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[cislyn]

Roman Glass explains some history behind glassblowing, particularly in the Roman empire. I found it an interesting read. I studied Roman glassware a little in my class on Augustus and the early empire (back in the day). I find it fascinating that objects which are so fragile manage to last so long, and we can learn so very much about them.

The Hymn-Project converts iTunes protected files to non-protected music files, with the use of your iTunes store ID and password. It's open source, easy to use, and a pretty cool idea, in my opinion. I love iTunes, but hate that they don't respect fair-use copyright stuff. I bought the music, dammit.

Escher Web Sketch. Did I post about this before? If not, why not? I think it's a fun little toy, for any fan of repeating patterns of an Escherlike ilk.

That's all for now.

Comments

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Your title of 'random' lead to me reading the "Roman glass" as "Random Glass." *giggle* I don't know why, but this struck me as absurd, and I am in the midst of a gigglefit now.

Thank you, I needed that!

[voldsom]

Enchanted by Escher.

Thank you.

[monksp.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Apple's copy protections as restrictive. Five machines registered to the same account, and an unlimited number of iPods. Of course, should I ever want to expand them farther, I always burn everything I buy to audio CD, so can just rerip them then.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link on the Roman Glass stuff... useful for me actually in some of the research on my gaming projects.