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Open Source links for 2010-03-03

Video: Robots that make things! (And how sharing is the best way to run a business and your life.) | opensource.com “A few folks from Red Hat’s video team had the opportunity last summer to attend the first Open Video Conference in New York. We met some inspiring, open minded, and highly motived people and […]

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Exposing Corruption; Transparency International

I watched this video presentation by Peter Eigen, from TED, and then looked up the site for Transparency International. Inspiring and worth spending some time at the site to learn about dealign with corruption on a global scale. Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt | Video on TED.com “”Some of the world’s most baffling […]

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Reviews of Exploding Head for early March, 2010

THE ORIGINAL SIN: ALBUMREVIEWS : A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS – EXPLODING HEAD Is it a good album? It’s a grower as they say and death by audio still is the colest way to die so…. (tags: aptbs explodinghead review) Exploding Head – A Place To Bury Strangers « Long Live the Album “For those […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for later February, 2010

A Place to Bury Strangers Hit the Road with The Big Pink, Damage the Road’s Eardrums | News Article | Tiny Mix Tapes “A Place to Bury Strangers, one of New York’s only “noise rock” bands to completely disregard the New York sound for sonics much more European, is not going to Europe. “ (tags: […]

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Lovedisk Links

À La Mode « Hideous Sunday One of the greatest examples of interactive media I’ve ever seen came burned onto a CD-ROM bundled with an annual awards issue of ID magazine. Love Disc 95, the work of Paul Kim and Karl Ackermann, former RISD graduates, was a series of stream of consciousness mini games of […]

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Large Cyber Criminal Attack, 2010-02-19

More than 75,000 computer systems hacked in one of largest cyber attacks, security firm says – washingtonpost.com “More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals discovered to […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers, Reviews of the Australia Shows

Time keeps slipping away « x→0 Oh yes, earplugs were probably a good idea. Oh no, I was not going to leave them in I was going to savour every note, every word, every chord, every distorted moan, every acid trip of a song and no foam was going to get in the way. I […]

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Being a programmer, Harnessing the wind, Tracking power outages- An agglomeration of links for Feb 12, 2010

Job snapshot: Programmer | View from the Cubicle | TechRepublic.com Interview of an IT programmer. Some reasonable information for students who might be interested in being a programmer. (tags: programming it job interview) William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind | Video on TED.com Excelelnt and inspiring talk (tags: ted africa technology video) http://outagemap.dom.com/DomComFlexOutageViewer/index.html Check […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for second week of February, 2010

DISCOSALT » A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: IN YOUR HEART The video, directed by Adam Grabarnick, cinematographer Marcos Durian and produced by Sara Laffer manages to capture a snapshot of the band live, a throwback to New Yorks grittier new wave basement clubs only louder, where volume and thrashing through a sweat soaked crowd can […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers reviews & interviews links for early February, 2010

NSR Gig Reviews: A Place To Bury Strangers @ The Other Rooms “The charismatic Ackermann is one hell of a performer, not just in terms of his notable musical talent, but also in terms of his commanding stage presence. He was one of the most dynamic stage performers I’ve ever seen, constantly in motion, injecting […]

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