Archive for the ‘web’ Category

Public Domain Media = Good

Us ninjas know how important it is to spread the knowledge, so we’re gonna hit you off with a little quality product…

Huge archive of free movies, documentaries, cartoons, music and comedy that have entered the public domain.

Peep ’em

Good looks, Ian

Michael Vick Gets MySpaced

Dude takes out a girlie and, unbeknownst to him, he’s on mySpace with herps and blunt in hand. Bogus.

A tad bit more info from mediatakeout.com

[ed: thanks Ian, altho i might have not needed to see that brazen herpie, ninja]

Transforming SPAM to ART

Alex Dragulescu creates art from "data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets." These are spam plants and this is spam architecture.

The Evolution of Office Space

An historical look at how buildings have moved people to work in different ways. A quote, shall we? Let’s shall.

What kind of working environment produces the best dynamics?AA What set of spatial factors call for the most efficiency while allowing the greatest flow of creativity to surge forward?AA I doubt these type of questions were asked in the early 20th century when Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Larking Building.

Ok well I’m not sure about the validity of that last statement, but it’s an interesting site nonetheless.

At the Working Environment Blog

Craigslist Founder Aims to "Give People a Break"

Listen to the BBC interview of Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark (left, with Jim Buckmaster, president and CEO), talk of his wishes of full democratisation of the internet…

Props to Ian for the heads up

Beantown Pride at The Brilliant Mistake

So on a recent trip back to my stomping grounds in the Beantown, I met this cat Mike who has a blog that’s strictly holding it down for anything ill, especially what’s poppin off in Boston. He’s got dope photos and all sorts of insider info. Peep him sonny!

The Brilliant Mistake

What Music Looks Like

Having trouble seeing all those hi-hats? Have fun with this musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "Digital Harmony." If you fail to subscribe to the back end of music visualization, check out "The Shape of Song," which outlines composers like Bach and Glass.

Thanks to Ian.

Yahoo to Offer DRM-free MP3s (Holleratchaboy!)

It stands to reason that if you already done paid your $0.99 per song for your Gnarls Barkley tracks from ITMS that you might be able to, I don’t know, copy them wherever you want, agreed? Well, Yahoo agrees too and is pushing forward with their eventual plans to sell all of their music with no restrictions. Myninjaplease.com wonders what the record companies think of that idea (and doesn’t particularly care).

Ok Granted, the only song available right now is some Jessica Simpson track… and granted it’s two bucks… but it’s still interesting enough for us to drop the link on ya.

Full Story Via: Wired.com

Hong Kong government using kids in the War on Piracy!

The government of Hong Kong has enlisted the help of an army of young snitches to help them sniff out pirated software, music and video on the internet.AA 200,000 children from 11 youth organizations, among them the Boy Scouts, will be actively searching the ‘net for illegal distributors of digital content.

From the article:

"Tam Yiu-keung, the Hong Kong Excise and Customs Department’s senior superintendent of customs for intellectual property investigations, said the program should not raise any concerns about privacy or the role of children in law enforcement. The youths will be visiting Internet discussion sites that are open to all, so the government program is no different than asking young people to tell the police if they see a crime while walking down the street, he said."

original article in The New York Times

via slashdot