Infovore : tag : audio

14
September
2010

Links

Tagged as:
audio, bungie, games, halo, martyodonnell, music, sound.

Halo: Reach Audio – Sound Mixing in Halo: Reach – Popular Mechanics

"Here's how important the music is: In all of the Halo games to date, Bungie has left out the option to turn the music off." Nice article on Marty O'Donnell's work for Bungie; I really enjoyed the shot of the "stripey room".

(tags: games audio sound music martyodonnell halo bungie )

28
April
2010

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Tagged as:
audio, bestpractices, books, daw, jamesbridle, linux, opensource, osx, programming, publishing, recording, reference, software, sound, stml, style, temporality, time.

What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane: Fearlessness

"The book — by which I mean long-form text, in any format — is not a physical thing, but a temporal one. Its primary definition, its signal quality, is the time we take to read it, and the time before it and the time after it that are also intrinsic parts of the experience: the reading of reviews and the discussions with our friends, the paths that lead us to it and away from it (to other books) and around it." James, as ever, is very, very sharp. This is good.

(tags: books publishing time temporality jamesbridle stml )
ardour – the digital audio workstation

Open source DAW for Linux and OSX.

(tags: audio daw osx linux sound recording software opensource )
Programming Books, part 2: The Elements of Programming Style « The Reinvigorated Programmer

"I keep coming back to EoPS (I am re-reading it as I write this) because it’s short, it’s easy reading, it’s funny, and much of its advice is timeless. In a way, you could say its age is even a plus-point, because it makes it obvious which of the rules are of their time and which are fundamental." Sounds great.

(tags: programming bestpractices style books reference )

12
May
2009

Links

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acting, audio, bash, business, email, find, improv, linux, mailinglists, music, offices, pretend, pretendoffice, propellerhead, record, recording, shell, software, theatre, tips, unix.

Pretend Office (Phil Gyford’s website)

"With no planning, we all started acting as if we were people in a real office. Almost immediately we began to adopt characters and send officious announcements. Soon we were referring to characters in the office who didn’t exist in real life. Meeting rooms were booked, couriers arrived, servers went down, timesheets were requested, and embarrassing emails were accidentally sent to everyone in the company." Phil is right; it's a wonderful, bonkers piece of improv-email theatre.

(tags: pretendoffice improv acting offices business pretend mailinglists email theatre )
Propellerhead – Record

"Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording." Lovely: seamless Reason integration, virtual Line6 Pods, and a DAW-ish bit of software that works the way my brain does. Excited!

(tags: software recording propellerhead record music audio )
Mommy, I found it! — 15 Practical Linux Find Command Examples

"In this article, let us review 15 practical examples of Linux find command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts." I've never really understood find, so these are very helpful.

(tags: linux unix shell bash find tips )

31
March
2009

Links

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access, actionscript, advice, audio, bbc, behaviour, comissioning, crossplatform, culture, data, davegorman, design, development, eastwest, engine, etiquette, flash, flickr, fun, games, interaction, iroquoispliskin, keitatakahashi, lastfm, listening, madness, manners, mattlocke, media, mores, music, nobynobyboy, online, planning, platform, play, playdar, productivity, programming, ps3, psn, resolver, scheduling, server, socialsoftware, thewire, trends, tv, twitter.

Versus CluClu Land: I Went to the GDC and I Learned How to Make Broad Cultural Generalizations

"…after spending this weekend fighting Resident Evil 5's grabasstical interface I am somewhat persuaded that there's a real divide when it comes to eastern and western design sensibilities, and this divide has everything to do with the design-centric and productivity-centric tendencies of North American tech culture." Which is an interesting way of looking at it; I'm going to hold my thoughts until Iroquois has written more on this. Manveer Heir (of Raven Software) leaves an interesting comment on the post.

(tags: games design culture programming development eastwest iroquoispliskin productivity interaction )
Playdar – Music Content Resolver

"Playdar is a music content resolver service – run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and friends' music collections." Feels a lot like Audioscrobbler did when that first launched; it'll be interesting to see what user-friendly services get wrapped around it.

(tags: music audio playdar lastfm resolver server access listening )
PushButton Game Engine

"The PushButton Engine is an open-source game engine and framework that's designed for a new generation of games. This game engine helps you spend less time with code conventions and more time designing fun experiences." Flash and Box2D from the looks of things. This could be really, really interesting.

