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		<title>After almost 20 years, 10.6 will be my last Mac OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am proclaiming that Mac OS X 10.6 will be the last version of Mac OS X I use. Why? I don&#8217;t like iOS especially for my laptop, and Apple seems to be planning the end of Mac OS X, and is replacing it chunk by chunk with iOS. I&#8217;ve been using NeXTSTEP since 1994, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2012/02/27/after-almost-20-years-10-6-will-be-my-last-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>new editing features of Pd-extended 0.43, now in beta!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pd-extended 0.43 release has been brewing an extra long time, about 18 months now, mostly because there are lots of big improvements, and we wanted to make sure we got it right, so your patches all work, but the improvements all shine. Its now solidly beta, so we&#8217;re looking for testers. Download a nightly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2012/02/17/new-editing-feature-of-pd-extended-0-43-now-in-beta/</link>
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		<title>when one breaks the law that conscious tells him is unjust, he must do it with the willingness to accept the penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think we all have moral obligations to obey just laws. On the other hand, I think that we have moral obligations to disobey unjust laws because non-cooperation with evil is just as much a moral obligation as cooperation with good. I think the distinction here is that when one breaks the law that conscious tells [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2012/01/16/177/</link>
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		<title>good git practice to prevent injection of code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[git and other decentralized code repositories can provide good protection from the insertion of malicious code from outsiders, as long as people using them pay attention to what&#8217;s happening whenever they are pulling new code. This blog post has a nice description of that scenario, and also highlights the importance of making commits readable as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/09/03/good-git-practice-to-prevent-injection-of-code/</link>
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		<title>Google vs Apple, a replay of the 80s PCs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slate ran an article about Google&#8217;s recent acquisition of Motorola Mobility. There is a good discussion about how Google will need to make Motorola profitable to make it worthwhile, that is hard to get around. But just because Apple makes something like $370 per phone doesn&#8217;t mean Google ever could. Google was an internet company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/08/18/google-vs-apple-a-replay-of-the-80s-pcs/</link>
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		<title>on teaching digital media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A seminar can be a wonderful setting for lecture and discussion, a group gathered around a table to focus on a specific topic for a couple hours. The minimal setting provides few distractions and keeps people focused on the topic at hand. A good lecture communicates a focused chunk of information, allowing the whole concept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/07/27/on-teaching-digital-media/</link>
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		<title>on programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have long been interested in how computers and media can be shaped to work with how the brain works. Our personalities are even shaped by the media we consume, in some ways quite literally. Our plastic brains shift regions to different skills required by different media: there is good evidence that reading text has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/07/27/on-programming/</link>
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		<title>software patents as farce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The central idea of the patent system is to encourage people to invest in the research necessary in order to create new, better processes. I don&#8217;t know a whole lot about patents outside of software, but it makes sense that if a company has to spend millions of dollars creating a new process, then the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/07/16/software-patents-as-farce/</link>
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		<title>remember unified messaging?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that greatly saddens me about digital media and communicating via the internet or other technology is that we then start choosing which people we communicate the most with based on the technology they happen to use. Like if you use Facebook mostly, you&#8217;re probably going to communicate a lot less with people who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/06/28/remember-unified-messaging/</link>
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		<title>PdCon number 4 in Weimar this summer!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it elsewhere, PdCon aka the Pure Data Convention 2011 or even The Fourth International Pure Data Convention is coming to Weimar, Germany this August. The past three have each been an amazing, immersive week, I am sure this one will not disappoint! Pure Data Convention 2011]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/05/16/pdcon-number-4-in-weimar-this-summer/</link>
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		<title>bin Laden was becoming irrelevant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We killed Osama bin Laden, and the only debate that seems to get any play is was it right or wrong to kill him. I think the real answers lay one level deeper: bin Laden was becoming irrelevant. He wasn&#8217;t hiding out in the mountains with his loyal troops, he was in a fancy little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/05/04/bin-laden-was-becoming-irrelevant/</link>
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		<title>Which social media in Tunisia?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been following the revolution in Tunisia, it is always inspiring to see people peaceably stand up and demand change. One thing that is coming up a lot in the media coverage of the Tunisian revolution is that social media has played a big part in getting things started. I am an early devotee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2011/01/22/which-social-media-in-tunisia/</link>
