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The Innovation Paradox Those were heady times when a young but still balding friend first told me about Napster. I was living on campus at the time and plugged into a fast T-1 line, networked to hundreds of people on campus, and hundreds of thousands of people off of campus that were all sharing MP3's, for free. I woke up in the morning, searched for music, selected a list of songs to download, and went to class. Returning later that day I would find, 10, 20, 30 new free songs were on my computer. Then before bed, shower, rinse, repeat. Heady times I say. Well, the Napster empire crashed, due in large part to a Supreme Court ruling. But, in the aftermath arose a second generation of file sharing softwares and they faced their day in court yesterday. What I found most interesting about the Grokster court case was the cry by the pro-grokster crowd that saving Grokster is tantamount to saving innovation. That, my friends, is crap.Softwares that helps people steal copyrighted material should not be looked on to save innovation. I've never used Grokster but I find it hard to believe that anything they are using is ground breaking. Bit Torrent on the other hand..., but that is a conversation for another post. My point is this, people need to be free to innovate but people also need to be allowed to make money off their innovations. It is a clear paradox. Innovation thrives both through a community of free, shared ideas and through the carrot of wealth via patents. We do not need to destroy or even encourage the subversion of patent law to allow for innovation. Instead, we need to encourage both sides of the innovation paradox and not defend one in spite of the other. In the case of Grokster, there can be a compelling argument made that these file sharing sites help the record industry and small artist/ innovators more than they hurt them. However, in the same way the music industry is closed minded about this fact, the pro-grokster crowd is closed-minded about where the real innovation in the software industry is. Grokster is not innovative but, Linux Is. This means the important battle in the copyright world is the battle for Linux. SCO is trying to take money not just from Linux but from everyone that runs Linux because SCO claims that Linux is using patented kernel of code. This is where things get long, confusing and tricky. For me though, this is the type of battle the pro-grokster crowd should be fighting. Since the start of OrangeCoat I have seen first hand the power of innovation through the open source community. CMS softwares like Mambo, Pivot, and WordPress are just as, if not more, powerful than most proprietary solutions. The open source community breeds innovation and should be encouraged and defended just as strongly as patents. My concern is that the Grokster crowd will cloud the argument for important open source battles. Let's not put all our eggs or even one egg in the grokster=innovation fight. Kill Grokster for all I care. Let's instead worry about saving Linux and finding legal uses for Bit Torrent. We need patents and should not try to destroy them. We instead need to act in a proactive manner to make, support, encourage and protect the open source community. This includes finding ways for people to profit from open source development that does not include patenting these products. At the same time, we need to enforce legitimate patents on legitimate items (software, music, movies, etc) and not encourage or defended software programs thats main goal is to subvert these patents. The open source and closed source communities take two different approaches to innovation and profits. However, these two approaches need not be at odds. Both sides are needed and both sides can use each other for mutual gain. Be smart. Show respect for each other and the laws of the land and both innovation and bank accounts can grow across the board.

Yeah We Know Billboard reports that the resurrected Dinosaur Jr will make their television debut on The Late Late Show on April 15 and I believe the first official performance of the reunion? I think we can be assured they'll play something OLD. I doubt I'll stay up to watch it, I'm an old man, I need my sleep, but I'll certainly try to track it down after the fact. Still no word on North American tour dates, but doing anything on this continent is certainly a start. You may note, however, that there is now a DinosaurJr.com, for all your reunion needs. The reissues of the first three albums came out last week courtesy of the good people at Merge. Ze Arcade Fire grace the cover of the Canadian edition of Time this week (See cover here, via Arcadefire.net, courtesy me), and the accompanying story uses the band as a case study for examining the indie scene in Canada as well as previewing their picks for the most-anticipated independnet Canuck releases of 2005 and a couple of primers on what it is to be "indie" including an essay by Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning on the unbearable lightness of indie. What's not online (and the feature will probably only be available for a week or two) is their "Five That Matter" piece, which picks Metric, Stars, The Organ, Death From Above 1979 and The Dears as the next big things to bust out of Canada. Of course, depending on what your frame of reference is, you could argue all five of these acts already HAVE busted out, but from Time's POV, they're probably sensible picks. I like how they're mostly from all across Canada (though the Maritimes does get shut out) except Metric, who wave the ex-pat, no fixed address flag. Thanks to Arcadefire.net for the info. I'll have your copy of the magazine in the mail this week. CMJ has a sort of feature/review on The Decemberists/Picaresque. NME reports that The Tears have pushed back the release of Here Come The Tears from May 2 to sometime in June. Miss Modern Age points us at a cover of Blondie's "Call Me" done by two guys I've never heard of and Saturday Look's Good To Me's divine Betty Marie Barnes. Totally lo-fi but totally awesome. I've got a review of Matt Mays & El Torpedo's new self-titled album over at Torontoist. Mays was NOW's cover artist this week and is at the Horseshoe tonight for a free CD release show. Ain't It Cool is declaring that the villain in Spider-Man 3 will be Sandman. That's... a little disappointing. While Thomas Haden Church would be a good fit for the part, Sandman seems so b-list. If this is the last Spidey movie, it'd have been good to see him go up against someone epic. Like Galactus. So I'd pretty much given up watching Alias this season, I just fell behind too many episodes what with it being on opposite The West Wing and it really didn't grab my interest after the first three episodes or so, too much of the same old same old. But now Soaring With Eagles points me to this TV Guide letters column where they confirm that they've finally convinced Lena Olin to return on May 25 for the season finale as Sydney's supposedly-dead, probably-still-evil, awesome-nonetheless mother. MAN. So, do I just ignore it all and wait for the season 4 DVD this Fall? Or fire up bit torrent and try and catch up? I mean, West Wing is done after next week, so I could watch the last two months of Alias in real time... Hmm. Oh yeah, can anyone reassure me that this season doesn't actually suck? That's also a key factor. 24, back on schedule. Aaaah. Talk talk talk. Come on, I was promised scenes of violence that would be disturbing to some. DISTURBING! Jack's kick-fu while chained to a wall doesn't do it. Did they mean the mini-scalping of Behruz off-camera? That's not disturbing. Nice touch with the stealth fighter - anyone want to lay bets what the endgame plan for that doodad is? There's the obvious scenario, of course... just where is Air Force One right now anyway? Though I hear that thing's got mad evasive skills... But I digress. Not as exciting an episode as I'd hoped, but what're you gonna do. As as an afterthought... I wonder how many people Curtis gets to torture in a regular day? np - Pinback / Summer In Abaddon

