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Vidoop (and openID provider, among other things) held a contest, asking people “How do you Identify?“. Well, I made a submission, and won! Woot!

Vidoop — thank you! … and thank you for the fresh look at authentication!

… because I donated $200.

Along with a weak attempt at trumping the blizz, it will help Miro sustain. These amazing folks are out trying to liberate media. They are taking the control of our daily impression away from empires and enabling us all to get our message out. And they all do it while living together in a giant house on barely any resources. Hooorraaahhh.

Anyone else willing to match Chris Blizzard or myself? Please donate now, they really need the help.

Here are some of my favorite channels I’ve found only because of Miro.

• therealnews - a daily, independent, news segment.
• Global Pulse - they take a topic (weekly) and report it from various media outlets around the world. US v. Iran? See how it is reported from China, Russia, and the US — only a *few* differences…
• Shralp! Snowboarding - always great to watch people hucking off mountain tops with your neighbors on the plane
• A-Z of bushcraft - P is for plants, S is for spoon… check out how to be useful post-apocalypse

I <3 Miro. If you do too, now is the time to show a little love.

Look ma!! I design clothes too! The firefox crop circle hoodie is now on store.mozilla.org.

The Smashing Pumpkins are going back on tour!!

geek-squeeeeel!

http://smashingpumpkins.com/

I was kind of scared of using openid because I really wanted to use alex.polvi.net, but not set up an open id server. However, it is possible to delegate a domain to another openid server! Wooo hooo. This means that I can use alex.polvi.net for polvi.myopenid.com. This is awesome.

Here is how to do the delegation!

I’m on the boat, lets sail!

Ah ha! I made a podcast! It is super low-fi, as I just spoke into my headphones … but eh, you can sort of tell what happened. At least the music is clear.

The playlist:

* Say Hi To Your Mom - Super
* The Album Leaf - Always For You
* Joshua Radin - These Photographs
* Big City Rock - All Of The Above

Get it here!

Heavily inspired by Acts of Volition Radio

I normally do not write about news/politics, but this whole North Korea issue is getting out of hand. Seemingly out of the blue, we found out that North Korea had tested nuclear weapons. Guess what happened!? Other countries got upset. Big surprize! Oh wait, what’s that, Iran was involved? According to this news article, “North Korea did have one defender yesterday. Iran, which the United States and its European allies say is running its own clandestine nuclear weapons program, said on its state radio that U.S. ‘pressure and humiliation’ had led North Korea to conduct the test.” It’s like the grade-school playground, “Despite numerous warnings from his peers, ten-year-old Kim went ahead and tested a firecracker he had somehow obtained from the Chinese kid.”

Ok, so at this point everyone is upset and watching North Korea and looking for a reason to blame Iran. Sure enough, both parties act-up. The media tells us that Korea is at it again! They are getting ready for another test. Next, Americans (all of us) found a ship! Supposedly this ship has “something bad” *cough*nuke*cough* on it. Oh, and, to just get everything setup perfectly we find out that “Iran [is] determined to become nuclear”. Quoting the story, “We will produce our own nuclear fuel over the next five years, and sell it to them at a 50-percent discount.”

I’ll go ahead and write the next news story for you:

North Korea buys discount Iranian Nuclear Fuel

Amidst sanctions, North Korea “just can’t afford better”
SOMEWHERE IN ASIA — North Korea allegedly purchased discounted nuke juice from Iran. Iran, long time friends with North Korea, said, “We really like trouble, so we broke them a deal”. North Korea said that its decision was not because they want to annihilate anyone, but simply because the UN sanctions made it too expensive to buy it from Al Qaeda.

Here is my prediction: Media will tell us that a nuke from North Korea flew but was shot down by our super space guns or missile defense warships. USA wont fire back, instead choosing to invade both Iran and North Korea. Soon enough we will have monopoly on the Middle East and a square in Asia. Our gas prices will drop, surging SUV sales, and everything will go back to normal.

What is really funny though, is even by the end of this post consumers have already forgotten about North Korea.

In a stint of creativity and angst, I created this last night: http://socialrecession.com/

In other news, I realized last night that I can go from idea to product in less then 4 hours… this includes registering the domain, setting up the webserver, mail, graphics, copy, and the actual HTML. The barrier to entry on the Internet is very low.

The irony ensued as Belle and Sebastian (a Scottish band) wished in Independence Day.

After that my Polish friends and I went down to South Shore to catch the fireworks.

Lots of people!

Poland!