darren aronofsky’s upcoming film, requiem for a dream looks sorta interesting from the trailer and the site, done by hi-res, of soulbath fame.

dan touretzky interview on salon about judge kaplans decision, blah blah blah.

The judge decided to invent a new category of speech that does not enjoy First Amendment protection. Besides the old standards (libel, fraud, obscenity, incitement to riot and copyright infringement), the court’s new category is, essentially, “anything that potentially threatens the profits of Time Warner and Disney.”

That ought to scare the hell out of everyone. If the government can suppress information that is true fact — as opposed to speech that has a direct effect like inciting people to riot — then we’re all in trouble.

oh, in case you missed it, touretzky has a decss gallery with some rather clever decss distribution methods. i have yet to make mine, but i have some good ideas (which i’ll probably never get around to doing).

The real battle for freedom on the Net is just beginning. We’ve seen some clues about what’s coming: processor chips with embedded serial numbers (Intel has already done this), word processors that secretly store their software license number in every document they touch (Microsoft Word did this until they got caught), attacks on anonymous re-mailers, the FBI reading your e-mail (Carnivore), and so on. It’s going to get a lot nastier in the next few years. And with every step, we’ll be told that this is necessary to “protect consumers” — the exact words Jack Valenti is using today to justify the DeCSS lawsuits.

my personal view is that my consumer rights aren’t being protected if my civil rights are being taken away for the “public good” (read: corporate good). same way with the war on drugs.

today’s xblog has some really neat links.

hmm… revised projected utilization approaching 125%… something definitely has to give. hmm, if i got rid of the 56hrs/wk of sleep, i’d be able to fit everything else in. haha funny.

one step closer to the drexlerian vision with the discovery of ultrananocrystalline diamond film.

i calculated theoretical utilization over total number of hours in the week, and unfortunately, i’m about 10% over (the physical amount of time available). the good thing is that his number is pretty comprehensive, including sleep, transit, food time allotted, etc. the bad thing is i’m already over without figuring in a social life. doh! the doubly bad thing is that even without that figured in, it’s still over. on the bright side, i’m not playing counterstrike anymore.

wow, 16.8mp cmos sensor anounced. this, is by a startup founded by carver mead, apparently, an ee god who had done tons of work on silicon retinas.

hmm, combined with a 1gb microdrive (for each 48MB photo), a nice multi-layer diffractive optical element lens… expensive.

greg knauss rings in on his take of what’s going on in the courts these days in a recent suck column. i like this one much better than his uninformed mozilla attack, and he makes some good points. while i wouldn’t say that lawyers rule the world, i do agree with the sentiment; they are one of the more dangerous heads of the “existing power structure” hydra.

ahh, excellent idea. if they wanna play w/ the dmca, turn the ill conceived law back onto them…

ACS 4.0 Project Central – i wonder when how long it will take for the openacs port to happen after 4.0 is donw?

i haven’t been posting anything up recently. i guess it mostly has to do with not having much free time between a full full school courseload, lots of startup work, and discovering counterstrike. so, i haven’t been on the web much recently, way behind on any semblance of a read schedule, blah blah blah. tomorrow morning will be email/todo catch up, then painting for the rest of the day. i can already tell that this semester is gonna suck.