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Bb Buddha Machine
After playing with the beautiful In Bb 2.0 all morning, I wanted to keep it going while at work, so I created a Buddha Machine version using the YouTube player API. I listened to this for at least eight hours yesterday! It probably doesn't work in IE.
posted by rajbot at 11:49 AM on May 13, 2009 - 10 comments
After playing with the beautiful In Bb 2.0 all morning, I wanted to keep it going while at work, so I created a Buddha Machine version using the YouTube player API. I listened to this for at least eight hours yesterday! It probably doesn't work in IE.
posted by rajbot at 11:49 AM on May 13, 2009 - 10 comments
Sunlight music video
I recently finished a music video for the indie-pop band Harlem Shakes. The video combines my own hand-drawn animation and found 8mm film footage (mostly reels I randomly bought off ebay, without know what was on 'em).
posted by TheRoach at 9:27 PM on May 4, 2009 - 3 comments
I recently finished a music video for the indie-pop band Harlem Shakes. The video combines my own hand-drawn animation and found 8mm film footage (mostly reels I randomly bought off ebay, without know what was on 'em).
posted by TheRoach at 9:27 PM on May 4, 2009 - 3 comments
Words are Nice
For people who like quotes and colors and dead simple websites. Refresh the page to see a new quote and color. That's it.
posted by JPowers at 2:29 AM on April 24, 2009 - 9 comments
For people who like quotes and colors and dead simple websites. Refresh the page to see a new quote and color. That's it.
posted by JPowers at 2:29 AM on April 24, 2009 - 9 comments
DIY High-Speed Book Scanner From Trash and Cheap Cameras.
Wish you had all your books in digital form? Well, for a few hundred bucks and a lot of scrounging, you can do it. I just posted plans for a book scanner that uses cheap digital cameras and (with the help of friends) wrote free software to get all your books into the digital domain. There's a complete tutorial at the link above. Currently the software is a work-in-progress. Here's a sample if you're concerned about quality. We can do a lot more with software -- this is just the most basic treatment with alpha software.
posted by fake at 7:18 PM on April 19, 2009 - 12 comments
Wish you had all your books in digital form? Well, for a few hundred bucks and a lot of scrounging, you can do it. I just posted plans for a book scanner that uses cheap digital cameras and (with the help of friends) wrote free software to get all your books into the digital domain. There's a complete tutorial at the link above. Currently the software is a work-in-progress. Here's a sample if you're concerned about quality. We can do a lot more with software -- this is just the most basic treatment with alpha software.
posted by fake at 7:18 PM on April 19, 2009 - 12 comments
Bret Turner Music
A website/blog devoted to my music. Every day (or so), I post a song, new or old, rough or polished, instrumental or wordy, typical or experimental, and give a little backstory and details about the tune. I am currently in the process of recording an album and hopefully putting a band together, and will occasionally post songs from those sessions in the studio as well. Folky, with lots of fingerpickin' guitar, banjo-ing, and singing, and some occasional DIY percussion.
posted by ORthey at 10:35 AM on April 19, 2009 - 3 comments
A website/blog devoted to my music. Every day (or so), I post a song, new or old, rough or polished, instrumental or wordy, typical or experimental, and give a little backstory and details about the tune. I am currently in the process of recording an album and hopefully putting a band together, and will occasionally post songs from those sessions in the studio as well. Folky, with lots of fingerpickin' guitar, banjo-ing, and singing, and some occasional DIY percussion.
posted by ORthey at 10:35 AM on April 19, 2009 - 3 comments
Name Your Tale: Give Us A Title, Get a Custom Short Story
Give us a title and one of the authors of Name Your Tale will write a 100-word short story for you, based on your title. Here's what we did with "Andrew Received Cancer." What will your genius inspire? Submit your title and find out.
posted by missjenny at 8:31 PM on April 9, 2009 - 3 comments
Give us a title and one of the authors of Name Your Tale will write a 100-word short story for you, based on your title. Here's what we did with "Andrew Received Cancer." What will your genius inspire? Submit your title and find out.
posted by missjenny at 8:31 PM on April 9, 2009 - 3 comments
Open For Questions
Box and I skim the White House's Open For Questions, posting the best and brightest queries the American public can manage.