What is SXSW and why should you care? The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is held in Austin Texas every year and is a place for emerging artists to strut their stuff and get a record deal in the US. Last year Franz Ferdinand was the breakout star, The Darkness were the year before that and four years ago saw Norah Jones begin her journey to fame. This year aussies such as Little Birdy and After the Fall flew the long flight to the home of the ape like president with the hope of maybe making it big. The festival is now long over so you can forget about buying a ticket - however you can pretend you are there by downloading the music of some of the artists. Isn't that illegal you say? Well, in this case no. SXSW has become one of the first festivals to utilise the swarming technology of bittorrent with the blessings of all the artists involved. You can go to their website and get a tiny file that allows you to download a 2.5gb bounty of mp3 music. The reason their server doesn't go down under the load of thousands of people downloading a very large file is because it is a torrent. Bittorrents work by sharing the download with everyone that is also downloading the file. You get a bit of your file from Fred, a bit from Barney while sending a bit of what you have to Wilma and Betty. Unlike other downloading technologies such as Kazaa or IRC, bittorrent actually goes faster the more people are downloading. It's this cool fact that has pissed off all the big entertainment moguls because it has made it quick and easy for people to get tv shows and movies. Once a show has been broadcast you can almost expect a torrent to appear for that episode in the hour after it has finished. Techtalk over, back to the music. I have of course downloaded this huge file and am slowly working my way through the artists (I'm still on the letter A!). The main reason I got the file was to listen to more of Vagenius. I'm completely digging their song "Educated Fool" which sort of sounds like Pavement mixed with Rilo Kiley mixed with Erasure (synths). I'll probably end up purchasing the EP because I dig any woman who dresses up like Sigue Sigue Sputnik and plays a keytar. Hats off to SXSW for rising above all the copright argument fray and providing the punters with what they want. Offering a sampler of all the artists before the festival is sheer brilliance and provides an audience that is wider than the festival organisers surely anticipated. Interestingly enough, SXSW is also about films and the web which solved a lot of confusion I was having when visiting some web design blogs. They were all going on about the festival and I was wondering why the heck they were there! Did they also like Vagenius? The whole thing looks bloody cool - I wish I had some sort of junket where I could combine all three of my loves and get it paid to go by work. :) As Skunk Anansie once said "I can dream".

More on: Programs Are Not Inherently Illegal I use to get into it with my dad all the time, with regards to computers, ethics, and morals. See, he was a long time computer guy, starting at MIT in the mid 1950's when a computer was a building, and guys rewired them for fun. One of the last great debates he and I had (before the disease really kicked in) was started by his spotting the Napster shirt I was wearing. Old school Napster, back when it was still on the fringe and some back (Green Day?) sold Napster shirts off of the end of their web site. Mine is red, BTW. Pops started in on the "Napster is illegal" deal, which caught me a bit off guard. Maybe it was the disease talking, maybe it was just him, but I held my ground. Programs aren't illegal, it's how they are used that can be troublesome. Nope, he said, designed for bad, it's wrong, needs to be stopped. Obviously, the courts stepping in on Dad's side, and yes, there were legal issues with the whole network-monitoring thing, but the program itself was fine, just used wrong. The deal with torrents, though, is that it's an open ended system, and I love it. It's fantastic. Give, and ye shall receive. What have I downloaded in the past little bit? The recording session of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan; the Tsunami Terror Mixx (though I haven't listened to it yet); the Knoppix Linux ISO (version 3.6, if you must know); the movie Blue; and an interview with Bram Cohen. What got me to load bittorrent in the first place? The SixxMixx from GHP, of course. I hadn't done it before because of the strangeness of my home network, but seeing that Mark had captured it and it was only up in torrent form, well, it was worth the effort. Yes, a lot of work, and jumping into the pool, to hear a radio program from London that, otherwise, I'd have had no chance of ever hearing. So good, in fact, that I listened to it again on Saturday when I was in Hong Kong. So, the program is fine. Sure, it accounts for a third of the traffic on the internet, but looking at who pulls what from my own torrent files, there's a heavy and steady demand for things that I am fairly sure are legal in at least the country I am in (no, not the US) and in a lot of other countries. Yes, I sound like a lawyer. Let's digress. I am an artist. I make records in America. My records are distributed by an American record label. The label agrees to sell them in Sweden, because I am HUGE in Sweden (it's what we all dream of, isn't it?) Jimmy buys the CD, and uses the CD, in Sweden, in a manner compliant with Swedish laws (I have no idea what Swedish laws are like, but let's say he remixes one of the songs and posts it on his Swedish server for his Swedish web page). Who am I to complain? What ground can the RIAA stand on in asking US (or Swedish) courts to enforce US laws in another foreign country that, oh yeah, is another country, is sovereign, and has their own laws? It was the record label that started it all in the first place, allowing the sale of the CD in Sweden? (Notice, though, that I am sidestepping the issue of bootleg copies being sold elsewhere, without the endorsement of the label or artist) I suspect my dad would be torqued at my love of mash ups and bastard pop, sating that I am not giving the artists their due. Honestly, there is a zero percent chance of my buying something, anything from Christina Aguilera, other than a long night with her and Britney in a bee bop sex sandwich. But, find me a ling still holding for A Stroke of Genie-us, and I'm all over it; it’s not her that I want, or even the Hives, but the product of Freelance Hellraiser, for example. So, what to do when it's not illegal to have such things in the country you're in, and when you're pulling files hosted in a country that permits such things? Me, I dug out the old Napster shirt and put it on. Still feels good, nice and soft from much use. Copyleft shirt is up in the queue, and I may even bring back out my Dead Kennedy's shirt as well. And yes, Dad would have hated that one, too, just as he hated my listening to them when I was a kid..... See also this.

