Saturday, February 25, 2006

Participatory Culture Launches "Democracy" Player

I just posted this story to slashdot. Hopefully, they will publish it, but just in case:
In an attempt to sidestep corporate-controlled media, the Participatory Culture Foundation (in association with Downhill Battle) has unveiled a downloadable video player named Democracy that uses Bittorrent and RSS to discover and download videos. They also provide content publishers with the PHP-written Broadcast Machine to enable easy sharing inside the Democracy framework. Democracy software is open source (GPL) and available for Mac and PC with a Linux version coming soon. I've downloaded the Mac version and it works great. The interface is elegant and iTunes-like. It's a resource-hog and can be a bit slow, but it's really good for a beta version.

Truly. This looks like a lot of fun. Check it out!

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Republicans are Lying, Cheating, Conspiring and Warmongering at a Rate Unprecedented in All of American History

The Democrats are pulling in a distant second, but not for lack of trying. The Republicans are just so much better at it. They're so incredibly bold about their mendacity that it gives them incredible latitude in dealing with any situation. Their actions seem to indicate a sort of controlled panic, bordering on insanity, with enough self-righteousness to detonate a building. The Democrats seem to be aware of this paranoid urgency, and to effectively tolerate it.

Kinda makes you wonder what they know that we don't.

I was just reading about Arlen Specter's latest scandal. And I've been reading about the continuing Katrina incompetence™ along with the Abramoff scandal, Plamegate, the NSA Spying!!! scandal and the whole thing where DICK CHENEY SHOT SOME DUDE IN THE FACE!!! Holy shit! I've joked about that shit happening, but I never thought it would actually happen...well at least, not that the media would ever find out.

Jesus, as if you didn't have enough reasons to be scared of Dick Cheney he goes and shoots a friend in the face. I mean seriously, the guy is creepy. He's like the Emperor from Star Wars, except instead of shooting lightning bolts out of his hands, he just shoots you in the face with a 28 gauge.

Damn, dude. We put this guy in charge of a country and he can't even manage to not shoot his friends in the face??!?//?11one!!!!¡¡¡!! ...I mean, that's the first rule in hunting, isn't it?

Thou Shalt Not Shoot Thine Friends in the Face While Hunting (or ever, really)

But Dick. Oh Dick. He's a different one. They call him Dead-eye Dick. I'm not sure if that's because he's half blind, or because you are after he shoots you in the face. Either way, stay the fuck away from Dead-eye Dick Cheney. Don't make him wanna hafta DROP a muthafucka.

Anyway, I digress. But this whole Shotgun-gate thing is a comedic goldmine. Seriously. Comedians all over the world just had a collective jizz of laughter when they heard the news. They're still cleaning it off the carpet. I mean, I feel bad for the guy and all, but I figure he must be kind of dumb. If Dick Cheney asked me if I wanted to go hunting, I would run-the-fuck-the other way.

If you're smart, you'll do the same.

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