the reality tunnel

I was told that content posted to myspace become’s theirs, but I never verified it for myself.  Turns out its true.  From their TOS: By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) on or through the Services, you hereby [...]

So I had this external firewire drive that I use both on my Linux box and my OS X box.  When I try to mount it under linux, I get an error saying “HFS-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is recommended.  mounting read-only”.  However, the drive works fine under OS X, and [...]

So Oliver is trying to figure out what’s best for his kids, Stuse is working on an audio documentary about alternatives in education from the roadtrip of free schools and alternative schools she took in the spring, Ben is reading Teruvina’s copy of the Teenage Liberation Handbook, and Patrick’s friend Rich is working on a [...]

If ever there was an epigraph for Chris Colvard’s Creative Commons/Free Culture talk … John Battelle’s Searchblog: Memo to the RIAA: Don’t Screw This One Up Too..: Good f’ing lord, RIAA. Wake up. This is how we use music in the real world. Get over yourselves.

I woke up today and still felt kind of sleep deprived, event after the longest amount of sleep I’ve had in days, so I spent today doing life organizational tasks rather than anything that is actually productive. Going through notes and old e-mail as well as coming through recent conversations, I started to come upon [...]

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I found these a while ago while flipping through a book on herbal/natural medicine at Corinna’s during game night.  I’m in the process of cleaning out the pages in my hipster PDA and this was written on one of the cards. Chondroitin Sulfate Glucosamine or Acetylglucosamine Methylsulfonyl-Methone (MSM)

In ecological terms, an indicator species is life that can draw attention to the condition of an ecosystem and even warn of an impending biological crisis. The Pittsburgh-based performance group, The Indicator Species, tries to draw attention to social crisis – the unbounded growth and abuse of the prison industrial complex and violence in our [...]

archive the filesystem to the backup directory$ tar -C ~ -zcf community_blogs-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz community_blogs archive the database$ backupdb database username password hostname community_blogs_db backup the filesystem$ rm -rf ~/community_blogs.bak && mv ~/community_blogs ~/community_blogs.bak Download the latest nightly build of wpmu from http://mu.wordpress.org/download/ and extract it$ wget http://blogs.linux.ie/download/wpmu/wpmu-unstable.tar.gz -O ~/backup/community_blogs_packages/wpmu-unstable.tar.gz$ cd ~ && tar zxf ~/backup/community_blogs_packages/wpmu-unstable.tar.gz [...]

So here’s the skateboard design that Ryan came up with for a potential Defiance, Ohio skateboard put out by our friend Chris’ skate company Front Porch Skateboards.