(tags: flash games programming development engine actionscript )
Commissioning for Attention Part 1 – Read Me! « TEST

"…these ideas have been massively influenced by friends working in game design, agile website design or service design. Narrative media is still (outside of gaming) light-years behind the curve compared to the work going on in these disciplines, so a lot of the time I’m trying to act as a translator – taking concepts and ideas from more functional design disciplines into narrative/editorial contexts. When I speak to indies or producers, there’s a set of blogs/presentations that I tend to refer them to, so I thought i’d start by sharing this reading list." This looks like it's going to be an excellent series from Matt Locke.

(tags: mattlocke crossplatform media design comissioning planning trends advice data platform )
GameSetWatch – GDC: Keita Takahashi – The Complete GDC Lecture

Takahashi being wonderfully perceptive and making some interesting observations. Also, describing some lovely design decisions in the beautiful, soothing, and bonkers Noby Noby Boy. I still need a soundtrack CD for that game.

(tags: keitatakahashi nobynobyboy ps3 psn development design games play fun )
It's not a race (Phil Gyford’s website)

"Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit! BBC, you just don’t deserve to get your hands on these shows." Yes – whilst we all binged on the Wire when we had it on DVD, that doesn't mean that the "binge" is the correct method of consumption. 60 episodes across 12 weeks? Madness, and I say that as a Wire fan.

(tags: tv thewire bbc scheduling madness )
Dave Gorman: When Twitter Gets Weird…

"Which I think meant they were telling me they'd be happy if I pretended to follow them but then used technology to ignore them in favour of other people. What? So not only would they rather I pretended to follow them they wanted to explain to me how this dishonest artifice could easily be achieved." Dave Gorman on a kind of pretend-following, usage patterns of Twitter, and keeping tools useful for yourself (amongst other stuff; this is very good).

(tags: davegorman twitter culture mores etiquette socialsoftware manners )
Liking something the wrong way (Phil Gyford’s website)

"…I never thought I’d be banned from something for liking it in the wrong way. It’s interesting to discover completely different attitudes to these new ways of interacting online." Yes, I find this a lot; my actions and behaviours are shaped in a particular way, to the point that I've found myself recently (in the case of Twitter) recommending a totally opposite manner of usage to a friend.

(tags: behaviour interaction design socialsoftware twitter flickr manners mores online )

04
March
2009

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abel, aeneid, analysis, apache, api, audio, bandcamp, blog, brilliant, calories, cern, cholesterol, classics, clicktrack, codeigniter, conversation, design, development, dialogue, disgusting, distribution, drummers, facebook, food, framework, games, health, htaccess, humour, integration, minicards, moo, music, pagination, pastiche, patina, photography, php, programming, promotion, python, rhythm, sagat, schulzeandwebb, security, smallpieces, sound, strategy, streetfighter4, strobist, system:filetype:png, system:media:image, tutorial, unfinished, videos, virgil, wear, web, wordpress, writing.

Pulse Laser: The Utility of the Unfinished

"How finished an artefact is is an important indicator of its relationship to the world: not just an indication of where it is in its lifecycle, but also one that explains how it should be understood, and that opens a dialogue between the observer and the artefact." Me, on Pulse Laser, talking about unfinished states as conversation tools, amongst other things.

(tags: design writing wear schulzeandwebb dialogue conversation patina unfinished )
The Aeneid on Facebook

"Virgil is singing arms and a man". I must admit, I prefer "the man", but this is lovely nontheless.

(tags: facebook humour classics pastiche aeneid virgil system:filetype:png system:media:image )
In search of the click track « Music Machinery

"I’ve always been curious about which drummers use a click track and which don’t, so I thought it might be fun to try to build a click track detector using the Echo Nest remix SDK." Analysing tempo fluctuation on a variety of popular recordings to find out who uses a click track; as you might have guessed, Ringo and John Bonham didn't.

(tags: audio music sound analysis api python clicktrack drummers rhythm )
YouTube – SF4 – Abel vs Sagat

Finally, a decent video of Abel. Ignore the first round, where he gets hammered, and concentrate on the second two: he negates Sagat's ranged game by getting in close, throwing in some careful EX scissor kicks, and massive abuse of linking a juggle into the aerial grab throw.

