It's all happening in the digital music arena this week: just as Apple announce their rocking new music store and other goodies, a judge in L.A. rules that file swapping software is legal (although the status of kazaa is still not clear).
Might be bad news for the punters though, as legal action may now be moved down the chain to prosecute the actual, individual end-users.......
proce55ing.net - "a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media". Interesting.
.......blagged from lightcycle.org, the blog of Mike Davis, which is crammed with juicy visual computing links. Respect.
kilfish - more dark, strange, provocative art presented against a stylish flash background.
Sunday, April 20, 2003
We had a good laugh at the "Looking at a thing in a bag" cartoon that was posted last week at homestar runner, seemingly in lieu of a new strong bad e-mail (strong bad had left a post-it on his screen linking to the new 'toon). When I went back today, it was gone. Noooooooooooooo!
Fortunately, I found it again. Phew.
BlogPluck - Read blogs and parse RSS feeds on your handheld. I reckon I'll have a play with this....
Ended up at ReadYourPalm whilst looking around, which is also worthy of further investigation.
...blagged from optical poptitude, which, as always, is full of blogtastic goodness - respect....
bsimple - conceptual photography from Misha Gordin. Very, very weird and compelling images.
dot 16 - the worlds new smallest website.
guimp.com are apparently pretty pissed off.......
If you have a copy of Action Comics No.1 issue in good condition, it's supposed to be worth about $250,000. Or, you could save yourself a quarter of a million dollars and read it online here, where someone has scanned the whole thing in.
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
I've posted a link to xiaoxiao before, but they've tidied it up. Watch some early classics to remind yourself and then interact with some of the animations, like no.4.
The later nos. 7 and 8rock!
There's a demo of xiaoxiao no.9 here as well.
BuddyZoo - AIM buddy list stats and degrees of separation. Could be interesting, but I can't get to AIM from where I'm working today.
Sunday, April 13, 2003
The filewalker messenger; a "PDA in credit card format, with integrated GSM/GPRS tri-band and GPS", hands free phone and vibration options. It also features an MMC/SC card port, infra-red and a bluetooth interface. It runs Linux :) and is, of course, German (links on this page are to small pdf's in English).
Friday, April 11, 2003
The new Matrix trailer is out.The phrase that leaped to mind when watching it for the first time was "Oh my God". They weren't exaggerating; this really is going to be something else altogether.......
You can download a high-res version in zipped Quicktime format here, but be warned - it's nearly 100MB in size, so broadbanders only need apply.
blagged from slashdot
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
minima - a journal of the small and the potent | microfiction | art and design, apparently.
Looks nice though.
One for the geeks: USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID - under MacOS X, of course.
This bloke is a proper geek loon; he gets well excited when he creates this RAID set with an unusably small capacity and piss-poor performance. Then he gets carried away playing with memory sticks, and his final plan is just superb....
It made me (involuntarily) laugh anyway (what does that say about me?).
Another weird news story - wouldn't it be great if it were true?....... :)
Friday, April 04, 2003
Red Hat 9.0 - coming to a machine near me soon.......
Thursday, April 03, 2003
The post for alveolata noctiluca neonlight (below) was a link to such a great flash site that I did some digging, and there's more! :)
Go to macopism and click on the "Gallery" link.
Rumour has it there's a new palm Zire on the way, featuring a digital camera. Picture here.
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