Category: Legacy

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  • Teacher to 1st-graders: Santa is fake – Parents irate after class told that Santa Claus is ‘make-believe’

    Donzelli said the school’s principal “had a real stern conversation” with the teacher. But there will be no written reprimand because she did not violate any school district policy.

    “We have no Santa clause,” Donzelli said. “We would think that teachers would use better judgment.”

  • AT&T Wireless Fumbles Number Portability
  • It’s not going to get any better. – I work for AT&T Wireless… (quite interesting thread, as you might imagine)
  • Cell Hell

    “You are holding my number hostage,” I said. “That’s not a porting issue. It’s some strange act of sabotage. What you are doing is a violation of FCC regulations. May I speak to another supervisor?”

    “You can, but he’ll just tell you the same thing,” Lance said.

    “I’m reporting you to the FCC,” I said.

    “I understand, sir,” Lance said.

  • ‘Just Bring ’em In From Space’ – An Interview With the Creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • Tough New Tactics by U.S. Tighten Grip on Iraq Towns

    “With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them,” Colonel Sassaman said.

  • The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012
  • Five Geek Social Fallacies

    Geek Social Fallacy #4: Friendship Is Transitive

    Every carrier of GSF4 has, at some point, said:

    “Wouldn’t it be great to get all my groups of friends into one place for one big happy party?!”

    …

    Arguably, Friendster was designed by a GSF4 carrier.

  • MobyDock – Apple Dock-clone for Windows; see Matt’s post
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A couple of leads on describing complex trust relations via Paul Ford.

I should probably be doing some more in depth searches in the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. Probably won’t get time to do this for a month or so, but will be continuing to put up stuff that I find.

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While on the music topic, the past month has been really good for picking up new stuff. Here’s a partial list of some of the new stuff I’ve been listening to:

  • Buena Vista Social Club albums
  • The Decemberists – quirky poprocks/chanties
  • Air – Walkie Talkie
  • DJ Z-Trip & DJ-P – Uneasy Listening – so good, only 1000 copies due to rights issues apparently, if you can ‘acquire’ a copy, I heartily recommend this; also, I stand by my opinion that most composite/derivative works shouldn’t be covered by copyright anyway
  • The Prodigy – Unpublished Singles Collection – a bootleg of their early/mid 90’s work the reminds you how frickin kick ass these guys were
  • Tortoise – thanks Ryan
  • Lots of Ninja Tunes remixes
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Went to the Azure Ray/Crooked Fingers show last night at the at the Glass House in Pomona. It’s a bit of a hike, but man, it’s a completely different world – easy parking, laid back ins-and-outs, nice people all around, nice and spacy, and clean restrooms to boot. A sharp contrast to the hellhole that is LA. Also, and this is just strange – all ages and no bar – how does the place make money? In any case, quite cool. My friend said it reminded him of high school, and I knew what he was talking about; really makes one nostalgic for simpler days.

Azure Ray/Crooked Fingers will be at Bottom of the Hill tonight in SF and at Berbati’s Pan on the 8th and in Seattle on the 9th, would definitely recommend catching them if you can. Crooked Fingers and Azure Ray play together, first w/ Crooked Fingers backing up Azure Ray: vocals that don’t seem to be coming from their mouths and songs so pretty they make you want to lie down. And then the band sort of reconfigured (apparently everyone is multi-instrumental, they pretty much play musical chairs until practically everyone plays everything; it was quite surprising when Orenda first picked up a trumpet) and Eric Bachmann (also a great voice; grounded and a perfect complement for Azure Ray’s ethereal vocals) sung a set of his songs, equal parts sad and rockin’, a Tom Waits/Springsteen feel. One of the most satisfying shows I’ve been to in a while.