November 19, 2011 : November 17, 2011. New York.

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November 18, 2011 : Rich & Lost by Dr. Veggie

©2011 Dr. Veggie. Available under the terms of an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. Download to Print.

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November 15, 2011 : OWS

The Occupy Wall Street movement and campers at Zuccotti Park have been raided and tents and camps destroyed by the NYPD. There have been a few live videos from location made, one that remained streaming for over 19 hours by…

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November 7, 2011 : AWE 0.1.2

We do more reading than we do writing, a blogging platform should be designed around this use-case. Download “AWE Intro Video” You can get it at the AWE – WordPress Plugins page. Subscribe to the mailing list at http://www.freelists.org/list/awe, and…

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November 7, 2011 : A movement to end corporate personhood.

Download Video Boulder, Colorado passed by a 3-to-1 margin an amendment that says corporations are not people and money is not speech and 6 Senators introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. Have corporations overplayed their hand – is…

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November 5, 2011 : Attn: Entertainment Industry

©2011 Braydon Fuller. Licensed for use under an Attribution license. Download Hi-rez

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October 27, 2011 : Digital Denial strikes Again!

“Digital Denial” by Braydon Fuller MPAA supported legislation previously known as “PROTECT IP” has been updated. Ars Technica has recently published an article titled, “House Takes Senates Bad Internet Censorship Bill and Makes it Worse”, and Tech Dirt reports, “Protect…

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October 3, 2011 : AWE

Recently sent out to the wp-hackers mailing list (archive of discussion): Hello, I have been working on a free software solution to social networking. Many projects are focused on starting from scratch, such as; Freedom Box, StatusNet, Diaspora, and Libre.fm….

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September 13, 2011 : What does this have to do with Software?

Copyright © 2011, Braydon Fuller. Download (212MB) Original artwork at 9 1/2″ by 18″, watercolor, woodblock and embossing on archival paper.

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September 7, 2011 : Digital Freedom License

Copyright © 2011, Braydon Fuller. Download (86MB) Original artwork at 9 and 3/4″ by 9 and 3/4″, watercolor, intaglio and embossing on archival paper.

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September 6, 2011 : 1998 — 2011: The Digital Revolution

Copyright © 2011, Braydon Fuller. Download (66MB) 8″ by 10″ watercolor on acid-free archival paper.

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September 6, 2011 : 1440 — 1998: The Age of the Printing Press

Copyright © 2011, Braydon Fuller. Download (71MB) 8″ by 10″ watercolor on acid-free archival paper. $30USD

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September 5, 2011 : Choice Collaboration

Copyright © 2011, Braydon Fuller and joint authorship with Logan Muszynski. Download (34MB). The above video should play in Chrome and Firefox, looping will work in Chrome but not in Firefox. Safari and Internet Explorer are not supported because they…

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September 3, 2011 : Oldschool and Computers

Copyright © 2011, Braydon Fuller. Download (96MB) Artist and photographer Logan stopped by earlier to brainstorm a collaboration of traditional art skills with modern technology such as the Net. I made the above work as a starting point.

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September 1, 2011 : Hacker Tees now at Poo-Bah Records in Pasadena, California

Go to Poo-Bah Records ( 2636 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena CA 91107 ), right across from Denny’s, and grab a hacker t-shirt, new vinyl records from artists such as Matthewdavid, Samiyam, Take and Ras G, used dvds, rare cassettes, limited…

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August 1, 2011 : Hardware Hacking @ [NSL] with the Cylon II

Much thanks to CharlieX and KRS @ Null Space Labs for the introduction to soldering enough to put together one of their kits, the Cylon II, an 8bit micro-controlled LED display. In just a day, I had a working Cylon…

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July 23, 2011 : What does Noncommercial in a Creative Commons license mean?

I’ve been trying to decide on a license for my own creative tangible works that would best take advantage of technology in the digital millennium. I want to avoid restricting peoples rights that normal copyright law in the United States…

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July 7, 2011 : Proposed U.S. Senate Bills are a Sign of Economic Turmoil: Part II

Dear Internet, When I was a teenager I traveled to Switzerland in January with family, and in my first visit, I imagined things to be drastically different. In many ways, they were very different, however, much to my surprise, American…

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June 26, 2011 : United States economy is under attack: Proposed Senate Bills are a sign of upcoming economic turmoil.

Dear U.S. Citizens, There has been a string of United States Senate bills that are a threat to our economy, and a violation to our First Amendment Rights, and they must be stopped in their tracks. I urge you to…

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February 28, 2011 : InDefero — Code Hosting and Project Management

While at SCaLE 9x this last weekend I went to a talk on “Behind the Scenes of Google Code Project Hosting”. I had previously just discovered InDefero, a project that started out as using a similar user interface but is…

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December 4, 2008 : Python Performance Part 3: Python 3000 and Transforming Large Lists into Seperate Smaller Lists

Preface This is a redux of Python Performance Part 1, where the fastest method was using the reduce builtin function in Python2.5. December 3rd, Python 3000 final was released so I have downloaded it and gone over some of these…

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Tags: Python

June 17, 2008 : Python Performance Part 2 Redux: Split & Reduce Large Strings for ‘A Href’ Hypertext

split_2.py def get_value(a): return a[1:a.find(">")-1] hrefs = map(get_value,open(“hypertext.html”,”r”).read().split(“<a href=”)) Timing Comparison: ~ 300% Performance Improvement Note: hypertext.html is 48MB. braydon@bgf:~/python_tests/extract$ time python split.py real 0m1.263s user 0m1.112s sys 0m0.156s braydon@bgf:~/python_tests/extract$ time python split_2.py real 0m0.392s user 0m0.268s sys 0m0.120s split.py…

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Tags: Python

June 16, 2008 : Python Performance Part 2: Parsing Large Strings for ‘A Href’ Hypertext

Goal Write a fast Python script that will take a large string and reduce it to a list of all of the hyperlinks in the html string; such as [”http://world.org”,”/tree”]. Attempt 1: Self-Recursion f = open(‘hypertext_sm.html’,'r’) ahrefs = [] count…

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Tags: Python

June 14, 2008 : Python Performance Part 1: Transforming Large Lists into Seperate Smaller Lists

Goal Write a fast Python script that will take a large list and break it up into smaller sub-lists based on a set size; such as transforming [a,b,c,d,e,f] into [[a,b],[c,d],[e,f]]. Attempt 1: Map/Reduce (0.93s) #import a list of 247,213 integers…

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Tags: Python

January 3, 2008 : The Importance in Rewriting Code

I needed a way of translating “644″, an object permission setting, into something more readable. I wanted to be able to do the following: def determinePermissions(obj): obj_usr= {“owner”:obj.owner, “group”:obj.group, “everyone”:True} usr = { “owner”:cherrypy.session.get(‘user’), “group”:cherrypy.session.get(‘group’), “everyone”:True } perms = self.translatePermissions(obj)…

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