(tags: games strategy videos streetfighter4 abel sagat )
Almost Perfect htaccess File for WordPress Blogs | Josiah Cole dot com

Some nice tips in here, mainly about blocking access to things and security.

(tags: security wordpress apache htaccess )
Strobist: CERN, Pt. 1: It's the Little Things that Matter

David Hobby goes to Cern, and has a ball. Also: takes some nice portraits.

(tags: photography strobist cern )
Godbit Project | Pagination with Code Igniter

Useful tutorial on building Pagination, that goes beyond the Pagination library and points out what you need to be doing with the Model, too.

(tags: programming tutorial development web framework php pagination codeigniter )
Reassessing Your Definition of Illmatic « Bandcamp Blog

Bandcamp add an automatic way to generate one-time use download codes for music – so bands can promote singles and the like. And then: they add automatic Moo Minicard generation to the mix. Bloody brilliant, and definitely The Right Way To Do Things.

(tags: distribution api promotion integration brilliant bandcamp moo minicards smallpieces )
This is why you're fat.

"where dreams become heart attacks" – photographs of revolting, calorie-drenched food "experiments".

(tags: blog food health calories cholesterol disgusting )

20
February
2009

Links

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2001, abandonware, archive, art, audio, azeroth, belonging, blimey, books, business, busking, chess, communication, community, computers, concept, condensation, connectivity, covert, dance, data, design, digitaldistribution, distribution, dlc, donk, edges, education, eno, eurogamer, friction, gaas, gabenewell, games, grinding, history, home, innovation, interaction, interface, jrpg, keitatakahashi, knowledge, learning, levelling, microusb, mobile, momus, music, nhl09, nobynobyboy, northernengland, nostalgia, old, onemorego, patching, payphone, phone, piracy, place, play, ps3, reading, recording, regionaldance, review, school, services, sharing, siftables, sixties, standards, steam, studies, talk, teaching, techno, technology, ted, telephony, toy, toys, trivia, uk, valve, video, wikipedia, worldofwarcraft, wow, writing.

GameSetWatch – DICE 09: Valve's Newell On 'Using Your Customer Base To Reach New Customers'

"In the 14 months since [TeamFortress 2] shipped, the PC version of the game has seen 63 updates – “that’s the frequency you want to be providing updates to your customers,” [Newell] adds. “You want to say, ‘We’ll get back to you every week. The degree to which you can engage your customer base in creating value for your other players” is key, says Newell. “When people say interesting or intelligent things about your product, it will translate directly into incremental revenue for the content provider.”" Great write-up from Chris Remo of Gabe Newell's DICE talk.

(tags: games business community communication piracy valve steam gaas gabenewell digitaldistribution )
click opera – Art students (called Brian) observed

"This is a sort of thorough, empirical, sociological study of art students at two British art schools at a very interesting moment, the late 1960s (a moment when, as the book says, anti-art became the approved art, bringing all sorts of paradoxes to the fore). I find it fascinating that such a subjective thing as developing an art practice can be studied so objectively, but then I find it amazing that art can be taught at all. The book shows the tutors and students circling each other with wariness, coolness, misunderstanding, despair, appreciation." Some great anecdotes and observation.

(tags: education teaching art uk eno sixties school momus studies )
Busker Du

"Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations). Audio recorded will be posted to this audio-blog and made available to all who cherish lo-fi original music. Try it out at your favorite subway station or street corner." Dial-A-Song comes full circle.

(tags: audio music phone recording busking payphone covert )
Poole – HAL 9000 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Poole – HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the movie, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer… The director Stanley Kubrick was a passionate chess player, so unlike many chess scenes shown in other films, the position and analysis actually makes sense. The actual game seems to come from Roesch – Schlage, Hamburg 1910, a tournament game between two lesser-known masters."

(tags: trivia wikipedia blimey 2001 chess )
David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks | Video on TED.com

Lovely demo – some interesting interfaces that feel quicker than current alternatives, as well as experimental ones that, whilst slower and clumsier, represent information a bit better. I mainly like the form-factor, though – but what's the unit cost? These things get a lot better the more you have.

(tags: design interaction talk video technology innovation toys siftables ted )
Septivium – Learn about everything

"Something like: Trying to create a reading list that gives the best introduction to everything. This may change." Phil is trying to collect the Good Books in many fields. It's an interesting project, for sure; it'll also be interesting to see how it pans out.

