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Digital Culture Media

P2P research right here at Carolina…

From BoingBoing, a story about an economics professor here at UNC that’s come to the conclusion that (*gasp, shock*) illegal downloading of music doesn’t actually affect album sales.

A quote from the paper: “Even in the most pessimistic specification, five thousand downloads are needed to displace a single album sale…high selling albums actually benefit from file sharing. ”

Allow me to translate the gist of the paper to non-academic speak for those not at a University:

“Screw you, RIAA, you bunch of money grubbing litigious jerkwads.”

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Master's Paper Personal

It’s 3am..do you know where your sanity is?

Statistics for Master's paper - 3am, 03/29/04

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Master's Paper Personal

Master’s Paper update

  • 31 pages
  • writing the conclusion
  • found lots of damning evidence on the ALA website about their copyright policies
  • pretty happy with the way its going
  • just like in 28 days later, the end is very fucking nigh
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Digital Culture

Get some Free Culture

Lawrence Lessig’s newest book, Free Culture, is available for download on his website, licensed under a Creative Commons license.

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Media The Living Dead

Yet more zombie stuff

I swear I think I’m going to have to change the title of this blog to “Bring Out Your Dead” given all the zombie posts. But this one was too funny not to include.

I give you: SHAUN OF THE DEAD!

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Digital Culture

Cool CSS Trick

The amount of cool stuff that you can do with clever use of CSS is just amazing. Take a look at a neat CSS hack for applying drop shadows to nearly any box or graphic.

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Digital Culture Media The Living Dead

And speaking of zombies…

According to BoingBoing and the Internet Archive the copyright on the original Night of the Living Dead has expired, and the whole freaking movie is available for download.

Now my question is: how can this POSSIBLY be in the public domain? It was made in 1968. Did the copyright owner release it? Anyone have any idea?

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Digital Culture Media The Living Dead

In honor of Dawn of the Dead

Well, it’s a huge crime that I haven’t gotten to see the movie yet, being the horror AND zombie fan that I am. For those that also have yet to see the shuffling horrors of a good zombie film lately, here’s some Zombie Pinups to keep you entertained.

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Media Personal

This is poignant: SHUT UP!

Got a chance to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind this weekend, and the movie itself is brilliant. Absolutely wonderful…Kaufman writes such good scripts, and Winslet and Carrey are just perfect. I just gotta say, Kate Winslet is stunning, even in a severely damaged character.

BUT

Random person behind me at the Carolina: That moment in the movie…you know, the one that wasn’t funny? The poignant one? Next time that comes around in a film, SHUT UP! Thanks.

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Digital Culture

Rummy caught lying

Or perhaps he simply misremembered…in any case, MoveOn.org has a great clip of Rumsfield being taken to task on Face the Nation. Basically, he claims that he never said that Saddam was an “imminent threat” to the US, and the hosts then take great joy in throwing quotes at him where he said effectively that. Really great to see someone calling the Bush cartel on their lies.

Take a look at the video