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Artist Marc van Vliet's installation gives us a chance to explore sea life at Wadden Sea up close and personal

French design Stephanie Marin designs a modular kit that can make any kind of furniture - completely to your design and style! Check it out and leave us your views...

Embedding Youtube videos into your website can be a dangerous thing, as it might not be you that's uploaded a copyright infringing video, but it can be you that accidentally embeds a Youtube clip that is infringing made by someone else, into your website. The law against this is: Any time you incorporate a copyrighted work into a site without the rightsholders' consent, you're potentially liable to be sued. Because people are seeing that on your website, it doesn't matter if it's on Youtube or not, or whether you made it or not, you embedded it somewhere else. It also does not matter whether the person knew it was copyright infringement or not. If an innocent embedder were to be taken to court, they could still be fined up to $30,000. However, because of Youtube's copyright infringement policy, it can remove the copyrighted work from Youtube and the websites it was embedded in. Also, there would be little gain for the rightsholder if the person with the website they sued couldn't afford a lawsuit, which would hardly be worth their time. Also, there are precautions that the embedder should take as well, to ensure that even if they do post copyrighted material, they won't really be potential candidates to be sued.

"Drank" is a new drink that helps a person relax and sleep. Sparked by the words "all-natural" in an article about this new drink, I checked the site to find an ingredient list, but could only find the three herbal ingredients. I bet thins drink is high fructose corn syrup loaded and as unhealthfull as all others, but if not, it might do the sleep trick the night before a test!

Bozeman City, Montana now asks all applicants for jobs to 'Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,' the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.

interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy

Conceptualizing and crafting a product or product range necessitates worldly knowledge as much as it does skill. Check out Raghav Sethi's leather range and leave us your views…

Lots of bribery and hyperbole

This article is written by an Italian-American who was personally offended by Jersey Shore. Born and raised in New York and almost all of the people he grew up with were Italian and not one of them acted as disgusting as the cast of Jersey Shore. He also mentions how MTV turned from a channel all about music to this.

NPR. Date Broadcasted: Februrary 6th, 2011. Genre: News. The crime shows such as CSI have now influenced many courtroom as many people who watch these type of shows would expect more scientific evidence on a case which might be only found on a TV show. Without the use of high tech ways to retrieve evidence, Courtrooms are afraid that jurors might be more tempted to let the person being held on trial to go as they might see it as a lack of evidence or as unconvincing as say one from a CSI.

"A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook. [Her insurer] confirmed that it uses the popular social networking site to investigate clients."

This articles gives viewers tips on how to analyze television commercials, because they can affect us in many ways even if we do not realize it. This article mentions six main questions that are important to keep in mind while viewing commercials. First one must consider what the product or service that is being promoted is, next one must consider what advertising techniques the companies are using to market their products. Thirdly one must determine how the music in the commercial is helpful in marketing the product. One must also consider how the actors affect their view of the product, and specify what the advertisement is doing to capture the viewers attention. Lastly one must determine who the commercials target audience is, and after a person has answered all these questions then and only then will they understand media literacy.

Are you the flashy types or one of those extremely laid-back characters? Do you know that your décor gives you away? Take our quiz and see how…