neato completo: classifying music with fractals

cool flash (zip of projector files) from yugop. i got a chance to go through it last night. i especially like twist, and the mouse composition…

The Zompist Phrasebook has me rolling. not quite as amusing, but not bad is the latest distortion.

ZDNet: DVD group: stop wearing the code you wrote after

reverse-engineering our trade secrets, which are not legally protected if discovered independently!

oh wait, i’m wearing one right now. jeepers! i hope they don’t sue me.

clueless vs not clueless. more info

actually, i should rephrase that, according to the actual stats, you can see that fred moody is lying (or incompetent) in accruing his (meaningless) statistics.

mccain uncensored is a lot more satisfying than what actually happened.

weighted web server share (finally not /.ed)

lunch break reading: U2 Stirring Their Souls in the Studio

“One of the only problems we’ve had,” says Bono, “is that when you put the band in the room with no shenanigans or trickery, they tend to sound a bit like U2.” “Who would have thought that’d be a problem when we started out?” mutters Larry Mullen Jr.

on the cans: ferry corsten, smooove like buttah.

interesting, i didn’t realize that although arsdigita compensates well, that they make you sign a they make you sign a very broad, 2 yr non-compete. that quite bluntly sucks. ad doesn’t pay quite enough to justify signing away two years of your professional career. as if being forced to program tcl isn’t bad enough.

other intersting stuff on their process pages. these were forbidden for a while, but i guess they’re back online now.

luckily, there’s a “casual” agreement that you can sign. your stocks don’t vest, but you aren’t hogtied until you decide you want to be. (from the confidentiality page)

all this research was kicked off from the Good things aD has done lately thread in the web/db forum.

google is smart: web load balancing