Today is the day! The 13’th of december 2005 – official release date for Totem the EP by Auto-Auto
Download & remix
Totem is the first music officially licensed under the Swedish Creative Commons license.
The Auto-Auto Remix
News
Auto-Auto
Swedish biggest national â??synth musicâ?? radio show SiZER has voted the best Song, Artist and Newcomer of 2005. Auto-Auto was nominated in all three categories and won the award for Best Song of 2005 with the first single Dog.
On December 13th Auto-Auto will release its EP Totem. This will be the first official record release under a Creative Commons license in Sweden. The release will coincide with Substreamâ??s unique remix contest. Since the licenses are to be released under a BY-NC-SA license the ownership of the remixes will not be claimed by the record company. The winner of the remix competition will be included on Auto-Auto’s upcoming record.
Be sure to download the EP and the remix kit on the 13th.
The Virtual Virtual
Using computers to mimic, enhance and even create musical instruments is really nothing new. Until now! Enter the age of the virtual virtual. The new toy is the The Virtual Air Guitar. Its “simple” augumented reality – a pair of gloves (to recognise what your hands are doing), press the start pedal, and swing your right hand as if you were strumming a big chord and that’s exactly what happens – you hear a power chord with punchy distortion. Now move your left hand along the imaginary neck and strum again – it’s a different chord.
All of a sudden the act of mimicing a real instrument (playing air guitar), now becomes the act of playing a virtual guitar. What will the effect of this technology be to such cultural events such as the Official US Air Guitar Championships? You dont think this will have an effect? Just think of the changes which shook the film industry when sound came to the movies…At the time Warner (of Warner Brothers fame) uttered the famous question “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
So I leave you with a paraphrase: Who wants to hear the air guitar? 🙂
World Aids Day
CC Press Release
This press release is available from here
Silicon Valley-based NGO introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Sweden
San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY â?? November 30, 2005 â?? Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Sweden.
Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the groupâ??s website (http://creativecommons.org). The licenses allow authors and artists to mark their works as free to copy or transform under certain conditionsâ??to declare â??some rights reserved,â?? in contrast to the traditional â??all rights reservedâ??â??thereby enabling others to access a growing pool of raw materials with minimal legal friction.
Staff at Creative Commonsâ?? offices in San Francisco and Berlin worked with Project Lead Mathias Klang and Karl Jonsson of the Creative Commons Sweden team to adapt the standardized licenses to Swedish law. Creative Commons Sweden is hosted and supported by the IT University of the University of Göteborg.
Today the Swedish versions of Creative Commons licenses are being launched and will be available at http://creativecommons.org/ worldwide/se.As a first official use of the Swedish Creative Commons licenses, the Swedish band Auto-Auto will be releasing their new EP â??Totemâ?? on December 13, 2005 under a Creative Commons license. â??Totemâ?? will contain five tracks and will be available for download at http:// www.auto-auto.se/. Together with the release, the record company and Internet community Substream are making a remix-kit freely available and will be announcing a competition for the best remix of â??Totem.”
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Psst! Sneak preview! CC Sweden
The official launch of the Swedish Creative Commons licenses is 30 November, however for the readers of this blog (and of Kalle’s Cyberlaw blog) we are offering a sneak preview!
The CC licenses for Sweden are live already! The first site to ever use a Swedish CC license is the Cyberlaw blog. A place in history for Kalle.
To start using the licenses go to creativecommons.org.
World Cyber Games
The World Cyber Games – the Olympics (TM) of the computer gaming world is over.
First place: USA
Second place: Kazakhstan
Third Place: Canada
WCG 2005 GF – Medal List
Next year WCG2006 will be held in Monza, Italy.
I have never been a sports fan – but its interesting to see how computer games are achieving a high level of acceptance as established sports. This can be seen both in the manner in which they are organised and also the way in which media is begining to cover events and tournaments such as these. No longer are they seen as only bizarre gatherings of the geeky but rather as team events which people have trained for.
Playing games like Counterstrike for national honour and money is no more odd than having competitions in sports such as Luge or Synchronized Swimming.
Gym with a non-vest, non-sweat policy
On armpits, hair and sweat.
A gym told one of its customers to wear a t-shirt instead of a vest becuase his hairy armpits would upset other customers.
He was also told that the t-shirt was better since the sweat causes the machines to rust!
Sweaty people dressed in vests are apparently not the image the gym wants to portray?
BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Gym user upset at cover-up call
Woogle
Making stories with a search engine!
Woogle is a search toy based on the ever popular Google Image Search. It creates image messages out of the words in the phrase you entered. The URLs are obfuscated so that you can pass them to your friends without them being able to read the message till they view the page. We hope you enjoy passing cryptic image messages!
Doubts over biometric passports
“Biometric passports alone will not be enough to counter terrorism threats, a leading expert has warned.
Barry Kefauver of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) told a conference in London that new so-called e-passports need to be linked to databases held by police and other agencies.”
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What so did anyone think that this would solve the problem? The 9/11 terrorists didnt try to hide their identity. Even if they had biometric passports – they would still have carried out the deed.