"Blair Witch Project" director distributes new show through Bit Torrent "Blair Witch Project" director distributes new show through Bit Torrent Six years after making the most profitable movie of all times and pioneering Viral Marketing, "Blair Witch" creator Daniel Myrick has a new project:The Strand. Set in Venice Beach, California, The Strand features "real people and actors that populate a fictional world in which spontaneous as well as scripted dialogue bring a sense of unpredictability and realism to the characters and situations." The Strand is episodic, but it's not a TV Show, since it won't be be seen on TV. Myrick is using Bit Torrent as the distribution channel for each "webisode" of the series, in combination with micropayment system BitPass. While the first episode is free, the folllowing ones will be 0.99$ each. According to Myrick, using Bit Torrent as a distribution channel allows him to drop down the price significantly, since an standard download of each file (around 600 MB) from a central server would have cost him around 4 dollars. read more at Smart Mobs rss2lj

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Perhaps a new simple document type which includes a couple of fields; Enthusiasts call Web feed next big thing By Frank Bajak, AP Technology Editor, 2/27/2004 NEW YORK —E-mail is crippled, concussed by an irrepressible spam stream. Web surfing can be equally confounding, a wobbly wade through bursts of pop-ups and loudmouthed video ads. ADVERTISEMENT And that may explain the excitement these days over a somewhat crude but nifty software tool that automatically delivers updated information to your computer directly from your favorite Web sites. Enthusiasts see these Web feeds as sketching the outline of the next Net revolution. The technology behind them is called RSS and I rely on it daily to consult The New York Times, the BBC, CNET News, Slashdot and a few dozen other Web sites that employ RSS to make the very latest news stories or bits of commentary available for the plucking. Aided by software on my computer that goes out and retrieves my feeds, I swiftly sort through headlines and summaries. By clicking on included hyperlinks, I can visit originating sites for more detail. “For an average Internet user who regularly visits about 50 Web sites, rather than have to go visit those 50 sites wouldn’t it be cool if those sites could somehow visit you? And not only that, but if they could also tell you when they’ve changed?” said Greg Reinacker, head of NewsGator, which sells an add-on for Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail client that offers one leading way to read feeds. Hundreds of thousands of Web feeds are available, spurred by the popularity of Web logs, which account for their bulk. One site that has been sorting feeds since 2001, Syndicat8.com, added 7,326 in January—its biggest monthly jump—to its collection of more than 53,000 information streams. Some of that upsurge was election year fever as Democratic presidential candidates led by Howard Dean daily turned on the RSS spigot to “broadcast” to supporters. But Web feeds are no Howard-come-lately. Info generators of all kinds—big media, government and non-profits alike—are embracing them. Disney leverages the technology to deliver video clips for ESPN.com and ABCNews.com. Apple’s iTunes generates a feed to alert subscribers to its latest sounds. Anyone who builds a Web site can incorporate Web feeds. If it lives on the Web, it can be brought to your desktop—or to your wireless device, for that matter. Human Rights Watch keeps activists current with feeds sorted by region. The U.S. Geological Survey’s feeds let seismologists immediately know where the world is shaking. The U.S. Product Safety Commission just began providing recall notices via RSS. General Motors offers feeds on topics including safety and automotive tech. And a growing number of companies use feeds to disseminate info internally. “If you’re not reading it in RSS you’re wasting your time,” declaimed Microsoft’s blogging evangelist, Robert Scoble, who says he subscribes to nearly 1,300 feeds. RSS has been called the TiVo of the Web, the first “killer app” of the anticipated automation of social and commercial transactions online using the Web’s second-generation XML (extensible markup language) standard. Alas, you’ll not find the tools for handling RSS in your Microsoft Windows operating system. Not yet, anyway. You’ve got to go out and get them, just like you had to download Netscape or one of its competitors in 1994 when you wanted a Web browser. But the writing is on the wall. And it’s not graffiti; the feeds are spam-free—though advertising may be pumped through some eventually. Yahoo and Google recently embraced Web feeds, and Microsoft is expected to incorporate tools for managing them in its next-generation operating system, code-named Longhorn. Yahoo’s new search engine trolls through RSS feeds in addition to Web pages. And a five-person company called Feedster.com is trying to build a business around customizing searches of 500,000 feeds—and then delivering you the search results in a single feed. RSS feeds vary in length and capability. Depending on how a Web site decides to serve them up and how a given aggregator wants to organize them, feeds can be simple, spare text or bold and multimedia-flashy. And that’s what makes them both exciting and frustrating. First, it’s not simple for the non-techie to configure RSS. If they’re obvious on a Web page, the feeds generally are offered as orange buttons that read “XML” or “RSS.” There’s no uniformity to feeds, though the best include a good headline and a succinct summary. You can choose to have feeds delivered to your desktop or gathered by a Web-based service. “It can be really hard to get people to look at it. I tried to get my father, who is a news junkie, to look at it and he wouldn’t,” conceded blogging guru Dave Winer, who created the Web-based aggregator Radio Userland. Programmers who’ve developed rival versions of RSS since its 1999 invention—primarily by Winer and folks at Netscape—can’t agree on what RSS is supposed to stand for. Winer’s preference is Really Simple Syndication (RDF Site Summary and Rich Site Summary are the other options). At least it’s nothing like the fiasco of 1997 known as “push technology” and incarnate in PointCast, which wrote its death warrant by clogging hard drives and crashing operating systems as it delivered updated information to subscribers. RSS is more pull than push. Your aggregator retrieves the updated material from the feed-offering Web site at set time intervals. For an introduction, My.Yahoo.com offers a dumbed-down beta version. Web-based aggregators including FastBuzz.com and Bloglines.com are popular because there’s no software to download—and they’re free. FeedDemon, a downloadable cross between an e-mail client and a Web browser, is feature-packed and costs $30. NetNewsWire for the Mac, also a download, costs $40. If only the RSS prophets would stop squabbling. Winer is among those who consider the standard complete; others insist it must become more versatile if it’s to be an engine of the next-generation Internet—a