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Quote(s) of the Day: from Bucky Fuller April 30, 2008

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Now there is one outstandingly important fact
regarding Spaceship Earth,

and that is that
no instruction book
came with it.

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The Things
to do are:

the things
that need doing,
that you see need
to be done,

and that no one else
seems to see
need to be done.

You
never
change
things
by
fighting
the
existing
reality.

To
change
something,
build
a
new
model
that
makes
the
existing
model
obsolete.

~ Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895–1983)

Every picture tells a story:

click on any image
(in this post & pretty much
everywhere else on this site)
to learn more…

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How To: Avoid Pain, Suffering, Misery, and Regret April 9, 2008

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don’t just stand there…
DO something:

how to survive
a long fall

how to tell if a
diamond is real

how to deal with
a bad kisser

how to stand up
for yourself

how to communicate
effectively

how to learn to
manage people

how to hire
a bodyguard

how to dissuade
yourself from
becoming a blogger

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how-to tips via: wikihow.com

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Odeo player UPDATE UPDATED April 7, 2008

Posted by ~V~ in : Uncategorized, Sounds, Song of the Day, Web Resources , 1 comment so far

*UPDATE*: Odeo’s all good now. Check the comments for the latest info…

Don’t worry, people - the Odeo player isn’t gone forever.

It’s appearing and disappearing intermittently, and when it does appear,
sometimes the songs load and sometimes they don’t, but this kinda shizz
happens whenever they’re upgrading the system or whatever, idk…

i’m sure it will be back up 100% again soon, so in the meantime, please
enjoy the many other fine posts here @ opw that don’t utilize the player.

Maybe you could even leave a comment (hint).

~~i’ll delete this post when Odeo starts behaving again.~~

Why go on? March 25, 2008

Posted by ~V~ in : Uncategorized, Politics, Video, Images, Spirituality, Philosophy, Portland, New Orleans, Sounds, Quote of the Day, Song of the Day, Picture of the Day, Web Resources, YouTube Video of the Day, Comix, How To: , 8comments

Why do i even do this?

i get hundreds of visitors a day @ this site, and people are hotlinking to it
left and right, but no comments, no thanks, no nothin’.

Does anybody out there even like what i’m doing here, or is this site just a source of free music and photos for your LiveJournal or MySpace or Facebook profiles or message board posts to try and help you look cool to your friends?

i’m tired of always sending letters and never getting any back.

~~i think i’m gonna quit this exercise in futility and delete everything pretty soon, so~~ download all you can while you still can, kids…

Quote of the Day: from Jane Hirshfield December 6, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself.

Everything I think about the nature of this life
comes down to seven words:

Everything is connected;
everything changes;
pay attention.

And really, you only need the last two — if you’re paying attention, you’ll find out whatever else
you need to know.

~ Jane Hirshfield

Internet Map image by Chris Harrison

Jane Hirshfield photo by Shawn Cady Spelman

J.H. on the www: official site | Wikipedia

poets.org | csmonitor.com | poetryfoundation.org

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Dear Rockers: Paying Back Musicians November 28, 2007

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Show some love to your favorite musician.

Many of us own music that we didn’t pay for.
We don’t feel guilty about shafting the
record company, but what about
the musicians themselves?

Here’s how it works:

1. Pick a musician
2. Write them a letter
3. Scan or photograph the letter and send it to us
4. Mail off the letter along with $5
5. Enjoy your new, guilt-free life

Dear Rockers: paying back musicians, five bucks at a time

click on any photo to see, read, and hear more @ dearrockers.org

Flickr photos from michele cat, So Misguided, and DBarefoot

How To: Survive When the Going Gets Tough… November 21, 2007

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don’t just stand there…
DO something:

. how to start a fire with sticks

. how to escape from a bear

. how to win a street fight

how to get out of a car that’s
hanging over a cliff

how to stay warm at home
without a heater

how to dumpster dive

∞ ∞ ∞

how-to tips via: wikihow.com

Flickr photos from tearapen and amateur2007

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Song of the Day: Danger Mouse - What More Can I Say? February 24, 2007

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because if silence is golden,
then music must be made of diamonds.

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What more can i tell you? Let me spell it for you:

letter collage created with Spell with Flickr
click on any photo to enlarge

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Far from a Harvard student; just had the balls to do it.

god forgive me for my brash delivery,
but i remember vividly
what these streets did to me…

Danger Mouse - What More Can I Say? (6.3MB mp3)

from The Grey Album

In 2003, a little–known DJ by the name of Danger Mouse created a “mash–up” album that remixed the music of the Beatles’ White Album and hiphop star Jay–Z’s Black Album to produce a new record called The Grey Album.

The swift and draconian legal reaction to the online dissemination of this technically illegal but culturally fascinating artifact gave rise to a “day of digital civil disobedience,” [February 24, 2004] organized by
music activism group Downhill Battle.

Grey Tuesday, as the day of action was known, marks a potentially new site for a blend of online political and cultural activism in the highly charged realm of intellectual property expansionism.

~ from Grey Tuesday, online cultural activism and the mash–up of music and politics, by Sam Howard-Spink

What does this song mean to you? Leave a comment.

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YouTube Video of the Day: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us February 12, 2007

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Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes —
But it just might change your whole life…

download a higher-quality version of this video (68MB wmv)

transcript

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YouTube Video of the Day: Save the Internet! January 24, 2007

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Stand by for action!

video from SaveTheInternet

Use the Internet to save the Internet!

Google’s guide to Net Neutrality

The Internet explained — it’s quite simple, really.

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Home recording technology: Killing music and movies for the past 100 years. January 9, 2007

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

the Kuba Komet - the finest entertainment center for the modern home.

“I forsee a marked deterioration in American music… and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines…”
~ John Philip Sousa on the Player Piano (1906)

“The public will not buy songs that it can hear almost at will by a brief manipulation of the radio dials.”
~ Record Label Executive on FM Radio (1925)

“But now we are faced with a new and very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the videocassette recorder.”
~ MPAA on the VCR (1982)

“When the manufacturers hand the public a license to record at home…not only will the songwriter tie a noose around his neck, not only will there be no more records to tape [but] the innocent public will be made an accessory to the destruction of four industries.”
~ ASCAP on the Cassette Tape (1982)

from EFF Deep Links, June 20, 2006

“It’s certain that bits will never, ever get any harder to copy than they are today. From here on in, barring nuclear holocaust, bits will only get cheaper and easier to copy, period. Anyone who thinks bits will get harder to copy is either not paying attention or kidding himself or kidding you.”
~ Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing (2006)

the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Creative Commons

Call Me Orange Blossom… January 1, 2007

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Good morning! Welcome home. Happy New Year! Bonjour! Maison bienvenue. Nouvelle Année Heureuse! Guten Morgen! Willkommenes Haus. Glückliches Neues Jahr! Καλημέρα! Ευπρόσδεκτο σπίτι. Καλή χρονιά! Buona mattina! Sede benvenuta. Nuovo Anno Felice! Хорошее утро! Добро пожаловать дом. С Новым годом! ¡Buenos días! Hogar agradable. ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

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