(tags: education learning reading books sharing knowledge )
Noby Noby Boy Review – Page 1 // PS3 /// Eurogamer

I was a little excited from the ongoing Offworld love in, but Oli Welsh's review suddenly makes me insanely excited about Keita Takahashi's new plaything. Why is it that all the reasons for me wanting a £300 PS3 are £3 PSN titles?

(tags: games play review ps3 eurogamer nobynobyboy keitatakahashi toy )
Lubing the Edges of the Internet – Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect

"…the biggest consequence [of a universal micro-USB adaptor] will be the ease of transferring data/content from street service provider to consumer, and consumer to consumer… There is a place at the edges of the internet where the level of friction makes content and data grind to a halt. It's largely unregulated. And it just got seriously lubed."

(tags: mobile distribution interface data friction connectivity phone standards edges microusb telephony )
IndieGames.com – The Weblog – Freeware Game Pick: 30 Second Hero (UUE)

"30 Second Hero is an action RPG which consists of really short battles that require no interaction, as players race against the clock to save the kingdom from an evil wizard's wrath. As indicated by the title, you only have thirty seconds to level up your character sufficiently for the final battle, although additional time can be bought from the castle at the cost of a hundred gold pieces per increment of ten seconds." Hectic; the entire early JRPG genre (FF1, et al) condensed into a minute-long rush. Grinding as poetry.

(tags: games condensation levelling concept jrpg grinding )
Donk Donk Donk Donk Donk | crackunit.com

"I was convinced that it was a spoof. As if there’d be a genre called Donk. Everything is wrong about the video. The knowing subtitles over subtle Northern Accents. The presenter’s slight grin when he’s chatting to folk. The funnily named shops. Everything. There’s no way I’m falling for a prank like that. It reminds me heavily of the episode of Brass Eye where they whang on about Cake (the made up drug). And all the characters and the interviews look like they could be setups or clever edits." But no, it's real. Iain Tait discovers Donk.

(tags: music dance techno donk northernengland regionaldance )
RIP HotU

"…with that sad note from Sarinee Achavanuntakul, one of the most enduring (if illegal) tributes to gaming history came to an end." Home of the Underdogs is no more; just gone, like that. It wasn't that it had the best games or the worst games, or that they were illegal, or free; it was history, and childhood, and the smell of cardboard and boot disks, all wrapped up in one giant cathedral to Good Old Games. Most things I played on my old DOS machine were there. A shame; I hope they're elsewhere. This is why we need proper game archives.

(tags: games history computers archive nostalgia abandonware old )
NHL 09 PS3 Patch Released – Impressions – Operation Sports Forums

Tweaking a game five months after launch to make it both more playable, and also more realistic; understanding that realism is key to NHL09 fans, and delivering on that as an ongoing promise.

(tags: games services dlc gaas patching nhl09 )
One More Go: World of Warcraft, home is where the hearth is – Offworld

"Warcraft’s success has always been substantially due to the extraordinary physicality of Azeroth, to the real sense of land transversed, of caves discovered, and of secrets shared. Players old and new bemoan the endless trudging that low-level travel requires, but it’s crucial for binding you to the world." Yes. Despite QuestHelper, I'm always in awe of the new areas. I just wish more people were playing the game as slowly and badly as me. Another beautiful One More Go, and one that resonates a lot right now.

(tags: games writing place wow worldofwarcraft home onemorego azeroth belonging )

31
January
2009

Links

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2dboy, audio, bbc, billfrindall, cricket, data, design, development, flash, games, globalgamejam, history, information, javascript, jquery, kylegabler, mp3, music, narrative, nifty, pace, programming, radio, radio4, screencast, slider, slow, sound, tips, tms, tutorial, ui, visualisation.

BBC SPORT | Cricket | Cricket mourns death of Frindall

That's sad; he was a fount of statistics since I first listened to TMS, and long before that.

(tags: bbc radio cricket radio4 tms billfrindall )
SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound For The Web

"By wrapping and extending Flash 8's sound API, SoundManager 2 brings solid audio functionality to Javascript." Dark voodoo. Dark, clever, voodoo.