smarter, two-way street rather than just a blind delivery vehicle. Anil Dash, vice president of business development for Six Apart, whose Movable Type is among the Web’s leading blogging products, says RSS is broken. He promotes a more robust and flexible alternative called Atom that got a big boost when Blogger.com, Google’s blogging service, began supporting it in January. As with most technologies, the market will settle these scores. But first, the market itself has to develop. Major content providers want to ensure that any feeds they offer drive traffic back to their Web sites. “The benefit to us is we’re distributing our headlines and the users come back to the site,” said Catherine Levene, vice president for business development at New York Times Digital, which has been quietly offering feeds for two years. Many RSS-watchers predict Web feeds will eventually morph into ad-delivery vehicles because it can be expensive to run a Web site that serves up hundreds of thousands of feeds daily, draining bandwidth. Nevertheless, boosters like Jeremy Zawodny, a software engineer at Yahoo who promoted RSS feeds there, are convinced that 2004 will be the year the technology goes mainstream. “Remember when you first starting seeing URLs appear on billboards and at the end of movie trailers?” Zawodny wrote in his blog in December. “It’s going to be like that. One day we’re just going to look around and realize that RSS is popping up all over the place. And a couple years later, we’ll all wonder how we ever got along without it.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bajak can be reached at techeditor(at)ap.org Posted in General | Edit | No Comments » GOOGLE FEEDS RSS FEEDS LINKS February 19th, 2005 RDF Resources tools Dave Beckett’s RDF Resource Guide – http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/ An extensive and annotated collection of links to RDF documents and software, updated frequently. Extensibility – http://www.rundom.com/extensibility/ Details on this XML, Semantic web, and web services metablog and news aggregator. Hyphen.info – http://www.hyphen.info/ Repository of RDF hierarchies. Introduction to RSS News Feeds – http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rss.html Find out how to create and use RSS files and learn what they can do for you. See why companies like Netscape, Userland, and Moreover use RSS to distribute and syndicate article summaries and headlines. This article includes sample code that demonstrates elements of an RSS file, plus a Perl example using the module XML::RSS. PML - http://iw.stanford.edu/pmldescription.html Proof Markup Language is used to build OWL documents representing both proofs and proof provenance information. RDF Interest Group – http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/ The main discussion forum for RDF developers and users. RDF Logic Mailing List – http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/ Provides a forum for technical discussion concerning the design of logic-based languages for use on the Web. RDF Resources – http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/ Links to various documentation of RDF sources. 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(No Title) "Blair Witch Project" director distributes new show through Bit Torrent. Six years after making the most profitable movie of all times and pioneering Viral Marketing, "Blair Witch" creator Daniel Myrick has a new project:The Strand. Set in Venice Beach, California, The Strand features "real people and actors that populate a fictional world in which spontaneous as well as scripted dialogue bring a sense of unpredictability and realism to the characters and situations." The Strand is episodic, but it's not a TV Show, since it won't be be seen on TV. Myrick is using Bit Torrent as the distribution channel for each "webisode" of the series, in combination with micropayment system BitPass. While the first episode is free, the folllowing ones will be 0.99$ each. According to Myrick, using Bit Torrent as a distribution channel allows him to drop down the price significantly, since an standard download of each file (around 600 MB) from a central server would have cost him around 4 dollars. [Smart Mobs]

How Pocket Rocket Man saved Decadence Since her Master’s death, Decadence had been left alone and uncollared and had come to the conclusion there were no more True Masters or Dominants in the world (or at least looking for one such as her). She was a very well trained woman in her prime, who had been treated well by the man she called Master. Theirs was a complete M/s relationship which included a marriage that was 5 years old when his heart gave out. There were those in the Community that thought it might have been Decadence’s insatiable sexual appetite that killed him, but all the Medical examiner said was, “He died with a smile on his face.” There had also questions asked about his erect penis and the fact that though rigor mortis had set in, it looked freshly fucked and was dripping wet when the coroner showed up. In some ways it was probably disrespectful, but she smiled as she watched them cover him. Even hours after his death, he beckoned her from under the sheet. Decadence had been without her Master for over a year when she decided to put herself back on the (meat) market as it were. The community that she lived in had a small leather society and she knew most of those in it, and was not impressed with what she saw. She had been approached shortly after her Master’s death by two with collared slaves, eager to enter into a poly relationship with the grieving (notorious) widow. Her response was, “Master gave me more pleasure five hours after his death than I imagine you might in life.” No, she knew that she must seek her knew owner outside the local community and so she turned to the internet. She spent hours creating a profile for Alt.com and Bondage.com and for countless other “.com’s” that were BDSM related. She sat at the computer for hours most nights looking at profiles, and reading the forums. She was very intuitive and in most cases was able to weed out the posers, pretenders, players and abusers; although she did fall prey to one who caused her more pain mentally and emotionally than anyone ever had. It was disheartening, when a contact would be made and his first message would be “Kneel bitch” to which she responded, “Bite me” and then deleted them and put them on her ignore list. Then there were those who told her, “you will have only those limits I set” “yeah right and I trust you why?” delete, ignore. It was sad, “Who are these cartoon characters and how did they get past the door in the real BDSM world” she mused. So after nearly a year of suffering fools, she decided all was lost and flipped on the TV. There was a classic on “Weird Science” about two horney teen males who create the ultimate woman (which neither got to fuck). As she watched the movie she thought how times had changed and the advances made in both computer technology and cloning. “I wonder if I could resurrect Master” she thought, maybe even make him bionic like the six million dollar man (Steve Austin); “perhaps he could