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In the the spirit of the DMCA passed by the US Congress, France and the EU are about to pass some terrible draconian laws. Projects like VLC are in potential danger; and by extension, all free/open source software will be criminalized.
Cory Doctorow blogged about it. EUCD.info is organizing a petition and providing info to the world.
An article aimed at the uninitiated.
This a nice how-to, involving a Pringles container. Link.
The guardian has an article on Miami and some post-ArtBasel reflections. It, of course, refers to Miami has ‘the city that coke built’–a Miami New times reference. The article focuses on Miami as a host city for culture. At CIFO, Manny Diaz said that was one of his goals. Well, here some international press confirming it.
This is a similar article; the noteworthy parts being, Robert Rauschenberg and Alain Robbe-Grillet was in town, Raleigh Hotel parties and a quote:
There were many events outside the Convention Centre. The most moving work I saw was at Miami Art Central, a museum set among Spanish-style bungalows in the suburbs. Here they were showing William Kentridge, a South African artist who does brilliant charcoal drawings that he works into disturbing films. I thought that these genuinely caught some of the horror and pain of the late 20th century.
Fredric Snitzer Gallery.
The (decom)press room at the new Miami Beach Library.
What is left from the old library. It has serve as the Art Basel Video Lounge.
I have been very busy this past month. But the near future should be a lot more generous to me. I’ll be posting about some ArtBaselMiamiBeach stuff and some open source stuff that I missed, like the new Firefox.
Thanks FP&L. Anyone else who doesn’t have power, drop us a word and we’ll try to help. We probably will not climb electric poles to connect your house or block back on the grid. But we will give you some support otherwise–shower, water, internet, etc…
Only about 10% of Miami-Dade is left without power. Same thing happened to us after Katrina; we got our power back as part of the last 10%. Anyway, it won’t be long until the two or three of you left get your power.
I haven’t been on top of all things currently going on in the world. Though, we have been abreast on some past events, like Carl Andre & Ana Mendiata and the ever heroic, Richard Feigen.
…in the dark. We still don’t have power. FPL is not my friend!
