September 2011
9 posts
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“We’re now seeing a repeat of this scenario, but where the distribution industry...”
– Nobody Asked For A Refrigerator Fee – Pirate Bay founder Rick Falkvinge on how Sweden’s 19th-century icemen, made obsolete by the refrigeration technology, offer a timely analogy to what’s happening to the media industry in the age of peer-to-peer filesharing and the absurdity of the legislature...
Putting fires out
I left to Santander on Friday, at midday, with three other teammates. As soon as we landed, we got picked up at the airport, inhaled some lunch at another teammate’s house, and promptly left to go catch the bus the team rented to go to Nantes. (Gmaps says 778 km,8h 24 min). We left at around 3:30pm and arrived to the hotel at 2:00am. Woke up at 8am for some breakfast, played three...
“…the world is currently run by a generation whose upbringing has left them...”
– My speech to the IAAC | Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent (via new-aesthetic)
Humble
Business card-making time has come, yet again. I still have a ton of my old ones lying around because I never really give them out to anyone. However, that doesn’t stop me from thinking up cool potential taglines. Looking around my chat logs, these are the one’s I’ve come up with in the past months.
The grumpy one
Gold standard for summerness
8.1 richter scale earthquake...
