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Monday, December 07, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
I got asked toda what apps i recomend for a mac switcher
I will attemept to compile a list of killer apps for the Apple OSX platform
Mac
Itunes
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
http://www.polluxapp.com/
http://www.eternalstorms.at/gimmesometune/
Productivity/mods
http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac
http://growl.info/
http://secrets.blacktree.com/
Writing
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
http://celtx.com/
Media
http://handbrake.fr/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://www.perian.org
AppleTV
ATVpatchstick - http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/28/usb-patch-released-hallelujah/
Boxee - http://www.boxee.tv/
Codecs - http://www.perian.org
Drobo - Extra space - http://drobo.com/
Un-Modded Hardware
Ipod
Airport Extreme with Assorted External HDDs via usb.
I will attemept to compile a list of killer apps for the Apple OSX platform
Mac
Itunes
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
http://www.polluxapp.com/
http://www.eternalstorms.at/gimmesometune/
Productivity/mods
http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac
http://growl.info/
http://secrets.blacktree.com/
Writing
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
http://celtx.com/
Media
http://handbrake.fr/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://www.perian.org
AppleTV
ATVpatchstick - http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/28/usb-patch-released-hallelujah/
Boxee - http://www.boxee.tv/
Codecs - http://www.perian.org
Drobo - Extra space - http://drobo.com/
Un-Modded Hardware
Ipod
Airport Extreme with Assorted External HDDs via usb.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Messin with the minds of the BNP
This may or may not last here.
Even if it doesn't, then if you read it before it goes, please yank it and distribute.
I'm possibly not the only person it'll occur to, due to ideaspace, and I hope it goes far and wide anyway.
Right.
Here goes:
1. The BNP winning European parliament seats means they have a budget to employ staff and various sub-contractors.
2. These budgets and staff positions are subject to anti-discrimination laws, as they come from public funds.
3. Watch out for when these positions are advertised. If anyone sees them advertised, chuck the ads about on as many social networks, blogs etc as possible.
4. Man the Harpoons - If you fall outside of the BNP's discriminatory membership criteria, due to being black, Jewish, whatever, apply. If you are white British and want to help out this plan anyway, just spread the idea about.
5. When you/they don't get the job, take it to an employment tribunal.
6. ????
7. Profit.
Even if you're not especially bothered about taking the BNP to an employment tribunal, spreading this idea about, and forcing them to consider it and raaage over how unfair to the poor ickle racialists it is,
it's still funny.
This may or may not last here.
Even if it doesn't, then if you read it before it goes, please yank it and distribute.
I'm possibly not the only person it'll occur to, due to ideaspace, and I hope it goes far and wide anyway.
Right.
Here goes:
1. The BNP winning European parliament seats means they have a budget to employ staff and various sub-contractors.
2. These budgets and staff positions are subject to anti-discrimination laws, as they come from public funds.
3. Watch out for when these positions are advertised. If anyone sees them advertised, chuck the ads about on as many social networks, blogs etc as possible.
4. Man the Harpoons - If you fall outside of the BNP's discriminatory membership criteria, due to being black, Jewish, whatever, apply. If you are white British and want to help out this plan anyway, just spread the idea about.
5. When you/they don't get the job, take it to an employment tribunal.
6. ????
7. Profit.
Even if you're not especially bothered about taking the BNP to an employment tribunal, spreading this idea about, and forcing them to consider it and raaage over how unfair to the poor ickle racialists it is,
it's still funny.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Libertarian direct civil disobedience
By Bruce Sterling
June 3, 2009
2:26 pm
Categories: Uncategorized
*Okay, imagine the geekiest hacker you know, and he’s in New Hampshireraising holy hell about parking meters…
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
The Free State Project: http://www.freestateproject.org/ ***** http://tinyurl.com/mv5dnm
http://tinyurl.com/m3h8ek
The appeal of ‘Live free or die’ Antigovernment activists putting down roots in N.H.
By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff
May 29, 2009
KEENE, N.H. - From a jail cell in this rural corner of New Hampshire, Sam A. Miller waged a philosophical battle, one milk carton at a time. (((Nice narrative hook, Sarah.)))
The soft-spoken electrical engineer (((geek))) declined food for nearly a month, save for swigs of milk. To eat, he said, would be caving to the tyrannical government powers that placed him here for illegally filming in a courthouse and refusing to reveal his legal name to jail officials. (He says it’s private; jail officials obtained it from a fingerprint trace.) (((That’s right: his name is private. EAT THAT, FASCIST OPPRESSORS!)))
