NPR Music: Technology Puts the Universal Back in Music has a segment about a company called Voxonic which uses voice samples to construct songs in foreign languages in the creators voice. It sounds like they cut up samples and use those to reconstruct the rhythm and structure. The site has some interesting examples.
ArsTechnica has A tour of Google’s new Experimental Search. Verdict: awesome. I don’t think this is really breaking news, but it is an interesting look into the new features that google is preparing. Undoubtedly from someones 20% projects. I’m a big fan of the timeline view it’s a great way to visualize [...]
Along the same vein as the previous post is Interview with Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios, Spies in the Phishing Underground. An interesting article about how scammers are scamming scammers. That’s a mouthful, but not a surprising situation. Perhaps some crafty person can use the exploits that these jerks use against each [...]
Chris Harrison has done some visualization work on the relationships of name in the bible. It’s a large relationship made that he’s done a number of interesting different ways. Quite elegant and beautiful.Chris Harrison – Visualizing the Bible
It looks like O’Reilly has put iPhone Open Application Development up for early purchase as a rough cut. I’m really having a hard time not buying it right now. I’ve been so anxious to get a look at the API for the iPhone and can’t wait to get my hands on it. [...]
I’m a big fan of open source, and I’m a big fan of electronics. Naturally this project, MAKE: Low cost open source VGA compatible video card sparked my interest. It’s an open hardware VGA card. Meaning that if you were so inclined you could buy all the component parts, download the eagle [...]
MIT in it’s infinite wisdom has already made all it’s courses available online via Open Course Ware. Since they’ve done this they’ve now released the material for their 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer: PS3 Cell Programming. Dig in and learn some parallel algorithm and other geeky things.
I’m thoroughly of the opinion that Java as a language for students that are studying computer science is a bad idea. Maybe it’s good to learn and explore it, but that should be accompanied by rigorous study of lower level languages and algorithms. I think one should leave the Java to the chemists [...]
Make has posted a great project by someone to line up a bunch of solenoids and produce a rhythm on various object in his workshop. It’s powered by an Arduino and he made his own relay board.
MAKE: Blog: Solenoid concert
It’s right up there with Dueling steppers and automata crazy.
It seems that the original simcity has been rebranded and open sourced and is now called Micropolis. It’s being released by Don Hopkins under the GPL, and it’s based on the work done to port it to OLPC. It’s such a great game I’m glad to see this happen, I can’t wait for [...]