February 2006 Archives


I deleted the code that I added to draw-something to make the series that these images are from as I wasn't going to make them public.
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Not safe for work, but very cool:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/968/1002/1600/moleskin2.jpg
Inspired by Ed Ruscha, I bought a Moleskin notebook to take notes on my paintings as I work on them. I was finding myself trying to remember things that I had done on previous paintings, and this way I can keep track of that stuff for future use.
After I finish something, I write down the color mixtures, and anything else I might need to remember. It's already come in handy at least once on this painting.
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An absolute classic of artificial intelligence and generative narrative, the storytelling system Talespin in a Common Lisp implementation:
http://www.eliterature.org/2006/01/meehan-and-sacks-micro-talespin/
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1. Exhibit urinal.
2. ???
3. Art!
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Remix Reading is now running a competition looking for the best visual remixes of the local area and of a selection of local art. The eleven best pieces will be shown in an exhibition to be held in the Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock, Reading, from the 28th-30th April. The closing date for the competition is the 6th of April, and winners will be announced on the 14th.
http://www.remixreading.org/node/714
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Tittybangbang
The comic equivalent of pulling your pants down, sitting on the photocopier, and breaking it.
Hyperdrive
"So we're not going to get another series of Red Dwarf until they do the film. Which isn't going to happen. So let's copy Red Dwarf. What is Red Dwarf about?"
"Well, boss. It's a group of slobbish English people on a starship a million light years from earth some time after the end of the world who make a series of classic science fiction scenarios comic due to their ineptness and personality defects."
"So that's a group of slobbish English people on a starship, their ineptness and their personality defects. Right, film it!"
The Comic Side Of Seven Days
Smug failure to amuse or shock from people you'd punch if you met them at a dinner party, but are unlikely to because you're not usually invited to the same dinner parties as bourgeois RADA refugees on the BBC comedy equivalent of the Restart scheme.
The sample is an interrogation of the meaning we see in a song, of its emotional content lifted away like a shroud from a dead corpse, only to be refitted and placed on another body. That's the deal – you renew the cloth by repurposing the fabric.
—Paul Miller, Rhythm Science.
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Imagine you have an aesthetics with just two categories, pirate and ninja.
Is the Mona Lisa pirate or ninja?
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Have your work shown in an exhibition running at the Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock, 28th-30th April! We are running a competition to gather eleven great pieces of work that interpret the local area and local art.
http://www.remixreading.org/artcomp
Work must be CC licensed, in traditional media or hardcopy, and may be remixed from existing CC images of the area around the town of Reading (in England).
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Free networks require free content. Free content requires free software. Free software requires free systems. Free systems require free networks.
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As your question illustrates, people have a tendency to disregard the differences between the various Creative Commons licenses, lumping them together as a single thing. That is as mixed-up as supposing San Francisco and Death Valley have similar weather because they're both in California.
Some Creative Commons licenses are free licenses; most permit at least noncommercial verbatim copying. But some, such as the Sampling Licenses and Developing Countries Licenses, don't even permit that, which makes them unacceptable to use for any kind of work. All these licenses have in common is a label, but people regularly mistake that common label for something substantial.
I no longer endorse Creative Commons. I cannot endorse Creative Commons as a whole, because some of its licenses are unacceptable. It would be self-delusion to try to endorse just some of the Creative Commons licenses, because people lump them together; they will misconstrue any endorsement of some as a blanket endorsement of all. I therefore find myself constrained to reject Creative Commons entirely.
http://www.linuxp2p.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10771
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It looks like Orange (the Blender Movie project) will be Attribution 2.5 (CC-BY-2.5).
http://orange.blender.org/blog/a-call-for-textures
I'm so glad it's not NC or ND I have nothing to say on the subject of copyleft. :-)
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"The right to freedom of thought and expression ... cannot entail the right to offend the religious sentiment of believers," the Vatican said in a statement.
via: http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2006/02/04/0
This being the case I suggest that the Pope stop claiming that Christ was the son of God and is the saviour of mankind because this deeply offends the religious sentiment of believers in one or two other religions.
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http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gtk_Mac_OS_X
http://micke.hallendal.net/archives/2005/10/gtk-macosx.html
This is Gtk+ 2, and it looks pretty far advanced.
Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease.
- Rob.
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Don't like it? Don't look at it. Problem solved.
The rest of Europe must not make the same mistake that the UK made during the Satanic Verses affair.
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draw-something now has circle and arc primitives as well as polylines. Rectangles should be supported as well but I won't add ovals until the next round of development. I'm going to finish the current round of development this weekend.
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The Support Of Religious Hatred Act has hit the wall of freedom of speech:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4664398.stm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aVBExP88cdiA&refer=uk
The RIAA's actions are not in the artists best interests. Says artists' agent:
http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2006/01/27/riaa_actions_not_in_artists_best_interest.php
The MPAA pirated a movie. We need DRM to prevent this kind of abuse!:
http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2006/01/27/because_you_know_movie_piracy_is_wrong.php
MSFT: Our DRM licensing is there to eliminate hobbyists and little guys:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/msft_our_drm_licensi.html
The New Police and Justice Bill includes this gem of an amendment to Computer Misuse Act, which is intended to criminalise the development, distribution or possession of 'hacker tools':
http://talkpolitics.users20.donhost.co.uk/index.php?title=another_fine_mess
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