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		<title>Brooklyn as brand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I moved to Brooklyn 12 years ago because I thought it was the way I wanted to live in a city: neighborhood oriented, friendly, walkable scale, etc. I think Jane Jacobs describes this atmosphere best in the beginning of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I was part of an ongoing wave of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/12/10/brooklyn-as-brand/</link>
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		<title>downloading online videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a struggle on the internet to fight against its very nature. The internet is really good at freely spreading bits, but media companies want to control the bits as much as possible. We can see one aspect of this struggle in the arms race between tools for downloading from video sites like Vimeo, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/12/08/downloading-online-videos/</link>
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		<title>wikileaks coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just heard Glenn Greenwald on WNYC&#8217;s Brian Lehrer Show, he makes a lot of solid, simple points that are being left out of the coverage. You can find more on his editorial page. Its interesting to see the subterfuge that our government is going thru now to hide their subterfuge. Things like telling companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/12/08/wikileaks-coverage/</link>
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		<title>200 voices of timbre-space navigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://at.or.at/hans/pd/play/200voices.zip I was just working on a library of objects for creating and managing many instances. In the process I created a couple examples to play with: ticker.pd, a 100 voice clock ticker, make it tick very fast! run-200voicestest.pd, a 200 voice sample stretcher and panner These are based on voicepoly/voicepolywrap, which aims to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/11/22/200-voices-of-timbre-space-navigation/</link>
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		<title>highlighting data with sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Undervine, the data vis/sonification project I have been working on, is done and up on the wall at SFMOMA, I want to show a few clips of things that didn&#8217;t make the final cut. Starting with this clip about global wine production. We were trying to show how global wine production peaked in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/11/21/highlighting-data-with-sound/</link>
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		<title>Fixing my computer aches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just completed the sound design for a video called Undervine that is now on display as part of the show at SFMOMA about wine. For the sound, I used Pd-extended and Audacity, so that means lots of mousing for an extended period of time. That started to add up to some serious weird [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/11/20/fixing-my-computer-aches/</link>
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		<title>a hazard of &#8220;Creative Commons licenses&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Under a Creative Commons license&#8221; has become a pretty common statement out there for free culture. The problem is that no one really knows what it means. To start with, all of the Creative Commons licenses have very different ramifications. One needs to start off by saying which Creative Commons license you are talking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/11/17/a-hazard-of-creative-commons-licenses/</link>
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		<title>libpd: An embeddable sound engine for Android, iOS, C, Java, and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After many hours sorting thru C macros in the Pd code, working with all sorts of people contributing bits of code and experience here and there, Peter Brinkmann finally was the closer on the Pd/Android port and in the process created a nice, embeddable libpd. Here&#8217;s an alphabetical credits list of anyone who helped along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/10/22/113/</link>
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		<title>join a hacklab!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up building things with my friends in my grandfather&#8217;s shop. We were very fortunate that he let us use it, though we broke many a tool. People who like building things often gather together to work together, this is not a new phenomen. You can see it in people&#8217;s garages where they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/10/19/join-a-hacklab/</link>
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		<title>all we want is compliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I forget where, but Eben Moglen said some really interesting stuff about enforcing the GPL. When he started as the counsel for the FSF, he was ready to go after GPL violators to the full extent of the law, including damages, publicity, etc. Stallman was insistent that he only ever ask for compliance, and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/07/23/all-we-want-is-compliance/</link>
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		<title>Free Software in the Real World: a small sign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many times when people talk about they don&#8217;t use Free Software, the answer is related to &#8220;its not used in the real world&#8221;, or &#8220;real work isn&#8217;t done with Free Software&#8221;. Almost all the apps I use in my consulting and freelance work are Free Software. Admittedly I am far from pure, I mostly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/07/20/free-software-in-the-real-world-a-small-sign/</link>