His resistance has made him a folk hero among antigovernment types who have been making their way to New Hampshire from points across the country since their leaders put out a clarion call six years ago. The Free Staters, as they are known, hope to lure thousands of like-minded souls to the state, with the goal of paring government to a bare minimum by eliminating things like taxes, speed limits, and zoning laws.
Thus far, just 427 Free Staters have relocated. Yet, here in Keene and in pockets across New Hampshire, Free Staters are making their case in increasingly provocative ways.
“Like Gandhi, like Martin Luther King, we need to educate and enlighten the public,” said Miller, who joined the Free State movement after breaking up with his fiancée. (((You may think this is an odd reason to go to jail for extremist political reasons, but, no, it isn’t.)))
The actions have ranged from the odd, such as when Free Staters filed another person’s fingernails without a manicurist’s license on a public sidewalk or held an unlicensed puppet show, to the irksome, as when they tried to dig a garden in a downtown Keene park, to the instigative, such as the day they stood on a street corner with a marijuana bud held aloft. Sometimes, they simply veer toward obstinate, wearing hats in a courtroom after being asked to take them off or refusing to remove a couch from a lawn. (((I’m having a little fun at the FreeStaters’ expense here, but Henry David Thoreau would be shoulder to shoulder with these boys.)))
When arrests have followed, Free Staters have sought to film the criminal proceedings from beginning to end, including scenes from courthouse lobbies, where filming is not allowed in some cases, such as in Keene District Court. The lobby filming has yielded more arrests (often, with Free Staters going limp as officers approach) and more footage that Free Staters post on websites such as http://FreeKeene.com , which has proved an effective recruiting tool. (((I bet. Go have a look. If you join up, don’t blame me.)))
The so-called liberty actions have been met with some bemusement by residents of this gently tolerant city, population 22,800, home to Keene State College, near the border of Vermont. But some say the tactics have taken on a menacing hue, such as when Free Staters have gathered on the streets of downtown Keene with holstered guns on their waists, visible on their waists.
”When they first came to town, there was a welcoming spirit. A lot of people were like, ‘OK,’” said Richard Van Wickler, a Keene resident and superintendent of the Cheshire County Department of Corrections. “But unfortunately what happens is that when [Free Staters] take the radical approach, that invites people to get angry.” (((Rather the point, I’d be thinking. This behavior is trolling made physically manifest.)))
More fundamentally unnerving, some say, is the Free Staters’ efforts to secure government positions, with the goal of whittling down or eliminating them. The Free State Project’s president, Varrin Swearingen, said in a telephone interview there are four state representatives with ties to the project and a “double-digit number” on local boards and commissions. He declined to release their names, saying to do so would violate their privacy, though he said some have “outed” themselves.
The officials already are wielding influence, he said. For example, a Free Stater elected to a planning board in a town near Keene, which he would not identify, swayed the board to vote against a zoning ordinance restricting new big box stores, a measure the Free State member said unfairly restricted property rights. (((Yay Wal-Mart! Liberty forever!)))
The Free State Project is the brainchild of Jason Sorens, a State University of New York-Buffalo political science professor who published an article in 2001 in the online magazine Libertarian Enterprise outlining the idea. “Government should be there to protect people’s rights but otherwise allow for the maximum amount of freedom,” Sorens said in a telephone interview. “It goes back to John Locke and Thomas Jefferson.”
The article made a splash in libertarian circles, and in 2003, some 2,500 followers of Sorens voted to make New Hampshire their laboratory, believing that the state’s flinty individualism would jibe with its view of small government, limited to “protecting life, liberty, and property.” Then former governor Craig Benson endorsed the group’s plan, and would-be revolutionaries began trickling into the state.
Unlike militia groups in the West, (((sorta))) Free Staters are not loners who seek to live solitary existences undisturbed by government intrusion. “You tend to find people [in the Free State Project] who are happy to live in cities and towns and who want to persuade people that freedom is better than tyranny,” Swearingen said in an interview.
There was no concerted plan to make Keene a focal point. But when high-profile activists, such as Ian “Freeman” Bernard, host of “Free Talk Live,” (((he must be a lively guy))) a nationally syndicated radio program, and Lauren Canario, a veteran civil disobedience activist, (((her too))) found their way here, others followed. Today, Keene counts several dozen outspoken Free Staters and more who operate less flamboyantly. The Keene Free Staters tend toward the far end of the Free State Project spectrum, believing that government should not just be limited, but eradicated.
On a recent day, six Free Staters gathered at a Panera’s in Keene to talk about the Project. The members hailed from across the country — Oklahoma, Florida, California, Nevada. Many are single men; the majority are computer programmers. (((Does this revelation surprise you? Me neither.))) They tend to speak in precise diction and with overarching politeness. (((Well put, Sarah.))) But at the mention of government, they betray a brimming anger and declare zealous dedication to the Free State Project.
