Still vegan, still straightedge. Anarchist and atheist. Formerly, 18 months of full-time #vanlife in #LittleMisadventureTime. Before that, The Farmhouse in Hollywood, California. Currently, living in NE Portland, Oregon, working at Happily and battling cancer.
until now it didn't really make much sense to me. i just thought it was a similar thing to RSS with a little bit of a different format. and proposed as an IETF standard.
but then i read the slide notes from the XML2004 talk about it. man, this looks exciting. it makes so much sense now. seems very intuitive. i, actually, have some ideas of how i might use this in the near future.
marsedit expired. i'm not dead. trying out ecto until i can afford marsedit and netnewswire.
imagine cranking a film projector for two hours to watch napolean dynamite or the motorcycle diaries. now imagine doing it with just your thumb and no breaks. slacker.
watch this: http://ev.engadget.com/sw.mov
clever hack, though.
for those people who were/are disappointed that i didn't go to bloggercon myself, you're in luck. ITconversations is building an archive of all the bloggercon sessions in mp3 / AAC format for our ipodding pleasure.
btw, the rss feed for this with AAC enclosures is:
http://www.itconversations.com/rss/category-rss.php?k=bloggercon2004&e=2
mp3 users subscribe to this one:
http://www.itconversations.com/rss/category-rss.php?k=bloggercon2004&e=1
this is really good news. i like the idea of gmail. but i need to use a POP3 client. a la Apple Mail. so now, it looks like the proverbial cake and eating. i wonder how they'll handle feeding you ads on new mail or if they even will. if they don't how is this gonna affect the business model for 'free' email supported by inline ads?
gmail goes pop: Well, one more barrier to me using gmail just fell away... they've added free POP support to their mail service. I still don't use gmail, but they're making it harder and harder to resist. (Via anil dash in atom.)
so once this is rolled out completely, maybe i'll actually use my gmail account more. here's their online support for setting it up on the gmail end and your end. at the moment, no IMAP support, though.
still hands down, the best web based mail available. IMHO.
for the roomie's election fraud research.
UPDATE: this podcast never really went anywhere. and has since been taken down. sorry.
the show is called a liberation frequency.
in this podcast:
this is my first one. i'm pretty about happy the format, generally. i'd like to cut the length down to maybe 7 or 8 minutes. i imagine i'll also get more comfortable talking into a mic and being recorded. the sound quality on my spoken parts is a little hissy. it can get better. i've been working on this for a few days trying to make it real perfect. you know, first impressions and all. but rather than perfect forever and still not be perfect, i was reminded of the extreme programming development cycle of 'release early, release often.'
so i released early. i will try to release often. hopefully, in doing so this gets better and better.
STRATEGIC ARMCHAIR COMMAND has a nice "global war map" in .swf (flash movie) form. it's not animated or interactive. just countries color coded by the level of war they are at. red being the highest. red also being the color of the u.s. (minus alaska and hawaii which are a mere orange), iraq, iran, afghanistan, pakistan, saudi arabia, israel (and palenstine, even though it isn't listed as its own nation -- i guess, this is based on NATO or UN recognitions of statehood) and north korea.
orange countries:
dark blue (smallest possible):
these truly are sensational times we live in.
with the opening of the incredibles, the world has had access to the trailer to the new star wars movie: episode three - return of the sith. oh god, it's hottness.
you can watch the trailer here.
here's my thoughts / predictions:
here's something really interesting, though. the trailer for the episode III video game. this, of course, is not exactly what will happen in the movie, but it can give us some more clues to possible happenings.
por ejemplo:
noteworthy links:
although, if you think about it jango is not really boba's dad. more of his surrogate daddy, as boba is an unaltered clone of jango. thus, boba's biological father is jango's dad (whom we meet very, very briefly during a jango fett comic called open seasons). so to recap, boba fett's dad is actually is grandad. take that!
got enclosures with wordpress worked out. thanks to thefolks that put together the hack for it.
