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FM3 Buddha Machine Wall
A wall of online Buddha Machines. Click several and play. Relax and enjoy.

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
I’ve eaten 50/100.
I’ll skip 10/100.
Maybe I’ll try the other 40 someday.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak [...]

The highlight of my 2007 year had to be our 2 week family vacation in England this past July. We stayed in the same seaside town of Deal in Kent where my family had lived 35 years ago when my father took a sabbatical leave from teaching. We’ve been back to visit a few [...]

Another installment. Some are old but I need to purge the backup…
“Second Earth” found 20 light years away. Maybe we’re not alone?
Future Files – A History of the Next 50 Years by Richard Watson. Here’s a fun chart based on the book. (Via Kottke)
Grid Layout Helper: Ctr + Shift + G
Catchy Headline…
Coupon Codes for Thousands [...]

A recent music playlist of artist and friend Timothy Buckwalter led me to wonder what’s up with The Jazz Butcher (Pat Fish)? Apparently he still plays in a band called Wilson these days and lives in Northampton UK.
Time for me to dig out my long out of print cassette tape compilation called Bloody Nonsense from [...]

(via powazek.com)

1. What ever happened to the hype around websites Virb and Vox? I’ve tried both and decided they looked OK but especially in Vox’s case, they are very slow to load from page to page in a browser. I haven’t heard much about them or seen any mass migration from the ugly MySpace to Virb [...]

Been a while but here are some Friday Links for you:
The art of Brian Dettmer
Small Businesses, Big Dreams Watch the film and vote for Media, PA!
(EDIT: Looks like voting has ended and we came in second place…)
“At 52, she still looks like a gawky teen”. Sandra Bernhard
For you iPhone geeks out there: “Multi-Touch Systems that [...]

Three years in the making, Frowning In Happyland is a new album of songs by my old friend and musical collaborator Mike Ace. The twelve acoustic guitar-based tunes have me on drums as well as some excellent additions from Karen Schmidt on accordion, electric guitar by Chris Unrath, and kitchen crockery by Hugh Hamilton on [...]

Filmmaker Errol Morris begins a series of posts on a NYTimes blog about photography and asks “Are these photographs true or false? Do they tell the truth?” Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

I can relate to all of this…Stewart Copeland tells us all the funny bits in their second gig of the tour.

What you see are just the 9 out of 28 free for downloading web albums that I played on – available from Mike Ace over at Ookworld.
As Mike says:
Vanity press or public humiliation? Almost all of the music I’ve ever created is available for free download in the Web Album Dumpster.

(A tip of the milk delivery hat to Mike)

Here’s a quick few links I’ve been saving:
Zippy the Pinhead in large full color format!
Microphones & Recording – Got a nice email from John Rowley about his site all about microphones (he found me via my HowTo: Make Your Own Microphone Pop Filter article). John and his business partner John Spence run Reelsound, a mobile [...]

Here’s where I spend/waste my time online lately:
Rock Town Hall – formerly a listserv/yahoo group, the newly minted website/community blog is a blast. Opinionated and knowledgeable (think nerdly) discussions of music. Please join and become a townsman/townswoman and voice your strongly held opinions.
Flickr – continues to keep me interested in photography.
TapeOp Message Board – the [...]

This one is a total link dump. Been hoarding these for a few weeks…
Geostationary Banana Over Texas – I truely hope this comes to pass.
A Bourdain Throwdown: NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT… – Anthony Bourdain tells it like it is RE: the Food Network.
I Hate Macs by Charlie Brooker – funny rant.
‘I dislike the term gifted’ [...]

Some links collected over the last two weeks..
Quipsologies is a “broadly themed” design link blog with anyone being able to post links.
The Covers website has been mentioned here before but they recently posted an excellent interview with book cover designer John Gall.
The annual 50 Most Loathsome People in America list has been publish by The [...]

“Changes, Revolutions and Other Assorted Diversions” is an online exhibition of drawings by Timothy B. Buckwalter that features eleven works “curated” by myself.
Here’s my description of the exhibit:
“It’s a new year. Resolutions have been made (not by me!) and they will all be broken. Vices are attempted to be tempered and tamped down. But when [...]

Here we go again. Links noted this week:
Need to call an 800 number and speak to a human? The the gethuman database.
Star Wars nerdery. Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III. Surprisingly fascinating. (via kottke)
Some product designs of Marie-Louise Gustafsson. (via swissmiss)
The “Most Frequent Subjects” heat map from Comment is free – the [...]

