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...Fonacon's initial effort in 2005 drew 300 people to a small village in the coastal Vendée region, using what has become the group's winning formula: free oysters and drinks for all comers who preregister, and an evening of tearing up agendas, smashing clocks and otherwise attacking symbols of time. Another appeal to restless New Year's Eve souls in 2006 brought more than 1,000 to Nantes. Last year Fonacon attracted more than 10,000 people with its party-cum-protest in Paris. This year Marie-Gabriel jokingly boasts that he expects "between five...
...traditional self-portrait and capitalizing on the repetition of keeping ethnicity and glasses as constants, Chen questions identity and sameness in a focused, non-didactic way. Finally, Sabrina Chou ’09 questions conventional ideas about the nature of human interaction in her work “Vend a Friend” (2006). “Vend a Friend” is comprised of a large cardboard box with written directions, explaining that with the insertion of a “ticket,” a cardboard “friend” comes through a slot...
...step for a very old technology. A 1st century Greek may have invented the first coin-operated vending machine to sell holy water. The modern precursor of today's machines surfaced in 1880s London, dispensing postcards. Since then, machines have been used to sell everything from, well, soup to nuts. But they've remained fully rooted in the analog world. Enter Crowley's server-based company. It transforms video-game machines to offer 30 different games instead of one, and gives jukeboxes the capacity to deliver 2.2 million songs. Crowley expects the Coke machines could tap into that same tuneful...
...commonly vaccinated against other diseases, farmers fear that vaccinating against bird flu will just further alienate consumers. "Anybody who has the space to confine their ducks is doing that instead of vaccinating," says Frédéric André, head of health and animal protection for the Vendée. Chickens aren't yet being vaccinated, but Michel Laffitte says he'll do whatever the authorities ask of him. He has moved the feeding apparatuses for his flocks - he has 16,000 Naked Neck chickens - inside, but warns that keeping them cooped up won't work. "These birds...
...should hate Jews because they crucified Christ. But Farrakhan has not forgiven them, and therefore he is not comparable to Christ, as he pretends to be. True Christians do not hate Jews and will not join forces with those people who do. Steven and Carolyn Bray Rye, N. Y. Vend-A-Bait...