It’s cento, not canto:
http://www.delamar.org/btwerdtrix.htm
But Canto fitted my work of that name better.
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It’s cento, not canto:
http://www.delamar.org/btwerdtrix.htm
But Canto fitted my work of that name better.
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[…] the work that is currently popular in the scene is often focused on immediate gratification, duplicating already existing work. It also often found lacking in niceties like software design, or even a more general understanding of good coding practices.
Karsten used Processing as the basis of his statements, pointing out that the procedural syntax of Processing could educate lazy coders and ultimately a dead-end for serious users of the tool.
http://www.generatorx.no/20060121/processing-or-die/
ActionScript is actually better than Processing for all of this, and there are Free tools available for it now.
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This is a great encapsulation about the recent decision (Nov 2005) that reverses the damage done by Koons vs. Rogers, aka “String of Puppies” ca. 1988.
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2006/01/koons_wins_land.html
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This is a good follow on from exquisite corpse and cut-ups:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/20/mark_dery_on_spam_li.html
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Museums cannot use preservation as an excuse for banning flash photography (although it could be annoying for bystanders):
To actually double fading would need 100,000 amateurs a day. Most museums would kill for those attendance figures!
DRM erodes consumers’ rights, says NCC:
http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=6546
The broadcast flag is back in the US:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/21/broadcast_flag_is_ba.html
Singer Tom Waits spends much of his time trying to stop other people even sounding like him:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2006/01/tom_waits_copyr.html
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NERVOUS TV bosses have axed an episode of South Park which OUTS a fictional Tom Cruise character as gay ” because they are scared the real actor will SUE.
[…]
The episode is entirely fictional and there is no suggestion that the events are true.
It was shown in America last year but Cruise, 43, is believed to have threatened legal action if it is shown again.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006020708,00.html
Fred sez, “The UK trade association for independent film and TV producers is proposing that Ofcom [Britain’s telecoms reguloator] levy a tax on digital personal video recorders like TiVo.”
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/18/uk_filmtv_producers_.html
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I’m moving house over the next week. Woo.
The first draft of the third version of the GNU General Public License is out:
You can add comments to the draft, so go and take a look.
I think it is very good, particularly the way it handles DRM and internationalisation, but that it is too complex, and the compatibility clauses are too open and will lead to BSD-style clause accumulation.
Here’s some notes from the launch, via Groklaw:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=gpl_v3_released
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…it might have something to do with…the work pushing all kinds of interesting buttons about painting supposedly being the last refuge of authenticity in a synthetic world. Also, because New York is having a “head up its ass moment,” with nouveau riche collectors buying art that as January blog has noted reminds them of work by their kids, or the kids they never had…
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?34641
But art is always sold to the nouveaux riche, and it reflects their ego. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to ironise it…
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