“Short of death — no limits,” said Canario, the lone woman at the gathering, who spent over a month in jail when she refused to provide identification or speak to a police officer who pulled her over for speeding. (((Okay, when you see one lone woman at a meeting of programmers and she’s all like “short of death no limits,” we’re looking at a Joan of Arc scene. I hope somebody has the movie rights to this.)))
The Free Staters said they have no plans to temper their acts of civil disobedience, and if anything, will ramp up their attacks on the court system for not permitting them to film in the lobby. (Court officials say the ban is necessary to prevent the filming of children or domestic violence victims who may be present in the lobby.) (((Oooooo.)))
But Free Staters, keenly aware of their image, have undertaken a public relations campaign. Hoping to end the use of parking meters, Free Staters have fanned out across Keene on recent afternoons to place nickels in expired meters, leaving notes on windshields signed “Robin of Keene.”
For inspiration, they say they need look no further than to Miller’s jailing and hunger strike, which he ended Sunday. The 30-something son of a Dallas police officer faces one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest, said Miller and Ivy Walker, his acting legal counsel.
During an interview in the airless visitors room of Cheshire County Jail, Miller said he has scratched “FreeKeene” into a wall with his thumb (((with his thumb. Nice one.))) and befriended other inmates, who gave him their milk. Still, he said, jail has only reinforced his abiding conviction that government, as constituted, is an enslaver.
”I see Free Staters as the modern-day abolitionists,” he said. (((Okay, ADBUSTERS goes for nihilist revolution while Libertarians are feeding nickels to parking meters — I think it’s time to ratchet the BEYOND THE BEYOND “Political Instability Meter” to “Condition Orange.”)))
By Bruce Sterling
June 3, 2009
2:26 pm
Categories: Uncategorized
*Okay, imagine the geekiest hacker you know, and he’s in New Hampshireraising holy hell about parking meters…
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
The Free State Project: http://www.freestateproject.org/ ***** http://tinyurl.com/mv5dnm
http://tinyurl.com/m3h8ek
The appeal of ‘Live free or die’ Antigovernment activists putting down roots in N.H.
By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff
May 29, 2009
KEENE, N.H. - From a jail cell in this rural corner of New Hampshire, Sam A. Miller waged a philosophical battle, one milk carton at a time. (((Nice narrative hook, Sarah.)))
The soft-spoken electrical engineer (((geek))) declined food for nearly a month, save for swigs of milk. To eat, he said, would be caving to the tyrannical government powers that placed him here for illegally filming in a courthouse and refusing to reveal his legal name to jail officials. (He says it’s private; jail officials obtained it from a fingerprint trace.) (((That’s right: his name is private. EAT THAT, FASCIST OPPRESSORS!)))
His resistance has made him a folk hero among antigovernment types who have been making their way to New Hampshire from points across the country since their leaders put out a clarion call six years ago. The Free Staters, as they are known, hope to lure thousands of like-minded souls to the state, with the goal of paring government to a bare minimum by eliminating things like taxes, speed limits, and zoning laws.
Thus far, just 427 Free Staters have relocated. Yet, here in Keene and in pockets across New Hampshire, Free Staters are making their case in increasingly provocative ways.
“Like Gandhi, like Martin Luther King, we need to educate and enlighten the public,” said Miller, who joined the Free State movement after breaking up with his fiancée. (((You may think this is an odd reason to go to jail for extremist political reasons, but, no, it isn’t.)))
The actions have ranged from the odd, such as when Free Staters filed another person’s fingernails without a manicurist’s license on a public sidewalk or held an unlicensed puppet show, to the irksome, as when they tried to dig a garden in a downtown Keene park, to the instigative, such as the day they stood on a street corner with a marijuana bud held aloft. Sometimes, they simply veer toward obstinate, wearing hats in a courtroom after being asked to take them off or refusing to remove a couch from a lawn. (((I’m having a little fun at the FreeStaters’ expense here, but Henry David Thoreau would be shoulder to shoulder with these boys.)))
When arrests have followed, Free Staters have sought to film the criminal proceedings from beginning to end, including scenes from courthouse lobbies, where filming is not allowed in some cases, such as in Keene District Court. The lobby filming has yielded more arrests (often, with Free Staters going limp as officers approach) and more footage that Free Staters post on websites such as http://FreeKeene.com , which has proved an effective recruiting tool. (((I bet. Go have a look. If you join up, don’t blame me.)))
