Media Production and Community Links
The news of the passing of Octavia Butler came as a strange, upsetting surprise. There were many notables, like Gordon Parks, that have passed into the ultimate initiation and to record them all starts to look like more like military record keeping than anything else…- You gotta love these BBC headlines: “Altruism ‘in-built’ in humans”—these “scientific discoveries” are so sadly funny. My African ancestors surely knew about this very well and decided to “leverage” their inheritance and expand accordingly—until of course this process was interrupted by the African discovery of imperialism—which has since been perfected and practiced religiously by Indo-Europeans to the present day. And now we turn around and see “Altruism ‘in-built’ in humans” like its something never known before…
- Using the Internet to reinforce the organizing principle among organizations not supported by large corporations or old Indo-European traditions of Imperial warfare is great. Tools like skobee.com can be used for social revolution or can be just another entry point for surveillance by agents representing centralized corporate authorities masquerading as governments.
- “Plone/Zope versus Mambo” is a discussion that sheds some light on two popular Open Source portal solutions. The short answer to my questions is, ‘Use Mambo when you find that you don’t love Python.’ Actually use the ‘purified’ form of Mambo, Joomla!
- Maxthon.com is out there! This is the browser?
- Microsoft Expression from Creature House Expression? Yes. I have the original, green cloth Expression box sitting on my shelf. It seems strange how a little design tool can suddenly become the visual engine of a billion-dollar operating system.
- Real Player is one of the most violent pieces of software I have ever had to use. Now that I know about Real Alternative, I can watch Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! More peacefully.
- R/Kain Blaze knew NetFlix.com was “throttling” back years before any legal action was taken. The class action lawsuit is just a little unsolicited validation.