home page of philip dorrell

propositional writing: manifestos and expositions

• A Copyright Skeptic's Manifesto
• A Copyright Tax and Alternative Compensation Manifesto
• A Manifesto For Intuitive Music Composition
• On Relationships Between Music And Other Things
• You Cannot "Fix" Copyright, Because the "Copyright War" Is, Actually, A War. To The Death. Or At Least, Until One Or The Other Side Surrenders Completely.
• A Manifesto For The Use Of "Digital Freedoms" As A Catchphrase
• We Must Acknowledge The Costs Of Copyright
• Boycotting Copyright Holders Might Not Be The Best Way To Save The Internet

my blog

Some of the more popular articles:

• How to Do Cube Roots of 9 Digit Numbers in Your Head
• Looking for a Win/Win Solution to the War Between "Premium Content" and Digital Freedom
• DSL Metaprogramming: Five Kinds of Source Code
• Puzzle-Oriented Versus Meaning-Oriented Programming
• Notes on Writing a 2-D Video Game in Javascript
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics Does Not Prohibit a Decrease of Entropy in a Closed System
• The Economics of Testing Ugly Code
• The README Manifesto

music science

• http://whatismusic.info/ the website for my book What is Music? Solving a Scientific Mystery, which explains my "super-stimulus" theory of music: the theory that music is a super-stimulus for musicality, where "musicality" is a perceived aspect of normal speech, the perception of which tells the listener something about the current mental state of the speaker. (The book is now available as a free download.)
• What is Music? the issues which music science must deal with and how they relate to my theory
• The Billion Dollar Puzzle a different reason why you might be interested in solving the scientific mystery of music

musical compositions

• Some Compositions, which demonstrate the principles of composition explained in my blog entry How To Compose Music

evolution and thermodynamics

• Evolution by natural selection is a real-life example of Maxwell's demon
• A note on "The Evolution of biological complexity"

consciousness science

• Consciousness is a system for deciding whether or not to do the thing that you were going to do next an attempt to describe what Consciousness is in twenty five words or less
• Computation versus Feelings and the Production/Judgement Model a paper outlining my full theory of consciousness
• Why Roger Penrose is Wrong (about consciousness)
• The Algorithmically Unbounded Journal of Mathematical Truths and The Algorithmically Unbounded Journal of Computable Ordinals two math journals to help prove (maybe) that Roger Penrose isn't wrong
• Advice on Feelings, Willpower and Living in the Moment an attempt to parlay a theory of consciousness into a theory of self-help

dream science

• The Dream Maker who lives inside your brain making dreams like some kind of movie director

on intellectual property

• The Future of Computing
• Published Digital Information is a Public Good: The Case for Voted Compensation
• Copyright Levies copyright taxes are OK, but they must benefit everyone, not just criminals

software I have written

• PrimeShooter^TM a Javascript 2-D shoot-em up game where you kill numbers by shooting them with their prime factors
• IntegerZone a Java applet demonstrating aspects of arithmetic and number theory which uses an infinite scrollable grid of integers as its main interface
• TenBlocks a Java applet for younger users which might help them to learn multiplication
• greasemonkey scripts including:
  • focus follows mouse which enables a simple form of click-free navigation
  • An Easier Way To Type Spanish Characters on an English Keyboard pressing F2 changes the character before the cursor. (Available in three forms: a GreaseMonkey script, an online scratch-pad and a GNU Emacs minor mode.)
• My Emacs site-lisp files
• A slightly altered version of PLISP (a lispified version of PostScript)
• s3bucketmap.py an implementation of Python dictionary operations using an Amazon S3 bucket (or portion thereof, via the prefix option)
• keevalbak Scriptable on-line backups into an Amazon S3 bucket (using Python).
• localenv a convenient "mini-registry" for Python applications
• drools-mode.el an Emacs mode for editing Drools source files.
• Code Snippets
• synqa a Ruby gem for efficiently uploading and syncing files via SSH

software development

• APTROW: Advanced Programming Technology Read-Only Webification a proposal for introducing "advanced" programming languages and other technologies into the "Enterprise"

other miscellany

• Secure Internet Banking with a Live CD
• Algebra Help some articles to help explain algebra concepts (at a high school level)
• A List of Lists including 9 Errors in talk.origin's Responses to Creationism.
• ThinkingHard.com (a new website of mine which so far contains just one article: Why Politicians Have to Lie)
• Games and activities "backspin hoop juggling", hoop "Do-Si-Do", some balancing tricks and "Balloon Attack"
• My older wiki-blog

me on other websites

• delicious
• digg
• github
• quora
• reddit
• tumblr
• twitter
• youtube

cat pikturs

• Erthlings ...
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• U bad peeple.
• I can haz awditry ...

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