Category Archives: media

Happy Birthday Karel Čapek (and robots)

January 9, 2008 – 10:58 am

Today is the birthday of Karel Čapek, who is attributed with popularizing the term “robot,” which he introduced in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (or R.U.R.). He gives credit to his brother Josef for inventing the word, which has its roots in the Slovak word robota which translates literally to “serf labor.” Čapek is [...]

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Data Anomolies

January 4, 2008 – 10:51 pm

I’ve been poking around lately working on getting some design ideas together and investigating some technical possibilities, as well as backing up some old data. Erasing some of that old data resulted in the crazy progress bar pictured above. I’ve also discovered a really frustrating problem while investigating pulling Flickr streams. It seems that you [...]

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iTunes Emancipation Proclamation?

June 1, 2007 – 10:34 am

Forgot my glasses today, but from what I can make out, it seems that iTunes has just now introduced DRM free iTunes Plus, which is a great start to something that folks have been pushing for for a while now. Now, its not FLAC or even the 320 kbps files that you can get on [...]

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