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Amateur Radio Newsline

Amateur Radio Newsline 12/30/2004 02:49 AM
Technocrat.net Dec 30 2004 6:31AM GMT

This Week in Amateur Radio

This Week in Amateur Radio 06/14/2004 07:43 PM
People from all around the world get together via a technology medium that allows them to form relationships through a global, far-flung community even though they have never met face to face. It may not be the first thing that comes to your mind, but amateur radio is alive and well thank you very much.

Just ask any one at "This Week in Amateur Radio" which produces a weekly show devoted to nothing else. A 100% volunteer effort, a typical show will be at least 80 minutes. "You wouldn't think there is that much information week in and week out about a hobby," says George Bowen, Executive Producer of TWIAR "but other than Christmas and Thanksgiving week it's there." There are plenty of stories about government regulations in broadcasting but you are just as likely to hear stories like the one this week about the military radio broadcasting that is jamming garage door openers all over Florida.

Segment producers will record their own stories and then upload to one of the mirrored ftp sites which George then downloads and compiles for the show. The result is broadcast on bandwidth made available by commercial satellite feeds but according to George more and more listeners are simply picking up the MP3 version from TWIAR's website.

These MP3s and all the material on the site used to be marked with an "All Rights Reserved" copyright because "that's what everybody else was doing. Then I saw this piece on Creative Common on TechTV and I thought 'Hey, that's what we're doing!'"

Indeed, segments are regularly shared with one of the other six such shows produced around the world from New Zealand to Europe. They are now free to do so legitimately thanks to George having put all the shows on the web under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

New tackle for amateur phishers

New tackle for amateur phishers 08/20/2004 04:43 PM
Sympatico Aug 20 2004 8:19PM GMT

"is going to shift from amateur to
professional"

"is going to shift from amateur to
professional" 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

Amateur rocket fired into space

Amateur rocket fired into space 05/18/2004 07:27 AM
The first privately built rocket to get into space is launched from Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

Amateur Rocket Reaches Space

Amateur Rocket Reaches Space 05/18/2004 12:02 AM

Internet Amateur Wins Top Poker Pot

Internet Amateur Wins Top Poker Pot 05/30/2004 03:22 AM
Los Angeles Times May 30 2004 7:21AM GMT

Motorola MPx220 Amateur Porn

Motorola MPx220 Amateur Porn 06/01/2004 09:08 AM

If you just can't wait to get your hands on Motorola's upcoming MPx220 smartphone, Modaca has an exclusive 11MB video of the Windows Mobile device; sort of voyeur vids for the phone lover, I guess. It looks hot, though, with fast menuing response and a bright screen. You watch it, though, and tell me you don't feel a little dirty when the cameraman sort of teases that card around the edges of the SD slot.
Read [Modaco via Mobile9]

Related
Motorola MPx 220 Cloaking Device on the Fritz [Gizmodo]

World's baddest-ass amateur roboticists

World's baddest-ass amateur roboticists 03/29/2005 03:07 PM
Cory Doctorow: This month's Wired has a stupendous article on three kids from working-class Mexican migrant families in Phoenix who became amateur roboticists and took home the gold for developing a world-beating subaquatic robot using parts they bought with $800 they'd fundraised.

The Ralph's grocery store near the UCSB campus is done up to look like a hacienda, complete with a red tile roof, glaringly white walls, and freshly planted palms. The guys dropped Lorenzo off in front. It was his bright idea, after all. He wandered past the organic produce section, trying to build up his courage. He passed an elderly lady examining eggplant - he was too embarrassed to ask her. Next, he saw a young woman in jeans shopping for shampoo.

"Excuse me, madam," he began. He wasn't used to approaching women, let alone well-dressed white women. He saw apprehension flash across her face. Maybe she thought he was trying to sell magazines or candy bars, but he steeled himself. He explained that he was building a robot for an underwater contest, and it was leaking. He wanted to soak up the water with tampons but didn't know which ones to buy. "Could you help me buy the most best tampons?"

