Monthly Archives: January 2007

DJs need Creative Commons!

Via 25 Hours a Day: it seems that the RIAA has decided to start nipping in the bud those beloved gray areas of copyright infringement: mixtapes. I recall when Napster was first causing waves with Metallica and Lars Ulrich was … Continue reading

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Token Editor Post

This week I’ve been hacking away at what I think is an interesting little interface: draggable tokens in a rich-editor. This is essentially for use in a form-letter/mail-merge situation, where there are a given number of fields available that you … Continue reading

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The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Today I read Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN‘s baseline goal for every nation in the world. Here’s an overview: On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human … Continue reading

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How Big Content sees YouTube

I once was enrolled in a cinema studies course for all of a day (another course that I needed for my degree opened up so I had to make a switch). However, in that one single day, I learned an … Continue reading

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iPhone difficult to unlock?

While “there are bad guys out there that unlock phones,” Lurie said, Apple and Cingular are taking unspecified steps to make the phone more difficult to unlock and use on other GSM carriers in the US. from PC Magazine’s interview … Continue reading

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Groovy.

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Wal-Mart inadvertantly funds terrorism?

According to Variety, Wal-Mart has purchased advertising space on the Pirate Bay, a source of Bit Torrent files allowing for the sharing and downloading of any digital content. To me it’s an understandable move (and even a good one): combat … Continue reading

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Things Some Guy Has Argued About…

From www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com Because of my selfless desire to further the vocabulary of medical science, it would delight me to the toes if everyone could adopt the use of the phrase “Margret’s Syndrome”. This affliction being used to signify a condition … Continue reading

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Totally great idea!

Machinima + RSS + Text to Speech = News at Seven. Essentially it’s a news report that aggregates existing information and combines it into a single video feed that’s displayed using folks from the game Half Life. This blows away … Continue reading

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Paradoxical nano cable?

Yahoo! has a story on nano coaxial cable. The possible applications are many from real-time imaging across vast distances to higher-quality analog phones. Of course, the article perplexed me somewhat, check out this quote. They beamed red and green light … Continue reading

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