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Actually, there are several degenerate cases of social networks which could be thought of as anti-social.

First, there's the romantic option of a social network with only two members. Then, there's the narcissistic option of a social network with only one member. A true anti-social network, however, would have no members.

Excuse me while I go register nullspace.com.

Kiribati is superbly strategically located; with a friend in northern Africa and a slice of bread each, you can make a perfect earth sandwich.

Let me redirect you to some Ze Frank awesomeness.

http://www.zefrank.com/redalert/index_better.html

My favourite.

"...the colors corresponded to the skin colour taht the terrorists would most likely be on a given day."
"And I remember an intern at the time that said "wouldn't it be problem if you printed it out on a piece of paper and it was a white terrorist?"
" A white terrorist...'"

JB

So what if they take your idea. That means they still have to do the work to execute it. Chances are you're the only one who will have the passion to pour yourself into an idea to actually execute it. This is a funny take on it.

Or just look at this quote by (and is completely true in my experience):

Don`t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you`ll have to ram them down people`s throats.
--Howard Aiken

Sounds like brain crack!

That's what I thought, too, but this guy challenged a large group of people who voted on the next move against him in a wiki and lost:
http://www.zefrank.com/thewiki/Fabuloso_Friday_2/Fabuloso_Chess

Indeed, let us all be glad that Microsoft won the PC war instead of Apple. Jobs would have been worse.

It's more complicated than that. Although I agree with the general sentiment.

It wasn't so much that Microsoft won. It's more along the lines of IBM losing and Apple losing more. Or rather, IBM winning by losing and Apple losing by winning. IBM lost control of its platform which then became a commodity platform to take over the industry. Apple maintained control of their platform(s) and became marginalized players in a market they were a major part in creating.

Microsoft was, of course, a major part of this history. And their role tends to shift over the years. At first they were a key component in allowing Compaq to start the (legal) "IBM clone" market. They then shift to becoming the (or at least one of the very few) common factor to the new commodity market - gatekeepers who in turn begin to influence the direction of that market.

It should be noted that Microsoft's developer-driven focus is part and parcel of the overall market. Proprietary platforms were the old world (something Sun had to re-learn). Microsoft was operating in a commodity world - or at least, riding the wave of commodity hardware. That mindset was in stark contrast to Apple's.

This has the same concept as Nintendo Wii.
I think this video represents what I have in mind.

Thanks for the strawman with red herring sauce.

Are you for real or just spoiling for a nerd fight?

Successful refutation of the opposition's premise isn't fallacious, it's how one wins an argument.

Your original comment was predicated upon the inferred premise that Fair Use rights aren't codified. I successfully refuted your premise. I never gave an opinion on the costs or risks of asserting Fair Use as an affirmative defense. I know it is the height of Slashdot fashion to dismiss counter-arguments by claiming they are fallacious, but you are being unreasonable (literally).

The problem with Fair Use is that it's an affirmative defense without being well-defined. This means it can still be expensive and risky to defend oneself rather than being able to rely on definitions clearer than parody, commentary and criticism.

I (mostly) agree with this sentiment. But it doesn't change the fact that Fair Use rights are, not withstanding their origin as a judicially created affirmative defense later incorporated into written law by Congress, now codified law.

Modernization would be nice, but clarifying existing (potential) uses is where I'm coming from.
What type of clarification? Judicial or Legislative? Personally, I think legislative is the way to go. The best way to fix the high cost and risk of asserting fair use rights would be to shift the burden of proof back onto the plaintiff (affirmative defenses place the burden of proof on the defendant).

I don't think the real issue here is specifically CC. I'm reminded of Ze Frank's Anti-Intellectualism song. It's a lot of song and dance pointing attention to one thing to distract you from the real issue.

The real issue is this. We, the unwashed masses, outnumber you, the professionals. For every one of you, there's a thousand of us. We have cheap digital SLR's, digital videocams, music producing software, editing suites... We can generate a hundred thousand times the volume you can, and even if 0.01% of that is pro-quality, we've got you beaten.

We don't make a living at this stuff. We do it for fun. For joy. You do it for money. You are upset if your photography nets you only $1000 this year. We are tickled if anyone thinks our photo is good enough to use.