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		<title>Judge, Jury, and Executioner via Video Camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my all time favorite websites, wikileaks, has recently released a video from the camera on a US helicopter in Iraq from an attack. It shows quite clearly the nature of war, with our solders forced to play judge, jury, and executioner in the span on minutes with only a video camera from 100 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/04/06/judge-jury-and-executioner-via-video-camera/</link>
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		<title>gardening!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I skipped gardening last year due a disappointing harvest two years ago, but this year I have been inspired by kale to try again. So we dug out a 5&#8242;x&#8217;5 area, lined it with the rocks we pulled out, and planted lacinato kale and dwarf blue curled scotch kale, and sprinkled some dill seeds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/03/30/gardening/</link>
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		<title>Please sell my GPL&#8217;ed software!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many people have gotten the ideas of Free Software confused with commerce. It is a commonly held belief that software released until the GPL cannot be sold. First off, there is nothing in the GPL license that talks about selling. And more importantly I think few authors of GPL software would want to prohibit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/01/29/please-sell-my-gpled-software/</link>
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		<title>Can You with the Devil to Achieve Good?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is not a black and white place, that is for sure. There is little that is simple in it. If you want to do good in the world, sometimes it might be beneficial to be a little less good for a while. Google&#8217;s actions in China could be such a case. A few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/01/13/can-you-with-the-devil-to-achieve-good/</link>
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		<title>put it in the bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is amazing to watch all the financial wheeling and dealing continue on, even after this insanity has caused the biggest economic collapse since the great depression. The big Obama bailout has kept all these wheelers and dealers in business, hardly feeling any repercussions at all. I just saw a good example of this in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2010/01/01/put-it-in-the-bank/</link>
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		<title>health care reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This latest effort in the US Congress to reform the health care system in the US proves to me that the Federal Government has ceased to be an appropriate venue for any real reform. The best we can hope for is that they don&#8217;t pass something so dismal that is prevents state and local governments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/12/20/health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>recycling mobile computers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York City now has electronics recycling drop-off days all over the city four times a year, organized by the Lower East Side Ecology Center. All those materials go to a recycler that is in full operation. That recycler is extracting all sorts of materials and selling them. People thought that paper recycling was crazy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/11/19/recycling-mobile-computers/</link>
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		<title>wifi encryption cracked again, and mobile phones too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC Advisor: WPA wireless security cracked in 60 seconds The WEP standard for encrypting wifi networks has long since been easily crackable. Now the next &#8216;uncrackable&#8217; standard, WPA, can be cracked in 60 seconds. Expect more and better automatic cracking tools to follow, just like the WEP tools like aircrack-ng, wesside, etc. So apparently, WPA2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/08/30/wifi-encryption-cracked-again/</link>
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		<title>A Step Towards Free Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a devoted user of NeXTStep, ahem, which I started using in 1994 and still use to this day. Except now, NeXTStep is called Apple Mac OS X. I am also a vocal advocate for Free Software. This may be a contradiction, many have pointed out. While I wish I had the programming skills [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/08/30/a-step-towards-free-software/</link>
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		<title>crime and adaptation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Humans are creatures that have proven quite amazingly adept at survival. Starting from a small area of the world, we have spread to pretty much everywhere in the world, and have adapted to drastically different conditions with no substantial physical differences between us, when you look at the grand scheme of things. We have adapted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/08/10/crime-and-adaptation/</link>
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		<title>Defeating Nazi Germany: What Else Besides War?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People have varying views about war and particular wars, but it seems people with a wide spectrum of beliefs think that World War II was a &#8216;good war&#8217;. As a ardent pacifist myself, it is indeed a very difficult case. Nazi Germany was indeed a brutal and expantionist force and I also believe that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/07/06/defeating-nazi-germany-what-else-besides-warpeople-have-varying-views-about-war-and-particular-wars-but-it-seems-people-with-a-wide-spectrum-of-beliefs-think-that-world-war-ii-was-a-good-war/</link>
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		<title>Using the Goodwill Towards Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that has clearly changed since Obama became president is the level of goodwill around the world towards the USA. Obama&#8217;s story is indeed inspirational to many, and represents a good side of the USA: he is the son of an immigrant from a far off land who is black, and he is now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/07/04/using-the-goodwill-towards-obama/</link>
