The Betacantrips Travelogue

Today’s Diesel Sweeties touches on an important theme: fuck the RIAA.

Seen on TCTD. ???

As you may have spotted via his American Elf site, Offworld’s Monster Mii and Superf*ckers Review creator James Kochalka has just released his latest Superstar album, Digital Elf, this time with a twist: all 15 songs were composed and performed on his Game Boy Advance in Nanoloop.

This isn’t quite your usual chiptune affair, though: if you recall his Offworld-original sexy holiday song for Monster Mii Zex, or his Superf*ckers theme song, you’ll know exactly what to expect.

The days slip away… (from today’s Puppetry)

Seen on Cory McWilliams’s blog. <3!!!

I wanted to play with electronics and home automation. This is what I came up with.

The following sequence of events is not just a dramatization. It happened yesterday.

• The UPS delivery guy delivers a package and pushes my doorbell button.
• The button rings my doorbell and switches a relay.
• The relay drives a pin high on the GBA port on the Nintendo DS.
• A homebrew app runs on the DS which reads from EEPROM every frame, effectively polling the relay state.
• The DS connects to my wireless access point, sends an HTTP request to my server, and then goes offline again.
• The HTTP request executes a CGI script which connects to a chat server I’ve been working on, sends a message, and then disconnects.
• The chat server stores the message and sends it to any connected clients.
• One of the clients, which was the result of an AJAX request, returns the new message to a web browser.
• Cory, in his web browser, is notified that a package has arrived.

Seen on Cory McWilliams’s blog. <3.

Penalty for demonstrating an affinity for cardboard and then being absent for a week on a honeymoon.

Seen on Slashdot:

In a few weeks, tens of thousands of creative people will make their yearly pilgrimage to Nevada’s Black Rock desert for Burning Man, an annual art event and temporary community celebrating radical self expression, self-reliance, creativity and freedom, but EFF reports that the event’s Terms and Conditions include ‘a remarkable bit of legal sleight-of-hand.’

File under: Burning Hypocrisy. I’ll admit that caring so much about who owns the photos and who has control of them is a little ludicrous, but you should know I’m all about the ludicrous causes.

File under: 3d printers, deliciousness. Seen on JWZ’s Livejournal: Pancake Printer.

Seen on Brian Clevinger’s site: an Atomic Robo costume. I also saw this close up at Anticipation — it was pretty damn cool!

Seen on the Debian NEW queue page: weirdx entered NEW???

Description:
 weirdx     - X server in Java
Changes:
 weirdx (1.0.32-3) unstable; urgency=low
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   * Convert to dh 7 and quilt
   * Change from sun to openjdk and move to main (Closes: #540445)