List of Document Management Systems on the TikiWiki site

Basement Jaxx – Lucky Star (Jaxx Klub Remix) [64kbps MP3, 1.5MiB] – from the Basement Jaxx website. Much more fun than the album version. Anyone know where to get an actual copy of this mix?

Ok, here’s my RIAA story. It’s a 23MiB SV3 QT, 5:47. It’s probably a bit too dark on PCs (at least it is on mine, but well, I’m too lazy to recrunch)

Things I’ll probably never get around to doing:

• adding a few frames for the eyes to stop after the first computer text pan
• zooming in more on the 3 steps
• crush blacks in all the hallway/chase scenes
• add white strip to the gun stabilization
• move center of image to better frame ryan and andrew at the end
• get Jenny’s last name

Effects:

• Redoing keyhole effect
• Stabilizing elevator, chase scenes
• de/regrain consistently

• XDANCE – music community (mashups, remixes, etc); see links
• dabox – the whitelabel resource
• American Social Hygiene Posters ca. 1910-1970
• The Atom API
• Unmarried America – Married Couple Households “have slipped from nearly 80% in the 1950s to just 50.7% today.
• All you need is love – How the terrorists stopped terrorism
• Love, Singaporean Style – Faced with a graying population, a notoriously staid government has sanctioned an “All-Out Make-Out” campaign
• Biocyberethics: should we stop a company from unplugging an intelligent computer?
• Treo 600 First Impressions
• LOUNGE72 – design site

• It’s 6:19. Do You Know Where You Are? – The research notebook of a beleaguered hack
• Tatsuya Saito’s blog
• Web Design Practices – a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web.and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices
• 456 Berea Street is a regularly updated weblog focused on web standards, accessibility, usability and other things related to web development and web design.
• unraveled – Joshua Kaufman’s blog; HCI, etc
• Interactive Narratives blog
• Small Initiatives
• SD WIFI options
• UCDARnet – University of California Digital Arts Research Network
• Meta-Game Group – An interdisciplinary, intercampus research group devoted to computer games and game culture
• UCLA Design|Media Arts
• Protecting Privacy with Translucent Databases
• Translucent databases revisited
• Interview With Michael Arias – Michael Arias works for the Softimage special projects team and talks about creating The Animatrix movies, the industry and the fusion of 2D & 3D techniques.
• Behind the Matrix – New Prime-Time Series Is Based on Real-Life Secret Document; I don’t watch TV. Is this any good?
• “Kill Bill Vol. 1” – The Script Vs. The Film – comparison of the actual film to the script floating around online
• pornocombo [swf] – nice
• College Student pokes at holes in TSA initiative – unfortunately, I have a feeling this guy is going to get the reaming of his life
  

  Southwest Airlines maintenance workers found small plastic bags containing box cutters and other items in lavatory compartments on planes in New Orleans and Houston. Notes in the bags “indicated the items were intended to challenge Transportation Security Administration checkpoint security procedures,” according to a statement from Southwest Airlines.

  Each note also included precise information about where and when the items were placed on board the aircraft, according to a federal law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity. That information has not been made public, so it’s unclear how long the items were aboard the planes.

• Bruce Schneier on What He Knows Best
• Changing the Game: How to Save the World by Taking Back Control of Our Data
  

  If you work, pay taxes or have a library card, you are vulnerable and
  for all the recent lip service paid by government to privacy issues,
  nobody at all is going to jail as a result of violating these new laws.
  They are effectively unenforceable. And so we say things are different,
  but they aren’t, and the best we can hope for is not to be hit by an
  economic airliner or F-15.

  If you haven’t lost at least $15,000 to fraud, it simply won’t be
  investigated at all. How many families can afford to lose $15,000? If
  you steal less than $15,000, you’ll never be caught, and if you steal
  more than $15,000, you probably won’t be caught, either.

  In the middle of this, we find the trinity of banks, government, and
  credit bureaus who betray us on our behalf. The banks and their
  bank-like sister companies are the airliners in our big economic sky.
  They use a modified version of the Big Sky Theory that says as long as
  theft is kept to five percent or less, it is tolerable. That’s what
  insurance is for. They play the odds to achieve this, which is where
  the credit bureaus come in. They are the oddsmakers. This system works
  for us, too, because it enables us to get a mortgage without ever
  meeting a banker, it increases liquidity and makes easy credit
  available for nearly all of us. But the system works against us if we
  are among the five percent who are victims because our time, our
  reputations, and a certain amount of our money will never be
  recovered.

