Tag: Computing
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Occupy Wall Street
As mentioned in my previous post, there’s a lot of ignorance by mainstream media of the Occupy Wall Street protests – reminds me of the Gay Pride protests how it took Live8 and Geldof turning up before Gay Pride EVER made the evening news here…and people have been making out the protests are small and…
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Rednek – I’m not Skrillex
…and for that I’m very grateful. Brilliant dubstep/country hybrid. Now available over at Beatport…well would be but: Both their new and old sites use your IP location, so if you like me were using VPN and can’t see the link, or are told ‘Restricted in your territory’ falsely, check that’s not on. Spent 10 mins…
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What’s in a name?
Like many other people I rushed to join Google+, partly because I was finding Facebook a rather restrictive and passive aggressive space – like the insistence of ‘real names’ and forcing you to adopt ‘real-sounding’ names (they have no way of checking apart from keyword searches although will ask you to send ID if they…
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Copyright State of Mind
I cautiously welcome the new proposed changes to UK copyright law to allow format shifting (ie. what pretty much everyone does already, which is copy CDs they own onto their iPods or computers, crazily this has been officially illegal) and parodies – like the excellent Newport State of Mind above. Cautious because we’ve been here…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide on Coffee
https://vimeo.com/23492673 A fan of Douglas Adam’s H2G2 (as fans call it) has created this guide entry for Coffee – great use of Keynote, although I doubt the Guide would run on anything as lowly, bulky and normal as an iPad. Still I’d love a whole encyclopedia of this kind of thing. (via Lumpy)
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Raiders of the Lost Mashup 1: Dubble Blow Job
There are LOTS of mashups I haven’t released for various reasons over the last few years – either they’re not quite there, or they were for things that didn’t happen, or exclusives, or just didn’t get round to posting them. Problem with working in the digital age is you can be a perfectionist, but sometimes…