Mind-NOX

Rock Band 2020?

face — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:13:49 +0000

Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle

face — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:58:22 +0000

A woman told of smearing Huy Fong’s flagship product, Tuong Ot Sriracha (Sriracha Chili Sauce), on multigrain snack chips. A man proclaimed the purée of fresh red jalapeños, garlic powder, sugar, salt and vinegar to be “the bomb,” and thanked Ms. Lam’s employers for “much joy and pleasure.”

via United Tastes – Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle – Series – NYTimes.com.

Wrong Cookie

face — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:33:04 +0000

Blue Mountain – The Sam Bush Band

face — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:39:00 +0000

YouTube – Blue Mountain – The Sam Bush Band.

Newport Folk Festival Live From NPR Music

face — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:46:42 +0000

Hear archived concerts and see photos from George Wein’s annual showcase of the best in folk music from beautiful Newport, R.I.

via Newport Folk Festival Live From NPR Music : NPR.

Lots of performers. Looks like I will be spending the weekend listening to the festival.

There are set lists along with photos for each act.

From the pad

face — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:02:53 +0000

Things working from the pad.

Send websites and docs to iBooks

face — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:24:57 +0000

With iTunes 9.2 and iOS 4, the iBooks 1.1 app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can store and view PDF files, together with EPUB files.

If you want to quickly add a document or a web page to your ‘Books’ collection in iTunes, all you need to do is to create an alias of iTunes and drag it to ~/Library/PDF Services. Now, when you’re browsing the web or viewing documents and you decide that you want to read them later on a portable Apple device just hit Print, click the PDF button on the bottom left corner of the window and choose iTunes. iTunes will launch and receive the PDF. Next, sync your device and you’re ready to go.

via Send websites and docs to iBooks – Mac OS X Hints.

This is a vendor who cares!

face — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:41:09 +0000

short snippet from an email I received today

Vuvuzela Filter EyeTV 3.4 Special Edition For a limited time only A special edition of EyeTV 3.4 software is available during the 2010 FIFA World Cup that offers a new feature called the “Vuvuzela Filter”. This filter gives you the option to dampen the buzz of vuvuzela horns in the stadium during live TV broadcasts; it can be quickly switched on and off at any time during the game. To use the filter, control click to bring up the contextual menu in EyeTV. Click here for a quick demonstration of the Vuvuzela Filter in action. http://downloads2.elgato.com/elgatonews/EyeTVWithVuvuzelaFilter.mov

They need to add a second bandpass filter to kill the harmonics. The video only gets rid of the lower frequencies (to my ears).

From the internets ;-)

Use the EQ as a bandpass filter to get rid of the annoying frequency around 233 Hz and the corresponding harmonics (466Hz, 932Hz, and 1864 Hz)

PADILICIOUS

face — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:50:26 +0000

Say you’re using your Mac to create a report on tropical fish as your class project. The project contains a story, some images, image descriptions, and an audio file for background ambience. Your challenge:

How do you build and share this project so others can view it on their computers and iPads?

via PADILICIOUS.

This is so neat. “Services” that let you build/share things on an iPad.

This is all described in the WWDC 2010 presentation “Session 302 – Automating the Creation of iPad Content” which you can get for “free” from http://developer.apple.com/

I used one of the services to create a “photo application” which has some Salvador Dali pictures.

Tucson Raceway Park Goes Dirt

face — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:18:16 +0000

Tucson Raceway Park has seen the light and has made plans to end their asphalt season early and switch to a dirt surface for the second half of the year. According to their website at http://tucsonracewaypark.com/ , June 26 will be the last asphalt race at the track.

via Tucson Raceway Park Goes Dirt – Onedirt.com.

OK – 2 dirt tracks in town. Wonder how that will work out.

Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate

face — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:06:56 +0000

New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week. We continually test links for reliability. Despite our best efforts, links may fail (often only temporarily) without warning. We apologize for any inconvenience.

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate.

Many everything.

Todays Guardian

face — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:11:10 +0000

This site shows all the articles from today’s issue of the Guardian or, on Sundays, Observer newspapers. It is run by Phil Gyford. Read more about it here.You can navigate the articles using keyboard shortcuts: Scroll up: w or k Previous article: a or h Next article: d or l Scroll down: s or j or space Clicking a “scroll down” key at the end of an article will take you to the next one. And the same in reverse with “scroll up”.Hear about updates and problems on Twitter with @todaysguardian.If you have any comments or suggestions please email me.

via Todays Guardian.

