Month: June 2017

Alternating Bit by Jega from Geometry, which samples Wendy Carlos’ Tron Scherzo. Was big into Jega bk at college https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nAMS9Y7k2E

Wendy Carlos, early electronic music pioneer – the amazing “Tron Scherzo” from Tron (1982).  https://youtu.be/p4_xVg_w0IE?t=38s

Sounds of sci-fi – Jeff Mills, Sun-Ra, Bambaataa, Delia Derbyshire, Bowie, Kraftwerk, @algorave – http://blog.barbican.org.uk/2017/05/the-sounds-of-science-fiction/ … – great stuff

Great lecture by David Mortem outlining need of radical system change, for people and for planet. https://www.alternativeradio.org/collections/latest-programs/products/kord009

microdialectics: thesis, antithesis, antithesis, antithesis, antithesis, log off twitter

Trying to be indieweb and open source, I kind of feel 50% Kevin Flynn, 50% black-and-whiter in the Metaverse.

Mastodon seems like an example of decent UX in OSS.  I’d wager that drove quite a lot of the new signups it got recently.

The 100 paper cuts thing that Ubuntu used to do (still does?) was a good idea.  Pick off UX issues one by one.

There needs to be some kind of push to get UX designers working on open-source.