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TechCrunch Web Tablet Project
Tech Crunch is looking for folks to help out creating and producing an open source web tablet. The idea is to create a light weight interface much like the iPhone with WiFi that simply runs Firefox. I hope this works because if it does then it would legitimize blogs and the open source community in way they haven’t been yet.
the codus sinaiticus
The oldest known version of the New Testament is being put online.
Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago — it isn’t exactly clear where — the surviving 400 or so pages carry a version of the New Testament that has a few interesting differences from the Bible used by Christians today.
The Gospel of Mark ends abruptly after Jesus’ disciples discover his empty tomb, for example. Mark’s last line has them leaving in fear.
“It cuts out the post-resurrection stories,” said Juan Garces, curator of the Codex Sinaiticus Project. “That’s a very odd way of ending a Gospel.”
James Davila, a professor of early Jewish studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the Codex also includes religious works foreign to the Roman Catholic and Protestant canons — such as the “Epistle of Barnabas” and the “Shepherd of Hermas,” a book packed with visions and parables.
Davila stressed that did not mean the works were necessarily considered Scripture by early Christians: They could have been bound with the Bible to save money.
the world’s oldest blogger dies at 108
Olive Riley, a 108 year old Australian woman, also known as the world’s oldest blogger, passed away two weeks after making her last post.
“It was mind blowing to her,” Stone said. “She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while.”
Born in the remote mining town of Broken Hill in 1899, Riley blogged regularly in the last year of her life about growing up in the Outback, raising three children and working as a farm cook and bartender earlier in her life.
Her blogs can be found at allaboutolive and worldsoldestblogger.
(thanks, David)
Dear Mike Dougan
(If I’m remembering your name correctly.) I fished your comments out of spam and clicked the necessary buttons but somehow your comments disappeared. Our apologies. I don’t know what happened.
from the spam
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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Joss Whedon (the creator of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Movie and TV Series, as well as Firefly and Serenity) has joined forces with friends of his to create Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day and is a supervillain musical that’s quite funny. It’s only going to be on the website for this week and will go away after Sunday the 20th. So click the image above and check it out.
For those interested, Neil Patrick Harris is best known as Doogie Howser and currently stars in “How I Met Your Mother” on CBS. Nathan Fillion was in Buffy, Firefly and Serenity ( as well as a bit part on LOST ). Felicia Day was also on Buffy and has a pretty funny web video called “The Guild” that’s based around World of Warcraft.
Sorry for the “ad”, but I thought this was funny and that their work should be appreciated by as large an audience as possible.
clusterflock iPhone 3g giveaway update
We gave away two iPhones this year and Tony was kind enough to write up a little review.
The Exposure client is the best implementation of a front-end to Flickr that I’ve seen for a mobile device, and one if its coolest features is the use of the Core Location function of the iPhone to show you photos on Flickr that were taken nearby wherever you are. That’s neat on a 1st gen iPhone with only loosely triangulated location info, but add the 3G’s GPS in there, and you can get pretty precise. The first time I used the feature, I was in a neighborhood bar, and the first photo that popped up was taken right inside that same bar near where I was sitting. Neat.
Burnt Hendrix Auction
A guitar Jimi Hendrix set afire on stage and thought lost is being auctioned on ebay.
“When Hendrix set this guitar alight it marked a watershed in live performance,” said Ted Owen, director of acquisitions at the auction house.
Hendrix, who died in 1970, burnt two guitars on stage — he repeated the stunt at a festival later in 1967 — but the one to be auctioned is the only example that survives intact.
Also on auction, Jim Morrison’s last notebook of poems. Too bad it wasn’t burnt on stage.
“It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner”
Sean Tevis did a xkcd homage in an effort to raise funds against the Kansas Republican House Representative, Arlen Siegfreid.
I am not posting this in an effort to endorse his campaign (I try to stay out of politics in a public forum and don’t contribute to any campaigns on principle) but only to point out that this is the first politician (if I can call him that) I have ever seen with internet savvy. (via mefi)
Update: Looks like the internet blew up his website. If you want to read it, I would probably check back later.