keep up with me then.” She said and smiled. “Tomorrow I must go to the bookstore and do some research”. She reached over to the toy chest her Master had filled over their years together and pulled out a Rabbit vibe. She put it to her lips with one hand, while preparing her pussy with the other. Her mouth left saliva on the rabbit “Master always believed his mouth supplied all the lube I would need before entering me, how I miss his tongue” she thought as she set the wetted Rabbit to her “rabbit hole” and eased it in. The Rabbit began throbbing and pulsating in her while the clit stimulator assaulted her sensitive pink protrudence. She came three times physically, but mentally she felt she was faking it, “Fuck, I’m trying to satisfy myself and fool myself at the same time. I want my Master back damn it!” She put the rabbit on top of the toy chest, rolled over and began to weep. The next day she bought a book on cloning that came with a kit. “What the hell, it’s worth a shot and besides it will be more exciting than talking on line with those wannabe’s” She read the book from cover to cover and started gathering anything that might possess remnants of her late Masters DNA.. She found some hair from his beard in a comb and then went to the freezer and took out the shot glass full of his frozen cum (he’d fill it before leaving on a trip to satisfy her thirst for him). The hair and thawed cum were put into a Petri dish which was coated with a growing element and placed on her Master’s toy cabinet, which stood beneath the window. She then reached into her bag and pulled out a box; inside the box was a toy action figure, but it wasn’t Steve Austin Astronaut and Bionic man. Instead, she had purchased “Stone Cold” Steve Austin Wrestler (she had seen his body on TV and wondered where she might gather his DNA to ad to the soup). She killed the rest of the evening reading and deleting e-mails from fools across the country while a severe storm was brewing in the east. It was about midnight when the lightning and thunder appeared to be on top of her; she decided to turn off and disconnect the PC so as not to fry it and then climbed into her bed. She laid in the bed waiting for sleep but it didn’t come. She reached over and grabbed the Rabbit, and laid it next to her body. She then threw back the blankets and spread her legs while bending her knees. She reached down and ran her finger between her pussy lips and then once wet ran it down inside of her. She laid there remembering how her Master loved the take her moistness and feed it to her on his fingers and then did as he had done; she was still sweet. Once wet enough, she inserted the Rabbit and started it on the lowest settings. The Rabbit hummed and rotated and the clit stimulator began to work its magic once again. She laid there imagining the toy in His hand and the way that he used it. She kicked everything up to throbbing and vibrating at the max and thought of those times when Master would restrain her ankles to a 3 foot spreader-bar and her wrist to the bed post and then attack her pussy with the Rabbit and other vibes; sometimes having two or three in her holes at once. He would leave the vibes running as he licked and bit her nipples, reaching down every so often to press the toys further into her. Her fantasy brought about the relief she sought and as she came she thought, Master would be happy now and taste me and let me know I was now ready for Him. She allowed herself the indulgence of several more climaxes and then removed the toy and reached over to put it on the toy cabinet. But when she laid it down on the cabinet, the tip made contact with the Petri dish and the action figure fell on top of it with its out stretched fist in the pool of growth medium and her Master’s cum. She rolled over and hugged her Master’s pillow, “I miss you Sir” she whispered and then closed her eyes oblivious to the storm outside. An hour later there was a CRACK that sounded like it was in the room, the window blew open and a bolt of lightning struck the toy chest. She was thrown out of her bed and onto the floor. “What the fuck was that” she said in a semi conscious state looking around the room. She saw the steam rising from the Petri dish, and noticed the rabbit had literally been fried, what she didn’t pay attention to was the absence of the action figure. She crawled back into bed and closed her eyes muttering, “Jesus fucking Christ all I want to do is sleep, is that too much to ask?” Her voice trailed off as the darkness moved in. That night she dreamed of her Master and could feel him all over her. She felt him as he spread her legs and played with her clit until she came, “a wet dream for me Sir, thank you”; it was a merging of her conscious and unconscious mind for she had indeed cum. When she woke in the morning, she was laying in a pool of her cum. The missing action figure was laying beside her and seemed to be covered with the thick sweet juices from her body. “I guess the lightning scared you to; I’ll clean you up in a minute. “You’ll do it now My sweet slut as you shower” the voice replied. She heard it, but didn’t believe she heard it and started to get out of bed. “Did I tell you that you could leave Me? It has been a while and I have an appetite that needs satisfying” the voice said. Now she was aware that there was a voice speaking to her and she became firghtened that maybe she was losing her mind. She laid back down and as she did the action figure turned towards her and said “That’s My sweet Deacadence” and made a bee-line for her pussy. Her eyes widened and she felt her will submit to the toy as it pressed against her thighs parting them. Before she could comprehend that this was not a dream, but a reality, the toy was at her cunt and sucking at her clit. There was a humm and vibration that grew in intensity as the toy became more excited. Decadence was at the mercy of an action figure gone mad and she was enjoying the experience. The toy lifted its head while the humm grew and said “I have missed you and your taste” and then put his head inside of her. His head rubbed against her clit just as the Rabbit had, only she didn’t have to conjure an image to make the excitement complete; it was enough that she was being raped by a doll and loving it. She opened her legs further and allowed the pulsating invader to take full advantage of her. He brought her to a massive climax and then demanded a rubber. “Yes Sir” she said and reached into the toy chest. She gave him the rubber knowing that though one size might fit all, there was no way it would fit what she imagined to be his cock. He tore it open, laid on his back and and pulled it up to his chest And then said, “Hold on I’m going in!” and she did hold on. First as she lowered him into her pussy and then the bed as he grabbed onto her clit and came alive inside of her. His feet danced on her G-spot as his hands wildly massaged her clit. She gave up complete control while He undulated, pulsated, rotated and made her cum repeatedly. Her pussy contracted around him and she could feel his buldging muscles muscles as he fought to continue. The pressure swelled inside of her and as last she ejaculated