October 2007
“What do you think about OiNK being shut down?
Trent [Reznor]: I’ll admit...”
– Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine
WatchSaul William’s Niggy Tardust
A response to “Subjectivity and Information...
Frohmann (PDF) uses the ethical frameworks of Froelich and Hauptman as foils for his own de-centred ethics (as in the sense of “not self–centred”). At first blush it may appear that Froelich and Hauptman has very little in common, but Frohmann shows that these two theories are “exemplars” of a self–centred ethics. Froelich’s self is tripartite and encounters ethical dilemmas dialectically as...
“Damage (to the Machine) and violence are not necessarily linked. It...”
– http://evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/bey/bolo.bolo.txt
PC stripper helps spam to spread →
“Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image.”
The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent →
I was also just told that the PB guys are going to mirror all of the Oink torrents now that Oink is down. I love the Pirate Bay!
SNIP: “The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects, but there is one in particular that’s so significant, it might be the future of filesharing. For a while now, they have been working on a brand new protocol - which may come to...
Canadian Digital Information Strategy and Open... →
Heather Morrison writes, “Library and Archives Canada has released their Canadian Digital Information Strategy consultation document. Comments are due November 23rd. (Thanks to Michael Geist). This Strategy document contains much that is relevant to open access, particularly Challege 3: Maximizing Access and Use.”
Better Late Than Never: Pownce Gets A Public API →
Pownce is in trouble… “Pownce launched in late June to a surge of interest based around the involvment of the ever-popular Kevin Rose (Digg, Revision3), however the popularity has not lasted. Both Compete and Alexa show big drops in traffic from Pownce as users have abandoned the platform, Alexa showing a remarkable 80% drop in traffic. The Pownce AIR client was buggy at launch and the...
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation... →
I'm dressing up as a melting polar ice cap →
Oh my, awesome, “Because that’s scary. Almost as scary as the possible reelection of the party of the scaremonger in chief.”
Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? →
SNIP: “Portability is no longer any reason to stick with CDs, and neither is audio quality. Although vinyl purists are ripe for parody, they’re right about one thing: Records can sound better than CDs. Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible: It’s the so-called loudness war. Since...
Slanty design at fulminate →
In this article from Communications of the ACM from January 2007, Russell Beale uses the term slanty design to describe “design that purposely reduces aspects of functionality or usability”:
iPhone 101: You've got iPhone or iPod touch... →
Cybook Gen3 now on sale at Bookeen for $350 →
E-ink glory!
MOO.com | MiniCards →
Only $20 for 100 cards, and each card can have a unique picture or design.
WatchHow propaganda is made, Noam Chomsky
Fight Thieving Restaurant Servers With Checksum... →
CRAZY
Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old File-Sharer →
The Counterfeiters →
What a fantastic looking movie! I really want to see this.
New TSA Report →
Oh god.
SCHNEIER: And there’s unexplainable news: At San Diego International Airport, tests are run by passengers whom local TSA managers ask to carry a fake bomb, said screener Cris Soulia, an official in a screeners union. Someone please tell me this doesn’t actually happen. “Hi Mr. Passenger. I’m a TSA manager. You know I’m not lying to you because of this...
Woman pounds out her rage at cable firm →
SNIP: BRISTOW, Va. — She was fined and got a suspended jail sentence, but Mona Shaw says she has no regrets about using a hammer to vent her frustration at a cable company. ”I stand by my actions even more so after getting all these telephone calls and hearing other people’s complaints,” she said Friday. Shaw, 75, and her husband, Don, say they had an appointment in August...
WatchMySpaceTV: Quarterlife Trailer by quarterlife.com
Mac OS X Leopard - Guided Tour →
Opposition to open access continues, while anti-OA... →
I Want My Web TV →
Finally, it looks like web TV is getting some traction.
SNIP: This week, two research organizations, TNS and the Conference Board, issued a report indicating that the number of people who watch TV shows online has doubled in the last year. Close to 16 percent of American households now watch some programs online (conference-board.org).
ToorCon 9: Crypto Boot Camp →
This has always been my suggestion as well.
SNIP: [Rodney Thayer] gave a 2 hour seminar on cryptographic technology. It was designed to give the audience a working knowledge for dealing with vendors. He gave some rules of thumb for choosing encryption. In order of preference, when doing symmetric key crypto: use AES with a minimum 128bit key, if not that 3-key Triple-DES, or last RC4 with 128bit...
How Comcast blocks your Internet traffic →
It’s official, the TELECOs should be eliminated.
SNIP: Bless the Associated Press for unearthing, through careful and diligent investigation, Comcast’s shameful, hidden Internet traffic-management scheme. Comcast, the AP determined, actively manages data on its network by using software to essentially masquerade as its subscribers’ machines. When non-Comcast Internet subscribers...
Canada Post: Hypocrites, Or Just Party Poopers? →
Oh jeeze, this seems so wrong. SNIP: Did you know that Canada has a Sex Party? No, not a Sexy Party, Stewie-styles, but like an actual political party, for real. Yeah, neither did we. They’re all about the need to “realize a sex-positive culture” and stuff like that. They’re not exactly a political juggernaut, but they do their thing, and that’s cool. But now the Sex...
The beauty of LaTeX →
A good description of the advantages LaTeX has over MS Word and its ilk. Includes links and pretty pictures.
The Showcase Of BIG Typography →
Road Mac OS X Leopard: Mail 3.0 →
There are some really killer features coming out in Leopard’s Mail.app. The integration among Apple products is also really swell.
Canadian iPhone delayed by trademark dispute? →
Hahaha! Rogers probably doesn’t want to sell it anyway, since they surely refuse to lower their monopolistic pricing.
Annoying Adobe Acrobat "renderable text" OCR error
This is the solution (via ALP)
Acrobat Won’t OCR your file because it contains renderable text You’ll see the Renderable Text Error when the PDF you are trying to OCR has vector elements on it like stamps, annotations or Bates Numbers. It’s a particular problem with federal court files that are image-only PDFs with stamped Bates numbers. Solutions: Remove Headers and Footers or...
TUAW touch jailbreak liveblog →
The iPod touch has been hacked, and third party apps wil work, however it is still flaky and is not ready to be done by anyone other than a l33t hacker.
Master Forger Sentenced in the UK →
SNIP: Magic fingers and an unerring eye gave “Hologram Tam”, one of the best forgers in Europe, the skills to produce counterfeit banknotes so authentic that when he was arrested nearly £700,000 worth were in circulation. Thomas McAnea, 58, who was jailed for six years and four months yesterday, was the kingpin of a professional operation based in Glasgow that, according to police, had the...
