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“This painting is not available in your country”
Paul Mutant, 2010. Acrylic on canvas 12x10”

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Diaspora - buzzed as the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network (yes it will need a catchier description). 

These four computer science students recently sparked a surge of interest after raising $200,642 of funding for their project on kickstarter. 

Now one month into development, here are the first sightings of what they’ve been up to.

Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss

LSD, the 60’s, Fenders, phasers, tape delay, all over-compressed then exported from Australia. Genius.

Taken from their debut album Innerspeaker.

tcsnmy6:

This isn’t the first time that I’ve heard this talk or a similar one from Daniel Pink and his book Drive. Maybe it’s the animation that compels me to make a post. Or maybe it’s the fact that purpose has popped up for the second time today. Or maybe it’s the talk at the board retreat that has me thinking again about self-direction (autonomy), intrinsic motivation, conceptual understanding, critical thinking… Or maybe it’s because Open Studio* is often one of my favorite parts of the day and I’ve been missing it too often recently.

*Open Studio is the NMY equivalent to Google’s 20 percent time or Atlassian’s free 24-hours per quarter described in the video.

“Jed’s Other Poem is the official music video for Grandaddy’s song of the same name.

This song serves as a eulogy for Jeddy-3, a humanoid robot built from spare parts. He is a recurring character on Grandaddy’s record “The Sophtware Slump.” According to Grandaddy before Jed’s system crashed he wrote poems. Poems for no one.

Programmed entirely in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM, a computer so old it has no hard drive or mouse and only types in capitals. The Jed source code is available for download making it the first open-source music video. Cinematography by Jeff Bernier.”

WhiteHouse.gov goes Open Source →

Government transparency? We can only hope for more of this.

tomdavenport:

Korg iElectribe on iPad

If anyone needs a reason for why music software just got a lot more exciting with the iPad, look here. That’s right, software is getting tactile, and in turn making “hardware” affordable.

Just you wait till that screen starts changing shape for some real touch technology.

Fantastic new album from Jeff McIlwain that fuses together tracks from past & present. Definitely worth adding to your library.

Listen on Spotify: Lusine – Lucky Numbers: The Ghostly International EPs

Drupal Developer? Get in touch…

I’m looking for Drupal developers (preferably in the Midlands area) that are interested in working with the semantic web.

We are currently undergoing a number of challenging projects based around social media publishing & data visualisation using Drupal as our foundation platform.

Contact me if you’re interested or have any recommendations; chris.waring@talis.com.