sending a torrent of fluid out. For the toy it was like riding a wave as he was expelled with her cum. When at last, she came back from sub-space; her assailant was standing next to her. She gently picked him up as ge grasped her nipple ring and said “Thank you Master” He twisted the ring and said “you are welcome My darling Decadence, it was always My desire to emerse Myself in you and you have now made it possible. Now let’s shower I feel sticky and then we can continue” “Will I need to get you batteries Sir?” she inquired. “No My love, the lightning has energized Me for a lifetime; I can just keep going and going as you keep cumming and cumming” and hed did. It was amazing how well her Master adapted to his new situation. He found he could suspend her legs to the spreader bar and repel into her. He used his clover clamps to mount her breasts and torture them He found ways to take her anally and even made her His pony girl, once again. He even found a way to do double penetration It was almost a month before she could find time to get back on the BDSM sites and when she did she found e-mails from the same crop of losers she had rejected before. This time she posted to the forums telling of the miracle that had occurred in her life. The forumites (especially the ahem masters and doms {small m and d because she knew they weren’t} who thought she had lost her mind) She told them all that she had rediscovered her Master and had no time for their feeble minds and never returned to the forums. Though she absented herself; her Master (not needing sleep) decided to fuck with them while she slept. If you doubt this story I would invite you to go to bondage.com once on the site click on talk, then forums, then search and go down to by name; enter pocket_rocket_man and his post will show up. She had her Man and her Toy and they scoffed but it was funny how many of the wannabe’s on that site were bested by a toy. *************************** My slave "Decadence" was released over a year and a half ago. We had many good times, these were some of them and yes PRM's forum entries can be found on b.com.

"Blair Witch Project" director distributes new show through Bit Torrent Six years after making the most profitable movie of all times and pioneering Viral Marketing, "Blair Witch" creator Daniel Myrick has a new project:The Strand. Set in Venice Beach, California, The Strand features "real people and actors that populate a fictional world in which spontaneous as well as scripted dialogue bring a sense of unpredictability and realism to the characters and situations." The Strand is episodic, but it's not a TV Show, since it won't be be seen on TV. Myrick is using Bit Torrent as the distribution channel for each "webisode" of the series, in combination with micropayment system BitPass. While the first episode is free, the folllowing ones will be 0.99$ each. According to Myrick, using Bit Torrent as a distribution channel allows him to drop down the price significantly, since an standard download of each file (around 600 MB) from a central server would have cost him around 4 dollars.

SXSW Interactive 2005 // Full (somewhat coherent) Review (Part 2) (Part 2) Continued: 05:00PM How to Make Big Things Happen With Small Teams 15 This appears to be the most talked about panel from the 4 days in Austin. Mostly because of his somewhat hard to believe process of "get the experience out the door ASAP" segment. It makes sence: get the "real" experiance in front of the user as soon as possible and start makeing changes based on real tests, not just going through wireframes and talking about it over and over again. But the task of getting the application in running order in the 1st 20% of the project seems like a daunting task. He would preferce this by saying "keep it simple", talking about limit feature creep and really think "what is NEEDED" not what is wanted. He also talked about what makes a good small team and with the right people, what can be accomplished. Rating: 5 (out of 5) Links: Download Presentation List of "Small Teams" reviews 10:00AM Bram Cohen Interview 18B note: you can view video from the panel here Being a fan of the Bit Torrent app and reading the article in wired I thought I needed to go see Bram speak. Missing a more "educational" panel I sat in the front and listened to what Bram had to say. Over all it was a good interview, but others were disappointed that he does not really care about he politics or ethics of file sharing. In fact he really does not care about computers, the internet, movies, and many other material things. As he says he likes writing efficient protocols. He did have a couple of predictions on technology - on that the phone companies would go out of business sooner then later. Rating: 3 (out of 5)

GEEKS LIKE GADGETS and I'm geek so I'm not a bit different of course. As silly as it sounds, you tend to get a bit jaded and cynical about videogames when you actually work in the industry. It's like a love hate relationship because things are never as good as in the 'good old days' which is a grass is always greener philosophy that probably translates over to every job. Occasionally though a great piece of software or in this case hardware, draws out your inner geek child and you are instantly transported back to Christmas Eve. Tomorrow is Xmas then because the Sony Playstation Portable hits stores shelves. Like 99.9% of adults, you probably either don't know what a PSP is or could give a crap but this is most likely one of those consumer devices that will spread through society like a particularly infectious disease. If you don't know what a PSP is then here is MSNBC to provide the requisite hype. Basically it aims to be a cross between an Ipod, a Playstation 2, a personal video recorder, and a DVD player (called UMD in this case). As loopy as all that sounds for once the hype actually somewhat approximates the reality. This thing is a gadget freaks holy grail for good reason. Since I'm into the whole torrent and move ripping scene (cough... I mean movie back-up scene for archival purposes only of course) and also torrents, programs like this alone make it a must buy for me. The only real downside right now is that the consumer is being screwed because of bundle deals. A bundle deal is where you take something that costs about $250 and then bundle it with a bunch of software and accessories that nobody in their right minds would want so you can now charge $400 or $500 for it. Great scheme for stores. Obviously very bad for customers but with pent-up demand, retailers can get away with shady tactics like this. Wait a month and you'll be able to get one at the regular price if you are interested would be my best advice. My excuse for succumbing to the strong arm tactics of course is 'research' for work but let's not kid anybody here. I've blown more money on more expensive gizmos that I've used as frequently as I bother to actually go through the trouble of making pancakes for myself at breakfast and let's be clear hear, I haven't made pancakes in about 10 years. I think I'm going to bed early tonight so tomorrow can come faster which is both exciting and sad in equal measures I conclude.

