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November 30, 2004
i <3 C-SPAN.
Bush is in Canada. So C-SPAN's airing the CBC News program "The National" every night during his visit. Thank you C-SPAN.
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THE TOFU HUT:
Africanhiphop.com - Pan African hip hop: the motherland represents: Years ago I got hooked on South African Kwaito hip hop. Haven't found any in a while. Methinks that's gonna change.
The Work of Benjamin Edwards: Aided by satellite maps he downloads from the Internet, inexpensive 3-D home design software, old prints and drawings of city plans, and architects' blueprints of idealized structures never built, he uses his computer to create and render models
The Suburbs Are Killing Us:
Dream Chimney: Track of the Day:
fat planet _ new international music:
Fluxblog: Half In English, Half In Squiggly:
MOISTWORKS:
MP3Blogs Aggregator: oh me god. it's like reblog for mp3s.
The Mystical Beast:
scissorkick:
Posted by yatta at 11:59 AM
the tao of dedman.
well, not exactly.
check out the nice bit of editing in this videoblog entry by jay in which our hero goes out in search of giant redwoods in California.
Something tells me we've kept him out of Texas a bit too long.
(via Drew.)
Posted by yatta at 11:16 AM
November 29, 2004
babies and puppies @ 3.30pm
Speaking of puppies, Harner's just launched her first blog spinoff: ModernPooch. It's a dog blog all about, um, something or another. If it were any cuter it'd be The Holiday Gift of The Season. Instead we're stuck with plasma teevees. Now if she'd only spin off a blog about pancakes....
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Public Relations India : Microsoft Search - PR gaffe!: "Microsoft's PR agency Waggener Edstrom released this photo of the new MSN search to AP. Only, they used the IE competitor browser, Mozilla Firefox, for their screenshot!"
BuzzMachine: How to explode TV news in four easy steps.
Build Your Own PVR :: Why Tivo When you can Freevo?
eBay item 5536791340 (Ends Nov-25-04 14:19:11 PST) - A Cute Miracle! Hello Kitty Grilled Cheese Sandwich!: You are viewing an extroidinary out of this world item!! I made this sandwich 10 minutes ago, when I took a bite out of it, I saw a face looking up at me, It was Hello Kitty starring back at me
Posted by yatta at 9:04 PM
November 28, 2004
posting from a sidekick ii while stuck in holland tunnel traffic would rock...
...if this didn't suck so bad.
Posted by yatta at 12:20 AM
November 24, 2004
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macosxlabs.org - RsyncX: RsyncX is an implementation of rsync with HFS+ support and configuration through a command line (Terminal) or graphical user interface.
Using Open Source Tools to Filter Email on Mac OS X Server: This article steps you through the installation and setup of some widely-used tools: Perl-based Amasvisd-new, Spam Assassin, and ClamAV.
Michael Craig Amper's Mac OS X Weblog: Useful Mac email hacks.
AFP548 - Changing the world one server at a time.: Resource for all things Mac server related.
Spamassassin on Mac OS X: Running Spamassassin on OS X through local mail server.
VJ-Fleet: J-Fleet consists of 3 cars fitted with video projection on the rear windshield. Each car has a theme determined by the character of the car, and by characteristics of the host city where the fleet is mobilized.
macosxhints - Secure POP and SMTP email via SSH:
There is an SSH client for the Sidekick II: Okay, Harner. I'm almost sold.
Email Servers and Mac OS X: Stepwise article on setting up email servers on OS X
Wired News: A Kinder, Gentler Copyright Bill?: The Senate passed a scaled-back version of a controversial copyright bill Saturday, keeping a provision that imposes severe penalties on people caught with camcorders in movie theaters but scrapping other provisions that copyright-reform activists had cri
Terrorist Watchlist Person Data Exchange Standard: An XML data exchange format for terrorist watchlist data
Posted by yatta at 12:23 PM
November 23, 2004
if anyone comes across a 12" powerbook with serial number UV40504####...
This past weekend I had my laptop stolen. I was in a sound check at work and left it unattended on the other side of the gallery. Usually this wouldn't have been a problem as Eyebeam is usually locked and secure. But we had lots of people loading in a show that day. Someone had probably left the building and didn't know to lock the door behind them. So in the ten minutes that the door was unlocked, someone walked in, found the laptop, and stuffed it down his pants. Goodbye laptop.
I hadn't backed up in weeks. three months of digital photos: gone. about a hundred hours of original video: gone. at least a dozen new ideas put down on sticky notes: I can't even think about it. i lost at least fifty hours of project work. that really sucked. I spent a good hour or two combing over the building searching for it. I spend at least 12 hours a day on and off of the thing. most of my waking life was on that laptop. The rest was just a cron job. It was pretty fucking traumatic.
