Edward Van Halen's Guitars

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OWC presents the iGuitar from Brian
Moore Guitars

OWC presents the iGuitar from Brian
Moore Guitars 03/29/2005 08:35 PM

Other World Computing has extended their line of audio products with the addition of three models of Brian Moore's iGuitar - cinnamon, emerald and turquoise - which range in price from USD$759 to USD$879. Each iGuitar features a built-in 13-pin interface, which allows the musician to "play" a number of virtual instruments using any desktop or PowerBook running applications such as GarageBand and REASON. To use these special features, iGuitar-users need to play it through a 13-pin USB interface such as the Roland GI-20 guitar processor.

Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform

Gibson Guitars Prepares Digital Network
Platform 01/08/2004 07:20 PM

"Edward Burtynsky"

"Edward Burtynsky" 01/18/2004 09:15 AM

Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky 01/18/2004 05:59 AM
Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky .. Images of man-made landscapes .. Industrial's Beautiful Art .. photographer's work .. other pictures .. These photos

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Orientalism by Edward W. Said 05/09/2004 04:31 AM

< img src="http://joi.ito.com/images2/edwardsaidorientalism.jpg" height="315" width="200" align="left" alt="edwardsaidorientalism" />Just finished reading the famous introduction to O rientalism by Edward Said. Said was a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University and was a well known Palestinian scholar who died in September of last year. Orientalism was written in 1978, but probably continues to become more relevant.

Basically, he argues that the whole notion of the "Orient" or "Orientalism" is a body of culture, academic work and politics that tries to identify the East as "them" in terms that have evolved through Western imperialism. He makes the point that even work that doesn't appear immediately political had political impact and was part of the larger process of the development of Orientalism. Reading it brings back memories of Trader Vic's and pictures from British Museum exhibits of "Headpiece from dead savage."

He points out some important issues which ties into the racism as stereotype discussion we had about Lost In Translation. The simplistic stereotypes and the images of the the East leads to a kind of fascination with the Orient, but also creates a false sense of understanding and fake academics upon which many ignorant, racist and imperialistic political decisions are made.

A version of the introduction is available on The Guardian Unlimited Books web site so I'll give you a few quotes from there.

Edward W. Said

...Orientalism is very much a book tied to the tumultuous dynamics of contemporary history. Its first page opens with a description of the Lebanese civil war that ended in 1990, but the violence and the ugly shedding of human blood continues up to this minute. We have had the failure of the Oslo peace process, the outbreak of the second intifada, and the awful suffering of the Palestinians on the reinvaded West Bank and Gaza. The suicide bombing phenomenon has appeared with all its hideous damage, none more lurid and apocalyptic of course than the events of September 11 2001 and their aftermath in the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. As I write these lines, the illegal occupation of Iraq by Britain and the United States proceeds. Its aftermath is truly awful to contemplate. This is all part of what is supposed to be a clash of civilisations, unending, implacable, irremediable. Nevertheless, I think not.

I wish I could say that general understanding of the Middle East, the Arabs and Islam in the US has improved, but alas, it really hasn't. For all kinds of reasons, the situation in Europe seems to be considerably better. What American leaders and their intellectual lackeys seem incapable of understanding is that history cannot be swept clean like a blackboard, so that "we" might inscribe our own future there and impose our own forms of life for these lesser people to follow. It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar. But this has often happened with the "orient", that semi-mythical construct which since Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in the late 18th century has been made and remade countless times. In the process the uncountable sediments of history, a dizzying variety of peoples, languages, experiences, and cultures, are swept aside or ignored, relegated to the sandheap along with the treasures ground into meaningless fragments that were taken out of Baghdad.

[...]

The major influences on George W Bush's Pentagon and National Security Council were men such as Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami, experts on the Arab and Islamic world who helped the American hawks to think about such preposterous phenomena as the Arab mind and the centuries-old Islamic decline which only American power could reverse. Today bookstores in the US are filled with shabby screeds bearing screaming headlines about Islam and terror, the Arab threat and the Muslim menace, all of them written by political polemicists pretending to knowledge imparted by experts who have supposedly penetrated to the heart of these strange oriental peoples. CNN and Fox, plus myriad evangelical and rightwing radio hosts, innumerable tabloids and even middle-brow journals, have recycled the same unverifiable fictions and vast generalisations so as to stir up "America" against the foreign devil.

[...]

Think of the line that starts with Napoleon, continues with the rise of oriental studies and the takeover of North Africa, and goes on in similar undertakings in Vietnam, in Egypt, in Palestine and, during the entire 20th century, in the struggle over oil and strategic control in the Gulf, in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Afghanistan. Then think of the rise of anti-colonial nationalism, through the short period of liberal independence, the era of military coups, of insurgency, civil war, religious fanaticism, irrational struggle and uncompromising brutality against the latest bunch of "natives". Each of these phases and eras produces its own distorted knowledge of the other, each its own reductive images, its own disputatious polemics.

