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• Basking in the glow of an LCD screen on a rainy day #
• thoroughly enjoying Voices of Trance, Jan 07. (Generation Trance Pres GT vs Project C) #
• enjoying the happiness of the WordPress engine #
• Relaxing with a fatty Q-doba burrito #
• chilling at home #

What a wonderful video! It’s an animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry. Starts about halfway through the original work at the appearence of Halley’s Comet and concludes at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

• French toast is the bomb #
• so is bacon #
• Feeling happy post Fatted Calf #
• In orbit #

In the spirit of the LOL cat photos, a love-child from unnamed forums across the internet, I present to you this: Star Trek LOL A masterstroke of grammar, educated humor, and fine art.

• Feeling strange without my morning coffee #
• Wondering if I need some coffee before a 2-hour meeting #
• Needing a nap #
• Ready for WoWza #

Wonderful transcript of an interview of Cory Doctrow (in case you don’t feel like listening to the podcast like me)

Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow

Cory: Well, the problem with explicit metadata, as I sum up in the essay, is manifold. But it’s that people lie; they tell you what they think you want to hear. Or, they tell you what they think they believe, even if it’s not what they actually believe. People are dumb, right? They sometimes just have bad classification information. People are lazy, so they misclassify because they can’t be bothered to properly classify. We can’t all agree; everything is miscellaneous, as you say, so we can’t all agree on the best way to classify information, and so on. So, that’s a kind of sampler of the reasons that the idea that we’ll all make it all work is so flawed.

I remember stopping by the booth of a company that made some kind of metadata product at a PC Forum conference, Esther Dyson’s old conference out in the desert in Arizona. They said, “We’ve got this metadata program, and it has this taxonomy that describes the best way to organize all the information in the world, and this is what we’ve deployed, ” and so on. I said, “What do you do if your taxonomy doesn’t agree with someone else’s?” And they said, “Oh, well that’s easy. We have a way of trying a line between those taxonomies. So, if you call it a widget and we call at a what’s-it, we can just make an equivalent between those two and map them over.”

I remember at the moment thinking that there was something missing from that explanation. It was a little while later that I figured out what it was, which is what if you call it a widget and I don’t have a name for it. Or, what if you call it a widget and I disagree that it should be called anything at all? You know, you say that this is the sovereign territory of Serbia-Montenegro, and you say, no, that it’s a suburb of Serbia. They are just a lot of categories of information that we can’t draw lines between in our rival taxonomies.

David: You say it’s a species, and I say it’s, in fact, just an offshoot.

Cory: Right. Or, you say that it’s a genuine religious experience of Numanis and I say that it’s a hallucination triggered by a center of your brain left over from when some distant ancestor of yours discovered that by hallucinating a god figure, he was able to survive longer, catch more antelopes, and therefore have more babies. And so, I want to classify this as hallucination engendered by accident of evolution and you want to classify it as genuine religious experience. I have a feeling that both of us would be slightly peeved if the other’s label were applied to it.

(and related points of interest)

From Wikipedia

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is an HD-DVD decryption key that was leaked on April 30, 2007. The source of the leak is unclear. It is of interest to cryptographic researchers, as it can be used to play a protected HD-DVD movie in Linux, bypassing the normal DRM. The key will also allow for programs analagous to DeCSS for DVDs.

In a cease and desist order from the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator addressed to Google Inc, the letter humorously included the code in question. [1]
Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/09_F9_11_02_9D_74_E3_5B_D8_41_56_C

• Is ready for starbucks #
• Ready to head home #
• Figuring out the post-wedding finances #