143937398
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
In this mission statement I claim that the gradual transition towards competent and attractive people (both male and female) being both geeky (= "amateur"; love their work); hackers (= "action heroes", rule benders and resourceful fate defiers) and the recent trend towards open and free code, text and cultural works — as well as building upon others' works, and sharing them — requires the film industry to embrace and approve of commercial crossover fanfiction, parodies and real person fiction. From David vs. Goliath, through Ezekiel and Plato, through Sarah Bernahrdt, through Sesame Street, and the Muppets, and finally — Arnold Schwarzenneger. Emma Watson, Wil Wheaton, Natalie Portman, Chuck Norris, and Summer Glau — all superb geeky hackers who will do many things they enjoy for free, but won't play in another "original" Hollywood screenplay for all the money in the world (and increasingly the good screenplays are being written as fanfic).
140498722
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
I've broken a taboo and created a Star Wars (and its even betterSpaceballs parody)
and a Star Trek TNG / DS9 (as well as 2020s real online / offline life) crossover:
Queen Padmé Tales.
The story so far: slashdot.org's darling Israeli-American filmmaker
Natalie Portman
has realised that Hollywood's disapproval of crossovers / parodies / etc
and its insistence of accepting only screenplays in its draconian,
finnicky, and boring format has deprived it of almost all honest
hobbyist screenplay writers and made most big name "acting-for-fun"
actors "unemployed".
As a result, she licensed some franchises (not that a big studio will dare to
sue her
because its share value will plummet) and decided to direct or codirect
the 1992-born YouTube pop singer and budding actress
Tiffany Alvord
as Portman's iconic Queen Padmé Amidala
(from Star Wars Ep. I),
due to Alvord having better Internet-savviness.
Queen Padmé is 10 years into her reign, and needs to handle a range
of issues, such as the first attempt to assassinate her (by two
Klingon warriors), and
fighting global warming in Planet Spaceball.
Best of all in a true open-content fashion, the screenplays'
sources (and the franchise) are under CC-by and in a GitHub repo
and I encourage contributors to fork it, take it into their own
direction, send merge requests, or
even convert it to a different licence. I still reserve the
right to reject merging
changes that I disapprove of, but you can always keep them
under your own branch.
119583020
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
I wrote an essay titled "Why I will continue to write my real person fan fiction (fanfic)" about why Hollywood actors who work for money can be "jinxed" by real person fiction, why it does not happen to singers and YouTubers who love what they do, and what such actors can do about it.
71470603
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
The World-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C) is excited to announce
HTML 6 ("HTML Sicks"), the
new version of the Web standards, that will supplant and succeed HTML5, and
will feature many new features and innovations. Do you find it exciting as
well?
61182483
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
A short thought experiment in which the highly esteemed British actress Emma Watson (Wikipedia ; Twitter) is being interviewed for a position of writing enterprise software in Java. While being satire and fictional, it hopefully highlights many wrong aspects of the software industry. Licence is CC-by-sa.
60656989
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
An article on Advogato on the “Summerschool at the NSA” meme, including them depicted getting their ass kicked by two famous Hollywood actresses. Among other things, I propose the fact that most of the NSA workers have lost their minds, and are now mentally ill and delusional which may explain some of the hard-to-believe findings by Edward Snowden"
58288297
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has decided to contribute to
the noble cause of free and open source software’s
licenses
proliferation
and following their popular announcement of version 3 of the
GNU General Public License, or the GPL for short, which is incompatible
with its version 2, they have now announced even
more
versions of that popular licence. Which GPL will
free and open source software developers choose?
56379669
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
The document How to Get Help Online (2013), aimed at
inexperienced and not too net-savvy people, aims to summarise and spread the
knowledge, of where and how to get help with one’s problems (especially
technical and software-related ones). While many Slashdot visitors will not
gain many new insights from it, it may be useful for them to recommend less
experienced people to read it. Furthermore, its
Creative
Commons licence (the CC-by-nc) allows others to reuse it and build
upon it. And comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome.
45235179
submission
Shlomi Fish writes:
In the fictional story Summerschool at the NSA , the Hollywood actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar (of Buffy fame), and Summer Glau (notable for being featured in xkcd), conspire to kick the ass of the NSA (= the United States National Security Agency) using special warfare that is completely non-violent, thus teaching it an important lesson about security.
For extra geek points, Summerschool at the NSA is under a Creative Commons licence (CC-by-sa) and is maintained in a GitHub repository. Share, enhance, and enjoy!
