microflarets

I want a pair of Coxto Campers but cannot find them short of flying to Sydney to window shop. if anyone has seen them, let me know.

26 Oct 09 @ 13:23

NIN fan produced dvd

NIN, continuing to push the boundaries. It can truly be said that the fans form part of this band.

12 Oct 09 @ 18:48

being a supporter of individual liberties online (read: paranoid), I’ve been following freenet development. I’m also interested in distributed computing (the internet is, after all, a massively parallel computer with no downtime). Now, these things have been combined in swarm.

08 Oct 09 @ 07:18

the pirate bunker

not only will they outlive threats from the entertainment industry, they may yet outlive us all.

17 Sep 09 @ 11:55

http://ia311203.us.archive.org/2/items/YochaiBenkler/BenklerWithSlides.mp2.ff.ogv

Yochai Benkler, author of Wealth of Networks

21 Aug 09 @ 18:28

20 Aug 09 @ 12:54

I’m sick of bad flash players that internet radio stations use. So I wrote a simple shell script to play a station. Substitute your favourite station and player.

1. Copy this into a new text file (say, play_radio.sh)

FILE=/tmp/stream-`date +%H%M-%d%b%G`.mp3
STATION=http://live.citr.ca:8000/stream.mp3
PLAYER=mp3blaster
echo “buffering to ‘$FILE’…”
terminal -x wget -O$FILE $STATION &
sleep 10
echo “opening stream…”
$PLAYER $FILE

2. make it excecutable

chmod +x play_radio.sh

3. run

./play_radio.sh

Increase the buffering length if you want to be able to skip forward over any boring bits. It’s pretty easy to split this mp3 stream later (using mp3splt or similar) to save a song you hear and like!