Dismembering the morning New York Times and spilling Honey Nut Cheerios all over some random section is one of life's little pleasures, but it's always best to take a quick run through the whole paper. How …
In the course of a lengthy and wide-ranging discussion with an old friend, we wound up talking about a particular form of anxiety. Actually, it was a part of that game whereby old friends use some …
So, you think that the web is just a bunch of ranting and sixties lampshades over, and over again? Well, cheer up--some kind soul has posted instructions for making your own steadycam using humble hardware …
I'm trying to avoid heavily processed carbs these days, like a lot of people. But that doesn't mean that I don't keep a soft spot in my heart for those loop-frosted chocolate cupcakes and one …
My first introduction to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wasn't those lovely books by Douglas Adams (who I miss very much)--it was the original BBC radio series (Note: you can get it as an …
I walked to the local post office to mail some stuff to colleagues, and wound up in line behind some guy explaining to his friend that the current violence in Iraq is due to the …
This excerpt from Richard Dawkins' new book The Ancestor's Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution apparently engages with an intriguing line of inquiry: If evolution could be re-run, how might the story …
While trolling the wide web for analog stuff, I happened upon the website of Grant Richter (he of Wiard synth fame), and there beheld this interesting analog joystick module, which seemed cool and useful. The …
While I enjoy the thrill of political bloggery as much as the next person, and check in with Joshua Micah Marshall and the vain, young, trash-mouthed skank more commonly known as our beloved Wonkette regularly …
I was playing with a now-modified version of the flocking analog synthesis patch mentioned here earlier today, and decided that I wanted to know what the initial parameters that controlled the Java-in-Max "Flies" object was. …
I've had a moment to return briefly to working with using Max to control the Moog Modular V as I described in this article (that contains a link to a PDF file listing the complete …
In the midst of all the shoe collections and other diverting ephemera that is the web, one occasionally finds something amazing. How about hi-rez scans of Shakespeare's plays in their original quarto, and the ability …
While news of spectaular or gruesome demises or the passing of "bright lights" in the mediasphere reach us with all the speed that the velocity of fame allows, some kinds of sad news travel more …
I was commiserating with my friend and colleague R. on the phone this week about the difficulty of laying intelligeable voice over a huge, thick, turgid bed of audio oatmeal, courtesy of an unnamed artist …
We think of demilitarized zones (no, not the computer kind, the real ones like Cypriot Green Zones, the Korean DMZ and the Romulan and Klingon Neutral Zones) as many things: testing grounds for carcinogenic herbicides, …
I have heard it said several times and in several places that followers of Islam prefer to be referred to as "Muslim" rather than "Moslem," but no one ever explained the why of it to …
In order to maximize the potential of the built-in networking classes that are new with version 4.5 of Max, it's helpful to understand a few things about the way that modern network protocols operate. This …
The following article is designed to shed some light on the different priority levels of Max events. We will cover low priority events, high priority events, threading issues related to these two priority levels, and …
Okay, so if you're using MaxMSP and looking at cycling74.com, chances are you are a geek of some form or another. If not, well, I suppose you can forget what I said and move along. …
I've been thinking about designers who make noise today. A disc of Russell Mills' work arrived in the post. While you might be more familiar with his graphic design work, he's also got an interesting …
I'm not sure quite what prompted this, and the graphics have had to depart from standard flowcharting style, but here is an interesting exercise for that Ethics 101 class you got stuck teaching or attending …
One of the blessings of love is what others bring into our life. Or rather, what others may leave lying on the coffee table for us to stumble across. J. is doing something new this …
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Some of my Cycling '74 colleagues have suggested that I blog, or at least post the occasional thing here that I shamelessly foist on my friends and colleagues. So I said, "Um, sure." And then I …