September 2007

Crashing at Morgan's in Montreal

Submitted by Kasper Souren on September 25, 2007 - 02:51

amylin and I have been crashing at Morgan's (6 1/2) in Montreal since Thursday. We hitchhiked here from Northampshire, MA, where we stayed with Joe. We had left a bit later than planned so it was not easy to get to Montreal.

Placard5, Paris, 2002

Submitted by Kasper Souren on September 25, 2007 - 00:07

I just found this picture of me, making electronic ambient noise with my laptop running CheeseTracker, at Placard5, headphone concerts for 12 people in Paris, 2002.

Creative Commons books

Submitted by Kasper Souren on September 18, 2007 - 02:10

Last week I found a list of books available under Creative Commons licenses on the Creative Commons wiki. You can find some great titles, such as Wall Street, Capitalism 3.0 and Asterisk: The Future of Telephony. Some of my favorites were already on the list (Free Culture and Down and Out of the Magic Kingdom and We the Media) but I had to add Everyone in Silico and Producing Open Source Software. I was also pleased to find out that the -->

One Million Forgotten Moments

Submitted by Kasper Souren on September 14, 2007 - 22:16

amylin cut off her dreadlocks last night. Today she is frantically trying to comb out the remains of her dreads. Last night we also went to a great theater show, we were in an audience of 20, sitting inside, watching tens of "actors" performing on the sidewalk and on the street, mingling with omunexpecting by-passers. Very entertaining! This week was also great for dumpster diving. It's just too easy in New York.

Wikivoyage

Submitted by Kasper Souren on September 3, 2007 - 18:55

I have been a contributor on Wikitravel for a long time now. I was not too worried when Wikitravel was bought by Internet Brands (which has already shown interest in buying CouchSurfing). But I have been annoyed by the lack of database dumps at Wikitravel for a long time now.

Guaka Mole in Trento

Submitted by Kasper Souren on September 1, 2007 - 18:28

It's crazy how it's possible to be together most of the time for one year while traveling, but not when staying in one place. I hope that humanity will be able to get rid of borders some day, well, rather sooner than later. Anyway, I'm flying to New York next week, to see my love! Unfortunately I can't stay as long as I would like to. Paolo doesn't let me.