Anthony Volodkin is fascinated

Really like the Cat Dog Leaderboard IAB unit on SomethingAwful.  Classic.

"When our parents sent a letter in the mail, nobody was allowed to open it to check if it contained a copied poem, which would infringe on the copyright monopoly. When our parents sent a letter in the mail, they and they alone determined if they identified themselves as sender on the outside of the envelope, inside the envelope, or not at all. When our parents sent a letter in the mail, the mailman was never held responsible for the contents of that letter, regardless of if the contents infringed a particular copyright monopoly or were even downright illegal.
It is entirely reasonable to demand sternly that our children have the same rights as our parents and grandparents had. A particular corporation’s profitability does not factor into it."

I Don’t Care About The Entertainment Industry’s Profits, And It Enrages Me That You Think I Should - Falkvinge on Infopolicy (via rafer)

(via rafer)

Totally on the money here - people haven’t gotten the experience right, and frankly I don’t think this experience matters that much.  If it mattered, I’d see as many people using Turntable/FB_Listen_With as people making playlists on Spotify.  The synchronous experiences that are useful on the web are very few (like Skype and IM), and all the rest fade quickly in adoption due to the brutal demands of synchronicity.  

dankantor:

Yesterday Facebook got into the “Listen With” game by announcing a new feature that allows people to click a button and listen to what their friends are listening to along with them. I haven’t tried it yet but it does look pretty nice.

Sirah - MC [TIMJ]

This one goes out to all the women in tech.

That’s a lot of synthetic musicianship this week

Telling it like it is! <3

“They’re made out of meat”

In case you can’t read, this is an excellent video version of the earlier.

"They’re made out of meat."

Terry Bisson’s “They are made out of meat”

Most excellent (via Alex)

How to report the news by the BBC. Pleasantly literal (via Alex)

More Skrillex last night, this time at Terminal 5.  Tons of fun as well.  

Turns out he is a Hype Machine fan, a good reminder of why we do this.

Thanks for the invite, Stephen!

Skrillex was a lot of fun last night at Roseland (RS/Fluxblog).

As the room lit up with projections of Call of Duty footage, Nyan Cat animations and sample-heavy bass, I couldn’t stop thinking that this show was among the signs that “Internet culture” is now just culture.

The Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, sort of.

This is Igor Sysoev, the creator of the nginx web server.  He enjoys skiing and has just 2 friends on the Russian Facebook-like social network VKontakte: the founder Pavel and his brother.  He looks like a badass.

Tea is important at the office (ft. Sri Lankan passion fruit tea via Ukraine)

I approve of this.