My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us. I have called what I try to do "humanism", a word I continue to use stubbornly despite the scornful dismissal of the term by sophisticated postmodern critics. By humanism I mean first of all attempting to dissolve Blake's "mind-forg'd manacles" so as to be able to use one's mind historically and rationally for the purposes of reflective understanding. Moreover humanism is sustained by a sense of community with other interpreters and other societies and periods: strictly speaking therefore, there is no such thing as an isolated humanist.

[...]

Speaking both as an American and as an Arab I must ask my reader not to underestimate the kind of simplified view of the world that a relative handful of Pentagon civilian elites have formulated for US policy in the entire Arab and Islamic worlds, a view in which terror, pre-emptive war, and unilateral regime change - backed up by the most bloated military budget in history - are the main ideas debated endlessly and impoverishingly by a media that assigns itself the role of producing so-called "experts" who validate the government's general line. Reflection, debate, rational argument and moral principle based on a secular notion that human beings must create their own history have been replaced by abstract ideas that celebrate American or western exceptionalism, denigrate the relevance of context, and regard other cultures with contempt.

[...]

The terrible conflicts that herd people under falsely unifying rubrics such as "America," "the west" or "Islam" and invent collective identities for large numbers of individuals who are actually quite diverse, cannot remain as potent as they are, and must be opposed. We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse. The secular world is the world of history as made by human beings. Critical thought does not submit to commands to join in the ranks marching against one or another approved enemy. Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other, and live together. But for that kind of wider perception we need time, patient and sceptical inquiry, supported by faith in communities of interpretation that are difficult to sustain in a world demanding instant action and reaction.

Humanism is centred upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and authority. Texts have to be read as texts that were produced and live on in all sorts of what I have called worldly ways. But this by no means excludes power, since on the contrary I have tried to show the insinuations, the imbrications of power into even the most recondite of studies. And lastly, most important, humanism is the only, and I would go as far as to say the final resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

I just picked out some paragraphs there were particularly interesting to me, but the whole thing is really interesting so I suggest you read the intro in its entirety.

Q+A - Edward Tufte

Q+A - Edward Tufte 12/14/2003 11:21 AM

Edward Zander new Motorola chairman, CEO

Edward Zander new Motorola chairman, CEO 12/16/2003 05:20 PM
Washington Times Dec 16 2003 4:40PM ET

Depp digs Edward Penishands

Depp digs Edward Penishands 04/23/2004 04:26 PM
E! Online asked Johnny Depp how he felt about his doppelganger in Edward Penishands, the pr0n parody of Edward Scissorhands. Depp is surprisingly cool about it!

I think it was either Tim [Burton] or John Waters who sent it to me. It might have been both. Tim and I were both quite proud they decided to do that. It was low budget and cheesy, but it was hilarious to watch. Those hands...they served him well.

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'Envisioning Information' by Edward
Tufte

'Envisioning Information' by Edward
Tufte 08/18/2002 07:42 PM
The central problem of this study is presented in the first paragraph of the introduction: The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

Edward J. Zander to succeed Galvin as
Motorola CEO

Edward J. Zander to succeed Galvin as
Motorola CEO 12/16/2003 06:40 AM
Edward J. Zander will replace outgoing Motorola CEO Christopher Galvin, grandson of the company's founder, reports Dow Jones Business News and The Wall Street Journal...

Former Sun Exec Edward Zander To Head
Motorola

Former Sun Exec Edward Zander To Head
Motorola 05/08/2004 11:07 PM
Linux Insider May 9 2004 3:26AM GMT

Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward
Tufte's Principles

Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward
Tufte's Principles 04/14/2005 06:51 AM
An outline of Edward Tufte's three books on information display

washington.edu/computing/training/560/zz-tufte.html
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"Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward
Tufte?s Principles"

"Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward
Tufte?s Principles" 04/18/2005 04:45 AM

• Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech -
PlayStation Portable splendi

• Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech -
PlayStation Portable splendi 03/19/2005 02:25 AM
Newshub.com - Thu Mar 17, 03:54 pm GMT

Edward Leigh MP: statement on failings
of Criminal Records Bureau IT

Edward Leigh MP: statement on failings
of Criminal Records Bureau IT 02/12/2004 04:08 AM
PublicTechnology.net Feb 12 2004 8:06AM GMT

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Thin is
in, but is it sensible in a laptop?
(USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Thin is
in, but is it sensible in a laptop?
(USATODAY.com) 07/22/2004 09:55 AM
USATODAY.com - As a reviewer, I sometimes feel like the guy who has a tiny devil on one shoulder and a tiny angel on the other.

