dot matrix synth

Dot matric printer modified to act as a primitive synth.

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It’s a Red Hat automobile. There’s no digital rights management. When it wore out you’d just make another. How would we fit that into the litigation structure? Who do you sue? What are we going to do when kids are making stuff — stuff — not drivers, but actual stuff? We have a major military problem over it. The terrorist spread of mass destruction is basically a Linux model for nuclear weapons. That’s why were going to take out Iraq. It used to be that only governments could afford weapons of mass destruction. Now small groups of networked activists can get their hands on the stuff.

From here

Bored smart people with FIRE

A page about
hacking voice synth chips from the 80’s

Reasons to not destroy the internet and all of it’s cat pictures.

The 2003 Information Security Leadership Awards

“Red Hat shared (with Microsoft) the Award for Leadership In Automated Updates for Red Hat’s automated patch notification service (for recent Red Hat versions).”

Kick ass! Woohoo!

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I’m enjoying webcollage way too much.

Found a fun new word to search on: “schematic”

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Maps are cool.

And I’ve been listening to alot of Black Sabbath recently.

Thats it.

Yahoo! News – Concertgoer Injured at Mayhem Concert

Excellent.

perhaps an idea for a Subscape Show? ;->

for the linux/unix geeks:
ddd debuging bash shell scripts

If it didn’t actually seem somewhat useful, I’d laugh.

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Another screenshot of webcollage, this time in color. Maps and stuff!

I think a nicely constructed collage of maps of random
places (constructed so as to make maps of places that
dont exist) would be a nice art project.

Or, if your more agit, find a way to replace maps in
malls, theme parks, rest areas, etc with maps with
made up roads, all the names changed, etc.

Heck, just printing out your own “You Are Here” stickers
could make for some good natured juvenile fun.

Starting poking around more of the rss/rdf and related bits sites.
I think I see why people like it now. It is a land ripe for silly hacks.

Not exactly sure how all the tech/weblog cliches seem to
have ingrained into so many people fiddling with this stuff
though. I want to retch every time I see “smart mobs” or
“emergent networks” or “audblogs”. More than a little
fanaticism. But then, that can be a
good thing.

I decided all the web based aggregators and all
the gui readers sucked. Or at least, all the ones I tried. I really
have no urge to run a app server locally I have to talk to
via a web browser. Or fire up another large gui app to read
text.

So I found rss2email
and hacked it up to deliver to local mbox files. Seems to work.
Probabaly not actually useful, but what the heck.