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Year-end list of things I forgot

1. The movie Cronos is really creepy. Spoiler–how terrifying is the lips sewn shut scene? I’m not a fan of vampire movies but this one is so good I don’t even think of it as one. This was Guillermo del Toro’s second movie. Crazy considering he’s billed as a producer on the upcoming Kung Fu [...]
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Fast Company’s Co.Design winning out of the gate

If you’re not enjoying Fast Company’s Co.Design, why not? It’s Boston.com’s Big Picture meets the business of design. Ratatat – Drugs from Blink on Vimeo. Carl Burgess, Director of the Year’s Creepiest, Coolest Music Video. Also from Co.Design. They’re all over the place, eclectic, stylish and always interesting. Put them in your rotation.
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Cooktop or iPad?

So I was checking out some new kitchen gear the other day and noticed how similar the fancy new induction (glass, ceramic, all touch, etc. etc.) cooktops are to the handheld touch devices like the iPad. In particular, the touch devices running audio/dj sorta apps. This is a sample of the Lemur from Jazz Mutant. Not [...]
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Graph mining and music

“Earworm (thanks to Jonathan Feinberg for the name) makes it possible to extend or shrink a song to any length you might desire, without changing the tempo. It does this by constructing a network graph of the piece, using The Echo Nest’s analysis data. Each node in the graph is a beat in the song, and an edge [...]
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Octane Render Samples & Video

CDM brings us up to speed on Octane Render, a GPU renderer from Refractive Software. This isn’t a demo of some futuristic research tech at SIGGRAPH, though: it’s a product in beta right now you can use, today. (A beta license, amazingly, costs just EUR99 during the beta.) Friend of the site Marc has kept us [...]
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Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition

Special introductory price: $19.99USD. The application offers, at the touch of a finger, access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Jasper Morrison, Dieter Rams, Eero Saarinen, and Philippe Starck but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, [...]
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Spring cleaning with a CDN

So after tweeting I was giving up on Wordpress, I’m still using Wordpress! I spent a few weeks looking at alternatives and playing around with some custom stuff (written in Clojure of course). I found plenty to like with Squarespace, Typepad & Posterous and was ready to slap down the credit card. But! For instance, [...]
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Sync/Lost

Sync/Lost from 3bits on Vimeo. SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds. The project’s objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. [...]
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Google’s Chrome OS is pessimistic

Listening to the motivation behind Google’s Chrome OS I was struck by how pessimistic it sounds. What do you get in an OS designed for tomorrow’s netbooks? You get a lot less. You’ll more than likely run it on a very cheap feeling plastic computer. Keep in mind today’s $300-400 netbook isn’t what Google is [...]
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Big in Twitter is offline for good

Remember that? Big In Twitter was a little hack I threw together earlier this year. Briefly, it collected band names and searched for them on Twitter and tracked the number of mentions and where (geographically speaking) they were being mentioned. However I’m no longer interested in pursuing this particular solution. As a post-mortem, I’d say you [...]
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