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Yes Men Honcho Sprung from Clink
“Balls Across America” Direct-Action Campaign Launched

NYPD Abuse of Authority Big Factor in Arrest

WASHINGTON - September 24 - Andy Bichlbaum, co-founder of activist group the Yes Men, emerged after 26 hours in New York City’s central lockup with all charges against him dismissed.

At 10am Tuesday, Bichlbaum was arrested and charged with trespassing, after he and 21 “Survivaballs” [2] gathered on New York City’s East River and announced they were to going to “take the UN by storm” from the water, since all the land approaches were sealed. Once at the UN, they would supposedly use the Survivaballs to blockade the negotiations and refuse to let world leaders leave the room until they’d agreed on sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has demanded.[3]

The event was a “scenic and mediagenic way to call attention to what our leaders need to do in the run-up to Copenhagen,” said Bichlbaum. [4] It was also the official inauguration of the Yes Men’s “Balls Across America” series of civil disobedience actions, inspired by the call for direct action on climate change by website http://BeyondTalk.net.

Story at CommonDreams.org

Great Interview! Important issues.
(Part 1)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulcqNMHVic

(Part 2)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeNc5y7lpYA

Interboro would like to announce the opening of two new projects: LentSpace and the 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.

1. LentSpace: open every day from 7:00AM to dusk

If you are in New York, stop by and visit “Lent Space,” the temporary sculpture space we designed for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Lent Space occupies the block bounded by Canal Street, Sixth Avenue, Grand Street, and Varick Street. It looks like this:

LentSpace was recently featured in the New York Times. You can view a Times slideshow of it here: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/16/arts/20090917_LENT_SLIDESHOW_index.html

2. 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: opening in Rotterdam on Thursday, September 24th

If you are in Rotterdam between late September and January, stop by the Netherlands Architecture Institute to see “Open City: Designing Coexistence,” the 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (http://www.iabr.nl/EN/index.php). Interboro was one of the curators of the exhibition. Our contribution consists of four installations that look critically at the Open City in America.

Here are details of some of the work we produced:

Detail of THE OPEN CITY POPS UP WHERE AND WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT

Detail of THE ARSENAL OF EXCLUSION / INCLUSION

Video Still from TOWARDS AN EVERYDAY OPEN CITY

For more information about these projects, please visit our website: www.interboropartners.com.

As discussed at the Owl Bar this evening:

IBM’s proposed Platform for Capturing Knowledge describes how to use an imersive gaming environment to transfer expert knowledge held by employees “aged 50 and older” to 18-25 year-old trainees who find manuals “difficult to read and understand.”
IBM also discusses how its invention could be made available for customers’ use in return for “payment from the customer(s) under a subscription and/or fee agreement.”

Read about it in Robert Cringely’s blog

“This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we’ve received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.

With deep apology to our customers,

Jeff Bezos

Founder & CEO

Amazon.com”

originally posted here