legaltorrent nuon sfc craziness..

Something that happened since I last wrote - the launch of LegalTorrents, the legal BitTorrent ('focused P2P' app) net.label download site we've set up (we being myself, Reed from GameTab lending a little BitTorrent/webpage expertise, and Brandon from Please Do Something helping out with webspace/bandwidth.) Seems like BitTorrent is a great way to spread large amounts (5gb, tens of hours!) of free music, especially when you have a local seed providing faster download speeds, and the Creative Commons weblog and even Lawrence Lessig have been saying nice things about our endeavor so far. Over time, we plan to get better .nfo files (with song details/Creative Commons specifics) embedded in the ZIPs, and expand the amount of content offered (possibly into areas besides music, eventually!)

Compared to this blatant excitement, everything else pales into insignificance. We had a nice party for both Holly's and our friend Jon's birthday at the weekend, where-in various guests were transfixed by the wonder of Jeff Minter's psychedelic llama Nuon VLM music-visuals app, and a little Taisen Tanto-R was played on my arcade machine, and.. yes, I am a geek, what of it?

Oh, and I'm in the middle of writing scrolltexts. For the Commodore 64, even. This should bear fruit in a project to be released on Monotonik in early 2004, but it's nice to be doing some weird-ass stupid surreal writing and getting back to the old school all at once.

Finally, some of the trolls at Slashdot are being very sweet, if only they weren't both kidding and riffing on the troll-tastic GNAA (if you don't know what that is, then you should be thankful.) Viva la Anti-Slash!