First Friday; first Friday links post:
Derek Powazek has a very simple redesign going…low/no maintenance.
Worst-Case Scenarios Online for, you know…
My latest favorite website indexed continues to amuse and delight.
Here is a list of links to 2006 year end lists. Here’s another good “Best of 2006″ list from Sound Opinions.
And in case you missed it, the Narthex [...]

#1 Reason for Doctor Visits in the U.S.
Corporal Punishment – 2 Reasons For Outlawing It
The Top 3 Reasons to Colonize Space
Impeach Bush: The Four Reasons for Responsible Citizenship
5 reasons why social networks fail
6 Reasons on Why are You Procrastinating
7 Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup – Folksonomy.org
Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its [...]

Here’s another batch of Friday links (music related)
From Wired – Justin Frankel Rocks On. The winamp creator continues to make interesting software. Check out his new company, his multitrack recording software, and online jamming program and the jesusonic.
I just heard a story about the The Concerto Table on NPR last weekend. It was linked [...]

For the past 3 years I’ve been enjoying a renewed interest in photography. I purchased my first digital camera in August of 2003. As my photo gallery intro has said:
“For a time I was dead set against taking photos and liked to travel without a camera telling myself to just experience the moment and not [...]

Check out these Nice Racks (sfw)
Pod Bop is a cool site that allows you to hear free and legal MP3s from bands playing upcoming shows in your area.
Overlooked Gems of My Lifetime written by frankenslade who runs the excellent Groove Disques (he also plays in the band Nixon’s Head).
A soothing, tension-releasing time-waster.
Paper Thin Walls is [...]

I’ve been using this dropdown menu method for a few years now. It seems some clients and marketing departments love complicated dropdown navigation systems and as much as you try to dissuade and convince them that a more simplified navigation scheme would actually help their customers get to the information they want faster, they still [...]

Here’s my new favorite Wikipedia entry:
Guitar Moves
Here’s the related Air Guitar entry.
And don’t forget Headbanging.
I’ll leave you with Mano Cornuta.
Hello Cleveland!!!

Time for some links again:
Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design.
Dynamic Drive’s new CSS library provides easy access to code examples for such things as menu and design effects.
The Buddha Machine
The magic world of special characters in JavaScript regular expressions.
Welcome to the world of the OPTIGAN.

My friend Hugh Hamilton is a guest host for this week’s edition of Tony Butterworth’s Home Made Hit Show podcast. I’ve mentioned this podcast before and still think it one of the better podcasts out there. Every week or so Tony features songs by home recording enthusiasts. As he says: “The one stop home for [...]

I’m not sure why, but I’ve been amassing a bunch of browser bookmarks over the past few months for sites showcasing and highlighting cool objects and well designed things. It’s not like I’m spending like crazy on this stuff (actually, I haven’t bought anything mentioned on these sites…), but its great to see well-designed and [...]

I’ve knocked together a simple Wordpress blog site for archiving ephemera from the years I spent with the Dead Milkmen.
The Dead Milkmen Archives site will be a collaborative effort with submissions coming from a few folks connected to the band. I’ll be digging in the many boxes of junk I have in my basement to [...]

Here’s a great article on Daniel Johnston. I’m looking forward to seeing the new movie about Daniel called The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
The “Poor man’s timpani…”
Uber Geek page: Learning about microphones. To quote the home page: “This site is intended to be an educational resource for information about older mics and related equipment.”
Some acerbic MySpace [...]

I’ve got some Friday links on my mind:
Patriotic Posters that Bush and Dick would love.
Mr. Fish has a particularly intense cartoon posted.
Head Magazine has new issue #31 online. (via Coudal)
The Radiohead blog Dead Air Space has some interesting photos of the band’s latest recording sessions. Love the “wellverb”!
BuddhaNet Basic Buddhism Guide: Introduction to Buddhism is [...]

Rodney Anonymous has a great new monthly column in the Philadelphia City Paper.
Aid or Invade will in Rodney’s words:
“Basically I’ll review music from obscure countries and instead of thumbs up or down, we’ll say if and how much aid the US should provide to said nation or if we she just blow the shit out [...]

The first links post of the New Year (w/all Music Theme!). Enjoy!
Little Hits – Jon Harrison and fellow guest bloggers post obscure and out of print songs. We all get to hear some old gems.
WOXY Photo Sets on Flickr. – woxy.com live performance photos taken by Chris Glass.
The Long Blondes – Watch the “Separated By [...]

Another installment of Friday links.
There is a wealth of T-Shirt sites out there. Some of my favorite shirts – Dumgun: Goes to 11, Welcome Squid Overlords, Loch Ness Imposter, and the Boing Boing Designer. Of course one of these would look fabulous on your mom.
Linked by others, but it’s good – Music for One Apartment [...]

