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Last Thursday was listening to an interesting BT interview on KCRW (ooh here’s a Mark Farina interview) where he talks about some general career/new album stuff, but also nerd-talk (starts around 17m in). One thing that surprised me was his shout out to Richard Boulanger (hmm, well BT did attend Berklee for a little while). Apparently he’s been working with Luigi Castelli on CSound stuff (hey there’s a csound max/msp object) Music software is really it’s own world (dmoz, random listing); not too much OSS stuff I can spot, however jMax is GPL’d.

There’s a Remix article entitled The Mad Professor that has some more interesting tidbits.

• Apple (emagic) Logic
• Propellerhead Reason
• Ableton Live
• Native Instruments
• Shareware Music Machine

Not mentioned, but I came across it while searching, kyma looks pretty neat

Semi related:

• Audiopad
• Wired News:Magic Touch for Electronic Music?

Oh, added a switch to do crappy-GIF overlays for IEPC. The PNG overlays look much better.

TIME Magazine: The Howard Dean Factor

The Copyright Cage

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I WAS TALKING WITH A LAW SCHOOL COLLEAGUE about cyberlaw and the people who study it. “I’ve always wondered,” he said, “why all the cyberprofs hate copyright.”

minmax.js – transparently adds CSS minimum and maximum sizes (min/max-width/height) for IEPC. Andrew also has a few other similar scripts

Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch (via Brad DeLong)

The econometric consensus on the effects of social spending confirms a puzzle we confront in the raw data: There is no clear net GDP cost of high tax-based social spending on GDP, despite a tradition of assuming that such costs are large.

Also from DeLong: Crude Life Expectancy Estimates

Howard Dean’s campaign at 251,823 members, announced along with double Time and Newsweek cover stories.

Hmm… it seems that when creating an image, Mozilla doesn’t update the height after changing the source, but after a reload it does. This is strange. I could just replace the offset subtractions with the static dimensions, but hopefully I can also find out what the proper behavior is supposed to be (or if it’s even specified).

The specs are unclear on the behavior of this, so I switched to the older DOM constructor so I could pre-declare width/height there. This incidentally breaks Safari corner rendering (assigning document.createElement(“img”).style properties work, but the JS engine just stops on Image.style properties – the Image object doesn’t inherit from the DOM2 Element object?)