also, put together the format for the podcast. now, all's that's left to do is work out the kinks and start doing it. i'm still getting over my voice sounding weird to me recorded. and talking to a mic rather than a person. soon, though. soon.
got a call tonight from the girl. her dad has a talkbox (sorry, couldn't find an english page for it. actually, i don't know that this is even it.) and she called me from it. the number shows up as "unknown", something the telecom world will have to work out sometime as more VoIP is used. otherwise, it was pretty seamless.
the content of our conversation was more interesting, though. her brother, scott, is getting into the world of podcasting. his good friend is doing a podcast called coverville which is, as it sounds, all cover songs. and he's ASCAP legal, too. that was a smart move, i think. as podcasting blows up more there'll be all kinds of legal battles over content, surely. good for him for beating them to the punch. heading them off at the pass, as it were. it was fun slash funny to hear both of them sooo excited about podcasting. truely this is the beginnings of something big. and the people that are in the loop know it. and that's why this thing is so electric to everyone right now.
it was also funny to hear how disappointed both of them were that i didn't go to bloggercon.
and, yes, they convinced me to start podcastinng. i've started laying the groundwork. my biggest technical hurdle is figuring out how to do enclosures with WordPress. i'm sure it can be worked out.
coming soon:
LIBERATION FREQUENCY
we don't just want airtime.
we want all the time, all of the time.
this is from john husband's blog. i thought it was pretty.
for the roomie's fraud 2004 link list
Which File Extension are You?
i'm ok with that. it would've been cool to be an .mp3, instead.
though, i was really hoping for a .png. but there wasn't one.
i've been reading a lot at the global guerrillas blog. and i'm just floored by this guy's thought processes. the connection of disparate models is just amazing. here he compares the opensource software model to that of the global guerrilla warfare model.
Global Guerrillas: THE BAZAAR'S OPEN SOURCE PLATFORMRelease early and often. Try new forms of attacks against different types of targets early and often. Don’t wait for a perfect plan.
Given a large enough pool of co-developers, any difficult problem will be seen as obvious by someone, and solved. Eventually some participant of the bazaar will find a way to disrupt a particularly difficult target. All you need to do is copy the process they used.
Your co-developers (beta-testers) are your most valuable resource. The other guerrilla networks in the bazaar are your most valuable allies. They will innovate on your plans, swarm on weaknesses you identify, and protect you by creating system noise.
Recognize good ideas from your co-developers. Simple attacks that have immediate and far-reaching impact should be adopted.
Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away (simplicity). The easier the attack is, the more easily it will be adopted. Complexity prevents swarming that both amplifies and protects.
Tools are often used in unexpected ways. An attack method can often find reuse in unexpected ways.
really mind blowing ideas. it's got me thinking a lot about how these kinds of ideas can be applied activism [though, i do hate that word].
Scale improvements. Bigger attacks, better results.
Symbol selection. The more dear the symbol attacked, the greater the impact.
Extended reach. The deeper inside a society's comfort zone a strike is made, the better the results.
global guerrillas blog on the three metrics of terrorist attacks.
back in like 1999 or 2000, i was hanging out in secret sailor books (R.I.P.). it was in the summer and there was some 'high school kids come to big college campus for a week' photo camp happening. they each had to a photo essay or something. so this kid needed a subject to follow around for a few minutes to do a slice of life series. so i volunteered. she later sent me these three photos as laser prints. i figured i should scan them before they get beat up too much more.
ps. the buttons on my hat are a no smoking button. and one that says "capitalism is organized crime."
ThumbScrew: "I'm about to head out the door to watch the election coverage with friends, but Zach was kind enough to send me the latest beta of his first Mac OS X app that normal users can use, ThumbScrew..."
