Looks good, http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/ems/.
Some examples of what's listed:
# Session 1: 40 Years of Music Synthesis, Day 1 (Moog/Buchla up to DX7) (video)
# Session 2: 40 Years of Music Synthesis, Day 2 (DX7 and after) (video)
# Session 3: Op-Amp Review, Day 1 (video)
# Session 4: Op-Amp Review, Day 2 (video)
# Session 5: Meet the Korg MS-20, a typical semimodular analog monosynth (video)

It's generally a good idea to understand what you talk about before you talk about it Ben...

previously it was modifinal, now it's orexin a... which apparently more closely matches brain chemistry, and specifically the chemical we run out of when we become sleepy... so, where do I get some?

business week covers lucasarts as the model of 'the future of work'...
Check out the pic of the deathstar render farm in here, showing just a tiny fraction of the overall farm...

This is Cheney in '94, telling the interviewer why we didn't (and why it was a bad idea to) invade Baghdad... that it would cause a 'quagmire' and we'd lose too many lives, and that saddam wasn't worth it... wonder what changed his mind?

this seems strangely familiar

here's my latest electronics project, a stereo microphone in altoids tin. why buy a professional microphone, when you can easily (and cheaply) make your own?

some of you may need a change of perspective, this may help:

(we live in 'monkey hives' called 'cities'):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DLV22JAEMAXUTQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/04/18/ndrugs18.xml


what annoys me about articles like this is they talk about how unfair it is to use cognitive enhancers in school tests,
but they always miss the idea of absorption of information. That, if you’re taking these enhancers, that you are more likely to pay attention, understand, and be motivated and focused enough to actually get the information into your head. i.e. your education is actually more effective - something far different from cheating.

What I’m getting at is, that you are still learning. It’s not unfair. It’s education.
Just like the “unfairness” contrasting a student in a university, and a kid in some backwater town going to school in a 'dirt hut'.
What is unfair is cheating on an exam (i.e. using information you do not in fact posses, or would lose very quickly afterwards).

Theoretically, you should be able to stop taking the cog-drugs before an exam, and still be just as smart, unless there’s a withdrawal effect that changes your mental performance...


Anyway, I think the base idea of these drugs is great... as long as there’s no side effects or loss of information after you stop taking them. Hopefully they're just a better 'funnel' for the info.

(note: i didn't make this)

I found Thomas's latest blog post an interesting read.

Ever wonder why so many people don't like George W Bush?
Then read this, the bill of wrongs. Unfortunately it only lists a measly 10 of the reasons GWB is evil... (the list is constrained to 2006 only, I'll let you dig back in history for the rest..)

oh richard dawkin's with your infectious question-everything attitude.
the atheist's delusion.

Semi-related, I found the list of creationist arguments wiki is also entertaining but requires a little more reading and thinking... :)

and... here's another related page...

a list of proofs why god is imaginary

man created god has many interesting videos

richard's website for reason and science - an oasis of 'clear thinking' (now with propaganda(tm)!).

Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Found an interesting interview with richard dawkins on digg today.

'I have a (you might say fanatical) desire for people to use their own minds and make their own choices, based upon publicly available evidence. Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. There is a huge difference.'

'Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.'

'But why is God assumed to care so much about whether you believe in him? Maybe he wants you to be generous, kind, loving, and honest - and never mind what you believe.'

and richard is the sexiest man living!!! (well he did marry lalla ward afterall (introduced by douglas adams no less))

this is a good article about how to choose a digital camera. It exposes the myth of megapixels, that simply buying a camera with maximum megapixels is the wrong thing to do. that megapixels != quality (anymore).

this whole thing reminds me of when I was buying my first camera, and I went into one of those dedicated camera shops and asked what the sensor speed was, if anything was ISO400 or 1600. The guy laughed at me and said 'these are digital cameras, there's no film here'... ass. :) I could tell the camera shop was looking down their nose at these things as toys for idiots or something.

some great subversive reading about population control
the seven lesson schoolteacher

From the text: 'All the peripheral tendencies of childhood are nourished and magnified to a grotesque extent by schooling, which, through its hidden curriculum, prevents effective personality development.'

read on for more fun...

The same thing can be said for work, we spend so much of our lives working and sleeping with little time for intelligent exploration and learning. is it a conspiracy that the economy seems to self balance such that we use exactly the amount of money that we earn? or maybe we should blame ourselves for consuming so many shiney trinkets and eating more than our bodies need.

I have to say school can be good if you can think for yourself. instant and convenient access to 'experts' and research materials can excel learning. though I have to agree that the best education I remember were the times I pursued my own goals. i find it hard to imagine that there are so many people who can't or wont think for themselves. but maybe it's true?... a question raises, if you surrender your will so easily, do you deserve your freedom?

like most things, I think there are things to be learned here, but I wouldn't take it all verbatim... as the article says, think for yourself.

So I started a new side project this last weekend. I decided to add CV/gate inputs to an old Roland MC202. If you don't know already, CV/gate is the 'old midi', the method of remote controlling a synthesizer in the days before midi. You might also recognize the concept of controlvoltage in software programs like 'Reason', 'Buzz', and 'SynthEdit'. The mod I did includes 10 new CV/gate jacks, as well as 4 new toggle switches. Thanks to Cykong for his great guide.

Check out the new 202 frankenstein.

i don't know, but black is the new black...
cafepress finally decided to get off their ass and offer a color other than white for a change. who really wears white anyway? how boring (and prone to stains! oh the humanity!)...

So to celebrate the long tradition of blackness in band tshirts, here's a tshirt for ya.

(in case you're wondering, I've got a few of these here, and I can tell you these are top quality shirts, with great print quality.)

Found this cool flash mp3 player (made by this guy named Jeroenwijering), it's skinnable and pretty configurable. For the last two years I was using an mp3 player I wrote myself using shockwave. The problem with this is that shockwave isn't supported as well across all the operation systems and browsers. But Flash is. But rather than write a new one in Flash, there's this great alternative mp3player available, that even comes with source code (a .fla file for Flash version 8). Give it a tryout here:

so lately i've been researching on-demand CD printing. I've found kunaki.com. and it's damn slick. no risk, and the discs are high quality and cheap (meaning I don't have to charge very much). The great thing is that they only print the disc when an order is made (I can only imagine their facility, no people, one complicated printer, giant stack of jewelcases and paper). Their website is no nonsense, very useful without any hype. and you don't need to mail anything to them - there's an app you run to build and preview your jewelcase art and it even reads your CD master, so you get all the track spacing and CDtext stuff in there.


As a pleasent result of this, all subatomicglue CDs are now on sale here for $5 each + shipping.