Christmas Minimix
Merry Christmas! Here is a 5-track minimix from us to you!
Johnson & Johnson is expected to announce Monday, December 19, whether it intends to license its patents on three lifesaving HIV/AIDS drugs to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to lower prices of HIV medicines and increase access to them for people in the developing world.
Over the past two years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been urging Johnson & Johnson to take this critical step.
Johnson & Johnson has so far refused to join discussions on licensing these patents to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Pool has been set up to increase access to more affordable versions of HIV drugs, including fixed-dose combinations that include multiple medicines in one pill, and to develop much-needed pediatric HIV drugs.
The Pool would license patents on HIV drugs to other manufacturers and the resulting competition would dramatically reduce prices, making them much more affordable in the developing world. However, since the Pool is voluntary it will only work if patent holders like Johnson & Johnson choose to participate.
ACT NOW: Call on Johnson & Johnson to finally join the Medicines Patent Pool
This is a big deal.
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If you told me a year ago that I’d be going through a pop punk phase in my life, I’d probably have laughed at you. But here we are at the end of 2011, and a few of my favourite releases this year can be described as such. Transit’s Listen & Forgive, released in October, is one of those albums that I’ve really loved this year, chock full of perfectly whiny confessions and pleas. Here’s the wonderful title track which nostalgically yearns for a youthful love.
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness and a better sense of humor….there are physiological benefits, obviously: You use your lungs in a way that you probably don’t for the rest of your day, breathing deeply and openly. And there are psychological benefits, too: Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. And then there are what I would call “civilizational benefits.” When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings — to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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Brian Eno (PopTech 2006) rocked this quote right on The Colbert Report last night by performing an a cappella rendition of “Lean on Me,” with Michael Stipe and Stephen Colbert. (via AUSTIN KLEON) |
Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?
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| — | GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, dodging a question about whether he had ever been accused of sexual harassment by turning the question back on the reporter. |
AMAZING HALLOWEEN LIGHT SHOW FROM THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Wow this is crazy, I can’t imagine how long it took this guy to sync all of the lights so perfectly! If you think the Halloween spirit is dying a slow and painful death like I do, this might change your mind!
Do not speak to him unless you are spoken to.
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| — | From an email sent to staffers on the Herman Cain campaign about how to behave while traveling in a car with the GOP candidate. |
Tumblr Android 2.0.4: Now available on the Android Market
This update features:
- New, cleaner, better-looking post screens.
- Faster Dashboard loading — especially when switching screens.
- Reblogging to Queue.
- Lots of bugs squashed.
I’m still working with a few of you who are mysteriously unable to log in from certain devices. If you run into this issue, please email support and tell them Chris sent you.
As always, a big thanks to all the beta-testers and bug reporters. :)
Tumblr Tuesday: Special CMJ Edition!
Event CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2011
Details October 18-22 NYC
Tag #cmjFor five nonstop days and nights, the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival invades New York City with over 1,300 artist performances and dozens of cutting-edge films. CMJ fills more than 80 of the city’s greatest venues, nightclubs and theaters with over 120,000 fans, music industry professionals, college radio tastemakers, bloggers, press, filmmakers and musicians.
CMJ 2011
News and info straight from the source.Cantora Records
Independent music company with a full-fledged record label, active music tech incubator, publishing company, and live events agency.Yvynyl
The evolution of social music, experimental art, and the power of instant self-publishing.SERIOUS BUSINESS MUSIC
Classy record label, recording studio and music collective that began in 2004.Acoustic Night NY
A monthly unplugged acoustic series showcasing local artists in different amazing New York spaces.
