Philipp Lenssen's thoughts on Google's language translation tools
— their new efforts could be a step toward a working Babel Fish #Roadcasting
— ad-hoc FM networks, sharing MP3s between cars and live DJing from the road via MetaFilter #Simpsons episodes described for the blind
— don’t miss the MP3; it’s like listening to old-time radio serials via Delicious #Richard Linklater directing Fast Food Nation adaption
— a “fictionalized thriller”? this must be a joke via Kottke #Business Week profile of "hacker hunters"
— one Slashdot commenter discusses the problems with prosecuting criminal hacking cases via Slashdot #Mark Pesce's "Piracy Is Good?" part two
— how the Internet is rewriting the laws of television; excellent read via Populicio.us #Socialized.net, decentralized search infrastructure for searching Bittorrent
— with Azureus and Firefox plugins via Slashdot #Matt Haughey on a truly awful Reuters Variety article about Creative Commons
— not only misguided, but flat out factually wrong; Lessig’s comments #MPAA blames BitTorrent for Star Wars distribution
— blaming BitTorrent is like trying to blame HTTP or FTP; it’s just a protocol #Guns n' Roses Self-Similar Synth
— compressing entire GnR songs into tiny samples; it’s like fractal music via showdown.contagiousmedia.org #Scavenger
— web scavenger hunt to find images on user-submitted lists via showdown.contagiousmedia.org #Contagious Media Showdown entries
— some of these are brilliant! the next few links are my favorites #Blogebrity, tabloid-style magazine about blogger gossip
— an entry in the Contagious Media Showdown, and I fell for it via Sean Bonner #Google: Personalize Your Homepeage
— drag and drop is nice, but I don’t like the move away from simplicity #GrafikDemo
— real-life wireframe teapot in a CBM shell; from the genius behind PongMechanik via Boing Boing #The Morning News' 2005 Editors' Awards for Online Excellence
— I’m honored to have made the cut on such an interesting list #Saludos Amigos soundtrack ripped from vinyl
— Kiddie Records is doing amazing work; Bugs Bunny in Storyland is great, too #Netscape 8 released
— what’s the point? there’s no advantage over using Firefox via Battelle Media #Netflix takes over Wal-Mart DVD rentals
— they’re now a formidable opponent against Blockbuster via Gizmodo #David Cross' "Albums to Listen to While Reading Overwrought Pitchfork Reviews"
— David Cross writes on Pitchfork about Pitchfork writing about David Cross #Star Wars EP3 Workprint Leaked Online
Though the original rumors of screener copies of Star Wars Episode III spreading via BitTorrent turned out to be fakes, a new workprint of the film was leaked online yesterday. Watermarked with timecodes on every frame, the workprint was made available as a DVD-R by a pirate group named VISA by Wednesday afternoon.
To get an idea of the quality of this workprint, the video below is a 19 second sample excerpt, posted along with the complete film to Usenet newsgroups. (Thanks for mirroring, Leonard.)
Download: starwars_ep3_leaked_workprint_sample.avi (7.3 MB, XViD)
Mirror #1: starwars_ep3_leaked_workprint_sample.avi
(Note: I don’t have the movie and have no plans to download it, so please don’t ask me how to download it. Also, please don’t post torrent links in the comments.)
Update: This entry is linked in a new Reuters article and many media outlets that use the Reuters feeds, like CNN Money, News.com, and ZDNet. The story is also on the front page of Yahoo right now. In the blog world, it was linked by Boing Boing, Fark (indirectly), and Kottke, among others.
The results? My bandwidth is going through the roof. Downloads of the sample video are pushing 82 Mb/s. That’s pretty insane, and it’s a testament to EV1 Servers that the site is still online and speedy.
