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Some more beautiful music from Coke Studio. Vocals: Ali Noor & Ali Hamza with their mother Noor Zehra playing the veena. Lyrics here.

In the latter half of its last season, Lost turned from an intellectual challenge and thought-provoking look at free will, destiny and faith to an outrageous and gaudy sham. Faithful viewers, who had kept up with the show for six years were left to pick up the pieces, of which there were many, and attempt to fill the holes in the expansive plot themselves. A successful show, but a failure to its viewers.

I can certainly relate to Oliver! From the awesome Wondermark by David Malki (click on the image for a larger version).

LittleBigPlanet (the game) is expected to ‘revive’ sales for the Sony PS3, but it looks like it’ll be 6 days late in doing so. Why? Part of the soundtrack music contained verses from the Quran. Listen to it yourself – see if you can make it out (transcription below).

Just saw this BBC News story. Man killed wife in Facebook row A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. Full story, BBC News The guy was obviously out of his mind, but I guess her changed relationship status [....] Read the rest →

There have been some problems with the database server hosting this site in the last couple of days.

I just always assumed this to be the case, but apparently there was some confusion as to whether software developers who release their code under a free software license can file a copyright infringement claim. Finally, a judge sees the light and says copyright applies even to free software.

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