(Via DrunkenBlog.)
a rad thumb nailer program called ThumbScrew. it's nice. i like it a lot. here's a test with some images i had already posted here. it's late. and i'm tired. more photo galleries in near future.
i dressed as an 8 year old's version of a super hero.
a bigger write up of the night to come soon.
dramatic close up of my ... utility belt.
smash heterosexism
well, actually, a hand full of times for miscellaneous activist stuff. the arrest in question, though, was at a critical mass that we had in bloomington, IN. it was the first event in our "week of resistance" to show our support for a fellow resistance figher, frank ambrose, who had been bogusly charged with tree-spiking (charges later dropped for lack of evidence) and to show the feds that we wouldn't back down in the face of repression COINTELPRO tactics.
so everything was going fine. in a smallish college town of around 70,000 we had a critical mass of about 250-300 people. which is really really awesome. then tension between the swarm of cops and the hundreds of traffic blocking bicyclists hit a point of no return. cops starting pulling people off their bikes in the back of the ride. all hell breaks loose. and a bunch of us end of getting beat up and arrested. this picture was take of me being carried away by three cops. which i think is funny, because i weigh, like, 120. take note of the asshole on right of the picture. between the red and black flag and the cop. he's the undercover cop that tackled me leading to my arrest. there was at least one other undercover in the ride. fortunately, the cops didn't get there grubby paws on my bike. friends were able to smuggle it away.
this also happened that day. my long time friend and bandmate, ian phillips, was pulled off his bike, thrown to the ground, got a knee in the back and THEN got pepper sprayed. that pool of liquid coming from his face is pepper spray.
anyhow, i found these two photos tonight while going through a box of old papers and arrest related stuff. thought i'd post them.
♥
you will be successful in love.
i feel like i have been very lucky in that department.
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i made this panorama of sorts for the girl today. it's alright.
other highlights include: my desk. yes, those are milk crates.
Song playing in iTunes while i made this post: Turn A Square by The Shins.
last time i was down in the cruz i had to pee real bad on my way out of town. so i stopped at McDonald's. used theirs. it was real generic white box made of cinder blocks. real sterile. then i noticed this little [about 1 foot square] metal door. and i think its a circuit breaker box. immediately i think of the hilarity that would ensue if the power was cut. open it and ... bubkiss. it was just one water knob thingy. but inside this little box was the bright and fun and exciting graffiti. it was really struck me so much i went back out to my van and got the ol' cam-damera and took these four pictures. it was like this little secret box of colour in a very, very sterile white box. shhh... it's a secret.
Song playing in iTunes while i made this post: The Future, Wouldn't That Be Nice? by The Books.
kids call it the ten con. or at least, THIS kid does.
i went on tuesday. sat in on a few talks.
how to run your own software business, [which was covered in a good write up here and even an audio version here (44.1mb mp3)]
xgrid, [presentation files downloadable from oreilly's site] [it's fun to think about building superclusters so easily...].
lunch was good [and good for vegans like me] : burrito fixins. they separated the meat-stuffs from the veg-stuffs. thanks, oreilly. you're the best!
did lots of hanging out with / meeting other geeks. met marko from finland, he's a good guy. brent simmons whose two products (NetNewsWire and MarsEdit) i use everyday and i love them both. aaron whose book i'm reading and really digging. and, yes, he was wearing the cowboy hat. i would love to be able to take his class at the ranch, but, alas, it's $3500 that i don't have. so i'll stick with the book. he was so nice and empathetic. i think he would make for a good teacher. i'm disappointed that i wasn't able to make it today to see his talk on Best Practices for Cocoa Programmers. also, i missed out on brent's talk about using webkit : user interface challenges. i'd also liked to see Test Driven Objective-C Development, too.
but the real star of the show, i think, was Delicious Library made by Delicious Monster, a small company recently formed by Will Shipley (founder of the OmniGroup) and Mike Mata (18 year old designer who worked for OMNI since he was 15 - not bad). there's enough buzz about this app already. i don't need to recap it all. but it's hott. with two T's. this thing is gonna blow the F up. just you wait and see. i'm not the only who thinks so either.
on the ghost world dvd in the special features there is clip from an old Bollywood movie from the 1965 called Gumnaam. it's 5 minute version of a song called "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" as performed by Ted Lyons & His Cubs. i'm officially on the prowl for music / videos by them or by bands that sound this this. a. maze. zine.
