• Video from Elementary’s November 9th Show – Kenny Muhammad, the Human Orchestra, blessed the mic with the best beatboxing this side of anywhere.
• Humanbeatbox.com Videos

Google thought of the day. My graduation pics are the #1 result for usc graduation.

Skipping Coachella b/c I’m too busy. :/

Anyway, linkdump:

• Nomad Expert Technician System – MSRP $3995, wi-fi, Windows CE, 800x600px 60Hz, monochrome red (specs)
• dirac – BBC Research open-source wavelet-based video CODEC (interesting /. discussion)
• Rhapsody in Yellow – long rambly (but insightful commentary) on Apple’s development conundrum (in serious need of a next-gen xplatform framework)
• Collision detection – occassionaly there’s still the sort of conversations on /. that made it worth reading in the first place
• ke4.de – audiovisual bootlegeria – check out the Falco & Usher mashup vid
• Ancient Greek translation of Baby Got Back (inspired by this Latin translation)

Skipping Coachella b/c I’m too busy. :/

Anyway, linkdump:

• Nomad Expert Technician System – MSRP $3995, wi-fi, Windows CE, 800x600px 60Hz, monochrome red (specs)
• dirac – BBC Research open-source wavelet-based video CODEC (interesting /. discussion)
• Rhapsody in Yellow – long rambly (but insightful commentary) on Apple’s development conundrum (in serious need of a next-gen xplatform framework)
• Collision detection – occassionaly there’s still the sort of conversations on /. that made it worth reading in the first place
• ke4.de – audiovisual bootlegeria – check out the Falco & Usher mashup vid
• Ancient Greek translation of Baby Got Back (inspired by this Latin translation)

• terror alert banana

• WaveSurfer – an open source sound visualization and manipulation tool. The voice analysis views are great.
• VoiceSync – a research initiative that uses voice, sound, music, shape and color to improve our vibrational perception. some of neat cheap visualization/feedback tools for the PC (also some granola crunchiness)
• Brain opera
• Voice Analysis – The voice analysis algorithms used in the Singing Tree measure pitch, noisiness (ambiguity), brightness, energy, and vowel formant. These algorithms were written by Eric Metois, four of which were part of his DSP toolkit used in several other projects and his Ph.D. thesis [30]. In this section, I will describe how these algorithms work and the information they send to the Singing Tree. I will also discuss alternatives where applicable.
• Ph.D. Thesis: Singing Voice Analysis/Synthesis
• SONIA V2.6 for Java and Processing 0068 – Sonia is an external Library (API) for the Processing platform. It may also be included in any Java project. The Sonia Library provides advanced audio capabilities such as multiple sample playback, realtime sound synthesis, realtime FFT (frequency) analysis of the microphone input, and writing .wav files from samples.
• Aglaophone – A system for real-time analysis and processing of sound

• Longhorn Architectural Diagram
• A sobering thought from an MSDN writeup. 1200+ man-years has already gone into Avalon development
  

  On January 17, 2001, the Avalon team was formed. Four hundred strong, we stood with these seven goals in hand and tried to envision the road ahead.

• naetk – webtech blog by Yahoo! employee

1AM thoughts: 9 of the top 10 Google hits for “Leonard Lin” refer to me.

• Flash Communication Server : Wow! (July 14, 2002) – install to shared whiteboard + cursors + chat + av webcam streams in 25 minutes — DHTML cannot compete in this space; it probably shouldn’t?
• Gushing for Gush – holy crap, Gush‘s announcements get it right!

  

• Shinkuro is a free xplatform file/screen sharing software; not as full featured as Groove, but not as morbidly bloated either (stowe’s review, Gillian Kerr’s review)
• Jason Rohrer has been very prolific. Didn’t realize these are all by the same guy:
  • silk – a web-based hypertext system with frictionless linking
  • MUTE – an anonymous file sharing system
  • konspire2b – a peer-to-peer content distribution system
  • tangle – web page entanglement.

Thoughts for challenges in designing DHTML web apps, frameworks:

• at what point should client-session state be recorded on the server (ie, if someone leaves the ‘site’ and comes back
• related: for public sites, making sure that URLs continue to work
• cleanly separating behavior at each level so that crawlers and other dumb clients function (progressive enhancement, graceful degradation)