The FSF (join!) sent me a copy of Lawrence Lessig’s latest book Free Culture. Cool. I had begun reading the book in PDF format while I was serving Jury Duty (flip the Powerbook sideways and go into full screen w/ Preview.app and you have a decent ebook), but never got around to finishing it. I just finished Imperial Hubris, so I will definitely be throwing it on the queue.
Mama mia that’s a lot a’ CODECs
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I recently saw Brad Barrish’s blog in the ol’ referer logs. His A Garden State Mix is good, definitely less obvious/on point than the actual soundtrack. Also, the new matt pond PA song he has linked is great.
I noticed on his sidebar that he was really blown away by the new U2 single. I’ll be truthful here. I used to be (probably still am) a U2 superfan, but for some reason, I’m not entirely feeling it. (Don’t get me wrong, a lot of the new song, like the bridge is just awesome. shades of the Salome) Maybe it’ll grow on me.
While I’m riffing randomly on music, Audioscrobbler (my profile), my top RFEs:
- Time-based popularity graphs (tracks/track time vs time) – w/ regression curves?
- % and absolute time total graphs (against date)
- Time Zone support
- Longer Recent Tracks List
Unleashed Trailer – an english-language Jet Li movie that won’t suck? Goatse Rescue Floppy – no matter how you slice it, it’s just plain wrong. Wow, Aaron’s blogging about his Stanford experience. It wasn’t so long ago that he was a 13yo boy genius, contributing to RFCs, and now he’s off to college already. In light of the closing of “I Found Some of Your Life,” this shall have to be my daily source of vicarious thrills. Ahh, looks like our public government is preemptively collecting True Names.