posted by klangklangston at 8:19 PM on March 24, 2009 - 6 comments
Box and I skim the White House's Open For Questions, posting the best and brightest queries the American public can manage.
posted by klangklangston at 8:19 PM on March 24, 2009 - 6 comments
Home of the Underdogs
Basically a modern version of Home of the Underdogs. Full database imported, user comments, user added reviews, user ratings, community all integrated. It's still ongoing, and will hopefully get more polished as time goes on. Downloads are still forthcoming.
posted by Lord_Pall at 11:24 AM on March 24, 2009 - 20 comments
Basically a modern version of Home of the Underdogs. Full database imported, user comments, user added reviews, user ratings, community all integrated. It's still ongoing, and will hopefully get more polished as time goes on. Downloads are still forthcoming.
posted by Lord_Pall at 11:24 AM on March 24, 2009 - 20 comments
M*A*S*H - Show Time Vs. Real Time
Everyone knows the old joke about M*A*S*H; the show ran 8 years longer than the actual Korean War. This blog aims to track the observable passing of time on the show (day/night periods) and compare that to the actual length of the real-life Korean War. Follow the journey as my partner and I slog our way through 11 seasons of the show on DVD.
posted by Effigy2000 at 7:23 AM on March 7, 2009 - 13 comments
Everyone knows the old joke about M*A*S*H; the show ran 8 years longer than the actual Korean War. This blog aims to track the observable passing of time on the show (day/night periods) and compare that to the actual length of the real-life Korean War. Follow the journey as my partner and I slog our way through 11 seasons of the show on DVD.
posted by Effigy2000 at 7:23 AM on March 7, 2009 - 13 comments
Webzine of Unpublishable Prose and Art
The Orphan is incomplete, moloch-less, disrespected, bizarre, and roundly rejected. It's dedicated to publishing the otherwise unpublishable: chunks of abandoned novels, beautiful screw-ups, marketless short stories, a few pages where the muse deigns to visit then lights off for the territories... The net is wide. The first issue features, among others, Rudy Rucker and David Markson.
posted by Football Bat at 7:02 PM on February 21, 2009 - 3 comments
The Orphan is incomplete, moloch-less, disrespected, bizarre, and roundly rejected. It's dedicated to publishing the otherwise unpublishable: chunks of abandoned novels, beautiful screw-ups, marketless short stories, a few pages where the muse deigns to visit then lights off for the territories... The net is wide. The first issue features, among others, Rudy Rucker and David Markson.
posted by Football Bat at 7:02 PM on February 21, 2009 - 3 comments
j, a cd command that learns
This one's for the unix nerds; everyone else can move along. Spend a lot of time cd-ing around a complex directory tree? j keeps track of where you’ve been, and how much time you spend there. Source it into your .bashrc, and then you can say j foo to jump to the most used directory that has the substring (actually regex) foo in it, or j foo bar for the directory that has both foo and bar ...
posted by dmd at 4:26 PM on February 18, 2009 - 4 comments
This one's for the unix nerds; everyone else can move along. Spend a lot of time cd-ing around a complex directory tree? j keeps track of where you’ve been, and how much time you spend there. Source it into your .bashrc, and then you can say j foo to jump to the most used directory that has the substring (actually regex) foo in it, or j foo bar for the directory that has both foo and bar ...
posted by dmd at 4:26 PM on February 18, 2009 - 4 comments
Exploding Blog!
Collection of awesome explosion videos from around the internet. Maybe one or two new videos posted per day. That is all.
posted by brownpau at 2:13 PM on February 17, 2009 - 3 comments
Collection of awesome explosion videos from around the internet. Maybe one or two new videos posted per day. That is all.
posted by brownpau at 2:13 PM on February 17, 2009 - 3 comments
My beard can lift random objects… and the human spirit.