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		<title>Development Cycles in Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed over the decades I&#8217;ve been following technology a particular pattern in the development and spread of certain technologies: First comes the idea, then comes the early implementations funded by big money and restricted to a lucky few. Then takes form that can be easily reproduced in quantity, then it becomes cheap and easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/06/20/the-cycle-of-technology/</link>
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		<title>let Iran be Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Iran elections are in the news big time, it is indeed fascinating to watch the large crowds of people gathering in the protests. Large protests can be a great exercise in the power of the people, but they can also be a highly effective propaganda tool. I hope that what is happening in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/06/20/let-iran-be-iran/</link>
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		<title>High-priced Labor as a Force Driving Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Egypt under Ptolemy had much of the ingredients for the industrial revolution, including a functional model of a steam engine in 100 A.D. So why did it take until 1700 A.D. for the steam engine to actually start being used? The ancient Egyptians had a multitude of slave labor, so they had no incentive to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/06/20/high-priced-labor-as-a-force-driving-innovation/</link>
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		<title>property rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Property rights are often grouped together with the idea of universal human rights, rights like freedom of religion, of speech, etc. Certainly much of the world is now organized around the idea of property rights as a central idea, and well defended property rights for everyone have proven to be a pretty good driver of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/04/08/property-rights/</link>
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		<title>one perspective on free software culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been quite a bit of discussion over the years about why the world of free software is so not diverse, its really something like 90% white European males, you could probably take it even further, like 80% shy white males of European descent. The world of computer users is actually quite diverse, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/04/07/one-perspective-on-free-software-culture/</link>
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		<title>gaza war crimes investigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian did three 10 minute video documentaries about the most recent Israeli war against Gaza. They lay bare what Israel&#8217;s spokespeople are so good at dancing around: the Israeli forces target civilians, hospitals and medical workers, in addition to militants. These stories are backed up by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/gaza-war-crimes-investigation Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/03/23/gaza-war-crimes-investigation/</link>
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		<title>palisraelestine again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The madness is back at full strength in Palisraelestine, or more specifically, Gaza. Both sides in the grips of corrupt politicians who use hatred and violence to ensure they stay in power, no matter what the cost to their people. And the other side be damned&#8230; The Israelis are very fortunate that their military is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2009/01/21/palisraelestine-again/</link>
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		<title>what we should be bailing out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we are now in the depths of a economic crisis mostly caused by vast and irresponsible borrowing and free spending. How can the solution to this problem be to borrow a lot more money and give it to the worst offenders? It seems that the discussion of &#8220;the bailout&#8221; is totally binary: should we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/12/05/what-we-should-be-bailing-out/</link>
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		<title>How open is Google Android?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Google has been talking a lot how open Android is, but unfortunately, if you are using to using a laptop or PC, then there are still quite a few restrictions in place. They still haven&#8217;t come clean about its statements like “Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices”. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/11/30/how-open-is-google-android/</link>
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		<title>The Spanish Revolution, Free Software, and GPL Enforcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anarchism has gotten a pretty bad name, and unfortunately for the wrong reasons. So it&#8217;s a word I feel I have to avoid in order to discuss ideas about how to organize society without hierarchies. I never really understood it so well, until I recently got obsessed with the Spanish Civil War and Revolution. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/11/29/the-spanish-revolution-free-software-and-gpl-enforcement/</link>
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		<title>Utopian Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;ve been mulling over for at least the past decade is the state of utopian Capitalism that the USA has been in since the fall of the Soviet Union. Contrary to what most people seem to believe, there are not just one or two ways of organizing the human economy, but many. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/11/29/utopian-capitalism/</link>
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		<title>Americans are obsessed with &#8220;choice&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans are obsessed with &#8220;choice&#8221;. When we order a coffee, we want to have a huge list of options. We are not content to choose from one or two options for colored sugar water (aka soda aka pop aka soft drinks), we want at least six choices. Who could be satisfied with only a handful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/09/08/americans-are-obsessed-with-choice/</link>
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		<title>bringing physicality to the interface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving windows has always felt a bit odd on an unconscious level. You are moving a very stiff, pretty sizable thing, according to our eyes, but yet the effort on the mouse is no different than moving just the tiny pointer. On some systems, the shadow around each window makes it look even heavier since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/09/07/bringing-physicality-to-the-interface/</link>
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		<title>the state of tethering in the world today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet has been getting quite a bit of attention for its discussion of “tethered” devices, or devices that are remotely controlled by someone besides the owner of the device. I have started reading the book myself, and it has some interesting analysis so far. Richard Stallman responded to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/09/07/the-state-of-tethering-in-the-world-today/</link>
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		<title>Free Software Keeps Hardware Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hardware manufacturers like Apple, Nokia, etc. etc. would love to get you to buy each new release of hardware that they make. Since computers started out as very expensive pieces of hardware, the whole computer industry was built around making computers upgradable, especially by updating the software. Smart phones and PDAs started out as relatively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/08/23/free-software-keeps-hardware-alive/</link>
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		<title>what is open source science?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a myth of science that has developed over the centuries: science is an open process. Of course, scientists strive to publish their results, and educate their students. But these alone do not make for an open process. Perhaps centuries ago, these practices were more open than the previous practices, but in the twenty-first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/08/12/what-is-open-source-science/</link>
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		<title>mobile banking, mobile phishing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jacob Winiecki, a friend of mine, is working on setting up self-sustaining businesses based on simple technology in developing countries; for example, replacing kerosene lamps with solar lamps by helping people set up importing businesses, distribution businesses, and local solar lamp rental businesses. This is done by finding workable business models, then working with microfinance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/08/12/mobile-banking-mobile-phishing/</link>
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		<title>your phone is a PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phones started out on a very different path than computers did. The first phones where simple electronic devices and remained more or less the same for decades. By the seventies electronics became cheaper and cheaper, and phones started to incorporate electronics in them. Then came mobile phones, which started out really as just fancy two-way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/07/24/your-phone-is-a-pc/</link>
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		<title>mediated life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So often we see makers of various technology advertise it as &#8220;bringing people closer together&#8221;. Mobile phones are a great example of this. So many projects at the various media labs around the world also talk about bringing people together, or maintaining relationships while physical separated. The reality of the situation is something more like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/05/10/mediated-life/</link>
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		<title>The Nature of Mobile Phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mobile phone networks where designed to get users to use as many minutes as possible since the business model of cell phone companies is charging per minute. You can see the impact of this on the way that people use their phones. People think constantly about how many minutes they have left, whether they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/04/24/the-nature-of-mobile-phones/</link>
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		<title>annoying technical details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever struggled through a technical problem only to find some arcane fix? Then months later, you hit that problem again, but you FORGOT THE FIX! Arg, I hate that. So now I blog about such situations, so that people can hopefully benefit from the suffering, including myself. It would be very nice if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/03/19/annoying-technical-details/</link>
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		<title>telecoms vs. the rest of us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a mobile phone. Many people think that&#8217;s crazy, I only know a small handful of people who are in the same boat as me. There are a number of reasons why this is the case. First and foremost, mobile carriers are actively working against many things that are essential to open societies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/02/21/telecoms-vs-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Commercializing your friendships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, if you had asked yourself whether people would voluntarily sign up by the millions in order to for private companies to make a profit from your relationships to your friends, colleagues, family, etc. you might have thought that this is a preposterous idea. Yet now we have many such sites, including some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2008/02/10/commercializing-your-friendships/</link>
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		<title>recycling is good, reusing is much better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the not too distant past, Apple was getting a lot of flak about their resistance to implementing a recycling program for their products. While I am not surprised that Apple is bad about recycling, there is one very important thing that is not talked about much in the world of electronics: building devices to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/09/27/recycling-is-good-reusing-is-much-better/</link>
