Chuck Mauk

April 2nd, 2009

Chuck Mauk Chuck was sprawled on the pavement and bleeding near his bicycle in a parking lot a few blocks from home. He had gone to a nearby store for candy and gum, an almost daily ritual.

Sad story about someone I actually knew fairly well.  He lived one street over and I spent the night at his house once about a year before this happened. He introduced the song “Bad to the Bone” to me – I had never heard it at that time. He was the super cool kid everybody liked.  A tragic event that happened when we were both in the 7th grade. I hope it will one day be solved but I fear it won’t.

In Honor of Alex

March 5th, 2009

passwordparrot
Especially if it’s Four.

A Light Bulb Rejoices

March 5th, 2009

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VIA

Analog Hole

February 11th, 2009

analog_hole “The analog hole is a fundamental and inevitable vulnerability in copy prevention schemes for noninteractive works in digital formats which can be exploited to duplicate copy-protected works that are ultimately reproduced using analog means. Once digital information is converted to a human-perceptible (analog) form – as it must be, given the analog nature of our human senses – it is a relatively simple matter to digitally recapture that analog reproduction in an unrestricted form, thereby circumventing the restrictions placed on copyrighted digitally-distributed work.”