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• Magazine photos fool age-verification cameras ::: Pink Tentacle
  With the full-scale rollout of Japan’s cigarette vending machine age-verification system, a reporter has confirmed that magazine photos can be used to fool the age-verification cameras on some machines.
• ‘There’s never been a great woman artist’ – Features, Art & Architecture – The Independent
  So says the critic Brian Sewell, and the art market seems to agree, with men’s work commanding millions more at auction.
• ringtonia.com: Mobile Phones Change Birds’ Tune
  "That’s how evolution is: there is no predetermined scheme, and the influences of the environment, even if they are artificial, turn out to be considerable," he added."
• architecture for hertzian space | varnelis.net
  what does this pursuit of the material have to do with the increasing dominance of immaterial forces in everyday life? Is architecture pursuing the wrong path utterly?
• Parisvoice – Luxembourg Garden shows contemporary sculptures
  This summer another reason to visit the stately gardens is to see the free Artsénat contemporary art sculpture exhibition, "Femme y es-tu?" (Woman, are you there?). The exhibition features French and international artists focusing on aspects of womanhood
• Scientists reopen debate over GM food – Times Online
  Such foods, the first genetic modifications offering nutritional benefits to consumers, would be in marked contrast to the GM crops marketed to date. These were simply designed to boost the profits made by farmers and seed firms by raising yields or cutti

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — U.S. Hispanic agencies picked up two prizes at last month's Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, including the first Lion for Saatchi & Saatchi's Latino shop Conill.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Advertiser optimism is waning across all major media categories, with fewer buyers expecting to increase budgets in TV, newspapers, radio and outdoor than they were a year ago.

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — As Hollywood braces for an actors strike, an entrepreneurial band of screenwriters idled by last year's writers strike is launching Strike.TV — an ad-supported web-video venture that allows creators to retain ownership of their series.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When Telemundo's morning show, "Cada Día," was canceled, cookwear supplier Royal Prestige was left without a vehicle for its yearlong sweepstakes.

Although it is one of the most important decisions a CMO will make during his or her tenure, the agency-selection process is highly inefficient and dysfunctional. The proof in the pudding: Marketers' agency relationships are becoming dangerously transactional, lasting a mere three years on average.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Through a program offered by Adsdaq, Portfolio essentially will build a reach-extending network on an ad hoc basis, as advertiser demand dictates.

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Within the past year, some of the most heavily extended personal-care brands in those giants' portfolios — Unilever's Dove and P&G's Pantene and Olay — have slowed substantially or even declined in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — With just about a month to go, McDonald's is getting ready for the Olympics.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's already been eight months since Rupert Murdoch plucked Les Hinton from London to run Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, and Mr. Hinton does not like to dawdle.