The turn amounts are now randomized and the tolerance for deviation from the path is lower.
Month: September 2007
Back On Debian
I’ve switched back to Debian.
links for 2007-09-22
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“I wonder, is this going to be a landmark trial case for CC? To see how bulletproof the licenses really are? Hmm…” Yes. But no pro-NC propaganda from this case please…
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“In the United Kingdom, two prominent blogs went dark this week after publishing accusations regarding the Uzbek billionaire, Alisher Usmanov.” Drink Soaked Trots are covering this well…
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“”Several British MPs’ personal websites and blogs (including that of the popular London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson) were forced offline earlier today” Fuck Usmanov.
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Lessig is as classy as usual in his honest, insightful and coherent response to the silly lawsuit that has dragged in CC. I have massive disagreements with him but respect him at least as much, a point I should make more often.
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“The Harvard Coop bookstore had the police remove students who were writing down the ISBNs of textbooks”
Thought For The Day
As well as being Free, Loca Records are producers of particularly wonderful music.
I wish they would hurry up and release their next album: “Pirate This Music!”.
I have money. I have brown paper bags. Non-sequential notes could be arranged.
Click here: Loca Records
Buy some of their other records while you’re waiting. “Affectivity” by Meme is transcendently wonderful.
Technorati Tags: free culture, music
Indexical Environment
In 1994 I was living in a student house with a psychopath. One of the other people resisting this suggested we go and see “The Lion King” at the cinema and I said yes.
My favourite song from a cartoon that John Kricfalusi will never convince me is not excellent was “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”. The core of this song is, y’know, mush, however well Elton and Sir Tim may have constructed it. But oh, the intro and outro. The comic relief, Timon and Pumba, can see precisely what the lead characters falling in love means. And they frame the song with this in a way that…
This is not irony and it does not ironize the song. But, my God (and here I would refer you to Lestat’s apology for using the phrase), it gives the most jaded cynic no excuse. Timon:
“I can see what’s happening, they don’t have a clue, he’ll fall in love and here’s the bottom line: our trio’s down to two.
The sweet caress of twilight, there’s magic everywhere, and with all this romantic atmosphere, disaster’s in the air.”
The problem with ideologies of resistance to “the culture industry” is that sometimes surplus value bites both it and you in the ass.
Technorati Tags: aesthetics, music
defconstant, defparameter
defparamterer seems to be better than defconstant for lists in Common Lisp. defconstant causes an error on recompiling, defparameter redefines the value properly.
I wish I knew why this is. 🙂
Technorati Tags: lisp
links for 2007-09-19
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Conference with contributions and art from Art & Language.
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Michael Moorcock takes Science Fiction’s favourites to task for their paternalism and conservatism.
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“Consumers and companies increasingly depend on a hidden mathematical world”
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Good link to a 2D regex paper.
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“You design your object (from furniture to jewelry), specify materials and upload the files to the site. Five to ten days later, your laser-cut pieces arrive in the mail and you snap them together like a 3D jigsaw.”
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Now why does ‘forget the revenue, build the audience’ remind me so strongly of the dot.com bubble? Could it be because I worked for one of the many companies that were destroyed by it?
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“Besting Creative Commons 1967 by a mere 1099 years is the Diamond Sutra”
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draw-something gets blogged at the excellent Crystalpunk. See their archives for more drawing software, psychogeography and other cool stuff.
links for 2007-09-17
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“we’ve burned 100 CDs with mp3 from our debut EP, the All On C Ep, and we’re stapling / taping to them poles throughout the city”
links for 2007-09-15
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“The latest iPods have a cryptographic “checksum” in their song databases that prevents third-party applications from synching with the portable music players.”
links for 2007-09-14
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“The SCO Group Files Chapter 11”
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“Well, the search is on hold for now. At least until either a) Michael is located or b) we can recruit someone else to help (any offers gratefully received).”
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“The Flea’s ongoing commitment to the explication of goth culture finds new heuristic promise in the form of these video illustrations.”
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“If you can find and buy our legal CDs, I express my thanks for your support. If you cannot find it, I think that downloading from the Internet is a more acceptable option than buying pirated CDs”