But I'll deal. All my passwords are changed. Most of my data recovered up until September or so. The good thing is that the iDisk is set to sync up to Apple's servers everytime it goes online. So a police report has been filed with the NYPD. Apple Corporate Security should soon be on the case. If it goes online, I'll be waiting. If I get it back, cool. If not, well, hopefully I'm in karmic debt for something good.
So what is the lesson in all of this? Well, first, back the fuck up. But the bigger lesson is more than that. The bigger lesson is that I need a way to automatically sync up all of my data wherever I am, whenever I have an internet connection. The bigger lesson is that I need a web os. Fortunately, there are enough resources out there for me to roll my own. Here's what I'm thinking so far:
First, I should mention that I'm doing this b/c I just have too much data across too many devices. Between the mac laptop, the mac desktop, the pc desktop, the cell phone, and the ipod, I need to put all of my data on a central server and start thinking of the rest of these devices as terminals.
Server: So I'm dropping the mac desktop and installing some flavor of BSD on it. It's an old single proc G4 with about a TB of SATA disk in it. This will become my personal server. I'm going to try to track down a used VXA drive for under $250. My only reservations about using the G4 is that I can't find a good SATA hardware RAID card for it. I'd use the PC desktop (an old VAIO) but the support for power management under BSD or linux on this model is pretty lacking.
DynDNS: There's no place like home. Since the server will be sitting at home on my broadband connection, I'll need a way to find it. So DynDNS will be very helpful.
Backups: I'm undecided on how I should do backups on this box. Should I mimic Apple's iDisk and set up a WebDAV server or should I shut down all of the ports and just do scheduled rsync backups over ssh?
Perhaps I'll divide my work up into two types (online and nearline) and use WebDAV for current files (the first) and rsync+ssh for archived work (the latter).
Email: I have too many email accounts to care for, so I'm going to download all of my email to my personal server, and use IMAP over an SSH tunnel to get to it. Need to find more resources for this.
Web browsing: All bookmarks now move to del.icio.us with regular local backups made to this blog (the 'daily' entries). Changes to the MT database will be mirrored to my backup server.
I'm forgetting something.... calendars and contacts. And syncing with a phone. Need to think about these things or ask for suggestions. I'll update this post as I find more info.
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TuxMobil: How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble a Portable Media Player: Here is a collection of links to take apart instructions, disassembly pictures, upgrade and repair manuals, as well as do-it-yourself (DIY) tips and tricks for mobile media players
Markertek Super High Powered 2.4GHz Wireless AV System: Powerful 1 Watt System For Up To 3,000 Feet Reception! This mini AV transmitter and receiver system is the most powerful system on the market with this signal strength
FunMP3Players Forums - Archos Jukebox - Neo 35 25 - MP3-CD: Upgrading the Hard Drive in the Archos Jukebox 6000
Posted by yatta at 6:22 PM
November 19, 2004
the unmediatedmobile.
Once a week, most of the unmediated crew gets together for beer, pizza, and lots of media talk. Lately, our sh!t sessions have been rare, with everyone being quite busy as of late, but on Wednesday, a bunch of us met up at D.B.A. to catch up and work on ideas for open sourcing the unmediated Weekly Show. The best moments come when we've got a few beers in us and we start blabbing about whatever's on our minds.
This week, Eli came up with a good one: the unmediated car.
File this one under "patentable ideas dreamed up under the influence of winter ale."
Posted by yatta at 7:16 PM | Comments (1)
November 18, 2004
skoltz kolgen @ eyebeam.
sklotz kolgen performed Flüux :/ Terminal after the Panorama Canadian short film screening at Eyebeam Tuesday night. Blips and bleeps and final cut sequences and max patches galore. Here's about 30 seconds I was able to capture before I got called away to a bit of busywork:
Go check out the sample tracks at nuloop.
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November 17, 2004
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Aronnax`s - GrApple - MacThemes for Firefox: More "Mac-like" themes for Firefox 1.0 on OS X
We the Media - by Dan Gillmor [Authorama]: Dan Gillmor's "We The Media" in HTML
HTC Typhoon (C500, AudioVOX SMT5600) unlock in under 5 min: Unlock an AT&T SMT5600 Windows Smartphone for use on other networks.
Yahoo! News - SpongeBob, Barney to Sing 'We Are Family': Look out kids. SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and Clifford the Big Red Dog are joining forces to rerecord the disco tune "We Are Family" to promote diversity and tolerance in classrooms.
