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a warm gun is the personal web site of multimedia artist and resident geek Ian Adams, based out of Seattle, WA. The page you’re seeing shows all posts in the “Frustration” category.

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The most recently posted stuff can be found on the front page. Older posts and articles are listed, by category and date, in the archives. There is also the Link Blog, which is my (almost) daily list of interesting links and brief commentary on AWG-related topics.

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… all of which are American dreams

Yesterday, three protesters assholes wastes of human skin disrupted a prayer by a Hindu chaplain at the opening of a U.S. Senate hearing, shouting things along the lines of “No Lord but Jesus Christ” and “There’s only one true God”, and using the term “abomination”.

Greg Storey sums it up pretty nicely:

if you want people to join your belief system, public demonstrations of hate and exclusion are not the way and I’m pretty sure Jesus didn’t think so either (see New Testament, all the words in red).

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DRM-roll, please

Apparently Norway is also not immune to having technologically stupid government officials

A few days ago, Norway joined an elite group of asshats who seem to be operating under the delusion that iTunes is going to destroy civilisation as we know it. I agree that the world would most likely be better off without DRM for all of our media; it only increases complexity, decreases usability and operates on the assumption that your customers are crooks, which is patently offensive. However, we’ve managed to get along with it just fine for many, many years in a host of other products, as Alex Zaharov-Reutt pointed out recently on iTWire.

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