Funk Babblings

I was just looking for some info on kiosk Linux installations that might help with a local coffeeshop's public internet terminals. I soon found myself at the web site of DNA Lounge, a San Francisco nightclub run by Netscape/Mozilla/XEmacs hacker Jamie Zawinski (aka jwz); he has a nice writeup of how he set up internet terminals there.

He also has an interesting writeup of the "labyrinthine" issues involved in legally providing free internet webcasts; it ends up costing $20,000/year! (However, that writeup is nearly two years old now, so I don't know how much of the info still applies.)

Anyway, the webcasting is particularly interesting to me. I like this:

Our goal is simple: if it goes out over the club's sound system, it goes out over the web as well.

I don't make it out to San Francisco very often and have never been to DNA Lounge (I believe stega has mentioned going there though), but now I discover that I can hear whatever's currently playing there (taking into account the three-hour time difference), or a choice of sounds from any evening in the past two weeks.

Considering all the performers who have played there and will play there, as well as the music the DJs play there, I think this is pretty damn cool.

It'd be really great if other venues would do the same. I'd love to get Little Brother's or Bernie's streaming to my home.

I might have to write a SlimServer plugin to make it easier for me to access the various DNA Lounge streams at my living room stereo. Yet another thing to add to my list of projects.