I’ve been grooming, conditioning, stretching, and toning, and now my beard is finally ready for the big time: starting this Friday and every Friday thereafter, my beard will lift one pound for every hundred dollars raised for Chicago's Off the Street Club, until we raise $5,000 or the hair is violently ripped off my face.
posted by eamondaly at 9:15 AM on February 9, 2009 - 9 comments
I’ve been grooming, conditioning, stretching, and toning, and now my beard is finally ready for the big time: starting this Friday and every Friday thereafter, my beard will lift one pound for every hundred dollars raised for Chicago's Off the Street Club, until we raise $5,000 or the hair is violently ripped off my face.
posted by eamondaly at 9:15 AM on February 9, 2009 - 9 comments
Velato: A music programming language
This a language that uses MIDI, instead of text, as source code (it's NOT a language used to create music). I tried to allow enough flexibility that you could compose something that both sounds good and works as a program.
posted by rottytooth at 2:37 PM on January 29, 2009 - 3 comments
This a language that uses MIDI, instead of text, as source code (it's NOT a language used to create music). I tried to allow enough flexibility that you could compose something that both sounds good and works as a program.
posted by rottytooth at 2:37 PM on January 29, 2009 - 3 comments
Happy Slider T-Shirt
Because it struck a cord in this music post, I went ahead and made a happy slider tshirt, set to full.
posted by mrzarquon at 5:33 PM on January 16, 2009 - 3 comments
Because it struck a cord in this music post, I went ahead and made a happy slider tshirt, set to full.
posted by mrzarquon at 5:33 PM on January 16, 2009 - 3 comments
Velociraptor Roulette
After getting a random request with only those two words to go by, I've created a silly, pointless time waster. Spin the wheel for your chance to win a deadly dinosaur. You can't win if you don't play!
posted by Plutor at 2:06 PM on January 12, 2009 - 20 comments
After getting a random request with only those two words to go by, I've created a silly, pointless time waster. Spin the wheel for your chance to win a deadly dinosaur. You can't win if you don't play!
posted by Plutor at 2:06 PM on January 12, 2009 - 20 comments
Hate the Hype - videogame reviews
With the recent demise of 1UP, I believe there's a dearth of honest game criticism. All that's left are the publishers' shills, groveling for advertising dollars and preview copies.
posted by Netzapper at 1:22 PM on January 9, 2009 - 5 comments
With the recent demise of 1UP, I believe there's a dearth of honest game criticism. All that's left are the publishers' shills, groveling for advertising dollars and preview copies.
posted by Netzapper at 1:22 PM on January 9, 2009 - 5 comments
Hard Casual Gamer
The gaming news/discussion site for video gamers who want more than Match Three In-A-Row, but less than a 70-hour romp through Liberty City. Staff writers include MeFi's own Cortex and nthdegx!
posted by jbickers at 9:27 AM on December 31, 2008 - 7 comments
The gaming news/discussion site for video gamers who want more than Match Three In-A-Row, but less than a 70-hour romp through Liberty City. Staff writers include MeFi's own Cortex and nthdegx!
posted by jbickers at 9:27 AM on December 31, 2008 - 7 comments
Public Radio Podcasts
NPR is a treasure trove of great audio content but most of it is not accessible via a podcast feed. This site uses the NPR API to construct proper podcast feeds for their shows that don't current have feeds (e.g. Morning Edition, All Things Considered) as well as per reporter and topic based feeds. Enjoy (and try to look beyond my comically bad web design)...
posted by mmascolino at 7:31 AM on November 24, 2008 - 9 comments
NPR is a treasure trove of great audio content but most of it is not accessible via a podcast feed. This site uses the NPR API to construct proper podcast feeds for their shows that don't current have feeds (e.g. Morning Edition, All Things Considered) as well as per reporter and topic based feeds. Enjoy (and try to look beyond my comically bad web design)...
posted by mmascolino at 7:31 AM on November 24, 2008 - 9 comments
New(ish) Comics/Art Blog
This is a blog reviewing and discussing comics (and art in general) that I started with my friends. We've been linked on 'the comics journal' and other important sites in the comics blogosphere!
posted by MoniqueR at 2:40 PM on December 1, 2008 - 2 comments
This is a blog reviewing and discussing comics (and art in general) that I started with my friends. We've been linked on 'the comics journal' and other important sites in the comics blogosphere!
posted by MoniqueR at 2:40 PM on December 1, 2008 - 2 comments