Zork: The Cavern of Doom
Choose your own adventure tale with path/choice visualization.
The Beatles Never Broke Up...
A mashup from another dimension. Download the entire album. [via]
Don’t tell me wonderful appropriation art like this should be illegal. Strong copyright laws already exist in Canada. Yes, the Internet changes the game. Play ball fools. Down with the suppression of innovation.
Speaking of the ACTA, The University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic filed an access to information request on the Canadian involvement in this agreement but received only a document stating the title of the agreement, with everything else blacked out. source
A Catch
How’s life? I’m reading Catch-22. I laugh out loud on the bus. You know? Real life lols. It’s a little dated, but luckily I know who Henry Fonda is.
“You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?”
The Canadian Copyright Consultation ended in September. The submission from the Canadian Music Creators Coalition (CMCC) is quite enlightened, the submission from Don Hogarth of the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) is not.
Meanwhile, Canadian officials are taking part in negotiations concerning a top-secret copyright treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that could see families barred from the Internet for a year if someone in the household is suspected of illegal downloads. [source]
Even though copyright was created to protect the commercial interests of content creators, the ACTA includes provisions for the criminal enforcement of “willful copyright and trademark infringement even where there is no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain.” [source]
Might I one day be jailed for making mixtapes or posting my mixes to the net?
Listen, I’ve said it before, I’m not a pirate I just grog a lot.
Propositional logic with a new “alphabet” for the Boolean operators. [More: Explanation & Related Logical Tautologies]
Six or seven years ago I had the idea to “write” a book where every sentence was copied from another work of fiction. This video is the movie equivalent in the form of a music video.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you
Mark Pilgrim explains his use of the GNU Free Documentation License for his books. The FDL explicitly gives anyone the right to publish the material themselves, which is exactly what one woman recently did much to the horror of the publisher Apress.
Kashiwa Mystery Cafe
A cafe in Kashiwa Japan were you order for the next person in line, and receive what was ordered by the person in front of you.
The rules:
- Let’s treat the next person. What to treat them with? It’s your choice.
- Even if it’s a group of friends or a family, please form a single-file line. Also, you can’t buy twice in a row.
- Please enjoy what you get, even if you hate it. (If you really, really hate it, let’s quietly give it to another while saying, “It’s my treat…”)
- Let’s say “Thank You! (Gochihosama)” if you find the person with your Ogori cafe card.
Kurt Vonnegut explains how fiction makes us crave drama. (That’s drama, as in real-life turmoil not as in theater.)
Information Visualization Manifesto
“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.”
The on-going conversation in the comments is also worth a read.
Teaching a computer to fly using reinforcement learning.
(Watch Larger HQ Version.)
RedLibrarian: The Ned Ludd Memorial Library
“The library will contain only books and paper journals. It will not have public access computer terminals. It will have a silent reading room, as well as a collaborative study room, in which laptops are allowed. There is no wired or wireless internet connectivity.
In return for all these restrictions, we will offer serene, quiet study/reading/research space, the best print collections money can buy, comfortable chairs and tables, and a return to the lovely, dusty book culture that some of us (and I think we’re still in the majority) remember, love, and think important.”