The woman broke into a big smile and led him to feminine hygiene. She handed him a box of O.B. ultra-absorbency. "These don't have an applicator, so they'll be easier to fit inside your robot," she said. He stared at the ground, mumbled his thanks, and headed quickly for the checkout.

"I hope you win," she called out, laughing.

Link (Thanks, Greg!)

Update: Greg points out that there's an online tipjar for donating to the kids' college fund

1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another
Explodes

1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another
Explodes 08/09/2004 12:53 AM

Amateur Radio Newsline MP3 for March 25

Amateur Radio Newsline MP3 for March 25 03/26/2005 02:36 AM
Technocrat.net Mar 26 2005 7:21AM GMT

Microsoft targets amateur programmers

Microsoft targets amateur programmers 06/29/2004 07:32 AM
Among the perks the software giant will offer are lightweight development tools and a free version of SQL Server.

The Amateur Gourmet: The Carbohydrate
Manifesto

The Amateur Gourmet: The Carbohydrate
Manifesto 05/19/2004 11:54 PM
tomorrow is carb awareness day .. Save the Carbs

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Amateur Brickles players need not apply

Amateur Brickles players need not apply 06/21/2004 03:38 PM
Brickles Pro v1.0.4 (the successor to Brickles3000) has been released today. Professional Brickles players world-over know that this game is no wussy ball and paddle game. Brickles Pro features adjustable colors and patterns, adjustable ball and paddle sizes, stereo sounds, adjustable speed and window sizes, and more. Even the number of paddles in the game can be changed.

of amateur journalists, and professional
trolls

of amateur journalists, and professional
trolls 06/05/2005 11:52 PM
Ever since I interviewed Dave about blogs for my book, Free Culture, I've been thinking a lot about his idea of "amateur journalists." It is a powerful concept, which rewards careful thought. To see its value, we must remember the original meaning of "amateur," meaning one who does something for the love of it alone. And when we think of journalism that is regulated by those ideals, it is easy to see why such journalism nicely complements commerical journalism. As he sa id to me,

"An amateur journalist simply doesn't have a conflict of interest, or the conflict of interest is so easily disclosed that you know you can sort of get it out of the way."

It is because I found Dave's view so compelling that I've been worried for sometime about the emergence of advertising in blog space. I'm not against it. I just worry about how it might put pressure on the "doesn't have a conflict of interest" norm. If the virtue of the amateur is to seek the truth, that virtue could be in tension with the desire to earn more ad revenue. The simplest way to get linkbacks is to say the most absurd things imaginable. But the more I've talked about this with observers and friends, the more I think the real fear is not bloggers tempted by ad revenues. It is instead the emergence of the equivalent of tabloids in blog-space: commercial entities whose sole purpose is to generate ad revenue, who do that by being as ridiculous and extreme as possible. The danger here is that the conflict has returned. Just as the British tabloids care little about the truth in their path to selling papers, commercial blog-loids care little about the truth in trying to attract eyeballs. And it is here that the cycle turn vicious: for the amateur space feeds the professional troll by careful and repeated efforts to show that claims made are false or outrageous. If you're paid by the click, who cares why people click. This creates a dilemma for open and honest disagreement about the facts. For here there is a conflict in interest: the interest of the amateur journalist is not the interest of the professional troll. Yet the only way the amateur can do his job -- by quoting and criticizing -- is to feed the troll. We either need a way to cite that doesn't reward bad behavior. (Copyright law restricts that (Google, for example, would be really angry if you started linking to caches rather than original locations).) Or we need a way to know when to ignore. In either case, imho, it would be useful to think more about this conflict in interest, if the nature of the amateur space is not to be displaced by something different.

iMovieFest launched for amateur
filmmakers

iMovieFest launched for amateur
filmmakers 07/12/2004 08:55 PM
A new Web site, iMovieFest, has been launched for amateur filmmakers...

