Foonz

Submitted by New Media Rights last modified Fri, 03/07/2008 - 4:24pm

Foonz is a service that claims to allow you to chat with a group of people, or leave them all a message... for free. Give it a shot and let us know what you think.

From the site:

"With foonz you can get a group of people on a call instantly or leave them all a message from your cell or home phone, anytime, without pre-planning.

There are a million reasons to use foonz! Talk with a team or club, have a family call, or just find out what all your friends are up to!

It's easy to get started:

1. Sign up with foonz.
2. Add people to your foonz contact list.
3. Dial your personal "foonz number".

You'll then be prompted to start a free group call or leave a group message!"

http://www.foonz.com
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Skeletonsweat This week's CRAFT magazine video podcast shows how to make a knitting pattern for this killer skeleton cardigan. In the podcast, Becky Stern details how she takes an antique anatomical illustration and uses Photoshop to convert it into a gridded knitting pattern. Next week, she'll show how to make the back panel of the actual sweater.
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Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 1:49pm

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UCAN Oil Hog 2008

In this video, the UCAN Oil Hog makes his annual appearance in order to predict gas prices for the coming year. Unfortunately, piggy got quite upset. Normally, oil piggies are free to gouge consumers without fear of repercussions....but that all changes in election years. UCAN has documented a disturbing correlation between gas prices and elections. While this translates into a short-term price break for consumers, it has devastating long-term ramifications. Big Oil has avidly defended the claim that gas prices are determined solely by the market forces of supply and demand. Guess what? Elections are not part of the supply and demand equation. That means that at least to some degree, Big Oil is able to manipulate the price of gas, market forces notwithstanding.

UCAN Oil Hog 2008 has a number of fair use/creative commons elements. First, the opening graphic is a clear parody of MGM's logo. If the lion being replaced by a pig were not enough to make that clear, we've thrown in the words "Fake Mark" instead of "Trade Mark." The second fair use element is the audio clip from Anita Mangels. The clip was taken from a public television program and is used as a form of commentary. The video itself could be seen as one long piece of commentary on the single quote from Ms. Mangels, which serves as a manifestation of Big Oil. The last element is the music, which is used under a creative commons license. In order to use the song, we were required to license our new work with a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license. So what do you get when you mix a parodied large studio trademark, an audio quote from a big oil representative, quality creative commons licensed music, some facts and figures, and a guy in a pig costume? You get Oil Hog 2008.

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Feminist women and remix artists Anita Sarkeesian and Elisa Kreisinger have created these videos about how they use remix and mashup videos to communicate deep analysis about representations of race, gender, sexuality, class and ability in popular culture.
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“Remixing Popular Culture: Subverting Gender and Sexuality with Remix Video”

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The Vanishing Point, a site dedicated to urban exploration and secrets of the built environment, has a page about the massive abandoned Tailrace tunnel at Niagara Falls. (The entire Vanishing Point site is mesmerizing, rich with great writing and fantastic photography.) Part of the decommissioned Toronto Power Co. hydroelectric plant, the tunnel is ten stories underground and only accessible through a hidden slit in the ceiling. From Vanishing Point:
Lying below a river that will relentlessly tear into the bedrock until all has been obliterated from Queenston to Erie, this tunnel thirty-three feet in diameter is imprinted into my being forever. A swirling army of red brick millions strong, the eye of a petrified hurricane leading us right into the centre of the stalled but fighting storm that is Niagara Falls. Standing in its back-blast, in a place far deeper and darker than any middling storm sewer, I breathed and drank from the fount of the universe and swam closer to its centre than I ever will again.
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