Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 19:18:53 PST Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (fheschax qryvirengbe) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0050] Greenpeace: Autosaurus: The first anti-car ad campaign Keywords: surfpunk, Autosaurus, Greenpeace, Media Foundation ___ No way. I've seen the Illuminati Secret Decoder ___ Ring, and its graph has |V| = 5 and |E| = 23. ___ /AHM ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey) Subject: Oh oh..... To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 23:44 PST Message-Id: Spotting trends has become a small hobby of mine and I just picked up this announcement - are cars about to go the way of the Dodo, pregnancy drinking and smoking? The first anti-automobile campaign of its kind, "Autosaurus" is scheduled to hit the air across Canada on February 27, and in the US this Spring. Created for Greenpeace by Canada's Media Foundation, publishers of Adbusters Quarterly, this model animation depicts old cars in a wrecking yard coming to life as a dinosaur, then crumbling in an impotent heap. The voice-over reinforces the iconoclastic message: "It's coming... it's coming...The End of the Automotive Age." Created by animator Bill Maylone specially for Greenpeace, this TV spot calls attention to the environmental destructiveness of cars, and of the need for fuel efficient transportation and alternate modes of transport. According to Maylone, "car commercials are so commonplace on TV that we don't even give them a second thought. But the notion of an anti-car ad is unheard of. It is bound to create some controversy simply by its very nature." John Bennett, Director of Transportation Campaigns for Greenpeace, adds: "We've become so accustomed to the idea that we need a car, that without this casing of steel we are impotent. It is a belief system that has been carefully instilled in us through half a century of car advertising. It's time to break thaosaurus is the activist wave of the future." Autosaurout Autosaurus, or about free broadcast quality copies of the ad, please call Kalle Lasn at (604) 736-9401, or John Bennett of Greenpeace at (416) 345-8408. The Media Foundation 1243 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1B7 Tel: (604) 736-9401 What say you guys? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither. ________________________________________________________________________ Send postings to , subscription requests to . MIME encouraged. Xanalogical archive access soon. There's always thrill in liberating it. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Subject: CELP speech compression code at cygnus.com:/pub/celp.speech.tar.Z The code is up for FTP where you-all can get it. I made both compressed and gzip'd versions (gzip gives smaller files than compress, is faster to decompress, but slower to compress). -rw-rw-r-- 1 gnu cygnus 2571835 Feb 5 16:04 celp.speech.tar.Z -rw-rw-r-- 1 gnu cygnus 2099441 Feb 5 16:09 celp.speech.tar.z Much of the tar file is samples of compressed and uncompressed speech, (used for testing the code). The actual C code is about 340K uncompressed, and there's also a Fortran version in there. I have a copy of the actual compression standard, but not online. The Information Liberation Front is welcome to a copy -- maybe I should just leave it on the table at the next meeting and hope someone "anonymously" picks it up and scans it in. It's public domain, so there's no special thrill from liberating it. -- gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore) [ John has commented that it runs slower-than-realtime on SPARC, and he challenges you to speed it up. -- strick ] It occured to me that some people might not get the significance of all this, so prehaps I ought to amplify. With the ability to compress speech down into the same baud rate as, say, a V.32 modem, all one would have to do to have perfectly secure voice communications is replace your phone with a setup that took in your speech, digitized it, compressed it, encrypted it, and sent it over the modem to the other side where this would be inverted. Fast enough software compression of voice would mean any PC with a DSP card and a V.32 modem could become an unbreakable scrambler. The chief problem is that the DSP needed to do decent compression is very crunchy, and encryption also tends to be crunchy, so there aren't typically enough cycles on your average PC. Of course, were someone to commercially market a board that did all this in hardware... pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)