Damn, I sound like some kind of revolutionary :(

--Rob

How about a huge impact somewhere in the south Pacific west of Chili, this caused a shockwave rippling out from there around the world. The shockwave ripples then reconverged on the opposite side of the world in India, causing the Deccan Traps to go pop. I figured out the likely location using the wonderful Earth Sandwich tool http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html

You know you are really only hurting the office slaves, right? This made me think of a great quote by Zefrank (you can watch it here: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/062106.html) (after deriding a random Delta airlines employee for not giving him a refund) ...Oh, right. Maybe I should send a note to their complaints department. No, that just means interfacing with a group of employees that have been psychologically trained to placate you while minimizing the cost to their company. Oh. Maybe I could fart in the seats while pretending to adjust that little air nipple. Or fill out all the cross word puzzles and sudukos in the in flight magazine with letters that form "Screw you Delta". Or sprinkle all over their toilet seats. No, that just screws low paid employees and besides, then you'd be acting like a terrorist. A terrorist?! Yeah, terrorists are desperate assholes who see no institutionalized recourse to address their grievances so they resort to random acts of violence in order to instill fear into the general population. That's messed up, I don't wanna be a part of that, so what do I do? Hmmm. Bend over and take it.

Coulton also collaborated with Ze Frank on one of his last shows, singing a number of Ze's songs while Ze provides facial expressionary commentary.

At least the people of Boston have a chance to throw the bums out in the next election.

Here's all I have to say on the subject:

Let's watch the monkey dance.
...Anti-intellectualism.
Make fun of the South of France.
...Anti-intellectualism.

And that's why Boston will not be throwing anyone out.

(Thanks, Ze, for the words)

--Rob

Well flameboi, you suppose wrong. At least have the courtesy to find out what you're talking about before you open your face. http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/11/11 2706.html

There is (was) an RSS feed which I used with DemocracyTV to watch The Show. Sure beat a little video window in the browser. However, I don't think the feed became available until sometime after the half way mark in the life of The Show ... Ze must have changed his tune a little from the initial website-only policy.

This is the episode http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/08/08 1006.html that hooked me on ze frank. And I didn't find the interactive bits interesting, except for ze's comments on the comments. I watched it because I think ze frank is really, really funny, particularly when he gets on a roll about politices.

I was lucky enough to be introduced to the Show near its start, it was actually the show that convinced me to get a video iPod as an emergency distraction for a two week family vacation.

Ze's brand of humor really has a way of getting me to smile and the 'projects' that he he came up for the sports racers were often touching in a way. I think my favorites were the ones tied to the whole saga of Ray and not just cause it produced laughs.

I'm going to miss having a daily dose of Ze humor to cap the day with, but since the ORG will still be around, I think I'll be able to manage.

I was lucky enough to be introduced to the Show near its start, it was actually the show that convinced me to get a video iPod as an emergency distraction for a two week family vacation.

Ze's brand of humor really has a way of getting me to smile and the 'projects' that he he came up for the sports racers were often touching in a way. I think my favorites were the ones tied to the whole saga of Ray and not just cause it produced laughs.

I'm going to miss having a daily dose of Ze humor to cap the day with, but since the ORG will still be around, I think I'll be able to manage.

I was lucky enough to be introduced to the Show near its start, it was actually the show that convinced me to get a video iPod as an emergency distraction for a two week family vacation.

Ze's brand of humor really has a way of getting me to smile and the 'projects' that he he came up for the sports racers were often touching in a way. I think my favorites were the ones tied to the whole saga of Ray and not just cause it produced laughs.

I'm going to miss having a daily dose of Ze humor to cap the day with, but since the ORG will still be around, I think I'll be able to manage.

This guy was the winner, Soybuddha. Not sure which links you were refering to, but most of the info is in the Wiki pages rather than the front page.

Ze Frank's googeification

I think independents have a chance at providing compelling games journalism in the way that someone like Ze Frank does. (Which is to say: from the fringes, on little or no budget, with an organically growing viewer base.)

We're about to enter Season 2 of our own show, and though we're struggling with format (should the show be 5 minutes long? 30 minutes? 1 billion hours?) and content (should we cover only indies, or all innovations in game development?), we've gotten a pretty good response.

