaming up, we can build the ultimate music service with an amazing social discovery engine backed by Rhapsody?s catalog of over 30 million songs. For the next few months, we will be heads down working.

DAILY MIRROR What Apple's patents reveal about its plans For anybody who wants to know what a company is thinking, just look at its patent portfolio. Patents are about protection: without them there's nothing to stop your rivals from copying your best ideas and making money from your hard work. If you patent your revolutionary unicorn-powered laptop and a rival copies you, you'll be able to sue them until they squeak - and possibly get their product pulled from the shelves too. Smart companies patent everything, and Apple is a smart company - so a trawl through Apple's worldwide patent applications can uncover future products. Back in 2006, patent application 20,060,268,528 showed what was described as a "portable computing device capable of wireless communications... If you'd seen the patents Apple was filing in 2004 and 2005, the iPad wouldn't have been a big surprise either. So can you use the patent offices as crystal balls for Apple kit? The iMac touch Description What is it? Patents used Why we're excited A mightier Mac mini Description

The Emergence Of The Content Creation Class Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and startup enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing. The content creation class shall inherit the Internet. Richard Florida coined the expression the “Creative Class”, his belief being that these some 30 to 40 million would be the driving force for economic development in a postindustrial world. Instead of driving the macro economy the Content Creation Class refers to the group of people who drive content on the internet those that write blogs, those that upload video to YouTube, and those that upload pictures to share with the world. The Internet is a key segment within this postindustrial world identified by Florida. Since the emergence of Webernets, two distinct classes that have emerged — those that create content and those who consume it. The rise of the content creation class Filling the content vacuum Social media has changed the content creation paradigm

Weird Fiction Review | Your Non-Denominational Source for The Weird DAILY MAIL Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About Laughing Squid Cryptomundo - for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More - Blog Home The antioxidant myth is too easy to swallow | Henry Scowcroft When the press release arrived in our inboxes, we knew what would happen next. A controversial Nobel laureate had stated, in a peer-reviewed paper he described as "among my most important work", that antioxidant supplements "may have caused more cancers than they have prevented". Even the most fad-friendly sections of the UK media were bound to cover the story. In reality, Professor James Watson – one of the DNA double-helix's founding fathers – was only restating what we at Cancer Research UK (along with many others) have been pointing out for years. Large studies have repeatedly shown that, with the possible exception of vitamin D, antioxidant supplements have negligible positive effect on healthy people, at least in terms of important things such as preventing people getting cancer or dying prematurely. And some supplements – notably vitamins A, E and beta-carotene – even seem to slightly raise the risk of disease and early death.

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