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[digitaldiscipline]

For a discussion of what this is, and what its implications are, I offer you a blog entry on Corrugated Media. (So far, pretty much the only blog entry on Corrugated Media, but there you go.)

From that blog:

I managed to track down the creator of this custom track, Andy Sage,who gets lots of points from me not only for his selection in music,but for how he went about this process. He secured permission from Coulton before posting the track, despite the source materials being freely available in a remix contest, and all of Coulton’s music being under a license he was not breaking. Sage was under no legal obligation to contact Coulton and make sure he was cool with this, but he did so anyway, and that is the kind of attitude that makes this sort of license and culture really work. Tying this back to why I think this story is so cool is the fact that he was ABLE to contact Jonathan to do so. Try doing that with Bono.

Okay, that's cut & pasted verbatim from matociquala and her source, but enough of y'all are GH and JC fans that it's worth sharing.

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Not that I'll be playing any at my house - got the 360 back from Microsoft Friday evening, hooked it up before work on Saturday, ran an update, reloaded my user profile, and headed to the office. Got home, fired it up.... and had a red ring of death.

I was a lot nicer to their overseas support folks than I had any reason to be. There will be a large-print note enclosed when I return the newly-deceased replacement unit, expressing my disappointment, and the desire to have current-gen hardware instead of a refurbished 2006 machine.

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C14 meeting this afternoon, though we hashed out a bunch of the agenda over beers & Rock Band at critus' place last night.

Comments

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

Yay. I did catch this on JoCo's own blog, but I'm totally not surprised. Jonathan has always been incredibly cool about letting people do insane things with his work. I am a little disturbed by the handmade half-pony half monkey monsters myself, but this is cool.

Now if only someone would hack this for the Wii...

[critus.livejournal.com]

OMG WANT

[chesch.livejournal.com]

I thought that there was a version of this put out for the wiiiii

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

There is a version of GHIII for the wiiiiiiiii, but:

a) it kind of sucks because it's really glitchy
b) despite the kind of sucky, it's hard to find and expensive
b) I don't know if anyone's hacked it yet or if it's hackable
and
d) Even if it were hackable I don't know if I'd figure out how to do it because I don't want to accidentally destroy my wii in the process.

e) (just for fun) if I were going to try to accidentally bork my wii, I don't know if I'd do it for a Jonathan Coulton song. ;)