machine-envy

The MPAA to sue themselves.

Our conference packs here in Buenos Aires included a map I had not seen before - showing the distribution of royalty fees paid in 2002. From the site, creator, Worldmapper:
Over half (53%) of the value of all royalty and license fees paid in 2002 were received in one territory: the United States. Large proportions of […]

I’m in Buenos Aires at a Freedom of Expresion Project conference this week. Last night, I went to a fantastic tango show.

Flash photography was not allowed, so I ended up taking these long exposure shots. I think they’re pretty cool.

I was playing around with random L-systems when I ‘discovered’ this shape. Random L-systems tend to be very, well, random so this symmetric image was quite interesting. The ruleset to produce it was very simple, so I decided to vary the parameters and see what other images would come out. Turns […]

Can anyone recommend a decent XML editor.  XML is all about the tools, so where are the decent XML editors?  At work, people use XML spy but this is non-free and windows only.  I’m also surprised I can’t find an eclipse XML editor that is any good - eclipse development requires loads of XML.