At bTWEEN 08 the motto was Seed Share Sell -- with many of the UK's digitial industry gathering to offer up ideas, listen to ideas, and in some cases sell concepts. It was a mash-up that saw indie and fringe digital media types meet up with the mainstream superstars of the digital media industry,...
How to Be is an indie film with Robert Pattinson and I want desperately to see it but it's not playing at the LA Film Festival. Pattinson plays a musician and it's the story of his trials and tribulations. I am very put out that it has no established distribution date. D says that if Twilight gets...
This blog post would be more interesting, but I am holding onto a 6 month old who things that my computer has been a bad, bad computer, and needs a spanking. Also, she just deleted this entire post, but some fortuitous ctrl-z-ing fixed that right up. Please make her go to bed. EDIT: Ok, she went...
More point forms: - I downloaded Alpha Centauri. Basically wanted that game for ~ 6 years. And then I was like, "Hey. The internet is so good for that." I also learned that I do not know anything about computers, but now I have a vague idea of what an iso is. - I also legitimately downloaded the...
Picture taken from here Yesterday I couldn't find my N810. The hunt started on Sunday night and was reinitiated yesterday morning. No N810, nowhere in sight. As the night waned on yesterday I renew the hunt. It was like I was looking for the great pumpkin Charlie Brown. Eventually it was found where...
Yesterday my art print from Pablo Defendi arrived. I had gotten this copy for the cost of shipping (I slipped him a little bit extra) and being one of the first responders to comment in his giveaway thread. The original frame I got for it was too large so I had to pick up a smaller one. Here is the...
This is the text of a note I sent to Mike Chong, my local MP. I also cc'd Jim Prentice, Stephen Harper, Michael Geist and Cory Doctorow. I'm seethingly mad about the Canadian DMCA. ------------- Mike, Despite all the warnings and alarm bells, Prentice succumbed to the pressure from the U.S...
I spent the morning at the doctor's office being poked and prodded (I'm fine) but I'm a little worn out. So I'm just going to post a round-up off all the things I've been finding on the web to distract myself last night and this morning. * Amazing and sobering photos of the flood in Iowa * An...
Picture from here by Pablo Defendi Thursday I started and finished Cory Doctorow's latest novel "Little Brother". I had been meaning to read this since it came out, I had it downloaded from his site (he gives it away for free in digital form) shortly after it was released but had put off actually...
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow Marcus is seventeen and is one of those kids who is great at gaming the system. After his high school installs gait recognition software in an effort to "increase security," for example, Marcus is the one to figure out that slipping a few pebbles into one's shoe causes...
WTF?!, a Flash-based World of Warcraft parody By Cory Doctorow on Happy Mutants Over on Play This Thing, game designer/writer Greg Costikyan has word of a sweet and funny World of Warcraft parody: It's a World of Warcraft screenshot, right? Well, no -- it's a screenshot from WTF?!, a Flash-based...
Well, Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton both endorse it, so you know I have to jump on the bandwagon. PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. It works on the idea that you are going to be spending all day online anyway, so you may as well complete some missions and get some points for doing...
I am having dinner tonight with an old friend whom I have not spoken to at length or hung out with for a couple years. He is in the creative field (an illustrator). He does not follow social media and new media as much as I am and I wanted to tell him about all of the opportunities that are...
A discussion rippled across the web today regarding the upcoming Apple vs. Microsoft music war. Scoble’s A challenge for webloggers: handling organizational difficulties argues for Microsoft’s music format over Apple’s. File formats? A terrible déjà vu chills my spine. Haven’t we played...
People in the US are referring to this summer as the "staycation" since a mix of recession, high gas prices and a weak dollar means that most people are staying at home (one evidence is the bumper summer box office which seems to break even last year's stellar record). I'm staying at home since...
10:48 tinyurl.com/6n3y2l - Real world Monopoly graffiti - Love. It. 10:49 www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15083 - 6 Flicks That Drove Crazies to Kill 10:50 snurl.com/29xbs - Laptop covered in chalkboard paint - Drool, I want to get a laptop so I can copy this... 10:51 tinyurl.com/5lc729 - Man...
Just a quick note as I found out my work day is beginning a bit faster than expected. This would have been another rant about my quest to send a simple Moleskine notebook to my friend S. Since I had to call back again on Monday (as they seem to have forgotten to transfer the new info I gave last...
Don't you just love him?Bob Geldof's editorial against the new British law that suspends habeas corpus by making it possible for the authorities to lock us up for 42 days without charging us with anything ( (even more than the old law that suspended habeas corpus by letting them do it for 25 days)...
Remix Culture a cultural appropriation by Richard Walker Update: May 2008From the Lessig Blog: TotalRecut has launched a remix contest: "What is Remix Culture?" I'm a judge (as close as I'll ever get to that title, but now twice -- just finished judging the Obama in :30 contest). Cool prizes. Great...
Copy of the letter I sent to Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Amber MacArthur, Leo Laporte, Colette Vogele, and CBC's Search Engine radio program: http://imslp.org The International Music Score Library Project was a repository of more than 15,000 musical scores that are in the public domain here in...
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