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[Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>]

Hello, I just added a new page to the website:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/21/reviews.html

This is the section where we review books, movies, and other items we 
fancy -- namely:

* Travel Naturally magazine
* The Wyeth Pharmaceuticals calender
* Found Magazine
* When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the 
Victorian Department Store, by Elaine S. Abelson
* Pootie Tang
* FeralChildren.com
* VD Attack Plan


VD Attack Plan is an amazing 1973 public service film by Disney and 
since it's practically impossible to find, we asked our man Skip at 
AVGeeks.com to digitize it. If you've got a highspeed connection, you 
can download the movie here:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/index.html




OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

SEND THEM BACK
http://www.sendthemback.org
A BRILLIANT site urging file sharers to atone for "stealing music" by 
emailing all their mp3s to the RIAA.
(Thanks to Mark Hosler)


DOWNHILL BATTLE
Another great site about digital music. This one documents how the 
music industry--with help from Apple's iTunes--is screwing over 
musicians as well as fans. A smart look at the politics of 
filesharing:
http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/
(Thanks to Noah Scalin)


EXPERIAN
The Experian corporation claims to "hold more demographic and credit 
information on individuals and businesses than any other company in 
the world," and that very well may be. But what caught my eye was a 
new item in the company's fall catalog. Experian is now offering 
marketers the chance to use what it calls a "True Hipster" database. 
The catalog doesn't identify how Experian identified the true 
hipster, but from the accompanying photograph we know he wears a 
beige ski-cap and sunglasses.
http://www.experian.com
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/Fall03Catalog.pdf
(Thanks to Chris Hoofnagle)


'Two, Four, Six, Eight... This Pill Works Great!'
Doctors Try Placebo Effect to Boost Power Of Real Drugs; Manipulating 
the Patient
From the Wall Street Journal
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/wsj_placebo.html
Unfortunately, this WSJ article ignores the crucial point that if 
doctors are allowed to lie to patients en masse then patients will 
trust them even less. It also says nothing about direct-to-consumer 
advertising, which in itself feeds placebo effects. I wrote about 
this years ago, incidentally, and the argument remains quite 
prescient if I dare say so myself:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/16/advg_health.html


And in case you missed it:
"There's a killer haunting America's inner cities. Not drugs. Not 
handguns But... stress?"
By Helen Epstein
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/magazine/12HEALTH.html



UPCOMING STAY FREE!-RELATED EVENTS

This Friday, 11/22, from 4 to 6 p.m. - New York, NY

         Distributed Creativity: A Conversation with Lawrence Lessig (Stanford
         University Law School). Carrie will be on this panel with Lessig, who
         will be discussing his group Creative Commons,  and the creation of a
         "some rights reserved" system for collecting and putting 
creative works
         in the public domain.  With Jonah Peretti, Jon Ippolito, & 
Joline Blais.
         at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st Street bet. 10 & 11th Avenues.
         $5 public / $2 members
         http://www.eyebeam.org/distributedcreativity
        

Sunday, 12/7, at 3 pm - Red Hook in Brooklyn, NY

         Carrie will be reading at Sundays at Sunny's reading series,
         along with David Rees (Get Your War On and My New Fighting
         Technique is Unstoppable) and David Kocieniewski (The
         Brass Wall). At Sunny's, 253 Conover St. between
         Beard and Reed streets in Red Hook, Brooklyn,
         Info: 718 625-8211.


12/5-12/7, 7 pm  and 9 pm - Seattle, WA

         Illegal Art film and video screenings at
         The Northwest Film Forum's ULTRA festival
         The Little Theater (608 19th Avenue East)
         Watch http://www.nwfilmforum.org for updates


--
Carrie McLaren
Editor, Stay Free!
718.398.9324
www.stayfreemagazine.org
www.illegal-art.org