Archives for the month of: July, 2007

Gingersteve – Funk Me Harder

2007/07/18 //

I’ve been enjoying this Gingersteve – Funk Me Harder mix a lot recently. Funk, breaks, house, garage, breaks, it’s awesome!

01. Bebel Gilberto – Aganju (Latin Projekt Remix)

02. The Juju Orchestra feat Carolyn Leonhart & Terry Callier – What is Hip? (Mo Horizons Funk Restyle)

03. Mike Monday – Fun with a K

04. Flint – You Can’t Find

05. Authist & Dub One! – Get on Upaaah!

06. Beatfanatic – Holdin’

07. Kraak & Smaak – Hello Big Mama

08. A Skills & Krafty Kuts – Tricka Technology Feat MC Islam (Ed Funk Vocal)

09. Mike Monday – Zum Zum

10. Beatfanatic – Boom Bangin’

11. DJ Regal – Rock The Funky Beat (Special 12)

12. All Good Funk Alliance – Super Jam (Flow Dynamics)

13. Spirit Catcher – Move Closer

14. Nitin Sawnhey – Eastern Eyes (Seiji Mix)

15. Groove Armada – Final Shakedown

16. Jak Jaxon – Put Your Funk Down

17. Tom Novy feat Michael Marshall – Your Body (Soul Avengers Remix)

18. Milton Jackson & Droido – Long Circuit

19. Krafty Kuts – Bring Back The Funk

20. Nitin Sawnhey - Sunset (MJ Cole Mix)

21. Mossa – Town Hall (Eloi Brunelle Remix)

22. Minos Pour Main Basse (Sur La Ville) – Le Patron Est Devenu Fou! (Zdar Wars Mix by Philippe Zdar)

23. Will White – Digital Funk

Categories Music

Lego Millenium Falcon

2007/07/13 //

Awesomely geeky. One dude is wearing a Blogger t-shirt too.

Categories video

doing big things for love

2007/07/11 //

Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

Clay goes from the Ise Shrine to perl to software support (comp.lang.perl.misc) to AT&T to love.

“perl is a shinto shrine”

“you will make more accurate predictions about software, and in this web-driven world, about services, if you ask yourself not ‘what’s the business model’ but ‘do the people who like it take care of each other?’ That turns out to be the better predictor of longevity.”

“it does mean that the ability to aggregate non-financial motivations, to get people together outside of managerial culture and for reasons other than the profit motive, has received a huge comparative advantage. And it also means that many of the future commercial opportunities are going to be inextricably intertwined with that kind of work and those kind of groups.”

“We have always loved one another. We’re human, it’s something we’re good at. But up until recently, the radius and half-life of that affection has been quite limited. With love alone, you can get a birthday party together. Add coordinating tools and you can write an operating system. In the past we would do little things for love, but big things, big things required money. Now we can do big things for love.”

Video: Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style

Categories Internet

my sister, Aya Kanai

2007/07/11 //

My sister, Aya Kanai, is profiled at Worship Worthy,

“an all female-authored daily newsletter and lifestyle blogsite targeted toward women, featuring continuously updated news, images and analysis of New York’s hippest fashion, trends, events and products to tastemakers and fashion forward city dwellers.”

I had to look up a word, “louboutins“, that my sister used in her interview.

Categories New York City, Personal

stickam and Wataru Takahashi

2007/07/11 //

Wow. I can’t make this stuff up.

On its Web site and in press reports, Stickam says that it is owned by Advanced Video Communications, or AVC, a three-year-old Los Angeles company that sells video conferencing and e-commerce services to businesses in Japan and other Asian countries.

But according to Alex Becker, a former vice president at Stickam, and internal company documents, Advanced Video Communications is managed and owned by Wataru Takahashi, a Japanese businessman who also owns and operates DTI Services, a vast network of Web sites offering live sex shows over Web cameras. Mr. Becker alleges that Stickam shares office space, employees and computer systems with the pornographic Web sites.

The sites, with names like DxLive, EXshot and JgirlParadise, use the same video technology as Stickam to link paying users with performers in one-on-one video chat sessions.

Mr. Becker recently left Stickam after four months there and said he was speaking out because the company was not doing enough to protect young users of its service.

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Mr. Becker said he first learned of the extent of the pornography business last April, when Mr. Takahashi, who employees refer to as Mr. T, took him to dinner at a downtown sushi restaurant. Through translators he described some of his companies’ assets, which include at least 49 pornography sites, a pornographic film production company, nine restaurants in Japan and private planes, Mr. Becker said.

“I don’t think I discovered everything, but I learned more than enough to be able to say with certainty that they are not leaders in the video-conferencing business,” Mr. Becker said. “They are leaders in pushing porn via a Flash player and streaming porn from the United States to Japan.”

Mr. Becker said Mr. Takahashi told him that he had based his sites in the United States because of Japan’s restrictions on explicit nudity.

I would bet that this news would scuttle any future growth for stickam, but I’ve been proven wrong many times in the past.

Accuser Says Web Site Has X-Rated Link [nytimes.com]

Categories Internet, Japan