Military Videos Dot Net [del.icio.us] A site which hosts short digital films shot by US soldiers in Iraq. It's another sign of the growing popular use of the short digital movie form and bit torrent.

There’s something wrong with you I don’t think anyone should have guns. I really don’t. If we were in my sappy, idealist world, where guns are not available, a tragedy such as a 4 year old shooting his 2 year old brother in the head wouldn’t happen. In sappy idealist land, “smart guns” are neither needed nor the answer. Another child killed his classmates again, but you knew that, right? You probably mentioned it in passing to someone over the lavatory stall walls whilst you took an apres coffee piss at work. Terrible, tragedy, awful, shocking and then you’ll go back to your monitors and go home to your TVs and that will be that. If you are in the UK, or somewhere similar, you’ll probably tut-tut about guns and if you are in the states you’ll either defend them religiously or do the same. Or, maybe, maybe you’ll stop to think for a moment instead. Defending the rights of “law abiding gun holders” is ridiculous, selfish and insensitive - who gives a fuck about your “rights”, when your rights just figured into 10 people dying when they need not have. At the same time, shouting “ban guns” as a reactionary slogan against this kind of violence isn’t helping matters either. Guns are not the problem, they are a symptom of the problem. The real problem is whatever concatenation of events caused this child to have the feelings that drove him to kill himself and nine others. Obviously this child had problems: he was a social outcast, his dad committed suicide, his mum’s brain damaged and so he is left with his grandfather and partner as his support roles. Who knows who failed him and how, but obviously someone, a great number of someone’s, did. So on the one hand, people are right, this wouldn’t have happened if guns weren’t so readily available, but what then would have happened to the emotions and thoughts that drove him to do this in the first place? When I was at school, a guy a year above me threw himself under a train in an unsuccessful suicide attempt: he kept his life, but traded half a leg. He must have been the same age as this child, Jeff Weise, when he did it. Would he have brought a gun to school and shot us if he could? Would Jeff have thrown himself under a train if he couldn’t? I suspect that Jeff would have tried to end his own life in some way and I have to wonder: is that any less of a tragedy? Did American kids always shoot their way through their problems? This time line documents all of the killings in American schools from 1997 to date, but did it happen before? (And I am wondering if this is truly all schools, or just majority white ones?) I certainly don’t remember it happening, but I am also not that old. So perhaps in 1985, when 10 year old me was attempting to liberate a tank full of locusts, perhaps there was a similar kid in America shooting at their classmates. And I don’t think you can blame violent movies or television programmes or games or books either, because they are simply more symptoms. Perhaps they cause the disease to spread faster, farther, further, but they themselves are not the real issue. The real issue is the part of us that likes to view it, the part of us that creates it. The part of us that will make a horror writer a best seller but leave some soft hearted poet unheard of. There is something wrong with us, you know. Something desperately wrong. I used to think that this was a really bad time in the world, that things were once better and can be again, but I don’t think I believe that any more. I think it is all just a rhythm, a cycle, a world full of peaks and troughs and maybe all that’s happening now, is that we are peaking, reaching some kind of crescendo. All you have to do is read a little bit of history or even some Dostoevsky, and you will see the same torrents of hate, murder, liars, disease, poverty - just with different victors and victims. As a species, we pulsate to this rhythm of death, targeting some and sparing others, the rules subject to change at any given second. We’re all such cynical bastards too. I prefaced this entry with the phrase “sappy idealist” because I know that if I didn’t claim the words myself, they would be used as a weapon against me. Used as a way to “prove” my thoughts are useless because I am not realistic. Throwing positive traits at a person as an insult is a convenient way to avoid their perspective, to trivialise their suggestions, to dismiss ideas of change out of some latent fear of it. I’m not dead yet so I’m happy with the world, happy with it, happy… We’ve all internalised the mantra that “things are the way they are”, so we have blinded ourselves to the idea that, in actual fact, they don’t have to be. That’s the real damaging side affect of westernisation - the doped up indulgence in our own powerlessness. We are not, contrary to our apathetic whines, impervious to change. If we don’t want a system, a government, a law, we can change it. We have only to look at the Ukraine for a recent example to show that people are not powerless and can rise up and demand their desires to be heard and addressed. That we are powerful and can effect change. Instead though, we’ll all quibble and squabble about what should be done to prevent these murders happening and whilst we are squabbling, another kid will do it again. Meanwhile another kid will have to do what they need to in order to survive, because they are too poor to go to school, but we won’t hear about that kid because maybe they are too brown, or perhaps simply the world is bored of less sensational crimes. And so there are all these children who are upset because no one is helping them; all these angry kids who’ve been shat upon; all these people that are hurt and enraged, marginalised and disaffected. Yet no one cares so long as they stay put and create the appropriate news headlines for the appropriate neighbourhoods and countries. No one cares because to care is to be sensitive and to be sensitive is a crime. So you’ll go on, you’ll go to work or to school or to the bar and you’ll never stop to wonder why. You’ll just make feeble comments on the most obvious facts. You’ll never ask yourself why it is you can watch murder for fun? You’ll never ask yourself why it is that a woman can be gang raped in your front room and you don’t feel a thing? You’ll never ask yourself why, because you are too scared of the answers, too afraid to hurt and to feel. You’ll never stop to ask these questions of yourself because to do so would be to acknowledge that there is something wrong with you. Something really, really wrong and until you accept that and work on that, another kid will take another gun and blow their fucking brains out, and they will keep on blowing their brains out until every last one of us stops and looks at that demon inside of them that likes to consume others pain in place of their own. Until then, all you can do is hope to get enough money, so as you can get into the right neighbourhood, so as that big, bloody mess will be on your television screens and not on the steps leading to your front door. [I’ll post the haiku later.]

