July 2006

This history of music.

Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie gives us a (mostly accurate) history lesson and does something unspeakable to an iPod.

Time for another quote

Yoinked from Teach42.com

“No amount of technology can make a bad movie good.” — plaque at Pixar.

RIAA goes to court.

I'm not a pirate.

I've never used Kazaa, I don't burn CDs for people, I don't strip copy protection out of DVDs, and when I use BitTorrent it's for files that the content creators want to be shared.

(I think it was Lawrence Lessig that said "I don't think people should download Britney Spears for free. I don't think they should download Britney Spears for any price." The man's a genius.)

With that said, I'm very happy that the RIAA recently took a dive.

To make a two year long story short(er): RIAA accuses mom and daughter for sharing music online, demanding $5000 or they'll see them in court. Mom says "Prove it, name the songs and when we shared them." RIAA doesn't, and tries to withdraw it's case. Judge Lee R. West thanks the RIAA for wasting his time by making them pay the mom and daughter's legal fees. RIAA sucks a lemon.

I love happy endings.

Be Crafty. Make things.

Bre Pettis needed a new wallet, so he made one.

Out of tape.

I want to do this too, but first I have to find a way to include a lot more (discount, ID, insurance, etc.) cards than he has.

Yous sure yous wants out?

A burly man in a sleeveless shirt that exposed several tattoos came to our door today. He said he had spoken with us a month ago and asked if we were still happy with [cable company A]* or would we like to try [cable company B] again.

I told him he was mistaken, as we've been using [cable company B] for quite some time now.

Turns out he was at the right apartment, but the wrong street. Still, this makes me wonder if [cable company B] is hiring muscle to keep it's subscribers.

Just when you think you're out, they pull you back in! ;)

* Names have been removed because I don't think either company deserves free press, whether it's good or bad.

All I see are cards!

I spent a good portion of today making cards for that little project Paul and I have been working on for ... years. It's taking forever, but I really like how they're turning out. (Paul, IM me sometime. I know how you can help out.)

Tomorrow, I intend to spend a good portion of the day making Artist Trading Cards. They're sort of like a cross between collectable trading cards, business cards, and random artworks.

I gave them out during the convention I attended last month, and I intend to do it again at this month's next week's shindig.

ASCII Animation

Wow.

Just wow.

Dance, kitty! Dance!

Coke and Mentos Rocket