Theory in the Fan Voice. Part 1.
by R.D.
1: Shinichiro Watanabe directed and storyboarded Samurai Champloo. This is the show we are currently watching. Before this we watched seasons 1 and 2 of NYPD Blue. Samurai Champloo is glowingly, astonishingly beautiful. It’s about hiphop-flavoured and brazenly anachronistic Samurai rebels, traveling with a funny and tough girl […]
So I am pillaging and plundering from the site of our official contributing illustrator, One Neck, OneNeckHatesYou.com, pulling out pieces from his extensive library of twisted and heart-twisting comics to emphasize here on Open. I can’t stop reading his work, but this one hit me most this morning, so there you go. The funny […]
Hey all- a great set of films coming up on Monday night prompted me to remember another awesome and environmentally aware project. Remember SETI, and the coolness of collaborating via interweb, and contributing distributed computing power to help send communications into space? Climateprediction.net takes that computing principle and turns the focus toward home. You can […]
by Foggy Bottom
While unrest was simmering across Europe and the Muslim world in the wake of the recent row surrounding the Mohammed cartoons, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called to the newly minted Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay to congratulate him on his appointment. Amidst the light and amicable banter that accompanies such […]
Neil Balan
The recent completion of the 2006 World Social Forum – held simultaneously in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali, with another session planned to follow in Karachi, Pakistan this March – added extra emphasis to recent early morning activities. I spent some time over coffee reading another thought-provoking, motorized essay from the February issue of […]
(want to read parts 1, 2, and 3 first?)
Last question for the BillMonk, for now:
How do the ideas behind BillMonk relate to open source?
First, it’s worth noting a literal answer. BillMonk is built using entirely open-source components. Debian GNU/Linux, Apache, Postgresql, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, etc… all lovely chunks of software, all open source. […]
