Sorry, this journal is friends-only from here on out - you can find out more about me here, but otherwise I don't really feel like sharing all the details of my personal life with the public at large.

If you know me, just drop me a line or leave a comment here and I'll send you an invite that'll add you to my friends' list automatically when you create an account ...

Yeah, I know, sorry - to read more, you're going to have to sign up, log on, etc., etc. ...

Real DJs Code Live [Wired]

"Some DJs spin vinyl or twiddle fader knobs. Others write subroutines in C++.

A new brand of music maestro is turning programming into performance, eschewing turntables for a compiler and a mind for syntax structure. "Livecoding" practitioners improvise using Perl or homemade programming architectures to build compositions from the ground up, replacing instruments and samples with raw code authoring before a live audience."

Wow.

One thing that's come out of being home the last few days - I finally got a chance to update my Etsy shop. I made up a batch of gaming dice earrings and necklaces a few weeks ago, but I just got around to taking pictures yesterday:

http://bloodredrose.etsy.com/

ANTI-WAR COMIC BOOKS SURGE
An anti-war comic book series shows why comics are surging in popularity: because they can help us make sense of our troubled times.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet

After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up in Barbados | The Guardian

I should have posted this last month ... an old article I found in my Greencrafting inbox, from Ideal Bite:

( Bats in Your Belfry - A Good Thing? )

This is quite a cool project from the folks at Amnesty International:

http://irrepressible.info/

The gist of it is to raise awareness about internet censorship, and to allow internet users to help undermine censorship "by publishing irrepressible fragments of censored material on your own site."

Unfortunately, as someone on digg pointed out, they're just providing a javascript include for publishers - any agency or government that wanted to suppress that content would only have to block the irrepressible.info domain.

So, sure, they need a server-side script, but I think the point is well expressed "that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress". Voices might be stifled temporarily, but people will always find a way to be heard.

Anyway, I put one of the banners up on WDWPWP - I've only looked at it in Safari, though, so some of you Firefox/IE users take a look and let me know if it's lining up. :)

'Die Hard,' 'Breakfast Club' actor Gleason dead at 67 - CNN

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 27 May 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0506/iraqiresistancereport_270506.htm

I'm dying over here right now ... I know there are a few of you who will understand why this is so fracking hilarious:

Officers discover sex-slave cult (BBC News)

"A sex slavery cult based on a series of 1960s science fiction novels has been uncovered by police in Darlington."

Ha, I've never heard the Goreans described as a 'cult' before ...

"There are an estimated 25,000 Goreans worldwide."

Oil Executives March On D.C.

'We Just Want Our Voices Heard'

The hundreds of executives, majority share-holders, and oil barons say they've been shut out too long.

More News »

Laura Bush doesn't believe bad polls (Reuters)

"First lady Laura Bush said on Sunday she does not believe opinion polls showing her husband's approval ratings at record low levels."

Of course she doesn't.

Amid war's chaos, the fine art of oud making continues (USA Today/Yahoo!)

William Gibson on NSA wiretapping (Boing Boing)
and the page at Radio Open Source

and this may only be interesting to a handful, but Poems Based On The Most Desirable Ad Keywords (Yankee Fog, also via BoingBoing)

Wow.

Bush Approval Rating Hits the 20s for First Time
Editor and Publisher | May 12, 2006

I can't believe this hasn't made the rounds on my friends' page yet:

http://tools.fodey.com/generators/animated/ninjatext.asp