"10 Common Problems that Dismiss You as
an Amateur" Writer

"10 Common Problems that Dismiss You as
an Amateur" Writer 01/22/2004 03:14 AM

Are you a writer? Or maybe an aspiring writer? Maybe just a blogger that enjoys writing in your spare time? (That last one is me.) Do you have to write for work? Maybe you're not going to ever be a novelist, but if you write for any reason and you have to persuade people with the written word, then you have to read this article:

Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)

1. Repeats
2. Flat Writing
3. Empty Adverbs
4. Phony Dialogue
5. No-good suffixed
6. The 'to-be' words
7. Lists
8. Show, Don't tell
9. Awkward Phrasing
10. Commas

The point to the List above is that even the best writers make these mistakes, but you can't afford to. The way manuscripts are thrown into the rejection pile on the basis of early mistakes is a crime. Don't be a victim.

You won't be sorry if you do. Your readers might be sorry if you don't.

Dahlia Lithwick will just come along and
kick my amateur ass to the gutter

Dahlia Lithwick will just come along and
kick my amateur ass to the gutter 03/23/2005 02:36 AM
Dahlia Lithwick sums up my feelings about the Terri Schiavo case .. rule of law

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Amateur astronomers share in science
glory

Amateur astronomers share in science
glory 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
USA Today Jan 3 2005 2:11PM GMT

American Apparel's amateur porn-styled
ads

American Apparel's amateur porn-styled
ads 03/19/2005 02:56 AM
Am erican Apparel ads: Porn pushers or youth prophets? (Now, Toronto) Some believe American Apparel's amateur porn-styled ads using real models are retail brilliance – others say it's time for a boycott.

DX Toolbox helps amateur radio operators

DX Toolbox helps amateur radio operators 12/02/2003 12:29 AM
If you're a professional or amateur radio operator you've probably spent time scouring the Internet looking for information on conditions that will affect the transmission of your broadcasts. Black Cat Systems provides some guidance with DX Toolbox, a US$19.99 software package for Mac or PC that provides real-time data on a variety of conditions.

iMovieFest.com offers amateur filmmaking
showcase

iMovieFest.com offers amateur filmmaking
showcase 07/28/2004 03:18 PM
MNM Productions has launched iMovieFest.com, a Web site that offers a place for amateur filmmakers to show off the flicks they've created with iMovie or other editing software. Members can upload links to their works and receive ratings from other users as well as access iMovie tutorials, download free plug-ins, music and sound effects, participate in the site's discussion forums and more. While basic membership is free, VIP members get the added bonus of linking to more than one movie at a time, keeping their older links online while others are deleted, receiving private messages in the forum and more. VIP memberships are US$5.95 per month or $44.95 annually. iMovieFest.com currently boasts almost 600 members and 140 videos available for viewing, and in late August it plans to release details of its first filmmaking contest. Final Cut tutorials will also arrive in late summer, with video hosting being offered this fall.

Phelps Named Nation's Top Amateur
Athlete (AP)

Phelps Named Nation's Top Amateur
Athlete (AP) 04/13/2004 09:04 PM
AP - Michael Phelps matched one of Mark Spitz's accomplishments without even trying. Now, it's on to the Olympics. Phelps didn't find out until after he'd won the 2003 Sullivan Award as the nation's top athlete on Tuesday night that Spitz won the award, too — 32 years earlier.

iMovieFest.com showcases amateur
filmmakers around the world

iMovieFest.com showcases amateur
filmmakers around the world 07/29/2004 01:53 PM
July 29, 2004 - iMovieFest.com, a new Web site community for Mac users, gives creative outlet to amateur filmmakers around the world. iMovieFest.com makes it easy for anyone with a video camera and a copy of iMovie or other Mac video-editing software to show off their movies online. The site gives everyone a chance to showcase their digital movies and receive ratings, reviews, and real-time movie statistics in return.

Amateur Radio Mobile Internet Connection

Amateur Radio Mobile Internet Connection 12/08/2003 03:30 PM
Welcome to our newest project member.

There's no place like law.cool.cool.fun.

