October 2008
14 posts
Iran makes huge ostrich sandwich →
How could this not be headline of the day?
The terrors of nail art →
Nail art will rot your arms up to the elbow! Nail art will make seven-foot-long blue flames shoot out of your fingertips! is what you expect this article to reveal given its slightly hysterical lead-in; however, it actually turns out to be total fark on what must have been a painfully slow news day. Its key statistic is also its downfall; the fact that 38 people have reported some kind of trouble...
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Small startup companies that have an interesting, popular product tend to suffer from two common failings. One is the tendency for shipping dates to slip; since this is often the company’s first attempt at bringing a product to market or they’re using new technology, unanticipated problems crop up. Obviously. The second and more critical problem is communication. I’ve bought...
Best iPhone app yet? RjDj →
After seeing Create Digital Music’s review this morning I downloaded the free (“single”) version of RjDj to kick the tyres and was immediately impressed enough to buy the ($3) “album” version. Essentially, the app runs “scenes” that combine musical rules, audio processing, and sampled/synthesized sounds. These take input from your iPhone’s microphone...
Euphonix :: MC Control →
Palace moat skinny dipper released without charge →
It’s interesting, so soon after the Asahi Shimbun’s recent publication of a cartoon on racial discrimination in Japan, that the police yesterday released without charge the British man who swum the Palace moat naked. An ex-prosecutor comments in the (Japanese) article linked above that a Japanese citizen who had done the equivalent would at least have been charged with public indecency...
