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Beijing – Five pro-Tibet activists unfurled a banner spelling out “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese in bright blue LED “throwie” lights in Beijing’s Olympic Park tonight. The five were detained by security personnel after displaying the banner for about 20 seconds at 11:48 pm August 19th. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.
via: http://freetibet2008.org/

http://www.myspace.com/monkeyjourneytothewest
Created as a promo for BBC Sport’s Olympics coverage, “Monkey” is the new creation of Damon Albarn (lead singer of the band Blur) and Jamie Hewlett, the pair behind the virtual art-pop supergroup Gorillaz.
The animated video is based on the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West as well as the alt-rock opera Monkey: [...]

2008 August 2
The Xiph.Org Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation share the common goal of keeping the Web free and open for everyone, so it did not come as a surprise when Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard announced that the upcoming Firefox 3.1 will support both Ogg Theora and Vorbis, alongside the HTML 5’s element.
Mercurialmozilla-central - changeset [...]

Grammy-winning Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil stepped down as culture minister on Wednesday: “I am leaving the government to dedicate more time to my artistic endeavors and to my family, which is growing with the addition of a new grandchild,” told a news conference.
Since his appointment as culture minister in 2003, when President Luiz Inacio Lula [...]

Finally we saw him, live: we heard him. Good old Radovan is back. He killed Dabic with one haircut and a thorough shave. It’s literally the same voice, with the same intellect behind it. What’s different is a grim new tic of his mouth, as if he is on the verge of tears.
The [...]