Lillie Langtry and King Edward VII take
Royal Leap into Cyberspace

Lillie Langtry and King Edward VII take
Royal Leap into Cyberspace 07/25/2004 02:34 AM
New media agency Southbourne Internet were commissioned to build a website for the Langtry Manor Hotel the former home of Edward VII and his mistress Lillie Langtry. [PRWEB Jul 25, 2004]

Prague Revisited - The evidence of an
Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone
away. By Edward Jay Epstein

Prague Revisited - The evidence of an
Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone
away. By Edward Jay Epstein 11/19/2003 06:59 PM
Prague Revisited - The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away. By Edward Jay Epstein

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Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Pricey
little iPaqs aim to be much more than
organizers (USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Pricey
little iPaqs aim to be much more than
organizers (USATODAY.com) 07/29/2004 10:04 AM
USATODAY.com - As if you require further evidence of the world going topsy-turvy: A Reagan addresses the Democratic convention. The Texas Rangers (minus A-Rod) are in first place in their division. And Hewlett-Packard heralded the launch of iPaq handheld computers without referencing "organizer" or "personal digital assistant."

Edward Feser: Does Islam Need a Luther
or a Pope? (Tech Central Station)

Edward Feser: Does Islam Need a Luther
or a Pope? (Tech Central Station) 12/05/2003 08:57 AM
POPE?

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Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech -
DemoMobile provide advance look at
gadgets on the go (USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech -
DemoMobile provide advance look at
gadgets on the go (USATODAY.com) 09/16/2004 09:10 AM
USATODAY.com - Sitting at the airport, you pull out a laptop or personal digital assistant and watch TV, delivered through Wi-Fi. Perhaps you'll grab an MP3 player instead, but rather than listen to downloaded tunes, you check out Internet radio. Or maybe you'll just make a call but thanks to the headset into which you are speaking, the person at the other end can make out your voice and not the blur of jet engines taking off at the same time.

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Family
tree research can be addictive fun
(USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Family
tree research can be addictive fun
(USATODAY.com) 09/23/2004 09:16 AM
USATODAY.com - Family tree research can be addictive fun. With my long-lost relative's assistance, help from closer kin and the latest version of Family Tree Maker software, I've been identifying the branches of a Baig family tree.

Bytes Communications Systems expands in
Eastern Cape, launches products at
Edward Hotel

Bytes Communications Systems expands in
Eastern Cape, launches products at
Edward Hotel 11/04/2003 05:16 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Nov 4 2003 4:21AM ET

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Frame
brings digital pictures alive
(USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Frame
brings digital pictures alive
(USATODAY.com) 12/30/2004 11:15 AM
USATODAY.com - If you were nice rather than naughty this year, maybe Santa left you a digital camera. But even if you didn't get to unwrap a megapixel marvel this holiday season, there's a good chance you've already got one, possibly as part of your cell phone.

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Tired of
Internet Explorer's risks? Try one of
these browsers (USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Tired of
Internet Explorer's risks? Try one of
these browsers (USATODAY.com) 07/08/2004 10:28 AM
USATODAY.com - The Web browser nearly everyone uses has gaping security holes. That's why security experts are recommending people ditch Microsoft's Internet Explorer and seek an alternate browser.

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Despite
kinks, AOL's new Internet phone service
worth try (USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Despite
kinks, AOL's new Internet phone service
worth try (USATODAY.com) 04/07/2005 09:32 AM
USATODAY.com - "This is a core part of our future," Jim Tobin was telling me the other day. "We don't think we ought to do this; we think we must do this."

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Windows
upgrade makes strides to outrun the bad
guys (USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Windows
upgrade makes strides to outrun the bad
guys (USATODAY.com) 08/12/2004 09:50 AM
USATODAY.com - Are you nervous about viruses, worms, spyware and other threats to your computer? Wish you had the power to appoint an intelligence czar to safeguard your PC? A fellow like Bill Gates, even?

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Razr
takes fat wallet, but cell phone's slim,
sharp (USATODAY.com)

Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Razr
takes fat wallet, but cell phone's slim,
sharp (USATODAY.com) 12/24/2004 12:23 PM
USATODAY.com - Come clean: Ever splurge on luxury goods just to one-up envious friends and neighbors? There's no shame admitting it; we're all human, after all. And surely you must take some pleasure from what folks might be whispering behind your back. "Wow, that son-of-a-gun must be doing really well. Did you see the gorgeous wristwatch he was wearing? Or the snazzy new sports car he was driving?"

"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..."

"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..." 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

Grok Description matches for Edward Van Halen's Guitars
GrokA matches for Edward Van Halen's Guitars

V is for violin

V is for violin 04/22/2004 12:08 PM
The alphabet like you've never seen it (quicktime movie).

VAN HALEN: More 'Rehearsal' Video
Footage Posted Online - June 4, 2004

VAN HALEN: More 'Rehearsal' Video
Footage Posted Online - June 4, 2004 06/05/2004 04:35 AM
Roadrun.com - Sat Jun 5, 07:47 am GMT

The World's Tiniest Violin Texting You

The World's Tiniest Violin Texting You 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
JOEL JOHNSON -- The AP wire has a touching story about a woman who convinced a thief to return her car via text messages. He left the vehicle in an abandoned lot, but still made off with her son's mobile (which is how she contacted him in the first place)...

Edward Van Halen's Guitars

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