Open Melody

I've started taking a look at a new open source publishing platform (i.e. blogging platform) called Melody (http://openmelody.org/). The reason, I think, that Melody is most exciting (besides being another open source blogform like WordPress) is that Melody wants to be completely open: not just in source, but in community effort. In the words of Byrne Reese, one of the creators of Melody, "A core value of the Open Melody Software Group is transparency, or a promise to develop and discuss the product out in the open so that everyone has an equal chance to participate, audit our process, influence our roadmap and share in the excitement of building a product together." Melody is currently in the alpha release stage, and I may decide that I want to download it and try to run a server on my desktop just to test it. Regardless, I look forward to its full release, and I hope that the Open Melody team looks into getting a domain for running the first blog server using Melody at that time.

UPDATE: The Open Melody team will be running a blog server on their site. In a message to me on Twitter: "We plan on running Melody on openmelody.org as soon as it's stable. I'd say once it hits beta, we'll unleash it on the site." I'm excited! :)

CORRECTION: We had a confusion of terminology about "blog server." Open Melody will not be running a hosted environment on their own site. Hopefully someone will catch on though. Thanks, Dan!

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Poll Comments

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CircleDock - another Open Source discovery

Upon downloading this app, I was immediately pleased. What exactly is it? Well, CircleDock gives you what can be best described as an icon bar, or shortcut menu, in the shape of...well, you guessed it, a circle. If you are familiar with the Mac dock, this is very similar except for its shape. What I really love about this is I can put all my shortcuts on it and remove them from my desktop...no more clutter. The CircleDock pops up when you middle mouse click or press F1 (these default hotkeys can be changed in the settings). It will disappear with the same click or press or when you click one of the shortcuts. Check it out: http://circledock.wikidot.com/

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More Score Raising :)

Nerd Score Up Again!

Ha ha, yes!

Electric Box

I designed a level for the addicting game Electric Box.
You can play Electric Box here: http://www.candystand.com/play.do?id=18463
You might want to try the normal levels and get familiar with the game before you do mine.

Once you are ready to play mine, the code is:
{!0$"2G#3G$2G%3G&2G'0$)2&+0#,0#-0#.0#/0#00#30.50#60#70#80#90#:0#z0"=0#?2C@0#A0#B0#C0#D0#G0)I0#J0#K0#L0#M0#N0#O0#S0#T0#U0#V0#W0#X0#Y0#]0#^0#_0#`0#a0#b0#c0#g0#h0#i0#j0#k0#l0#m0#o0#q0%r0"t0"v0"x16~&3(/24~!5"(#(,(-)6+7)A/}

And So It Is

Life without Faith is dead.
Faith without works is dead.
Works without Hope are dead.
Hope without a Source is dead.
A ray of light on a cloudy day is no good when the window is tinted.
And so it is...

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Nerd Test

Libra

If you like the looks of Delicious Library for the Mac and you don't have a Mac you may have heard about MediaMan. Unfortunately, where Delicious Library had a cost MediaMan has an even greater cost. Before you give up and suppose Macs have all the nice toys, you might want to check out Libra (http://www.getlibra.com/). :) It is really awesome.

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Some Heroes Speculation

It seems to me that the three Petrelli sons are being developed into a very neat set:
Nathan: Will
Gabriel: Mind
Peter: Heart
Gabriel's power is mind intensive. Peter's power is empathic. Nathan is strong-willed, and Arthur pointed out that in ep9. My question is....with this nice set, could Nathan possibly have a yet unmanifested power related to his will? It just makes sense. After Peter got Gabriel's power I knew that Gabriel would get Peter's. I wasn't sure how it would happen, but I was right. When Sylar said Claire was special, I knew it meant more than just the fact that she could regenerate, and I was right then too. I'm not saying my speculation will be 100% accurate, but there does seem to be a strong inclination toward triplism in the Petrelli bros. Plus, it would explain why Nathan appeared to have no power before the Company gave him his flight ability (Peter and Gabriel's powers also couldn't be measured conventionally). Also, the writers have Heroes have explicitly stated that Arthur does not have the hunger. It seems that he has already overcome it...which means he had to have it before. How does that play into everything else? Is the hunger perhaps something related to but independent of Gabriel's power? Or has Arthur had Gabriel's power before? More and more questions keep popping into my mind.

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