There's no place like law.cool.cool.fun. 03/22/2005 11:38 PM
What's a namber? A namber is a word that acts as a mnemonic for a number. For example, 65 is drum, and 181 is push. A namber address uses an arbitrarily-chosen list of nambers to represent each of the numbers from 0 to 255 in order to assemble four words to represent any IP address. Metafilter.com's namber is earth .frog.brown.tooth, and mysteryrobot.com conveniently provides translation and forwarding to the real IP address.

Amateur Rocket to Carry Ham Radio
Payload to Space

Amateur Rocket to Carry Ham Radio
Payload to Space 05/12/2004 03:50 PM

Disney busts amateur Disneyland tour
guide

Disney busts amateur Disneyland tour
guide 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Cory Doctorow: Jim Hill is one of the great Disnephiles and Disney bloggers of the planet. Among other things, he gives a regular tour of Disneyland to people who pay him to show them around and tell them the inside story of the park (there are tons of tour operators who show people around Disney parks -- often escorting large groups from other countries). This weekend, Disney security stopped and threatened to arrest Jim for giving his tour.

I'm serious, folks. 20 minutes into my 2 o'clock tour, I was suddenly interrupted by two officials from the park's security staff. They quietly pulled me aside and said that they'd had complaints about my tour. That they'd heard that I was saying negative things about their theme park. More importantly, that my JHM tour was somehow undercutting Disneyland Guest Relations' ability to sell its own tours of the theme park.

Needless to say, I was somewhat surprised by this reaction. As were the 10 or so people who were taking my 2 o'clock tour and watching all of this unfold from 5 feet away. I mean, yes, the JHM Disneyland tour does contain a few juicy stories. Which is why Chuck Oberleitner once called it "The 'E' True Hollywood version of Disneyland's history." But is that really reason enough to shut the tour down?

Lin k (Thanks, Tavie!)

Amateur video footage of tsunami on
bl0gs, torrents

Amateur video footage of tsunami on
bl0gs, torrents 12/29/2004 08:31 PM
Xeni Jardin: Waxy.org has been collecting amateur video footage, here's a roundup post: Link. Punditguy has more: Link

Chris Holland says,

I've used prodigem to create torrents for the South Asia tsunami videos. The more people use this torrent, the faster everyone else will be able to download the videos. See also this page to make it easy for people to put an amazon donation badge on their sites.

Link

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami
Video Footage

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami
Video Footage 12/29/2004 03:35 AM
Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami Video Footage

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India freaks out over amateur teen sex
phonecam video

India freaks out over amateur teen sex
phonecam video 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Snip:

The [oral] sex clip was recorded weeks ago and passed on by the bragging schoolboy to three of his friends and eventually made its way to video disc sellers in New Delhi. It did not draw much attention until an engineering student at a prestigious Indian college listed it for sale on [eBay's Indian subsidiary] Baazee.com... it's the talk of urban India, an obsession of newspapers and talk shows. (...)

Of greater concern to many in the business community is [Baazee.com exec Avnish] Bajaj's arrest under the Information Technology Act of 2000. The law makes a criminal offense of "publishing, transmitting, or causing to publish any information in electronic form, which is obscene." But it also says an Internet provider or Web site manager can't be held responsible if he acted diligently to remedy an electronic offense after learning of it. Baazee.com maintains it yanked the sex video listing as soon as customer service managers noticed it, and Bajaj had traveled to New Delhi to cooperate with authorities.

Pawan Duggal, a cyberlaw expert, said Bajaj's arrest has serious implications, especially when Internet usage in the country is rapidly growing and foreign investors are increasingly looking to India for e-commerce opportunities. "Ultimately we have to see bigger picture. We want to increase Internet penetration. All this will only happen if you allow service providers the freedom," he said.

Hehehe. He said "increase penetration." Link (via unwired, thanks John Parres, and Prion)

Update: Fleshbot picked up an interesting/creepy angle on the story as reported by Agence France-Presse: the incident is reportedly being followed at the "highest levels" of US government as well. Fleshbot's editor asks, "Yes, the manager of Baazee.com is an Indian-born US citizen, but still. Is this the sort of case the US State Department usually gets involved in? We'd have thought they were busy with other things, like ... oh, war and stuff." Link

And reader John McCarthy says, "According to today’s Salon, Condi’s on the trail of the India phone sex scandal."

