Archive for October, 2010
The Johnny Cash Project took the final studio recording made by The Man In Black, and had people contribute hand-drawn frames from a video shot for it, to be compiled into a fan-art video.
Through the Contribute section of the website, you are given 3 frames from the video, and some tools to draw your own version of them.
Your drawing(s) are then sent into the pool of available images for the appropriate frames of the video, and can be displayed in the final composition. Drawings can be voted up, or curated by the director. It’s an interesting way to enable multiple submissions for a time-based presentation.
the ballot for the 2010 Calgary Mayoral Election. It’s a pretty full roster, with 3 front runners.
I’ve voted in every election since I turned 18. This is the first time I haven’t felt like I was throwing my vote away. There’s a very real possibility that my candidate will get elected. Go Nenshi!
A great article by David Wong, thinking through some of the implications of digital distribution and copyright. Published in that champion of futurism and deep thinking: Cracked.com
If you want to know what the future looks like, there it is. The future is going to hang on whether or not businesses will be able to convince you to pay money for things you can otherwise get for free.
Some of you think I’m about to talk about file sharing and DRM and the evil record labels. But that’s just a teaser of what’s coming. The world has changed. All the rules we were trained to believe about society from birth until now are about to go out the window.
on the desperate need to prop up the current economic models:
That’s what ACTA is about. This massive worldwide treaty would bring the hammer down on anyone violating intellectual property laws. Everyone on the Internet hates it because we know it 1) would have to be incredibly invasive, to the point of basically peering into everyone’s hard drive at any moment for signs of contraband, and 2) is futile. It’s a leaking ship trying to stay afloat by threatening the ocean with its cannons.
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And so, to save society, we’re going to have to rely on our old friend, the invisible force that has saved humanity again and again. It’s a little thing I like to call bullshit.
Bullshit is the next growth industry. People who deal in it are going to be more valuable than surgeons — yes, the same people who convinced us that bottled water comes from an enchanted mountain spring and made uneducated mothers believe that contaminated baby formula was a life-giving health potion. Only they can save us.
Just go read it. Now.
Grandma teaches Evan how to knit – he’s planning on making scarves for everyone this Christmas.
we started installing the central vac system at the Renovation House, wrapping the plastic pipes in insulation because we had to route them through the attic.
Evan made me a cake for my birthday (a day late, due to technical difficulties). It was a fantastic cake. Sprinkles galore. And sparkles. Can’t beat it.
at the spot where I hit 4900km ridden in 2010, between a golf course and a city park in Varsity, before crossing the metaphorical tracks and heading into Varsity Estates.
I picked up a BLT Firewire 4.0 headlight for my bike in January 2009 (and has had maybe 6 months of use in that time). It came with some pretty crappy mounting hardware (a velcro strap to attach the light? really?) but that was easily fixed with some hardware from the bike shop. The velcro straps holding the battery case to the bike frame broke long ago. That was easily fixed with a length of spare inner tube and a couple of zip ties. But now the wire connecting the LED light to the battery has worked loose, so it doesn’t work at all. No amount of zip ties will fix that. The light is dead. I’ll never buy a BLT light again. $150 down the drain.
Shaun Inman just retweeted a very concise and insightful description by Lauren Isaacson, on why she shares stuff:
