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<title><![CDATA[Buddha Machine 2: revenge of the ambient music transistor radio gizmo (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I love the Buddha Machine, a little plastic ambient music generator that looks like a transitor radio -- put two or three in a room together and play them at the same time and you get something haunting, bent and hypnotic. Now there's a new version, with more loops, colors, and sound-tweaking options. The Buddha Box 2 features nine new ambient sound loops. The new selection is noticeably more diverse than those of its predecessor--a welcome change. One of my biggest issues with the first incarnation of the box was its relatively limited aural palate. The selections on number 2 should fit a wider range of ambient-suitable scenarios. For further variation, the box also includes a wheel that bends the loops' pitch, to help you tailor the sound perfectly to its surroundings. Hands On: Buddha Machine 2 (Thanks, Crosshatch!) See also: Buddha Machine: spiritual, generative transistor radio...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:33:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Text-adventure game award-winners of 2008: Everybody Dies takes bronze! (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Writer/game designer/film-maker Jim Munroe sez, IFComp 2008, The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition and keeper of the old-school text-game torch, recently declared its winners. Bronze went to my game, Everybody Dies, silver went to Eric Eve's Nightfall, and the gold went to Jeremy Freese's Violet. Everybody Dies puts you in the shoes of a chubby metalhead who has smoked his last smoke, with illustrations by Michael Cho; Nightfall drops you into a mysterious city where everyone's fled before the approaching Enemy; and in Violet your struggle to write your dissertation is aided by the most charming voice-in-your-head character in history. All 35 of the comp entries, playable with interpreters, are available at ifcomp.org, but Violet and Everybody Dies can be played online Congrats, Jim! Everybody Dies Takes Bronze at IFComp, Everybody Dies review at Play This Thing! (Thanks, Jim!)...<br style="clear: both;"/>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:31:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Regulator to hear Bell Canada network throttling case (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bell Canada, the giant Canadian telco, is before the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission over its throttling practices, whereby it secretly corrupted the download sessions of its customers. The company also interfered with the connections initiated by its wholesale customers -- ISPs that leased lines from the giant and re-sold them to end-users. Bell said that it had to cripple everyone's connections, or the people who bought network access from its wholesale customers would get a better service than its own retail customers, which would be "unfair" to retail customers. Steve sez, According to the CBC, after twice delaying the ruling, the CRTC will make a landmark decision on the Bell Throttling case by 9 a.m. tomorrow. The decision will determine whether Bell Canada has violated the Telecommunications Act by slowing down the Internet access it sells to wholesale customers. Steve Anderson from SaveOurNet.ca coalition will be available for comment. Steve said today, “]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:21:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple to Mac owners: throw away your monitor if Hollywood says so (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Buying an Apple computer? Get ready to throw away your monitor, over and over again. New Apple hardware is shipping with "HDCP" anti-copying technology that prevents showing some video on "non-compliant" monitors. Best part: the list of "compliant" monitors will change over time: the monitor you buy today can be "revoked" tomorrow and stop working. Slashdot says that Apple's added "copyright protection" to its video. But copyright law isn't violated when you watch a movie on an "unapproved" monitor. This isn't about enforcing copyright law, it's about giving a small handful of movie companies a veto over hardware designs. Yesterday, our buddy David Chartier at Ars and Sam Oliver at AppleInsider both publicized an issue that's been burning up the support boards for a while now: iTunes video rentals and purchases in HD are flagged for HDCP control, and in cooperation with the new Mini DisplayPort connector on the MacBook and MacBook Pro unibody models, those mov]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:15:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé. (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In its special website section devoted to 30 years since Jonestown, the San Francisco Chronicle has republished a copy of a 1977 report on Jim Jones and People's Temple by Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy. The investigative report marked a turning point for People's Temple, an arc towards the catastrophic end that would come one year later. Before this exposé was published in New West magazine (because back then, the Chronicle's editor refused to run it), Jim Jones enjoyed what amounted to broad support and protection from news organizations, powerful social figures, and politicians who saw the influential preacher as a "deliverer of votes." Collectively, they turned a blind eye to mounting reports of coercion, corruption, and physical and sexual abuse within his church. And they bear some responsibility for the tragedy that followed. I agree with what one sfgate.com commenter wrote about the two tenacious reporters who fought to produce this piece: 30 years on, this is]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:58:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jonestown, 30 years later: "Father Cares," NPR radio documentary from 1981 (audio) (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago this week, nearly a thousand adults and children lost their lives in Jonestown, Guyana. The settlement was also known as "Peoples Temple Agricultural Project", and was formed by followers of the Reverend Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. Today, some refer to the mass deaths as suicide, others murder. We still don't really know all the facts of what happened, or how, or exactly why. Autopsies were botched, records and forensic evidence were mis-handled, and many of the US government's documents remain classified, out of reach of FOIA requests. But we do understand that most of the people who died on November 18, 1978 drank fruit-flavored Flavor-Aid laced with a variety of intoxicants and poisons: Valium, chloral hydrate, and cyanide. The victims included hundreds of children. Many of the corpses, including children, bore puncture wounds indicating they received lethal cyanide injections. Adults who resisted were injected with cyanide or killed by gushot. Jones&ap]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:55:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jonestown, 30 years later: From Silver Lake To Suicide (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The LA Weekly published an article by Barry Isaacson about the discovery earlier this year of a number of letters sent by a Jonestown resident to her parents, who lived in LA's Silver Lake neighborhood. Phyllis and her family were dead for more than a decade by the time her elderly parents moved out of their house in Silver Lake in 1992. Architectural real estate agents had to bring the exquisite midcentury modern on Micheltorena Street back from the brink of decrepitude before selling it to my wife, Jenny, and me. Handing over the keys, they told us that, according to neighborhood folklore, the Alexanders might have left behind a concealed suitcase containing correspondence from their long-dead daughter and grandchildren. We looked but found nothing, and having been made aware of the circumstances of this family’s demise, we felt reluctant to intrude on an almost unimaginable grief. But this past February, 10 years after we started to raise a family of our own where the Alexande]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:54:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jonestown, 30 years later: interview with a survivor (Current video) (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Current TV contributor Charmosh produced this interview with Jordan Vilchez, a Jonestown survivor who lives in the Bay Area. In 1971, cult leader Jim Jones established the headquarters of the Peoples Temple on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, CA. The building is now a US Post Office. Vilchez, a survivor of mass deaths in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978, remembers what it was like in the early days of the Peoples Temple. (thanks, Gabriel del Rio) Boing Boing posts on Jim Jones, Jonestown and People's Temple: - Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé. - Jonestown, 30 years later: original audio recordings from People's Temple and Guyana. - Jonestown, 30 years later: Life and Death of People's Temple (PBS video). - Jonestown, 30 years later: interview with a survivor (video) - Jonestown, 30 years later: From Silver Lake To Suicide - Jonestown, 30 years later: "Father Cares," NPR documentary from 1981 - Raven: The Untold Story of The Reverend Jim]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:54:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jonestown, 30 years later: Life and Death of People's Temple (PBS video). (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Of the many television and film documentaries produced on Jonestown, the 2006 PBS American Experience feature Jonestown: Life and Death of People's Temple, directed by Stanley Nelson, seems to me the most sensitive and comprehensive. I read somewhere that Jim Jones' adopted son -- who appears in this film -- also feels that way. Google Video embed above, and here's the link. Amazon Link to purchase DVD, and here is the PBS website, with additional background. Boing Boing posts on Jim Jones, Jonestown and People's Temple: - Jonestown, 30 years Later: Inside People's Temple, the 1977 exposé. - Jonestown, 30 years later: original audio recordings from People's Temple and Guyana. - Jonestown, 30 years later: Life and Death of People's Temple (PBS video). - Jonestown, 30 years later: interview with a survivor (video) - Jonestown, 30 years later: From Silver Lake To Suicide - Jonestown, 30 years later: "Father Cares," NPR documentary from 1981 - Raven: The]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:53:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jonestown, 30 years later: original audio recordings from People's Temple and Guyana. (Boing Boing)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The single most comprehensive online public resource for original source material related to Jonestown is Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple, a website sponsored by San Diego State University's Department of Religious Studies. The site includes scanned documents, photographs, first-person testimonies and reflections, and a periodic email newsletter with updates on research, and the whereabouts of those who survived. The section I've spent the most time in is the Audiotape Project Index, which includes copies of original recordings made by People's Temple members in California and Guyana. Some of the cassette recordings at the SDSU website were retrieved from Jonestown by the FBI; others are in the possession of the FCC, which monitored radio transmissions from the compound. I'm not clear on the specifics, but it seems many of the original recordings in government possession are lost, missing, or still classified and unavailable to the public]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:51:41 GMT</pubDate>
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