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Media

Photos, music, video, screenshots and associated commentary whatnot. I could have phrased that better. I also have accounts on Flickr, Libre.fm (formerly with Last.fm) and Whole Wheat Radio.

Friday 30th July 2010

Whole Wheat Radio: The Dan Mac Quintet

The Dan Mac Quintet

I haven’t featured a Whole Wheat Radio artist for a few weeks, so here’s my favourite for today! From their WWR artist page:

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Wednesday 21st July 2010

Aussie politics in a nutshell

At least it wasn’t Australian Idol or a Big Brother celebrity special, I suppose.

sbsnews: Abbott and Gillard’s debate will be moved to avoid clashing with #MasterChef on Sunday http://bit.ly/9CCxcW

In other news, this is the first post to showcase my brand new graphic to be displayed with pride on each of my Aussie election posts. It’s amazing what 5 minutes in The Gimp and a complete disregard for good design can do :).

Thursday 15th July 2010

Morning Sydney out our window

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The contrast, colour and details on the buildings are terrible, but adjusting the RAW and exporting like this was the only way I could hope to match the colour of the sky out the window this morning. I reckon the real thing was even deeper and bluer than this!

I tell you what, I prefer the climate in Singapore, but nowhere on earth has better skies than Australia :). Except maybe Ireland earlier this year, they had epic skies when we weren’t trapped in a snowbank for long enough to see it.

Tuesday 13th July 2010

Nighttime Sydney out our window

Sydney out our window

The rule of thirds is way off, but I like this picture for some reason. Really like all the blue, especially those random flares at the bottom which I can’t account for at all. Ghosts?

Also makes for an interesting contrast with my photo of Singapore a few days ago.

Sunday 11th July 2010

The RIAA criminal enterprise

Icon from the Tango Desktop Project

Absolutely the best description outside WholeWheatRadio.org I’ve read of the RIAA, in a comment on a CNET story of all places:

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Tuesday 29th June 2010

The Julia Gillard Kevin Rudd #spill

Leadership Showdown: Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd

Decided to archive this news graphic here for posterity, might be funny to look back on in a few years. Was lifted from the ABC News website on the 25th, I’m assuming as a product of a publicly funded company I have permission to use it here, or barring that there’s some fair use clause in there somewhere.

Sheesh, I feel as though I need to drop economics as my minor and take legal studies instead. Copyright is perhaps one of the few things more broken than DRM and my old sandals.

Sunday 27th June 2010

Indie media in the Czech Republic?

In [the] Czech Republic you actually have to pay OSA (they collect money for music usage) if you want to publish your own work (they actually claim that they will return you 70% of that if you sign with them).

Does anyone know if this is true? If it is, I wonder how many Czech internet users are breaking the law with their podcasts? Another case of technology always being two [hundred] steps ahead of the law.

My dad, sis and I went to Plzeň in the Czech Republic in January. Some really beautiful old buildings and great food. Good thing I didn’t attempt to publish any of the audio I recorded while I was there!

Friday 28th May 2010

Kubatana Marimba Ensemble on WWR

I like most of the music that plays on Whole Wheat Radio, but sometimes a song comes on that grabs my attention so much it deserves an opening sentence far better than this one! Today’s such song was by the Kubatana Marimba Ensemble, that just happened to be the Artist of the Day.

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Wednesday 05th May 2010

Google Editions to sell electronic dead trees

How to Raze a Healthy Cat by Neal O'Carroll of IntoYourHead.com

Google has announced they’ll start selling books, presumably in electronic form unless they’ve extended their search algorithm to include people frantically working in libraries with magnifying glasses.

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Saturday 01st May 2010

It started as a Woolworths payment rant

Woolworths fail

In what could be characterised as classic duopoly abuse, Woolworths supermarkets here in Australia have announced they will no longer honour Visa debit card requests. Ugh.

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Dedicated to my groovy late mum Debra Schade.