About a month ago, Cory Doctorow started releasing as a podcast the audio from the class he’s teaching at USC this semester: Pwned: Is Everyone on Campus a Copyright Criminal? (direct feed link here. If you’re a Cory-fanboy like me, this is like mainlining his brain…Cory lecturing and discussing copyright with a smart and interesting […]
One of the things I’m presently fascinated by is online presence and communications management; the interface of IM, VOIP, PSTN interfaces, online conferencing, etc. I’m impatient to enter the world where I can be engaged at any time with the people I want to be, without having to constantly fend off unwanted telemarketers and other […]
Awesome! I just started checking out the map interface that Flickr put up to work with their new geotagging tools. It’s capable of filtering by group, by person, and now by date as well…very cool! Just set “on or after Sept. 1 2006” and zoom in on Atlanta to see the fantastic scifi-fantasy-gaming-costuming show that […]
Great link from BoingBoing on the upcoming videogame based on the Left Behind book series — Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech […]
Holee crap! I’ve been trying to get a Windows-based mythfrontend working for awhile now…unfortunately, the most well-known contender, WinMyth, doesn’t work so well yet. As in, not at all (for me, anyway…as always, YMMV). But one of the prereqs for WinMyth is called DSMyth (it’s the DirectShow filters for the MythTV protocols), and I was […]
So, when I was blogging earlier about Brin and climate change, I was reviewing some old posts. I noticed an old one about Jamie Zawinski , where I talk about his fantastic Groupware BAD essay. I went back and reread it. There’s good shit there, for several reasons: He NAILS his point, and still manages […]
Holy crap, this is great. Got the link from Doc Searls (thanks, Doc!)…it’s a post by Jamie Zawinski (background: old-school coder from Mosaic Netscape and Lucid Emacs, helped create and ran mozilla.org, eventually got sick of the software industry and opened the DNA Lounge nightclub in SF.) If you don’t read Jamie’s stuff, you should. […]
These Nixie Tube Clocks and Watches (watches, dude! A freakin’ wristwatch!) are Da Bomb! When I (or I and my group of co-workers) win the lottery tomorrow, this will be HIGH (wheres that blinktag when you need it?) on the list of purchases. Also on:
Check ExxonSecrets.Org out. Regardless of your opinions on the matter, it’s a fascinating tool to display (and build) interrelationships. It’s being used here specifically to illuminate ExxonMobil and anti-environmentalist groups funded/associated with them…but the framework could be used for LOTS of stuff. Very interesting tech. Also on:
Excellent! COREBlog is another (ie, not this one) blogging Zope Product that I bumped into through DeVoe Squared. Not too shabby at all. It’s still pre-beta…needs an XML-RPC interface, etc., but the basics are there, it’s easy to post/edit TTW (through the Web), and the code is pretty straightforward. A nice product to try out […]