• Benchmarking the Scalability of BSD and Linux (mirror of benchmarks) – very interesting
• JungleScan.com – a free service that scans products on Amazon.com to record their sales randking over time; discussion (via Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools -can’t read regularly or would go nuts from gadget lust)
• Bob Log III – Boob Scotch [rm] – music video, exactly what it sounds like, from mefi shortlist discussion
• Max Payne 2 gamerankings
• Time Warner Corporate Identity – media materials, usage guide, etc.

All browser windows cleared except for current reading

1&1 Internet, european hosting behemoth, is offering 3 years of free hosting in a pre-launch (until Jan 04) promotion. A quick search of wht doesn’t turn up anything too funky, it appears legit. Netcraft: 1&1 Internet opens in the US with 3 year free shared hosting promotion. I gave it a try just for kicks, no CC# required, automated telephone confirmation, seems to work. Shell access (SSH) included.

Getting serious on interactive media:

• Ars Electronica 2003 catalog Final txtz – in previous post, worth mentioning again
• AE2003 – CODE – The Language of Our Time – videos of CODE Symposium: Webcasts September 8 – 12, 2003 online
• <nettime> Don’t Call it Art: Ars Electronica 2003 – aec03 criticism by Lev Manovich (see also, responses)
  • Lev Manovich articles – CC licensed
  • Soft Cinema
  • INFO-AESTHETICS – a <semi-open source> book/Web site in progress
• nettime-l
  

  <nettime> is not just a mailing list but an effort to formulate an international, networked discourse that neither promotes a dominant euphoria (to sell products) nor continues the cynical pessimism, spread by journalists and intellectuals in the ‘old’ media who generalize about ‘new’ media with no clear understanding of their communication aspects. we have produced, and will continue to produce books, readers, and web sites in various languages so an ‘immanent’ net critique will circulate both on- and offline.

• nettime-l archives
• Abstraction Now!
• Future Cinema
• runme.org – software art; see also: Transmediale, Read_Me
• Rhizome – hey, check out 0100101110101101.ORG’s latest project

Next step: spending less time on useless classes?

Following up on the Diebold links, found an interesting article on sfindymedia: LOCAL PEACE GROUP INFILTRATED BY GOVERNMENT AGENT:

According the California Constitution, law enforcement does not have the right to investigate and infiltrate groups unless they have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. If local law enforcement and the JTTF was using Kilner to investigate Peace Fresno, one has to ask – what else are they up to? Do they have agents imbedded in other community groups? Are they watching what people say at Churches and Mosques? Because of the Patriot Act, does law enforcement now believe they have the right to monitor what you do and say in your home? In your bedroom?

There have been several meetings between law enforcement and groups concerned about civil liberties, in the wake of September 11, 2001. One such meeting was held with Lt. Pat Farmer of the Fresno Police Department. Lt. Farmer told this group of community activists that there is nothing to prevent the police or JTTF members from investigating and interrogating community members. He suggested that the person being investigated might not even know he was talking to a police officer. “If the person doesn’t want to talk with us, they don’t have to,” Farmer said. At an earlier meeting, immediately after 9-11, an FBI agent told a group, of mostly immigrant rights activists, that anyone helping a group identified as a “terrorist group” by the United States government would be investigated as a potential terrorist. That was interpreted to mean that if you are working, for example, to support the Zapatistas in Chiapas, you might be investigated as a supporter of international terrorism. This FBI agent said that every agent in this area was now focusing on stopping the terrorist threat.

Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia. from the boards, harriet nyborg:

Any technology introduced to improve the act of voting cannot make the act of counting less transparent or democracy suffers.

It is apparent that Diebold’s systems (not to mention Diebold’s paranoia for secrecy) render the act of counting less accountable and less transparent. Ergo, democracy suffers.

If used in a close election – where exit polling and other secondary measurements are unable to confirm the results of the counting – the wrong person might actually get elected President of the United States of America.

With no sense of responsibility to the coutry at large, this illegitimate President might launch a series of Napoleonic wars to to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy.

I digress into fantasy… the little blue ones I washed down with all those adult beverages must be kicking in.

Nice to know that the Inquirer staff appreciates the irony:

WASHINGTON – Concerned about the appearance of disarray and feuding within his administration as well as growing resistance to his policies in Iraq, President Bush – living up to his recent declaration that he is in charge – told his top officials to “stop the leaks” to the media, or else.

News of Bush’s order leaked almost immediately.

Bush told his senior aides Tuesday that he “didn’t want to see any stories” quoting unnamed administration officials in the media anymore, and that if he did, there would be consequences, said a senior administration official who asked that his name not be used.