May 12, 2012 : Cease and Desist #4
For the second week of May 2012: Walters Museum uploads 19,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons, 2600 looking for help on 2013 calendar, 7.5 billion dollars worth of hardware last year has shipped world-wide with Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth says countries with…
May 5, 2012 : Cease and Desist #3
For the first week of May, 2012: There will be a Bradley Manning demonstration on the 24th in Pasadena, The UK Government scolds The Pirate Bay, today is “A Day without DRM”, and Mozilla breaks the ice, and criticizes CISPA….
April 29, 2012 : Cease and Desist #2
This week at the end of April 2012: Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand the Internet, No trial for Megaupload, Bradley Manning pre-trial is in secrecy, the cellphone industry opposses privacy, Democracy Now has a series on surveillance, and a big report…
April 22, 2012 : Cease and Desist #1
EFF and ACLU kicked off this Monday with Stop Cyber Spying Week, with a campaign to sway congress against the proposed CISPA bill, HR 3523, sponsored by Rep. Michael “Mike” Rogers of Michigan. The bill has 100 co-sponsors, and 6…
April 21, 2012 : Hillman Curtis, pioneer of web storytelling, has died
It’s very shocking to hear that an early inspiration to the web, Hillman Curtis, has died this past week at the age of fifty-one. I remember sitting comfortably on my Grandmother’s sofa atop grey carpeting in a prefabricated house, air-conditioned…
April 20, 2012 : Stop Cyber Spying Week: Day 5
This is day five of Stop Cyber Spying Week, let’s get existential with disk encryption! This one is skating on the edge of what is and is not of our own mind. If you and only you behold the password…
April 19, 2012 : Stop Cyber Spying Week: Day 4
Today is day four of Stop Cyber Spying Week, let’s jump with both feet right into wireless security! You would not believe how many default installations of AT&T routers use the most easy to crack authentication! This combined with other…
April 18, 2012 : Stop Cyber Spying Week: Day 3
Government and corporate sharing of our information does not protect exposing private or confidential information! Do not be fooled by the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act claimed increase of “security”. We do not need yet another invasion of privacy,…
April 17, 2012 : Stop Cyber Spying Week: Day 2
I thought we could take this time to have a little chat. There is something seriously wrong with the Internet, isn’t there. Even without CISPA, spying is already an issue, companies log our IP addresses, follow us around, watch what…
April 17, 2012 : Action Kit / A Week of Protest against CISPA
A new proposed House bill, H.R. 3523, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is a threat to our privacy. This bill has so many grey areas, it should be rejected out of principle, and not tolerated at all. The definition…
March 23, 2012 : Strike Against Software Patents for M1GS (May 1st General Strike 2012)
I’m joining the strike on May 1st, 2012, and will be raising awareness on the dangers of software patents. Over the last four years, I have been involved with development involving video on the web for clients such as VTech…
March 8, 2012 : GNU/Linux Beginners
I’ve spent last Saturday being a volunteer proctor at a follow-up SCaLE beginner class, after spending the weekend volunteering during the expo in January. It’s also a learning experience for me. The biggest lesson: if you’re planning on installing Fedora,…
February 14, 2012 : Proposal: Support Authors and Artists without Censorship
Proposed on Monday 13th, 2012 to the Los Angeles General Assembly. Status of Proposal: An affinity group will be meeting tomorrow Tuesday February 14th, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the west steps of City Hall in Downtown LA to work…
February 2, 2012 : Boycott Facebook!
Now is the best time ever, TO QUIT FACEBOOK, especially in light of their recent announcement of an IPO. They are not doing the work, you are! This is epic level deception. Free & open? I think not. They are…
January 30, 2012 : AWE 0.3.5
![[]](http://aweplanet.com/braydon/files/2012/01/awe_tiltlecard.png)
Download “AWE 0.3.5 Demo Video” This video is a demonstration of the AWE plugin (version 0.3.5) for WordPress. The background music is from the Into Infinity project, a remix by Anthony Valedez Related Posts: Intro Video AWE 0.1.2
January 7, 2012 : Copythrowdown (2:01min)
photo: targut Download Audio Downloads & Attribution As Seen on TV Radiohead – Plunderstudies No Surprises (Radiohead Cover) – Okumura Angel (Massive Attack Cover) – D3AD P1X3L PR0DUCT10N5 Because (The Beatles Cover) – BassCausality Karma Police (Radiohead Cover) – Ergo…
January 7, 2012 : SOPA 34sec Brain Freeze
Download Audio Attribution Al Gore – Live Leak Alexis Ohanian – Bloomberg Ron Paul – Youtube Ron Paul – Politico Brain Freeze – k.steudel
January 6, 2012 : Experiments in Internet Radio Transmission
Last year before the Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, California we at Poo-Bah Records setup a live radio transmission to broadcast what is playing in store, and to start doing live shows. We had an iMac computer donated to us…
December 29, 2011 : “This is willful copyright infringement.”
Download Video Comedy Central / Stop Online Piracy Act – The Colbert Report Let’s make this more exciting and start committing some crimes, some copyright infringement crimes. Right now, ICE can technically seize this domain. Comedy Central can likely sue…
December 24, 2011 : The Tom Coston Show with Red Rosie / Occupy LA and Internet Talk about SOPA
Download Audio View the full show: “A Christmas Carol” / CC-BY / Poobah Records
December 15, 2011 : Occupy ICE, Today
Occupy I.C.E. ( Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ) March & Rally in L.A. Thursday, Dec. 15th, 11AM Gather @ Olvera Street, Main Plaza Along with detaining immigrants and splitting families apart, which is the main focus of the march, ICE…
December 14, 2011 : Los Angeles General Assembly: December 13th, 2011
Download Video The Los Angeles General Assembly was consented to be held now at Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm at the steps of City Hall. After February 1st, 2012 it will be reconsidered to hold the General Assembly…
December 12, 2011 : Occupy the Ports: Long Beach, CA Photos
These photos are free of known copyright restrictions.
December 8, 2011 : Multiply….
Earlier this week I’ve received in the mail the U.S. copyright registration for the painting of “Facebook Condensed Human Brains Soup”, inspired by the famous Warhol series, “Campbell’s Soup Cans”, that I first remember seeing in public high school on…
December 6, 2011 : “Safe Harbors” are Unsafe
It’s time to strike against social media, DMCA take-down notices… in overwhelming force! I simply can not stand back and wait for imperial laws to pass and threaten these websites from being blocked as they are already in other countries,…
December 4, 2011 : The National Defense Authorization Act is going to grant the military the authority to detain any American citizen indefinitely!
Update 1: OLA March, Rally & Press Conference Against the National Defense Authorization Act Sunday December, 4th 2011 – http://occupylosangeles.org/?q=node/2604 Update 2: There wasn’t a march, and no planned press conference. There was a group of people to discuss the…
November 30, 2011 : NYC General Assembly
I found this great video at the New York General Assembly website, which is running WordPress with BuddyPress, and how I ended up discovering it. Download Video CC-BY-NC-SA / Meerkat Media Collective
November 28, 2011 : Live! Occupy Los Angeles
I’ve spent the last ten hours at Solidarity park, for Occupy Los Angeles, in Downtown. Many people came prior to 12:01am, including every media station, trucks lined the streets. The park was filled with people to each end, and had…
November 27, 2011 : Occupy Los Angeles
Occupy Los Angeles early tomorrow morning, 12:01am, is facing eviction based on warnings from mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa, and this next week will be a defining moment for the movement. Media is one of the propaganda tools of…
