"Alien Leg Training" ?

This is the stuff I want the archaeologists of 9000 A.D. to dig up. Yeah, figure this out you egg heads!

In Neil Berkett's statement he says any Internet service that failed to pay Virgin would be put into the "Internet bus lane" , but surely the bus lane is the preferential lane?

Bus lanes were introduced so that Buses and Taxis travelled quicker than private vehicles, promoting public transport.

Can it be that Neil Berkett is an idiot? Surely not.

boo for copyright fascism.

that was really funny while it lasted

added Eric Jackson with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force "That could mean looking at a building to see how security is established."

Oh my god, I saw a man looking at a building yesterday!
I bet he was one of those terrormarists

My favourite quote:

However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.

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Excellent, I didn't know that my eye creases were so desirable.
I never realised I was so gorgeous, but I have loads of these creases. All over my damn face in fact.
Is bald fashionable too?

Concha2000 , you do recall that he also designed most of the sets and props for blade runner.
You will be glad to know that they are full of the suffering you desire.

I love the way that 2 is "morally debatable experiments" , or "morally dubious" (depending on the source). Now perhaps I have this sinning thing wrong but ... how did anything 'debatable' get on a list of edicts ?

They don't come out and say : "NO heretical tampering with creation", but instead: "possibly best not to tinker with stuff, not sure though"

@Jeff

if I take that free digital music, use it in some interesting way, then make money off of it, then it has magically become a product again.

When you take some music and use it for something to make money - you need to apply for a special license to do so (from the music creator). That license is where most money for musicians now comes from. We don't really get cash directly from end users, but instead we get cash from licensees of our 'music making service'.
Typical licensees being film makers, TV companies, public institutions, corporations, etc.
They don't own our product, they just have a right to use our music making service to generate revenue.

no, YOU have missed MY point you scumbag !!!!!!
Bobba Fett was in no way related to the Ewoks you idiot. I am a PROFFESIONAL at this subject, I asked George Lucas when I said to him about it only last WEEK.

Thats it I'm sick of this thread and am going to bed so don't even bother replying.

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huh?

I cannot parse the way you youngsters communicate these days

The performance of "The Sultans Elephant" in London was pretty amazing, sadly I didn't get to see it in person.

these beasts all wandered around London for 4 days acting out a modified Jules Verne story

captain pedant writes:

Acoustic invisibility ?

what next, "Inaudible paint" ?

Hmm, I think it's not exactly the nightmare that the Guardian are painting it to be.

I mean, let's look at a few quotes from the other (local) paper, which is most likely the source.

"It was quite scary at first but everyone was really friendly.It was a good experience - just not really what we had gone on holiday for."

"They also had some great fun tales of all the other girls they met in the orphanage and said they were treated like mini celebrities from England.

Sure, not a brilliant couple of days, but they seem to have enjoyed it in that way that we Brits enjoy a bit of deprivation. Character forming, etc. Heh.

Next year they are booking into some place called 'Guantanamo' apparently, sounds interesting.

I Sloated Paul

It's worth reading Geoff Emerick's book, he was the actual mix engineer on almost all the Beatles albums, and contrary to the understanding of the general public, he was responsible for creating the sounds you hear. From the drum sound and loops in 'tomorrow never knows' to the guitar sounds and the mixes and to some degree the edits. George Martin handled the internal politics, musical arrangements and orchestral stuff.

Anyway, his book, http://www.amazon.com/Here-There-Everywhere-Recording-Beatles/dp/1592401791

tells you how Stereo was considered to be a rich mans novelty and that they just knocked off the stereo mixes quickly at the end of the session, while the mono mixes took much longer and were always considered the 'real' mixes.

So that's why the stereo mixes sound a little odd, because they were really equivalent to a 1950s 3d movie where a spear leaps out at the audience. In audio terms that means hard panning and silly and slightly more over the top effecting.

The book is well worth a read anyway.

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sorry, it had to be done.
I was commenting with a -5db RMS dynamic range.

aha,
produced an earnest student documentary about a homeless man named Billy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIyg2a72uV4

there was a nice piece in the most recent series outlining what to expect from your career in TV. Upbeat it was not.

required viewing for media studies fools it certainly was.

Oh my,
isn't this a story by Paul Di Filippo?

Bleb anyone?

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/difilippo3/difilippo31.html

I had a quick check who owns the site and it is the marvelously titled "Worshipful Company of Fishmongers."
which conjures images of a secret basement altar to their fish-headed god.

Actually, I notice on the larger version of this image that the lower portion of the building is open to the elements and therefore the proles. Of course that wouldn't stop over-officious security guards confiscating a camera or two.

The bizarre attempted justification of torture, that it gets usable results out of hardened terrorists is actually wrong.

