Mike restores my hope in The Fountain.

“The essence of totalitarian prose is that it does not define, it does not deliver, it oppresses. It obstructs from above. It is profoundly contemptuous of the minds who will receive the message, so it does its best to dull this conciousness with sentances which are nothing but bricked-in power structures.”
-Norman Mailer

since i can post less i’ll be adding a thoughts category. it’ll basically be shorter quotes, links, and interesting stuff i find around the web.

coincidence - my english teacher is a personal friend of norman mailer! cool…

expect my online presence will be drastically reduced over the coming month (hopefully not months, no promises). i’ll still be working with the following projects:

poddev
youmakemedia
project x (to cover my ass if i forgot something)

i’m also continuing (and taking on more) client work. rates are going up though, so get in ASAP!

please follow me at those other projects and I’ll try to post to this site but I really have to concentrate on school and client work solely otherwise I’m not gonna be getting myself an HVX-200 by next August!

erm… bye

chris

I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to buy it, in 1984. I used it through high school and college; it was the first computer I used outside of college, then I went though a brief period of exile during my corporate years as a professional literary agent, where I was forced to use a PC . . .Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat. They just know it. PC’s efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he’s much cooler than the Mac. The whole reason they’re standing in that white room is because he’s trying to help the Mac out.

-John Hodgman

Friend/Poddevver Peter Upfold has posted the 3rd part of his Linux tutorial, Understanding File Permissions. It’s a fantastic guide to understanding the way that file permissions work in Linux, since its often confusing for us new users!

Chris

[tags]peter upfold, file permissions, permissions, linux, tutorial[/tags]

Mozilla Corp. just virtually yelled at Debian Linux for misusing the Firefox trademark.

I’ll try to simplify the situation, but it’s all documented here.

Mozilla: “yeah, you can use our branding!”
Debian: “Oooh, I don’t want to use the logo, that’s under a ‘non-free’ license” (aka not “open source”, but in a graphic sense… tough to explain. basically the logo is copyrighted somehow that violates debian’s principles)
Mozilla: “Okay that’s cool. Just change the logo and you can still use the “Firefox” name, as long as the changes you guys make to Firefox are not very big.”
Debian: “Yay!”

Cut to this week.

Mozilla: “Hey Debian. You’re misusing our trademark.”
Debian: “WTF?!”
Mozilla: “Yeah! You guys are using our name without the logo!”
Debian: “WTF?! But you said…”
Mozilla: “You get all or nothing! You’re going to have to change the name of the browser in Debian too, or you’re violating the trademark!”
Debian: “…there’s always Epiphany…”

Lame. Lame. Lame.

Mozilla, don’t fall down the corporate trap. Don’t forget your roots. These are the people who got you where you are - and you’re repaying them by stabbing them in the back.

Don’t be stupid Mozilla. Stupidity is stupid.

And you know it.

Chris

[tags]mozilla,debian,trademark,copyright,logo,firefox,mozilla firefox, open source[/tags]

Do you want to start a video blog but don’t know how?

Do you want to podcast, but need some hints on how to get the best possible quality?

Do you want to create the next new media super-series?

YouMakeMedia is here to help!

From the about section:

YouMakeMedia is here to help you along every step of your media creation journey, from pre-production through post (and beyond). We offer tutorials, links, video, audio, and reports of industry news - whatever we feel will help you in becoming a “new media guru”.

I think that describes YMM pretty well.

Check it out today - I currently have a LonelyGirl15 case study up. I’m working on some more content before the “official launch” on Monday, however you loyal RambleOn readers deserve something for your loyalty, so you get to see this first.

Hope you enjoy it, and feel free to subscribe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/youmakmedia

Chris

http://youmakemedia.com/2006/09/21/ymm/