http://chris.tantramar.com Just another blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:26:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Banner day for EMI: "OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights" (Via @johnsgunn.) http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/11/ok-go-ditches-label-over-youtube-embedding-rights/ PinkFloyd.co.uk has won a court ruling against EMI in their suit preventing EMI from selling individual tracks online. Should they choose to enforce the ruling (they might simply have wanted to prevent EMI from stepping outside of their agreement, thereby establishing precedent, or they might be using the ruling as a ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/11/pink-floyd-to-prevent-individual-tracks-being-sold-online/ "Failure is an option, but fear is not." A great talk by James Cameron at TED, February, 2010; touches on his early love of science fiction, his love of diving, working with Stan Winston at Digital Domain, and his work on The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar. http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/10/james-cameron-before-avatar-a-curious-boy/ By way of Vanity Fair magazine: Hitchens dissects the best-known commandments (there are, of course, far more than the top-10 that they teach in Sunday school) and proposes 10 new ones (begins at 6:16): Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or their colour. Do not ever even think about ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/06/christopher-hitchens-the-new-commandments/ The folks at PictureCode have released a 64-bit version of their outstanding Noise Ninja plug-in for Aperture 3. They didn't waste any time getting this into users' hands. Even better, when I hadn't seen any mention of a forth-coming upgrade on PictureCode's web site after Aperture 3 let me know it ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/05/picturecodes-noise-ninja-upgraded-to-64-bit-for-aperture-3/ Awesome animated ad for Google Chrome: (Via Official Google Mac Blog.) http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/05/chrome-starts-fast-pointer/ There was a thread on Reddit.com recently titled "What's the dumbest thing a teacher has ever said to you?" I don't know if this qualifies as dumb, exactly, but it was wrong and it has stuck with me for a long time. When I was in second grade, I noticed the moon ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/03/01/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-teacher-has-ever-said-to-you/ Print Roger Ebert: The Essential Man: I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2010/02/17/print-roger-ebert-the-essential-man/ CBC News - New Brunswick - Vandals damage Fredericton cenotaph. Wow. Just wow. It's hard to believe people would do something like this. http://chris.tantramar.com/2009/11/09/vandals-damage-fredericton-cenotaph/ CBC News - New Brunswick - Mansbridge named Mount Allison University chancellor. This morning Mount Allison held a gathering at the Wallace McCain Student Centre to announce Peter Mansbridge's replacement of John Bragg as chancellor. http://chris.tantramar.com/2009/11/09/peter-mansbridge-named-mount-allison-university-chancellor/