Larry Lessig speaks about the relation between law and creativity, the remix culture, and many of the interesting facets of the internet era as it affects copyright and related issues.
A very interesting talk, with a very effective presentation. It's called "Open for Business" and it's on TED, which I think I'm gonna explore a little further, ( Read more... )

I want friends like these. This seems like so much fun. Reminds me of that "Flagpole Sitta" video.

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Boo 0.8 is out. I didn't really get anything done for this version (bad Avish!), but it's awesome nevertheless. In particular, this release improves on the powerful meta-programming capabilities of the language. Simply put, you can write code that modifies your code. That makes "extensible" an uber-understatement ( Read more... )

DrumPants let you play the drums by stomping your feet and tapping on your thighs - a skill I've been perfecting for quite some time now for just such an occasion.

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To summarize: DO WANT!

(Linkage via BoingBoing)

As the name implies, it's a lolcats/postsecret mashup. That notion alone is enough to make it funny.


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You know that moment when you take out the last bug and suddenly everything you wrote comes to life for the first time? The more code you write before attempting to run it, the better this feeling is. This is actually a bad practice with a self-defense mechanism: it makes you feel good when you pull it through :)


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I've recently re-ran into some of my old code which animates rows in a .NET DataGridView. I know trying to do animation in WinForms is close to pointless, what with WPF and everything, but it was there and we don't have WPF at work yet and I needed something fun to toy with. Bear with me ( Read more... )

It makes me peaceful inside to think that there's an alternate timeline where all the music videos are like this.

Due to popular Talash's demand, I'll start posting Currently Cool entries as regular posts instead of the floating one.

This post, then, will serve as an archive of whatever I could remember from the floating era of Currently Cool. So what did we have there?

• I'm pretty sure I started with Naturally7 spontaneously perform an a-capella rendition ( Read more... )