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Drool...
Cory's presentation was fun, as usual, though he didn't really bring on anything really new. But yeah, as he points out: "Ebooks are easy to share, and they are easy to slice and dice."

He also released Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom under a Creative Commons sharealike-license, which essentially allows others to go and create derivative works (like slash furry fiction) of it - getting a spontaneous round of applause for it.

But the really, really cool thing was the Electric Sheep presentation. An incredible, distributed screen saver system that uses other computers to create artificial life: digital "sheep". And yes, it's a reference to Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. A sort of a presentation of the digital subconsciousness of the idle time of the computers.

Sounds good, but what does it mean?

Incredibly beautiful moving pictures, that had the utterly ADD-oriented crowd stop their constant typing and just stare at the screen and drool.

Go. Now. http://www.electricsheep.org/. The coolest screen saver you will ever find.



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Thank you, thank you. This is indeed the best thing since sliced bread. The only problem now is that I can't get any work done, I just want to stare at my screensaver ;)

--Milla, 13-Feb-2004


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