(tags: flash programming audio music sound javascript mp3 nifty )
Creating a Nice Slider With jQuery UI « Keep The Web Weird – Interface Musings from Buck Wilson

This was actually a pretty good tutorial for the jQuery UI Slider control, if only for illustrating how much code – notably markup/styles – you have to provide before the slider works.

(tags: tutorial ui javascript jquery screencast slider )
YouTube – 2009 Global Game Jam Keynote

Kyle Gabler of 2D Boy gives the first Global Game Jam keynote. Seven minutes, seven tips, packed with goodness. He's not wrong.

(tags: tips design games development globalgamejam kylegabler 2dboy )
Slow data and the pleasure of automated nostalgia « TEST

"I’m much more interested in automated nostalgia than automated presence – data feeds that gradually acrue in your wake, rather than constantly dragging your focus on to the next five minutes." Yes.

(tags: information narrative history data visualisation slow pace )

15
January
2009

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adware, alexrigopulos, api, audio, book, books, bopit, bsjohnson, change, comics, content, database, design, dev, development, dhgit, exploits, games, giantbomb, guitarhero, hasbro, html5, interaction, interprint, interview, layout, literature, manga, markup, nonlinear, passage, photography, play, print, printing, process, product, programming, publishing, repetition, resource, resources, rockband, rockpapershotgun, scheme, security, sound, time, tips, toys, ugc, web, windows, writing.

Whiskey Media Developer Site

"Whiskey Media provides fully structured data APIs for the following: Giant Bomb (games) Comic Vine (comics) Anime Vice (anime/manga)". This is a really good page for both explaining what you can and can't do, and explaining what the damn thing is. Wonder how good the data is?

(tags: games ugc development api comics content manga )
Giant Bomb API Now Available -

"Have you ever wanted to sink your hooks into a gaming database full of release dates, artwork, games, platforms, and other sorts of related data? I'm going to guess that, for the bulk of you, the answer's probably no. But if you're out there wondering what to do next with your developer-savvy smarts, you've got another big source to pull data from. The Giant Bomb API is now available for non-commercial use." Giant Bomb really are doing some pretty interesting stuff, alongside their more traditional content.

(tags: games api resource database giantbomb )
Dangerous High School Girls In Award Ceremonies | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"Customers seem to respond better to the Sims than all the adventure games ever made combined together. Then there are Bejeweled and Peggle and other game games. Who needs a stink’n story? I prefer making interactive stories." The writer of "Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble", interviewed on RPS, drops an interesting one.

(tags: games writing rockpapershotgun dhgit )
Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit to print *

"The baseline grid. Oh yes, the baseline grid. Let's be honest this is the sort of thing you know you need to know about. And you do know about, you know, sort of. But. Do you really know about it? Of course you do if you work on a magazine or a newspaper, but when was the last time you used one? I almost re-taught myself how to use a baseline grid. I certainly re-read all about it and it pretty much saved my life." Ben, on the details of The Paper. Good stuff in here.

(tags: design publishing printing layout interprint )
12 resources for getting a jump on HTML 5 ~ Authentic Boredom

"This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a start. In each of these you’ll find other resources to help you dig deeper." Which, right now, is what I need. For a former front-end-dev, I'm a bit behind the curve.

(tags: tips development web markup resources html5 dev )
philosecurity » Blog Archive » Interview with an Adware Author

"So we’ve progressed now from having just a Registry key entry, to having an executable, to having a randomly-named executable, to having an executable which is shuffled around a little bit on each machine, to one that’s encrypted– really more just obfuscated– to an executable that doesn’t even run as an executable. It runs merely as a series of threads." Fascinating interview with a smart guy, who at one point in his life, did some bad (if not entirely unethical) work.

(tags: programming interview security windows adware scheme exploits )
The “Guitar Hero” Answers Your Questions – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com

"I do think that during the coming years we will continue to try to bridge the gap between simulated musicianship and real musicianship. That said, the path there is not obvious: As the interactivity moves closer to real instrumental performance, the complexity/difficulty explodes rapidly. The challenge is to move along this axis in sufficiently tiny increments, so that the experience remains accessible and compelling for many millions of people. It’s a hard, hard problem. But that’s part of what makes it fun to work on." There is loads in this interview that is awesome; it was hard to choose a quotation. Rigopulos is super-smart.

(tags: design interaction games interview rockband guitarhero product alexrigopulos )
Diego Goldberg :: The Arrow of Time

"On June 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop, for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by." Perfectly executed.

