Yorick Sample II Felted originally uploaded by Red Wolf
This is the second Yorick sample. It’s done in an Australian yarn: Aristocrat Heirloom 8 Ply (50% mohair, 50% wool)
The mohair and wool felted easily, quicker than the previous sample. Not as fuzzy as the first sample and the definition is much better, but it’s forming loopy bits on the edges.
Looks like I may need to go looking for more yarns to play with.
Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg raised eyebrows Thursday at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles with a proposal rarely heard from executives at large digital music services: Record labels should try selling music online without copy protection
A Trading Standards officer in a town in the UK contacted the Mozilla Foundation to assure it that she’d caught the pirates who were copying Firefox without permission. When it was explained that the software was free, the officer lost it — I can’t believe that your company would allow people to make money from something that you allow people to have free access to. Is this really the case? If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation, as it is difficult for us to give general advice to businesses over what is/is not permitted
— via Boing Boing
They move through seemingly solid ice with ease and are at their liveliest near the freezing point of water. Warm them up slightly and they dissolve into goo. Their life cycle remains a mystery. But ice worms are beginning to yield their secrets to a few hardy scientists who see broad applications from understanding one of the planet’s oddest inhabitants
Never let it be said that cartoons aren’t educational. Allow Pinky & The Brain to enlighten you with Brainstem — via Fluff the Plush Cthulhu
An Amish teen was accused and cited for wiretapping a neighbour’s phone line to call relatives in another state. The Amish tend to frown upon this sort of thing — via digg
Judge Punch, a strict Catholic and loony fundie, spat the dummy at a recent custody hearing. He screamed abuse Rachel Knight and ordered that she is to have absolutely no contact with her son, not even in writing, because of her membership of a satirical religious group — Church of the SubGenius — with very liberal views on sexuality — via Boing Boing
The head of the US copyright office has accused Congress of making a mistake by extending the length of copyright in America, calling the term too long
, and saying that Congress made a big mistake
. The remarkable admission came at the tail end of an event held at the UNC Law School on 2 November 2005, when Mary-Beth Peters, the Register of Copyrights, and a panel of copyright scholars, lawyers and bureaucrats convened to deliberate copyright in public
Skype has come under scrutiny from the NSA and FBI since its PC-to-PC calls are encrypted using AES encryption. This is the same encryption used by the US Government for many things. So, why is it national security
when the Government encrypts its communications and assumed criminal activity
when private citizens follow suit? — via digg
US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld is unhappy with the existing propaganda systems in place and insists that the US must create a more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine
or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims
It appears that one of the largest eDonkey2000 communities is no more. Often occupied by over 1 million eDonkey2000 users spread over several servers, Razorback2 is often regarded as the very lifeblood of this network. It is being reported the Federal Belgian Police have raided and seized Razorback2’s servers. In addition, it is suspected the administrator of Razorback2 is currently in custody — via digg
Citing the Prevention of Terrorism
act, British Police have arrested and interrogated three of the stars of the award-winning film The Road to Guantanamo
, together with the three ex-Guantanomo detainees on whose story the film is based — via Feòrag
American hard rocker and political activist Henry Rollins says a fellow passenger on his flight out of Auckland reported him to Australian anti-terrorism authorities for reading a scholarly work on the rise of militant Islam. He said the official told him that though her department did good work, it also received a lot of letters submitted by lunatics
. Rollins replied on his web site: Please tell your government and everyone in your office to go fuck themselves. Tell them twice. If your boss is looking for something to do, you can tell him I suggest he go fuck himself. Baghdad’s safer than my hometown and your PM is a sissy
— via Feòrag
A federal judge ordered the Bush administration on Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance programme or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the programme under wraps — via digg
A plague of identity theft is afflicting South Korea’s online gamers, with almost a quarter of a million cases reported. Many of the stolen identities are being used in gaming farms in China as part of a $1 billion a year black market in cash and items from online games. In the farms, ranks of low-paid workers work 14-hour shifts performing repetitive tasks in online games in order to generate gold and other valuable items. These items can then be sold to players overseas
The cult television series Monkey is being remade in its home country Japan. If you know which TV character was born from an egg on a mountain top
and the lead line of in the world before Monkey, primal chaos reigned
, you probably have the ABC to blame. Parts of the series were shot in New South Wales at Stockton Desert near Port Stephens and the Blue Mountains last year
Broadband customers of Australia’s largest ISPs — Telstra, Optus and iiNet — can use peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as BitTorrent and Kazaa without being throttled by their ISP, at least for now
A group of New Zealand school children have found the remains of what is believed to be a 40 million-year-old giant
penguin. The remains were found last month near Kawhia, on the west coast of the North Island, by children looking for fossils for a nearby natural history museum. Bones from the largest ancient giant penguin, found in New Zealand more than 130 years ago, indicate the bird stood about 1.5 metres tall and weighed more than 100 kilograms
Google has formally rejected the US Justice Department’s subpoena of data, arguing the demand violated the privacy of users’ searches and its own trade secrets. Responding to a motion by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Google also said in a filing in US District Court for the Northern District of California the government demand to disclose web search data was impractical
Apple appears to have invoked the DMCA to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OSX to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday after the forum was served with a notice under the DMCA and Win2osx.net, another web site that hosts discussions related to getting Mac OSX onto chips with the x86 instruction set, was also down
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