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		<title>High-Art: from innovation to obscurity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In prehistoric times, &#8220;high-art&#8221; meant the equivalent of the most basic storytelling today. When most humans would have been slogging all day just to make sure that they had food for the day and weren&#8217;t going to be eaten by some bigger animal, it would have been the rare individual who had the time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/09/21/high-art-from-innovation-to-obscurity/</link>
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		<title>we have the power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We blame so many of the world&#8217;s ills on &#8220;corporations&#8221; or multinationals. It is true that they hold vast power. But the question that is not asked often enough is: where do they derive that power from? The answer almost all of the time is from the people who buy from them. If people did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/09/21/we-have-the-power/</link>
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		<title>where have all the real demos gone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a quick comparison of Jeff Han's Ted demo and the Augmentation Research Lab's 1968 Demo]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/07/10/where-have-all-the-real-demos-gone/</link>
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		<title>working towards an ideal academic institution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From my experience with Pd in academic environments, I think they are generally not very good an interfacing with the net communities and other external communities. Of course, there are exceptions, some very notable ones, but think overall the tendency is for academic communities to be very inward looking. This is something that I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/06/08/working-towards-an-ideal-academic-institution/</link>
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		<title>Intute anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got a message from a service called that this website has been included in a directory of education and research resources. It&#8217;s got a .ac.uk domain, so it has to be somewhat legit, but I have never heard of it. It seems like it is kind of like the journal search engines in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/05/09/intute-anyone/</link>
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		<title>this is an illegal color palette</title>
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		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/05/05/this-is-an-illegal-color-palette/</link>
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		<title>The barrier between learning and teaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who was fortunate to have early to computer programming at a young age, I believe that such exposure should be an elementary part of every student&#8217;s education. Our society is becoming immersed in computers, much like how text surrounds every aspect of our lives. The key difference is that while reading and writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/04/23/the-barrier-between-learning-and-teaching/</link>
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		<title>Stop Illegal Spying</title>
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		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/04/17/stop-illegal-spying/</link>
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		<title>Ditch File-&gt;Save!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do we still have to &#8220;save&#8221; work when working with a computer? Do you have to &#8220;save&#8221; when using pen and paper, or paint? The most important question here is, does breaking out the &#8220;save&#8221; function into a manually triggered activity actually add something useful? Perhaps before there was a good undo in every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/04/16/ditch-file-save/</link>
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		<title>OpenDNS&#8230; open to what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like OpenDNS is really all about opening up error message for them to place ads.]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/03/05/opendns-open-to-what/</link>
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		<title>Free software, why stop there?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea of free software has become well established and in growing ever more in adoption. Free hardware is making inroads to the broader public&#8217;s consciousness. The idea of open source is also starting to spread beyond the realm of the computer, with free journals such as PLoS as well as Creative Commons licensing of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/02/25/free-software-why-stop-there/</link>
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		<title>from free software to upgrading capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free software development is merely a new twist in a long tradition of free and open human collaboration and sharing. I think sharing and collaboration are essential human traits, especially when it comes to intangible things like ideas, stories, music, and knowledge. For the past century at least, technology has largely worked against this impulse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/02/15/from-free-software-to-upgrading-capitalism/</link>
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		<title>Creating a Platform for Modular Instrumental Technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A modular approach to musical instrument building, using high-level software modules with standard human interface devices, makes it increasingly feasible for musicians to build their own custom instruments. Musical technique can be modular as well, with musicians learning interfaces and synthesizers as distinct "modules" of technique.]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/02/02/creating-a-platform-for-modular-instrumental-technique/</link>
