ambushed!

ambushed!,
originally uploaded by smumfa.

I've been waiting to get my hands on this photo for so long.

Filed in: photos flickr sam mattscott murder

Jamaica photos are finally up

IMG_7711,
originally uploaded by smumfa.

My partner Sam has finally put up photos of our trip.

That guy behind me on the plane? His hat read "COFFEE: IT MAKES YOU POOP" - he's someones DAD!!!

Filed in: photos flickr sam jamaica vacation

Technorati Tags

Technorati is a big huge service that indexes blogs. It also has taken to this tagging bidness. I'm partial to tagging as a fine, messy way of organizing stuff.
So I've added technorati tags to my blog starting... well, now.
I'm using an greasemonkey script to add the tags because I can't be bothered to do all that by hand.

In the future, I'm going to see if I can also make the greasemonkey script bookmark the blogpost on delicious so that all of my posts in any category will show up there as well.

Filed in: tags greasemonkey technorati blog

Supporting the (Creative) Commons

When people give you lots of nice presents, it's good to say thank you. I just said thanks, which is why my name is on this list of supporters.

The Creative Commons helps provide licensing, hosting, and inspiration all designed to enrich our common cultural heritage. If you look at my photos on flickr, you'll see I've licensed my photos in a way that says you can do anything you like with them as long as you give a brotha a little credit. This helps people to create new good things from old things without worrying that they might get in legal trouble.

I just said thanks. You might want to do the same.

Gay people whose feet I have stepped on.

The massive list now includes George "Mr. Sulu" Takei.

Monsters in NYMFC

GOTCHA!,
originally uploaded by snarkhunt.

I was out for a walk in Chelsea with my good friend anglerod. We were up and down, peeping into galleries.

Then we saw this. Holy cow.
boing boing has more on it.

Jon Stewart is not the liberal Bill O'Reilly

I was talking to a buddy about the awesomeness that is the daily show, and he said that one of the reasons that its great is you have a powerful personality on your side, a "Bill O'Reilly" for the left.
I think it's a common sentiment and I think it misses the point. Politics is not a shouting match. When it is, that's bad. One of the cool things about the daily show is how well people are treated regardless of their political position. Their is an exchange of ideas.
For example, try the two recent shows with Bill O'Reilly and Bill Kristol.
In the O'Reilly show you can see it descend a bit, but Stewart is always trying to ask a question, to get new info from his guest. The Kristol show is congenial and shows that two people can very strongly disagree on a subject without haranguing each other.

I wish that there was a conservative show as good, funny, well thought out and smart as the daily show. If anybody knows of one, drop me a comment or send me a mail.

BTW- I don't have cable, but I have the internet. I get my daily show fix from the excellent GPod rss feed. I use Azureus with the rssfeed plugin. If anybody wants, I'll post a howto for automatically downloading your favorite shows.

Off to Jamaica

So, I probably won't be posting from jamaica unless Sam lets me nerd out down there. Unlikely. But when I get back I want to see a post on every blog from my peeps.

Also, I just saw the thing about the google feed reader - but it seems to be screwed up. Someone check that thing out, let me knowif it is any good.

Evil Nine is Awesome

Skull in Paris Crypts,
originally uploaded by mr_matt65.

My man Raf turned me on to Evil Nine's first album and it's awesome! It's some amazing dj shit.
The first track, "Crooked", is a barn burner with Aesop Rock on vocals. Preloaded did a pretty cool flash video for it here. The whole album is this good. This friggin amazing. Listen with headphones, there's a lot going on here.

Also my homey, neighbor, and namebuddy Matt has started flickring with a bunch of pics from his europe trip and his Cali time. Also, he was in a crypt, SEE?!

Throwdown!

Holy cow. The guantlet has been tossed down on the ground.

Mooks and Angst have blogs! Also, they seem to have spent a little more time picking out names than I did. Nice.

