Defective by Design is a web site dedicated to the public awareness around DRM (Digital Restrictions Management). It engages consumers to take action against "products [which] have been intentionally crippled from the users' perspective, and [that] are therefore 'defective by design'".
Waiting on my desktop to be read:
Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives.
The Guardian matches with success the title of their article with their ad campaign... Good one!
As seen on http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/20/interpol-facial-recognition - 2008.10.26
Not that I know much about Tom Geisler at all, but with his anatomy plates, I feel we have something in common. He's got guts and, hell, this is definitely 'open-source'...
So, if you ever wonder what your Trans-Luminutive Confluisis looks like head to http://tomgiesler.com/myanatomy.htm.
Read the Bill C-61 and find out that:
- C-61 prohibits transferring DVDs to a computer or video player, locks out region coded DVDs - Hands Off Our DVDs!
- C-61 prohibits transferring copy-controlled CD to iPod - Hands Off Our iPods!
- C-61 prohibits recording broadcast flagged TV shows - Hands Off Our PVRs!
En 2003, je présentais en collaboration avec Fred Dupuis sur le site odio.ca - qui a changé de mains depuis - le projet "Retrouvé". Des affiches avaient placardées poteaux électriques et ruelles de Montréal et invitaient les passants à me téléphoner et à laisser un message sur une boîte vocale afin m'aider à retrouver certains "objets" perdus.
Voici quelques extraits sonores enregistrées lors de mes nombreuses marches diurnes et nocturnes à Shanghai en ces premières semaines de l'année du rat. Shanghai est un des deux grands centres névralgiques de la Chine et est la résidence de plus de 18 millions d'humains. Je n'ai pas vu de statistiques sur le taux d'occupation des non-humains, mais, je doute que ça ait un impact significatif sur le nombre total...
Tim Gerwing and Friends will be performing live in Vancouver on January 21st 2006, at the Western Front.
The flyer reads:
The Q code is a standardized collection of three-letter signals, all starting with the letter "Q", initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication, and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio.