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Thank you for your thoughts about Bruce. We have lost an amazing artist . . . . Bruce was firmly opposed to display of his films on-line, and on his behalf as an attorney I made numerous requests for removal. Now that Bruce has died, all copyrights are now held by Jean Conner (Bruce’s wife), and she has explicitly directed that I request and otherwise take action to have all on-line postings of Bruce Conner movies removed immediately.
Quite a number of links to Bruce Conner films were removed from Movie City Indie, and much as I respect honoring artistic integrity, I am sorry that those of you who do not know his oeuvre cannot whet your appetites online.
But take a look at this from Dennis Cooper.
Update. For now, at any rate, you can whet your appetities online.
from the spam
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Small Victories
Anytime Comcast gets it gives me joy:
When Comcast admitted last fall that it was blocking — or slowing down, as the company preferred to call it — certain file transfers by customers, a lot of people complained that the company was unfairly discriminating against heavy Internet users.
Now it seems that the Federal Communications Commission is poised to agree.
Let Our Congress Tweet!
It’s nice to know somebody out in the blogosphere is smart.
Why more people don’t have Jason’s perspective is beyond me:
Never will kottke.org updates be pushed automatically to my personal Twitter account. I am not a dick, I would never do that to you.
Free Speech Online
A quick overview of the differences between free speech on and off the web.
Dutch photographer Maarten Dors met the limits of free speech at Yahoo Inc.’s photo-sharing service, Flickr, when he posted an image of an early-adolescent boy with disheveled hair and a ragged T-shirt, staring blankly with a lit cigarette in his mouth.
Without prior notice, Yahoo deleted the photo on grounds it violated an unwritten ban on depicting children smoking. Dors eventually convinced a Yahoo manager that — far from promoting smoking — the photo had value as a statement on poverty and street life in Romania. Yet another employee deleted it again a few months later.
“I never thought of it as a photo of a smoking kid,” Dors said. “It was just of a kid in Romania and how his life is. You can never make a serious documentary if you always have to think about what Flickr will delete.”
The Andre Gali Art Viewing Experience
Canadian fiddler sells rights to music on eBay
A Canadian fiddler who answered the question “What’s beneath your kilt?” on Conan O’Brien in 1997 is now bankrupt and auctioning rights to half his future earnings on eBay.
“I’m not David Bowie, I’m not Madonna, I’m not Eminem, I’m Ashley MacIsaac, so to set a price at that (C$1.5 million), I thought, was fair market value,” he said.
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IRS Spam Is Clever, Dangerous
I just had a pretty scary piece of spam show up in my inbox. It appears to be from the IRS, implicates my employer, and comes immediately on the heels of the US tax season. All in all, very well socially-engineered.
Long story short, it’s spam, but you need to be careful. There’s more where it came from.
More details here.
How much for that dead mosquito in the window
A Chinese man sells dead mosquitoes online.
Nin sells his mosquito corpses for six yuan — about 45p — each. His ad reads: “Truly killed by human hands. Can be used for science studies, decoration, and collection.”
Too quick to delete
I just had an email titled Sperms of endearment.
Doctorow on Copyright Enforcement
It’s a bit snarky but it has some merit:
You see, the big copyright companies – record labels, broadcasters, film studios, software companies – are lobbying in the halls of power around the world (including Westminster) for a three strikes rule for copyright infringers. They want to oblige internet service providers (ISPs) to sever the broadband links of any customer who has been thrice accused of downloading infringing material, and to oblige web-hosting companies to terminate the accounts of anyone accused of sticking infringing material on a web server three times.
They’re not even proposing that this punishment should be reserved for convicted infringers. Proving infringement is slow and expensive – so much so that the Motion Picture Association of America just filed a brief with the US court considering the appeal of Jammie Thomas, a woman
sentenced to pay $222,000 in fines for downloading music, in which the trade association argued that they should never have to prove infringement to collect damages, since proof is so hard to come by.
facial recognition software for dating
A Seattle-based company is marketing facial recognition software for online dating sites.
According to Eyealike, it has added a new image search solution for facial recognition and similarity matching. The new feature is targeted at searching social networking and online dating websites, which helps people find potential mates using what the firm describes as “personal preferences for face shape, skin color, and hair color.”