While Angst is trying to do something serious and well thought out, but lacking in any actual posts, Mooky is just kinda throwing it out there. And he's comin up with the funny, even when he's talking about apocalyptic flu scenarios. That's hot!

Welcome to the blogosphere, Anglerod

My pal from high school has started up her blog, and it's got, get this - a theme. I know, it's crazy.

I look forward to her joining the growing din of 43folders gtd merlinmann tinnttinnabbulla.

but hey, at least my peeps folder on bloglines has grown to a surprisingly respectable size.

The BogeyMan is YOU

Bill Maher can be smarmy, irrellevant and completely full of crap. Sometimes, he can be completely and absolutely on point. I just watched this clip on OneGoodMove.

He covers good, evil, and how they really happen.

NanoHype!

Fantastic – I dropped David Berube a line and found out he’s writing a blog about nanotechnologies and the often over-hyped literature around it. It’s really quite good if you are interested in the subject.

The man has a way with a phrase: “However, we once again have selective reporting, broad overclaims, and the inevitable straw person to validate their moratorium. This is expected from undergraduates and bad intercollegiate debaters.”

Since there is so little actual work done in nanotechnologies and the field is so primitive, it inevitably becomes the technical fairy dust that anyone can sprinkle over their scenario building. With regards to nanotechnology we are really pre-singularity trying to predict what will happen post-singularity. You can really project whatever your dreams or fears may be onto this unsettled technology. Dave is doing a great job here of popping some of these bubbles with a clear mind – and he’s well suited to it. He’s read pretty much everything that has been written on the subject.

Of course, I’ve added this to my blogroll and am looking forward to more – thanks Dave!

Mad respect to the Autistic Researchers, yo.

I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink". It's really good so far, it's about how you make all those instant decisions during your daily life. If you want it when I'm done, let me know and you can have it.

So I'm reading it today, and I notice that it is quoting some work done by Simon Baron-Cohen on autism. That rings a bell for me, so I check it out on wikipedia. Sure enough, he's related to my main man, Ali G. Of course, others have already drawn the connection. This one's good.

RESPECT. piz n 'm out, wor.

Stranger things go live

I sent off my conversion of Kelly Link's "Stranger Things Happen" to Jelly Ink Press a while ago. Due to a massive tea shortage in the UK, they didn't have the energy to put it up until just now. So, it's up. Thanks, Gavin! Oh and Thank you Kelly for such wonderful dreamy stories.

My favorite is "Travels with the Snow Queen." It is a fairy tale, but with a strong female instead of yet another wilting damsel. It's funny and surprising and juicy and good. Check it out.

Because it is a single html file, you can download this and read it with anything that has a web browser - PSP, Treo, PocketPC, whatever. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday SG

Hope it's a wonderful day for you!

What's grosser than gross?

Stepping barefoot on a cockroach. An excellent way to wake up in the morning, and I recommend it to everyone as an eye-opener.

What's grosser than that? Getting started on sourceforge. I'm trying to get everything ready and done for automatic builds etc on sf.net. The process is not very streamlined.
But never fear, my trivial software will go up there.

For what it's worth

This article was published in October 2001 originally: Drowning New Orleans. Found via kuro5hin

As if I needed more t-shirts.

Mike sends me a link and now I have to buy all of these. Way to fucking go there buddy.

Ski Dubai

I found out about ski dubai via treehugger blog. They quite rightly point out how immensely terrible this is for the environment.

One of the major problems facing the world is it's unification. All places are becoming the same, becoming a monoculture. It's not just a problem for sentimental reasons - I like that I can have pals in other countries and that we can interknit more and more. I like that people know more languages so that we can all converse. But, you don't need to go snowboarding when you are in dubai. It will never be as good as the alps or the rockies, and the costs are immense. Yes, we can do it, but we probably shouldn't. Instead, we should work on better ways to enable you to get to where the amazing stuff is.

But OH OH OH would I like to have it in my backyard. Except, come to think of it, the heat venting from this would probably make my backyard look like Dubai.