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Dana Shepherd Assignment # 4

!) "A spokesman for Warner Music said that YouTube’s system for identifying copyrighted material does not distinguish between professionally made music videos and amateur material that may include copyrighted works." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/business/media/23warner.html?_r=1&ref=technology

2) "The first product of Bushnell’s company, Atari, was Pong, a simple, elegant game in which two players manipulated electronic paddles and sent a blip back and forth across a black-and-white screen." http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106fa_fact

3) "The games that followed Pong—Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, and Pac-Man, among others—were even more captivating, but the simulations remained the stuff of arcades and midways: sports, space aliens, zombies, shoot-’em-ups." http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106fa_fact

4) "In the nineteen-eighties, as the speed and storage capacity of computers and game-playing consoles grew, designers continued to improve the graphics." http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106fa_fact

5) "To game designers, Wright is the Zola of the form: the man who moved the subject matter of games away from myth, fantasy, and violence and toward ordinary social life."http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106fa_fact

6) "The Sims, in 2000, in which you care for a family in an ordinary suburban environment, Wright created situations that redefined the boundaries of what a game can be." http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106fa_fact

7) "Advocates who work with the District's homeless estimate that 30 percent to 45 percent of the people they help have cellphones." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201835.html

8) "Phones are really a lifeline for many people," http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201835.html

9) "But the technology is advancing so quickly that a simple cellphone is fairly cheap". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201835.html

10) "It's another sign of a society in transition by way of technology," http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201835.html

11) "Handset maker Sony Ericsson said it expects to ship about 42% fewer phones in the first quarter than it sold in the previous quarter, heightening concern about the slumping cellphone market." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123754004281093869.html

12) "Vehicles will be fitted with a digital tracking system linking binmen with call centre staff and giving them access to street recycling profiles." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7905693.stm

13) "Based on the street profile, individual residents will be contacted if they often miss out on collections and advised on collection schedules and how to maximise recycling household waste." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7905693.stm

14) "In the future, residents will effectively be able to talk to their bin crews while they are on the road and we can identify areas where we might be able to help further with recycling." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7905693.stm

15) "What we should worry about is that the system supports the creation of literature, if grudgingly." http://www.slate.com/id/2214243/