10th journalist killed in Philippines: Hinolan was attacked Saturday, a day after Gene Boyd Lumawag, a photo editor of the independent Filipino news agency MindaNews, was gunned down. Hinolan is the 49th journalist killed since 1986. Ten journalists have been killed this year.
String Similarity Metrics for Information Integration:
Tumbleweeds good for uranium clean-up: A preliminary study reveals that tumbleweeds, a.k.a. Russian thistle, and some other weeds common to dry Western lands have a knack for soaking up depleted uranium from contaminated soils at weapons testing grounds and battlefields.
Micro Persuasion: How to Pitch Into the Long Tail News Curve: I thought I would explain one way PR people can immediately convert this theory into an executable media outreach strategy by pitching into the evolving news curve.
Shooting and Data Gathering | Model Making | Mori Urban Institute for the Future: How to make urban architectural models.
Projection Calculator - Projector to Screen Distance: Will your projector fit the available space? What about your screen? To find out, use our Projection Calculator by following these 2 easy steps:
Read/Write Web: Interview with Lucas Gonze of Webjay: "At that scale, the internet should, assuming the viewpoint is correct, exist within something like the Gaia hypothesis. The internet OS idea is a Gaia hypothesis for the internet."
TheDenverChannel.com - News - Man Accused Of Giving Porn To Trick-Or-Treaters: "A Boulder man who children said put pornographic DVDs in their Halloween sacks last month has been arrested on suspicion of felony obscenity and could face more than a year in prison, police said."
Posted by yatta at 5:21 PM
jesse and chloe @ 2am.
Posted by yatta at 3:41 PM
November 16, 2004
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CNN.com - eBay pulls 'Virgin Mary sandwich' - Nov 16, 2004: "Diana Duyser put the sandwich up for sale last week, drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night."
Universal Feed Parser: "Universal Feed Parser is easy to use; the module is self-contained in a single file, feedparser.py, and it has only one public function, parse. parse takes a number of arguments, but only one is required, and it can be a URL, a local filename, or a raw s
Posted by yatta at 8:56 PM
participatory porn?
ron jeremy's law states that all interesting developments in net media happen first in porn.
so where are the participatory porn projects?
or are sex blogs and video chat rooms the extent of the participatory-ness right now?
Posted by yatta at 9:48 AM
November 15, 2004
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BLOGUMENTARY Debt Relief: "Here's the skinny. I self-financed and self-produced this film over the last two years, and have amassed a healthy pile of debt. Won't you help feed your favorite Blogumentarian? And prevent me from shooting this cute little puppy?"
Flash/PHP Blog/RSS Reader Sample (Actionscript-Toolbox.com): Sample code for a RSS newsreader in flash
b-tang :: metalsmithing jewelry:Preeeetttty.
IndieFeed: Schedule free, independent artist music and automatically it delivers to your MP3 player! Music arrives one song at a time in special IndieFeed genre playlists.Schedule free, independent artist music and automatically it delivers to your MP3 player! Music
WordPress Support › RSS feed into Flash .swf: WordPress thread on parsing RSS in Flash
Flash remoting for PHP: A responsive Client-Server Architecture for the Web: Flash remoting for PHP enables objects in PHP to become objects in actionscript, almost magically! This provides a great way of connecting rich media clients with data and logic living on the server.
Flash Rss Reader using PHP with XML and MySQL:
the flash components network: The flash components network is a a site dedicated to bringing you the best Flash components out there. It's an initiative by Edwin van Rijkom and Thomas Wester. All bills are kindly being paid by Screenweaver.
Macromedia - Developer Center : Building an RSS Aggregator with Macromedia Firefly Components: Requires Flash MX 2004, but I think we can work around that.
The New York Times > What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits: "By its own count, Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts." (Yeah, but those FileMaker DBs bloat pretty fast. ;) -kc.)
Posted by yatta at 2:54 AM
Caymag interview with Régine Debatty....
... is here but I can't parse the Italian. Aw, poo.
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vogbrowser functionality test number one.
this is a functionality test. it is only a functionality test. had this been an actual vogbrowser, none of this would have been hard coded, the mov and img tags would have been stripped from the description text, and the feed list and entry text would have been generated on the fly.
working on the perl now. gonna work on the php later. going to replace it all with flash (a la that squaredcircle thing) after that.
anyone wanna help?
Posted by yatta at 12:31 AM
November 13, 2004
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::ANIDB.net:: Anime DataBase: AniDB contains information about all anime and tries to be as informative as possible. Since AniDB is open for everyone, anyone is able to add information to the database. This way it will become a huge database with the best information about all anime.