(tags: photography time process change passage repetition )
Bop It – Technical music and vocal details – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Bop It commands are called out in different tones. These tones differ from version to version as well. In Bop It Blast, distinct tones are employed by both male and female speakers." I did not know that.

(tags: play audio toys sound hasbro bopit )
A Sarsen Amongst Dirt: Experimental Type & Design — Bookkake

"A couple of other examples of this kind of thing we like, are the bookish experimentations of B.S. Johnson, whose second novel Alberto Angelo contains both stream-of-conciousness marginalia, and cut-through pages enabling the reader to see ahead – possibly the most radical act I know in experimental books." Yes! And which I bang on about interminably. I love this stuff.

(tags: design publishing books literature book print bsjohnson nonlinear )

13
January
2009

Links

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3g, audio, bargain, brazil, cardgame, ccg, console, cryingoflot49, design, emergingmarkets, games, grandpiano, interview, mobile, music, piano, platform, play, samples, sampling, thomaspynchon.

The CCG of Lot 49 : Man Bytes Blog

"I hit upon a card game mechanic that I thought would work. I explored it a bit and it wasn’t long before I realized that in order for the design to really sing, it needed to be a collectible card game with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cards. This sprawling design would create the sense that a large part of the story is happening outside the realm of the game currently being played, much like the feeling you have while reading the novel." Corvus' own entry for his roundtable is bloody marvellous.

(tags: games design play cardgame thomaspynchon ccg cryingoflot49 )
SONART AUDIO – 'YAMAHA C7' – FREE!

Blimey – 1.68gb multisampled Yamaha C7, for most popular soft samplers, for no money.

(tags: audio music samples sampling piano grandpiano bargain )
Gamasutra – 2009's Dark Horse Console Launch: The Story Behind Zeebo

"No consoles are launching in 2009, right? Not so. Brazilian manufacturer Tectoy, most notable outside of South America for its long partnership with Sega and official distribution of its consoles in Brazil, will be releasing an entirely original product called Zeebo. Centered around downloadable games distributed only over a 3G wireless network, the console is designed for emerging markets…" and, even if it's not exactly powerful and the business model still seems sketchy, this could be really, really interesting.

(tags: games interview mobile console platform emergingmarkets 3g brazil )

25
December
2008

Links

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audio, beautiful, buzzwords, debugging, design, development, economy, eve, eveonline, games, git, github, http, jargon, jewelry, language, lasercutting, mmo, mmorpg, nyt, opensource, recession, silver, slang, society, sound, sourcecontrol, tattoo, type, typography, uhoh, versioncontrol, waves, web, words.

The Buzzwords of 2008 – NYTimes.com

"Picking out political buzzwords from 2008 is like shooting moose in a pigpen. The fundamentals were so dizzyingly strong, it could be tough to keep them all straight." Good selection, though, both political and non.

(tags: society language type nyt jargon words slang buzzwords )
sakurakoshimizu: 20071201

"Waveform Series is the laser-cut shapes of the waveform of the sound in sound editing software environment. I used some human sound such as yawn, atchoum, giggle, wow, and the sound of church bell." Utterly, utterly gorgeous.

(tags: design beautiful sound audio silver jewelry lasercutting waves )
HTTP Client – Mac Developer Tool for HTTP Debugging

"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages." Oh, that could come in handy.

(tags: development web http debugging )
Pages Generator — GitHub

Lovely way to generate pages for your github projects – and to do so as a branch of said project. Clever.

(tags: opensource git versioncontrol sourcecontrol github )
Really, Really Big Bad Exploit found in Eve Online… after 4 years – PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis

"CCP Games has uncovered an exploit in Eve Online that survived in the game for 4 years and may have had a massive impact on the game and game economy." Read the links for more details; suffice to say, EVE is going through a major economic upheaval right now; exploits that have lasted for four years are no longer viable, and everything's getting very expensive. Sound familiar?

(tags: games mmo mmorpg economy eve eveonline recession )
Hurt like HELvetica | Typophile

"Semi-jestfully I would talk with my friends about how stupid it would be to get an I <3 Helvetica tattoo… an even stupider idea would be to get it as a tramp stamp. Well, I got good reviews from my posse and impulsively I got it last night…" Oh boy.

(tags: typography tattoo uhoh )

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