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		<title>Read/Write Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computers and software of all kinds have generally been designed and built by engineers for a broader population to use. Computing is becoming ubiquitous, and the skills for using computers are becoming as standard as reading and writing. Yet few of these tools are designed for everyone to modify them. We are teaching read-only computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/01/26/readwrite-tools/</link>
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		<title>problems with CC attribution clauses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently noticed that Creative Commons has dropped all non-Attribution licenses from the &#8220;Choose A License&#8221; page. That means CC is trying to make all people include Attribution clauses despite well known and long acknowledged problems with them. In the late nineties, people began to realize that the attribution clause in the original BSD license [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/01/14/problems-with-cc-attribution-clauses/</link>
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		<title>How do you take the slack out of experimental learning environments?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a product of two &#8220;experimental&#8221; learning environments. First I did my BA in the Music Program Zero, aka MPZ, at Bard College, which was a splinter music department with notoriously lax structure and perhaps standards too. MPZ was infamous among the students as the place to just hang out and get credit, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/01/03/how-do-you-take-the-bullshit-out-of-experimental-learning-environments/</link>
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		<title>developing free hardware: start small!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arduino project is a model of how to start developing free hardware on all scales.]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/12/14/devloping-free-hardware-start-small/</link>
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		<title>violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking around for documentation of the G20 protests in Melbourne, Australia. And of course you find the typical edited footage of the 20 violent punks interspersed with footage of thousands of non-violent protestors. Watch out! The revolution is at your doorstep! They are coming to take away your television and fast food [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/11/21/violence/</link>
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		<title>2312 messages to /dev/null</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just checking my monthly log of my procmail rules, and I was blown away to find that one relatively simple rule has filtered out 2312 messages in the last month: :0 * ^X-MSMail.* { :0 B * filename=.*\.(txt)\.(com&#124;exe&#124;js&#124;pif&#124;scr&#124;vba&#124;vbs&#124;zip)\"$ /dev/null } Basically, this rule first looks for any message that has the header X-MSMail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/11/02/2312-messages-to-devnull/</link>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, on to the good things that happened at Ars Electronica: the Electrolobby. David Cuartielles set up the stage by turning the Electrolobby into a festival of workshops. There were three traditional workshops, OpenFrameWorks, Arduino, and PyS60, with registration, regular hours, and a whole group of people listening to lectures. Then there were a bunch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/30/experiments-in-teaching/</link>
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		<title></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technorati Profile]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/20/25/</link>
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		<title>mesh internet returns us to the local&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As radio connections replace wired internet connections, and more and more device participate in the vast mesh internet, traditional telecommunications providers will fade away. Why pay for the internet when you can just turn on your device and get it for free? But there is the issue of long range connections. The as hoc mesh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/13/the-internet-returns-to-being-local/</link>
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		<title>the 3 R&#8217;s of environmentalism&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just reading the New York Times magazine and I saw a little blurb about &#8220;environmentally friendly interior design.&#8221; They quoted the immortal three R&#8217;s of environmental responsibility: &#8220;recycle, reuse, reclaim&#8221;. Wait a minute&#8230; something isn&#8217;t quite right there&#8230; Isn&#8217;t supposed to be &#8220;reduce, reuse, recycle&#8221;? I guess its hard for advertisers to mention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/10/the-3-rs-of-environmentalism/</link>
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		<title>08102006058</title>
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		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/08/08102006058/</link>
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		<title>08102006035</title>
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		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/08/08102006035/</link>
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		<title>08102006033</title>
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		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/08/08102006033/</link>
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		<title>02102006028</title>
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		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/10/03/02102006028/</link>
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		<title>sshing into a MSYS MinGW shell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So for some reason I feel compelled to work on Windows tho I don&#8217;t use it at all myself. The sad fact is the majority of computer users out there are on Windows. And someone has to make the Pd builds on Windows, so here I find myself again. In order to reduce the pain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/09/28/sshing-into-a-msys-mingw-shell/</link>
