I’m currently rethinking my website for touch devices. So far, it’s leading me to a much cleaner design. The touch interactions are tricky, though, as I have no real experience with them. Yes, I have a finger, but I don’t have a device which responds to my finger as a pointer.

These tips focus … Read more

With the news of a potential $1 trillion in untapped minerals in Afghanistan, it’s increasingly important that we bring stability and peace to that region.

“The Echo Nest Remix API is the Internet Synthesizer that lets you make things with music and video.” The API has Python bindings. Nice.

“The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect.”

There are some nice examples of The Swinger output in the above link, … Read more