I never saw Minor Threat live, but I did have the pleasure of seeing Fugazi (another of Ian MacKaye’s bands) two or three times (always a good show, BTW). So I was offended to hear that Nike decided to, without permission from the band, nick the design from a Minor Threat album cover.
Kottke thinks that [...]
Sony is marketing a dumbed-down loop-based music creation tool based on its popular Acid Pro software. The simplified version, called Super Duper Music Looper, is designed for kids and goes for $20.00. They have an online demo that’s fun (too bad the save and email features are disabled). The real version has more loops, of [...]
Since wB 1.0 is going to land this July, I’ve decided to redesign the entire site based around that architecture (you can grab a copy via anonymous CVS, if you’re curious). Doing so, of course, requires changes to every page, changes to the database that fuels the site, and tons of .htaccess redirects to help [...]
I’ve started to create some guitar lessons for a few friends of mine. I figured, why not share it with the rest of the web? So, here’s the first installment of what I’m loosely calling “Wheat’s GuitarBook.”
If you’re a blogger, you might want to check out the MIT Weblog Survey.
Not long back, a dear friend of mine sent me an email petition concerning the funding of public television. It had the smell of a hoax about it, so I did a search on snopes.com and confirmed that it was (warning: popups).
But the lie become truth: A house subcommittee (with a GOP majority) has voted [...]
Virtual desktops are one of the coolest things about Linux. And most efforts to impliment the idea on Windows are terrible failures. Virtual Dimension is the exception to that rule. It rocks. And, of course, it’s open source. Enjoy.
Shepcat and Tim both tagged me with this book meme, and since I’ve had books on the brain a lot lately, I’ll play:
1. Total Number of Books Ive Owned
I’d like to know, but I have no way of knowing. At certain points in my life, owning a lot of books was very important to me. [...]