Stanford Laptop Orchestra makes music with Macs

face — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:56:20 +0000

In a practice room on the Stanford campus last week, an ensemble of more than a dozen performing musicians gathered to rehearse for an upcoming chamber concert of student work. One young composer after another stepped to the front of the room, distributed scores, and started cueing entrances and ironing out details of coordination.

via Stanford Laptop Orchestra makes music with Macs.

Exploring Music’s Hold on the Mind

face — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:55:20 +0000

Three years ago, when Oxford University Press published “Music, Language, and the Brain,” Oliver Sacks described it as “a major synthesis that will be indispensable to neuroscientists.” The author of that volume, Aniruddh D. Patel, a 44-year-old senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, was in New York City in May. We spoke over coffee for more than an hour and later by telephone. An edited and condensed version of the conversations follows.

via A Conversation With Aniruddh D. Patel – Exploring Music’s Hold on the Mind – Question – NYTimes.com.

Controversial Billboard Ads

face — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:59:26 +0000

We’re all used to unusual ads these days, no matter what the medium. But once in a while, something is so bizarre, so hilarious or just plain insulting, we can’t help but do a double take. Whether it’s PETA making obesity jokes or a mistress exposing her affair with a married man, check out the 10 most outrageous billboards we could find.

via Billboard Ads – Controversial Billboard Ads at WomansDay.com.

Billboard Love Story

face — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:14:57 +0000

Billboard Love Story Stop motion animation on the epic scale: 355 pictures have been taken, printed in billboard size and shot again (no computer animation involved). This is the second of Olympus PEN videos, see the first

via Billboard Love Story:

Si en ciento

face — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:50:56 +0000

Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons

face — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:06:21 +0000

Well, European countries are already banning technologies based on the precautionary principle requiring advance proof that they’re risk-free. Americans are turning more protectionist and advocating byzantine restrictions like carbon tariffs. Globalization is denounced by affluent Westerners preaching a return to self-sufficiency.

via Findings – Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons – NYTimes.com.

Metric Mania

face — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:59:49 +0000

the problem of reasonable aggregation is no idle matter

via The Way We Live Now – Metric Mania – NYTimes.com. the “extreme and hypothetical” illustration is quite good.

Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas

face — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:27:16 +0000

Here’s a demo: HTML5 Music Notation Demo

The library has no external dependencies, and all the glyphs, scores, beams, ties, etc. are positioned and rendered entirely in JavaScript.

via 0xFE – 11111110b – 0376 – 254 b9#9: Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas.

From Aaron Wagner RT @newsycombinator

ClickToFlash

face — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:59:01 +0000

This little gem has made my life happy again, in a lot of places.

Essentially it frames all places where Flash would be and won’t load it unless you specifically click on it.

The neat thing is that it is for WebKit, so almost all of the WebKit applications I use – OmniWeb, NetNewsWire, and Safari all get the same feature.

Now I know where my CPU is going if I want to see the videos (and not the ads).

I am amazed at how much gunk there is out there on some of the web pages that I visit.

ClickToFlash

Where to get the beta right here for the latest beta

Artisteer – joomla template generator and wordpress theme generator

face — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:19:47 +0000

With Artisteer YOU immediately become a Web design expert, editing and slicing graphics, coding XHTML and CSS, and creating Web Design Templates, Joomla templates, Drupal themes, WordPress themes, DotNetNuke skins, and Blogger templates all in minutes, without Photoshop or Dreamweaver, and no technical skills.

via Artisteer – joomla template generator and wordpress theme generator.

I wish I had known. Always wanted to be a design expert.

PowerPoint Makes Us Stupid

face — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:31:14 +0000

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

via Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com.

Imagine there is no right-click

face — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:30:33 +0000

“Cliclick” is short for “Command-Line Interface Click”. It is a a tiny shell / Terminal application that will emulate mouse clicks or series of mouse clicks including doubleclicks and control-clicks at arbitrary screen coordinates.

via Cliclick – Carsten Blüm: Mac Development.

Whitespace

face — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:37:03 +0000

Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren’t there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.

via Whitespace.