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Category: Political
Get Bush outta here…
Looks like my instrument is already patented…
United States Patent: 5,689,078
Music generating system and method utilizing control of music based upon displayed color
Abstract
An apparatus and method for generating music from color input data is disclosed. Color data extracted from a selected portion of a still or moving picture image displayed on a color graphical output means is converted by a central processing unit into a signal comprising musical information which is played by a sound output means. The images are retrieved from a storage device. The image portion converted into musical information corresponds to the location of a cursor displayed over the image. The central processing unit is programmed and controlled by a keyboard and mouse to move the cursor to varying positions on the displayed image and to generate different musical information depending on the color data at each position. The apparatus and method can also be used to transform audio input from a musical device and a MIDI interface into color data for display as an image on a color graphical output means.
10 technologies that deserve to die
Microsoft bCentral: Today’s Business News
Good article by Bruce Sterling
Progressive Magazine, Events, Video and Art
EFF takes on the Music Industry
From the site:
For years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been waging war against peer-to-peer file-sharing software and the technologists who create it. Now the RIAA has turned its crosshairs on you, threatening to sue you for sharing the music you love. But even shotgun-style lawsuits won’t solve the RIAA’s problem. As more and more Americans learn to love online music, the answer must lie in new business models that harness the power of P2P as a vehicle for paying artists. If artists get paid when we share files, then artists win, we win, and yes — even the RIAA wins.
Progressive Community Editorial and News Site
How ridiculous can the Bush administration get?
U.S. May Expand Access To Endangered Species (washingtonpost.com)
From the article:
The Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation policies that would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals on the brink of extinction in other countries.
This would be funny if it wasn’t so utterly devastating..
Wired News
News and articles concerning just about everything I care about.. Hard to imagine the world without Wired.
Archive all that old software.. DMCA says “not so fast”
Wired News: Fighting to Preserve Old Programs
From the article:
But the Internet Archive’s initiative — to create permanent copies of as much software as possible — is beset by legal and technical problems.
Another example of the DMCA running amuck..