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R.I.P. Andreas Katsulas: “

Those who have known me for a long time know how big I was into Babylon 5 when it first came out; my virtual fingerprints are all still visible all over the Lurker’s Guide.

I was sad to hear that Andreas Katsulas, perhaps its best actor, certainly under-appreciated by the world at large, passed away a couple of days ago at age 59.

Cigarettes were the cause, lung cancer was the result. Score yet another win for the Tobacco Industry, and a big loss for the rest of us.

“

(Via Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog.)

I’m sitting here in my makeshift office / kitchen writing a proposal for a novella remix, the sun is shining harshly so i’d better drop outside for a few hours since it’s almost to hot to be inside during the day.
I’m thinking I should post the notes after i’m done with the novella, and doing this bottom up is much more fun, studying ruckers character driven plots has led me to realise that it’s the way to go, but it’s going to be fun squeezing in pop references into a midevil novella.

anyway, going outside, toodles to self.

(oh and, post-roman empire britain == teh win)

Currently playing in iTunes: Lag Time by Ani Difranco

So someone’s been shot by a member of the swedish national guard … again.
This is the second time during ten years that I know this has happened — disregarding that most illegal firearms in sweden are .. military firearms.

I read a transcript of a discussion regarding the shooting over on Commissary Akuts blog^
the Officer being interviewed said, with a auspicious tone, that the guardsmen are allowed to have their firearms at home since in the event of war, they’d be armed. The thing with this is that they aren’t allowed to store ammunition for said firearms in their homes.
so why do they need the firearms at home in the first place?
historical. that’s the reason, they’re allowed to have it at home since the guardsmen before the 70’s were allowed to store ammunition at home — this i leaned from my uncle, will have to check the books for it later to get a more exact note —

I thought for some time that the people within the army knew what they were doing, but apparently I was wrong.

Stupid fucks get people killed.

When i begun my foray into web-design I actually begun with disassembling a layout and using some of it’s visual elements — enough of them to get me into trouble — a kind person told me to try to go my own way via a private email exchange. at first i took it as insane mumblings. “i devoted hours into reversing the layout to understand the underlying semantics of css and visual design, who does he think he is? ” I thought to myself.

After a rude exchange courtesy of me I begun to understand what he was talking about as one of my own print designs were imitated by a colleague, that led to me being irritated for two weeks and being a constant pain in the butt to everyone in the office who tried to socialize with me whilst engrossed in my own foul mood.

you invest time and a lot of effort into understanding the underlying mechanisms of what makes a design admirable or publicly acceptable to your intended crowd, and some schmuck just rubs you the wrong way and rips the whole damn design off and redresses it into something that frankenstein would hump through eternity. — admittedly, this gutwrenching feeling isn’t something you want to experience. (and personally, i don’t wanna think of that statically charged freak doing the horisontal bugaloo ever again.)

These days it seems like I can’t get through a week without reading about how someone stole this design from this and that person, okay that is something I can live with.

but.

I think it would be more community fostering to discuss the morality of the issue with the person via a private exchange, be it IM or Email, that our community, the Web ecks-dot-ecks-ecks community — for lack of a better word — is a community of F R I E N D S.
I don’t think i’d've gotten the point that Thomas was trying to get across if he wasn’t being as understanding and knowledged on the subject as he is.

We live in a time where p2p reigns supreme — ergo mpaa and riaa pressurecookers — and where it is “sort of” okay to download copyright protected works of content producers (not withstanding the semantics of the whole copyright infringement theatre) young people of today more than anything will not, or do not, understand the issue with what’s not okay about “stealing” someone’s layout/design of a website.
We should frown upon the practice but we must also try to bridge the morality gap and foster an ethical agenda concerning how to best behave when stumbling upon the issue, WASP or another web oriented organization should try to take it upon themselves to further a social agenda within the field — I know AIGA has a charter of this kind –

I don’t think public ridicule — reminiscent of the shame pole of medieval times — is a proper way to go, understanding and education about the subject at hand is however, vital.