Category Archives: Technology
At A Crossroads
So I’d like your advice, my dear Internet.
I have a software project called dbasr that I’ve been working on for a while — several years, on and off, in fact. Weirdly enough, it’s actually probably more relevant and useful now than when I started it.
I’ve rewritten the code base several times, but I think I’m [...]
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VGrid for CSS nerds
Here’s a little something I just whipped up for my own uses, but you might find it useful as well: vgrid.css, a CSS style sheet for handling vertical height of objects by em, as a sort of companion to the 960 grid. It’s got vgrid_x classes from 1 to 100; if you’re assigning onscreen elements [...]
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The value of music
So apparently a group of musicians in England called the Featured Artists Coalition have voted to support a “three strikes” law against illegal file downloaders: get caught three times and have your bandwidth reduced to a point where you can no longer download big files. It has not met with enthusiasm from the British blogosphere. [...]
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Reality, Augmented
So I’ve played with a couple of the augmented reality apps available for the (non-jailbroken) iPhone — Yelp, with its Monocle functions, and Bionic Eye — and my conclusion is that navigation AR apps are completely pointless.
You see, augmented reality takes into account your position and direction. What it doesn’t do — can’t do, until [...]
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Ableton Live + Algorithmic Composition (sort of)
So I finally acquired a legal, full copy of Ableton Live, as payment for designing a logo for a client. Yay!
As anybody who reads this blog knows, I’m a big fan of algorithmic/rule-based/non-interactive composition. As much as I love writing songs, I also love simply setting up the computer to generate music on its own, [...]
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The Kitty Genovese model.
A couple of years ago, I delivered an incoherent, profanity-laden and probably awful lecture on the Grim Meathook Future at the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin. (In my defense, I was completely unhinged due to jet lag and the meltdown of my MacBook the night before the talk, when I’d planned to finish my speech [...]
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Vids from the show
“Just Like Honey” (Jesus & Mary Chain cover)
“Heroin” (Velvet Underground cover)
These were the last two tracks I did. “Just Like Honey” was going to be the final song, but as you can see in the second video, an audience member asked me to do an encore.
For these, I had a random audience member named Joe [...]
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Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.
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OLPC "Give One, Get One" is on again!
Oh, man, I want an OLPC so bad. And they’re repeating their Give One, Get One policy from last Christmas: buy two of them for $399 and one gets sent to a child in the developing world.
I actually want one to try to develop software on it; I have a nice MacBook for all my [...]
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Twitter vs. RSS vs. Web