Dean Scream was Doctored Audio
Good lord, after the hatchet job that had everyone hounding Howard Dean and questioning his sanity, it turns out that it was actually doctored audio. The sound you heard on the clip that was run 700 times post-Iowa was from the noise-filtering handheld microphone. He was screaming to be heard over this very loud crowd, [...]
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Downhill Battle’s Tune Recycler
Here’s something I can get behind - a group of people are calling for using those Pepsi iTunes giveaway codes on non-RIAA music. The folks from Downhill Battle are running the site called Tune Recycler and they describe their mission thusly:
When you submit a winning Pepsi code to the Tune Recycler, we’ll redeem it for [...]
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Zephyr Teachout, Howard Dean and Christopher Lydon
Today on the train I listened to the Lydon interview with Zephyr Teachout. I have to say of all of these I’ve listened to - must be over two dozen so far - this was the hardest to listen to. I had to resist the urge to just skip over it. I found her speech [...]
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Bruce Schneier On Our Slide To Police State
Bruce Schneier is one of the voices I trust. I learned most of what I know about crypto systems from his books, I read his Crypto-Gram newsletter every month. His common sense approach to security - computer and otherwise - has affected how I think through the issues. He taught a lot of us to [...]
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All One Surface
Band of the Day! Today the band is All One Surface, which MP3s helpfully available in a side rail right from the front page. I read about these guys first on Die Puny Humans and downloaded their MP3s and liked them. Today I got email from Andy Malt at their record company (also producer of [...]
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Greg Costikyan’s Paranoid Future
One of the few roleplaying games I really really enjoyed was Paranoia, cowritten by Greg Costikyan. Now Greg has on his game weblog a darkly funny takeoff of the wireless world set loosely in the world of Paranoia. Laugh if you are approved for such activities.
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Incan Abacus Deciphered
An Italian engineer thinks he has cracked the mystery of the Incan counting system. If he is correct, this is a fiendishly clever system. It is based on the Fibbonacci series, such that there is an area on the counting pad representing 1, 2, 3, 5, and then 10, 100, 1000, etc. At any point, [...]
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Microsoft Stops Trying
This seems hard to believe, but apparently it is true. According to BoingBoing, Microsoft is recommending that users not click links but type them in by hand. Good lord, that’s just silly.
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Sound and Spirit on the Kalevala
In my captured radio listening was a true treasure - the two episodes of Sound and Spirit on Finland’s national epic The Kalevala - one on Jan 4 called Kalevala and one on Jan 11 called Out of Finland. I found them both fascinating, and they have kindled a strong desire for me to go [...]
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LOTR for the Straight Guy
Cory posts on BoingBoing about this Lord of the Rings slash video featuring characters kissing. He’s making a copyright ethics point, but you know one of the first things I said when my wife and I left ROTK was “Am I crazy, or was that the most homoerotic of the three films?” I thought I [...]
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FeedOnFeeds Searching Patch
OK, I have added in my patch to add searching to the stock install of FeedOnFeeds. I added one page that contains the search submission form, altered the bit of HTML that creates the menu bar to include searching as a link, and updated view.php to both do the searching in the SQL query and [...]
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High School Soundtrack
Bruce Baugh discusses the music of his high school days and includes this bold challenge:
I daresay that few of you reading this know about Daniel Amos, a band of Southern California evangelical Christians.
To which I must respond with
Alarma! Somebody’s lying
Alarma! Somebody’s dying
Alarma! Somebody’s turning away, somebody’s turning away
Not only have I heard of Daniel [...]
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Cookies for a Better America
Here’s a flash animation of Ben of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream explaining how little defense spending it would take to be shifted for domestic social programs to be funded well enough to do their jobs. The animation is good, and the abstraction of the animated Ben somehow makes this a little more compelling than [...]
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Bamboo Forests of Chicago?
The Sun-Times carried a story about the winner in a Chicago sustainable design contest, which was bamboo groves on polluted lots. These guys found varieties of bamboo that can survive the winters, break down pollutants, and can be used in place of expensive wood in things like floors and musical instruments. That’s good thinking! I [...]
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Fear of Design Documentation
The preachers at Hacknot have gotten this weary soul excited with their recent post about why developers hate design documents. They address the fallacies of the common arguments (every one of which I have also heard), and have a challenge to the agile programming community:
To the XPers who promote such fallacies, I would ask this [...]
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LibDB
Via The Shifted Librarian comes this link to the LibDB project. It is pretty early in the project, but it looks quite interesting. From the description:
“This is the development wiki of LibDB, an open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset management system based on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (pdf), triples from the [...]
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George Carlin
Mark Evanier posts a link to this interview with George Carlin. Carlin has always been and remains to this day my very favorite comedian. He’s smart and much cannier than the standard “What’s the deal with X” nonsense of most curent practitioners. I’ve loved the way his routines dig through to the heart of issues, [...]
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Buying Digital Music
Cory Doctorow is really worked into a lather in his recent post about the lockin of buying digital music with DRM. I pretty much agree with him down the line. Cory is capable of some awfully rocking posts when he isn’t lulling me to sleep with his umptyhundreth one about Disney or himself.
I haven’t [...]
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Kill Bill, Volume 2
Kill Bill, V2 remains the movie I most anticipate, moreso after having viewed the audaciously sassy trailer with Uma staring at the camera and addressing the viewer. The first part rocked so incredibly hard, how could you not be on fire for the second? Strategically, the DVD of Volume 1 will be coming out around [...]
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Searching FeedOnFeeds
I’ve made a little tweak and added a piece of missing functionality to FeedOnFeeds. Multiple times, I’ve wanted to hunt up an article that I know I have seen but marked read. After the second or third time I fired up the command line mysql client to search the text of the items I knew [...]
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