While I certainly admire Google’s willingness to stand up to the man, it is important to note that confirming any fears that google is in league with big brother is the one thing that could truly ruin them. It’s no surprise they’re fighting against turning over search records, with all the controversy over the information they are sucking up about not just the internet but users as well, succumbing to a government request for information is basically making all those fears real.
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Cruise is booked. One year and one month after our marriage, my wife and I will go on our honeymoon!
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You must do the following:
Represent the person’s entire life as a series of grand cliches.
If the person produced something (scientific, artistic), have their character experience something verging on mystical that will inevitably lead them to their breakthrough.
Bog down truly dramatic moments by presenting them as those most boring cinematic shorthand possible- rush to the hospital, physical collapse which represents the inevitable tragedy of person
Try to wrap the movie in ideas and images you don’t really understand, but believe reflect the person’s intent or creation.
Politics is taken as nothing more than scenery- another roadsign on the highway through their life.
Granted, you are condensing a person’s life into a few hours, so you are going to have to do some condensing, but all of these movies are the same- Pollack, Friday, A Beautiful Mind, Kinsey- they are all more or less the same. It always feel like by trying to tell the story of a person’s life, they forget about that person’s humanity, what they truly did, their relevance. I’m not sure if part of it is a desire to attract an audience or the simple inability for filmmakers to see beyond cliche.
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OK. So I updated to 6.0.2 at home and whaddya know? iTunes Music Store purchased video (in this case the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica) is available over the network to my laptop. Why not the other episode? Why not my copy of “Lazy Sunday”? I’m really not sure, but there it is:
Just for kicks, here’s my Video playlist displayed through my Xbox Media Center. Granted, I can’t play the video for some reason (though I can through SMB- sadly not the DRM’d content).
Update: A discussion on the apple support forums suggests that only videos purchased after the upgrade to 6.0.2 are sharable. Bummer.
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I was so excited about Photocasting with iPhoto ‘06 until I tried it. Whatever apple put inside its RSS feed happens not to work with Firefox, Thunderbird and Bloglines- the only three programs I really utilize RSS within. I’ll have to look around and see what it does work with, besides iPhoto and Safari of course. It doesn’t even work with iBlog! I was hoping to begin using photocasts as an alternative to iBlog but it is not to be.
Check it:
Firefox:
Bloglines:
Should you want to give it a try (and get back to me about whether or not it worked), here’s the feed:
http://photocast.mac.com/ljferdinand/iPhoto/photocast/index.rss
Perhaps Jobs should have considered the phrase “Industry Standard RSS” a bit more carefully. Its one thing to give your tiny percentage of .mac subscribers the opportunity to publish their pictures, but something entirely else when you ask the rest of the world to change their way of doing things for those million or so users.
The new Garageband, with its foley sounds and ability to compose music to iMovies is pretty sweet. I shall attempt an enhanced AAC version of my next podcast, whenever that may be.
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The updated iTunes apparently supports video sharing in some circumstances. I have a number of videos in my itunes library- mostly vlogs and purchased TV shows. One video- the latest episode of dl.tv in .m4v format (which I believe is some kind of non-h.264 mpeg4 compression in this case) is currently visible to other devices through my shared library. The other videos- all quicktime encoded mpeg 4 or 3ivx variants that are ipod compatible (indeed trying to encode them for ipod says that they are already compatible) are not visible ot the other devices. When I launch the video it buffers and then begins playing as though it were playing in my local itunes.
Update
Ok, so today Rocketboom shows up in my shared playlist, but I can’t play it. However, DL.TV is still there, and I can stream it. Remember that despite the number of video files (including purchased iTunes Music Store videos) on my shared library, these are the only two that display.
This does not work in my home network. I thought perhaps it was because I had password protected my library on the machine I took the following pictures on. Not so. Have a look:
Notice the (remote) designation. Click through the image to see the full itunes window.
Here is an image of theDL.TV file streaming to my ibook. Click through it to see the full itunes window.
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No firewire in the “macbook!” Looks like Apple had to give a little in order to get a little when they shook hands with Intel. I just bought a goddamn firewire audio box!
Update Looks like “World of Mac” got it wrong! One firewire 400 port built in.
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I imported all of the entires from my “Digital Governance Fluency Blog” that ran from September to December on Blogger. Check’m out in the “Floggist” category.
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