There is something wrong with you I don’t think anyone should have guns. I really don’t. If we were in my sappy, idealist world, where guns are not available, a tragedy such as a 4 year old shooting his 2 year old brother in the head wouldn’t happen. In sappy idealist land, “smart guns” are neither needed nor the answer. Another child killed his classmates again, but you knew that, right? You probably mentioned it in passing to someone over the lavatory stall walls whilst you took an apres coffee piss at work. Terrible, tragedy, awful, shocking and then you’ll go back to your monitors and go home to your TVs and that will be that. If you are in the UK, or somewhere similar, you’ll probably tut-tut about guns and if you are in the states you’ll either defend them religiously or do the same. Or, maybe, maybe you’ll stop to think for a moment instead. Defending the rights of “law abiding gun holders” is ridiculous, selfish and insensitive - who gives a fuck about your “rights”, when your rights just figured into 10 people dying when they need not have. At the same time, shouting “ban guns” as a reactionary slogan against this kind of violence isn’t helping matters either. Guns are not the problem, they are a symptom of the problem. The real problem is whatever concatenation of events caused this child to have the feelings that drove him to kill himself and nine others. Obviously this child had problems: he was a social outcast, his dad committed suicide, his mum’s brain damaged and so he is left with his grandfather and partner as his support roles. Who knows who failed him and how, but obviously someone, a great number of someone’s, did. So on the one hand, people are right, this wouldn’t have happened if guns weren’t so readily available, but what then would have happened to the emotions and thoughts that drove him to do this in the first place? When I was at school, a guy a year above me threw himself under a train in an unsuccessful suicide attempt: he kept his life, but traded half a leg. He must have been the same age as this child, Jeff Weise, when he did it. Would he have brought a gun to school and shot us if he could? Would Jeff have thrown himself under a train if he couldn’t? I suspect that Jeff would have tried to end his own life in some way and I have to wonder: is that any less of a tragedy? Did American kids always shoot their way through their problems? This time line documents all of the killings in American schools from 1997 to date, but did it happen before? (And I am wondering if this is truly all schools, or just majority white ones?) I certainly don’t remember it happening, but I am also not that old. So perhaps in 1985, when 10 year old me was attempting to liberate a tank full of locusts, perhaps there was a similar kid in America shooting at their classmates. And I don’t think you can blame violent movies or television programmes or games or books either, because they are simply more symptoms. Perhaps they cause the disease to spread faster, farther, further, but they themselves are not the real issue. The real issue is the part of us that likes to view it, the part of us that creates it. The part of us that will make a horror writer a best seller but leave some soft hearted poet unheard of. There is something wrong with us, you know. Something desperately wrong. I used to think that this was a really bad time in the world, that things were once better and can be again, but I don’t think I believe that any more. I think it is all just a rhythm, a cycle, a world full of peaks and troughs and maybe all that’s happening now, is that we are peaking, reaching some kind of crescendo. All you have to do is read a little bit of history or even some Dostoevsky, and you will see the same torrents of hate, murder, liars, disease, poverty - just with different victors and victims. As a species, we pulsate to this rhythm of death, targeting some and sparing others, the rules subject to change at any given second. We’re all such cynical bastards too. I prefaced this entry with the phrase “sappy idealist” because I know that if I didn’t claim the words myself, they would be used as a weapon against me. Used as a way to “prove” my thoughts are useless because I am not realistic. Throwing positive traits at a person as an insult is a convenient way to avoid their perspective, to trivialise their suggestions, to dismiss ideas of change out of some latent fear of it. I’m not dead yet so I’m happy with the world, happy with it, happy… We’ve all internalised the mantra that “things are the way they are”, so we have blinded ourselves to the idea that, in actual fact, they don’t have to be. That’s the real damaging side affect of westernisation - the doped up indulgence in our own powerlessness. We are not, contrary to our apathetic whines, impervious to change. If we don’t want a system, a government, a law, we can change it. We have only to look at the Ukraine for a recent example to show that people are not powerless and can rise up and demand their desires to be heard and addressed. That we are powerful and can effect change. Instead though, we’ll all quibble and squabble about what should be done to prevent these murders happening and whilst we are squabbling, another kid will do it again. Meanwhile another kid will have to do what they need to in order to survive, because they are too poor to go to school, but we won’t hear about that kid because maybe they are too brown, or perhaps simply the world is bored of less sensational crimes. And so there are all these children who are upset because no one is helping them; all these angry kids who’ve been shat upon; all these people that are hurt and enraged, marginalised and disaffected. Yet no one cares so long as they stay put and create the appropriate news headlines for the appropriate neighbourhoods and countries. No one cares because to care is to be sensitive and to be sensitive is a crime. So you’ll go on, you’ll go to work or to school or to the bar and you’ll never stop to wonder why. You’ll just make feeble comments on the most obvious facts. You’ll never ask yourself why it is you can watch murder for fun? You’ll never ask yourself why it is that a woman can be gang raped in your front room and you don’t feel a thing? You’ll never ask yourself why, because you are too scared of the answers, too afraid to hurt and to feel. You’ll never stop to ask these questions of yourself because to do so would be to acknowledge that there is something wrong with you. Something really, really wrong and until you accept that and work on that, another kid will take another gun and blow their fucking brains out, and they will keep on blowing their brains out until every last one of us stops and looks at that demon inside of them that likes to consume others pain in place of their own. Until then, all you can do is hope to get enough money, so as you can get into the right neighbourhood, so as that big, bloody mess will be on your television screens and not on the steps leading to your front door. Guns make death, no more Protection deflects, not aims You want right to kill.

The Official I Hate Dead Wood Thread Sweet Jesus I hate this show. Its so slow and its not really about anything. I downloaded an episode on bit torrent last week and I couldnt wait for it to end. I Love Carnivale, Sopranos, and The Wire but theres something about this show that rubs me the wrong way. The Characters suck and Its weird for a show that has so much sexual inudendo to have NO NUDITY :eek: . Good God I hate this show so much. If you hate this show Post here and be heard.