Published 11 April 2009 (Archived)
Note: Firefox in Europe
Having had an exponential growth over the past few years, Mozilla’s Firefox has gained the largest percentage of web browser users in Europe for the first time. Well, just about, anyway, according to web analytics Statcounter.
Kanyovu Tree Project, Tanzania
After receiving a three year grant from the Lemelson Foundation, the American coffee importer Sustainable Harvest teamed up with Tanzania Kanyovu Coffee Curing Cooperative to grow and sell coffee that satisfies both the fastidious gustatory nerve of the specialist coffee market and the haunting guilty conscience of the average Joe.
Breathe, City, Breathe
by Emma Busby
The Shutter Chronicle proudly presents its first piece of prose: a grammar-defying and spell-check mocking love song of a text. A love song for the city and its filth, best sung whilst face down on asphalt. It’s all about acoustics, as writer Emma Busby would tell you. Awesome.
Sony & YouTube In Negotiations Over Feature Films Licencing
by Asgeir Hoem
YouTube is in talks with Sony Pictures over licencing full-length feature films through the video broadcasting website, according to CNET News this week. YouTube, which was aquired by Google in 2006, is slowly cleaning up its reputation for hosting uncleared content, the bulk of which has been user submitted. Instead, in the fight for an increasingly restless audience, they have been working on getting premium content from the media powerhouses.
Ursus Wehrli Tidies Up Art
Funny-man Ursus Wehrli delivers an amusing talk on deconstructing paintings for them to fit his idea of orderly art. He authored the book Tidying Up Art, a proclamation of his vision for modern art to be clean, organized and more rational. Organizing component parts of paintings into groups based on colour and size, he offers a skewed look on art and creates pieces with interesting imagery in their own right.