The so-called liberty actions have been met with some bemusement by residents of this gently tolerant city, population 22,800, home to Keene State College, near the border of Vermont. But some say the tactics have taken on a menacing hue, such as when Free Staters have gathered on the streets of downtown Keene with holstered guns on their waists, visible on their waists.
”When they first came to town, there was a welcoming spirit. A lot of people were like, ‘OK,’” said Richard Van Wickler, a Keene resident and superintendent of the Cheshire County Department of Corrections. “But unfortunately what happens is that when [Free Staters] take the radical approach, that invites people to get angry.” (((Rather the point, I’d be thinking. This behavior is trolling made physically manifest.)))
More fundamentally unnerving, some say, is the Free Staters’ efforts to secure government positions, with the goal of whittling down or eliminating them. The Free State Project’s president, Varrin Swearingen, said in a telephone interview there are four state representatives with ties to the project and a “double-digit number” on local boards and commissions. He declined to release their names, saying to do so would violate their privacy, though he said some have “outed” themselves.
The officials already are wielding influence, he said. For example, a Free Stater elected to a planning board in a town near Keene, which he would not identify, swayed the board to vote against a zoning ordinance restricting new big box stores, a measure the Free State member said unfairly restricted property rights. (((Yay Wal-Mart! Liberty forever!)))
The Free State Project is the brainchild of Jason Sorens, a State University of New York-Buffalo political science professor who published an article in 2001 in the online magazine Libertarian Enterprise outlining the idea. “Government should be there to protect people’s rights but otherwise allow for the maximum amount of freedom,” Sorens said in a telephone interview. “It goes back to John Locke and Thomas Jefferson.”
The article made a splash in libertarian circles, and in 2003, some 2,500 followers of Sorens voted to make New Hampshire their laboratory, believing that the state’s flinty individualism would jibe with its view of small government, limited to “protecting life, liberty, and property.” Then former governor Craig Benson endorsed the group’s plan, and would-be revolutionaries began trickling into the state.
Unlike militia groups in the West, (((sorta))) Free Staters are not loners who seek to live solitary existences undisturbed by government intrusion. “You tend to find people [in the Free State Project] who are happy to live in cities and towns and who want to persuade people that freedom is better than tyranny,” Swearingen said in an interview.
There was no concerted plan to make Keene a focal point. But when high-profile activists, such as Ian “Freeman” Bernard, host of “Free Talk Live,” (((he must be a lively guy))) a nationally syndicated radio program, and Lauren Canario, a veteran civil disobedience activist, (((her too))) found their way here, others followed. Today, Keene counts several dozen outspoken Free Staters and more who operate less flamboyantly. The Keene Free Staters tend toward the far end of the Free State Project spectrum, believing that government should not just be limited, but eradicated.
On a recent day, six Free Staters gathered at a Panera’s in Keene to talk about the Project. The members hailed from across the country — Oklahoma, Florida, California, Nevada. Many are single men; the majority are computer programmers. (((Does this revelation surprise you? Me neither.))) They tend to speak in precise diction and with overarching politeness. (((Well put, Sarah.))) But at the mention of government, they betray a brimming anger and declare zealous dedication to the Free State Project.
“Short of death — no limits,” said Canario, the lone woman at the gathering, who spent over a month in jail when she refused to provide identification or speak to a police officer who pulled her over for speeding. (((Okay, when you see one lone woman at a meeting of programmers and she’s all like “short of death no limits,” we’re looking at a Joan of Arc scene. I hope somebody has the movie rights to this.)))
The Free Staters said they have no plans to temper their acts of civil disobedience, and if anything, will ramp up their attacks on the court system for not permitting them to film in the lobby. (Court officials say the ban is necessary to prevent the filming of children or domestic violence victims who may be present in the lobby.) (((Oooooo.)))
But Free Staters, keenly aware of their image, have undertaken a public relations campaign. Hoping to end the use of parking meters, Free Staters have fanned out across Keene on recent afternoons to place nickels in expired meters, leaving notes on windshields signed “Robin of Keene.”
For inspiration, they say they need look no further than to Miller’s jailing and hunger strike, which he ended Sunday. The 30-something son of a Dallas police officer faces one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest, said Miller and Ivy Walker, his acting legal counsel.
During an interview in the airless visitors room of Cheshire County Jail, Miller said he has scratched “FreeKeene” into a wall with his thumb (((with his thumb. Nice one.))) and befriended other inmates, who gave him their milk. Still, he said, jail has only reinforced his abiding conviction that government, as constituted, is an enslaver.
”I see Free Staters as the modern-day abolitionists,” he said. (((Okay, ADBUSTERS goes for nihilist revolution while Libertarians are feeding nickels to parking meters — I think it’s time to ratchet the BEYOND THE BEYOND “Political Instability Meter” to “Condition Orange.”)))
