[As reported by ONTP Political] “A first of its kind, the New York senate just passed a bill that not only will require convicted animal abusers to register as such in New York (just like registered sex offenders), but also will require them to undergo psychiatric evaluation. As many are aware, animal abuse/torture is a gateway behavior to human abuse/murder.
The bill was inspired by Buster’s Law, a case about a cat named Buster that was set on fire after being soaked in gasoline. The landmark case made animal cruelty in the state a felony offense.
New York Senator Greg Ball (R-Patterson) said that animal abusers are the worst kinds of people in our society whose behavior towards animals is a measuring stick by which to expect how they would treat people. Further, he shared that such violence cannot and will not be tolerated.”
_Eyebeam Summer School Art Hack Weekend _Free Event :: 5 – 7 August 2011 :: New York _
Artists, designers, and developers can join Eyebeam Art & Technology Center and The Creators Project August 5th-7th for Art Hack Weekend, a two-day,
open-source hackathon that celebrates new artistic experiences. Design, code and prototype projects that re-imagine the way we create, consume, and
interact with media. The project is interested in exploring how new technological advancements in fields like motion tracking, depth mapping, holographics and 3D visuals, gesture control, augmented reality, projection mapping, and networked environments can be transformed into tools that help change the way we experience and connect with art both on and offline, and/or creating entirely new artistic experiments.
http://eyebeam.org/events/art-hack-weekend
OMG I’m on .TV is post-analog TV station broadcasting in NYC on channel 14. We’re broadcasting internet content to your TV, through a low-power TV transmitter. The website acts as an aggregator of online video content. You get to create the shows, vote on the shows, and participate in the whole process.
Create your own T.V. shows! There are a number of ways that you will be able to submit content, such as, an RSS feed via Yahoo Pipes, a Youtube playlist, or by keywords and selection fields.
OMG.TV