Viva la indie developers with time to waste on experimental crap!

Someone has to mention ZeFrank's "I knows me some ugly MySpace" contest. Just listen to that theme song!

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/po st_3.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/07 1406.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/07 1806.html

Someone has to mention ZeFrank's "I knows me some ugly MySpace" contest. Just listen to that theme song!

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/po st_3.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/07 1406.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/07 1806.html

Someone has to mention ZeFrank's "I knows me some ugly MySpace" contest. Just listen to that theme song!

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/po st_3.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/07 1406.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/07 1806.html

Ze Frank says it best.

"Known as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, the prestigious Fields Medal was awarded to four people under the age of forty that you wouldn't want to get trapped on an elevator with...."

He then goes on to disprove some of Grigory Perelman's more famous conjectures using a donut.

It is literally the beast that cannot be fed.

Heh, right; of course it absolutely is not. It's a piece of software, not a living animal which consumes food.

Shall we ascribe random meanings to other words, too, or is there something special about "literally" which makes it an excusable candidate?

(As Ze Frank would sing, "say the opposite, say the opposite"...)

-b

[Disclaimer: I am one of the founders of Revver]

You'd probably appreciate the MyUglySpace competition put on by Ze Frank. The goal of the competition is to create the ugliest possible MySpace page. Many of the entries are lame, but some are really pushing the envelope of CSS-based vomit. I just like the contest because it gave me a use for my MySpace account.

There is a GeoRSS feed:
http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/georss.xml

This map shows possible locations for land-based antipodal points, which have large areas of Greenland and some of Siberia overlapping Antarctica, as well as the more reachable Argentina/Chile with China pairings. There are also some northern South America with Phillipines and other island areas possibilities. But it is no surprise that the NZ/Spain pairing was the first realized, as those are both close to reasonable cities that are likely home for people who visit his page.

I remember a story a while ago about a man from northern Spain (Galicia) who went to visit the village antipodal to his, in NZ, but unfortunately he did not have the foresight to construct a sandwich. That could have been with two slices from the same loaf if he had planned ahead.

I never did see either in the summary or even at his site a quick link to the experiment's results - here it is - although he seems to be slashdotting as we speak...

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/06 0906.html

It's actually fairly amusing. The edits make it very familiar to 99 percent of the threads around here. Almost makes you wonder what a decent video project involving slashdot exclusively would look like.

...by zefrank yesterday

zefrank http://www.zefrank.com/ has a funny video about exactly this kind of thing...http://www.zefrank.com/smallworld/

zefrank http://www.zefrank.com/ has a funny video about exactly this kind of thing...http://www.zefrank.com/smallworld/

Here is a Buddhist Game".

Ze has a Apple style video rant about Friendster that's worth watching.

Board of Canada use Flash to a nice effect to promote their album. Click on "'Hi Score" and play around with it. Bloated? Maybe, but still, you can do some amazing things with Flash. Another link off the top of my head is this interactive kaledioscope. Again, it's fairly useless but nonetheless an example of the diversity of work possible w/Flash. There are plenty others, just find them yourself (or add to this thread!)

The kaleidoscopic effect on the photos led me to find this interactive kaledoscope.

Enjoy!

I googled for Kaleidoscope java and found some very cool toys plus the one I wanted.

Consider teaching them how to search for their own interests, a la "teach a man to fish..."

This thread is full of way too much fun to be restricted to kids.

If you're one of the last three people on the planet who hasn't seen the famous "zefrank" site, then take a look at it now, and notice the three small, colored squares at the top left (a blue one, a white one, and an orange one) next to the advertising. The white one is an attempt - in keeping with the hilarity of the rest of the site - at providing a, "the boss is coming, hide this site!" button. You can take a look directly if you prefer.

By the way, it's worth installing Flash in order to tour his site.

If you're one of the last three people on the planet who hasn't seen the famous "zefrank" site, then take a look at it now, and notice the three small, colored squares at the top left (a blue one, a white one, and an orange one) next to the advertising. The white one is an attempt - in keeping with the hilarity of the rest of the site - at providing a, "the boss is coming, hide this site!" button. You can take a look directly if you prefer.

By the way, it's worth installing Flash in order to tour his site.