Monthly Archives: May 2009

Link love for May 22nd

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The Roomba Art Pool on Flickr (above).

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party (video).

Why do we often care more about imaginary characters than real people? A new book suggests that fiction is crucial to our survival as a species.

Everything Tracy Jordan Said in Season 3 of 30 Rock.

Danger Mouse to release blank CD after record label EMI reportedly cancelled his new album.

The coming wave of cellphone novels, Twitter fiction, sudden fiction, and flash fiction.

How using gestures can make you smarter.

The duplicability of recordings has had another unexpected effect. The pressure is on to develop content that isn’t easily copyable—so now everything other than the recorded music is becoming the valuable part of what artists sell.

Yudo announces 8Bitone Retro 8-bit Synthesizer + Sequencer for iPhone/iPod Touch.

Link love 2009-05-14

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WANT: Victorinox Travel Alarm 1884 Limited Edition (above)

If you can’t buy it legally, of course you’ll download it: Staggered film releases no longer work in a global economy and are to blame for the rise of pirate websites.

How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules, by Malcolm Gladwell.

7 tips for a good portfolio.

Glitch Sequencer: Cellular automaton based MIDI sequencer.

Font Squirrel offers handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.

LOST labels for your DHARMA Initiative needs.

Wolfram|Alpha intends to be a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

Mega-Regions and High-Speed Rail, by Richard Florida.

Pacemaker is a revolutionizing music player and mixer with all the features you need to deejay anywhere, anytime.

Rare Book Room as an impressive collection of hi-res images of full ancient books,

Antipode v.01

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I have uploaded the first draft of a recent track I’ve been kicking around,  Antipode (v.01) (10:55min, 22.2Mb MP3) for your consideration. At the moment, I’m digging some of the spacious things happening in the background. I’m not so happy with some of the more rigid rhythmic elements, but I thought I’d offer a peek at a work-in-progress.