Monday, June 27, 2005

Supreme Beings. This could be the biggest week for the Supreme Court in recent years. A host of important rulings are expected on intellectual property, religious displays, cable internet, and more. And its rumored there will be at least one retirement from the court. [WNYC New York Public Radio] 7:38:24 AM    comment []

Daily Show political clips from last week Here's a collection of political clips from last week's Daily Show, hosted on the CommonBits BitTorrent site: FBI incompetence, CIA gardening and the hunt for Bin-Laden * Rob Cordry on Global Tourism * Bush on Iraq and Downing-gate * Congress as a Reality Show * Interview with Bill Moyers * The Republican's Big Pornographic Tent * Flame Retarded Republicans * Interview with Howard Dean Link (Thanks, Jeff!) London Underground disruptions as a time-lapse movie Stef sez, "For 15 days, I've been grabbing the London Underground realtime disruption map every few minutes. I've just glued them all together into a three minute Quicktime, so you can visualise just how bad London's subway system is. My calculations indicate that the system is only fully operation 22% of the time!" Link (Thanks, Stef!) [bOing bOing] 7:33:36 AM    comment []

macosxhints - Record OS X screen activity to a Flash movie. Make screencasts using the free vnc2swf vnc2swf is a screen recording tool for X-Window (X11), Windows and Mac OS Desktop. It records the live motion of a screen and generates a Macromedia Flash(TM) movie (.swf) file. Motion capturing is divided into two parts: 1. Convert a screen image into some portable image format. 2. Record the captured images in a Flash movie. how to build a pirate tv transmitter - a photoset on Flickr. Flickr set of a Free Radio Berkeley workshop [unmediated] 7:32:15 AM    comment []

Jazz Ambassadors. Hugh Maskela has been called the father of African jazz, and South Africa's musical ambassador to the world. Hell join us to talk about a musical retrospective of his work. Also, bassist and composer Ben Allison. Lessons from Seattle. Norm Stamper resigned as Seattle police chief in 1999 after violent altercations between police and protesters at a World Trade Organization conference. But before the WTO debacle, Stamper was known as a bridge-builder and an innovator in policing. [WNYC New York Public Radio] 7:24:53 AM    comment []