According to CIA sources, Ibn al Shaykh al Libbi, after two weeks of enhanced interrogation, made statements that were designed to tell the interrogators what they wanted to hear. Sources say Al Libbi had been subjected to each of the progressively harsher techniques in turn and finally broke after being water boarded and then left to stand naked in his cold cell overnight where he was doused with cold water at regular intervals.

His statements became part of the basis for the Bush administration claims that Iraq trained al Qaeda members to use biochemical weapons. Sources tell ABC that it was later established that al Libbi had no knowledge of such training or weapons and fabricated the statements because he was terrified of further harsh treatment.

"This is the problem with using the waterboard. They get so desperate that they begin telling you what they think you want to hear," one source said.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1322866

so it is not only barbaric, but plainly worthless. Interrogators have known this for years. Torture does yield confessions but they are useless, as anyone would confess to anything under torture.

I use an old diving mask for particularly pungent onions.
Not often, but sometimes.

Jamie isn't his real name, it's actually Peter Bergham, 5 foot 10, wearing a yellow t-shirt and black canvas trousers. And now he is looking up at the camera as the Peace Agents arrive. Passers by avert their gaze.
There is no Peter Bergham, move along citizens.

yes, I agree with Kurt.
Jet man trumps all wingsuits, Jetman is my new hero.

http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html

I was surprised by how well it works, I thought that the jetman technology would merely enable a controlled fall at a 45 degree angle, but he really flies with power, he can climb and turn, or whatever he feels like.
Really excellent.

I have been reading new music strategies blog recently, very interesting stuff as the author encounters the many clueless music-business types.

for example, at a conference:

I was on one of the panels, and chaired a rather interesting and controversial session in which six teenage girls (young teens, that is — 14 years old for the most part) discussed their music consumption practices. In short — they download, listen for a bit, then delete. Typically no money changes hands.
-- snip --
I was particularly interested in the fact that they seemed to believe that fame was the endgame of the music industry. By listening to music, they reasoned, they were helping someone get famous. Famous is better than money
--- snip ----

What really threw the music industry people was not that these girls were downloading music ‘illegally’ — but that it was of so little value to them, that once they tired of a song, it was entirely removed from their digital media and their lives.

well worth reading
http://newmusicstrategies.com/2007/11/03/hooray-for-the-music-biz/

I live in the vicinity of lots of ugly dim witted goblin like creatures, but they seem a lot better adapted to the urban environment than I am. They can eat the food-like materials that issue from the many garishly coloured KFC / Macdonalds / Chicken Bazooka / Grot-u-like type outlets. They can be entertained by mainstream 'entertainment' and frightened by 'news'. They drive the economy with their debt and their mindless gewgaw purchasing power.
I do none of those things. I think perhaps I am not as fit as them for my environment!

Yikes!

Certainly a magnet,
the glue bottle is the real giveaway as it jumps into position when he sets it down.

A hairy arms race ?

Factoids :
Peter Serafinowicz, of Look Around You has a new series starting on BBC on Thursday.
Or you can watch it now online, via this weird myspace tie-in. Ugh.
http://creative.myspace.com/uk/bbc2comedy/bbc2popup.htm

I have one hair.

as far as I know this edition also comes with the 'theatrical release' AKA, voiceover original flavour. It also comes with a nice documentary which UK Channel 4 made around 2000. Hosted by Mark Kermode. It was on google video until recently, some nice interviews with the major players, production crew, the various writers, etc.

did you know that Rutger Hauer wrote that whole "tears in the rain part, right before they shot it?". Well that nugget is in the aforementioned doc.

As far as Deckard being a replicant ...I get the idea than no-one has read the book. That's kind of the point. This is P.K.D after all !

In a way the issue is - people, not technology.

People have flaws, give them enough rope and they will hang themselves, and anyone else standing nearby.
In the case of communications technology the flaws in the meatrix are exposed. People are flawed, we steal stuff and no amount of wishing will make us 'be good', and no amount of punishing will keep us good.
Because no system of governing people is 100% effective, we are incapable of being totalitarian enough to subdue ourselves (!)
Throughout time we have been 'a bit dodgy', it is part of our anthropoid nature.

Our idealised view of what constitutes 'progress' stands at odds with how our human progress really works. Our expectations differ from our actual behaviour, so the real advances usually come from unexpected directions. Paleofuture demonstrates this disparity well. Were you expecting to travel to work via moving walkway? think again.

It may seem irrational that robbery will result in progress, merely because we are seemingly incapable of judging the progress of our own species.

Like driving while looking in the rear view mirror and making 'educated' guesses about what is on the road ahead.

We drive shambolically into the future hoping not to hit anything too large.

There's a nice open source multi-touch project here
http://macrone.de/multitouch/

I think this is the multi-touch library they used
http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/touchlib/

And this is how they built their table
http://dundee.cs.queensu.ca/wiki/index.php/Building_a_Multi-Touch_Sensitive_Table