[Condoleezza] Rice is understood to have telephoned the U.S. ambassador in India, David Mulford, about the case. The Bush administration's national security advisor and future secretary of state has let it be known that she is furious about Bajaj's humiliating treatment. He is, after all, a U.S. citizen.

Link. "Appropriately enough," says John, "I had to watch a premercial for a Verizon videophone to read the full text."

"The Amateur Gourmet: Janet Jackson
Breast Cupcakes"

"The Amateur Gourmet: Janet Jackson
Breast Cupcakes" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

Amateur Radio Saves Lives In Aftermath
Of Tsunami

Amateur Radio Saves Lives In Aftermath
Of Tsunami 12/30/2004 02:49 AM
Technocrat.net Dec 30 2004 6:33AM GMT

Face on a Milk Carton? Amateur Sleuths
Dig Deeper

Face on a Milk Carton? Amateur Sleuths
Dig Deeper 12/31/2003 10:51 PM
New York Times Dec 31 2003 9:16PM ET

HauntCon: a convention for spook-housers
and amateur haunters

HauntCon: a convention for spook-housers
and amateur haunters 01/03/2005 06:08 AM
Cory Doctorow: HauntCon is the national haunter's convention, a gathering of the tribes for people who build elaborate Hallowe'en dioramae and/or operate spook houses across the land. The next HauntCon, which will take place April 22-24 in Dallas, has just opened for reg. Features include modded-hearse races, a "haunted garage sale" for swapping your bits and pieces, a trade floor, and learned presentations on haunting techniques. I've always wanted to attend one of these, but every year events conspire to keep me away (this year is no exception; I'll be the Guest of Honor at Penguicon, the Linux/sf convention in Detroit that weekend -- my cup runneth over!). 2006, then -- for sure! Link

Amateur Rocket Space Shot Scheduled for
May 17th, 2004

Amateur Rocket Space Shot Scheduled for
May 17th, 2004 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
The CSXT (Civilian Space eXploration Team) has received approval from the Federal Government to conduct its historic space launch later this month. “We’re confident that our ‘Go Fast’ Space Shot 2004 Rocket will be the first rocket built by amateurs to be launched into space,” says CSXT founder, Ky Michaelson. [PRWEB May 7, 2004]

Concerned hams question amateur radio
choice of closed code and controller

Concerned hams question amateur radio
choice of closed code and controller 06/07/2004 04:09 AM
Amateur emergency radio is all about helping out, quickly, dependably, and without charging fees, in a time of need such as terrorist incidents and natural disasters. Now some ham radio operators, who have evolved from a network of high-tech hobbyists to a Federal Communications Commission-regulated radio service, are worried that a recommendation for proprietary software and hardware for the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) may close out communications and communicators.

AllStarTeamStats.com – Amateur Sports
Management and Organizational Tools that
Enhance On-Field Play With a Complete
Online Experience

AllStarTeamStats.com – Amateur Sports
Management and Organizational Tools that
Enhance On-Field Play With a Complete
Online Experience 01/04/2005 04:14 AM
AllStarTeamStats.com, LLC, launches its innovative amateur sports destination that provides athletes and fans of any amateur sport - from a team, league, middle school, high school or organization - with the ability to enhance on-field play with a complete online experience. AllStarTeamStats.com has multiple sports statistics engines that allows public viewing of amateur sports statistics as well as creates an online community through its various web page options. [PRWEB Jan 4, 2005]

Wal-Mart nastygrams an amateur,
Wal-Mart-themed bl0g

Wal-Mart nastygrams an amateur,
Wal-Mart-themed bl0g 04/05/2005 07:03 PM
Xeni Jardin: Kevin Brancato, who maintains the "Always Low Prices" blog about all things Walmartian, just received a cease-and-desist from Wal-Mart lawyers after more than a year of blogging on the subject. Oddly, it's one of few blogs known for generally favorable posts towards the company. Link
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