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I’ve been toying around the idea of using a more agile publishing platform; i.e. a (digital) place without all the bells and whistles and the “sense of ceremony” of this blog thing. Well, the sense of ceremony is supposed to belong to a distant universe very far from the blogosphere but, you know, that draft-feature in WordPress has a terrible effects on my procrastinating-self.

So I started an alternative brain dump somewhere else, the place is mrfabbri.posterous.com.

The future of television is digital terrestrial.

On digital terrestrial you see a whole lot of nothing.

The future of television is (seeing) a whole lot of nothing.

(with apologies to the original “Trains whistle/Socrates whistles/Socrate is a train” thing).

I don’t know what the heck is in the Box … but on the screen there is freaking awesome video.

There is also an “official” web site.

via Giavasan.

As consolidated tradition Happy Π Day.

By the way, it looks like for the non-americans 22th July (22/7 = 3.1428571428571428) would be a more appropriate date to celebrate, as we don’t turn around day and month in formatting dates (e.g. 3/14/2009).

One of my first sources of music (and inspiration for new artists) on the internet has been Radio Paradise. During the years Radio Paradise kept on impressing me with an outstanding soundtrack for studying/working/training hours, and the magic keeps on rolling every day.

Just for your information this has been the playlist so far this morning:

• The Cure - The Love Cats
  
• Quetzal - Planta De Los Pies
  
• Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
  
• Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
  
• U2 - Magnificent
  
• The Caesars - Jerk It Out
  
• Ray Barretto - A Deeper Shade of Soul
  
• My Morning Jacket - Touch Me
  
• Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
  
• Madness - One Step Beyond
  
• Gogol Bordello - Tribal Connection
  
• Paco De Lucia - A Pesar De Todo
  
• Charlie Musselwhite - Que Te Parece, Cholita
  
• Rolling Stones - Miss You
  
• John Butler Trio - Zebra

You have just to love it. Thanks Radio Paradise, for keeping on rocking (any given day)!

Did I mention it is commercial free and it’s fully listener supported? If you like it be sure to support Radio Paradise.

I’m a habitual listener of Jamie “jwz” Zawinski’s DNA Lounge podcast, actually it provides a soundtrack for my running (and coding) sessions, in ">recent news I discovered that:

The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is trying to put DNA Lounge permanently out of business. They are accusing us of “running a disorderly house injurious to the public welfare and morals”, and are trying to permanently revoke our liquor license.

So this morning I did a small donation, good deed of the day FTW. (plus if I will ever go to San Francisco I’d like to visit one of the best underground clubs on earth)

Support DNA Lounge: Legal Defense Fund.

Best of Bootie 2008 is out… hell yes!

Here comes the track listing:

1. Party Ben - Bootie Intro
2. DJ Tripp - Paper Rump (Wreckx-N-Effect vs. M.I.A.) - Santa Cruz, CA
3. ComaR - I Want You D.A.N.C.E. (Justice vs. Jackson 5) - Paris
4. Lobsterdust - It’s Fun To Smoke Dust (Queen vs. Pastor Gary Greenwald vs. Midfield General) - New York City
5. Earworm - No More Gas (Rihanna vs. Kardinal Offishall vs. Akon vs. Ne-Yo vs. Estelle vs. Pussycat Dolls vs. Leona Lewis vs. Danity Kane vs. Madonna vs. Timbaland vs. Justin Timberlake vs. Lupe Fiasco vs. Matthew Santos vs. Britney Spears vs. Flo-Rida vs. T-Pain) - San Francisco
6. STV SLV / The Hood Internet - Shut Up, American Boy (Estelle vs. The Ting Tings) - Chicago
7. DJ Zebra - Roxanne Should Be Dancing (The Police vs. The Bee Gees) - Paris
8. Overdub - Come As The Starlight (Nirvana vs. The Supermen Lovers) - France
9. DJ Y Alias JY - Duffy Train Running (Duffy vs. Doobie Brothers) - Munich
10. DJ Magnet - Chicago Bump (Bootie edit) (Chicago vs. Amanda Blank vs. Spank Rock vs. Bloodhound Gang vs. Greg Kihn Band vs. Detroit Grand Pubahs) - Denver
11. DJ Shyboy - You Spin Me Upside Down (Diana Ross vs. Dead Or Alive) - Los Angeles
12. Divide & Kreate - Dance Dreams (Lady Gaga vs. Eurythmics) - Stockholm, Sweden
13. ABX / The Hood Internet - Bonde Do Roll Out (Ludacris vs. Bonde Do Role) - Chicago
14. DJ Fox - Low Dog (Bootie edit) (Flo-Rida vs. The Stooges vs. Dakar & Grinser) - San Francisco
15. The Illuminoids - Gimme Shelter (Illuminoids remix) (Rolling Stones) - Los Angeles
16. Divide & Kreate - Until It Talks (Metallica vs. Coldplay) - Stockholm, Sweden
17. A Plus D - Believe In Sexual Eruption (Snoop Dogg vs. Cher) - San Francisco
18. Totom - Every Kind Of Creep (Zebra remix) (Radiohead vs. Robert Palmer) - France
19. Earworm - If I Were A Free Fallin’ Boy (Beyoncé vs. Tom Petty) - San Francisco
20. Brat - Easy Heaven (The Cure vs. The Commodores) - Los Angeles

By the way, Happy New Year!

Improving on last year’s version…

…and for the coding-inclined here comes the source

#!/bin/bash

#lights_off
#
#          *==<
#           /\
#          /  \
#         / @  \
#        /      \
#       / @    @ \
#           ||
#
#       NERDY CHRISTMAS
#       AND
#       GEEKY NEW YEAR!
#

#lights_on
#
#          *==<
#           /\
#          / *\
#         / @  \
#        / *  * \
#       / @  * @ \
#           ||
#
#       NERDY CHRISTMAS
#       AND
#       GEEKY NEW YEAR!
#

	
frows=14;
stime=1;
which tput >/dev/null || alias tput=“clear”;
	
display(){
    tput cup 0 0;
    grep -A$frows \#”$1″ “$0″ | tail -n$frows | sed ’s/#/\ /’;
}
	
animation(){
     display lights_off && sleep $stime;
     display lights_on && sleep $stime
}
	
clear;
yes | while read i;
do animation;
done;

Mozilla Community needs you… for a quick survey: “Firefox in your country“.

I took it and it takes only 5 minutes, take it and help improving your favorite browser. The deadline is December 26th.

via [gioxx]… via [pseudotecnico].

In other news…

Microsoft releases its first iPhone app: “the application allows users to browse high-resolution images, according to information provided by Microsoft. The application is optimized for use over 3G and Wi-Fi networks“. (Which in other words means it is not optimized for any low bandwidth connection)

I am holding an iPhone in my hands.

UPDATE: I also mistook the past tense of freeze, which by no means is freezed, brrr…