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Most Valuable Player

Nat Baldwin gives us his newest album, Most Valuable Player, for download and Jesse Alejandro reviews the bass-infused tracks.
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Ownership and a DRM World

Justina White asks what ownership really means when it comes to DRM-locked digital media. Do you actually own your music in the full sense of the word if you can't use it as you like? Read more …

Presenters in Ruby on Rails Applications

Joshua Clayton discusses his use of Presenters, and gives us an demo application to play with the concepts. Read more …

Of White Whales and Dark Energies

Featuring Cannibalism, Whale Attacks, Mustaches, Physics Jokes, Doughnuts, Sperm Jokes, Shrinking Space Men, the Weird History of the Ether, and Exploding Stars…

How to Make Barack Obama Keep His Promises

The online organizing and social networking that engineered Barack Obama's rise to the White House wasn't just an expensive tool, it was a culture. A culture of people who are motivated, informed and demanding, and a culture that will turn on Obama once they suspect they've been used. Read more …

Obama Biden Transition Project and Cluen

Ari Herzog rips through layers of .gov and .org transitional websites, asks why government data is being hosted on private sector servers, and calls for greater transparency in the Obama Biden Transition Project. Read more …

Change.gov

Jacob Perkins discusses the implications of an online presidency @ Change.gov, the Obama administration's official transition Web site. Read more …

Open Source Debugger

Check out the new and improved A.Unit debugging software.
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Go Back Where We Began?

Karl gives out samples and Protools files newest album for download, and Jesse reviews of this jazz-infused, mutli­farious Brooklyn-based band.
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Turing Test & Machine Intelligence

Dylan Thuras introduces us to computer science great Alan Turing, the Turing test, and six Artificial Intelligence Entities that are trying to fool you into thinking they are human. Read more …

Intellectual Property Act 2008

Justina White explores what the signing of the Pro-IP Act means for you and wonders what she'd do with $435 million. Read more …

PHP Photo Uploader

Thomas Steinmetz shows us how to create a simple photo uploader with basic permissions for different users and gallery using php and lightbox js. Read more …

Mapping Cyberspace Onto Actual Space

Keith Hendershot muses on geolocative technology, science fiction, and RFID as he walks us through a brief history of cyberspace, from what it meant in the 80s to what it means now. Read more …

Android Google Phone From T-Mobile

Dick Clark hasn't put his G1 down for 12 days. Read his review of the first Android phone, from HTC and T-Mobile. Read more …

National Video web log Posting Month

Ryanne Hodson gears up for National Video web blog Posting Month 2008 (NaVloPoMo for those of you in the know). Read more …

Obama Hippies

Jacob Perkins finds that his past life with Phish has much more in common with his present life on the Obama campaign than he would have ever imagined. Read more …

War Elephant

Deer Tick gives out their newest album for download, and Jesse Alejandro dines his way through it, introducing us to this alt-country rock band from Providence.
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The Internet As Desktop

Boaz Sender examines one of the latest moves towards internet as operating system and walks through setting up Gears and Fluid to make web applications behave like they were desktop applications. Read more …

Custom Attributes

Rick Waldron explores the semantic and procedural benefits of custom HTML tag attributes in JavaScript applications as he passes through Connecticut on his way down to New York. Read more …

Vote Builder and Google Earth

Full-time Obama volunteer Jacob Perkins updates us on the campaign in VA and the database Vote Builder.
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Rural But Decent Parts

Jaye Bartell tells us about his experience baring it all to an unlikely audience in rural Appalachia. Read more …

Only The Men Have Memory

Patrick Davison's humorous and detailed info-graphic schematic of a neighborhood shows us that we can represent far more than electrical input and output with diagrams.
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Your Presidential Choice

Dick Clark gives us a lesson in economics and why neither of the two candidates is actually the candidate for change.
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Swing States

Ryanne Hodson's tells us how information culled from voter databases helped her overcome her fear of canvassing. Read more …