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20 pages of scrap notes, 2008.05.19-05.23
2008-05-19
I astound myself by how many pages of scrap notes I accumulate over 5 days, just during my down time at work. 2008.05.19 “Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm,” extremely long page here Someone’s opinions on why the Amiga is awesome, here . . . meaningful to me because I haven’t used an Amiga Simputer - “self-contained, open hardware handheld computer, designed for use in environments where computing devices such as personal computers are deemed inappropriate.…more
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Overdue scrap notes, 2008.05.01-05.16
2008-05-01
2008.04.30 Reaktor diary: might be helpful as I learn to use Reaktor Despite that this program is not open source but proprietary, it offers more comprehensible insight into its workings than any of the open source synth software I have tried so far. Given, I’ve only used a couple premade instruments, but their internal structure is out-in-the-open in the form of modules, not as blocks of code that I would have a hard time finding and a harder time comprehending.…more
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Scrap notes, 2008.04.25ish-2008.05.03
2008-04-25
Adobe Open Screen Project - apparently Adobe is now opening up the SWF and FLV formats, which hopefully soon means significantly less trouble getting Flash to work for me on Linux. Tilera TILE64 - some sort of chip with 64 interconnected cores (or “tiles”); according to their site, tiles can be grouped into clusters, and the chip can run multiple operating systems simultaneously. Maybe kinda neat.…more
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More scrap notes, starting 2008-04-18
2008-04-18
2008.04.something “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society” - Farhad Manjoo (Amazon) - in a way, a more factual approach to people judging by “truthiness” rather than truth “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think” - George Lakoff (Amazon) - who knows, might be interesting 2008.04.18 People that some guy labeled as “hard left”: Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klei…more
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Alexander Blu
2008-04-04
Alexander Blu I had a song by this artist from 2005.08.13 (from Interconnected MusicMedia, now known as SoundLift) which I never really listened to… but finally got around to listening to, and I found the artist is still around and writing songs. His personal site is here. His albums are available online under the Creative Commons. He also has a decent collection of digital pictures, some videos, and slide shows.…more
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Post-its and scrap notes, starting 2008.04.03
2008-04-03
So, my bag now has a big stack of scrap notes in it, just from things I jotted down at work… these should probably go online… 2008.04.03 http://www.ucsusa.org - Union of Concerned Scientists Study: Unskilled and Unaware of It - some notable paper Ig Nobel Prize - “Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK” Talking Points Memo - I don’t know why I wrote this…more