Here’s how you can convert your optical mouse to a handheld scanner…
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Ricci Adams has compiled an amazingly useful resource on music theory (intervals, scales, the likes) for laymen, complete with Flash training apps. I’ll make a new year’s resolution of using the interval ear trainer, scale ear trainer and chord ear trainer at least five minutes per day until I get it right.
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“CodeTree is an attempt to create a worthwhile dialogue between new media artists of different skill levels and backgrounds. The project’s objective is to offer a social network that facilitates learning and artistic expression—a place where coders can dissect, share, and expand upon one another’s code.”
or as REAS put it, “Very much like Flickr, but […]

It is now definitely time to upgrade my cellphone:
http://mobile.processing.org/

I stumbled over a Wikipedia entry named “Internet phenomenon” by chance. If you’ve ever had to try to explain phenomena like 1337-speak to people who don’t use the web for anything but e-mail, you’ve probably wondered where to start in order to describe the unique manner of propagation of memes on the internet.
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As someone who must probably have around a kilometer of various cables and wires lying around the appartment, I am astonished that I haven’t seen (or wished for) something like this before. Now, if someone could make the same for network cables, power cords and USB extension cords…
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via boingboing

Slashdot and other places inform us that two classical software synth programs are now available for free: Propellerhead have retired their famous ReBirth software and have given it a home at the ReBirth Museum, where not only the software can be downloaded free of charge, but a whole bunch of mods are available as […]

By now you’ll probably have heard about the Generator.x conference and exhibition initiated by Marius Watz that will take place in Oslo from the 23rd of September on. Aside from information about the conference, the Generator.x site features a blog which is rapidly becoming a great resource, spotlighting artists, theory, projects and software, all neatly […]

Carlos Katastrofsky has started a weblog listing calls for submission in a variety of fields affiliated with media, art and design. If you find the effort useful (I certainly do), please make sure to give back a little by clicking on some of the Google Ads on the page.
Another similar but a bit more dated […]

“Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment.”
ooh!
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