‘Did I mention the free wine?’ - Poetry recital by the publisher/philanthropist/character Felix Dennis. Tickets are free, booked in advance, but donations to his Forest of Dennis charity appreciated. Edinburgh date is October the 9th. via The Forest’s bb.
Here’s the message I sent to the members of the Things and stuff to do in Edinburgh group I administer on Facebook a couple of days ago regarding some upcoming free events around town. Maybe some local peeps might be interested?
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Hmm. A potential project/workshop for The Forest and/or FREAK…
Recently the Governor of the Tambov region of Russia, 480km south east of Moscow, said, in an interview with a national newspaper, “Tolerance? To hell with that! Gomiki [a pejorative term for gays] need to be torn apart! … Then scatter their pieces to the wind! … I am against perversion.” Charming. link
In other news, “The Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development has repealed the ban on blood donations by homosexual people”, something which is still banned in the UK. link
What a weird reversal to the situation over here..
91% Dennis Kucinich
89% Mike Gravel
82% Chris Dodd
81% Barack Obama
80% John Edwards
78% Bill Richardson
77% Joe Biden
77% Hillary Clinton
37% Rudy Giuliani
28% Ron Paul
26% John McCain
20% Mike Huckabee
20% Mitt Romney
15% Tom Tancredo
11% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Issues with Tor; “Victims of Egerstad’s research project included embassies belonging to Australia, Japan, Iran, India and Russia. Egerstad also found accounts belonging to the foreign ministry of Iran, the United Kingdom’s visa office in Nepal and the Defence Research and Development Organization in India’s Ministry of Defence. In addition, Egerstad was able to read correspondence belonging to the Indian ambassador to China, various politicians in Hong Kong, workers in the Dalai Lama’s liaison office and several human-rights groups in Hong Kong.” link
WTF. “There have been two or three reports of public executions of North Korean young people in major cities including Chungjin, as punishment for having illegally copied and distributed South Korean visual material,??????? said Kang Chul Hwan, vice-chairman of the Seoul-based Committee for the Democratization of North Korea.” link
Ah, so that’s where.. “Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game ‘Tetris’ and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location.” link
“A popular Facebook application that promises users privacy in exchange for opinions on their friends is acting as a stooly by offering the information for others to buy.” Haha, cos no-one saw that coming.. link
Far Cry, Prince of Persia, free downloads (ad supported). link
Pacemaker mp3 player, 120Gb, does beat matching. link
Whitehouse + Savier + Ingen
6th September, 7pm
Cabaret Voltaire
£6, no advance tickets
flyer
Rinse it out propa.
Just testing trackback.
“The veteran Scrobblers [Last.fm users] amongst you will probably remember our ‘moderation system’ - this was a user-voting system that let you propose and merge artists, ultimately fixing misspelled artists by creating aliases to the correct version. We are planning to bring this back in a big way, addressing not only artists, but albums and tracks too. … Phase 1 is now underway with the first public ‘beta’ release of our new fingerprinting technology. This will mature into a nice sexy (free) API that lets you grab clean metadata based on an audio fingerprint.” On using a system other than Musicbrainz; “The jist will be that although we will use a different fingerprint system, it will still be possible to use it to resolve MBIDs, and once we’ve cleaned up our metadata a bit, we will endeavour to match our catalogue with Musicbrainz. Matching our catalogue to MB atm is hard, because it is so messy.” plus “Just because the guys at MusicIP gave MusicBrainz a free license doesn’t mean that Last.fm (as a paying MB licensee) is obliged to use them too (for more money).” link
“IDG in Sweden is reporting the contents of a leaked Microsoft memo sent to Microsoft partners there, telling them to join the Swedish Institute of Standards and vote yes on OOXML [the Microsoft alternative to ODF]. As you know, 20+ newly registered Microsoft partner companies did so, thus switching the expected No vote to Yes at the last minute. It says Microsoft’s representative Klas Hammar acknowledges the memo was sent, but says it should not have been. …the IBM representative left prior to the vote in protest. An SIS representative defends the process, saying it’s tactical, not against the rules. He acknowledges that the rules might need to be changed.” link
“iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering system for music. You rate the tracks it downloads and the server uses your ratings and other people’s to guess what you’ll like. The tracks are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music.” link
Nokia’s iPhone — no, seriously - Looks, um, slightly narrower.
Possibility of PlayStation Phone - Like the N-Gage, but not.
Soy sauce for ice cream - Sounds nummy-ish.