An assortment of links for your clicking pleasure:
Some good (and amusing) advice on designing a good scientific poster.
I’ve been on a bit of a Beatles kick recently and found these extensive Beatles song analysis notes from Alan W. Pollack to be quite interesting (in a nerdy sort of way).
From the site: eHub is a constantly [...]

Cartoonist “Mr. Fish”, an old friend or ours, emailed us to say:
I’ve been in the print version of the LA Weekly for nearly a year now and have finally been rewarded with my very own daily blog (called Mr. Fish’s Catch of the Day) on their web site. Watch me incur hatred and [...]

Inspired by Merlin’s www.5ives.com, here are some links to five busy (also interesting, creative, and opinionated) people on the web:
Merlin Mann – writes about productivity tricks and more at 43 Folders, started the 43Folders Wiki, makes lists of 5 things, and writes the occasional review of things at the Horns of Rock.
Heather Powazek Champ [...]

A few quotes from around the web:
“A meeting here turns into a need for another meeting there, which turns into what they call a service report which recaps what the meeting about the meeting was all about so we’re all in agreement and “on the same page” at the next meeting. Very efficient, our world [...]

I’m just back from a week in Vermont and have posted a few photos in the gallery. I was greeted with a nice surprise gift on my return – a Pro Flickr account upgrade from Mike Webkist. Thanks Mike!

Writer Christine Rosen wrote an interesting article in The New Atlantis a few months back on what she terms “Egocasting”. She describes this term as:
“…the thoroughly personalized and extremely narrow pursuit of one’s personal taste. In thrall to our own little technologically constructed worlds, we are, ironically, finding it increasingly difficult to appreciate genuine individuality.”
And [...]

I launched an update of the Dead Milkmen website over the weekend. I’d grown tired of the dark blue background and light blue/white text—like being in a dark and murky cave. I often found it hard to add new content or information that might need text styling without resorting to inline CSS and hacks.
The new [...]

Some more “end of the week” links for your viewing pleasure:
This one was mentioned on MeFi and then suffered from bandwidth overload but stuffonmycat.com will be worth your while once it’s back in action. Bonus points if you manage to use the citikitty.com cat training system successfully.
Do you know what a “Surgeon’s Shoelace Knot” is? [...]

A random assortment of links I recently found:
The photos of David Shrigley [via Chris Glass]
My friend John’s game company just released a new addictive title (PC & Mac!) called Leemo!
If you use more than one computer on the same network you can have a single keyboard and mouse control both (or many). I have a [...]

Yeah yeah, I hate chain letters (and most Internet “memes”) too. At least with this one you might get some exposure to some new music. My post back in February may have given you a sampling of my musical tastes, but here are the answers to the “Musical Baton” that was passed to me by [...]

Introduction
This article explains the process I used to develop a corporate Intranet site using WordPress blogging software along with the Apache web server, PHP, MySQL database and administration tools.
Our corporate Intranet was several years old and the design was based on our old corporate website look and feel. With the launch of the company’s new [...]

My portfolio section is finally built. I’ve amassed quite a few pieces over the years. Most of the work I’ve done for the past 7 years focuses on the web and web applications compared with my early career playing full time with the Dead Milkmen in the 80s and early 90s— my graphic design output [...]

There are some excellent sites out there showcasing contemporary poster design for indie bands, events, and performances. Listed here are just a few that I’ve found.
For posters featuring indie bands, two of the best are The Heads of State and Methane Studios.
Rene Wanner has a Poster Blog and also runs Rene Wanner’s Poster Page with [...]

I must admit I’ve been on a bit of a nostalgia trip regarding the “old days” of my punk rock youth. Here are bunch of interesting links I’ve come across to support my trip back in time:
Philly Punk Page
A nice collection of album and single art from the Philadelphia area ‘77-85. There was a very [...]

There is a free new online service available in beta now called Wists. Developed by David Galbraith and Yaroslav Faybishenko, the site allows you to create bookmarks with thumbnail images from the site you’re linking to. You create an account an build your own collection of links. You can specify if they’re private and add [...]

I’ve added new links and a new gallery to my photos section of the site. There is a link to a new gallery of images from a summer trip to Vermont last year. Fungi – Norton Pond Vermont 2004 displays 16 photos I took on the last day of our vacation. While waiting to depart, [...]

I’m just thinking out loud here…
With all the attention that blogs have been getting from the mainstream media (and not just lately…), I am thinking that online blog style publishing has entered a phase analogous to the period college rock entered in the early 90’s when Nirvana broke into the mainstream radio world. “College Rock” [...]