| Archive for: January, 2008
Open Source Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives How open source relates to everything Posted in: General Enterprise Policy mass market business models content Internet values What some may read below as a tirade against Hewlett-Packard was actually prompted by a completely different story. This was associate editor Elsa Wenzel's interview with Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of the Open Architecture Network. Cameron is doing what many Southerners of my acquaintance would call "God's work," applying the principles of open source to getting the world's poor into decent housing. The OAN collects designs for inexpensive, Earth-friendly housing around the world and works to get those homes constructed.
Omega Five Review (Xbox Live Arcade)
There has never been a genre more classic than that of the side-scrolling shooter. There is just something about constantly scrolling to the right that brings a tear to a gamer's eye. The Xbox Live Arcade gets a fresh new spin on your father's scrolling shooter in the form of Omega Five, a game that will definitely bring tears to your eyes -- but for a vastly different reason. First of all, there really aren't any visible signs of a story here. That isn't surprising, however, considering this type of game, so that can be overlooked. You'll begin with two characters to choose from and possibly get two more (more on that later). The characters play mostly the same, though, with only slight weapon tweaks and special abilities here and there. The controls take a unique approach with the "letter buttons" not being used at all.
Neighborhood Public Radio mixes up art and radio
You might have heard a raucous noise band performing live, or a teenager interviewing another teenager about life in Hunters Point, or a roundtable of artists discussing their work, or a man-on-the-street-style interview done on the street, all courtesy of NPR. That's not NPR as in National Public Radio, but, rather, a conceptual art project and mobile pirate radio station called Neighborhood Public Radio. The loose collective, headed by artists Lee Montgomery, Michael Trigilio and Jon Brumit, typically sets up in an art gallery with little more than a banner, booth, microphone and transmitter and a rough schedule of hyper-local programs aimed toward maximum neighborhood participation. There are no rules for the content on this NPR: expletives and mistakes are neither bleeped over nor edited out, nothing is off-limits and everyone is invited into the studio.
Ski-and-snowboarding academy turns itself around
Tony Seibert does an "Alley Oop Mute Grab" on the superpipe at Crested Butte, during training Tuesday Jan. 8. He is one of the student athletes at the Crested Butte Academy, which has risen from near-bankruptcy and is now going strong as a school for rising snow sports stars. At this remote ski resort, going to "boarding school" means spending as much time in a snow-packed terrain park as a high school classroom. .
Famed Director Pollack Humbled By AFI Award
The stars will be shining bright in Dallas come Thursday and for an appropriate reason: The American Film Institute is kicking off its first-ever AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Running for 11 days, the festival will showcase more than 190 features and short films, and fete actress Lauren Bacall, late actor Gregory Peck, filmmaker David Lynch, former Motion Picture Association of America chief Jack Valenti, composer Marvin Hamlisch, actress Laura Dern, actress-director Sarah Polley and songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman with AFI Dallas Star awards for their major roles in shaping the face of modern cinema. Also being honored with an AFI Dallas Star is director-producer Sydney Pollack -- that is, if you can get the humbled filmmaker to accept it. .
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Audio gain in volume signals loss for listeners
Despite serious concerns about their artistic integrity, members of the Seldon Plan agreed to crank up the volume on their latest album.
The Baltimore-based band had a good reason: They want your attention. And so does everybody else.
That's because studio engineers are pushing the envelope on technology that makes recordings sound louder than ever before - ensnaring listeners in an audio arms race dubbed "The Loudness Wars."
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