Monday, May 11, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
Britain's secret spy-on-every-call-and-email plan already well underway
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6211101.ece
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/britains-secret-spy-.htm
More on UK wire/Internet tapping - im saddened again - where is the law in this case-
What with Riot Police at all protests, Police killing inocent people, the secret service now monitoring every machine in the uk - 1984 is looking pretty chilled in comparison.
:(
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6211101.ece
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/britains-secret-spy-.htm
More on UK wire/Internet tapping - im saddened again - where is the law in this case-
What with Riot Police at all protests, Police killing inocent people, the secret service now monitoring every machine in the uk - 1984 is looking pretty chilled in comparison.
:(
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
from a recent Interview with Paul Graham
"Maybe I could be characterised as an ageing eccentric in a city gone feral and abandoned to coastal climate change, who lends from his collection of tattered novels to the other residents who've stayed behind, and who occasionally gets a bit drunk and maudlin before climbing on to his roof and playing electric guitar at a moon distorted by heat shimmer... or maybe that's how I'll write myself into one of my own stories!
That said, British writer and editor Ian Whates recently told me that he plans to use me as a character in a book he's writing; apparently I will be portrayed as a scruffy know-it-all who holds forth on bizarre subjects in a particular drinking establishment. I suspect this is what Hollywood refers to as 'type-casting'..."
I dont know but i think this pretty much describes me to a T
"Maybe I could be characterised as an ageing eccentric in a city gone feral and abandoned to coastal climate change, who lends from his collection of tattered novels to the other residents who've stayed behind, and who occasionally gets a bit drunk and maudlin before climbing on to his roof and playing electric guitar at a moon distorted by heat shimmer... or maybe that's how I'll write myself into one of my own stories!
That said, British writer and editor Ian Whates recently told me that he plans to use me as a character in a book he's writing; apparently I will be portrayed as a scruffy know-it-all who holds forth on bizarre subjects in a particular drinking establishment. I suspect this is what Hollywood refers to as 'type-casting'..."
I dont know but i think this pretty much describes me to a T
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Vanishing movies
With every new shift in media technology, from 16mm to VHS, from traditional broadcast to cable TV, from VHS to DVD, huge numbers of films are lost, says Facets Multi-Media executive director Milos Stehlik, who includes such titles as Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend’s House?, Glauber Rocha's Antonio Das Mortes, and Leslie Harris’s Just Another Girl on the IRT among the films he fears will disappear in a post-VHS culture.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-vanishing-20090226
With every new shift in media technology, from 16mm to VHS, from traditional broadcast to cable TV, from VHS to DVD, huge numbers of films are lost, says Facets Multi-Media executive director Milos Stehlik, who includes such titles as Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend’s House?, Glauber Rocha's Antonio Das Mortes, and Leslie Harris’s Just Another Girl on the IRT among the films he fears will disappear in a post-VHS culture.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-vanishing-20090226
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Im saddened and depressed by this news : UK police monitor protests and journalists who cover the protests and then compile secret a database on them .
Survelance state in the UK now disturbs me to such an extent that i ask the question do i want to return home?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/06/police-surveillance-protesters-journalists-climate-kingsnorth
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Longtime no post, all quiet in doha at the moment, not much to report, trying to work out a holiday plan, if there is one to be had, April.... hmm.
July is looking like im taking most of the month off, with croatia, wales, london, and oxford.
Newsroom continues apace, changes seem to happen daily, out with the old, in with the new. chaos rules as normal.
July is looking like im taking most of the month off, with croatia, wales, london, and oxford.
Newsroom continues apace, changes seem to happen daily, out with the old, in with the new. chaos rules as normal.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Boo YA! Ive just been invited to TEDglobal in oxford!http://www.ted.com
Keeble College Oxford.
Topics for discussion this year.
What makes big cities function?
What is an accomplished life?
Which universe do we live in?
Is life a mathematical equation?
Where does motivation come from?
Who's defining the new geopolitical map?
Can robots think?
Can we design the air we breathe?
What's the economic impact of terrorism?
Is modern art relevant?
Should we fear faith?
What do top-secret places look like?
What's the true nature of modern crime?
Can a solar-powered plane fly?
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Todays post is brought to you by the letter G
Interesting linguistic problem has intreegued me since i returned from HK to find that the chineese call the 'white man' gualo
why do several very distinct cultures call the whiteman names beginning with the letter G
Gringo - Hispanic
Gora - Indian
Gualo - Chineese
Gaijin - Japanese
anyone else have names for the whiteman beginning with G?
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