This experiment in hive-mind creation of a font showed up on Kuro5hin this week, but since I know Stewart is out there reading I thought I’d pass this along on the off chance that he (and everyone else) hasn’t seen it. Check out the animations in particular. I can’t wait to see this once it becomes clear enough that the collective brain starts wrangling over whether this is a serif font or not. Neat!
is really clever. No surprise; he’s Canadian. I’m going to be keeping an eye on his site if I ever end up doing this book about accordions I want to write. which I probably won’t. but hey. He also had a link to Jebus Is Lord, a site whose sanctified healing powers I must promote as I am hell-bent (so to speak) on screaming blasphemy in the streets until the head of every backwards fundamentalist in this country has melted and we can go about our lives without having our political process altered by their idiocy. Have I mentioned recently that I’m really angry about religion these days? Really angry at fundamentalists of all stripes, Jews as well as Christians and Muslims.
Goddamn it, I hate Googlewhacking! Why does “televangelist hentai” have to turn up fourteen entries?! It gives one the uncomfortable feeling there must actually BE some kind of connection between televangelism and hentai! Gwaaaah that’s beside the point — the only Googlewhack I’ve come up with didn’t work because the words are just two shades out of the dictionary, and everything else yields either a maddening six links, or none. I’ll never win!
postscript: it doesn’t like “chiffarobe ascendancy,” either! damn your eyes, Googlewhack! I give you the best hours of my evening and you spurn me like… like… saluki arpeggios!
I swear to god, I’ll never get around to applying for graduate school if I keep (re)discovering places like MIT’s Media Lab, an atelier-style program housing an inordinately high number of people who seem to be studying DJing. (First saw them at the Geek Pride Festival — which had a site that seems to have disappeared — exhibiting various wearable computer projects.) Now I’ve found these guys, I’ll never want to go anywhere else, because I’ve never seen a school which is thinking so sensibly about the ways computers are changing social interaction and learning. At the same time the Media Lab seems to be so totally quantitative in its approach, and so focused on developing new software, that I’d probably get frustrated and drop out after the first week. UGH! I’m just not convinced I’ll ever find the perfect department for me. Each new department I find excites me in a totally different way.
Our man in Williamsburg, VA — the one what made the Linux port of DDR, aka PyDDR — pointed me towards his tips on modding your DDR mat for durability and stability. I can’t endorse it over other mods, since I haven’t tried any of them, but this seems to be pretty much the standard from what I’ve heard. DDR Freak has a much simpler plan, but it looks less durable and less ergonomically sensible, and it doesn’t involve any tinkering with the inner workings of the mat, so what fun is it? Brendan (the PyDDR developer) says you can even take an old fuX0red pad and rejuvenate it using this method. I’m going to give it a try.
Another development: 1.5″ thick metal pads for the home version are now available, sending the prices of hard plastic home pads into a tailspin. The latter still aren’t worth buying, though, according to Brendan, whom I trust, as they tend to break easily and are bad for eighth-note-heavy songs.