Microsoft Crawling Google Results For New Search Engine?: "I believe MSN is using the results from Google and possibly even Yahoo to get all of the pages they've indexed on sites that have a relatively low page count in the current msn search engine."
It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis: Complete text of Sinclair Lewis' 1935 text online.
Wigu Flabbergasted Eagle T-Shirt: "WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED. The Eagle is like "what in the world?" He is flabbergasted about what happened. He can hardly believe it."
Jesusonic - WHAT WOULD JESUS USE FOR EFFECTS PROCESSING?: The Jesusonic is a fully programmable effects processor for guitar, bass, vocal and general use.
Cryptome - Fallujah Kill Photos 12 November 2004 - 1
: BuzzMachine: Argue with me II: What old and new media can teach each other: "Big media must learn that news isn't over when it's printed and fishwrap; that is when the real story cycle begins, when the public asks questions and adds facts and corrects mistakes and adds perspective and helps get closer to the truth."
Low Power TV r us : SF Bay Area Indymedia
Human Dog Videoblog reading responses to Slashdot post on videoblogging.: Isn't that the basement where they shot 'Silence of the Lambs'?
Wooster Collective : New Work From Roadsworth: Images from Roadsworth from Montreal, Canada.
Dating website dumps serial shagger | The Register: "A web dating agency has dumped a 55-year-old male subscriber after he indulged in a five-year debauch which resulted in 100 notches on his bedpost, UK tabloid the Daily Mirror reports. the agency struck him from its books after receiving complaints about
: MacDevCenter.com: Build Your Own Blogging Application, Part 1: "This article is the first in a two-part series that illustrates how to harness the power of Perl and Tcl/Tk along with your .Mac iDisk to build your own blogging application. You'll also learn about XHTML and bash scripting along the way."
macosxhints - Small and simple desktop reminders: "I often have small pieces of text on my desktop. The usual way of putting small clippings on the desktop take up a lot of space and the text gets cut-off. There is a better way to do this."
Posted by yatta at 12:31 AM
November 12, 2004
the 100 second video festival
Check it:
A short film video festival that leverages p2p networks for content submission and back-end distribution.
Each submission follows one rule: one hundred seconds or less in duration....
Works are submitted online via the torrent technology and given a creative commons license.
or via snail mail to a center which then does the dirty work (compression).
Various centers and/or individuals then compile and curate their own version of a festival.
These are then projected locally, cablecast on PEG and shared back online.
This sounds like an interesting way to bridge net video with the existing cable access infrastructure. It's from the folks at LTC. I'm pretty sure Jay's involved in this as well. Need to get Julie in on this as well.
Posted by yatta at 10:43 PM | Comments (2)
rocketboom.
andrew's videoblog, hosted by amanda. add it to your newsreader immediately.
Posted by yatta at 3:32 PM
November 11, 2004
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Sorry Everybody: An extensive gallery of self-portraits of people apologizing for re-electing GWB.
Chengwin vs. Chunk: November 13, 2004: God {hearts} Chengwin.
Globe and Mail - MTAA's One Year Performance Video: "In the work, we mimic endurance without doing the labour. We also know the audience can just close the browser and walk away. No one needs to suffer on this one. The failure is built in at the front end."
Posted by yatta at 8:27 PM
November 10, 2004
go soar, little fella! soar like never before!
john ashcroft officially resigned.
now remember, your're only allowed to throw up a little when they fill the vacancy. you know, one of those "I swallowed it back down so I'm fine" kinda moves.
Posted by yatta at 11:44 AM
the ghosts of sample sales past.
Posted by yatta at 10:13 AM
November 8, 2004
Dave's Ohio video.
This is what happens when you don't check your email for three days. Dave Pentecost posts some great video from his trip to Ohio last week. It's been boingboinged so you've probably seen it already.
> Hi guys. Here's how I spent my week.
>
> http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/06/electionday_footage_.html
>
> Links to 4 mirrors of the video at that post.
>
> Check the background link for my account of the trip. Nightmarish moment
> on the bus coming back before Kerry conceded. This was the best I could
> do.
Josh arranged a NYC geekup last weekend just before Dave went to video the vote and Lucas Gonze defected to paradise. Missed it on account of close to a month of bad tummy.
I've never been a sickly child so this sickly thing is starting to worry me.
Enough of that. Let's distract ourselves with something useless so we can act like the bad stuff never happened. Apparently this kind of thing works on 51% of the U.S. population.
A large cat named Pooh:
Posted by yatta at 1:21 PM
November 7, 2004
exploding blogpodfeedcastster
every day i reblog and every day i come across at least a couple new web services for the videoblog/podcast plain-ol-blogging universe. all information on these services have exploded in my head and are presently leaking out my nose. i can't wait for it to finish.
