This unique english jazz-electro-pop-triphop band certainly deserves attention. Blue Swerver delivers a sincere and deep album with astonishing fresh and calm pieces at the same time. If you're into smooth vocals and like to be surrounded by some jazz ambience with modern influences try "The Art Of Collapsing"!

And while you're at it: share your download with anybody! The album is licensed under the creative commons by-nc-sa :D

Flattr is a new simple payment method, advanced by former Piratebay people. The new idea:

• pay a fixed amount of money each month
• distribute the money by "clicking" on pages or content you like
• all receiving parties share equal parts of your monthly pay

This sounds like a promising approach to attract more people to use a CC license! The flattering flat rate is currently in beta, so keep an eye on it...

There is a new anime project called "Morvena"! As you may have guessed it isn't an ordinary film project but similar to Blenders "Big Buck Bunny" or the current project "Sintel" (aka Durian project) it only uses free software like GIMP, Blender and Synfig Studio and will be released under the creative commons.

The chosen goal of the project is to create a full length anime version of a russian tale. The crew is probably interested in contributors - why not support the team with your skills?

I'm excited and curious already...

You probably know about the ongoing debate of Free Software vs. Open Source. It clearly isn't a black-and-white debate, and some may even say they don't care what the difference is. But let me show you with a black-and-white example what the difference is, and why it matters:

Let's assume you are against slavery for obvious reasons, and there is a movement that clearly states it is "PRO black people".

Then there is a movement that states to be "PRO human rights" - not only including black people, but everybody. While both might fight for a same cause some just support certain behavior in certain cases while others care about the essential underlying reason.

In everyday life there might not be a big difference, but in the end of the day I would like to see Free Software to succeed. It really is something worth caring about.

My new project Quicktorials.org is about to take off. It is a new system for free software video tutorials and currently needs some applications to implement it. Ricardo Lafuente recently worked on a new development version of Shoebot that integrates quicktorials even in a code editor! But that's not enough.

Please contact me if you're a developer and interested in adding this to any free software application! The easiest way is to send a jabber message to mray@jabber.org or contact me on identi.ca.

You can also send mail to "mail at mray.de".