2010 May 10, 8:59Iggy Pop interviews Shepard Fairey, including his Obama HOPE poster and AP lawsuit:
"... but the American public is generally pretty superficial, so an image like that just allows them to project whatever limited idea they have onto it. Obviously, not everyone is like that—I
actually think there were a lot of people who were bummed by the image because they felt it was shallow propaganda."
"If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that’s not cool. But the way I make
art—the way a lot of people make art—is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It’s about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting
but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn’t in any way take away from the original—and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience." artlegallawipshepard-faireyobeyinterview
2010 Apr 21, 6:51Adds SHA 256 & 512 to HTTP instance digest: 'The IANA registry named "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest Algorithm Values" defines values for digest algorithms used by Instance Digests in
HTTP. Instance Digests in HTTP provide a digest, also known as a checksum or hash, of an entire representation of the current state of a resource. This document adds new values to the registry and
updates previous values.'hashcryptographyhttpinstance-digestshasecuritytechnicalietfrfcstandard
2010 Apr 21, 6:49"OAuth provides a method for clients to access server resources on behalf of a resource owner (such as a different client or an end-user). It also provides a process for end-users to authorize
third-party access to their server resources without sharing their credentials (typically, a username and password pair), using user-agent redirections."oauthauthorizationsecurityprivacyinternetwebrfcstandardtechnical
2010 Apr 11, 3:51"In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals." Its easy to get awesome stats like this when talking about lawlessness on airplanes given its great
infrequency.statisticshumorsecuritybruce-schneierairplane
2010 Mar 9, 12:09Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (I know them from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) were in this british comedy in the late 90s Spaced. A decade later its still pretty funny. spacedbritishhumortvhulusimon-pegg
2010 Mar 5, 2:54LiveJournal replaces affiliate links with their own... Between this and not being able to stick in videos, script, etc maybe its time to switch blogging sites...bloglivejournaltechnical
2010 Mar 3, 2:59'Imagine watching Raging Bull in a dilapidated ring, or Shawshank Redemption in an abandoned prison. That is the concept behind Banksy’s latest stunt, for the UK premiere of his film “Exit Through
the Gift Shop“.' movieartbanksycultural-disobediancestreet
2010 Jan 20, 2:52"DeweyMusic is a new interface for Archive.org's wonderful public domain music library. You can listen to, download, remix, and share anything you see on this site legally and for free."dewey-musicmusicaudioippublic-domaininternetfreemp3
2010 Jan 8, 1:53Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, by Adam Bertocci: "Thou err’st; no man calls me Lebowski. Yet thou art man; neither spirit damned nor wandering shadow, thou art solid flesh, man of woman born. Hear
rightly, man!—for thou hast got the wrong man. I am the Knave, man; Knave in nature as in name."humorvia:ethan_t_heinshakespearethe-big-lebowskiplayparodyenglish
2009 Oct 19, 4:32"This was our Zombie Wedding cake made by Mike's Amazing Cakes in Seattle! They're awesome! They made the Bride and Groom on top look like us down to the tux and dress, and the zombies matched our
wedding party too!" photocakeweddingzombie
2009 Oct 8, 11:29The title sounds like its a line out of a text adventure. Actually its Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine getting beaten by a parrot.videohumorparrotstephen-fryvia:dadecologybbc
2009 Aug 31, 4:41"The Morph and the Mandelbrot animation are all real-time ASCII and done via JavaScript code. The "Shark-like" Skylined logo looks like 3D and really cool. I was amazed when I saw it for the first
time." Is this the Skylined that I know? That's some hardcore ASCII animation.skylinedjavascriptasciivia:waxyanimation
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