(oh yeah, and yes, i realize now that i was completely ass backwards on my rss playlist post. i've made a note to myself never to post anything thought up after midnight.)
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3am rockstar.
Posted by yatta at 3:31 AM
November 4, 2004
enclosures + rss = primitive playlists.
okay, this post may not make much sense at 2.00am b/c i'm wicked tired and am just writing stream of thought but...
I just found this on the audvidsyn group:
Here I have to point out something that I have only implied so far: RSS with enclosures is reinventing playlists. You do want metadata for artist name, song title, etc, right? And once you have all that stuff, what is the purpose of the RSS elements which have to do with journal keeping?
- Lucas
Like I said, I'm tired, so I'm still processing the first two sentences. One of the things josh and I have been chatting about is the idea of leaving well enough alone and training ipodder clients and the like to parse description information from existing media file metadata instead of looking for it in RSS. Why reinvent the file metadata when the ID3 tag already exists? Sure, it gets us into an old new bowl of challenges and problems and cherries, but it's interesting to think about.
The next sentence got me thinking about something that might be kinda fun and useful to the podcasting folks...
And once you have all that stuff, what is the purpose of the RSS elements which have to do with journal keeping?
Right. What's the point of passing all of that blog entry text in "podcast" feeds if it isn't being used? Most podcast clients (well, the ipodder family anyway) have no use for the blog text elements. Maybe they could and should, but I think there's a more interesting opportunity here.
We need to start encoding the accompanying blog post text into the ULT or SLT frames of the ID3 tag of the podcast. Okay. Let's try that in Engrish: ULT is a field in the ID3 tag of an mp3 file that was intended to hold text transcription information of some sort. If you could put the blog text in that space, it might be readable by an mp3 player like, say, an iPod. So you could read the blog text that accompanied the podcast mp3 on your iPod. that'd be cool, right?
I need to look into this a bit more and figure out how to add this encoding to either the app that generates my mp3 file or the app that I use to enter blog text. I also need to get a refresher on ULT and SLT.
Last thing: I need to think about ways to incorporate some of SMIL's lessons into the syndicated enclosure discussion at audvidsyn. In particular, the SMIL <switch> tags could potentially be useful. There are attributes for offering alternative files based on conenction speed (system-bitrate) and tags for setting both sequence <seq> and parallel <par> playback characteristics. I need to pick akb's brain on this.
All this talk of metadata also reminds me that I think I owe Eli a beer. And I think Dan owes me one. Maybe I should just syndicate Dan's beer so I can pass it through to Eli.
That made no sense. I'm going to sleep.
Posted by yatta at 2:35 AM
November 3, 2004
gwen stefani channels wesley willis...
and maybe the 10th grade Green Brook High School Talent Show Dance Team. I think i just made maybe the 12th honest to god spit take of my life.
Posted by yatta at 8:53 AM
"My school loves to riot. We riot when we lose. We riot when we win. We riot when someone drops a spoon..."
[chuckle.]
For some odd reason I found that particularly funny this morning.
From Ghetto Toyota Crew.
Posted by yatta at 8:18 AM
November 2, 2004
judgment election night.
okay. my vote's been cast. now gwb has the four more years he needs in order to wipe out terrorism and kick some ass.
yeah right.
my mind was made up in early 2001 when his administration reduced the world to right and wrong. it was a strategy that proved to be self-fulfilling when it was further reduced to good and evil. my world isn't made up of good versus evil. it's not varying shades of grey, either. my world just is.
so please go out and make jon stewart's life miserable.
After that, tune in to the two unmediated-related projects going on tonight:
first, there's the ssg election redirect party happening in nyc, ohio, california, florida, belgium, and the netherlands. homebase is at whitebox in nyc.
secondly, there's the konscious tv election night coverage at loc1.
both projects will simulcast live, online. check their pages for stream info.
oh yeah, and i made a doctor's appointment about that thumb thing. got a couple of emails that it grossed you out. sorry about that.
Posted by yatta at 11:48 AM
November 1, 2004
does anyone else's thumb burn from sitting on the palmrest of their powerbook?
My left thumb and palm become numb after about fifteen minutes. my thumb burns and there's a small dark spot underneath my skin where there wasn't one before. okay, now I'm all freaked out.
Posted by yatta at 9:28 PM | Comments (1)
you know those scifi movies where some alien has to take another body temporarily?
well consider that the alien is my movable type database and consider that the temporary vessel is the default blog template that came with the upgrade to MT 3.1. i must get out of this stylesheet before i kill again. oi.
Posted by yatta at 1:52 AM