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		<title>free software for voting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this is more of a rant/question than my more usual editorial-style essay. I just read The Big Gamble on Electronic Voting in the New York Times, which is really just a reiteration of what a bunch of people have been saying about electronic voting machines. Its appalling to me that our government is so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/09/24/free-software-for-voting/</link>
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		<title>flood of electronics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just got back from teaching a &#8220;minishop&#8221; at Ars Electronica and I got to vent on an issue that is coming to dominate my thoughts on electronic art. We already consume so much, so much of everything from food to toys to whatever. We are also consuming more and more electronics. This raises [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/09/11/flood-of-electronics/</link>
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		<title>why I am a vegetarian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess now that I have a blog, I feel like I need to post my views, for the record. Isn&#8217;t that what a blog is for? Or should I be instead telling you that I sat outside on the back porch in my dormitory-like 4 bedroom apartment clipping my fingernails and drinking coffee. Yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/08/07/why-i-am-a-vegetarian/</link>
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		<title>The newly discovered &#8220;aggressive gene&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25rats.html According to the above article, some scientists have found that they can create aggressive or non-aggressive rats depending on which genes they flip. This might be some kind of contributor to something that I have thought about a lot: why European cultures are so bent on destruction and domination. Perhaps there is something to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/08/07/the-newly-discovered-aggressive-gene/</link>
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		<title>Why I argue against Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up believing that Israel was right in all it did, that it was a great socialist nation. Since I am American, I was raised in an country where Arabs where viewed as hostile, crazy, dirty people in far away lands. The town I grew up in was 30% Jewish and basically everyone supported [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/08/07/why-i-argue-against-israel/</link>
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		<title>militarism takes over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current situation in Lebanon clearly demonstrates that militarism has completely taken over Israel. The people of Israel seem willing to suffer deaths and a rain of rockets as long as the Israeli military is killing and destroying far more than the other side. Its an insane logic and has nothing to do with stopping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/08/01/militarism-takes-over/</link>
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		<title>emacs bindings everywhere!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about NeXTSTEP, ahem, I mean Mac OS X is that you can turn on emacs key bindings everywhere that Cocoa is used. You do it in a file called ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict Here&#8217;s the file that I use: /* Picked up from Help search on Key Bindings. Good stuff -shane */ /* [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/07/31/emacs-bindings-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I finally set up a blog&#8230;.]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/07/31/hello-world/</link>
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		<title>outsourcing big brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use Google, everything you do is stored in a database and all linked together. Anything from email to searches to maps, etc., this is all linked to your profile. Now the gov&#8217;t has issued a large subpoena for Google&#8217;s data: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/technology/20google.html With that data, the government can google everyone in it to easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2006/01/20/outsourcing-big-brother/</link>
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		<title>a picture crying out for a caption</title>
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		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2005/03/22/a-picture-crying-out-for-a-caption/</link>
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		<title>gamers,  &#8220;modular technique&#8221;, and NIMEs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am writing a paper about the development of modular musical technique, i.e., someone can get good at various controllers (joystick, MIDI sliders, turntable) and get good at various synths seperately via software, keyboards, sequencers, whatever. But these skills would then transfer even when combined in new and unfamiliar ways, like if someone makes their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2005/03/04/gamers-modular-technique-and-nimes/</link>
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		<title>what does &#8216;sustainable&#8217; mean?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sustainable&#8221; is a word that a lot of people are throwing around these days. The word represents a very good idea, but it seems to me that this word has been almost completely coopted to mean something else entirely. sustainable: &#8220;an action or process that is capable of continuing indefinitely&#8221; [source] The most glaring example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2005/02/02/what-does-sustainable-mean/</link>
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		<title>pertinent words of MLK (a day late)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.alternet.org/story/21003/ From April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men [in the ghettos] I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2005/01/19/pertinent-words-of-mlk-a-day-late/</link>
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