Last week I took cc biz trip to Tokyo and missed the flame of shame outside our place in Guangzhou…totally bummed! Lu shot tons of HD footage of it and many photos of the endless security here…crazy!
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For anyone trying to offset your carbon footprint: Get a shovel, dig a hole, and bury yourself. I’ll take volunteers to do this first and I will document the whole process from start to near finish.
Isaac Mao has a great post about the Olympic torch:
It’s really bizarre recently after a series of blocking and un-blocking by the censorship system in China(GFW):
- Youtube was blocked after 3/14 tibet riot
- Youtube was released two weeks later
- English BBC News released 25th,Mar.
- Wikipedia English site found unblocked on 1st, April (not April Fool), including https://secure.wikimedia.org
- Wikipedia https://secure.wikimedia.org blocked again two days ago on 6th, April, because Chinese version of Wikipedia can be accessed via this channel
- Flickr picture farm1, farm2 found unblocked yesterday (7th, April)
Etc.How do you think if the Olympic Torches behave the same?
In Amsterdam last week, Paul Keller, Jamie King and I came up with many great ideas such as the Don’t Drop the Olympic Torch video game. The objective is to not let the olympic torch hit the ground through crazy levels like the streets of Paris with mad beret wearing beats all around, Folsom street in San Francisco with tons of protesters in their hippy-outfits flanking, all the way to more advanced levels like Tibetan rioters vs Chinese Han. Of course, the final level would be bringing the torch all the way to Beijing and directly into the Olympic Flame. Who wants to fund this idea? 
I tried to convince Ton and the Blender guys to make this into their next Open Project…come on guys!
I have some other big ideas with olympic torches 2.0 whereby there are many copies of the torch so that torhces don’t get dropped. If lost, they only get rerouted Haven’t we learned anything as a society &mdash 911/WTC?
Also, note to self, pick up tons of fake Olympics memorabilia for future projects:
Hey, why does that bad knock-off Fuwa have a mic! Gotta catch them all!
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Eureka! I have it! The Dalai Lama’s followers should clone him so that he can’t be stopped and once one is removed, then it is reincarnated further into more Dalai Lama’s, whatever form they take. What a nightmare for the Chinese leaders if this happens, or is it? The fake copies of the Dalai Lama would probably get out of hand by all the pirate copiers…
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If this is not ridiculous enough, check out this awesome thing Paul Keller, myself, David Bollier and Meika saw in Amsterdam at a bar:
I want to promote all the family I have left! I have great cousins: Andy, Joe, Brittany, you are next! My cousin brad is cranking out awesome content up on Youtube and I want everyone to know about it!
In other family news, I’m going to get my mom online blogging the final 7 papers she is writing to get her specialist degree…she will then slightly outrank my dad in I in the academic army…we all have masters degrees — my dad has a master of divinity (he’s a preacher!), my mom in education administration, and me in new media practice (aka, art!)
NIN goes CC (Lessig Blog) via the Larry blog! This is super great news and now one of, if not the highest level famous musician to release an album under 1 of 6 CC licenses. This should hopefully snowball!
Check out Eric and Noah’s Throwing away broken electronics (video) - Boing Boing
“>awesome video from their group Meanest Man Contest…this video reminds me of grad school at UCSD, where we regularly smashed electronics. I’m talking daily My favorite time though was when I came out of my studio in grad school and saw a refrigerator being tossed from 3 stories up…amazingly destructive and masculine and all those bad things you aren’t supposed to do, but do because you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with too much time on your hands
Here is a dumb patch for Overlap.org to add post_tags to the list of categories which allows you to control what level of user can use certain tags:
--- level2categories.php 2007-12-12 00:16:22.000000000 -0800
+++ level2categories.php.new 2007-12-13 00:59:14.000000000 -0800
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
< ?
$l2c_category_table=$table_prefix."term_taxonomy";
$l2c_category_table_name=$table_prefix."terms";
- $query=mysql_query("SELECT $l2c_category_table.term_taxonomy_id, $l2c_category_table_name.name FROM $l2c_category_table INNER JOIN $l2c_category_table_name ON term_taxonomy_id = $l2c_category_table_name.term_id WHERE $l2c_category_table.taxonomy = 'category' ");
+ $query=mysql_query("SELECT $l2c_category_table.term_taxonomy_id, $l2c_category_table_name.name FROM $l2c_category_table INNER JOIN $l2c_category_table_name ON term_taxonomy_id = $l2c_category_table_name.term_id WHERE $l2c_category_table.taxonomy = 'category' or wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'post_tag' ");
$cat_total=mysql_num_rows($query);
if ($cat_total > 0) {
the text file with the patch is here: Patch to add post_tags
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